By Mark O'Conner. This book shows how Mark adapted what he learned from Benny thomasson to produce an original voice in fiddle tune variation, becoming the most celebrated fiddler in recent history. contains meticulously accurate transcriptions of the...
Guitarist, Travis Reuter's compositions focus on abstract forms, complex rhythmic structures, timbre and polytonality, while continuing to explore the improviser's role in a traditional setting. His music is inspired by contemporary classical music and...
Now that Materena is a big star with her radio talk show, Pito can't help noticing some changes in his wife. She's spending more and more time at work and with her girlfriends instead of coming home to cook for him. And why does a Tahitian woman need...
- The Year of the Blues reaches fever pitch in fall 2003 with the theatrical release (and airing on PBS) of seven documentary films, each by a noted feature director (Martin Scorsese, Wim Wenders, Charles Burnett, Mike Figgis, and Clint Eastwood among...
The music selected for this book seems to lift you gently back to by-gone days to an era more leisurely paced than our own. This collection for solo classic guitar focuses first and foremost on early Christmas music and is enhanced by appropriate cover...
In this series for the intermediate guitarist, John Fahey teaches a wide variety of instrumental solos. Critics have called John's style American Primitive Guitar. The book includes tablature and notation with three compact discs featuring...
Canadian fiddle music receives the credit and recognition it deserves in this lively collection of tunes from virtually every province and ethnic group in Canada. Originally published in 1990, this project is the result of generous donations by...
Jerry Garcia, the lead guitarist, singer, and alleged leader of the Grateful Dead, became an icon of the 60s youth movement. It was well-known that Jerry was a huge fan, and probably considered himself a player, of old-time American music, from...
The piano rag is musical form unlike any other. Although melodious, ragtime's excitement and appeal derives from its syncopated rhythms. Ragtime music achieved notoriety through its greatest composer, Scott Joplin (1868-1917). At an early age he...
A collection of fifteen timeless classics drawn from various musical traditions; the arrangements are fresh and unusual, yet tasteful. The pieces are appropriate for recitals, solo festivals and contests, churches, and a wide variety of performance...
When it was first published in 1939, oil historian James A. Clark called this book, "the most valuable collection of historical, biographical, and statistical data on Texas oil ever assembled." That is still true today. It is the definitive history of...
Written in a supportive, easy-to-follow style, this big book covers just about everything of interest to harpers, beginning through advanced, and is recommended by players and teachers as an excellent tool to better understand your instrument. It...
Ken Mansfield can write authoritatively about the music business of the sixties because he was there making it happen. As a young record label executive at Capitol Records, the Beatles were his clients, and they became his friends. Ken was hand-picked...
Written in standard notation and tablature, this book features pieces in both standard and alternate guitar tunings.
This beginning guitar book, for use with private students or in a classroom setting, is divided into 15 lessons. Beginning at the complete novice level, the lessons guide players thru learning chords, scales and more advanced techniques. The appendix...
The articles and interviews in this book have all appeared at one time or another in Classical Guitar magazine, and appear here in their original form. This volume features 23 interviews with guitar greats.
These outstanding piano solos were chosen (or composed) by two of today's leading jazz pianists. An extremely comprehensive text which provides a wealth of jazz styles.
Offers fingerstyle transcriptions of Joe's famed Virtuoso #3 recording, composed during Joe's 1978 European tour.
At four o'clock one April afternoon 172 years ago, 934 men, unwashed, underfed, caked with mud and dressed in rags, began a slow walk through knee-high grass. A half hour later they crested a low hill. What they did in the next eighteen minutes made...
This great collection of 19th century music is a recognition of Cuban composers who along with Manuel Saumell and Ignacio Cervantes produced a rich legacy of music in both popular and classical genres. Written in standard notation.
