Il Seraglio, Overture, K. 384: Miniature Score
Title | Il Seraglio, Overture, K. 384: Miniature Score PDF eBook |
Author | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Publisher | Alfred Music |
Pages | 52 |
Release | |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9781457468414 |
A full orchestra piece, composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
The Score, the Orchestra, and the Conductor
Title | The Score, the Orchestra, and the Conductor PDF eBook |
Author | Gustav Meier |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 510 |
Release | 2009-08-26 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0199716900 |
Known internationally for his work as a teacher of conducting, Gustav Meier's influence in the field cannot be overstated. In The Score, the Orchestra and the Conductor, Meier demystifies the conductor's craft with explanations and illustrations of what the conductor must know to attain podium success. He provides useful information from the rudimentary to the sophisticated, and offers specific and readily applicable advice for technical and musical matters essential to the conductor's first rehearsal with the orchestra. This book details many topics that otherwise are unavailable to the aspiring and established conductor, including the use of the common denominator, the "The ZIG-ZAG method", a multiple, cross-indexed glossary of orchestral instruments in four languages, an illustrated description of string harmonics, and a comprehensive listing of voice categories, their overlaps, dynamic ranges and repertory. The Score, the Orchestra and the Conductor is an indispensable addition to the library of every conductor and conducting student.
Dictionary of the British English Spelling System
Title | Dictionary of the British English Spelling System PDF eBook |
Author | Greg Brooks |
Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
Pages | 524 |
Release | 2015-03-30 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1783741074 |
This book will tell all you need to know about British English spelling. It's a reference work intended for anyone interested in the English language, especially those who teach it, whatever the age or mother tongue of their students. It will be particularly useful to those wishing to produce well-designed materials for teaching initial literacy via phonics, for teaching English as a foreign or second language, and for teacher training. English spelling is notoriously complicated and difficult to learn; it is correctly described as much less regular and predictable than any other alphabetic orthography. However, there is more regularity in the English spelling system than is generally appreciated. This book provides, for the first time, a thorough account of the whole complex system. It does so by describing how phonemes relate to graphemes and vice versa. It enables searches for particular words, so that one can easily find, not the meanings or pronunciations of words, but the other words with which those with unusual phoneme-grapheme/grapheme-phoneme correspondences keep company. Other unique features of this book include teacher-friendly lists of correspondences and various regularities not described by previous authorities, for example the strong tendency for the letter-name vowel phonemes (the names of the letters ) to be spelt with those single letters in non-final syllables.
Music and the Exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart
Title | Music and the Exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart PDF eBook |
Author | Ralph P. Locke |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 473 |
Release | 2015-05-07 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1316298205 |
During the years 1500–1800, European performing arts reveled in a kaleidoscope of Otherness: Middle-Eastern harem women, fortune-telling Spanish 'Gypsies', Incan priests, Barbary pirates, moresca dancers, and more. In this prequel to his 2009 book Musical Exoticism, Ralph P. Locke explores how exotic locales and their inhabitants were characterized in musical genres ranging from instrumental pieces and popular songs to oratorios, ballets, and operas. Locke's study offers new insights into much-loved masterworks by composers such as Cavalli, Lully, Purcell, Rameau, Handel, Vivaldi, Gluck, and Mozart. In these works, evocations of ethnic and cultural Otherness often mingle attraction with envy or fear, and some pieces were understood at the time as commenting on conditions in Europe itself. Locke's accessible study, which includes numerous musical examples and rare illustrations, will be of interest to anyone who is intrigued by the relationship between music and cultural history, and by the challenges of cross-cultural (mis)understanding.
Mozart's Tempo-system
Title | Mozart's Tempo-system PDF eBook |
Author | Helmut Breidenstein |
Publisher | Tectum Verlag |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9783828842915 |
A reference book for the musician's practical work of interpretation. This volume offers a compendium of all of Mozart's autograph tempo markings, in 420 lists of pieces of similar character. Thus, a comparison of slower and quicker movements is made possible by 434 music examples. This is followed by a wide-ranging collection of relevant texts taken from historical sources.
A Diary from Dixie
Title | A Diary from Dixie PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Boykin Chesnut |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 612 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780674202917 |
In her diary, Mary Boykin Chesnut, the wife of a Confederate general and aid to president Jefferson Davis, James Chestnut, Jr., presents an eyewitness account of the Civil War.
Cyclopedia of Music & Musicians
Title | Cyclopedia of Music & Musicians PDF eBook |
Author | John Denison Champlin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 508 |
Release | 1893 |
Genre | Composers |
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