Musical Instruments & Instrumental Ensembles

Performer and researcher Peter OHagan studies the musical style of Pierre Boulez during his final creative period, by means of a detailed considera...

This book presents an examination of the applied music studio as part of higher education. Applied music studios are where students learn an instru...

Based on the author's fieldwork in Ghana with the Asante and Denkyira ntahera trumpeters, this book draws on interviews, field recordings, oral tra...

The composer and pianist Michael Finnissy (b. 1946) is an unmistakeable presence in the British and international new music scene, both for his imm...

Pierre Boulez's first piano pieces date from his youth, prior to his studies in Paris with Messiaen, and his subsequent meteoric rise to internatio...

While Chopin composed only a few works in variation form, he employed variations and variation technique in the majority of his works. Multiple mod...

String Methods for Beginners is designed for students to receive the essential playing and teaching skills on all orchestral string instruments. Th...

Barcelonian Gaspar Cassadó (1897-1966) was one of the greatest cello virtuosi of the twentieth century and a notable composer and arranger, leaving...

The music of Edvard Grieg is justly celebrated for its harmonic richness, a feature especially apparent in the piano works written in the last deca...

Originally published in 1966, this was the first book on this subject to be published for over a hundred years. It covers all facets including litt...

Musicians Migratory Patterns: The African Drum as Symbol in Early America questions the ban that was placed on the African drum in early America. I...

The John Rutter Christmas Piano Album brings together eight of the composer's best-loved seasonal choral pieces as piano transcriptions, made by Jo...