String Instruments

This unique book is an authoritative and detailed guide to all the best musical creations for small string ensembles, including prominent works by ...

Murray Grodner draws on his distinguished career as a double bass musician and teacher in this compendium of performance philosophy, bowing and phr...

Roni Stoneman was the youngest daughter of the pioneering country music family and a woman who overcame poverty and abusive husbands to claim the t...

In the early seventeenth century, enthusiasm for the violin swept across Europe--this was an instrument capable of bewitching virtuosity, with the ...

No European jazz musician has so enchanted the word as Django Reinhardt, the gypsy guitarist whose recording with Stephane Grappelly and the Hot Cl...

The term "viola bastarda" refers to both an instrument and a style of playing that is one of the crowning achievements of musical mannerism. The It...

Long a symbol of American culture, the banjo actually originated in Africa before European-Americans adopted it. Karen Linn shows how the banjo--de...

Named for a popular local fiddle tune, The Crooked Stovepipe is a rollicking, detailed, first-ever study of the indigenous fiddle music and social ...

Authorized by du Pré's husband, Daniel Barenboim, this is the fullest account yet of the life of the brilliant cellist, struck down in her prime by...

"Acoustic Guitar Styles" introduces the most popular traditional styles for the acoustic guitar. The step-by-step approach, using a small repertoir...

This research guide is an annotated bibliography of sources dealing with the string quartet. This second edition is organized as in the original pu...

This carefully researched and definitive book recreates the magic of the greatest violinists in history. In three centuries, the solo performer pro...

The Great Cellists is a comprehensive and authoritative history of the lives and work of the cello's great performers and teachers, from the emerge...

This research guide is an annotated bibliography of sources dealing with the string quartet. This second edition is organized as in the original pu...

For many beginning-to-intermediate level guitarists, guitar tunings are a mystery. Everyone begins with "standard" tuning and knows its basic stren...

The guitar occupies a unique position in the history of Western music. It has always enjoyed wide popularity as an instrument of popular music, yet...

A renowned bass player, Mo Foster has played his guitar with the greats, and with their backing, contributions and memories has written an insightf...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Antonio Stradivari of Cremona (1644-1737) was the noblest of bowed wooden stringed instrument makers. H...

"The guitar and American music are inexorably intertwined," writes James Sallis in The Guitar Players. He notes that "American music was built on t...

"The Art of Violin Making" is the major work for the craftsman, bringing into one volume a summary of essential information for the violin maker an...

Making Master Guitars is a craftsman's handbook about the exciting and challenging pursuit of making classical guitars, a craft that the author rev...