String Instruments

This groundbreaking work, specially designed for the music classroom, combines traditional and popular literature in a method that both teaches the...

The Contemporary Guitar traces the extraordinary rise of the instrument in concert music over the past century. Though recognized worldwide as a po...

"How to Play Guitar" contains everything the new or intermediate guitar player needs to know to really get to grips with making music on this most ...

What does it mean to perform expressively on the cello? In Cello Practice, Cello Performance, professor Miranda Wilson teaches that effectiveness o...

What does it mean to perform expressively on the cello? In Cello Practice, Cello Performance, professor Miranda Wilson teaches that effectiveness o...

By age 16 Pat Martino was already working as a member of R&B star Lloyd Price's touring musical revue. By age 18 Martino moved to Harlem whe...

ÊHow to Play Blues GuitarÊ gives you vital instruction in blues basics from top guitar teachers and reveals the screts of blues greats often in th...

ÊChord MasterÊ is a chord dictionary with a difference. Rather than just show chord shapes ä which are all there in the Chord Matrix ä a large port...

ÊBad ReputationÊ is the unexpurgated story of Joan Jett the single most exciting rocker of the American 1980s one of the biggest-selling acts of ...

Now in paperback ä revised and expanded with a new afterword by the author ä this is the definitive biography of Duane Allman one of the most rev...

After decades of stagnation during the reign of his father, the 'Barracks King', the performing arts began to flourish in Berlin under Frederick th...

Highlighting Chet Atkins' 50-plus-year career as a virtuoso singer, songwriter and record producer, this book is an analysis and appreciation of...

Jazz Guitar Styles is an instruction book designed for the guitarist who already knows the fundamentals but wishes to explore the "classic" style o...

A monumental accomplishment of the classical music era, the string quartets of Joseph Haydn hold a prominent place not only in his oeuvre, but also...

Cello Secrets explains over 100 of the most helpful insider tricks cellists use to master the instrument. With each technique carefully explained a...

Teaching Strings in Today’s Classroom: A Guide for Group Instruction assists music education students, in-service teachers, and performers to reali...

This book provides the first scholarly history of the viola d’amore, a popular bowed string instrument of the Baroque era, with a unique tone produ...

Dragonetti devoted his life to the double bass. His career in England (1794-1846) is one of the most remarkable success stories in the annals of mu...

Designed as a companion volume to the author's earlier study, The Piano Trio, this book surveys the development of the piano quarlet and quintet fr...

The book is intended to help new and veteran band directors develop an orchestra in their school. It outlines step by step what needs to be done be...