Techniques of Music/Music Tutorials

Based on his decades of experience conducting these works, Leonard Slatkin guides readers through eight of the most beloved orchestral pieces of th...

Music as a Science of Mankind offers a philosophical and historical perspective on the intellectual representation of music in British eighteenth-c...

Music as Metaphor was first published in 1960. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessi...

In his book on left-hand violin technique, Maestro Ruggiero Ricci addresses common problems in shifting by advocating the study of the glissando te...

Claudio Arrau (1903-1991) was a Chilean pianist who devoted his life to an international performing and teaching career. As a child prodigy, he gai...

Part history, part explanation of early music, this book also plays devil's advocate, criticizing current practices and urging experimentation. Hay...

Modern musical training tends to focus primarily on performance practices of the Classical and Romantic periods, and most performers come to the mu...

Claudio Arrau (1903-1991) was a Chilean pianist who devoted his life to an international performing and teaching career. As a child prodigy, he gai...

Modern musical training tends to focus primarily on performance practices of the Classical and Romantic periods, and most performers come to the mu...

The concept of affinities, or pitch relationships, was fundamental to modal theory in the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance. For the first time...

Learning to play an instrument can be fund and, at times, frustrating. This lively, accessible book helps young people cope with the difficulties i...

Useful work has been done in recent years in the areas of music psychology, philosophy and education, yet this is the first book to provide a wide ...

This quintet of essays examines the reasons why music education should be transformed, investigates the nature of education and musical transformat...

In Complicating, Considering, and Connecting Music Education, Lauren Kapalka Richerme proposes a poststructuralist-inspired philosophy of music edu...

Why teach music? Who deserves a music education? Can making and learning about music contribute to the common good? In Humane Music Education for t...

Empowering Song: Music Education from the Margins weaves together subversive pedagogy and theories of resistance with community music education and...

Music and Music Education in People's Lives is one of five paperback books derived from the foundational two-volume Oxford Handbook of Music Educat...

The past ten years have seen a rapidly growing interest in performing and recording Classical and Romantic music with period instruments; yet the r...

Analysing over 100 recordings from 1945-1975, this book examines twentieth-century baroque performance practice as evinced in all the commercially ...

This book offers compelling new perspectives on the revolutionary potential of improvisation pedagogy. Bringing together contributions from leading...

Acclaimed pianist Robert Taub offers the insights of a passionate musician who performs all 32 of Beethoven's well-loved piano sonatas in concert w...

Born from eight years of teaching songwriting for the Academy of Gospel Music Arts Robert Sterling's ÊThe Craft of Christian SongwritingÊ deftly t...

Where does learning begin and how is it sustained and stored in the brain? For musicians, these questions are at the very core of their creative li...