Techniques of Music/Music Tutorials

In Mastering the Art of Performance: A Primer for Musicians, Stewart Gordon offers seasoned advice to musicians intent on meeting the challenges of...

This second edition of TIPS: The Child Voice was prepared in response to demand for an updated and expanded version of the highly successful 1997 e...

Sound Advice is a valuable resource for college students, beginning teachers, and experienced conductors of children's choirs. It covers the vast a...

To restrict performance of Schumann's Lieder to the "familiar forty" is to deny a major reservoir of superior song. Richard Miller not only reconsi...

Most musicians focus on learning technique (learning how to play an instrument), rather than on developing an individual, unique voice. Creative Mu...

This how-to guide offers lessons licks and tips drawn from the groove gurus in a wide range of classic and modern styles. Players will learn how ...

A humorous, yet no-nonsense how-to guide, Practicing Sucks, But It Doesn't Have To! offers hundreds of ideas and tips to help beginning to intermed...

Teaching the Beatles is designed to provide ideas for instructors who teach the music of the Beatles. Experienced contributors describe varied appr...

The history of tempo rubato (`stolen time') is as old as music itself, composers and performers ever introducing expressive fluctuation of the temp...

Timothy Cheek’s revised edition of Singing in Czech: A Guide to Czech Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire, with its accompanying audio accessible on...

Everything Americana! Lessons in American Music, Volume Two, the second book in the Lessons in American Music series, is an exciting new general mu...

Singers must equip themselves with enough knowledge to clearly convey specific sensations and difficulties with their instrument. Understanding of ...

Music listening is likely to be the predominant musical activity in which students will be engaged throughout their lives, and Music Across the Sen...

Singers must equip themselves with enough knowledge to clearly convey specific sensations and difficulties with their instrument. Understanding of ...

The MENC Handbook of Research on Music Learning, Volume 2: Applications brings together the best and most current research on best practice for mus...

This book is designed to support K-5 classroom teachers as they integrate music throughout the elementary curriculum. It contains detailed, practic...

Music listening is likely to be the predominant musical activity in which students will be engaged throughout their lives, and Music Across the Sen...

The MENC Handbook of Research on Music Learning, Volume 2: Applications brings together the best and most current research on best practice for mus...

Perception and Cognition of Music: The Sorbonne Lectures presents revised and updated materials delivered in four distinguished lectures at the Uni...

Great vocal teachers from the 16th century through the early 19th century discovered through trial and error how to properly develop the singing vo...

This is a book for both professional and amateur flute players. It contains instructions in sound production, breath control, intonation, tonguing,...

Teaching Music to Students with Autism is a comprehensive practical guide for music eductors who work with students with autism. Authors and vetera...

Teaching Music to Students with Autism is a comprehensive practical guide for music eductors who work with students with autism. Authors and vetera...

Conducting is not simply the act of marking beats; it is the much more rich art of communicating emotion, character, and mood through movement to a...

Focused on music in higher education, Online Learning in Music: Foundations, Frameworks, and Practices offers insights into the growth of online le...

Music education has historically had a tense relationship with social justice. One the one hand, educators concerned with music practices have long...

Increasingly, guitar study is offered alongside band, orchestra, and chorus in school music programs. This development has drawn a new population o...

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

Conducting is not simply the act of marking beats; it is the much more rich art of communicating emotion, character, and mood through movement to a...

Young pianists pursuing a professional career face a barrage of questions, choices, and challenges. In this book, experienced teacher and performer...

Musical Instruments presents the first comprehensive survey to explain how Western musical instruments work, how they developed historically, how t...

The Viola, How it Works presents information on the technical and historical aspects of the viola in relation to its position in the non-fretted st...

Advice to young singers often follows the standard line of the great French singer Claire Croiza: "Study the poem away from the music, so that you ...

The art of piano playing is not, as many believe, merely a result of one's innate 'musical gift': the only way to improve upon your talent is to pr...

Trained as a surgeon, renowned as a conductor, Boyd Neel led a life rich in innovation, achievement, and enthusiasm. He reminisces about that life ...