Conductors and Composers of Popular Orchestral Music: A Biographical and Discographical Sourcebook

Conductors and Composers of Popular Orchestral Music: A Biographical and Discographical Sourcebook Review

Worldwide in scope and covering the second half of the 20th century, this work provides biographies and discographies of some 500 conductors and composers in many aspects of light and popular orchestral music, including film, show, theatre, and mood music. This is the first time the lives and recordings of such artists as Kostelanetz, Faith, Gould, as well as the orchestral recordings of such great popular composers as Gershwin, Kern, Porter, Rodgers, Berlin, and Coward, have been adequately documented and consolidated in an encyclopedic fashion. Almost 5,000 records and CDs are listed. Of interest to scholars, students, disc jockeys, record and CD collectors, film music buffs, and mood and production music enthusiasts.

Popular orchestral music has been a neglected and often erroneously perceived and misunderstood genre in the 20th century. It has certainly not received the attention that it deserves and seems to be viewed as a Cinderella in relation to classical music and jazz. The genre, especially in the last 50 years, has been graced by exceptionally fine and highly esteemed conductors and arrangers, and also by a large number of highly regarded composers.

Teaching Instrumental Music: Developing the Complete Band Program

Teaching Instrumental Music: Developing the Complete Band Program Review

This book is a unique resource for both novice and experienced band directors, gathering effective teaching tools from the best in the field. Includes more than 40 chapters on: curriculum, "then and now" of North American wind bands, the anatomy of music making, motivation, program organization and administrative leadership, and much more. "A wonderful resource for all music educators! Dr. Jagow's book is comprehensive and impressive in scope. An excellent book! Bravo!" - Frank L. Battisti, Conductor Emeritus, New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble

Music Minus One Trombone: Northern Lights (Canadian All-Star Stage/Jazz Band; Sheet Music and 2-CD Set) (Music Minus One (Numbered))

Music Minus One Trombone: Northern Lights (Canadian All-Star Stage/Jazz Band; Sheet Music and 2-CD Set) (Music Minus One (Numbered)) Review

Play your instrument with a top Big Band! Perfect for practice, performance, auditions, and more! Here's the finest band that Canada fielded in 1970 and Music Minus One was fortunate enough to bring them to a studio for these performances from their extensive library. Listen to a pro play with this dynamite ensemble, then you step in for your own solo gig! Includes a high-quality music book featuring solo parts for each tune; and two compact discs featuring a complete digital stereo reference recording, plus recordings of the accompaniments minus you, the soloist. Track Listing: Suite Fortune * Dorian Rock Pile * Ballad * Ascendancy * How To Say It * PeteÂ’s Thing * My Bones * Get Down * SteveÂ’s Theme * Warm * Set-Up Goes Bananas

The Marching Band Handbook: Competitions, Instruments, Clinics, Fundraising, Publicity, Uniforms, Accessories, Trophies, Drum Corps, Twirling, Color Guard, Indoor Guard, Music, t

The Marching Band Handbook: Competitions, Instruments, Clinics, Fundraising, Publicity, Uniforms, Accessories, Trophies, Drum Corps, Twirling, Color Guard, Indoor Guard, Music, t Review

This third edition of The Marching Band Handbook updates information on all areas of the marching activity, including clinicians, clinics, directors and workshops; competitions; drum corps; fund raising; indoor guard; military bands; musicians, instruments and uniforms; music selection and sources; parades; publicity and public relations; travel arrangements; trophies, awards, gifts, medals and plaques; and twirling. It provides comprehensive lists for the director, drill designer, booster, musician, guard member and twirler—where to buy instruments or batons, the location of spring and fall competition sites, judging organizations, fund-raising organizations and ideas, clinic locations, marching band music publishers, magazines covering drum corps, twirling or band.

Music Minus One Trumpet: Northern Lights (Canadian All-Star Stage/Jazz Band; Sheet Music and 2-CD Set) (Music Minus One (Numbered))

Music Minus One Trumpet: Northern Lights (Canadian All-Star Stage/Jazz Band; Sheet Music and 2-CD Set) (Music Minus One (Numbered)) Review

Play your instrument with a top Big Band! Perfect for practice, performance, auditions, and more! Here's the finest band that Canada fielded in 1970 and Music Minus One was fortunate enough to bring them to a studio for these performances from their extensive library. Listen to a pro play with this dynamite ensemble, then you step in for your own solo gig! Includes a high-quality music book featuring solo parts for each tune; and two compact discs featuring a complete digital stereo reference recording, plus recordings of the accompaniments minus you, the soloist. Track Listing: Suite Fortune * Dorian Rock Pile * Ballad * Ascendancy * How To Say It * PeteÂ’s Thing * My Bones * Get Down * SteveÂ’s Theme * Warm * Set-Up Goes Bananas

Film Music: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Film Music: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) Review

Film music is as old as cinema itself. Years before synchronized sound became the norm, projected moving images were shown to musical accompaniment, whether performed by a lone piano player or a hundred-piece orchestra. Today film music has become its own industry, indispensable to the marketability of movies around the world.

Film Music: A Very Short Introduction is a compact, lucid, and thoroughly engaging overview written by one of the leading authorities on the subject. After opening with a fascinating analysis of the music from a key sequence in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, Kathryn Kalinak introduces readers not only to important composers and musical styles but also to modern theoretical concepts about how and why film music works. Throughout the book she embraces a global perspective, examining film music in Asia and the Middle East as well as in Europe and the United States. Key collaborations between directors and composers--Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann, Akira Kurosawa and Fumio Hayasaka, Federico Fellini and Nino Rota, to name only a few--come under scrutiny, as do the oft-neglected practices of the silent film era. She also explores differences between original film scores and compilation soundtracks that cull music from pre-existing sources.

As Kalinak points out, film music can do many things, from establishing mood and setting to clarifying plot points and creating emotions that are only dimly realized in the images. This book illuminates the many ways it accomplishes those tasks and will have its readers thinking a bit more deeply and critically the next time they sit in a darkened movie theater and music suddenly swells as the action unfolds onscreen.

About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.

Music Minus One Violin: 18th Century Violin Pieces for Violin & Orchestra (Book & CD) (Music Minus One (Numbered))

Music Minus One Violin: 18th Century Violin Pieces for Violin & Orchestra (Book & CD) (Music Minus One (Numbered)) Review

Perform timeless Violin works with a full orchestra! Perfect for practice, rehearsal, auditions, contest solos, performances, and more! Here is much of the best literature and favorite selections for the violin. They will challenge and delight the performer. Your accompaniment, the Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra conducted by Emil Kahn. The solo parts are performed by the noted American violinist, Geoffrey Applegate.

Includes a high-quality printed music score and a compact disc containing a complete version with soloist, in split-channel stereo (soloist on the right channel); then a second version in full stereo of the orchestral accompaniment, minus the soloist.

MMO CD 3121
Performed by Geoffrey Applegate, violin
Accompaniment: Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Emil Kahn

Music Minus One Clarinet: Hajdu Jewish Rhapsody for Clarinet/Bass Clarinet & Orchestra (Sheet Music & CD) (Music Minus One (Numbered))

Music Minus One Clarinet: Hajdu Jewish Rhapsody for Clarinet/Bass Clarinet & Orchestra (Sheet Music & CD) (Music Minus One (Numbered)) Review

Perform timeless Clarinet works with the Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra! Perfect for practice, rehearsal, auditions, contest solos, performances, and more! MMO is proud to offer this much-lauded composition by Israel's most heralded composer, the Jewish Rhapsody for Clarinet and Orchestra. The concerto is set in movements alternating between B-flat clarinet and bass clarinet. Includes a version minus both instruments as well as one minus just B-flat clarinet for those who don't play bass clarinet. This crowd-pleaser is a must-have!

Includes a printed music score on high-quality ivory paper; a compact disc featuring the complete concerto in digital stereo, followed by the concerto performed again, minus both clarinet solo parts, and also minus just b-flat clarinet. (DDD)

MMO CD 3246
Performed by Orit Orbach, clarinet & bass clarinet
Accompaniment: Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Nayden Todorov

Louisiana Music: A Journey From R&b To Zydeco, Jazz To Country, Blues To Gospel, Cajun Music To Swamp Pop To Carnival Music And Beyond

Louisiana Music: A Journey From R&b To Zydeco, Jazz To Country, Blues To Gospel, Cajun Music To Swamp Pop To Carnival Music And Beyond Review

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What is it about Louisiana that breeds and attracts musicians? There are literally hundreds of them—Dr. John, Harry Connick, Jr., Randy Newman, Trent Reznor, the Neville family, the Marsalis family—all part of a tradition going back to Louis Armstrong, Fats Domino, Professor Longhair, Jelly Roll Morton, Buddy Bolden, and Mahalia Jackson. Tackling the monumental task of surveying the lush musical landscape of the state, Rick Koster examines all of the ingredients that went into creating this hotbed of talent—the social influences, the musical traditions, the food, the drink, the heat—and introduces us to the stars, both local and national, who have emerged. Discover the past and present of jazz, rock, zydeco, R&B, gospel, blues, country, and straight-up rock 'n' roll; learn too about the styles unique to Louisiana, like voodoo music, swamp pop, second-line brass bands, and Mardi Gras Indian tribes. With the laid-back charm and easy appeal that defines the state, Koster has created a survey as uniquely and teemingly rich with sound and story as the place itself.

From these comes music;: Instruments of the band and orchestra

From these comes music;: Instruments of the band and orchestra Review

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

That Toddlin' Town: Chicago's White Dance Bands and Orchestras, 1900-1950 (Music in American Life)

That Toddlin' Town: Chicago's White Dance Bands and Orchestras, 1900-1950 (Music in American Life) Review

As a centre for jazz and blues, vaudeville, and a budding recording industry, Chicago and its environs probably spawned more nationally recognized dance bands than any other city in the United States in the 1920s and 30s. While ample attention has been paid to their black counterparts, Charles A. Sengstock Jr.'s That Toddlin' Town looks at the history of the white dance bands, theater orchestras, radio studio ensembles and night club bands. Sengstock examines these bands not only in terms of the music they played but also in the context of the venues in which they played and Chicago's volatile economic and social climate. Viewing the bands as an economic system, he analyzes them as businesses with all the usual pressures brought on by ambition, personality clashes, and the overriding need to serve clients. More than a mere popular phenomenon, these dance bands--along with their charismatic leaders, powerful booking agencies, and the Chicago Federation of Musicians--had a major impact on the music industry at large and influence over other entertainment media.

Music Minus One Flute: Vivaldi Concerti in D major (RV429); G major (RV435); A minor (RV440) (Book & CD) (Music Minus One (Numbered))

Music Minus One Flute: Vivaldi Concerti in D major (RV429); G major (RV435); A minor (RV440) (Book & CD) (Music Minus One (Numbered)) Review

Perform timeless Vivaldi flute works with a chamber orchestra! Perfect for practice, rehearsal, auditions, contest solos, performances, and more!

Three wonderful Baroque flute concerto classics from Antonio Vivaldi. The RV435 G-major concerto comes from the famous Opus 10 collection; and all three of these works represent Vivaldi at his height.

Includes a high-quality printed music score and a compact disc containing a complete performance in split-channel stereo, with the soloist on the right channel; and a second performance in full stereo minus the soloist.

MMO CD 3315
Performed by Vaclave Sykora, flute
Accompaniment: Czech Symphony Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Mario Klemens

Russo: Street Music; Three Pieces for Blues Band and Orchestra; Gershwin: An American in Paris.: An article from: Sensible Sound

Russo: Street Music; Three Pieces for Blues Band and Orchestra; Gershwin: An American in Paris.: An article from: Sensible Sound Review

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Music Minus One Violin: Saint-Saens Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso for Violin & Orchestra; Mozart Serenade No. 5, KV204; Adagio, KV261 (Book & CD) (Music Minus One (Numbered))

Music Minus One Violin: Saint-Saens Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso for Violin & Orchestra; Mozart Serenade No. 5, KV204; Adagio, KV261 (Book & CD) (Music Minus One (Numbered)) Review

Perform timeless Violin works with a full orchestra! Perfect for practice, rehearsal, auditions, contest solos, performances, and more! Written about 1863, the Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso is a great show-stopper for violin and orchestra. Filled with typical Saint-Saens qualities, it is enchanting music. Mozart's 5th of 13 serenades is a lovely piece. It is Mozart at his best. This beautiful adagio was originally intended for the Violin Concerto No. 5, but Mozart substituted another for it before the concerto was premiered. It is a beautiful single-movement concerted work as it stands, well worth the effort to learn it.

Contains a printed score and a compact disc featuring both concerti in split-channel stereo with the violinist on the right channel; then again in a stereo accompaniment version minus the solo violin part.

MMO CD 3116
Performed by Geoffrey Applegate, violin
Accompaniment: Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Emil Kahn

Masterworks of 20th-Century Music: The Modern Repertory of the Symphony Orchestra

Masterworks of 20th-Century Music: The Modern Repertory of the Symphony Orchestra Review

From Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring to Gustav Holst's The Planets and Igor Stravinsky's Le sacre du printemps , Masterworks of 20th-Century Music collects over 100 of the most celebrated and frequently played compositions by world composers. Based on the author's survey of dozens of American orchestras, these are works that we all recognize, but whose history we may not know. Each entry gives the reader a wealth of information about: the composer, when and where the piece was first performed, the "style" of the composition, and a basic analysis of the music. From the general reader to the music scholar, this book will prove a source of valuable information and a constant pleasure.

Perspectives on American Music since 1950 (Essays in American Music)

Perspectives on American Music since 1950 (Essays in American Music) Review

In fourteen original articles, the contributors to this volume explore the broad range and diversity of post-World War II musical culture. Classical and jazz idioms are covered, as is the broad history of electronic music in the US.

Music Minus One Violin: The Three Bs: Bach/Beethoven/Brahms for Violin & Orchestra (Book & CD) (Music Minus One (Numbered))

Music Minus One Violin: The Three Bs: Bach/Beethoven/Brahms for Violin & Orchestra (Book & CD) (Music Minus One (Numbered)) Review

Perform timeless Violin works with a full orchestra! Perfect for practice, rehearsal, auditions, contest solos, performances, and more! Here are many of the best-loved melodies by the 'three B's' for violin and orchestra. Suitable for a range of technical levels, they will challenge and delight any violinist, amateur, student or professional, for years to come. The solo parts are performed by American violinist, Geoffrey Applegate; then you take his place in these beautiful classics alongside maestro Emil Kahn and the Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra.

Includes a high-quality printed music score and a compact disc containing a complete version with soloist, in split-channel stereo (soloist on the right channel); then a second version in full stereo of the orchestral accompaniment, minus the soloist.

MMO CD 3125
Performed by Geoffrey Applegate, violin
Accompaniment: Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Emil Kahn