David Becker 
Getting Your Improvising Into Shape [PDF ebook] 

First Published in 1998. A New Series Fills a Void in 17th-Century Italian Music Drawing on the riches of a largely unknown repertoire, this innovative series makes available in modern score a large …

From French Composer Saint Saens, Opera Samson and Delilah, Opus 47 for Easy Violin A Silver Tonalities Arrangement!Easy Note Style Sheet Music Letter Names of Notes embedded in each Notehead! …

American composer Morton Feldman is increasingly seen to have been one of the key figures in late-twentieth-century music, with his work exerting a powerful influence into the twenty-first century. A …

Antonio Gardano”s publications are among the most important sources of 16th-century music. The second volume describes the output of this leading Italian music press in its cultural, bibliographical …

Jazz Theory: From Basic to Advanced Study, Second Edition, is a comprehensive textbook for those with no previous study in jazz, as well as those in advanced theory courses. Written with the goal to …

From the outset, French opera generated an enormous diversity of literature, familiarity with which greatly enhances our understanding of this unique art form. Yet relatively little of that literatur …

Music, whether performed or heard, has been seen as therapeutic in the history of many cultures. How have its therapeutic properties been conceptualized and explained? Which cultures have used music …

First published in 1975, Music and the Middle Class made a trail-blazing contribution to the social history of music, bringing together sociological and historical methods that have subsequently beco …

How have men used art music? How have they listened to and brandished the musical forms of the Western classical tradition and how has music intervened in their identity formations? This collection o …

After decades of stagnation during the reign of his father, the ”Barracks King”, the performing arts began to flourish in Berlin under Frederick the Great. Even before his coronation in 1740, the c …