Hal Leonard

What characteristics, qualities and traits make a hit songwriter? What roles do hard work, talent, early musical development and environment play in becoming successful in an industry that changes dai...

This biography begins in 1967 as Frank L. Battisti concludes a celebrated 14-year career as Director of Bands at Ithaca High School, followed by a move to Baldwin Wallace College Conservatory. Later,...

89 golden oldies for individuals, small groups and orchestras are presented in standard notation and tablature with large chord diagrams and symbols for ukulele in this collection. These fabulous favo...

This book contains tips, suggestions, advice, and other useful information garnered through a lifetime of home and pro studio recording adventures. Included in the book are dozens of entries learned f...

Proven successful in private lessons and in the classroom, this planner is a must-have for all musicians. Teachers can use it to set goals and assignments, and students can montior their progress, tim...

Here's a fun and easy way to learn the ins and outs of effects - compression, delay, distortion, filters, reverb, looping, vocoder and many more. You'll learn when, how and why to use them, and how to...

The Ukalaliens Songbook & CD teaches you to play ukulele in minutes. It includes twenty folksongs (including 'I've Been Working on the Railroad,' 'Home on the Range,' 'Guabi, Guabi,''These Are My Moun...

It is hard to believe that over 25 years have passed since A Chorus Line first electrified a New York audience. The memories of the show's birth in 1975, not to mention those of its 15-year-life and p...

Throwing caution to the winds, I assert that A Little Night Music comes as close as possible to being the perfect romantic comedy musical. -Brendan Gill, The New Yorker Heady, civilized, sophisticated...

A Performer Prepares is a 13-part master class on how to perform on any stage from bleak rehearsal room to the Palace Theatre. The class covers the basic Broadway song numbers, from show ballad to sho...

Three editors, each associated with theatre, collaborated on this book of monologues for actresses. What they discovered, besides bravura pieces for auditions, acting classes, and study, was the pulse...

Before the revolutionary rock musical Rent, Jonathan Larson had another story to tell... his own. tick, tick... BOOM! is a three-chapter pop rock musical about facing crossroads in life and holding on...

Featuring more than 100 competitive show choirs from around the United States in photos, quotations, and stories, this edutainment-style book details the pop culture and theater influences that, over...

One of the most frequently produced new musicals of the last decade, 13 is a rollicking musical comedy featuring a cast exclusively made up of teenagers. Thirteen 13-year-olds, as a matter of fact. E...

David Craig's nine-hour video series on musical performance covers all of the techniques and exercises, as well as Craig's legendary performance philosophy, which has instructed and inspired singers,...

Kids of today face a different world - and a different set of challenges - then did the children of even 15 years ago. Playing with a Purpose features a collection of monologues that reflects these ne...

Horror Films FAQ explores a century of ghoulish and grand horror cinema, gazing at the different characters, situations, settings, and themes featured in the horror film, from final girls, monstrous b...

The chapel organist, Johann Sebastian Bach, is enraged. It's bad enough his boss, Duke Wilhelm, stifles his creativity. Now the bumbling fool has given him a servant he suspects is a spy! But soon, th...

The year is 1868, the city - Vienna, the music - exhilarating, yet all is not well with Johann Strauss, Jr. , the darling of waltzing Vienna. Haunted by the constant pressure to outdo himself with eac...

The Abercrombie/Erskine/Mintzer/Patitucci Band is comprised of four of the most acclaimed musicians in contemporary music. Here, the band performs a set of eight brilliant compositions - two by each m...

Twelve-year-old Michelle Marin doesn't like her piano teacher. Monsieur Bizet is irritable, forgetful, aloof - distracted by a failing marriage and the rigors of composing his new opera. But as the co...

Rich and successful, a dashing young musical superstar so adored that women faint when they meet him in the street, Franz Liszt is restless. He knows that something is missing in his glamorous life as...

In a kitchen in Italy in 1862, little Reliana helps her grandmother Rosalie make pasta sauce. As stream swirls magically through the kitchen, Rosalie argues with her oldest friend Martina and tells th...

Includes all 6 educational and entertaining DVDs from the series in one convenient boxed set. Includes: Bach's Fight for Freedom, Bizet's Dream, Handel's Last Chance, Liszt's Rhapsody, Rossini's Ghost...

Louis Johnson, bassist, writer and producer, is considered one of the foremost bass players in contemporary music. With this DVD, you'll learn a fantastic selection of popular bass techniques like thu...