Livres de musique

Winner of the 1995 Pulitzer Prize. Sunday is itself a modernist creation, perhaps the first truly modernist work of musical theatre that Broadway has produced... a watershed event that demands nothing...

A collection of eight plays along with accompanying critical essays. Includes: The Oresteia - Aeschylus; Prometheus Bound - Aeschylus; Oedipus the King - Sophocles; Antigone - Sophocles; Medea - Eurip...

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...

Ever After is more than a detailed show-by-show history of the last quarter century in American musical theater. It explains how the storied Broadway tradition in many cases went so very wrong. Singer...

In 1971, college student Ted Chapin found himself front row center as a production assistant at the creation of one of the greatest Broadway musicals, Follies. Needing college credit to graduate on ti...

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...

I am your accompanist. You do not know me. I am the guy who sits behind the upright in the unflattering fluorescent light of the dance studio, a bottle of water on the floor, a half-eaten Power Bar on...

Every year, Major League Baseball, the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League name a Most Valuable Player - an MVP. The Broadway musical communit...

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...

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...

An easy-to-follow, detailed curriculum that uses band performance as a means for teaching comprehensive musicianship. Blueprint runs a full scale of music history, theory and special projects, while s...

A practical source of authentic assessment strategies for music educators. Includes over 70 pages of tasks and charts for assessing the learning process as well as the product.

Teaching Music with Passion is a one-of-a-kind, collective masterpiece of thoughts, ideas and suggestions about the noble profession of music education. Both inspirational and instructional, it will s...

An exciting, balanced approach to student performance, music learning and personal change. Written in an informal, engaging style, the text is highlighted by anecdotes, quotations, challenges for self...

A stimulating collection of unique concepts on teaching and conducting by 57 of today's most outstanding music educators. Contains to-the-point, thought-provoking ideas proven successful by master tea...

A stimulating collection of unique concepts on becoming a successful performer by 57 of today's most outstanding brass professionals. Contains to-the-point, thought-provoking ideas proven successful b...

Like his first critically acclaimed international bestseller Teaching Music with Passion, this new book from Peter Boonshaft is even more poignant and powerful. Called one of the most exciting and exh...

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 no...

This book provides one huge room where everyone can gather to ask questions on the art of rehearsing and listen to answers from people who know. In his foreword, Frederick Fennell says, If you are a c...

This valuable collection of quick-to-read yet deeply insightful strategies is like finding expert trade secrets all placed in one convenient source. Contributors to the book were even eager to get a l...

This exciting work, by one of today's most highly regarded music scholars, brings new light to the more than two dozen works by Ralph Vaughan Williams for military band, brass band and wind ensemble....

This handy guide features: more than 4, 000 foreign musical terms; terms in Italian, French and German; more than 160 musical examples; and comprehensive sections for percussion and strings.