Culturally Responsive Teaching in a High School Percussion Ensemble: Validating Immigrant Identities addresses themes of immigration, identity, and culturally responsive teaching in music education using a deep case study of Brazilian samba music in...Loe edasi...
Strategies, Tips, and Activities for the Effective Band Director: Targeting Student Engagement and Comprehension is a resourceful collection of highly effective teaching strategies, solutions, and activities for band directors. Chapters are aligned...Loe edasi...
As percussion music has progressed and become woven into the fabric of Western musical culture, several divergent paths comprised of various traditions and a multiplicity of aesthetic sensibilities have since emerged for the percussionist to pursue....Loe edasi...
Simon Barker sets out the developmental processes he has followed creating an improvisational language for the drumset utilizing Korean rhythm/sticking cells, aesthetic conceptions, improvisatory codes, and developmental procedures. He offers histor...Loe edasi...
The rapid transition of percussion practices from the fringes of musical activity to the forefront over the past nine decades changed the face of western art music. First emerging in North America and Europe in the late 1920s, a new generation of Au...Loe edasi...
Musicians Migratory Patterns: The African Drum as Symbol in Early America questions the ban that was placed on the African drum in early America. It shows the functional use of the drum for celebrations, weddings, funerals, religious ceremonies, and...Loe edasi...
Covering percussion instruments, this book is divided into 4 sections: an alphabetical dictionary of percussion instruments and terms; illustrations of key percussion instruments; longer, individual articles on key members of the percussion family,...Loe edasi...
Mrdang aur Tabla Vadanpaddhati, a revelatory text published in 1903, is a manual for playing the pakhavaj (mrdang) and the tabla. This book is a translation of this text, and examines its implications for rhythmic and metric theory. It illuminates...Loe edasi...
Aching hands, painful joint swelling, back problems, among other ailments were all thought to be part of the price musicians had to pay to be performers. This book begins with a general discussion of how the body works and basic prevention concepts....Loe edasi...
This collection of eight lectures by pianist, Graham Johnson, is based on a series of concert talks given at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama as part of the Benjamin Britten festival in 2001. The focus of the book is on Brittens songs, sta...Loe edasi...
