Creative Teaching for Creative Learning in Higher Music by Elizabeth Haddon,Pamela Burnard

A Double Bassist’s Guide to Refining Performance Practices

Murray Grodner attracts on his distinct occupation as a double bass musician and instructor during this compendium of functionality philosophy, bowing and phraseology strategies, tutorials on fingerings and scales, and workouts for bowing and string crossing. Grodner addresses technical stumbling blocks in musical functionality, deals recommendation on software and bow buy, and gives an in depth method of the basics of bass enjoying.

Urban God Talk: Constructing a Hip Hop Spirituality

City God speak: developing a Hip Hop Spirituality, edited by means of Andre Johnson, is a set of essays that study the non secular and non secular in hip hop. The members argue that the present narrative that hip hop bargains not anything within the approach of faith and spirituality is fake. From its starting, hip hop has had a profound spirituality and advocates spiritual views—and whereas no longer orthodox or systemic, however, many in conventional orthodox religions may locate the theological and non secular underpinnings in hip hop comforting, empowering, and releasing.

The Operas of Giuseppe Verdi

Abramo Basevi released his learn of Verdi’s operas in Florence in 1859, in the course of the composer’s occupation. the 1st thorough, systematic exam of Verdi’s operas, it coated the twenty works produced among 1842 and 1857—from Nabucco and Macbeth to Il trovatore, l. a. traviata, and Aroldo.

The Quest for the Melodic Electric Bass: From Jamerson to Spenner (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)

The double bass - the popular bass tool in renowned song through the Nineteen Sixties - used to be challenged and therefore outdated by means of the arrival of a brand new electrical bass device. From the mid-1960s and in the course of the Seventies, a melismatic and inconsistent technique in the direction of the bass position ensued, which contributed to an enormous swap in how the electrical bass used to be utilized in functionality and perceived within the sonic panorama of mainstream renowned song.