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American folk music has provided a narrative thread to the ... Read more

American folk music has provided a narrative thread to the fiber of the nation since its earliest days. Folk music scholar Norm Cohen presents a thorough exploration of the many ways in which folk music genres and subgenres have arisen in different regions of America. Chapters on folk song types, folk instrumentation, and the urban folk revival set further context to the discussion, and an itemized summary of noted folksong collections serves as an additional tool for both general readers and folk music scholars.American folk music has provided a narrative thread to the fiber of the nation since its earliest days. Forms ranging from New England sea chanteys to Pennsylvania Dutch worksongs helped shape life in the Northeast. Appalachian ballads evolved in the South, as did slave spirituals that served as codes for the Underground Railroad. Folk ballads on lumbering and mining grew in the Midwest and Northwest, while cowboy ballads emerged across the Great Plains and the West, and railroad songs accompanied expansion along the American frontier. Folk music scholar Norm Cohen presents a thorough exploration of the many ways in which folk music genres and subgenres have arisen in different regions of America. Chapters on folk song types, folk instrumentation, and the urban folk revival set further context to the discussion, and an itemized summary of noted folksong collections serves as an additional tool for both general readers and folk music scholars.The Greenwood Guide to American Roots Music series includes volumes on musical genres that have pervaded American culture. Each volume explores the different ways that selected genres, such as folk music, have evolved naturally in different regions and scenes thoughout the nation. Minimize

Performed by Milena Mollova pianoAccompaniment: Plovdiv Sy ... Read more

Performed by Milena Mollova pianoAccompaniment: Plovdiv Symphony OrchestraConductor: Nayden TodorovOne of the most enchanting and popular piano concerti ever written this is for many the epitome of nineteenth-century Romanticism showing the great influence of both Schumann and Liszt as well as Grieg's own fascination with Norwegian folk melodies. This concerto is less demanding than many of the big Romantic concerti and more accessible to the serious student. This brand new recording features renowned European powerhouse Milena Mollova in a complete reference version then you take center stage with the Plovdiv Symphony Orchestra under Maestro Nayden Todorov for your own brilliant performance!Includes a beautiful newly engraved printed music score edited with new fingering suggestions from Ms. Mollova and with informative liner notes; a digital stereo compact disc voluminously indexed for your convenience containing a complete version with soloist then a second performance o Minimize

Singer's Library of Song features 37 of the world's best-lo ... Read more

Singer's Library of Song features 37 of the world's best-loved songs from the Medieval era though the 20th Century, presented with historical information and performance suggestions that are designed to enhance and educate developing vocalists. Art Songs, Arias, Folk Songs, Spirituals, and Lieder -- they're all here, and they're all beautifully laid out in this comprehensive 200-page anthology for vocal study. English, Latin, Italian, German, French, Spanish, and Hebrew texts are included, and accurate translations and IPA pronunciation guides pave the way for serious singers. Available in low, medium, and high editions with optional accompaniment CDs (set of 2), Singer's Library of Song is a must-have for every voice teacher and student. Minimize

A huge collection of the world's most-loved folk songs and ... Read more

A huge collection of the world's most-loved folk songs and melodies, in "fakebook" style (melody, lyrics and chord changes). Perfect for sing-alongs, children's centers, classroom teachers or parents. Minimize

This history of folk music looks at musicians, collectors a ... Read more

This history of folk music looks at musicians, collectors and other figures from around the world. The book presents an overview of international folk roots from the seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth century and shows the contributions of the artists and the evolution of folk music as a force for political and social change. Profiles of Pete Seeger, Burl Ives, Woody Guthrie and others show how the stage was set for the American folk revival of the 1960s. Minimize

Legendary photographer Jim Marshall has documented the worl ... Read more

Legendary photographer Jim Marshall has documented the world's greatest musicians since the late '50s. His unique style and fearless approach gained him unlimited access to everyone from Miles Davis to Johnny Cash Bob Dylan and The Beatles Jimi Hendrix The Rolling Stones and The Who right up to recent sessions with Velvet Revolver. Now for the first time photographs from Jim's extensive color archive are published in book form offering a fresh insight into the work of this renowned photographer and a new look at some of the great figures in music history. Minimize

What do Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Willie Nel ... Read more

What do Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Tom Waits, Cassandra Wilson, and Ani DiFranco have in common? In Highway 61 Revisited, acclaimed music critic Gene Santoro says the answer is jazz--not just the musical style, but jazz's distinctive ambiance and attitudes. As legendary bebop rebel Charlie Parker once put it, "If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." Unwinding that Zen-like statement, Santoro traces how jazz's existential art has infused outstanding musicians in nearly every wing of American popular music--blues, folk, gospel, psychedelic rock, country, bluegrass, soul, funk, hiphop--with its parallel process of self-discovery and artistic creation through musical improvisation. Taking less-traveled paths through the last century of American pop, Highway 61 Revisited maps unexpected musical and cultural links between such apparently disparate figures as Louis Armstrong, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan and Herbie Hancock; Miles Davis, Lenny Bruce, The Grateful Dead, Bruce Springsteen, and many others. Focusing on jazz's power to connect, Santoro shows how the jazz milieu created a fertile space "where whites and blacks could meet in America on something like equal grounds," and indeed where art and entertainment, politics and poetry, mainstream culture and its subversive offshoots were drawn together in a heady mix whose influence has proved both far-reaching and seemingly inexhaustible. Combining interviews and original research, and marked throughout by Santoro's wide ranging grasp of cultural history, Highway 61 Revisited offers readers a new look at--and a new way of listening to--the many ways jazz has colored the entire range of American popular music in all its dazzling profusion. Minimize

The complete songbook from the greatest singer/songwriter o ... Read more

The complete songbook from the greatest singer/songwriter of all time! Now with every song together in one giant volume, the ultimate Dylan songbook features over 329 tunes including all of his greatest hits as well as his lesser-known work. With melody line, chord symbols and full lyrics. Songs include: Blowin in the Wind * Forever Young * Just Like a Woman * Mr. Tambourine Man * She Belongs to Me * Tangled Up in Blue * The Times They Are Changin * Visions of Johanna * and hundreds more. Minimize

Matching folio to the album from this legendary artist. Ove ... Read more

Matching folio to the album from this legendary artist. Over 30 songs including: Blowin' in the Wind * It Ain't Me, Babe * Maggie's Farm * It's All over Now, Baby Blue * Mr. Tambourine Man * Like a Rolling Stone * All Along the Watchtower * Lay, Lady Lay * If Not for You * Knockin' on Heaven's Door * Tangled up in Blue * Jokerman * and more. Minimize

Singer's Library of Song features 37 of the world's best-lo ... Read more

Singer's Library of Song features 37 of the world's best-loved songs from the Medieval era though the 20th Century, presented with historical information and performance suggestions that are designed to enhance and educate developing vocalists. Art Songs, Arias, Folk Songs, Spirituals, and Lieder -- they're all here, and they're all beautifully laid out in this comprehensive 200-page anthology for vocal study. English, Latin, Italian, German, French, Spanish, and Hebrew texts are included, and accurate translations and IPA pronunciation guides pave the way for serious singers. Available in low, medium, and high editions with optional accompaniment CDs (set of 2), Singer's Library of Song is a must-have for every voice teacher and student. Minimize

Develop music appreciation among your students with folk so ... Read more

Develop music appreciation among your students with folk songs, rhythmic poems, stories with musical themes, and picture books with strong musical links. Designed for teaching flexibility, these lessons can be adapted according to a teacher's level of musical proficiency and time limitations. Sections cover rhythm, melody, form, instruments, music history, and dance forms, with lively activities that involve singing, playing instruments, chanting, and movement. These are perfect for the nonmusician who is teaching music as well as the seasoned music specialist. Minimize

This instrument is a brand new, 12-hole ceramic tenor ocari ... Read more

This instrument is a brand new, 12-hole ceramic tenor ocarina similar to the one appears in Legend of Zelda. It is about 7" long, accurately tuned in the key of C Major, with a pitch range of more than an octave and half (13 notes). It also has the capability of performing sharps and flats. We have included an instructional booklet, which has a detail finger chart, with this ocarina. We have also included our method book "The Art of Ocarina", a protective bag, Folksong for Ocarina Volume One and two Zelda Songbooks, which include songs from Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Wind Walker, and Twilight Princess, for free. Learn to play Zelda songs like Link! Everything you need to start playing an ocarina is included!! Minimize

Synopsis: The Band's 1976 farewell concert has Joni Mitchel ... Read more

Synopsis: The Band's 1976 farewell concert has Joni Mitchell Bob Dylan Neil Young Van Morrison Eric Clapton Muddy Waters. Directed by Martin Scorsese.Format: DVDColor: ColorRating: PGGenre: DocumentaryRuntime: 117Subtitle: YYear: 1978 Minimize

Music in the USA: A Documentary Companion charts a path thr ... Read more

Music in the USA: A Documentary Companion charts a path through American music and musical life using as guides the words of composers, performers, writers and the rest of us ordinary folks who sing, dance, and listen. The anthology of primary sources contains about 160 selections from 1540 to 2000. Sometimes the sources are classics in the literature around American music, for example, the Preface to the Bay Psalm Book, excerpts from Slave Songs of the United States, and Charles Ives extolling Emerson. But many other selections offer uncommon sources, including a satirical story about a Yankee music teacher; various columns from 19th-century German American newspapers; the memoirs of a 19th-century diva; Lottie Joplin remembering her husband Scott; a little-known reflection of Copland about Stravinsky; an interview with Muddy Waters from the Chicago Defender; a letter from Woody Guthrie on the "spunkfire" attitude of a folk song; a press release from the Country Music Association; and the Congressional testimony around "Napster." "Sidebar" entries occasionally bring a topic or an idea into the present, acknowledging the extent to which revivals of many kinds of music play a role in American contemporary culture. This book focuses on the connections between theory and practice to enrich our understanding of the diversity of American musical experiences. Designed especially to accompany college courses which survey American music as a whole, the book is also relevant to courses in American history and American Studies. Minimize

Promotes competency in music fundamentals through a hands- ... Read more

Promotes competency in music fundamentals through a hands- on approach to Rhythm, Melody, Intervals, Triads, and Harmony. KEY TOPICS: Each new concept is reinforced through singing, listening, written exercises, keyboard practice, and creative activity. Examples are drawn from a variety of sources, including world music, folk music, Western art music, and musicals. Practice questions, musical applications, mastery tests, and projects are included in each chapter. A learning tool for beginning musicians, and music teachers who teach music fundamentals. Minimize

Though he was prolific enough in other categories (film mus ... Read more

Though he was prolific enough in other categories (film music, for example), Aram Khachaturian only wrote two pieces of chamber music: a string quartet (1931), and this Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano, composed in 1932. Khachaturian's interest in the folk music of Armenia can be heard in the Eastern flavors of the Trio's harmonic language. This edition is published by Edition Sikorski. Difficulty: A6 Minimize

Elliot's superb writing for string groups is evident in his ... Read more

Elliot's superb writing for string groups is evident in his new suite of folk dance songs. This outstanding edition can fill that multicultural segment of your next program with three traditional tunes from the rich heritage of Eastern European music. Includes: Meadows Green Spring the Madcap and Walking at Night. Minimize

Life Flows on in Endless Song explores American folk songs ... Read more

Life Flows on in Endless Song explores American folk songs as a frame for the American experience. Robert V. Wells discusses how folk songs emerged from particular historical circumstances and evolved as they migrated from one region to another. Crafting a thematic map of four centuries of American history, Wells investigates how songs embody shifting attitudes toward the institution of the family, war and religion, work and the labor movement, transportation in America, and slavery and Jim Crow. He also considers modern folk heroes Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie. Featuring a selective discography of key recordings, this book offers an accessible model for using folk songs as a richly evocative reflection of the American past. Minimize

In this three DVD lesson series Stefan Grossman explores th ... Read more

In this three DVD lesson series Stefan Grossman explores the world of Country Blues Guitar. It is a fascinating and challenging study that covers blues, folk and ragtime arrangements in the the keys of A, C, D, E and G. Each tune is discussed and taught phrase by phrase and played slowly on a split screen so that you can clearly see what each hand is doing. You will learn about the playing styles and techniques of legendary blues guitarists as Rev. Gary Davis, Frank Stokes, Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller, Mance Lipscomb, Lightnin' Hopkins, Mississippi John Hurt, Willie Brown, Robert Johnson, Sam McGee, Lonnie Johnson and Elizabeth Cotten. A detailed 56 page tab/music booklet is included with this collection. Rare footage of Mississippi John Hurt, Rev. Gary Davis, Furry Lewis, Big Bill Broonzy, Jesse Fuller, Elizabeth Cotten, Lightnin' Hopkins, Mance Lipscomb and Son House is also presented. Lesson One: Key of C: Freight Train, It Won't Be Long, Buck Dancer's Choice, Candyman, Salty Dog Blues, Ragtime Mama Blues and Blake's Rag. 63 minutes. Lesson Two: Keys of G and A: Spike Driver's Blues, Shake Sugaree, Ragged and Dirty, Blues licks in A, Willie Mae, Spoonful and Robert Johnson blues licks in A. 65 minutes. Lesson Three: Keys of D and E: Lightnin' Hopkins blues licks in E, Stagolee, Take A Whiff On Me, Tribute To Lonnie Johnson, Charley James and Avalon Blues. 68 minutes. 196 minutes on 3 dvds/ Level 2/3 / 56 page tab/music booklet Minimize

These two volumes contain a collection of tunes, many previ ... Read more

These two volumes contain a collection of tunes, many previously unpublished. Scottish pipe bands, folk groups, strathspey and reel societies play extensively from the music collected here from the bagpipe and fiddle traditions and ancient Gaelic airs of Minimize

These authentic folk songs from around the globe are especi ... Read more

These authentic folk songs from around the globe are especially arranged for 2-part voices, creating an amazing international field trip through nine countries on four continents. Information on the Fun Fact pages provides a fascinating look at world cultures, and doubles as flexible narration for a 30-minute multicultural music program. A great cross-curricular teaching tool and a complete performance package!* Recommended for grades 3 and up.* Teachers Handbook is 100% reproducible.* Enhanced SoundTrax CD includes reproducible PDF files of Student Song Sheets, Fun Facts, and Cover Art.* Can be used as a songbook or as a multicultural program (approx. 30 minutes). Minimize

Is it merely a coincidence that the three "Bs" of classical ... Read more

Is it merely a coincidence that the three "Bs" of classical music—Bach, Beethoven, Brahms—are all German composers? Why do concert halls all over the world feature mostly the works of German and Austrian composers as their standard repertoire? Over the past three centuries, supporters of German music ranging from music scholars to politicians have nurtured the notion that the German-speaking world possesses a peculiar strength in the cultivation of music.This book explores the questions of how music came to be associated with German identity, when and how Germans came to be regarded as the "people of music," and how music came to be designated as "the most German art." Drawing on the expertise of leading scholars in German history, musicology, and German literature, the essays assembled here examine philosophy, literature, politics, and social currents, as well as the creation and performance of folk music, art music, church music, jazz, and pop to explore the ways in which music has Minimize

Accent on Achievement, Book 1 Various Insts 13 Books!THESE ... Read more

Accent on Achievement, Book 1 Various Insts 13 Books!THESE ARE BRAND NEW BOOKS, THE LOT INCLUDES THE ABOVE TITLE 3 FOR TRUMPET, 4 FOR TROMBONE, 3 FOR CLARINET AND 3 FOR FLUTE. COVER PRICE IS $7.95 PER BOOK, THIS LOT YOU CAN HAVE ALL FOR $60! 5 full-band arrangements Solo with piano accompaniment 22 different classical composers 49 folk songs from 19 countries Chorales in the keys of Concert B-flat, F, E-flat and A-flat 6 creativity exercises (composing and improvisation) 15 duets 2 pages of rhy Minimize

All the songs from the career-spanning three-CD box set. Ov ... Read more

All the songs from the career-spanning three-CD box set. Over 50 of Bob Dylan's biggest hits including: Blowin' in the Wind Mr. Tambourine Man Knockin' on Heaven's Door Masters of War Like a Rolling Stone My Back Pages It Ain't Me Babe and many more. Minimize

2009 five CD collection from the Folk/Pop singer/songwriter ... Read more

2009 five CD collection from the Folk/Pop singer/songwriter. This self-titled compilation features 52 tracks including 'Take Me Home Country Roads', 'Ponies', 'Annie's Song', 'Hold On To Me', 'Rocky Mountain High' and many more. V. Minimize

Innovative and lively, this comparative and integrative stu ... Read more

Innovative and lively, this comparative and integrative study of the multicultural music of the United States explores the music of Native Americans, European Americans, African Americans, Latino Americans, and Asian Americans–the five broad groups that constitute American society and that have complex, unique, and often intermingled musical traditions that are reflected in contemporary American music. It features a blended historical/social, ethnic, and musical approach; strong contemporary focus; and coverage of a wide variety of musical styles. Music in Multicultural America. Native American Music Traditions. The Roots of European/Anglo-American Music Traditions. The Roots of African American Music Traditions. The Roots of Hispanic/Latino Music Traditions. The Blues. Jazz. Gospel. Cajun and Zydeco. Country. The Urban Folk Revival. The Ethnic and Racial Roots of Rock 'n' Roll. Motown, Soul and Funk. Tejano, Banda, and Contemporary Mexican. Caribbean and Salsa. Asian American Music. Hip-Hop and Rap. For anyone interested in American Popular Music. Minimize