Ricci on Glissando

Author: Ruggiero Ricci
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
In his book on left-hand violin technique, Maestro Ruggiero Ricci addresses common problems in shifting by advocating the study of the glissando technique. He asserts that re-incorporating this technique will not only aid violinists in developing a better-trained ear, but also provide them with "shortcuts" to playing some of Paganini's most difficult passages. Ricci introduces and compares old and new systems of playing to provide a context for the glissando system. He outlines a series of glissando scales that provides the student with a blueprint for developing additional glissando scales in other keys. He offers exercises designed to increase flexibility, ear training, coordination, and crawling technique and has included a DVD in which he demonstrates various bowing techniques.

The Cambridge Companion to Film Music

Author: Mervyn Cooke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107094518
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 439

Book Description
A stimulating and unusually wide-ranging collection of essays overviewing ways in which music functions in film soundtracks.

The Amadeus Book of the Violin

Author: Walter Kolneder
Publisher: Amadeus
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 608

Book Description
Available for the first time in English, this book has been considered the best single encyclopedia of the violin for 20 years. All aspects of the violin are covered: construction, history, and literature; violin playing and teaching; and violin virtuosos through the ages.

The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories

Author: Alessandro Portelli
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 9781438416335
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 682

Book Description
Portelli offers a new and challenging approach to oral history, with an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective. Examining cultural conflict and communication between social groups and classes in industrial societies, he identifies the way individuals strive to create memories in order to make sense of their lives, and evaluates the impact of the fieldwork experience on the consciousness of the researcher. By recovering the value of the story-telling experience, Portelli's work makes delightful reading for the specialist and non-specialist alike.

The Beatles Sheet Music Collection

Author: Beatles
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1540004082
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 441

Book Description
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). Over 100 timeless hits from the Fab Four in piano/vocal/guitar arrangements, including: Across the Universe * All My Loving * Back in the U.S.S.R. * Blackbird * Can't Buy Me Love * Come Together * Don't Let Me Down * Eight Days a Week * Eleanor Rigby * The Fool on the Hill * Good Day Sunshine * Here Comes the Sun * Hey Jude * I Want to Hold Your Hand * In My Life * Let It Be * Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds * Michelle * Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) * Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da * Penny Lane * Revolution * Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band * She Loves You * Ticket to Ride * Twist and Shout * When I'm Sixty-Four * Yellow Submarine * Yesterday * and more.

Gesture-Based Communication in Human-Computer Interaction

Author: Antonio Camurri
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540210725
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 571

Book Description
Research on the multifaceted aspects of modeling, analysis, and synthesis of - man gesture is receiving growing interest from both the academic and industrial communities. On one hand, recent scienti?c developments on cognition, on - fect/emotion, on multimodal interfaces, and on multimedia have opened new perspectives on the integration of more sophisticated models of gesture in c- putersystems.Ontheotherhand,theconsolidationofnewtechnologiesenabling “disappearing” computers and (multimodal) interfaces to be integrated into the natural environments of users are making it realistic to consider tackling the complex meaning and subtleties of human gesture in multimedia systems, - abling a deeper, user-centered, enhanced physical participation and experience in the human-machine interaction process. The research programs supported by the European Commission and s- eral national institutions and governments individuated in recent years strategic ?elds strictly concerned with gesture research. For example, the DG Infor- tion Society of the European Commission (www.cordis.lu/ist) supports several initiatives, such as the “Disappearing Computer” and “Presence” EU-IST FET (Future and Emerging Technologies), the IST program “Interfaces & Enhanced Audio-Visual Services” (see for example the project MEGA, Multisensory - pressive Gesture Applications, www.megaproject.org), and the IST strategic - jective “Multimodal Interfaces.” Several EC projects and other funded research are represented in the chapters of this book. Awiderangeofapplicationscanbene?tfromadvancesinresearchongesture, from consolidated areas such as surveillance to new or emerging ?elds such as therapy and rehabilitation, home consumer goods, entertainment, and aud- visual, cultural and artistic applications, just to mention only a few of them.

Earl Scruggs and the 5-String Banjo

Author: Earl Scruggs
Publisher: Hal Leonard
ISBN: 1476859337
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 534

Book Description
(Banjo). The best-selling banjo method in the world! Earl Scruggs's legendary method has helped thousands of banjo players get their start. The "Revised and Enhanced Edition" features more songs, updated lessons, and many other improvements. It includes everything you need to know to start playing banjo, including: a history of the 5-string banjo, getting acquainted with the banjo, Scruggs tuners, how to read music, chords, how to read tablature, right-hand rolls and left-hand techniques, banjo tunings, exercises in picking, over 40 songs, how to build a banjo, autobiographical notes, and much more! Includes audio of Earl Scruggs playing and explaining over 60 examples!

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Brass Instruments

Author: Trevor Herbert
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781316631850
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Some thirty-two experts from fifteen countries join three of the world's leading authorities on the design, manufacture, performance and history of brass musical instruments in this first major encyclopedia on the subject. It includes over one hundred illustrations, and gives attention to every brass instrument which has been regularly used, with information about the way they are played, the uses to which they have been put, and the importance they have had in classical music, sacred rituals, popular music, jazz, brass bands and the bands of the military. There are specialist entries covering every inhabited region of the globe and essays on the methods that experts have used to study and understand brass instruments. The encyclopedia spans the entire period from antiquity to modern times, with new and unfamiliar material that takes advantage of the latest research. From Abblasen to Zorsi Trombetta da Modon, this is the definitive guide for students, academics, musicians and music lovers.

Quantum Wave Mechanics

Author: Larry Reed
Publisher: Booklocker.com
ISBN: 9781634929646
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 710

Book Description
Geometrical description of photons, electrons and composite particles. Dimensional analysis of electrical charge. Quantum gravity, gravitational frequency spectrum, mass oscillator synchronization, spectral energy density modulation and phase conjugation. Origin of charge, fine structure constant and inertia. Prospects for wave-based EM propulsion.

Instruments in the History of Western Music

Author: Karl Geiringer
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Musical instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 398

Book Description
Chronologically arranged, it studies instruments of some 25,000 years from the clay drums of the stone age to electronic synthesizers.