Pepperbox Jazz, Bk 2


Book Description

This book explores the sounds, moods, and rhythms of the 21st Century. These 11 evocative and humorous pieces written in a variety of jazz styles are composed especially for the Grade 5-7 (Intermediate to Early Advanced) pianist. Includes one duet for fun with a friend! Elissa Milne composes, writes, and teaches in Sydney, Australia.




Pepperbox Jazz, Bk 1


Book Description

This book explores the sounds, moods, and rhythms of the 21st Century. These 14 evocative and humorous pieces written in a variety of jazz styles are composed especially for the Grade 4-6 (Early to Late Intermediate) pianist. Includes two duets for fun with a friend! Elissa Milne composes, writes, and teaches in Sydney, Australia.




Little Peppers


Book Description

This is the third book of five in this series by Australian composer, Elissa Milne. 'Little Peppers' is an exquisite collection of jazz miniatures for the developing pianist, introducing a range of keys, rhythms and performance techniques. Composed especially for the intermediate level pianist, these moments of cool are designed to delight both player and audience alike!




What the Dormouse Said


Book Description

“This makes entertaining reading. Many accounts of the birth of personal computing have been written, but this is the first close look at the drug habits of the earliest pioneers.” —New York Times Most histories of the personal computer industry focus on technology or business. John Markoff’s landmark book is about the culture and consciousness behind the first PCs—the culture being counter– and the consciousness expanded, sometimes chemically. It’s a brilliant evocation of Stanford, California, in the 1960s and ’70s, where a group of visionaries set out to turn computers into a means for freeing minds and information. In these pages one encounters Ken Kesey and the phone hacker Cap’n Crunch, est and LSD, The Whole Earth Catalog and the Homebrew Computer Lab. What the Dormouse Said is a poignant, funny, and inspiring book by one of the smartest technology writers around.




Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America


Book Description

The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated. Saidiya Hartman has been praised as “one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers” (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and “a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy” (Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker). In Scenes of Subjection—Hartman’s first book, now revised and expanded—her singular talents and analytical framework turn away from the “terrible spectacle” and toward the forms of routine terror and quotidian violence characteristic of slavery, illuminating the intertwining of injury, subjugation, and selfhood even in abolitionist depictions of enslavement. By attending to the withheld and overlooked at the margins of the historical archive, Hartman radically reshapes our understanding of history, in a work as resonant today as it was on first publication, now for a new generation of readers. This 25th anniversary edition features a new preface by the author, a foreword by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, an afterword by Marisa J. Fuentes and Sarah Haley, notations with Cameron Rowland, and compositions by Torkwase Dyson.




More Little Peppers


Book Description

This is the fourth book of five in this series by Australian composer, Elissa Milne. 'More Little Peppers' is an exquisite collection of jazz miniatures for the developing pianist, introducing a range of keys, rhythms and performance techniques. Composed especially for the late-intermediate level pianist, these moments of cool are designed to delight both player and audience alike!




Oscar Peterson - Jazz Exercises, Minuets, Etudes & Pieces for Piano (Music Instruction)


Book Description

(Keyboard Instruction). Legendary jazz pianist Oscar Peterson has long been devoted to the education of piano students. In this book he offers dozens of pieces designed to empower the student, whether novice or classically trained, with the technique needed to become an accomplished jazz pianist.




An Intermediate Performance Companion for Pop Studies 1


Book Description

An Intermediate Performance Companion For Pop Studies 1: The WunderKeys Essential Piano Collection is composed for students working in a traditional level 3 method book and contains piano solos in the keys of C, Am, G, Em, F, and Dm. With this book, piano teachers can: Break free from boring piano performance books Stop their endless online search for sheet music, and Feel confident knowing that they are using a collection of developmentally-appropriate music that will be a smash hit with their intermediate piano players. With every turn of the page, your students' passion for the piano will grow as they explore classical pop piano pieces inspired by Mozart, Beethoven and more, thundering Celtic solos and cool original pop repertoire. How can we be so sure this book will capture the attention of your intermediate piano players? Because it is a collection of WunderKeys' greatest intermediate hits! Every piece in this book is teacher and teen approved. To create the perfect lesson experience for your intermediate piano players, our most popular piano pieces from the last decade have been reworked to create a leveled repertoire collection for use alongside our book, WunderKeys Intermediate Pop Studies For Piano 1 (also available on Amazon). The 15 piano pieces in An Intermediate Performance Companion For Pop Studies 1 are: My Tomorrow, The Grøndahl Session, Fearless At Fintown, The Notebook Session, The Sonata Session, Sea O'Malley (formerly Keeva's Theme), The Awakening, Faelan Rising, The 620 Session, Rohan's Return, The Night Session, Keeva Rising, Running In The Night, The Sonatina Session, and The Semplice Session (formerly K.Track 545). An Intermediate Performance Companion For Pop Studies 1 is the music that teens want and teachers need. Get it for your intermediate players today.




The Illustrated Catalog of Guitars


Book Description

A must-have for any guitar lover! This book introduces the reader to 250 guitars of all types from the early acoustic archtop designs of the Gibson L-5 in the last 1920s, through the National resonators of the 1930s, the hollow body electric Gibsons of the 1950s, the solid body Fenders of the 1960s, to the exoskeletal carbon and glass fiber of the Parker Fly of the 1990s. Each entry has a clear color photograph of the guitar together with a detail shot featuring a point of particular interest of that instrument along with a description and a technical specification. It is arranged in alphabetical order by maker’s name and coded by the type of guitar. The guitar had a profound influence on many musical forms including blues, bluegrass, country, flamenco, jazz, folk, heavy metal, rock, soul, reggae, and modern pop.




Jazz Hanon (Music Instruction)


Book Description

(Musicians Institute Press). This one-on-one lesson with Musicians Institute instructor Peter Deneff features 50 exercises for the beginning to professional jazz pianist, covering: angular lines, large intervals, pentatonic patterns, blues scales, irregular chromatic melodies, double-note patterns, suggested fingerings, suggestions for practice, and more.