Armenian Duduk


Book Description

The Third Edition of Armenian Duduk Method is the only trilingual comprehensive and easy-to-use guide designed for anyone interested in playing Armenian Duduk from the complete novice just learning the basics to the more advanced player. Using his prominent performance and pedagogy background Georgy Minasov takes an all-in-one approach by combining theory, scales and technique into a single volume. For those who want to enrich their repertoire the book features over 250 songs from different music genres including such duduk standards as Hovern Enkan, Machkal, Eshkhemet and much more. The book is divided into four sections. The first section aims to teach the beginners to perform smoothly and correctly read the notes. Section II fixes and further builds on the skills gained in Section I, adding competence of correct performance of folk and gussan songs, dance melodies, and spiritual music. Sections III and IV include ensembles and mughams - the pearls of Eastern culture along with their audio tracks accessible online. More information about the book can be found by accessing book's official website at www.minasovduduk.com




Duduk For Beginners


Book Description

The Duduk For Beginners is specifically created for beginner duduk players in mind who are just entering the mystical world of this beautiful Armenian instrument. The first edition includes scales, studies, and etudes to improve beginner duduk player performance, as well as plenty of material to build your first playing repertoire. Specific attention was paid to include works of Armenian, Russian and Western European composers in addition to traditional Armenian spiritual, folk music, gussan songs and dance melodies. The book is divided into three parts: - Introduction to duduk, basic scales, exercises for each scale, as well as various melodies to make things more interesting.- Duduk solo repertoire arrangements from variety of genres, including classics adaptations (Mozart, Bach, Marcello.)- Duduk repertoire with piano arrangements, including beautiful pieces like Lullaby by Johannes Brahms, etc.




Duduk Virtuoso


Book Description

Being the first ever scales and exercise book published for Armenian traditional and extended range duduk (invented by Georgy Minasyan himself) Duduk Virtuoso has been written having the future of duduk in mind. While the traditional duduk has limited playing range of around one octave, extended range duduk allows performance across two octaves and in all twelve keys, significantly increasing the instrument's repertoire. Therefore the book has dual purpose: to help aspiring musicians to increase playing proficiency of the traditional instrument, and to bring to light the full potential of the instrument through mastering the improved instrument. The material, therefore, is designed in a way that will help both curious students and professional performers to further develop the flexibility and agility in all the fingers across the scales previously unfamiliar to traditional duduk. The scales and exercises are sequenced from easy to complex, so that each successive exercise increases the performance challenge and builds the mastery.




The Normativity of Musical Works: A Philosophical Inquiry


Book Description

The essay advocates a theory of the musical work as a “social object” which is based on a trace informed by a normative value. Such a normativity is explored in relation to three ways of fixing the trace: orality, notation and phonography.




Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century


Book Description

What happened to Greek tragedy after the death of Euripides? This book provides some answers, and a broad historical overview.




Albanian Urban Lyric Song in the 1930s


Book Description

The author examines the indigenous diatonic and chromatic modes used in Albanian urban music and classifies them under traditional headings and as part of a newly established grouping, here termed south-western Balkan modes. The core of the work is the analysis of Albanian urban lyric songs, seen as an artistic version of the traditional Albanian urban songs.




The Oxford Illustrated History of Opera


Book Description

A historical survey of opera, from its beginnings in Florence 400 years ago, up to opera in the 1990s.




Traditional Armenian Instrumental Music


Book Description

This 232 page work describes a general overview of the musical instrumentsin use among the Armenians in the past; it exposes the traditional musical modesand gives many other historical informations rich in several thousand years of history,at the crossroad of civilizations of the East and West. You can view excerpts of this book by going on the ArmenTrad website via the link below: www.armentrad.org/ExtraitsMitaEn.htm This book is also available in French language under the title "La musique instrumentale traditionnelle arm�nienne" via the link below: www.armentrad.org/PublicationsFr.htm




The Listening Book


Book Description

The Listening Book is about rediscovering the power of listening as an instrument of self-discovery and personal transformation. By exploring our capacity for listening to sounds and for making music, we can awaken and release our full creative powers. Mathieu offers suggestions and encouragement on many aspects of music-making, and provides playful exercises to help readers appreciate the connection between sound, music, and everyday life.




Musique Fantastique


Book Description

This book discusses the use of scores in horror, science fiction and fantasy films, covering the 1930's to the 1980's, with chapters on Herrmann, Goldsmith, Rózsa, Japanese monster movies, Hammer horror movies, John Williams, electronic music and how classical music has been integrated into these film genres.