Giants of Music Education


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A History of Music Education in the United States


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Keene provides a detailed account of music instruction in colonial and nationalized America from the 1600s to the end of the 1960s. (Music)




And There Were Giants in the Land


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William Heard Kilpatrick (1871-1965) was, during his long career, the chief interpreter and disseminator of John Dewey's educational thought. Known as «Columbia's Million-Dollar Professor» because of the great popularity (and revenue) of his classes at Teachers College, Kilpatrick vigorously promoted the progressive educational message that schools must be more child-centered, democratic, and socially oriented. This transplanted native of Georgia was the center of controversy over several decades. As a young man he underwent a heresy trial in the South for his unconventional theological beliefs. During the Great Depression he came under attack by conservatives for his active leadership in the radical Social Reconstructionist movement. And near the end of his life, he was assailed by McCarthyites for his social views and challenges to the traditional curriculum. Since his death, critics have accused Kilpatrick's legacy of departing from Dewey's message and encouraging anti-intellectualism by classroom practitioners. Kilpatrick is one of the major figures in twentieth-century American education and his ideas continue to frame the debate on educational reform as we enter the twenty-first century.




The Giant Book of Classical Sheet Music


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With more than 80 essential masterworks arranged for easy piano, this book guarantees a lifetime of exploration and enjoyment at the keys. Titles: * 1812 Overture (Tchaikovsky) * Air on the G String (Bach) * Andaluza No. 5 (Granados) * Anvil Chorus (Verdi) * Ave Maria (Bach-Gounod) * Ballade No. 1 (Chopin) * Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach) * The Blue Danube (Strauss) * Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 (Bach) * Bridal Chorus, from Lohengrin (Wagner) * Can-Can (Offenbach) * Canon in D (Pachelbel) * Clair de lune (Debussy) * Doretta's Song (Puccini) * The Entertainer (Joplin) * Egmont Overture (Beethoven) * Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Mozart) * "Emperor" Concerto (Beethoven) * Fantaisie-Impromptu (Chopin) * Flower Duet (Delibes) * Funeral March of a Marionette (Gounod) * The Garland Waltz, from Sleeping Beauty (Tchaikovsky) * Habanera (Bizet) * Hallelujah Chorus (Handel) * Hornpipe (Handel) * Hungarian Dance No. 5 (Brahms) * Intermezzo (Mascagni) * In the Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg) * Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach) * L'Arlí©sienne Suite No. 1 (Bizet) * Líæ ci darem la mano (Mozart) * La donna í mobile (Verdi) * Libiamo, from La Traviata (Verdi) * Mandolin Concerto in C Major (Vivaldi) * Maple Leaf Rag (Joplin) * March from The Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky) * March of the Toreadors (Bizet) * Meditation, from Thaí¿s (Massenet) * "Merry Widow" Waltz (Lehíçr) * "Military" Polonaise (Chopin) * "Minute" Waltz (Chopin) * The Moldau (Smetana) * "Moonlight" Sonata (Beethoven) * Morning Mood (Grieg) * Musetta's Waltz (Puccini) * "New World" Symphony (Dvo�»ak) * Nocturne, Op. 55, No. 1 (Chopin) * O mio babbino caro (Puccini) * Ode to Joy (Beethoven) * Overture from The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart) * "Pathí©tique" Sonata (Beethoven) * Pavane (Faurí©) * Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tchaikovsky) * Piano Sonata No. 11 (Mozart) * Polovetsian Dance (Borodin) * Pomp and Circumstance (Elgar) * Prelude from Cello Suite No. 1 (Bach) * Prelude, Op. 28, No. 4 (Chopin) * Prince of Denmark's March (Clarke) * Queen of the Night Aria (Mozart) * "Raindrop" Prelude (Chopin) * "Revolutionary" Etude (Chopin) * Rondeau from Suite de symphonies (Mouret) * Rondo alla Turca (Mozart) * Sheep May Safely Graze (Bach) * Solace (Joplin) * The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Dukas) * Spring, from The Four Seasons (Vivaldi) * Stí_ndchen (Schubert) * "Surprise" Symphony (Haydn) * The Swan (Saint-Saí‚ns) * Swan Lake, Act I Finale (Tchaikovsky) * Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven) * Symphony No. 40 (Mozart) * Toccata in D Minor (Bach) * Toreador Song (Bizet) * Turkish March (Beethoven) * Un bel díå (Puccini) * "Unfinished" Symphony (Schubert) * Variations on "Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman" (Mozart) * Voi, che sapete (Mozart) * Waltz, Op. 39, No. 15 (Brahms) * Wedding March from A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn)




The Jazz Style of John Coltrane


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The Giants of Jazz series is designed to provide a method for studying, analyzing, imitating and assimilating the idiosyncratic and general facets of the styles of various jazz giants. The Jazz Style of John Coltrane provides many transcriptions, plus discography, biographical data, style traits, genealogy, and bibliography.




Jack and the Giant


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The Giant Book of Classical Sheet Music


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With more than 60 essential solo piano masterworks in their original form, this book guarantees a lifetime of exploration and challenge at the keys. Titles: *The Avalance, Op. 45, No. 2 (Heller) *Bagatelle, Op. 5, No. 10 (Tcherepnin) *Ballade, Op. 100, No. 15 (Burgmí_ller) *Bear Dance (Bartí_k) *Clair de lune, from Suite bergamasque (Debussy) *Consolation, Op. 30, No. 3, from Song without Words (Mendelssohn) *The Easy Winners (Joplin) *Elfin Dance, Op. 12, No. 4 (Grieg) *The Entertainer (Joplin) *Fantasy in D Minor, K. 397 (Mozart) *First Arabesque (Debussy) *First Gymnopí©die (Satie) *Fughetta (Zipoli) *Fí_r Elise, WoO 59 (Beethoven) *A Giddy Girl, from Histoires (Ibert) *Golliwog's Cakewalk, from Children's Corner (Debussy) *Grillen, Op. 12, No. 4, from Fantasiestí_cke (Schumann) *Impromptu in A-flat Major, Op. 142, No. 2 (Schubert) *Invention No. 8 in F Major, BWV 779 (Bach) *Invention No. 13 in A Minor, BWV 714 (Bach) *Invention No. 14 in B-Flat Major, BWV 785 (Bach) *Knecht Ruprecht, Op. 68, No. 12, from Album for the Young (Schumann) *Le Coucou (The Cuckoo) (Dacquin) *Le fille aux cheveux de lin, from Preludes, Book 1 (Debussy) *Le petit níÂgre (Debussy) *The Little White Donkey, from Histoires (Ibert) *Maple Leaf Rag (Joplin) *Menuet in G Major, WoO 10, No. 2 (Beethoven) *Minuet in G Major, Op. 14, No. 1 (Paderewski) *Moments musicaux, Op. 94, No. 3 (Schubert) *Nocturne in B-flat Major (Field) *Nocturne in E-flat Major, Op. 9, No. 2 (Chopin) *Nocturne in E Minor, Op. 72, No. 1 (Chopin) *Notturno, Op. 52, No. 4 (Grieg) *O Polichinelo, from The Babyäó»s Family, Book 1 (Villa-Lobos) *Prelude in A Major, Op. 28, No. 7 (Chopin) *Prelude in C Major, BWV 846, from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 (Bach) *Prelude in C Minor, Op. 28, No. 20 (Chopin) *Prelude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 3, No. 2 (Rachmaninoff) *Prelude in E Minor, Op. 28, No. 4 (Chopin) *Puck, Op. 71, No. 3 (Grieg) *Remando (Nazareth) *Romance, Op. 24, No. 9 (Sibelius) *Rustles of Spring, Op. 32, No. 3 (Sinding) *Sarabande, from Suite No. 4 in D Minor (Handel) *Solfeggio in C Minor (C.P.E. Bach) *Sonata in A Major, K. 331, from Rondo Alla Turca (Movement 3) (Mozart) *Sonata in A Major, Op. 120 (Movement 1) (Schubert) *Sonata in C Major, Hob. XVI/35 (Movement 1) (Haydn) *Sonata in C Major, K. 545 (Movement 1) (Mozart) *Sonata in D Major, Hob. XVI/37 (Movement 1) (Haydn) *Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13, from Pathí©tique (Movement 2) (Beethoven) *Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 2 (Moonlight) (Beethoven) *Sonatina in C Major, Op. 36, No. 1 (Clementi) *Sonatina in C Major, Op. 55, No. 3 (Kuhlau) *Spanish Dance, Op. 12, No. 1 (Moszkowski) *Spanish Dance, Op. 5, No. 5 (Granados) *Spinning Song, Op. 14, No. 4 (Ellmenreich) *Tango in D Major, Op. 165, No. 2, from Suite Espaí±a (Albí©niz) *To a Wild Rose, Op. 51, No. 1, from Woodland Sketches (MacDowell) *Toccata in A Major (Paradisi) *Trí_umerei, Op. 15, No. 7, from Scenes from Childhood (Schumann) *Twelfth Street Rag (Bowman) *Venetian Boat Song, Op. 19, No. 6 (Mendelssohn) *Venetian Boat Song, Op. 30, No. 6 (Mendelssohn) *Waltz in A-flat Major, Op. 39, No. 15 (Brahms) *Waltz in D-flat Major, Op. 64, No. 1 (Chopin) *Waltz in E Major, Op. 39, No. 2 (Brahms)




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Presents profiles of eighty-eight jazz pianists, from Jelly Roll Morton, born in New Orleans in 1890, to Wisconsin's Geoff Keezer, born in 1970, with interviews and critiques, photographs, and a sampler CD.




Giants of Jazz


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The true giants of jazz are remembered in these brief biographies of thirteen jazz musicians. Now reissued in the original illustrated edition, the stars portrayed include John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Billie Holliday & Fats Waller.




Drama and Curriculum


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‘Here’s a knocking indeed!’ says the Porter in Shakespeare’s Scottish play (Act II, Scene 3) and immediately puts himself into role in order to deal with the demands of such an early call after a late night of drinking and carousal: ‘If a man were porter of hell-gate...’. But what roles does the porter of curriculum-gate take on in order to deal with drama’s persistent demands for entry? Ah, that depends upon the temperature of the times. We, who have been knocking for what seems to be a very long time, know well that when evaluation and measurement criteriaare demanded as evidence of drama’s ef cacy, an examiner stands as gatekeeper. When the educational landscape is in danger of overcrowding, we meet a territorial governor. And how often has the courtesan turned out to be only a tease because the arts are, for a brief moment, in the spotlight for their abilities to foster out-of-the-box thinkers? In this text, we meet these ‘commissionaires’ and many more. The gatekeeping roles and what they represent are so familiar that they have become cliches ́ to us. We know them by their arguments, ripostes, dismissals, their brief encouragement and lack of follow-up. And we know that behind each one (however rmly they think they keep the keys) is a nancial and political master whose power controls the curriculum building and everything in it.