This collection contains Mike Springer's best-loved sheet music solos that have been published through the years. Students, teachers, and audiences will enjoy the variety of styles, sounds, and moods of this music. The book contains 10 late elementary to early intermediate pieces. Titles: * Black Cat Crawl * Dynamo Rag * Howling Winds * Main Street Strut * Majestic Mountain * Medieval Tournament * Sixth Street * Swingin' in the Park * Undercover Spy * Waterfall at Midnight

Hidden within all of the 10 innovative piano solos in each volume are scales---sometimes ascending, sometimes descending---in one or both hands. What makes each book "Not Just Another Scale Book," however, is the accompanying CD that features wonderfully orchestrated background tracks. Book 1 features pieces written in both major and minor keys up to two sharps or flats. Book 2 has pieces written in major and minor keys using three to seven sharps. The pieces in Book 3 are written in major and minor keys using three to seven flats.

Simply Standards is a collection of the most popular songs by the greatest songwriters. These have been carefully selected and arranged by Mike Springer for Easy Piano, making many famous tunes accessible to pianists of all ages. Phrase markings, articulations, fingering and dynamics have been included to aid with interpretation, and a large print size makes the notation easy to read. Titles: * Ain't Misbehavin' * Anything Goes * Bye Bye Blackbird * Cry Me a River * Dream a Little Dream of Me * Embraceable You * Forty-Second Street * It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) * It Had to Be You * I've Got the World on a String * Moonlight in Vermont * Moonlight Serenade * My Funny Valentine * Night and Day * Over the Rainbow * The Second Time Around * Someone to Watch Over Me * Star Dust * Stormy Weather * Summertime * They Can't Take That Away from Me * When I Fall In Love.

This collection contains Mike Springer's best-loved sheet music solos that have been published through the years. Students, teachers, and audiences will enjoy the variety of styles, sounds, and moods of this music. The book contains 8 early intermediate to intermediate pieces. Titles: * Crystal Glaciers * Daybreak * El Toro * Gossamer's Groove * Jamaican Jamboree * Midtown Jam * Ragtime Romp * Sunset Serenade

This collection contains Mike Springer's best-loved sheet music solos that have been published through the years. Students, teachers, and audiences will enjoy the variety of styles, sounds, and moods of this music. The book contains 9 intermediate to late intermediate pieces. Titles: * Cinco de Mayo * Dazzling Lights * Iditarod Sled Race * Jazzin' Around Town * Jazzy Locomotive * Mariachi Serenade * Mighty Mount McKinley * Rio Grande * Sierra Madre

This research-based book outlines career models for artists, methods of creative engagement, artistic options including individuality and branding, production practices, the realities of being a musician in the new industries, and implications for popular music education. Due to the profound effects of the digitisation of music, the music industries have undergone rapid transformation. The former record label dominated industry has been supplanted by new industries, including digital aggregators, strategists and online platforms. These new music industries now facilitate ‘direct’ access to both artists and their music. While such accessibility and the potential for artist exposure have never been greater, the challenge to stand out or to even navigate a musical career pathway is formidable. A useful resource for musicians and educators, this text highlights the ways in which the new music industries facilitate increased opportunities for 21st Century popular musicians to collaborate, communicate and interact with others interested in their music.

From captivating ragtime to smoky blues, the Not Just Another Jazz Book series has it all. The carefully graded arrangements are perfect for concerts, parties and recitals, or they can be used simply for fun. The books are truly unique because they contain accompanying CDs that feature bass and drum parts to create the sense of playing in a jazz trio. Pianists can play along with the CDs at both practice and performance tempos. Book 3 features selections at the late intermediate level. Titles: Ballad for Christian * Ballroom Big Band * Cruising Down the Coast * Far Away Friend * Fiesta * Hot Summer Hop * Saturday Morning Jam * Tropical Dreams.

This book focuses on central themes related to the conservation of bats. It details their response to land-use change and management practices, intensified urbanization and roost disturbance and loss. Increasing interactions between humans and bats as a result of hunting, disease relationships, occupation of human dwellings, and conflict over fruit crops are explored in depth. Finally, contributors highlight the roles that taxonomy, conservation networks and conservation psychology have to play in conserving this imperilled but vital taxon. With over 1300 species, bats are the second largest order of mammals, yet as the Anthropocene dawns, bat populations around the world are in decline. Greater understanding of the anthropogenic drivers of this decline and exploration of possible mitigation measures are urgently needed if we are to retain global bat diversity in the coming decades. This book brings together teams of international experts to provide a global review of current understanding and recommend directions for future research and mitigation.

Rex Hall and Dave Shayler provide a unique history of the Soyuz spacecraft programme from conception, through development to its use, detailed in the only English language book available on this topic. Planned for publication in 2003, it will celebrate 40 years since the original concept of the Soyuz craft.

New up-to-date edition of this influential classic on Markov chains in general state spaces. Proofs are rigorous and concise, the range of applications is broad and knowledgeable, and key ideas are accessible to practitioners with limited mathematical background. New commentary by Sean Meyn, including updated references, reflects developments since 1996.