Learn to play the Tabla in the comfort of your own home! Keda's revolutionary Indian Drum Notation makes it easy for students, teachers, and composers to play this beautiful sounding instrument and enjoy its calming and meditative sounds. This breakthrough in music-education makes the Tabla accessible to musicians from all backgrounds and cultures. In this Read & Play course, easy to follow modules include Practice Exercises and Solo Pieces along with Group Pieces written specially for Tabla together with other instruments. A thorough online resource includes simple, clear tutorials, Play Along backing tracks and a wealth of over 30 jargon-buster videos.

Learn to play the Tabla in the comfort of your own home! Keda's revolutionary Indian Drum Notation makes it easy for students, teachers, and composers to play this beautiful sounding instrument and enjoy its calming and meditative sounds. This breakthrough in music-education makes the Tabla accessible to musicians from all backgrounds and cultures. In this Read & Play course, easy to follow modules include Practice Exercises and Solo Pieces along with Group Pieces written specially for Tabla together with other instruments. A thorough online resource includes simple, clear tutorials, Play Along backing tracks and a wealth of over 30 jargon-buster videos.

Learn to play the Tabla in the comfort of your own home! Keda's revolutionary Indian Drum Notation makes it easy for students, teachers, and composers to play this beautiful sounding instrument and enjoy its calming and meditative sounds. This breakthrough in music-education makes the Tabla accessible to musicians from all backgrounds and cultures. In this Read & Play course, easy to follow modules include Practice Exercises and Solo Pieces along with Group Pieces written specially for Tabla together with other instruments. A thorough online resource includes simple, clear tutorials, Play Along backing tracks and a wealth of over 30 jargon-buster videos.

"World Music: Traditions and Transformations, fourth edition, is an introductory-level survey of diverse musics from around the world. It assumes no prior formal training or education in music, and with one brief exception avoids the use of Western music notation entirely. It is written primarily for undergraduate nonmusic majors but is equally appropriate for music majors, and is therefore ideal for courses enrolling music and nonmusic stu-dents alike"--

Music moves through time; it is not static. In order to appreciate music wemust remember what sounds happened, and anticipate what sounds might comenext. This book takes you on a journey of music from past to present, from the Middle Ages to the Baroque Period to the 20th century and beyond!

Gateways to Understanding Music explores music in all the categories that constitute contemporary musical experience: European classical music, popular music, jazz, and world music. Covering the oldest forms of human music making to the newest, the chronological narrative considers music from a global rather than a Eurocentric perspective. Each of sixty modular "gateways" covers a particular genre, style, or period of music. Every gateway opens with a guided listening example that unlocks a world of music through careful study of its structural elements. Based on their listening experience, students are asked to consider how the piece came to be composed or performed, how the piece or performance responded to the social and cultural issues at the time and place of its creation, and what that music means today. Students learn to listen to, explain, understand, and ultimately value all the music they may encounter in their world. FEATURES Global scope—Presents all music as worthy of study, including classical, world, popular, and jazz. Historical narrative—Begins with small-scale forager societies up to the present, with a shifting focus from global to European to American influences. Modular framework—60 gateways in 14 chapters allow flexibility to organize chronologically or by the seven recurring themes: aesthetics, emotion, social life, links to culture, politics, economics, and technology. Listening-guided learning—Leads to understanding the emotion, meaning, significance, and history of music. Introduction of musical concepts—Defined as needed and compiled into a Glossary for reference. Consistent structure—With the same step-by-step format, students learn through repeated practice how to listen and how to think about music. In addition to streamed audio examples, the companion website hosts essential instructors’ resources.

An anthology of articles on the evolution of minimal music in New York in 1972-1982, which originally appeared in the Village Voice (New York).

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Designed as a core text for college level courses in percussion methods and pedagogy, Teaching Percussion is a comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to teaching methodology and performance techniques. Now updated, Teaching Percussion helps students and performers develop musical understanding and performance skills on some fifty percussion instruments. The Second Edition includes coverage of new developments in world music instruments and performance. In addition, Norman Weinberg, cofounder of the PAS World Percussion Network, has contributed a discussion of electronic percussion and new technology. The outstanding exercises, musical examples, photographs, illustrations, practical advice, and bibliographies - popular features in the first edition - have been retained and enhanced. Teaching Percussion, Second Edition, is an invaluable resource for students, faculty, and performers alike.

Bollywood Sounds focuses on the songs of Indian films in their historical, social, commercial, and cinematic contexts. Author Jayson Beaster-Jones takes readers through the highly collaborative compositional process, highlighting the contributions of film directors, music directors (composers), lyricists, musicians, and singers in song production. Through close musical and multimedia analysis of more than twenty landmark compositions, Bollywood Sounds illustrates how the producers of Indian film songs have long mediated a variety of musical styles, instruments, and performance practices to create a uniquely cosmopolitan music genre. As an exploration of the music of seventy years of Hindi films, Bollywood Sounds provides long-term historical insights into film songs and their musical and cinematic conventions in ways that will appeal both to scholars and to newcomers to Indian cinema.