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Music in Other Wordsby Ruth A. Solie
University of California Press 2004; US$ 50.00Just as the preoccupations of any given cultural moment make their way into the language of music, the experience of music makes its way into other arenas of life. To unearth these overlapping meanings and vocabularies from the Victorian era, Ruth A. Solie examines sources as disparate as journalism, novels, etiquette manuals, religious tracts, and teenagers' diaries for the muffled, even subterranean, conversations that reveal so much about what music meant to the Victorians. Her essays, giving voice to "what goes without saying" on the subject?that cultural information so present and pervasive as to go unsaid?fill in some of the most intriguing blanks in our understanding of music's history. This much-anticipated collection, bringing together... more...
Making Music and Enriching Livesby Bonnie Blanchard; Cynthia Blanchard Acree
Indiana University Press 2007; US$ 21.20Making Music and Enriching Lives fills an important niche in the very large world of books about music. It's unlike any other instructional book in the way it addresses comprehensive, across-the-board issues that affect all teachers, students, and musicians. In this book, you will find specifics not only about how to teach music, but also about how to motivate and inspire students of any age. In this first volume of her Music for Life series, Bonnie Blanchard (with Cynthia Blanchard Acree) shares successful approaches with both students and teachers that have worked wonders in her own studio to produce successful... more...
The Art of Teaching Musicby Estelle R. Jorgensen
Indiana University Press 2008; US$ 21.20The Art of Teaching Music takes up important aspects of the art of music teaching ranging from organization to serving as conductor to dealing with the disconnect between the ideal of university teaching and the reality in the classroom. Writing for both established teachers and instructors on the rise, Estelle R. Jorgensen opens a conversation about the life and work of the music teacher. The author regards music teaching as interrelated with the rest of lived life, and her themes encompass pedagogical skills as well as matters of character, disposition, value, personality, and musicality. She reflects on musicianship and ... more...
Tito Puenteby Tim McNeese
Infobase Publishing 2008; US$ 36.00He was born in New York City, and he died in New York City. But Tito Puente would live his life as a Puerto Rican who would become one of the greatest Hispanic-American musicians of the 20th century. This title tells about this energetic six-time Grammy Award winner. more...
Yo-Yo Maby Richard Worth
Infobase Publishing 2007; US$ 36.00Born in Paris, to Chinese parents, Yo-Yo Ma began playing the cello when he was a child. At the age of five he was already playing Bach's challenging cello suites. A short time later, Ma immigrated to the United States with his parents, who established a new home in New York City. This biography of Yo-Yo Ma is for musicians or music enthusiasts. more...
Teaching Music in American Societyby Steven Kelly
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 42.95Teaching Music in American Society: A Social and Cultural Understanding of Music Education applies philosophical, social, cultural, and theoretical issues to common practical musical classroom and rehearsal situations encountered daily in a culturally and musically diverse American society. more...
Out and About at the Orchestraby Barbara J Turner
Picture Window Books 2003; US$ 19.95Examines the instruments that make up an orchestra, their arrangement on the stage, the role of the conductor, and the need of the musicians to practice. more...
Narrative Inquiry in Music Educationby Margaret S. Barrett; Sandra Stauffer
Springer 2009; US$ 139.00Discusses narrative inquiry approaches to research in music education. This book explores the origins of narrative research across a range of fields of inquiry and presents a conception of narrative inquiry as 'resonant work'. more...
Music Education in Your Handsby Michael L. Mark; Patrice Madura
Taylor & Francis 2009; US$ 47.95Designed for Introduction to Music Education courses, this textbook presents an overview of the profession and illuminates the many changes that music educators need to know about - technology, teaching methods, curricular evolution, legislation - and a range of societal needs from cultural diversity to evolving tastes in music. more...
Whats So Important About Music Education?by J. Scott Goble
Taylor & Francis 2010; US$ 140.00Argues for the importance of musical activity in human life and for the importance of music in education. This book presents a model for teaching the musical practices of the nation's constituent cultural groups in schools in terms of their respective cultural meanings. more...









