Now through December 31st 2011, save 50% on dozens of titles from Routledge Music. Simply enter discount code MRJ59 upon checkout to redeem this limited-time offer. 

"Williams does not shirk from celebrating the internationalism (notably in the images) which now characterises the genre, setting the music free of the island and the past in its practice. Yet she demonstrates and celebrates stylistic mentors, locales and standards in Ireland, locating roots and sustenance in Irish culture and poetry. The accompanying CD’s eighteen tracks of fine performers (with their own considerable support text) facilitate step-by-step aural analysis of the music under discussion, marking this production as a unique, valuable, structured academic, analytical introduction to Irish traditional music and song."

-- Vallely, Fintan (2011) 'Focus: Irish traditional music', Irish Studies Review, 19: 2, 238 — 240 

Nic Collins, author of Handmade Electronic Music, will be performing tomorrow night at Bent Festival in Brooklyn, New York. Nic will be kicking off the event-filled night at 8:00PM, with many more musical acts and video screenings to follow.

For a preview of what's to come, take a look at one of Nic's past performances here. 

The Bent Festival is an annual art and music festival celebrating circuit bending and its related creative practices. Each year artists are welcomed from across the country and around the globe to share their craft through performances, workshops, video screenings, art exhibitions, and installations. The festival, as a whole, showcases the state of the art in DIY electronics and circuit bending culture. For more information or to purchase your tickets, please visit the website below.

Bent Festival 2011
319 Scholes St.
Brooklyn, NY 11206
www.bentfestival.org/2011
 

Recommend North American Fiddle Music: A Research and Information Guide to your librarian.

Combining the International Who's Who in Classical Music 2011 and the International Who's Who in Popular Music 2011, this two-volume set gives users a complete view of the music world today, from awards and compositions to detailed contact information and music festivals.

The International Who’s Who in Classical Music 2011 contains biographical information on singers, instrumentalists, composers, conductors and managers. Users will find information on orchestras, opera companies and other institutions connected with the classical music world. Each biographical entry comprises personal information, principal career details, repertoire, recordings and compositions, and full contact details where available.

The International Who's Who in Popular Music 2011 provides biographical details on some of the most talented and influential artists and individuals from the world of popular music. Now in its thirteenth edition, it includes over 7,000 biographies charting the careers and achievements of pop, rock, folk, jazz, dance, world and country artists throughout the world.

The Classical and Popular Music set, along with the individual volumes, was published on the 24th of March. You can learn more about the set or order today.

''More than 8,000 musicians are included in this latest (2010) edition. Apparently those included are given the opportunity to amend and add to their entries in the interests of accuracy and currency. Routledge's editorial department is also engaged in ensuring accuracy and last minute updates. No book, of course, can ever keep up with developments in the way that online sites can. But there is no single source online that's as comprehensive as International Who's Who in Classical Music 2010, 26th Edition. Libraries, music departments in colleges and universities as well as other publishers, music venues and recording companies, agencies and the like would all benefit from access to the publication.

The schematic is logical and the references easy to follow. There is no bias even towards the English-speaking world: opera companies in Vietnam (one in Hanoi) and orchestras (the Hanoi Philharmonic and Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra), for example, are listed – with telephone and fax numbers, email addresses and websites. Entries, then, tend towards the factual, rather than the evaluative. But this, too, is as it should be. It's a work of reference.

If your organization needs at its staff's fingertips an authoritative and comprehensive survey of the achievements and some factual information of many of the most prominent figures in music, music administration and performance, then International Who's Who in Classical Music 2010, 26th Edition can be safely recommended.''

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This couple – one a world renowned pianist and scholar, the other an esteemed musicologist – share the author of the month spot for their book Interpreting Mozart. This classic, which was long out-of-print, has finally been updated to reflect the last half-century of scholarship in Mozart’s music.

Paul Badura-Skoda is a legendary artist who has been heard in all the world's greatest concert halls, and for years was the pianist who had the largest number of records available in the market. His musical personality is characterized by complete immersion in music, a passionate search for the essential, and a sense of artistic responsibility.

Eva Badura-Skoda is a highly regarded musicologist, publishing extensively on the history of the piano and on performance-practice problems of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
 

A Field Guide to Student Teaching in Music, by Ann Clements and Rita Klinger, is focused on the link between music education coursework and the field-based aspects of the student-teaching experience. It addresses general topics that are common to all music placements as well as those topics that are of specific interest to the general, choral, and instrumental music in the classrooms. This text builds on theoretical material typically covered in music methods courses, yet is not specific to a single teaching pedagogy, making it flexible enough for use with different state structures in music education. It will guide students through the student teaching process as they make the transition from student to music education. It will guide students through the student teaching process as they make the transition from student to music educator.

This practical manual is a hands-on tool for student teachers with effective teaching strategies unique to the music classroom – singing, movement, performances, rehearsals and score preparation – but also addressing the issues of parent involvement, budgets uniforms, community outreach, and beyond.

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“Developing Musicianship through Aural Skills offers an integrated approach to sight singing and ear training by guiding the student through the process of developing those skills necessary for a career in music. The goal of the text is to produce not only great practitioners of the musical arts but skilled, discerning listeners as well.” –Edward Taylor, Baylor University

Developing Musicianship through Aural Skills is a comprehensive method for learning to hear, sing, understand, and use the foundations of music as a part of an integrated and holistic curriculum for training professional musicians.

Each chapter is organized to take advantage of how our minds and instincts naturally hear and understand music, and presents a variety of exercises for practicing and integrating the structure into your musical vocabulary. Developing Musicianship through Aural Skills will provide you with the musical terms, progressions, resolutions, and devices that you will be able to draw upon as a functional and usable musical vocabulary. Ear training exercises on the companion website reinforce both discrete structures (intervals, chords, etc.) as well as all rhythmic and melodic material, and sections are provided to open discussion and reflection on the skills and attitudes professional musicians need to be successful.

Features:

• Easy to Understand Explanations: Topics are logically ordered and explained to help the student make connections to their theory instruction and common usage.
• A Complete Method: Detailed instructions are given for singing and hearing structures as they most commonly appear in music, providing students with a proven, reliable process for creating and discerning musical structures.
• Exercises: Ideas for drill, pitch patterns, rhythms, melodies, duets, self-accompanied melodies, and examples from the literature help the student to integrate each chapter’s material.
• Reflections: Discussions of topics that help students to develop as a person, a professional, and an artist, and to integrate aural skills into their musical education.
• Ear Training Tools and Video Demonstrations can be found on the companion website.

Nicolas Collins, an active composer and performer of electronic music, and has worked with John Cage, Alvin Lucier, David Tudor, and many other masters of modern music. Dr. Collins is Professor of Sound at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has led hacking workshops around the world. He has been Visiting Artistic Director of STEIM (Amsterdam) and a DAAD composer-in-residence in Berlin. Since 1997 he has been editor-in-chief of Leonardo Music Journal.

The Focus on World Music Series brings together regional studies for area studies courses in world music, ethnomusicology, and interdisciplinary programs with a strong music component. The books cover regions from South Africa to Ireland to Brazil and are written by some of the most engaging scholars in Ethnomusicology.

Each book begins with an overview of the region, bringing the historical significance and rich cultural heritage into context. Each proceeds to look at the music of the region, before narrowing in on a musical case study. This makes it not only an ideal text for regional studies, but also for field methods courses.

Each book is also accompanied by an audio CD that features commercial and field recordings.