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by Gunther Schuller |
 The Compleat Conductor
by Gunther Schuller
As for those who have never raised a
baton in anger, Schuller still has much to say to
us. He offers a living, loving, inside view
of works he discusses, a view informed not only by his
zealous listening but also by practical contact and wide
reading.
—The New York Times Book Review, Paul
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 Musings: The Musical Worlds of
Gunther Schuller
by Gunther Schuller, Milton Babbitt
Musings gathers
together the essays, speeches, liner notes, dictionary
entries, and magazine articles of one of the most
important musical figures of the century. The
writings in this collection cover such artists as Paul
Whiteman, Duke Ellington, Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman,
Sonny Rollins, Sarah Vaughan, Gil Evans, and such topics
as the "Third Stream," the art of conducting,
the future of opera, and the need for broadening the
audience for quality music. |
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 Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical
Development
by Gunther A Schuller
Early Jazz is one of the
seminal books on American jazz. It is the first of
three volumes on the history and musical contribution of
jazz, taking us from its beginnings as a distinct
musical style at the turn of the century to its first
great flowering in the 1930's.
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 The Art of Jazz:
Ragtime to Bebop
by Martin Williams (Editor), Gunther Schuller (Afterword)
"A brilliant
study of the whole of jazz." —Jazz Journal
Although the essays describing musicians
at work (rehearsing, recording, performing) reveal a
singular insight into the jazzman's creative process, it
is in the historical and analytical pieces--spanning the
history of the music from Jelly Roll Morton to Ornette
Coleman--that the extraordinary depth and scope of
Williams's perceptiveness is most evident. |
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 Horn
Technique
by Gunther Schuller
The foremost modern horn technique book,
including chapters on he instrument and the mouthpiece,
tone production, warm-up and other basic exercises,
legato, legato tonguing, staccato, miscellaneous aspects
of horn playing, the art of practising [sic], some notes
for composers and conductors, and repertoire list. |
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 Not Quite
Innocent Bystander:
Writings of Edward Steuermann
by Edward Steuermann, David H
Porter (Editor), Clara Steuermann (Editor), Gunther A.
Schuller (Editor), Richard Cantwell
(Translator), Charles Messner (Translator)
Steuermann was hardly a
bystander. A pupil of composer Schoenberg and a noted
teacher and performer, he was an active participant as
well as acute observer and incisive critic of the new
music scene between 1910 and 1964. This is an uneven
collection of writings, several of them incomplete
jottings, some witty, others complex to the point of
obscurity, many quite profound and informative.
Steuermann deals with issues as diverse as serial
composition and stage fright. |
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