Music Tutors
Dec 28, 2009 Guitar Lessons
Private Tutoring – Why Find A Private Tutor?
Hiring a private tutor was once the preserve of the wealthy few. Today, private tutoring is a service available far more widely than ever before. People seeking private tutors have greater choices and personalized help is available for learners in a huge range of subjects.
Private tutoring can consist of a specialist tutor attending the learner’s home. With the growth of the internet and high speed broadband, private tutoring is also available online. Some private tutors use a combination of individualized tutoring given at the student’s home (or any other mutually agreed location) as well as the possibilities that online learning offers.
Why find a private tutor?
Schools, colleges and universities by definition teach groups. Sometimes it’s individual attention that really makes the difference. Private tutoring on a one-to-one basic can make the difference between a passing and a failing grade. It can also be the difference between an A+ and a B for scholars and students whose careers may depend on the outcome.
The power of one-to-one tutoring, which is the foundation of most private tutoring, should never be underestimated. Sometimes the relationship between the learner and the teacher is of paramount importance.
It’s not hard to see why private tutoring can be so effective. An experienced tutor will be able to identify where a student has knowledge gaps or difficulties working with the material. The private tutoring sessions can then be targeted directly at the problem areas.
Private tutoring that takes place in the learner’s home can be especially useful for children and younger learners. The rise of online tutoring has brought help and improvement to millions, but for some students and subjects the physical presence of a teacher or tutor is important.
Private tutoring in the home is perfect when help is needed with practical subjects (such as playing a musical instrument). For children with concentration or attention issues, or those who need firm supervision and feedback to keep them motivated, a private tutor attending at the home is the ideal solution.
Private tutoring online
If you live in a cosmopolitan area or city, you are likely to be able to find private tutoring in almost any subject of your choice. For the many millions who don’t, private tutoring over the internet can be a lifeline. As long as you have a reasonably fast broadband connection, geography is no barrier to online tutorials and individual coaching.
Cutting out the commuting means that private tutoring online is an affordable option too. If there is a down side to private tutoring online, it is that establishing the interpersonal rapport that aids learning can be a bit more difficult. This partly accounts for the higher drop-out rate in online private tutoring. However, motivated learners and committed tutors can beat this problem together.
From homework help to more specialized subject coaching or test prep, private tutoring can make a big difference to educational and career outcomes. In a competitive world where qualifications and achievement count, private tutoring is an option well worth considering.
About the Author
Tutoring Services LLC. offers opportunity of online tutoring jobs with free registration for tutors. Online tutoring is beneficial for students and helps to find a private tutoring, homework help, home tutoring and online learning benefits for students of schools, colleges & universities.
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Art of Baroque Trumpet Playing $70.5 The renowned author and performer has condensed his experiences as a pioneering teacher of this historical brass instrument at the famous Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in 3 volumes. Primarily intended for players of natural and Baroque trumpets, the book is nevertheless indispensable for players of modern instruments who wish to interpret music of the Baroque in an informed and appropriate manner. A variety of exercises, examples from the repertoire and from 19th-century tutors combine to offer a systematic course of instruction to help solve technical and musical problems, especially those inherent in ensemble playing. Text in German and English. for 2, 3 or 4 trumpets. |
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Art of Baroque Trumpet Playing: Method of Ensemble Playing $71.7 The renowned author and performer has condensed his experiences as a pioneering teacher of this historical brass instrument at the famous Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in 3 volumes. Primarily intended for players of natural and Baroque trumpets, the book is nevertheless indispensable for players of modern instruments who wish to interpret music of the Baroque in an informed and appropriate manner. A variety of exercises, examples from the repertoire and from 19th-century tutors combine to offer a systematic course of instruction to help solve technical and musical problems, especially those inherent in ensemble playing. Text in German and English. for 2 or 3 trumpets |
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Atheist Victims of Soviet Repressions: Isaak Babel, Nikolai Krylenko, Stanislav Kosior $9.53 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel (Russian: , 13 July 1894 January 27, 1940) was a Soviet journalist, playwright, and short story writer acclaimed as “the greatest prose writer of Russian Jewry.” Despite being an enthusiastic Communist, Isaac Babel was arrested, tortured and shot during Joseph Stalin’s Great Purge. Isaak Babel was born into a family of Manus and Feyga Bobel (Babel changed the spelling of his surname in his twenties). Manus Bobel was a Jewish shopkeeper in Odessa during a period of intermittent pogroms and mass exodus of Jews from the Russian Empire. Isaak Babel’s family survived Odessa’s 1905 pogrom with the help of Christian neighbors, but his great maternal grandfather Shoyl was one of about 300 Jews murdered. In his teens, Babel hoped to get into the preparatory class of the Nicolas I Odessa Commercial School. However, he first had to overcome the Jewish quota (10% within the Pale of Settlement, 5% outside and 3% for both capitals). Despite the fact that Babel received the passing grades, his place was given to another boy, whose parents had bribed the school officials. As a result he was schooled at home by private tutors. In addition to regular school subjects, Babel also studied the Talmud and music. According to Cynthia Ozick, “Though he was at home in Yiddish and Hebrew, and was familiar with the traditional texts and their demanding commentaries, he added to these a lifelong fascination with Maupassant and Flaubert. His first stories were composed in fluent literary French. The breadth and scope of his social compass enabled him to see through the eyes of peasants, soldiers, priests, rabbis, children, artists, actors, women of all classes. He befriended whores, cabdrivers, jockeys; he knew what it was like to be penniless, t… More: |
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Enjoy the Recorder $12.2 The best way to learn any instrument is to have lessons from a good, experienced teacher. Although, happily, the number of such teachers is constantly growing, the recorder is still frequently taught by enthusiastic but inexperienced teachers and many players start by teaching themselves. This series of books sets out to help learners of all ages in all three situations. Experienced teachers, who may choose to disregard much of the text as personal demonstration is always clearer than the written word, will find exercises and fine tunes a-plenty to support their own mathod at each stage. The less experienced will benefit from many valuable teaching hints culled from long experience and may rely on the books to lead to a sound playing technique and a mastery of simple notation. btle, delightful and sociable of instruments. (Brian Bonsor) “…this work is likely to become a standart work very quickly and is to be recommended to all schools where recorder studies are undertaken” (Oliver James, Contact Magazine) Descant Tutors provide asound-playing technique, a mastery of simple notation and contain 570 tunes including concert pieces by Bonsor, carols, attractive rounds, and melodies by ‘early music’ composers. Clear line drawings greatly assist the pupil, making them especially suitable for self-instruction |
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Enjoy the Recorder $30.95 The best way to learn any instrument is to have lessons from a good, experienced teacher. Although, happily, the number of such teachers is constantly growing, the recorder is still frequently taught by enthusiastic but inexperienced teachers and many players start by teaching themselves. This series of books sets out to help learners of all ages in all three situations. Experienced teachers, who may choose to disregard much of the text as personal demonstration is always clearer than the written word, will find exercises and fine tunes a-plenty to support their own mathod at each stage. The less experienced will benefit from many valuable teaching hints culled from long experience and may rely on the books to lead to a sound playing technique and a mastery of simple notation. btle, delightful and sociable of instruments. (Brian Bonsor) “…this work is likely to become a standart work very quickly and is to be recommended to all schools where recorder studies are undertaken” (Oliver James, Contact Magazine) Descant Tutors provide asound-playing technique, a mastery of simple notation and contain 570 tunes including concert pieces by Bonsor, carols, attractive rounds, and melodies by ‘early music’ composers. Clear line drawings greatly assist the pupil, making them especially suitable for self-instruction |
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Enjoy the Recorder: Descant Teacher 2A $30.95 The best way to learn any instrument is to have lessons from a good, experienced teacher. Although, happily, the number of such teachers is constantly growing, the recorder is still frequently taught by enthusiastic but inexperienced teachers and many players start by teaching themselves. This series of books sets out to help learners of all ages in all three situations. Experienced teachers, who may choose to disregard much of the text as personal demonstration is always clearer than the written word, will find exercises and fine tunes a-plenty to support their own mathod at each stage. The less experienced will benefit from many valuable teaching hints culled from long experience and may rely on the books to lead to a sound playing technique and a mastery of simple notation. btle, delightful and sociable of instruments. (Brian Bonsor) “…this work is likely to become a standart work very quickly and is to be recommended to all schools where recorder studies are undertaken” (Oliver James, Contact Magazine) Descant Tutors provide asound-playing technique, a mastery of simple notation and contain 570 tunes including concert pieces by Bonsor, carols, attractive rounds, and melodies by ‘early music’ composers. Clear line drawings greatly assist the pupil, making them especially suitable for self-instruction |
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Enjoy the Recorder: Descant Tutor $30.95 The best way to learn any instrument is to have lessons from a good, experienced teacher. Although, happily, the number of such teachers is constantly growing, the recorder is still frequently taught by enthusiastic but inexperienced teachers and many players start by teaching themselves. This series of books sets out to help learners of all ages in all three situations. Experienced teachers, who may choose to disregard much of the text as personal demonstration is always clearer than the written word, will find exercises and fine tunes a-plenty to support their own mathod at each stage. The less experienced will benefit from many valuable teaching hints culled from long experience and may rely on the books to lead to a sound playing technique and a mastery of simple notation. btle, delightful and sociable of instruments. (Brian Bonsor) “…this work is likely to become a standart work very quickly and is to be recommended to all schools where recorder studies are undertaken” (Oliver James, Contact Magazine) Descant Tutors provide a sound-playing technique, a mastery of simple notation and contain 570 tunes including concert pieces by Bonsor, carols, attractive rounds, and melodies by ‘early music’ composers. Clear line drawings greatly assist the pupil, making them especially suitable for self-instruction. |
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Etudes $10.99 inch….this work is likely to become a standart work very quickly and is to be recommended to all schools where recorder studies are undertaken inch. (Oliver James, Contact Magazine) A novel and comprehensive approach to transferring from the C to F instrument. 430 music examples include folk and national songs (some in two parts), country dance tunes and excerpts from the standard treble repertoire ofBach, Barsanti, Corelli, Handel, Telemann, etc. An outstanding feature of the book has proved to be Brian Bonsor’s brilliantly simple but highly effective practice circles and recognition squares designed to give, in only a few minutes, concentrated practice on the more usual leaps to and from each new note and instant recognition of random notes. Quickly emulating the outstanding success of the descant tutors, these books are very popular even with those who normally use tutors other than the Enjoy the Recorder series. |
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Fanny Mendelssohn $39.95 Fanny Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1805-1847), like her younger brother Felix, demonstrated prodigious musical talent as a child. In their youth, Fanny and Felix were inseparable friends; they encouraged each other, collaborated in musical endeavors, and received the same education and training from distinguished tutors. But as an adolescent, Fanny was told by her father that her role as a woman was to concern herself with her home and that music could be only secondary, even though she had become a remarkable pianist and composer. She married Wilhelm Hensel, a respected portrait painter who encouraged her musical talents. Fulfilling her domestic role as wife and as mother of their son, Sebastian, she continued to compose – principally lieder – and to organize concerts in her home that became an integral part of the Berlin musical scene. Her talents were warmly received during a journey to Italy, particularly by Gounod, who heard her play from memory the music of Bach, Beethoven, and Mendelssohn. At forty years of age Fanny finally went against the orders of her father and of Felix and published her compositions. She had just begun to receive critical praise when she died suddenly at the age of forty-two. Her death was a devastating blow to Felix, who survived her by barely six months. This book, originally published in French in 1992, is the first and only authoritative biography of Fanny Mendelssohn and contains a complete list of her published compositions. Set against the backdrop of a privileged life in Berlin in the early nineteenth century, Francoise Tillard’s vivid portrait describes an exceptional artist – she left behind four hundred works – who could have held her own among thegreatest if she had not been prohibited from venturing into the professional world. |
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French in 10 Minutes a Day $42.95 An engaging audio program which teaches listeners how to speak French. Sound effects and original music keep the program vibrant and entertaining.Personal tutors guide listeners through each step – introducing new words and practicing right along with the listeners.A wide range of voices and accents from French-speaking countries around the world helps to acquaint the listeners with the variety of French accents.The step-by-step playful style teaches beginners the building blocks of French so that they can expand their conversational ability for any situation. |
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From Descant to Treble $17.95 …this work is likely to become a standard work very quickly and is to be recommended to all schools where recorder studies are undertaken -Oliver James,Contact Magazine. A novel and comprehensive approach to transferring from the C to F instrument. 430 music examples include folk and national songs (some in two parts), country dance tunes and excerpts from the standard treble repertoire of Bach, Barsanti, Corelli, Handel, Telemann, etc. An outstanding feature of the book has proved to be Brian Bonsor”s brilliantly simple but highly effective practice circles and recognition squares designed to give, in only a few minutes, concentrated practice on the more usual leaps to and from each new note and instant recognition of random notes. Quickly emulating the outstanding success of the descant tutors, these books are very popular even with those who normally use tutors other than the Enjoy the Recorder series. |
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From Descant to Treble – Part 2: For Treble Recorder $19.8 “…this work is likely to become a standard work very quickly and is to be recommended to all schools where recorder studies are undertaken” -Oliver James,Contact Magazine. A novel and comprehensive approach to transferring from the C to F instrument. 430 music examples include folk and national songs (some in two parts), country dance tunes and excerpts from the standard treble repertoire of Bach, Barsanti, Corelli, Handel, Telemann, etc. An outstanding feature of the book has proved to be Brian Bonsor’s brilliantly simple but highly effective practice circles and recognition squares designed to give, in only a few minutes, concentrated practice on the more usual leaps to and from each new note and instant recognition of random notes. Quickly emulating the outstanding success of the descant tutors, these books are very popular even with those who normally use tutors other than the Enjoy the Recorder series. |
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From Descant to Treble: For Treble Recorder $17.3 “…this work is likely to become a standard work very quickly and is to be recommended to all schools where recorder studies are undertaken” – Oliver James,Contact Magazine A novel and comprehensive approach to transferring from the C to F instrument. 430 music examples include folk and national songs (some in two parts), country dance tunes and excerpts from the standard treble repertoire of Bach, Barsanti, Corelli, Handel, Telemann, etc. An outstanding feature of the book has proved to be Brian Bonsor’s brilliantly simple but highly effective practice circles and recognition squares designed to give, in only a few minutes, concentrated practice on the more usual leaps to and from each new note and instant recognition of random notes. Quickly emulating the outstanding success of the descant tutors, these books are very popular even with those who normally use tutors other than the Enjoy the Recorder series. |
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Jewish Humorists: Isaak Babel, Gladstone, Leo Rosten, Alan Zweibel, Arnold Fine $9.71 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel (Russian: , 13 July 1894 January 27, 1940) was a Soviet journalist, playwright, and short story writer acclaimed as “the greatest prose writer of Russian Jewry.” Despite being an enthusiastic Communist, Isaac Babel was arrested, tortured and shot during Joseph Stalin’s Great Purge. Isaak Babel was born into a family of Manus and Feyga Bobel (Babel changed the spelling of his surname in his twenties). Manus Bobel was a Jewish shopkeeper in Odessa during a period of intermittent pogroms and mass exodus of Jews from the Russian Empire. Isaak Babel’s family survived Odessa’s 1905 pogrom with the help of Christian neighbors, but his great maternal grandfather Shoyl was one of about 300 Jews murdered. In his teens, Babel hoped to get into the preparatory class of the Nicolas I Odessa Commercial School. However, he first had to overcome the Jewish quota (10% within the Pale of Settlement, 5% outside and 3% for both capitals). Despite the fact that Babel received the passing grades, his place was given to another boy, whose parents had bribed the school officials. As a result he was schooled at home by private tutors. In addition to regular school subjects, Babel also studied the Talmud and music. According to Cynthia Ozick, “Though he was at home in Yiddish and Hebrew, and was familiar with the traditional texts and their demanding commentaries, he added to these a lifelong fascination with Maupassant and Flaubert. His first stories were composed in fluent literary French. The breadth and scope of his social compass enabled him to see through the eyes of peasants, soldiers, priests, rabbis, children, artists, actors, women of all classes. He befriended whores, cabdrivers, jockeys; he knew what it was like to be penniless, t… More: |
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Language Is Music $12.95 Language is Music focuses on making learning foreign languages fun, easy and affordable for anyone with a desire to communicate effectively with people around the world. By applying over 70 simple tips to things you already do, such as listening to music or surfing the Web, you can experience the joy of “fluency” in any language without having to study abroad or spend money on private tutors. In Language is Music, Susanna Zaraysky masterfully shares her listening methods so that anyone can have fun learning any language. With over 70 tips and 90 free or low-cost Internet resources, you will learn how to use daily activities, such as watching T.V. or listening to music; conversation partners; and attendance at cultural events to become a masterful speaker of any tongue. “Learning foreign languages is like learning to sing a song or play music,” says self-made linguist Susanna Zaraysky and author of Language is Music. Zaraysky has what you might call “an ear” for languages, having used music to successfully learn English, Russian, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Serbo-Croatian-all with excellent accents.Advance Praise for Language is Music “I love it! I think it will help people who want to learn, and those who are curious about additional language learning. Many people want to learn a language but are frightened, or disappointed by the courses they have taken. Reading Language is Music will encourage them to try again, on their own and with friendly supporters.”-Dr. Elba Maldonado-Colon, Professor Department of Elementary Education Bilingual Program, San Jose State University“LET IT JUST ROLL OFF YOUR TONGUE. With lyrical insight and solidexperience, Susanna Zaraysky, author of Language is Music, provides easy steps for learning a language. Gone are the boring, disconnected strategies that most of us remember from school. You’ve never learned a language this quickly and easily. Zaraysky’s methods embody fun, connection, rhythm, |
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Me and My Piano Repertoire: For the Young Pianist $7.22 Fanny Waterman and Marion Harewood’s Me and My Piano series is probably the UK’s most widely-used and biggest selling piano method. It is now published in a new edition including a new larger size, improved layout making it easier to read, a clean new look with new typesetting and music-setting and the instantly recognizable cover designs have been updated for extra vibrancy. This excellent book of first repertoire pieces builds on the solid technical and musical foundations established in the highly successful tutors Me and My Piano Parts I and II, which it is designed to complement. Here is a wealth of new material, ranging from simple five-finger pieces for separate hands on C major, to move advanced pieces introducing changes of hand position, new notes and rhythms, simple chords, and the key signatures of G and F major. Enchantingly illustrated, this essential and irresistible book will encourage the young pianist to expand his or her repertoire in the most enjoyable way. |
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Method for the One-Keyed Flute $32.95 “Boland’s clear, accessible text reflects years of professional experience as a performer and teacher of the one-key flute. Her book answers all the practical needs of beginners and offers advanced flutists a wealth of useful information. Even players wedded to the Boehm flute will gain fresh musical insights from Boland’s comprehensive method.”–Laurence Libin, Department of Musical Instruments, Metropolitan Museum of Art”This is the best introduction to the one-key (baroque) flute for Boehm system flute players available today. With her comprehensive knowledge of the numerous historical treatises and tutors and her extensive practical experience as a player and teacher, Jan Boland has fashioned a guide that is at the same time informative and enjoyable. I only wish it had been available when I set out to learn the one-key flute. It would have saved me much time and led me directly to the most important sources.”–John Thow, composer and Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley”An easy-to-read format, clear prose, attractive graphics, and well chosen and very legible music make it an ideal beginner’s tutor.”–Betty Bang Mather, Professor Emeritus, University of Iowa School of Music |
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Method for the One-Keyed Flute $34.78 Boland’s clear, accessible text reflects years of professional experience as a performer and teacher of the one-key flute. Her book answers all the practical needs of beginners and offers advanced flutists a wealth of useful information. Even players wedded to the Boehm flute will gain fresh musical insights from Boland’s comprehensive method. –Laurence Libin, Department of Musical Instruments, Metropolitan Museum of Art This is the best introduction to the one-key (baroque) flute for Boehm system flute players available today. With her comprehensive knowledge of the numerous historical treatises and tutors and her extensive practical experience as a player and teacher, Jan Boland has fashioned a guide that is at the same time informative and enjoyable. I only wish it had been available when I set out to learn the one-key flute. It would have saved me much time and led me directly to the most important sources. –John Thow, composer and Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley An easy-to-read format, clear prose, attractive graphics, and well chosen and very legible music make it an ideal beginner’s tutor. –Betty Bang Mather, Professor Emeritus, University of Iowa School of Music |
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Nocturnes $8.99 inch….this work is likely to become a standart work very quickly and is to be recommended to all schools where recorder studies are undertaken inch. (Oliver James, Contact Magazine) A novel and comprehensive approach to transferring from the C to F instrument. 430 music examples include folk and national songs (some in two parts), country dance tunes and excerpts from the standard treble repertoire ofBach, Barsanti, Corelli, Handel, Telemann, etc. An outstanding feature of the book has proved to be Brian Bonsor’s brilliantly simple but highly effective practice circles and recognition squares designed to give, in only a few minutes, concentrated practice on the more usual leaps to and from each new note and instant recognition of random notes. Quickly emulating the outstanding success of the descant tutors, these books are very popular even with those who normally use tutors other than the Enjoy the Recorder series. |
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Noise from the Writing Center $19.95 In Noise from the Writing Center, Boquet develops a theory of noise and excess as an important element of difference between the pedagogy of writing centers and the academy in general. Addressing administrative issues, Boquet strains against the bean-counting anxiety that seems to drive so much of writing center administration. Pedagogically, she urges a more courageous practice, developed via metaphors of music and improvisation, and argues for noise, excess, and performance as uniquely appropriate to the education of writers and tutors in the center. Personal, even irreverent in style, Boquet is also theoretically sophisticated, and she draws from an eclectic range of work in academic and popular culture — from Foucault to Attali to Jimi Hendrix. She includes, as well, the voices of writing center tutors with whom she conducted research, and she finds some of her most inspiring moments in the words and work of those tutors. |
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Performance Practices In Classic Piano Music $29.95 Performance today on either the pianoforte or the fortepiano can be at once joyful, musicianly, expressive, and historically informed. From this point of view, Sandra P. Rosenblum examines the principles of performing the music of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and their contemporaries as revealed in a variety of historical sources: their autographs and letters, early editions of their music, original instruments, and contemporary tutors and journals. She applies these findings to such elements of performance as dynamics, accentuation, pedaling, articulation and touch, technique and fingering, ornaments and embellishments, choice of tempo, and tempo flexibility.Familiarity with the Classic conventions provides a framework for interpretation and an understanding of the choices available within the style, the amount of freedom a performer has, and which areas are ambiguous. Rosenblum’s detailed study, copiously illustrated with musical examples, is invaluable for professional and amateur performers, serious piano students and their teachers and students of performance practices by Scarlatti and Clementi. “… is and will remain unsurpassed as the study dealing with performance practice as it pertains to keyboard music of the Classical period.” — American Music Teacher”Rosenblum’s monumental achievement is thorough, objective, balanced, and imaginative, a compelling blend of love and respect for the solo, chamber, and concerto literature she addresses.” — Journal of Musicological Research”The extent and quality of her research, the depth of her perception, and her musicianship together break new ground in the study of historic performance practice.” — Early Keyboard Journal”Her attention to details is absolutely scrupulous; no stone unturned, no argument unquestioned or unstated.” — The Musical Times”Its importance to thoughtful musicians cannot be overstated.” — Choice”… thoroughly musicological.” — |
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Putney, Vermont $8.59 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Landmark College is an accredited junior liberal arts college in Putney, Vermont. Founded in 1985 with a first-of-its-kind program for dyslexics by Charles Drake, the school is one of only two in the United States designed exclusively for students with learning disabilities, including ADHD and Dyslexia. A 2005 article at CNNMoney.com cited Landmark as having had the priciest tuition among four-year colleges since 1998. Landmark utilizes an “integrated approach” to the whole student, the goal being to teach students to master learning and study strategies. About 490 students attend Landmark College. All students receive personal, directed assistance in their studies. Each student receives individualized attention from classroom instructors in courses tailored to meet their educational needs. The college offers courses for skills development, college credit, and an Associate Degree Program for individuals who have average to superior intellectual potential. Advisors meet frequently with students to review and guide their progress. All instructors are trained professional educators rather than teaching assistants or peer tutors. Landmark College has a well-developed collegiate sports program. In 2001 the men’s soccer team finished undefeated, a historic moment for the young college’s athletic program. In addition, the men’s basketball program has been very successful in recent years, winning back-to-back championships in 2007 and 2008. Landmark College offers courses in anthropology, English, business, communications, humanities, philosophy, psychology, history, literature, math, science, foreign languages, theater, video, music, art, physical education, and other disciplines. All courses are designed to integrate skills and str… More: |
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Robert Graham Manson $40 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Graham Manson (11 June 1883 – 14 February 1950) was a British musician. Robert Graham Manson was born in London, one of four sons of James Alexander Manson (born 1852), a journalist and author. One of his brothers was James Bolivar Manson (1879 – 1945) who was an artist and Director of the Tate Gallery in London from 1930 to 1938. Robert was a student at the Royal College of Music from January 1900 to December 1903. His tutors included Arthur Somervell, Sir Frederick Bridge and Sir Charles Villiers Stanford. He played the violin, viola and piano. He went on to play in the string sections of the Scottish Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra before emigrating to North America. Here he played in the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra (Sokoloff, conductor) for two seasons, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (Frank Welsman, conductor) for three seasons and then went on to become leader of the Second Violins in the New Symphony Orchestra of Toronto (Dr Von Kunits, conductor). |
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Russian Crime Fiction Writers: Isaak Babel $8.54 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel (Russian: , 13 July 1894 January 27, 1940) was a Soviet journalist, playwright, and short story writer acclaimed as “the greatest prose writer of Russian Jewry.” Despite being an enthusiastic Communist, Isaac Babel was arrested, tortured and shot during Joseph Stalin’s Great Purge. Isaak Babel was born into a family of Manus and Feyga Bobel (Babel changed the spelling of his surname in his twenties). Manus Bobel was a Jewish shopkeeper in Odessa during a period of intermittent pogroms and mass exodus of Jews from the Russian Empire. Isaak Babel’s family survived Odessa’s 1905 pogrom with the help of Christian neighbors, but his great maternal grandfather Shoyl was one of about 300 Jews murdered. In his teens, Babel hoped to get into the preparatory class of the Nicolas I Odessa Commercial School. However, he first had to overcome the Jewish quota (10% within the Pale of Settlement, 5% outside and 3% for both capitals). Despite the fact that Babel received the passing grades, his place was given to another boy, whose parents had bribed the school officials. As a result he was schooled at home by private tutors. In addition to regular school subjects, Babel also studied the Talmud and music. According to Cynthia Ozick, “Though he was at home in Yiddish and Hebrew, and was familiar with the traditional texts and their demanding commentaries, he added to these a lifelong fascination with Maupassant and Flaubert. His first stories were composed in fluent literary French. The breadth and scope of his social compass enabled him to see through the eyes of peasants, soldiers, priests, rabbis, children, artists, actors, women of all classes. He befriended whores, cabdrivers, jockeys; he knew what it was like to be penniless, t… More: |
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Secrets of the Master Teacher: Unlocking the Power and Potential of the Jesus Teaching Model $10.86 Parents, coaches, professionals, Sunday-school teachers, tutors, art/music/dance instructors, private and public school educators, scout leaders, professors, church leaders and community activists-we are all teachers in some capacity, and as such, we own the potential to positively influence history. To excel in your teaching role, consider looking to the well-documented Jesus teaching model. Look inside Secrets of the Master Teacher to find ten short lessons that will change your life: discover the secrets, techniques, and means to model perhaps the greatest teacher the world has ever known! In these inspiring pages, you will find ten lessons based on Jesus” teaching secrets, including: Poignant, real-life vignettes pertinent quotes practical suggestions a group-friendly study guide. If you teach anything, anywhere, expand your own learning here! |
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Secrets of the Master Teacher: Unlocking the Power and Potential of the Jesus Teaching Model $10.58 Parents, coaches, professionals, Sunday-school teachers, tutors, art/music/dance instructors, private and public school educators, scout leaders, professors, church leaders and community activists-we are all teachers in some capacity, and as such, we own the potential to positively influence history.To excel in your teaching role, consider looking to the well-documented Jesus teaching model. Look inside Secrets of the Master Teacher to find ten short lessons that will change your life: discover the secrets, techniques, and means to model perhaps the greatest teacher the world has ever known!In these inspiring pages, you will find ten lessons based on Jesus’ teaching secrets, including:ï??Poignant, real-life vignettesï??pertinent quotesï??practical suggestionsï??a group-friendly study guide. If you teach anything, anywhere, expand your own learning here! |
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Spanish in 10 Minutes a Day $42.95 An engaging audio program which teaches listeners how to speak Spanish. Sound effects and original music keep the program vibrant and entertaining.Personal tutors guide listeners through each step – introducing new words and practicing right along with the listeners.A wide range of voices and accents from Spanish-speaking countries around the world helps to acquaint the listeners with the variety of Spanish accents.The step-by-step playful style teaches beginners the building blocks of Spanish so that they can expand their conversational ability for any situtation. |
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Teach Yourself Baby Massage and Yoga $3.5 Relax and soothe your baby with massage and yogaTeach Yourself Baby Massage and Yoga introduces you to the physical and emotional benefits of gentle massage and yoga exercises for your baby. In addition to teaching the best time to begin and the right oils to use, it explains how to tie in massage and yoga with storytelling, music, and rhyme to increase the effects.Anita Epple and Pauline Carpenter are the directors of Touch-Learn, which trains Infant Massage Teachers. They are both qualified baby massage tutors and closely involved with the Guild of Child and Infant Massage. |
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The Virtuoso Flute-Player $77 This is an English translation of Tutor for Playing the Flute (1791) by Johann George Tromlitz. The most explicit of the eighteenth-century tutors for flute-playing, it now serves as a record of instrumental practice as well as a useful guide to the performance of German classical music. The Tutor covers all aspects of flute playing, including intonation, articulation, flute maintenance, posture and breathing, dynamics, ornaments, musical style, cadenzas, and the construction of the flute. This edition will be an indispensable manual for players of baroque and modern flutes, and the information it contains will be invaluable for all musicians, students, and specialists interested in the historically informed performance of German classical music. The text is annotated with critical notes and all of the original music examples are newly printed in modern notation. The volume also contains a fingering chart and a historical introduction. |
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The World of the Country House in Seventeenth-Century England $20.35 This engaging and beautifully illustrated book take us back to the domestic world of the landed gentry in seventeenth-century England. Relating countless stories and case histories drawn from a wide range of primary sources, the book describes the physical environment, staffing, and functioning of gentry households, the inhabitants and their activities, and the role of these houses in the social economic life of their localities.J. T. Cliffe begins exploring the exterior and interior of houses and the outbuildings, parks, and gardens that sorrounded them. He then investigates the people who lived in the country houses and the relationships between them. He provides colorful details about the responsibilities of the squire and his wife; the duties, remuneration, food, clothing, accommodation, and treatment of servants; and the special duties of estate stewards, coachmen, chaplains, and tutors. Cliffe explains various aspects of housekeeping, such as the tradition of hospitality and the factors militating against it. He also discusses other kinds of activity: religious practices; outdoor sports and indoor pastimes, including music and billiards; and such intellectual pursuits as antiquarian research, poetry, and scientific experiments. He concludes with a fascinating survey of scandal in the world of the gentry, telling of domestic strife, financial disaster, lunacy, and other disasters that marred this idyllic existence. |
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Welsh Child Singers $9.16 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Charlotte Church (born Charlotte Maria Reed; 21 February 1986) is a Welsh singer-songwriter, actress and television presenter. She rose to fame in childhood as a classical crossover singer before branching into pop music in 2005. By 2007, she had sold more than 10,500,000 albums worldwide and is said to be worth as much as £20m. She recently hosted the third series of her Channel 4 chat show The Charlotte Church Show. Church has two children, Ruby Megan Henson and Dexter Lloyd Henson. Charlotte Church was born Charlotte Maria Reed in Llandaff, a district of Cardiff, Wales. She was raised Roman Catholic by her mother, Maria, who was separated from Church’s biological father, Stephen Reed. Church was adopted by her mother’s second husband, James Church in 1998. Her break came at 11 when she sang “Pie Jesu” over the telephone on the television show “This Morning” in 1997, followed by her performance on ITV’s Big, Big Talent Show in 1997. This led to concerts at Cardiff Arms Park, the Royal Albert Hall and opening for Shirley Bassey in Antwerp. She also received a vocal scholarship to Howell’s School Llandaff in Cardiff where she started in 1998. She balanced performing and school with help from tutors for when she was on the road and said in many interviews that she was “just like every other girl her age”. Church was then introduced to the Cardiff impresario Jonathan Shalit, who became her manager and negotiated a contract with Sony BMG. Her first album, Voice of an Angel, was a collection of arias, sacred songs, and traditional pieces that sold millions worldwide and made her the youngest artist with a No. 1 album on the British classical crossover charts. Church appeared on PBS specials. Her self-titled second album also included operatic, re… More: |
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Welsh Sopranos $9.71 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Charlotte Church (born Charlotte Maria Reed; 21 February 1986) is a Welsh singer-songwriter, actress and television presenter. She rose to fame in childhood as a classical crossover singer before branching into pop music in 2005. By 2007, she had sold more than 10,500,000 albums worldwide and is said to be worth as much as £20m. She recently hosted the third series of her Channel 4 chat show The Charlotte Church Show. Church has two children, Ruby Megan Henson and Dexter Lloyd Henson. Charlotte Church was born Charlotte Maria Reed in Llandaff, a district of Cardiff, Wales. She was raised Roman Catholic by her mother, Maria, who was separated from Church’s biological father, Stephen Reed. Church was adopted by her mother’s second husband, James Church in 1998. Her break came at 11 when she sang “Pie Jesu” over the telephone on the television show “This Morning” in 1997, followed by her performance on ITV’s Big, Big Talent Show in 1997. This led to concerts at Cardiff Arms Park, the Royal Albert Hall and opening for Shirley Bassey in Antwerp. She also received a vocal scholarship to Howell’s School Llandaff in Cardiff where she started in 1998. She balanced performing and school with help from tutors for when she was on the road and said in many interviews that she was “just like every other girl her age”. Church was then introduced to the Cardiff impresario Jonathan Shalit, who became her manager and negotiated a contract with Sony BMG. Her first album, Voice of an Angel, was a collection of arias, sacred songs, and traditional pieces that sold millions worldwide and made her the youngest artist with a No. 1 album on the British classical crossover charts. Church appeared on PBS specials. Her self-titled second album also included operatic, re… More: |
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