Bøger af Michael J. Pagliaro

This book provides clarinet students and music teachers with a comprehensive overview of the instrument from its origin to its use and important facts not covered in traditional clarinet method books.

This book provides bassoon students and music teachers with a comprehensive overview of the instrument from its origin to its use and important facts not covered in traditional bassoon method books.

This book provides oboe students and music teachers with a comprehensive overview of the instrument from its origin to its use and important facts not covered in traditional oboe method books.

This book provides saxophone students and music teachers with a comprehensive overview of the instrument from its origin to its use and important facts not covered in traditional saxophone method books.

This book is designed to expand a student's music study experience by learning about the parts of the double bass and how it works, how to Care for it, how it is made, its history, useful accessories, and how to plan practice sessions.

This book will teach you additional information about your instrument that will help you better understand how it works, how to work it, care for it, and how to be a more knowledgeable cellist.

In The String Instrument Owner's Guide, Michael Pagliaro surveys the complete "ownership life cycle" of bowed string instruments.

This book provides violin students with a comprehensive overview of the instrument from its origin to its use and all other facts not covered in traditional violin method books.

In The String Instrument Owner's Guide, Michael Pagliaro surveys the complete "ownership life cycle" of bowed string instruments.

This primer surveys the history of music and the composers who made that history; the history of instrument families and how the instruments function; an introduction to the science of sound and sound production; the various types of ensembles; and the fundamentals of music theory, form in music, musical notation, and music vocabulary.

This resource provides professionals, musicians, teachers, students, or individuals with an abundance of brass instrument knowledge. The book's chapters answer questions like: Where did these instruments come from? How do they work? How do I choose one? How do I take care of my instrument? It also provides an instrument diary and glossary of terms.

The Instrumental Music Director's Guide to Comprehensive Program Development offers an approach to the procedures associated with teaching instrumental music and administering the program. An in-depth discussion of student recruitment, instrument selection, evaluation of student potential, and supplementary curriculum enhancement are included.

In The Musical Instrument Desk Reference, Michael Pagliaro, musical instrument authority extraordinaire, provides the one-stop shop for those in need of a quick, visually-rich reference guide to band and orchestral instruments. Descriptions and illustrations of everything from the physics of sound to detailed discussions of each orchestra and band instrument make this work the ideal desktop reference tool for the working musician. Through its Quick Start and In Depth features, readers can quickly decide how deeply they want to delve into the instrument at hand. Following a contemporary format designed to facilitate what any musician or music instructor needs to know, The Musical Instrument Desk Reference eliminates the need to leaf through multiple method books or trawl through websites to find information.The Musical Instrument Desk Reference includes general information on fingering, the anatomy of musical instruments, sound production, amplification, and control, as well as the science of sound. Readers will find individual chapters on woodwinds, brass instruments, non-fretted string instruments, and percussion instruments. In each category, Pagliaro delves deeper, describing for woodwinds such things as tuning, key systems, fingerings, sound production, tone holes, assembly, materials, embouchures, and reed use; for brass instruments such matters as valve systems, fingering patterns, French horn types, mouthpiece selection, and intonation; for non-fretted string instruments such issues as tuning and fingering, playing position, bowing technique, instrument parts, and materials; and for percussion instruments such elements as instrument types and their classifications, tuning procedures, and accessories.The Musical Instrument Desk Reference is the perfect guide for anyone interested in or responsible for working with varieties of instruments and their players. Teachers, students, teachers in training, music instructors, instrument technicians, and musicians can quickly locate any specific detail related to any band or orchestral instrument.