Theory, Books, Accessories

Jean Ritchie's Kentucky Mother Goose is a collection of songs, rhymes and stories recalled by Jean from her own childhood. Growing up as the youngest of 14 children in a singing family from Viper, Ken...

Voted Drummer of the Year by Rolling Stone magazine, living legend Kenny Aronoff first became a recognizable personality behind the drum kit playing for 17 years for John Mellencamp on hits including...

This sourcebook was created to aid directors and teachers in finding the information they need and expand their general knowledge. The resources were selected from hundreds of published and on-line so...

The first half of the 1970s was an especially fertile period for British progressive rock, laying claim to classics such as Tarkus, Selling England by the Pound, Larks' Tongues in Aspic, The Dark Side...

How does an underground oddity become a cultural phenomenon? For over 40 years, the rock band Kiss has galvanized the entertainment world with an unparalleled blitz of bravado, theatricality, and sham...

Have a classical audition coming up? Don't know the plays or where to start? The Shakespeare Audition is here to help! Classical auditions terrify many actors, and yet they are required all the time....

Recording Unhinged: Creative and Unconventional Music Recording Techniques is a dare - a challenge for those who think recording music should be done a certain way. Sylvia Massy, engineer, mixer, and...

Inside these pages, aspiring young performers will find 75 challenging monologues just right for kids. All of the pieces are about subjects appropriate for production in schools - much of it serious a...

The Best Scenes for Kids Ages 7-15 contains 50 challenging scenes for kids by some of our finest playwrights. All have subject matter appropriate for production in schools, much of it serious and chal...

The Martin Archives is a unique inside look into C. F. Martin & Co. 's reign as America's oldest and most revered guitarmaker - viewed through a selection of images, correspondence, documents, and rep...

Leading Tones is a glimpse into several aspects of the musical world. There are portions devoted to Leonard Slatkin's life as a musician and conductor, portraits of some of the outstanding artists wit...

Martin the Guitar has been purchased by the famous folk singer Robert, and is now on the road performing for audiences everywhere. Martin loves to make music with his new friends, Tthe Harmonica Famil...

In this behind-the-scenes look at the making of Fleetwood Mac's epic, platinum-selling double album, Tusk, producers and engineers Ken Caillat and Hernan Rojas tell their stories of spending a year wi...

100 outstanding middle and high school, collegiate and professional band and orchestra conductors passionately and candidly share their most powerful rehearsal techniques and cutting-edge program idea...

Learn the essential practices of contemporary conducting. This book will teach you to use the motions, cues, patterns and practices used to lead ensembles, whether for orchestra, band, musical theater...

The most contemporary rhyming dictionary on the market! Features more than 30, 000 words encompassing standard vocabulary, proper nouns, popular expressions and more, all organized cross-phonetically...

Roy Orbison emerged as an artist alongside his Sun Records contemporaries in the early days of rock 'n' roll. He did not possess the good looks of Elvis Presley or the everyman toughness of Johnny Cas...

Why do pegs continuously slip or stick making it difficult to tune? Or endpins become stuck or keep sliding down? What about fine tuners that malfunction; strings that break, become false or fray; bow...

Learn to engage, excite, captivate and expand your audience! These practical techniques will help you to communicate with your listeners on a deeper, more interactive level. As you do, the concert exp...

The Complete Singer-Songwriter is the ultimate guide for the modern performer, chock-full of tips, tools, and inspiration for both aspiring troubadours and those looking to take their craft and career...

Here is the authorized biography of the one and only Maynard James Keenan. The book traces Keenan's journey from his Midwest childhood to his years in the Army to his time in art school, from his stin...

Despite Steely Dan's popularity, their ability to cultivate an ever-growing base of avid and loyal fans, and their chart positions, relatively little has been written about the group. The band has sol...

Thirty years ago this July, five L. A. punks unleashed their debut album upon the atrophied and decadent rock charts of Reagans America. Within weeks, Appetite for Destruction ascended to number one o...

Freddie Mercury was one of rock's most dazzling front men. When he died in 1991, the music world lost one of its most flamboyant characters, as well as a supremely talented writer and vocalist. Best k...

What does a producer actually do? How does one travel from that great idea for a show to a smash hit opening night on Broadway? John Breglio cannot guarantee you a hit, but he does take the reader on...