QUARTET PLAYING,ART OF
Written by David Blum
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 13, 2013
Price: $14.99
How do four instrumentalists with strong individual tastes and temperaments manage to forge a distinctive approach to the music they play? This extraordinary book ushers readers into the workshop of one of the world's most accomplished string quartets. In rich and probing conversations with their longtime friend and musicologist and conductor...
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With Strings Attached
The Art and Beauty of Vintage Guitars
Written by Jonathan Kellerman
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $75.00
For thirty-five years, bestselling author and accomplished musician Jonathan Kellerman has been, as he puts it in his Introduction to this lavishly illustrated, endlessly fascinating volume, “chasing fabulous sound.” The result of that quest is a world-class collection of guitars, mandolins, and other stringed instruments that number more than 120 ...
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Stradivari's Genius
Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection
Written by Toby Faber
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 4, 2006
Price: $16.00
Antonio Stradivari (1644—1737) was a perfectionist whose single-minded pursuit of excellence changed the world of music. In the course of his long career in the northern Italian city of Cremona, he created more than a thousand stringed instruments; approximately six hundred survive, their quality unequalled by any subsequent violin-maker. In this...
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