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AUTHOR
LOCI
PRICE
Athletic Musician:  a guide to playing without pain
Paull/Harrison
120
$ 48.95
Art of Wind Playing
Sections include: Resonance, Attacks & Releases, Double Tonguing, Vibrato, Technique, Breathing, Musical Style, Interpretation
Arthur Weisberg
18
$ 25.95
Artist as Citizen - Speeches & articles from the President of Juilliard School 
Includes humorous anecdotes of former alumni  ie. Pavarotti,  Robin Williams
Joseph W. Polisi 18 $ 31.95
Bill Evans - "Everything Happens to Me" Keith Shadwick 18 $ 31.95
Boosey & Hawkes: The Publishing Story - a Behind the Scenes Look of a Publishing Company as it Works with
Composers to Shape Musical History

Helen Wallace
1B
$ 32.50
Brass Player's Cookbook - Creative Recipes for a Successful Performance  Various 18 $ 32.50
Classical Guitar Book   -226 pages Full Colour History 16 Contributors 18 $ 47.95
Classical Guitar Making - a modern approach to traditional design John S. Bogdanovich 25 $ 38.95
Classical Music   -1200 pages of Classical Recordings 
Rated with 55 contributing Reviewers on Thousands of Entries
Alexander Morin 18 $ 47.95
Classical Musician's Recording Handbook - How to Capture Classical Music Live & in the Studio, How to get the Best out of Your Equipment, How to Produce & Mix Your own Release-Quality Recordings
Andrew Hallifax
25
$ 25.95
A Composer's Insight Vol. 3 - Thoughts, Analysis and Commentary on Contemporary Masterpieces for Wind Band, Featuring Music of: Bennett, Benson, Cichy, Corigliano, Holsinger, Nixon, Rands, Sparke, Ticheli, Weinstein, Zdechlik Timothy Salzman 18 $ 51.95
Composers' Notes - Financial Triumphs and Disasters of the Great Composers
Tim Lihoreau
30
$ 27.95
Cowboy Guitars   - 230 pages of Painted Guitar Designs Evans /Middlebrook 18 $ 55.95
Creative Director : Conductor, Teacher, Leader 
Listening skills, harmonic & melodic content, ensemble sonority and expressive conducting
Edward S. Lisk 18 $ 32.50
Debussy:  The Quiet Revolutionary
Victor Lederer
18
$ 29.95
Diamond in the Sky  -Personal Memories of Suzuki Jerlene Cannon 38 $  8.95
"88" The Giants of Jazz Piano with 11 Track CD (Hardcover) Robert Doerschuk 18 $ 47.95
50 Years of Les Paul's "Gibson"   -Excellent Photos Tony Bacon 18 $ 36.95
Great Composers in Historic Photographs (244 Portraits) James Camner 01D $ 23.95
Healthy String Playing
Physical Wellness Tips from the Page of Strings Magazine
various
18
$ 19.50
Heifetz : As I Knew Him
The last fifteen years of the great violinist's life as told through his accompanist, assistant, and confidante
Ayke Agus 18 $ 23.95
I Believe in Music - Life Experiences & Thoughts of Future
"Hard Cover ed." 
Ikutaro Kakehashi
Founder of Roland Corp.
18 $ 44.95
Interpretive Wind Band Conductor  
John Knight
18
$ 32.50
It's Not ALL Song and Dance - Behind the scenes in performing arts
* Hardcover edition
Maxim Gershunoff
Leon Va Dyke
18 $ 34.95
John Denver -the Complete Lyrics  John Denver with Milt Okum 18 $ 27.50
John Philip Sousa - American Phenomenon  -Revised Paul Bierley 38 $ 44.95
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis   -History & Transcriptions Bill Kirchner 18 $ 47.95
Listener's Companion -  Great Composers & Their Works Nicolas Slonimsky 25 $ 31.95
Making a Musical Life  :The Practice, the Profession, the Joy
Advice from a Seasoned & Successful Orchestral Musician on Crafting a Career in Classical Music
Tom Heimberg 18 $ 19.50
Mastering Conducting Techniques -20 Practice Chapters John Haberlen 35F $ 28.95
Memory of All That: The Life of Geroge Gershwin Joan Peyser 18 $ 23.50
Mettalica - Complete Lyrics Book
18 $ 31.95
Modern Rhyming Dictionary:  Practical Guide to Lyric Writing
Gene Lees
18
$ 19.50
Modulation An unabridged republication of the work originally published on On the Theory of Modulation
Translated by John Bernhoff
Max Reger
1D
$   8.95
Muscle Management for Musicians  
Elizabeth Andrews
120
$ 48.50
Music Lover's Guide to Record Collecting  Dave Thompson 18 $ 36.95
Music Money and Success  5th edition 
Insider's Guide to Making Money in the Music Business
Jeffrey & Todd Brabec 25 $ 32.50
Nineteenth-Century German Lied Lorraine Gorrell 18 $ 34.95
NotePad Primer   - "Finale" Notation for Windows & MacIntosh
includes CD for "NotePad" Program
Bill Purse 18 $ 27.95
100 Tips for Acoustic Guitar  with CD You Should Have Been Told 50 Guitar Contributors 25 $ 32.95
The Opera Companion
George Martin
18
$ 25.95
The Orchestra    - 23 essays on the origins and transformations of the orchestra ed. Joan Peyser 18 $ 25.95
Parent's Guide to String Instrument Study Lorraine Fink 17 $  5.50
Perfect Rehearsal - Everything you Wanted to Know About Rehearsals  Timothy Seelig 25 $ 32.50
Playing from the Heart -40 Greats talk about their craft Robert Doerschuk 18 $ 31.95
PrintMusic! Primer
Mastering the Art of Music Notation with Finale PrintMusic!
Bill Purse 18 $ 29.95
Producing Hit Records : Secrets From the Studio  David John Farinella 25 $ 23.50
Redeemer Reborn - Parsifal as the Fifth Opera of Wagner's Ring
Paul Schofield
18
$ 37.95
Rough Guide to Jazz -   A Jazz Encyclopedia Carr /Fairweather /Priestley 01 $ 34.95
Rough Guide to Classical Music  - The A-Z of Composers, Key Works and Top Recordings
Joe Staines /
Duncan Clark
01
$ 33.95
Rough Guide to Heavy Metal 
Essi Berelian
01
$ 32.50
Rough Guide to Opera  - Descriptions of the Composers and the Operas, Act by Act Matthew Boyden 01 $ 33.95
Rough Guide to Punk - the Filth, the Fury, the Fashion
Al Spicer
01
$ 32.50
So When Does the Fat Lady Sing? - Questions and Answers about Life, Sex, Love, and -- Oh, Yes -- Opera
Michael Walsh
18
$ 14.50
Song    A guide to Art Song Style and Literature Carol Kimball 18 $ 32.50
Sound of Light -   History of Gospel & Christian Music Don Cusic 18 $ 31.95
Stan Getz  - Nobody Else But Me  Dave Gelly 18 $ 36.95
Story of Handel's "Messiah"  -an Historical Companion Watkins Shaw 35N $ 25.50
Student's Guide to College Music Programs
How to Obtain Financial Aid, Preparing for the Freshman Year, Guidelines for a College Audition
1300 American Colleges & Universities
ed. Leonard
18
$ 25.95
Succeed as a String Player!
Tips from the Readers and Experts at Teen Strings Magazine inform, inspire and entertain
Making better use of practice time, overcoming stage fright, music-school auditions, summer camps, etc.
Megan Westberg
18
$ 21.95
Tchaikovsky A Listener's Guide  incl. 2 Full-Length Naxos CDs Daniel Felsenfeld 18 $ 36.50
Teaching Choral Sight Reading -a Teacher's Sourcebook Jack Boyd 35F $ 27.50
Teaching Genius : Dorothy DeLay and the Making of a Musician
Examining the life of Violinist DeLay and her students, incl. Sarah Chang
Barbara Lourie Sand 18 $ 23.95
Teach Yourself Computer Audio -   ultimate home studio setup Todd Souvignier 01 $ 29.95
Technique of Violin Playing 
The Joachim Method
Karl Courvoisier 1D $  8.95
Technology Strategies for Music Education -
Produced by Teachers for Teachers with guidelines on 
Implimenting Computors into Music Study & Step by Step Lessons
National Advisory Board
TI:ME Certification
18 $ 31.95
Thesaurs of Scales & Melodic Patterns (250 pages) Nicolas Slonimsky 25 $ 47.95
Tipbook : Saxophone
Includes : Fingering Chart, Illustrations, play-testing, bird's-eye view of the instrument, lessons/teachers/practicing, maintenance & tuning, background info
Hugo Pinksterboer 18 $ 19.50
Total Piano  Terry Burrows

The Ultimate Guide to
Learning & Mastering
The Piano

25 $ 31.95
The Touring Musician:  Small business approach survival manual
Hal Galper
01
$ 21.95
Trumpet Kings   -Players Who Shaped Jazz Trumpet Scott Yanow 18 $ 36.95
"UNDYING FLAME"
110 Ballads & Songs of
the Holocaust in 16 Languages
with English Translations
& Historical Notes
Includes CD
Jerry Silverman 25 $ 55.95
The Ukulele  - A Visual History-   Beautiful FULL Colours Jim Beloff 18 $ 39.95
Vehicle of Music  - Reflections on Suzuki Dr.Masaaki Honda 38 $ 18.95
Violin and Viola -  History, Structure, Techniques Sheila M.Nelson 01D $ 24.95
Violin-Making 
A Historical and Practical Guide
Edward Heron-Allen 1D $ 56.50
Violin Mastery
Interviews with Heifetz, Auer, Kreisler and Others
ed. Frederick H. Martens 1D $ 11.95
Wagner Moments:  A Celebration of Favorite Wagner Experiences  
C.S. Lewis, W.H. Auden, T.S. Eliot, G.B. Shaw, James Joyce, Friedrich Nietzche, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, Placido Domingo
ed. Holman
18
$16.95
TheWind Band in and Around New York ca. 1830-1950
Essays presented at the 26th biennial conference of the College Band Directors National Association New York, NY, Februray, 2005
ed. Frank J. Cipolla & 
Donald Hunsberger
01 $ 38.95
With Your Own Two Hands - Self-Discovery Through Music Seymour Bernstein 18S $ 20.95
Working Musician's Dictionary of Terms   - Slang to Country Karl Aranjo 18 $ 14.50
World of Jazz Trumpet - Comprehensive History & Practical Philosophy Scotty Barnhart 18 $ 34.95

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