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The understanding of the musical techniques of composition cannot be reduced to a handbook of simplified rules. Music is complex and ever changing. It is the purpose of this book to trace the path of musical growth from the late Romantic period to the serial techniques of the contemporary composer. Through the detailed analysis of the musical characteristics that dominate a specific style of writing, a graduated plan is organized and presented here in the form of explanations and exercises. A new analytical method substitutes for the diatonic figured bass and makes exercises and the analysis of non-diatonic literature more manageable. The explanations describing each technique are thorough. They are designed to help the teacher and the student see the many extenuating circumstances that affect a particular analytical decision. More important than a dogmatic decision on a particular key center or a root tone, for example, is the understanding of why such an underdeterminate condition may exist.

A one-thing-at-a-time approach to studying improvisation, incorporating discipline, technique, creativity and musical intuition. Written musical examples, exercises and a sample daily practice schedule explain and demonstrate each topic.

Steve Prosser’s "Intervallic Ear Training for Musicians" is the product of 35 years studying and teaching interval awareness in music. The text provides a step-by-step method for assimilation of, as well as graded exercises for, each interval. Each Chapter concludes with Mastery Exercises and Etudes. After adequate study of the text, the student will be able to hear, recognize, read and write music through the use of musical intervals. This skill is particularly helpful in dealing with music that is extremely chromatic, tonally ambiguous or rapidly modulating.

For jazz phrasing, interpretation and improvisationA new and exciting way for trumpet players to learn and practice basic jazz style.This book/audio set features 15 solo etudes based on blues and standard chord progressions, demonstrated by Ryan Kisor on trumpet along with a world-class rhythm section: Mike LeDonne, piano; Peter Washington, bass; and Kenny Washington, drums.The recording features two separate versions of each etude: one with the soloist and rhythm section and one with the rhythm section only. See and hear how the soloist phrases, play with or without the soloist and learn basic jazz style first-hand.Instrumentation:trumpet