SwankiVY's Book Collection! |
Music | ||
Amos, Tori | Lyrics | A gift from Fred. Lovely lyrics book of Tori Amos. |
Amos, Tori | The Singles | A gift from Meg. Piano music for seventeen of her most famous songs. |
Anderson, William M.; Lawrence, Joy E. | Integrating Music into the Elementary Classroom | Annoyingly, they wouldn't take this back at buyback because a newer edition was being made or something, so I ended up keeping it. |
Bay, Mel | Mel Bay's Modern Guitar Method, Grade 1 | My sister's guitar primer, which I stole from her (along with her guitar) because I wanted to learn to play. I didn't do so. |
Benward, Bruce; Kolosick, J. Timothy | Ear Training | This book for ear training class was supposed to help me with all aspects of recognizing and producing pitches. Not that I needed much help. |
Benward, Bruce; White, Gary | Music in Theory and Practice, Fifth Edition (Volumes I and II) | A music theory textbook set from my days as a music major. |
Benward, Bruce; White, Gary | Music in Theory and Practice, Workbook, Fifth Edition | Here's the companion workbook. |
Benward, Bruce; White, Gary | Music in Theory and Practice, Sixth Edition (Volumes I and II) | Ditto above. |
Benward, Bruce; White, Gary | Music in Theory and Practice, Workbook, Sixth Edition | Yup, here's the workbook that went along with it. |
Berkowitz, Sol; Fontrier, Gabriel; Kraft, Leo | A New Approach to Sight-Singing | I had to have this when I was a music major, and now and then I use the exercises from it to teach other people. |
Fauré, Gabriel; Ward, Laura; Walters, Richard | 50 Songs (High Voice) | Collection of Fauré's French art songs, I had to sing stuff out of it in my French diction class when I was a music major. |
Feldstein, Sandy; O'Reilly, John | Yamaha Band Student--Bb Trumpet/Cornet/Book 1 | I used this in my brass skills class. I learned to play trumpet with it. |
Gottfried, Martin | Broadway Musicals | Big hardcover book about musicals that I got from my grandmother. |
Hal Leonard Corporation | Essential Elements 2000 for Strings, Books 1 and 2 | A comprehensive string method book on the easy level; my dad gave me #1 with my violin and #2 a year later. |
Hilley, Martha; Olson, Lynn Freeman | Piano for the Developing Musician II | A random piano textbook. I learned to play "Lydian Nocturne" from here. |
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation | 50 Contemporary Classics | Collection of sheet music; I bought it because I was required to have sheet music for some solo. |
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation | Simple Songs | Collection of relatively easy piano music. |
Joel, Billy | Billy Joel for Ukulele | Dad got me this ukulele sheet music book for my 40th birthday. |
Larson, Jon | RENT Movie Vocal Selections | I'm a big fan of the musical. When the movie came out it generated enough interest that this songbook came out in the regular bookstores, so I bought it. |
Machlis, Joseph; Forney, Kristine | The Enjoyment of Music (7th Edition, shorter version) | I do believe I used this for my musical styles class. Though I remember very little of the information from the class, it is where I met Jessica. The saga begins. |
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | Gran Partita, K. 361: A Facsimile Of The Holograph In The Whittall Foundation. | I found this in with my mom's Victrola records and kept it. |
Palmer, Willard A | Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course, Level One | An introductory piano course for grownups. |
Paton, John Glenn | 26 Italian Songs and Arias (Medium High Voice) | Practically the bible of Italian art songs; had to use it in Italian diction class. |
Paton, John Glenn | 26 Italian Songs and Arias (Medium Low Voice) | Got this one by accident, I needed medium high voice, but heck, it's useful to have both in case you've got a lower-voiced friend. |
Peters, Charles S.; Yoder, Paul | Master Theory (Book 3) | In high school our chorus teacher decided we didn't know enough music theory. Jerk. This was the highest level theory book he had so I got to work in it with a select few others who could actually read music. |
Schaum, John W. | John W. Schaum Piano Course (Book B, the Blue Book) | This was just my piano book when I was a kid. Sadly I never really progressed to the point that I could play anything much harder than book B. |
Schirmer | 50 Selected Songs by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, and Strauss (for High Voice) | My "textbook" for German diction. Had to sing a couple German songs picked outta here. |
Schwartz, Stephen | Wicked | A gift from Fred. Sheet music for the musical. |
Spaeth, Sigmund; Thompson, Carl O. | 55 Art Songs | Collection of songs I sang when I was a music major. Kept it around 'cause I like 'em. |
Wall, Joan; Caldwell, Robert; Gavilanes, Tracy; Allen, Sheila | Diction for Singers | This thing teaches you how to say words correctly in lots of languages you'd sing songs in: English, Italian, Latin, German, French, and Spanish. |
Warner Bros. Publications, Inc. | Love and Marriage Through the Years | Another collection of sheet music that I bought for just one song. |
Weber, Fred | First Division Band Method--Trombone/Part One | Used in my brass skills class to help me learn to play trombone. |
Weber, Fred; Lowry, Robert | Clarinet Student (Level One) | This was my song book for woodwind skills, learning to play clarinet. |
Weber, Fred; Steensland, Douglas | Flute Student (Level One) | This was my song book for woodwind skills, learning to play flute. |