Magic Carpet is a collection of audience-pleasing concert pieces for the youngest beginners. These pieces can be used in either a reading-based or Suzuki teaching environment, and teachers can choose whether the children learn them by reading or by ear. Magic Carpet is available for violin, viola, and cello students, with a separate book (with CD) and piano accompaniment for each instrument. This is the piano accompaniment for the violin book.

In order to help the many guitarists that are fond of the baroque music, but neither own a baroque guitar, nor baroque lute, nor a theorbe, it was necessary to write this book. The 'suite française? dances (allemande, courante, sarabande, minuet, gavotte, bourree, passacaille, chaconne, gigue?) are initialy presented in a whole, then, for each of them, we are lead to discover first the origin mostly from Renaissance, the typical rhythmic structure with its dynamic, and then, an evaluation of the most probable tempo. Some short examples (first eight bars) or some longer (first parts) allow use tu define a model for each dance, which can be linked, in the end of the book, to a 'puzzle suite?. This suite is artificially made of dances composed by different musicians: Robert de Visée, Francesco Corbetta, François Campion, Henri Grénerin, Jacques Gallot, Ludovico Roncalli, Charles Mouton, François Lecoq? Obviously, this small book, although particularly written for guitarists can be a help for any a 'grand siècle? fervent who play the harpsichord, the flute, the viola da gamba as well as for any other. / Littérature Musicale

Copyright Essentials for Today's Music Business-With the free-form exchange of music files and musical ideas online understanding copyright laws has become essential to career success in the new music marketplace. This cutting-edge plain-language guide shows you how copyright law drives the contemporary music industry. By looking at the law and its recent history you will understand the new issues introduced by the digital age as well as continuing issues of traditional copyright law. Whether you are an artist lawyer entertainment Web site administrator record label executive student or other participant in the music industry this book will help you understand how copyright law affects you helping you use the law toyour benefit. - How do you get fair compensation for your work and avoid making costly mistakes? - Can you control who is selling your music on their website? - Is it legal to create mash-ups? - What qualifies as fair use? - How do you clear another artist's samples to use in your own recordings? - What is the Creative Commons/Copyleft movement? - How do you clear music for use in an online music service or store? - Who decides who gets paid how much and by whom? You will learn the answers to these questions as well as: - The basics of copyright law looking at the Copyright Act while explaining it in plain language - How revenue streams for music are generated under copyright law - The reasoning behind high-profile court decisions related to copyright violations -What licenses are needed for the legal online delivery of music - The intricacies of using music on sites like YouTube Pandora and Spotify - Deficiencies in current copyright law and new business model ideas