Accompaniments

“MY” Signature ‘Gospel Birds’ (Fried Chicken Recipes) and Accompaniment Cookbook is an accomplishment in showing the brilliancy of the slaves in leaving a legacy of the practices of serving JESUS CHRIST and GOSPEL through church, song, music and food. To illustrate these points, several states were selected to showoff similar long -ago AFRICAN-AMERICAN’S methods of preparing the ‘Gospel Bird’ and church -related activities. The name ‘Gospel Bird’ has long been referred to as fried chicken serve at church dinners.

Johann David Heinichen (1683-1729) was a distinguished composer, a contemporary of Johann Sebastian Bach, and Cappellmeister at the court of August I in Dresden. His tratise, Der General-Bass in der Composition, is one of the most comprehensive sources for the late Baroque practice of figured-bass, or thorough-bass, accompaniment. It is a fund of information about many complex problems confronting musicians in the performance and interpretation of Baroque music, including meters, embellishments, dissonance, particular complications for recitative, and use of the figured bass. With a judicious combination of translation, interpretation, and commentary George J. Buelow makes Heinichen's famous treatise accessible for contemporary scholars and performers. Buelow provides translations of key sections of the treatise, explains its historical significance, clarifies Heinichen's obscurities, and relates the treatise to other musical theories and practices of the Baroque, including those of Gasparini, Mattheson, and the Bachs. Buelow, one of the world's premier experts on Baroque music, is a professor of musicology at Indiana University.

Strictly Strings features a carefully prepared lesson sequence which develops all players' abilities equally in an easy-to-teach, straight forward string method from three renowned pedagogues. A unique letter-note style of music notation is utilized, which ensures a smooth transition from rote to note reading. Students are quickly introduced to ensemble playing and play a wide variety of fun-to play melodies, keys, and modes.