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5 comments about Lord of the Rings Instrumental Solos: Flute (Book & CD) (The Lord of the Rings; the Motion Picture Trilogy).

1. Well, i find this flute book completely wonderful, yet too easy. I suppose that would be because the whole flute concept comes easily to me (after two months of puffing along with no sound at first) But as a whole I would highly reccomend this as a flutist, Lotr fanatic and music lover. if you enjoy this, you MUST buy the sound track aswell. It is wonderfully written, and as a whole, just .. wonderful!



2. I was completely impressed with the Lord of the Rings Instrumental Solos for flute.
   I have been playing flute for about two years now after taking music classes both inside school and outside for additional advice. I was able to master this beautiful instrument in no time. And I hope to keep up my talent for it.
   
   Now, the features you will expect of this book are:
   - 12 featured pieces from each of the three films. These are "The Prophecy", "in Dreams", "Concerning Hobbits", "Many Meetings", "The Black Rider", "Gollum's Song", "Rohan", "Even Star", "Forth Eorlingas", "Into the West", "Steward of Gondor", and the great "Minas Tirith".
   - Each piece ranges from at least one page to two; however repeats, rests, and Codas may make the piece longer.
   - The book contains full sized pictures of screenshots from the movie.
   - A level of playing that is challenging enough for a person of nearly any level.
   - Well organized pieces that are easy to understand and read.
   - A flute fingering chart at the back to make sure you are able to look up every note.
   - A wonderful CD to listen to with full orchestral backup or to play along with. In my case, the demos on my CD feature a professional flutist who plays each piece. When you wish to know the tempo and speed of each piece, this really improves the experience. In fact, the CD is amazing enough to be sold as a sound track for the films by itself.
   - This book is available for Flute, Clarinet, Alto Sax, Tenor Sax, Trumpet, Horn in F, and Trombone. This means that if any concert bands are interested in playing familiar Lord of the Rings music, the pieces will always be in key for each instrument.
   
   In my opinion, this amazing book has completely brought me on to a new level of playing. If any of you are musicians, reading this, you know the feeling you get when you create such a soul-full, emotional piece of music that your mind and audience is touched by every note that weave themselves through each melody? This is what I felt during getting to know each piece in this book.
   Howard Shore, this music is brilliant! Thank you to you and your full orchestra and team to putting this together to give musicians wonderful music to play from an inspiring trilogy of films!
   
   :.Midnight's Mist



3. I recieved this book and CD as a gift for my birthday. I really enjoy having this in my library. Here's your chance to be in a symphony and play along to one of the greatest movie soundtracks! -The music is clear and easy to read.
   -The CD has a demo track and a play along track which has the solo removed because you are the soloist!
   -This compilation will challenge and entertain any playing abilites.
   -There are some nice color photos from the movie, although personally there could have been more sheet music added instead of the photos.
   -The CD is fully orchestrated, and it is very pleasant to listen to.
   -There is a fingering chart in the back for beginner players.
   -One drawback...The CD needs tempo clicks at the begining to give you the beat of the song-especially the slower parts. Plus you don't know when to start counting, the track just suddenly starts and you can miss a beat or two and get lost if you are not an experierencd player. Also some of the music is complex to listen to and it is difficult to find the beats.
   -The reasonable price gives you no excuse to not have this in your library.



4. I got this book just for fun, and I absolutely love it! I was worried that it would be too easy since I've been playing for years, but it's perfect. The songs are all great and sound beautiful with the CD playalongs. The only complaint I have is that there is a page turn in the middle of "Into the West" which is impossible to do while playing the flute. But aside from that, I'm very satisfied with this book!



5. This was a nice bit of music. There were very few songs and they filled up the small book mostly with pictures, which were nice but I was hoping for a little more substance.

5 comments about The Right Place, the Right Time!: Tales of Chicago Symphony Days.

1. Thank goodness for Donald Peck that he could play the flute, since his disregard for facts probably won't win him any literary awards for this trashy tract more aptly sub-titled "TALL Tales of the Chicago Symphony."
   
   A musician may be able to get away with missing a note or two in the middle of a concert, and go unnoticed, but published falsehoods and not-so-dim innuendoes are harder to hide, and Peck's lack of credibility can't be covered up by others in this case, "literarily" or musically. The truth--about which he either knew little in some cases, since he quite possibly wasn't even in the loop, cares little about, or else just chooses to cavalierly disregard for reasons only he would know, is already published elsewhere and on the record, although don't expect to find it in his book. That he also confuses an appropriate lack of objectivity on the part of music critics with what he believes should be "the objectivity of the press" says something about his naivete with respect to the role of critics, let alone and more likely, what seems to be his smoldering umbrage towards at least a few people mentioned uncharitably in his book. It is pretty apparent that Peck has a few scores to settle, and has not-so-bravely chosen to do so in some cases, at least, figuratively wielding his prized titanium-alloy Powell-pipe against people long-since deceased, who, safely for Peck, can't respond with the facts.
   
   I wouldn't waste your money on what to me is a book replete with longwinded and clearly self-serving nonsense from the woodwind section, the seeming case of a blowhard flautist flouting the facts, and of a piccolo player with what might well be the first recorded, severe case of Oboe Envy. Peck has abandoned the high notes for the low road, and his book smacks of an attempt by a player past his prime to cash in on his fortuitous association with a prestigious orchestra, writing in a way that to this reader is more shrill than trill--a flautist blowing his own horn, so to speak, and self-righteously harping on long-simmering resentments.
   
   This reviewer's view is that Peck should stick to playing with his own pic(colo), and leave writing to real, and no doubt, more objective journalists. An academic publisher should also have a greater responsibility to verify facts than this one has apparently chosen to exercise.



2. Donald Peck presents a very straightforward account of life in the Chicago Symphony. There is no lurid gossip -- just thoughtful observations and descriptions of life as a musician. Mr. Peck delivers commentary on conductors, instrumental soloists, singers, recordings, the recording industry and orchestra tours from the perspective of a man who lived through it all. Well written and a quick read. Recommended.



3. Orchestral soloist and principal flute emeritus Donald Peck has toured the world with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; The Right Place, The Right Time: Tales of Chicago Symphony Days is his memoir of the inner workings of musical prestige. Packed with true tales of working with some of the greatest musicians and singers in the industry, as well as anecdotes about coping with guest conductors, making recordings, or even accepting "outside jobs" for one's music, The Right Place The Right Time reveals the ups, downs, quirks, and foibles of life as one professional artist among an interdependent team. Peck himself did not so much choose life in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as he was guided to it by fate; The Right Place, The Right Time is his testimony of a life touched by chance and fortune as surely as it was by music.



4. "The Right Place in the Right Time" is an informative and very enjoyable inside view of a 42 year professional career by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's(CS0)principal flutist Donald Peck. Peck played under four major international conductors. On tour or in concert in Chicago Peck appeared as flute soloist in 124 concerts by 25 conductors. If you love classical music and the CSO (one of the world's greatest orchestras)this is a must read. It is also a quick read, full of interesting stories and personal anecdotes. It is not a scholarly treatise on symphonic ensemble playing but an interesting collection of one of this country's greatest musician's personal memoirs. As a former flutist and serious CSO fan I highly recommend this book.
   Ronald Lee Waits



5. This book is very good for those wanting to know what a musician's life is really like. Peck goes into lots of good detail, but the book never gets monotonous or boring. I'd really recommend this book to not only those who perhaps hope to be professional musicians themselves someday, but also to those who love classical music. Peck has really had an interesting life and this book is a wonderful tribute to the Chicago Symphony from the life of one of its own.

2 comments about Jethro Tull - Flute Solos: As Performed by Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull).

1. I bought this book for my 15 year old son for Christmas. He absolutly loves it. He is learning to play the music now. :)



2. Well, if you know that giving this as a gift will make someone happy, then go for it. I assumed that this would have a bit more than just the sheet music for solos only. What it lacks is the music for the whole of each song. But, being as Jethro Tull is nothing more that a Genesis (Peter Gabriel days) knock-off, it doesn't really matter. Jethro Tull sucks!!!

5 comments about The Flute of the Fallen Tiger (Lone Wolf and Cub, Vol. 3).

1. I love this series and have started collecting the books as I find them. The artwork is incredible and the format is great for just taking with you if you know you're gonna need a quick read somewhere. Something to keep in mind - asian books are read right to left. To preserve the flow, the art was flipped during the conversion to english. In feudal Japan, there were few if any left-handed samurai, but in the series everyone seems to be left handed. Took me a bit to figure out why that was happening.



2. I am working my way through the manga epic Lone Wolf & Cub one chapter at a day and have now completed Volume 3, "The Flute of the Fallen Tiger." Through these five stories writer Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki Kojima slowly expand the breadth an depth of their story: (15) "The Flute of the Fallen Tiger"would not have been my choice for the volume's titular story (I would definitely have gone with #17), but it does look at some very different ways of fighting for Ogami Itto to deal with in this episode. (16) "Half Mat, One Mat, A Fistful of Rice" is not the most significant story in this volume, but definitely the most interesting as Lone Wolf & Cub encounter Shino Sakon, a Mijin school master who has become a beggar ronin and who tries to talk Ogami Itto out of walking the Assassin's Road. The climatic and bloody swordfights that usually constitute the climax of these stories are never my favorite part, but in this one we have the novel approach of Lone Wolf thinking through a series of attacks, looking for one that can end with him winning. I found this a very interesting approach, more so than the usual hacking off of limbs and such.

   (17) "The White Path Between the Rivers" provides a rare but tantalizing look at the backstory of Lone Wolf and Cub, wherein we find out the grim details of Daigoro's birth and learn how Ogami Itto became the target of political intrigue. In helps answer why, in part, he refuses to stop walking the Assassin's Road. Koike and Kojima had been stingy with this look at the ronin's motivation, which is what makes these stories all the more special. (18) "The Virgin and the Whore" plays off the standard formula of these Assassin's Road stories as Ogami takes up the cause of a young prostitute. Of course, appearances are almost always deceiving in this stories. This is also one of those stories where the attention to historical detail is impressive, this time with regards to the practice of prostitution during Japan's Edo Period. (19) "Close Quarters" provides an assignment for the assassin that hinges on the economics of a han controlling a forest and presents another clever use of Diagoro by his father. The back of the volume includes the next installment of "The Ronin Report" by Tim Ervin-Gore looking at "bushido," the code of the warrior by which Lone Wolf lives his life.




3. With Flute of the Fallen Tiger, Volume 3 in the epic Lone Wolf and Cub saga, creators Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima take the series from mere greatness to a whole new level of perfection. Assassin-for-hire Ogami Itto and his infant son Daigoro continue to travel the assassin's road, meeting new friends and foes, most of whom wind up dead in short order. My favorite tale in this volume was "Half Mat, One Mat, A Fistful of Rice", where Father and Son meet a mysterious street beggar who implores Itto to spare Daigoro from a life of killing and hatred; He's so determined to save Daigoro that he's willing to gamble his own life. Another story, "The White Path Between the Rivers", tells of the birth of Daigoro and the events that led Father and Son to travel the assassin's road.

   There are some really memorable stories here, and somehow the creators manage to make each installment better than the last; It's tough to believe that there are 25 more volumes left; I for one can't wait to see what comes next. I highly recommend Lone Wolf and Cub; Not just for a good read, but also for it's fascinating insights into Japanese history and culture.




4. I had bought before the Volume 1 in Spanish of this saga and I have to say that both translation and edition looks better in the Spanish version. Also the size of the book is slightly bigger and they have kept the left to right way of reading it.
   I'm gonna buy the spanish version again



5. These elegant short stories are deceptive. On the surface hardly anything seems to "happen" in each "episode" other than a sword fight or two. Actually there is a LOT going on. Koike is in touch with humanity in ways many of us never will be.
   
   Lone Wolf & Cub artwork is anything but simple. These stories are CARRIED by the masterful drawings. I am constantly amazed.
   
   The main storyline continues to build from volumes 1 & 2. I highly recommend ALL THREE books, and I also suggest you read them in order.

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2 comments about A Trevor Wye Practice Book for the Flute: Volume 1, Tone (with CD).

1. Trevor Wye is known thoughout the flute world as a master performer and teacher. In this volume he shares many techniques for improving tone quality throughout the range of the flute. This is a modern-day classic and should be on the shelf of every serious flute player.



2. I go this one specifically because it came with a cd with examples of the exercises. When I listened to the cd, what a surprise to find a woman speaking in Spanish while apparently demonstrating beginning piano techniques. The cd is labeled correctly, but just has the wrong content. WTF?

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4 comments about On Playing the Flute: Second Edition.

1. Articulation, aesthetics, phrasing, ornamentation, character, tempo, practicing, accompaniment, style, notation, how to give a concert, how to breathe when you're nervous, how to play in an orchestra, ... it's all here. This book from 1752 covers the art of being a musician, not just a flute player.

   Quantz' text is for anyone who cares about any music from about 1720 into the time of Mozart and Haydn. And it's essential performance practice material for anyone who would play this music: required reading for any serious student. It gives an indispensable window into German, French, and Italian taste.

   Modern flautists, string players, keyboard players, and singers can learn a tremendous amount here. The pages about "good" and "bad" notes and varied articulation/tongueing are worth the whole price of the book. They describe the sound that composers were thinking of, the expressive range, the tremendous variety of effects *within* melodic lines. Take Quantz seriously: he was there, and he was a good player and writer.

   What more needs to be said, except to thank the publisher for this edition? The previous issue by Schirmer has been out of print for far too long. This book should NEVER be out of print.




2. I have not read this book from cover to cover. Although, with it's wonderful index, it has provided me with an excellant resource manual for Baroque music.



3. Great book of interpretation of baroque music. Quantz show us about the thinking of playing the recorder and how to execute the notes in Allegro and Adagios. Very nice.



4. This book is a must for any musicial interested in playing Baroque music. The sections on ornamentation is THE definitive work on the subject.