Mackie’s MP Series high-performance in-ear monitors are meticulously tuned to offer exceptional clarity, bass, and headroom surpassing more expensive models. They feature comfortable ergonomically molded enclosures with three different ear tips. The detachable, audiophile-grade cables are shielded and internally braided and equipped with MMCX connectors for easy, flexible wearing. The MP Series is available in three models: single dynamic driver MP-120, dual dynamic driver MP-220, and dual hybrid driver MP-240.
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Washburn Revival Series Guitars
The Washburn Revival Series guitars bring back inspirations and designs of classic models from the 1930s. The Revival Solo Deluxe Grand Auditorium is an electric/acoustic version of the 1939 Solo Deluxe guitar. It features torrefied Sitka spruce top and bracing and solid mahogany back and sides, with a 1930s style sunburst design. It employs a Fishman GT-2 under-saddle pickup and comes with a deluxe arched-top hard case.
Allen & Heath SQ Series Digital Mixers
Allen & Heath SQ Series digital mixers, available in two models, bring high-resolution audio performance to a customizable, compact, cost-effective, easy-to-use, multi-application platform. Rack-mountable SQ-5 has 16 onboard preamps, 17 faders, and eight softkeys, while SQ-6 provides 24 preamps, 25 faders, four assignable rotary controls, and 16 softkeys. Both feature 56 input channels via remote expanders and a networking slot for optional Dante, Waves, and other cards.
DPA’s d:vote 4099 Microphone
Streamlined design and powerful CORE technology let DPA’s d:vote 4099 microphone brings clarity and details to music, across the entire dynamic range. From the piano to guitar; strings to woodwinds; brass to percussion, the d:vote series sounds equally impressive. This one microphone model and wide range of available clips can beautifully reinforce an entire orchestra.
Yamaha EAD10 Stand-Alone Drum Module
Yamaha EAD10 stand-alone drum module system lets drummers easily capture sounds on an acoustic kit with a single microphone/trigger component attached to a digital processor. The easy-to-mount system also allows you to add effects, providing endless creative potential with nearly 800 stored sounds and effects, an onboard sampler and 50 present combinations, with the ability to program 200 more. Live bands performing in small venues can connect the central module to a mixer and use EDA10 as a reference for the PA system to integrate the sound to a more coherent whole.
Gary Karr: Life on the G String
Gary Karr’s career as a double bass soloist was launched in 1962 by Leonard Bernstein, in a Young People’s Concert at Carnegie Hall, which was viewed on television by 7 million people. Gary Karr gained legendary status for his virtuosity and inimitable lyricism, infectious sense of humour, and pioneering spirit. In 1967, he founded the International Society of Bassists. The Local 247 (Victoria, BC) member continues to perform and record at age 75. Emotional, surprising, and entertaining, his story appeals to fans, musicians, music-lovers, and biography enthusiasts.
Gary Karr: Life on the G String, by Mary Rannie, Friesenpress,
www.friesenpress.com.
Springs for Percussion Quartet
Springs for Percussion is a fascinating piece that demonstrates the ability of percussion to work up kinetic energy through pattern repetition and then “spring” into action. Each of four percussionists uses two drums and a set of three chosen percussive “instruments”—woods for one, metals for another, glass for the third, and plates or flowerpots for the fourth. The instruments should create “relatively harmonious cacophony.” Repeated rhythmic passages grow in intensity before springing into new patterns, and this is repeated throughout.
Springs for Percussion, by Paul Lansky, Carl Fischer Chamber Music,
www.carlfischer.com.
The Musical Language of Rock
From The Beatles to Nirvana, Michael Jackson to Bonnie Raitt, music theorist David Temperley shows how rock musicians exploit the musical dimensions of the style—harmony and melody, tonality and scale, rhythm and meter, phrase structure and form—to achieve aesthetic and expressive goals. With abundant musical examples and sound clips available on the book’s companion website, The Musical Language of Rock provides a new and deeper understanding of the power and appeal of rock, and its essential place in modern music.
The Musical Language of Rock, by David Temperley,
Oxford University Press, www.oup.com.
Fender Mini ’65 Twin Amp
The battery-powered Fender Mini ’65 Twin Amp amplifier puts the famed Fender tone into a portable package that replicates the classic look of the full-size Twin amp. The powerful three-inch speakers are great for use on-the-go or practice in close quarters. Mini ’65 Twins feature dedicated gain, volume, and tone controls; tilt-back kickstand and belt clip; eighth-inch headphone jack, nine-volt adapter jack (center-negative DC power supply not included), and nine-volt battery.
Don Giovanni Overture: Clarinet Octet
This arrangement of Mozart’s Don Giovanni Overture for Clarinet Octet includes parts for clarinet in Eb, clarinet in Bb (alternate to clarinet in Eb), four clarinets in Bb, clarinet in Bb (alternative alto clarinet in Eb), two alto clarinets in Eb, and two bass clarinets in Bb. All parts are written to challenge and interest students in grades six through eight.
Don Giovanni Overture: Clarinet Octet, arranged by Melanie Thorne,
Sempre Music, www.sempremusic.co.uk.