The Woodwind Player’s Cookbook

Creative Recipes for a Successful Performance This valuable collection of quick-to-read yet deeply insightful strategies is like finding expert trade secrets all placed in one convenient source. Contributors to The Woodwind Player’s Cookbook were even eager to get a look at each other’s ideas! With outstanding records of performance, workshop clinics, recordings, research, composition, leadership […]

Oboemotions: What Every Oboe Player Needs to Know About the Body

Oboemotions by Stephen Caplan is the definitive volume on using Body Mapping technique to help oboists and other double-reed players prevent injury and develop the physical freedom and sensitivity needed for technical mastery. Part method book, picture book, anatomy book, and practice handbook, the purpose of Oboemotions is to place the musical and technical study […]

The Mazzanti Method: Daily Exercises for Piccolo

Piccolo player Nicola Mazzanti is celebrated around the world as a foremost performer, teacher, and guest clinician. Mazzanti’s lectures and workshops are known for his daily exercises for piccolo players, and The Mazzanti Method Daily Exercises for Piccolo, brings together his comprehensive collection of studies. Part I: SOUND is a complete course in itself, providing […]

Three’s a Crowd

What goes on in the minds of chamber musicians as they express their feelings through music? In Three’s a Crowd, Gary Schocker offers five imaginary conversations for flute, oboe, and bassoon, using music rather than words. Sometimes harmonious, sometimes impatient, but like any carefully observed conversation, always complex and interesting. Performers and listeners alike will […]