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Sound in Motion
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Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part 1. A Style Is Born
Part 2. What Is Music?
Fun?
Magic?
Feeling?
Talent?
Selflessness?
Professionalism
Motion
Part 3. Note Grouping
Sound Writing (?)
What Is Note Grouping?
Basic Grouping
Harmonic Grouping
Rhythmic Grouping
Motivic Grouping
Range and Scaling
The Tabuteau Number System
Why Does Grouping Sound Natural?
Part 4. The Larger Picture
Sound Connection
Type and Function
Skeletal Structure
What Is Phrasing?
Repetition
What Is Line?
The Four Elements of Music
Part 5. Wind Techniques
Breathing
The Long Tone
The Singing Interval
The Fingers
Scales
Using the Wind
Articulation
Part 6. Controversy
Tone
Intonation
Vibrato
Ornaments
Was There a Baroque Style of Playing?
Music Speaks
Portato: Herald of a New Romanticism
"Technique" vs. "Musicality"
Part 7. The Profession
Practicing
Auditioning
Orchestral Protocol
Performing
Accompanying
Teaching
Part 8. The Search
Postscript
Appendix 1. Recommended Recordings
Appendix 2. Further Study
Appendix 3. To Clip or Not to Clip
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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An insightful and imaginative study to deepen the performer's approach to music

About the Author

Grammy winning bassoonist, David McGill, has served as principal bassoon of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1997. He has also served as principal of the Cleveland Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony, and the Tulsa Philharmonic. A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia (1985), he has taught at DePaul and Roosevelt Universities in Chicago, Indiana University, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the University of Toronto. He has given master classes in Finland, Hungary, and across the United States and Canada.

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"I do not know if David McGill set out to write a book primarily about bassoon playing, but what he ended up with is a most important, all-encompassing book about music, its nature and its significance, not only for the professional musician, but for all those who see in it an expression of human creation. He deals with the different expressive means of sound, of styles and, perhaps most important of all for the practicing musician: the connection between attitude and aptitude." Daniel Barenboim

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