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Creating And Marketing Your Demo Cd, Daniel Rager Dec 2014

Creating And Marketing Your Demo Cd, Daniel Rager

Dan Rager

A "one stop book" used in ALL genres of music today and is a required text for many college and university music business courses.

A complete guide on how to create successful DEMO's along with the tools of the trade on getting published, Record deals, Funding, obtaining Copyrights, Contracts, Press Kits, Band business, Touring and much more.

This book is an insightfully direct and informational text without the fluff of other musical books on the subject. It shows the MAZE and money flow of the music business and has a listing of 680 Publishing companies and 125 Record labels for …


Colours Of Saratov, Daniel Rager, Natalya Rager Nov 2014

Colours Of Saratov, Daniel Rager, Natalya Rager

Dan Rager

The International Orchestral and Symphonic Wind Music of Dan Rager


Studying Britten: The Current Landscape Of Published Britten Scholarship, Jonathan Manton Nov 2013

Studying Britten: The Current Landscape Of Published Britten Scholarship, Jonathan Manton

Jonathan Manton

With Britten’s centenary celebrations comes the publication of a plethora of new research resources, now available to the Britten scholar. These include not only print, audio, and audiovisual publications, but also recent online initiatives, notably the Britten thematic catalogue, published this year. The past ten years have witnessed a significant advance in Britten scholarship, with many offering entirely new perspectives on Britten’s life and work. They offer a candor previously unknown to Britten publications, often discussing the more delicate side of the composer’s nature and its impact on his work, notably demonstrated by the loss-of-innocence theme that dominates many …


'Some Quite Nice Little Tunes': An Overview Of The Preparation And Recording Of The Incipits For The Britten Thematic Catalogue, Jonathan Manton Nov 2010

'Some Quite Nice Little Tunes': An Overview Of The Preparation And Recording Of The Incipits For The Britten Thematic Catalogue, Jonathan Manton

Jonathan Manton

Due for completion in 2013, the Britten thematic catalogue, an online musicological research tool that will present detailed individual records charting Britten's entire compositional output (approximately 1,200 works both published and unpublished including all juvenilia), is currently being compiled at the Britten-Pears Foundation in the United Kingdom. As this resource will be published exclusively online, it is the project's intention to fully employ the benefits afforded to the catalog through its virtual format, specifically when presenting thematic incipits for each work. In addition to typeset incipits, which in the case of the Britten thematic catalogue will extend beyond the traditional 'opening fragment of music,' …


Documenting Young Britten: An Overview Of The Cataloguing And Technical Solutions Developed During The First Phase Of The Britten Thematic Catalogue Project, Jonathan Manton Dec 2008

Documenting Young Britten: An Overview Of The Cataloguing And Technical Solutions Developed During The First Phase Of The Britten Thematic Catalogue Project, Jonathan Manton

Jonathan Manton

The Britten Thematic Catalogue Project, currently underway at the Britten-Pears Foundation, aims to produce a fully integrated online resource presenting, for the first time, a complete chronological listing of Britten’s entire output both published and unpublished, including all juvenilia. Of the estimated 1,200 works to be included in the catalogue, approximately 735 constitute the composer’s juvenilia, the documenting and analysis of which has been the core aim of the project’s first stage over the past three years. The article outlines the bespoke technical and cataloguing solutions developed during this initial stage to deal with many of the challenges presented as a result of developing …


Hounds Of Spring (Geauga Wind Ensemble), Dan Rager Dec 2006

Hounds Of Spring (Geauga Wind Ensemble), Dan Rager

Dan Rager

1) Gavorkna Fanfare - Jack Stamp
2) The Hounds of Spring - Alfred Reed
3) Horn Concerto Opus No. 8 - Strauss/Arr. C. Yeago (F Horn Soloist Natalya Rager) 4) Belle of the Ball - Leroy Anderson
5) Prairie Songs - Pierre LaPlante
6) Walls of Zion - Greg Danner
7) Concord - Clare Grundman
8) Blues for A Killed Cat
9) Bugler's Holiday - Leroy Anderson
10) Coriolan Overture - Beethoven/arr: Dan Rager
11) Irish Tune From County Derry - Percy A. Grainger
12) Bill Bailey - Cannon/arr: David Marshall
13) Americans We - Henry Fillmore


Music From Around The World (Geauga Wind Ensemble), Dan Rager Dec 2006

Music From Around The World (Geauga Wind Ensemble), Dan Rager

Dan Rager

1) American Folk Rhapsody No. 3 - Clare Grundman
2) Timberline - Melvin Shelton
3) Concerto for 2 Piccolos - Vivaldi/arr: C. Yeago
4) Temujin's Ride - Len Orcino
5)American Sailing Songs - Gene Milford
6) Fidelity March - King/arr: G. Milford
7-9) Russian Folk Suite No. 1 - Dan Rager
10-13) Songs of the British Isles - Albert O. Davis
14) The Trail West - G. Milford
15) The Typewriter - Leroy Anderson
16) As Summer Was Just Beginning - Larry Dhean
17) Clarinet Candy - Leroy Anderson
18) Disney At The Movies - arr: John Higgins
19) March: Bonnie …


Cleveland Clinic Concert Band (Live At Blossom Music Center), Dan Rager Jul 2006

Cleveland Clinic Concert Band (Live At Blossom Music Center), Dan Rager

Dan Rager

1) Introduction at Blossom Music Center
2) Liberty Bell - John P. Sousa
3) His Honor - Henry Fillmore
4) Spanish Dance No. 5 - Enrique Granados/arr: Charles Yeago (Euph. Soloist: John Clough M. D.)
5) American Sailing Songs - Gene Milford
6) Piano Concerto No. 2 - Beethoven/arr: Charles Yeago (Piano Soloist: Howard Jacobs)
7) Black Horse Troop - John P. Sousa/arr: Frederick Fennell
8) Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Harold Arlen/arr: Dan Rager
9) We The People - James Barnes
10) Washington Post March - John P. Sousa


You've Been Very Goood! (Fennell Sym. Winds), Dan Rager Dec 2003

You've Been Very Goood! (Fennell Sym. Winds), Dan Rager

Dan Rager

1) White Christmas - Robert Russell Bennett
2) A Christmas Festival - Leroy Anderson
3) Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - Coats/arr: James Swearingen
4) O Holy Night - Adam/ arr: Donze
5) Sleigh Ride - Leroy Anderson
6) The Christmas Song - Torme & Wells/arr: John Higgins
7) And the Herald Angels Sang - Trad. arr: James Swearingen
8) Winter Wonderland - Smith & Bernard/arr: David Bennett
9) Brazilian Sleigh Bells - Faith/arr: J. Warrington
10) Home for Christmas - S. Markham
11) Stille Nacht (Silent Night) - Gruber/arr: Dan Rager
12) Do You Hear What I Hear/Snow …


Percussion Wonderland (Cleveland Percussion Ensemble), Dan Rager Dec 1993

Percussion Wonderland (Cleveland Percussion Ensemble), Dan Rager

Dan Rager

1) Deck the Halls/O Little Town of Bethlehem
2) We Three Kings
3) God Rest Ye Merry Gentalmen
4) *Wencelas's Favorite Things
5) *Do You Hear What I Hear
6) Joy To the World
7) *O Holy Night
8) Jingle Bells
9) *The Little Drummer Boy
10) The First Noel/Away In A Manger/O Come All Ye Faithful
11) Hark, The Herald Angels Sing
12) *Percussion Wonderland
13) Silent Night
14) We Wish You A Merry Christmas
*Arrangements by Dan Rager


For Unto Us, Dan Rager Dec 1991

For Unto Us, Dan Rager

Dan Rager

1) O Come All Ye Faithful - arr. Kirkland
2) Its Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas - Wilson/arr: Dan Rager
3) Three Christmas Traditions - Dan Rager
4) God Rest Ye Meery, Gentlemen - M. McGregor
5) Jingle Bells/Sleigh Ride - arr: Dan Rager
6) Quints & Quarts - Albert O. Davis (Commission)
7) French Carol - K. Snell
8) Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Trad./arr: Dan Rager
9) A Santa Claus Medley - G. Viebranz
10) Once In Royal David's City - M. McGregor
11) For Unto Us - Handel/arr: Dan Rager
12) It Came …