David Brooker's arrangements are suitable for string groups from large to small. Children will love playing these pieces which can be played effectively by some or all of the instruments and in different combinations. “Easy Open Strings“ parts are provided for players in their earliest stages perhaps with the piano providing the melody. Other parts can gradually be added. Well-known pieces such as…

The Violin Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the music, listen to the CD to hear how the violin should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. With the melody and lyrics included in the book, you may also choose to sing along. The audio CD is playable on any CD player. For PC and MAC computer users, the CD is enhanced so …

12 easy pieces for beginners - for individual, group or whole-class learning. Par RAE JAMES. In ?Trombone Debut?, James Rae offers twelve delightful, very easy pieces for the young trombonist (bass clef). Although the solo part is elementary, the pieces will always sound vigorous when played with their funky piano accompaniments. Snappy titles like ?Dance of the Seven Dachshunds? and ?Cats on Patr…

Tango is full of life and passion - the fact that this love affair of music and rhythm has not lost any of its fascination is demonstrated these classic tango pieces that have been selected for this collection and arranged for two flutes. When Astor Piazolla, Vicente Greco, and Angel Villoldo meet in an edition of tango classics, entertainment and expertise of the highest level are sure to ensue. …

The Walnut Tree. Par SCHUMANN ROBERT. Given renewed interest in the violin arrangements and transcriptions by the great Leopold Auer, Universal Edition reprints two of its early publications. Both are taken from Schumann's song cycle, Myrthen, a series of poem settings expressing his feelings of love, companionship, and devotion to Clara./ Répertoire / Violon et Piano

Par KODALY ZOLTAN. Galánta is a small Hungarian market-town known to the travellers from Vienna to Budapest. The composer has passed there seven years of his childhood. There existed at that time a famous Gipsy-band which has disappeared in the meantime. Their music was the first 'orchestral sonority' which came to the ear of the child. The forbears of these gipsies were known already more than hu…

Konzertarie mit Orchester. Par BERG ALBAN. Universal Edition continues its new study score standard. These completely redesigned scores offer an unparalleled insight into the music of the last hundred years. Great care has been taken to select the best available content for this journey through music history, and every score has been edited according to the latest quality standards./ Répertoire / …

Rhapsodie. Par JANACEK LEOS. The rhapsody for orchestra “Taras Bulba” is the most important and on account of its genesis the most interesting of the three programmatic orchestral works the composer wrote between 1914 and 1920. All three of these works were responses to the contemporary social and political context: “The Fiddler’s Child” was an indictment of the state of society, “Taras Bulba” was…

Par BARTOK BELA. Bartok's 'String Quartet No. 5' was commissioned by the formidable Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, leading patron of chamber music in the U.S. in the first half of the 20th century. Bartok is alleged to have composed the work in a one-month span of isolation in 1934, and it received its premiere in Washington, D.C. by the Kolisch Quartet in 1935. The String Quartet No. 5 was published…

Par KODALY ZOLTAN. This edition is based on the fi rst printed score published in 1927 (Universal Edition UE 8943), and was compared with Kodály’s own conductor’s copy, three additional scores held in the Budapest Zoltán Kodály Archives containing autograph notes, as well as the corrections from the piano reduction and the orchestral parts of the stage work, kept in the archives of the publisher. …

Dedication. Par SCHUMANN ROBERT. Given renewed interest in the violin arrangements and transcriptions by the great Leopold Auer, Universal Edition reprints two of its early publications. Both are taken from Schumann's song cycle, Myrthen, a series of poem settings expressing his feelings of love, companionship, and devotion to Clara./ Répertoire / Violon et Piano

Par WATANABE YUKIKO. As sponsoring publisher of the O1 Talentebörse Kompositionspreis 2011, Universal Edition presents the commissioned work by young composer Yukiko Watanabe. The annual competition from O1 (ORF radio channel 1 in Austria) seeks the finest cutting edge compositional techniques and innovation in works for small chamber ensembles/ Répertoire / Violon, Violoncelle et Piano

Par BARTOK BELA. The ?Romanian Folk Dances? are undoubtedly among the most popular works of Bartók. The earliest version is for piano (1915) and was published by Universal Edition in 1918; arrangements for many other instruments followed. Now the internationally successful violist Kim Kashkashian presents her arrangement for viola and piano. Proof that Bartók?s dances are also perfectly accentuate…

Par PART ARVO. Estonian minimalist composer Arvo Pärt has adapted his celebrated work, Summa, for recorder quartet. Originally written for four solo a cappella voices, it is also available in arrangements for string quartet, string orchestra, and choir with organ. Summa bears the distinctive qualities of Pärt's music, masking its great collective complexity with simplicity in each part. This arra…