The Children's and Female Choruses were composed in a single burst of creative activity at the zenith of Bartók's career, in the summer of 1935, between such masterpieces as the String Quartet #5 and the Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. These short choral pieces are based on folk texts that Bartók further polished and stylized. The music, however, is wholly the composer's own, although i…

Following up on the first collection of Sondheims songs, this volume includes selections from Anyone Can Whistle, Company, Dick Tracy, Evening Primrose, Follies, The Frogs, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Into the Woods, A Little Night Music, Merrily We Roll Along, Passion, The Seven Percent Solution, Sunday in the Park with George, and Sweeney Todd arranged for voice with piano ac…

James Rae offers fourteen fascinating flute studies in many different styles, from Rock and Ragtime, through Jazz and Tango, to Classical and Folk. They can be played purely as a solo for personal study or as a duet which makes them eminently suitable for concerts.Both the solo and duet parts are of intermediate to advanced standard and, although the duet part is primarily for accompaniment, there…

Par CZERNY. Purpose: - To enhance the foundational musicianship of each student and aid in the development of technique, theory, and sight reading skills. - These etudes were selected through Dr.Hague\'s extensive study of all available Czerny etudes. Her goal was to find musically interesting and pianistically satisfying pieces at this level. The editors have found that the study of Czerny etudes…

Concert Band Signature Series. Par WALKER GEORGE. In 1946, George Walker was still doing graduate work at the Curtis institute when he composed Lyric for Strings, which would prove over the coming decades to become one of the most performed and enduring string orchestra works of the 20th Century. This first-ever edition for symphonic wind band was arranged by Dr. Luci Disano and premiered by The P…

Description This award winning tutorial series is an essential stepping-stone for every young clarinetist and a vital tool for teachers and students alike. A New Tune A Day: Book 2 features the same logical, gentle pace and keen attention to detail that made earlier editions so hugely popular and successful. Filled with easy-to-follow lessons and clear photographs and diagrams, this will he…

The first volume of Debussy's Préludes for piano (HN 383) was published in 1910 and was soon followed by arrangements for various scorings commissioned by the original publisher. Debussy personally transcribed only one Prélude, Minstrels, which was released in 1914 in a version for violin and piano. Back at that time, 'Minstrels? was the name given to comedians who performed in blackface and caric…

Par HENDRIX JIMI. This matching folio features exact transcriptions for every instrument played on 20 of Hendrix's best: All Along the Watchtower - Angel - Bold as Love - Castles Made of Sand - Dolly Dagger - Fire - Foxey Lady - Hey Joe - Little Wing - Manic Depression - Night Bird Flying - Purple Haze - Red House - Star Spangled Banner - Stone Free - Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - The Wind Cries …

Le nouveau Robert Schumann Edition (RSA) est conçu comme une édition historico-critique des oeuvres recueillies. Ils seront soigneusement étudiés et préparés selon des techniques musicologiques et rédactionnelles actuelles et présentés dans leur intégralité. Brouillons, des croquis et des fragments, bref, tout ce qui est parvenu à nous comme étant authentiquement par Schumann et qui, dans la plupa…

Paris, l'Auteur, Foucault, s.d. (après 1709)Le volume comporte six cantates françaises et deux cantates italiennes.Présentation par Bertrand Porot : Les poèmes des cantates - Sujets des cantates - Traduction française des textes des cantates italiennes.Musique de qualité, très caractéristique du style français de la première moitié du XVIIIe siècle. Certaines cantates sont courtes et d'un abord ai…

Par RAVEL MAURICE. Maurice Ravel broke new personal ground with his only piano trio, yet in a stroke of genius he created a work of the early 20th century that is outstanding in many respects and a key work of this genre. As one of his most rhythmically daring pieces, the four-movement trio fascinates with its asymmetrical rhythmic division and polymetrics, with Ravel possibly drawing on impressio…