Par WALLACE JOHN / PEARSON LESLIE. If you are preparing to face an audience for the first time - whether at home, at school, or on the concert platform - then you are ready for Going Solo. Spanning a wide range of repertoire from lively original material to imaginative arrangements, Going Solo offers a host of fresh challenges, and will be enjoyed by both player and audience alike. / Niveau : Inte…

Composée par le célèbre pédagogue et compositeur Paul Harris, Holiday Notes est une collection de délicieuses miniatures qui évoquent les charmes d'une escapade impromptue : la joie à l'idée de partir à l'aventure, l'atmosphère d'un pique-nique improvisé dans un parc, une ville dont la visite remplit le coeur d'enthousiasme.Ces morceaux pleins de caractère peuvent parfaitement être mis à profit da…

Ludwig van Beethoven wrote numerous piano pieces to teach to his pupils, and many of these are still an integral part of piano lessons today. My First Beethoven is the perfect introduction to the great composer, and an excellent repertory of his easier works. This volume contains Beethoven's most popular and easiest piano pieces - from the frequently played Sonatinas in G and F major to Für Elise …

Par LINNEMANN MARIA. Maria Linnemann's new easy pieces for guitar solo will take you away to some of the places of her many trips, groovy Country-Blues, boisterous jigs, a melancholic tango, and a song from the Provence, complemented by melodies which take you back to her beautiful home country, England. The 15 pieces are classified 'easy-folklore' and offer extra information about the more unusua…

Arr. Naohiro Iwai. Le 30 mai 1909, naissait à Chicago, Benjamin David Goodman, clarinettiste, saxophoniste et leader de Big Band. En 1934, Benny Goodman fonde son premier orchestre et lance l’ère du swing. Il sera sacré « roi du swing » au Carnegie Hall de New York en 1938. Il enchantera de son style et de sa sonorité plus de cinquante ans d’histoire du jazz, jusqu’à la fin de sa vie. Interprétez …

Par KREISLER FRITZ. Apart from the collection of Classical Manuscripts composed by the violin virtuoso Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) which he had passed off as transcriptions of settings of old masters, the violinist published original works early on as well. Kreisler himself liked to play them as encore pieces, thus sweetening many a concert with this 'musical confectionery'. Famous tunes are, for e…

nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse. Par MAMLOK URSULA. After emigrating from Berlin at the age of 16, the Jewish composer Ursula Mamlok wrote Four German Songs in 1958 while studying at the Manhattan School of Music. Based on texts from Hermann Hesse's collection Vom Baum des Lebens, the songs reflect the uprooting from home. Mamlok juxtaposes Hesse's melancholy with an intensive tonal image which p…

Learn to Play 25 Classic Tunes. Par . This spiral-bound collection of familiar tunes spans cowboy songs of the Old West, folk songs of Appalachia, and the Great American Songbook. Author Maurice Tani includes written and video lessons for each song to help you play them in no time. Take these fun, approachable arrangements on your next adventure - whether that's singing along under the starry skie…

This piece uses word painting to re-tell Thomas Hardy's classic poem about an old tenor and the death of his choirmaster. The men and women are divided into two choirs - the men represent the old tenor telling the story and the women represent an angelic chorus singing the antiphon 'In Paradisium? from the Requiem Mass.'My music is my own and I have never tried to be original. That has always been…

An exciting new series of 12 instrumental instruction books. Includes complete music for all riffs, licks, hints and tips, plus easy-to-follow instructions, tips and advice. Accompanying CD allows you to listen and play along to the matching audio tracks. Sixty track CD and book pack, designed to help you play the real, down-home blues. Includes basic blues structures and techniques, original blue…

Par JENNINGS RACHEL. Red Hot Violin is an exciting new series of graded performance repertoire with a difference, featuring sizzling arrangements of contemporary show-stoppers for intermediate Violin with Piano. With pieces in a wide variety of styles, violinists of all ages will enjoy showing off these sparkling takes on popular favourites. They're perfect for inspiring students as a refreshing c…

Par FAGERLUND SEBASTIAN. Based on the film by Ingmar Bergman, Sebastian Fagerlund’s Autumn Sonata follows Charlotte Andergast, a celebrated concert pianist, as she visits the country home of her adult daughter, Eva. Charlotte has not seen Eva for seven years, during which time Eva and her husband Viktor have lost their three-year-old son Erik. Eva’s sister, Helena (Charlotte’s daughter), had been …

Par KEYWORTH NICHOLAS. The Getting Started series are step-by-step guides introducing key skills to the beginner musician. In turn they enable teachers to cover all aspects of music in a time-limited lesson. Getting Started with Keyboard Musicianship is an enjoyable and practical introduction to basic keyboard harmony that teaches young musicians the fundamentals that will aid their musical progre…

Part of a new series of piano music books edited by British concert pianist Samantha Ward, and designed primarily to be played at home, simply for pleasure. Selected for their relaxing qualities, the pieces in this volume range from well-known classics to delightful lesser-known gems. Featuring arrangements of traditional pieces from around the world, the collection is of easy/intermediate level s…

Duncan Craig (Taught). Par DUNCAN CRAIG. Craig Duncan is joined by guitarist Robert Bowlin in performing 32 tunes from the popular text, Mel Bay's Deluxe Fiddling Method. Each tune is performed at slow and medium tempos. Shuffle bowing and double shuffle bowing techniques are presented. Notation is shown at the bottom of the screen beneath split-screen views of both hands. This video sets a new st…