Lyrics included. It has become standard practice today for the professional musician to play at least one Latin tune in each set as added spice to the overall sound. This set contains ten beautiful Bossa Novas that jazz players have been playing for years. Complete with melody, chords and lyrics. Transposed parts, too! These songs, with their crisp, clean tropical flavor, always seem to find a way…

A workbook for examinations including over 100 practice tests for Associated Board exams, supporting the new syllabus requirements from 2012. The ability to sight-read fluently is a vital skill, enabling you to learn new pieces more quickly and play with other musicians. The best-selling Improve your sight-reading! series, by renowned educationalist Paul Harris, is designed to help you overcome al…

Par VIERNE LOUIS. Louis Vierne (1870?1937) brought symphonic French organ music to its stylistic climax. Besides being a productive composer, he also gained a reputation as a brilliant improviser at his place of employment, the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, and throughout the world. In 1928 Vierne, one of the best-known organists of his day, made one of the earliest organ recordings, playing Bach…

Well-known carols from Europe and the USA, compiled by Katharina Apostolidis for Violin (but can also be played by Flute, Piano or other C-instruments. Buntes Weihnachtswunderland contains 17 favourite Christmas carols for young violinists aged 5 to 9 to enjoy.Featuring carols like Jingle Bells, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, Gloria and O Tannenbaum, this songbook is perfect for young violinists t…

Par LAURINDO ALMEIDA. This collection presents guitar duets by Laurindo Almeida and musical friends plus related photographs of historical interest. Features Radames Gnattali, 'Pixinguinho' (Alfredo da Rocha Viana Filho - 'Father of the Samba'), Heitor Villa-Lobos, Charlie Byrd, Ernesto Nazareth, and 'Garoto' (Anibal Augusto Sardinha). In addition to music from Brazil this collection addresses a v…

Volume 2. Par SCHROEDER ALWIN. This meticulous collection of 56 études constitutes the second book of a three-volume set curated by Alwin Schroeder, a former cellist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and accomplished instructor from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Leipzig, Germany. A compilation of 56 exercises presents a progressively challenging sequence of studies, created by Schroeder and …

Par STACHAK TATIANA. When one hears the word “étude” we often think of a complicated piece of music, whose main goal is didactic. The Characteristic Études are far from this as alongside the technical requirements they demand, there is an equal stress on artistic qualities such as: melody, varied textures, and a plethora of rhythmic as well as harmonic devices. The compositions are stylistically d…

Par L'ESTRANGE ALEXANDER (Arr.). The poignant words of The Last Rose Of Summer, by Thomas Moore, match this Irish song’s mournful, drooping melody. After a temporarily uplifting modulation for the third verse, where the men of the choir echo the melody two measures behind, the arrangement ends as it began – in a solitary mood, with an empty, bare fifth. This piece is part of the Faber Choral Sing…

for Mezzo Soprano and Piano. Par SOREY TYSHAWN. Death by Tyshawn Sorey was commissioned by the L. A. Opera for a streaming premiere by mezzo-soprano Amanda Lynn Bottoms in February 2021, with pianist Howard Watkins. Its text, by the great Black poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, imagines just a glimmer of light dawning over a bleak, nightmarish landscape, haunted by death, which the composer explicitly co…

Better reinforce that music stand! This book has 260 must-know old-time favorites in our famous E-Z Play Today notation with the note names printed on each note. / Piano

Edition de Jean-Philippe NavarreL’Art de jouer la fantaisieTémoin éclatant du Siècle d’Or espagnol, le traité de Tomás de Santa María couvre toutes les techniques de la composition et de l’improvisation au clavier. Depuis les rudiments de la musique (lecture des notes et des rythmes, théorie modale, doigtés) jusqu’à l’élaboration des pièces complexes (jeu polyphonique en imitations), l’auteur déta…

Mesdames, ceinture vos chansons préférées de la scène.Cette collection comporte 23 favoris de Broadway, le tout dans des arrangements Vocal / Piano, et comprend des chansons telles que Et je vous dis que je ne vais, Cabaret, Defying Gravity, Edelweiss, I Dreamed a Dream, ici sur mon propre, Quelqu'un comme vous et plus. / Voix Et Piano