This humorous solo piano arrangement of 'Warm Kitty? will provide an entertaining touch to any performance, whether at home with friends or in a concert hall! Immortalized in pop culture history as 'Soft Kitty? on the CBS television series 'The Big Bang Theory? (where it's sung repeatedly by the show's stars Sheldon and Penny), this impressive theme and variations arrangement by Glenda Austin feat…

Par FALLA MANUEL DE. Nestor Ausqui hails from the picturesque Argentinian city of Santa Fe: a robust and vibrant city catering to the arts and culture, most notably music. Definitive de Falla is Ausqui's second book from Mel Bay Publications, following the release of the Nestor Ausqui Collection (MB99894EB). This book and accompanying audio represent an important collection in the classical guitar…

Par CHOPIN FREDERIC. Chopin’s Study (or Etude) In C Minor Op. 10 No. 12, also known as the Revolutionary Study, is a wonderfully powerful piece for Solo Piano. The demanding left-hand maintains a constant semi-quaver movement, which requires some strength to play, and gives the piece a tremendous impetus. The melody is created around beautiful crescendos and diminuendos in the right hand. This is …

Par JEFFREYS GEORGE. Publication of the complete English sacred music of George Jeffreys (c.1610?1685) opens a window on the achievement of one of the few pre-Commonwealth composers wholeheartedly committed to the contemporary Italianate stile nuovo. Besides a quantity of sacred works in Latin, there are 26 surviving English anthems and devotional pieces, plus three settings from the Communion Se…

In the wake of the success of Easy Piano: The New Composers Volume 1, here it is the second volume of the series. The publication includes even more titles, and all different from the first volume./ Recueil / Piano

Par SIBELIUS JEAN. The Piano runs through Jean Sibelius's oeuvre like a red thread. After some first student pieces, he composed the Sonata op. 12 (EB 8142) in 1893, and his first cycle of Piano pieces, the Six Impromptus op. 5. Here the Finnish composer self-assuredly takes up a great romantic genre significantly shaped by Schubert and Chopin. Sibelius draws inspiration from some of his own early…

L'oeuvre complète de Hank Williams pour piano, voix et guitare. Ce livre contient 128 chansons, dont Cold, Cold Heart, Hey, Good Looking, I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You) et bien d'autres encore, toutes arrangées pour piano et voix, avec grilles d'accord de guitare. / Piano/Vocal/Guitare (PVG) / Partition

Par VINE CARL. Composed for Emmanuel Pahud and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, this mesmerizing 14-minute concerto for flute and strings from 2003 has also been recorded by Sharon Bezaly on BIS. Pipe Dreams follows one of Vine’s preferred architectures: a single movement with three sections in the classic ‘moderate-slow-fast’ form. Although the solo lines are unashamedly virtuosic, the composer …

Par LALANNE JEAN-FELIX. In this Mel Bay Guitar Masters Live DVD, French fingerstyle guitar sensation Jean-Felix LaLanne performs thirteen original solo guitar compositions. These pieces range in mood and texture from funky jazz to dreamy impressionism and contemporary classicism. Jean-Felix LaLanne performs on a Kirk Sand guitar. / Acoustic Music - Concert/Documentary / Accessoire / Guitare

Par FERTE ARMAND. The scarcity of practice collections devoted to a speciality defined problem of technique has often been deplored by both teachers and pupils. However, Masters of piano playing have written such collections whose number is countless and which deal with difficulties of all kinds. Unfortunately, they are spread over a very large number of music books. The volumes referred to above…

Par ALBERT ADRIENNE. Piccolodeon is a duet for piccolo and piano that expresses the mood and sonority of the 'nickelodeon,” an early 20th-century arcade instrument used for silent movies, carousels, and vaudeville theater. The piece begins as a playful ragtime with the instruments in sync. Gradually, the ensemble unravels to the point where it's a toss-up as to which player is off. This musical ge…

Musica Britannica XIV. Par BULL JOHN. Edited by John Steele & Francis Cameron and revised Alan Brown. Bull's skill as a composer and performer was acknowledged throughout Europe. This volume, the first of two, contains fantasias, ostinati and plainsong settings, keyboard canons, preludes and a group of 'Dorian' pieces by this intriguing and ingenious master of the virginals. First published in 196…