Par HARRIS PAUL. Paul Harris' brilliant series of workbooks uses 'finger fitness' exercises, scale arpeggio 'key' pieces, and simple improvisations to help you play scales and arpeggios with real confidence, as well as promoting a solid technical basis. An invaluable resource for students, Improve your Scales! Piano Grade 4 covers all the keys and ranges required for the exam syllabus, helping you…

What better wish for children - and all of us - this Christmas than Peace on Earth? This fun and poignant new musical from Sheila Wilson (Hosanna Rock!, Scrooge, Rock Around the Flock, The Sel?sh Giant) moves through laughter and tears as it tells the Christmas story with style and wit. All the favourite characters feature, with optional appearances from King Herod and Emperor Caesar Augustus, and…

Par MARTIN MATTHEW. This powerful work takes a well-known hymn tune from the Mainz Gesangbuch of 1661 (Stabat Mater) as its musical starting point, interweaving it through different textures and variations alongside the plainsong solemn tone Salve Regina. The work, which was written specially for The Sixteen, is through-composed but divided into three sections: Silence, Love; Grief, Patience; Pass…

Par MICHAEL GEORGE. Written by George Michael, this poppy ballad from Wham!'s 1986 album Music from the Edge of Heaven serves up a good dose of false nostalgia with an extra large helping of froth. Arranged here for piano, vocals and guitar./ Feuillet / Piano, Chant et Guitare

Stop annoying your friends and really learn to play the darn thing! This book teaches you all you need to know to pucker up and play your harp correctly. Includes information on: music notation- chords and single notes- riffs, licks and scales- syncopation- rock and blues styles- and so much more! The accompanying CD includes over 70 songs and examples, so you can play along with a band./ Méthode …

Par CURNOW JAMES. Throughout the colonial period in America, country dancing was the principal recreation of all social classes. Americans had inherited this tendency from Elizabethan England, and many continental Europeans also took up English country dancing as their own. Four Colonial Country Dances feature country dance tunes that were indigenous to New England and particularly to the Boston a…

Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Sonata in C major Sonata facile K545 includes the printed score, a written masterclass from international concert pianist Daniel Grimwood, in which he guides us through the Classical language of this ‘simple’ sonata, a biography of the composer and a short history of the music – all illustrated in full colour.  more than the score… is a series of classic piano music, …

The leading German viola method now available in English.For more than three decades the Sassmannshaus Tradition has been the household name for excellence in beginner string methods in German-speaking countries. More than half a million students have successfully learned to play string instruments using this publication.The publication of the four violin books in 2008 in a fully adapted English v…

Romberg's adaptation of melodies by Franz Schubert for Lilac Time (1921) and started him on the path to greatness. He subsequently wrote his best-known operettas, The Student Prince (1924), The Desert Song (1926) and The New Moon (1928), which were in a style similar to the Viennese operettas of Franz Lehar. He also wrote Rosalie (1928) together with George Gershwin. His later works, such as Up in…

Gregory Stone has transcribed these three selected preludes for one piano-four hands.For much of his life George Gershwin sought to integrate the worlds of jazz and classical music. These pieces are not jazz improvisations but they do show something of the style of his own playing. Gershwin had intended to compose a set of twelve, a sort of jazz Wohltemperierte Clavier, but his unexpected death fr…

Par HENKHAUS UWE. Broish McRoish is a rhythmic piece based on traditional Gaelic sprechgesang - the so-called ‘Puirt a beul’ (mouth music). The text is meaningless, comparable to scat, and primarily serves to drive the piece forward rhythmically.The harmony slowly builds up from one to four voices and gives the singing a charming, unusual sound. / Choral Music / Répertoire / Voix De Femmes SSAA

Etre confiant que vous step up sur scène ! Cet ouvrage fournit des chansons d'audition classique arrangés pour voix et piano et cordes de guitare. Les dossiers de CD accompagnantes vous aidera à la pratique et de vous aider à 'le jour' avec une performance vraiment professionnelle ! / Rép International / Recueil / Piano, Chant et Guitare

500 expertly written bass lines, riffs and fills in a wide variety of musical genres are included in this comprehensive collection to help players expand their bass vocabulary. The examples cover many tempos, keys and feels, and include easy bass lines for beginners on up to advanced riffs for more experienced bassists - all with high-quality, full band audio demonstration tracks. Incorporating sp…

Par KIDANE DANIEL. The initial stimulus for this set of pieces was a painting by Kandinsky, Composition VII (1913). The painting represents a period when he was concerned with emotional, abstract paintings of two sorts: (a) improvisations (‘unconscious, spontaneous expression of inner character, the non-material nature’ that contain no recognizable objects, but coloured shapes that express feeling…

Par HESS NIGEL. The latest edition, along with the Grades 0-1 book, to the ever-popular Up-Grade! Series from Pam Wedgwood - the ideal series for pianists looking to bridge the gap between grades. This book presents some refreshingly jazzy arrangements of some favourite Christmas songs from traditional items such as The Holly and the Ivy and We Wish You a Merry Christmas to pop classics such as Ro…