Great Buddha and Deer. Par SAKAI ITARU. For 70 years during the 8th century the ancient city of Nara was the capital of Japan. The city is rich in national and cultural treasures, including shrines, Buddhist temples and statues of Buddha. The city is most famous for the Todai Temple with its 16 metre high Buddha dating from the year 752 and the Kasuga Shrine with its tame deer that walk around fre…

Par KASTELEIN JAAP. Play the Blues is meant for players who, depending on the instrument, have studied music for about 2 to 3 years. The pieces of music in this volume have all been written in the twelve-bar blues style and have been arranged in two parts, but it is possible to play just the treble and still sound good. The CD features accompaniments for all 9 duets and also includes tuning notes.…

This book focuses on the key elements of Django Reinhardt's style of Gypsy jazz or 'jazz Manouche'. Author Stephane Wrembel gained his impressive knowledge of the style through years of experience jamming with French Gypsies and studying with masters of the style. Wrembel acquired his skills entirely by ear and has taught scores of musicians worldwide using the method that appears here in text …

Par MAHLER GUSTAV. Des Knaben Wunderhorn was an assemblage of folksongs and folksong-style poems collected and adapted in 1805 and 1808 by poets to reflect their concept of German folk poetry. In 1887, Mahler discovered the musical potential of this collection and over the next 14 years it provided him with most of his song texts. In addition to Mahler's 23 songs on Wunderhorn texts this compilati…

Debussy's new string quartet received a very cool reception at its première in Paris in December 1893, performed by the famous Quatuor Ysaÿe. The critics were upset by its unusual harmonies and orchestral sounds, and the musicians who were later presented with it considered it 'unplayable?. Nevertheless the work was able to establish itself in the years that followed and today belongs to the core …

for melody instruments. Par ZEMPLENI LASZLO. We recommend this volume to those who would like to play the melodic instruments (tubular bells, marimba, vibraphone, xylophone) that are gaining an increasingly important role in the rapidly developing teaching of percussion instruments. Starting from the first steps, familiarization with the notes, it provides varied, colourful musical material suffic…

Par GAYE MARVIN / LONGFIELD ROBERT (Arr.). Though initially written over 50 years ago, Marvin Gaye's plea for peace and understanding is a message that still resonates strongly and needs to be heard. This arrangement for string quartet by Robert Longfield maintains the original's easy cool and RandB rhythms in a format that allows modern-day students to find a way to bring some loving here today. …

Weihnachtskantate. Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX / LUTHER MARTIN. During Mendelssohns years of study with Zelter, the arrangement of chorales already played an important role, and he continued to be occupied with the protestant chorale throughout his symphonic and oratorical work. The break Bach’s works in connection with the reperformance of the St. Matthew Passion led to a series of cantatas b…

Choralkantate. Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. During Mendelssohns years of study with Zelter, the arrangement of chorales already played an important role, and he continued to be occupied with the protestant chorale throughout his symphonic and oratorical work. The break Bach’s works in connection with the reperformance of the St. Matthew Passion led to a series of cantatas based on well-known c…

Par MUSSORGSKY MODEST. The death in 1873 of Mussorgsky's friend Victor Hartmann was the stimulus for the initial creation of what was to become one of the most vividly colourful works in the orchestral repertoire. However, Mussorgsky's original piano version of Pictures At An Exhibition was not even published until 5 years after his death, and remained almost unknown until Ravel's masterful orches…

Par WALLACH HOWARD. How To Play Guitar In Every Key by Howard Wallach from Santorella Publications is not only one of the best selling guitar books in print today, but possibly the best-selling title in the entire Santorella catalog. How To Play Guitar In Every Key is consistently in the top 1, 2 or 3 in sales for the last 13 years and with close to 1,000 titles in print, this is certainly a tall …

Par MARTINU BOHUSLAV. Unusual instrumentations were by no means the exception in the chamber music works of Bohuslav Martinu, most notably the works he wrote in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s being characterised by his experimentation with sound and form. It is from this period that four short serenades also originate (1932), each with a different instrumentation. The serenades were issued by the Pr…

Par SWEENEY MICHAEL. Based on traditional tunes dating back hundreds of years, Michael\'s masterful rhapsodic setting utilizes a wide variety of styles and moods. Taking the listener on a dramatic and emotional journey, the featured melodies include: Return from Fingal, Lord Mayo, The Yellow Bittern, Captain O\'Kane, Song of the Chanter, and Behind the Bush in the Garden. Dur: 6:35 / Date parution…

for the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 c minor op. 37, 1. movement by Ludwig van Beethoven. Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. The volume unites 11 cadenzas from 200 years of music history to form one of the most frequently performed concertos in the piano literature, including several first publications. Among them are not solely highly virtuoso and, sometimes, even romantic lyrical tributes to th…

Par MILNE A.FORBES. For over fifty years, A. Forbes Milne's text has been the classic route to mastery of the art of sight-singing, an essential skill for vocalists and a most valuable study for all musicians besides. Preparing each section of carefully graded exercises in various keys with a detailed yet concise theoretical account, the author offers a thorough preliminary training in time, rhyth…