Song cycle for medium voice and piano, based upon the poetry of Ivor Gurney and Leonard Clark. A set of pieces very much in the English lyrical vocal writing tradition of Butterworth, Ireland and, of course, Gurney. ' The Pine Boughs Past Music is a song cycle baseed upon poetry associated with Gloucester and was commissioned to celebrate the eightieth anniversary of the Gloucester Music Society. …

Par BREWSTER DAVID. This breakthrough guide for guitarists will unlock some of the mystery behind playing over chords and progressions. Working through this material and these concepts will help any guitarist learn how to play the right notes, at the right time - all the time. Each chapter centers on a different chord type and progression and includes various soloing concepts, phrasing options, an…

Based on the hymn tune Dear Lord and Father of Mankind. Par PARRY CHARLES HUBERT. Sir Hubert Parry (1848-1918) appartient à cette génération de compositeurs anglais quelque peu oubliés dont font partie Charles Villiers Stanford et Sir Granville Bantock. La notoriété de Sir Edward Elgar a certainement contribué au fait que leurs oeuvres soient aujourd’hui très peu jouées ou même oubliées. Sir Huber…

Par BRAVO LEONARDO. “Tres Norteñas” was born during a journey through northern Argentina, Peru, and Bolivia, inspired by the majestic Andean landscape, its villages, and the richness of its ancestral culture. In an overview, the work is not descriptive, but evokes the landscape and the mysteries that inhabit these lands. It consists of three pieces, each based on rhythms from northern Argentina. W…

Par JACOB GORDON. Of all of Gordon Jacob's major contributions to the British wind band repertoire, the William Byrd Suite (written in 1923) stands as his most-often programmed work. Though originally based on six movements from William Byrd's Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, this setting for developing band incorporates two contrasting movements including 'The Earle of Oxford's Marche' and 'Wolsey's Wi…

New Edition of the Complete Works V/5. Par SCHUBERT FRANZ. In addition to his symphonies, Franz Schubert also wrote and handed down to posterity a total of eight finished concert overtures (two of them in two versions) between ca. 1811 and 1819. With the exception of the “Overture in D” (D 4) to the comedy “Der Teufel als Hydraulicus” (“The Devil as Engineer”) and the “Overture in D” (D 26), whose…

?evcík's complete works cover every area of violin technique, from the elementary level and special exercises on individual technical problems all the way to analytical studies of the standard violin concertos.His 'Preparatory Trill Studies? deal with the placement of the fingers, their pressure on the strings and their action on the fingerboard in elementary positions, proceeding from slow moveme…

Vocal Selections. Par MICHAELSON INGRID. Described as a love story for the ages by The New York Daily News, The Notebook is a new hit musical based on Nicholas Sparks' best-selling novel that inspired the iconic film. The musical offers a new spin on the beloved story that follows Allie and Noah, who come from different worlds but share a lifetime of love despite the forces that threaten to pull t…

Par SUKURA AARON BEBE. This collection is the result of a collaboration between Ghanaian xylophone master Aaron Bebe Sukura and American percussionist Patrick Roulet. It includes traditional songs performed on the gyil (pronounced “jeel”), a single-row xylophone of the Lobi and Dagara people of Ghana and Burkina Faso. Aaron Bebe Sukura, a Senior Instructor at the University of Ghana, was born in t…

Par BARTOK BELA. Béla Bartók’s “For Children” is one of the best known pedagogical works for piano teachers of the twentieth century, second only perhaps to the same composer’s “Mikrokosmos”. It was based firmly on the huge number of folk songs he collected, recorded and studied with his colleague Zoltán Kodály. At the time, Bartók was offering something very new to piano teachers and their studen…