Par CURNOW JAMES. Certain to become a staple of Grade 3 band literature this great new composition represents James Curnow at his finest. Beginning and ending with an exciting fanfare that contrasts various melodic, rhythmic, harmonic and stylistic concepts, The Spirit Soars captures the enduring spirit of today’s youth in music. The joyous scherzo energized with buoyant energy and an exquisite co…

Rockschool is about playing the styles of music you enjoy.The specially written tunes develop the key skills, styles and techniques you need so you can play the hits of yesterday, today and tomorrow.The Rockschool packs include full notation and TAB plus backing tracks on a CD featuring top musicians. Students are encouraged to be creative with the Rockschool tunes - so feel free to improvise and …

Par JOLAS BETSY. 'Almost half a century after 'B for sonata', here is another musical evocation of my intriguing trip to Bali. Yannis Xenakis and Toru Takemitsu were there, among others, and we were walking around in the dark one evening when a Topeng appeared to us, in full action: Balinese musical theatre with one actor successively playing several legendary characters by means of mask changes c…

Par PUCCINI GIACOMO. Puccini wrote the short Requiem – actually the setting of the antiphon to the Introit of the Mass for the Dead – as a commission for the publisher Giulio Ricordi for the fourth anniversary of the death of Giuseppe Verdi, which occurred on _x000D_27 January 1905. Today the work is often performed, since this setting for three voices can be easily performed by amateur choirs and…

Englische Meister. Par TEUCHERT HEINZ. In this series 'European Guitar and Lute Music', seven albums will be published on original 16th to 18th century music. Each album will be devoted to music from one country. Choice of pieces for transcription for the guitar, selected from the vast amount of tablature available, has been made with consideration for their particular musical merit and for their …

Whether you are looking for the much-sampled sly grooves of Northern Soul or the thundering barrage of today's programmers, creating an effective loop is the key to your beat. Ed Roscetti presents a clear and concise guide to nailing the tightest loops and the biggest beats. An accompanying CD contains over 30 loops that can be imported as Audio Files into your own system. All are presented in not…

Par SASSMANNSHAUS EGON / SASSMANNSHAUS KURT. 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 version ha…

A unique method to develop four-way coordination and over-the-barline rhythmic groupings to expand your drumming vocabulary. Especially designed for today's drummer looking to develop polyrhythmic phrasing, Terry Silverlight provides the tools you need to achieve those awkward timings, whatever you musical style. The book is accompanied by two CDs of examples demonstrated especially for you by Sil…

8 songs from the hit Disney animated feature in our patented E-Z Play® Today notation: Do You Want to Build a Snowman? · Fixer Upper · For the First Time in Forever · Frozen Heart · In Summer · Let It Go · Love Is an Open Door · Reindeer(s) Are Better Than People. / Piano

For 10 players. Par COULT TOM. These mature and well-crafted pieces for an ensemble of ten players showcase Coult 's ear for beguiling, burnished sonorities and his ability to harness the most complex of technical devices to rich emotional ends. Whilst his musical schemas are often audacious and innovative, the security and light touch with which Coult carries them out ensures that his Four Perpet…

The Books of 1726-7 and 1741. Par RAMEAU JEAN-PHILIPPE. This is the first complete edition of the keyboard works of Jean-Philippe Rameau to incorporate all the printed collections of harpsichord music published under his supervision as well as his clavier arrangement of Les Indes Galantes. It also includes many new insights into performance practice (e. g. the handling of repeat signs in the origi…

Meditation on 'O come, O come, Immanuel'. The Advent hymn we all know today as O Come, O Come, Immanuel was arranged in its modern form by Thomas Helmore and published in Hymnal Noted in 1856. Both the words and melody, however, predate this version by centuries. The words are based on a 9th century antiphon and the tune, Veni Immanuel, is taken from a 15th century processional of French Francisca…

Par MUSSORGSKY MODEST. The Russian composer Mussorgsky was for the most part self-taught. His contemporaries were not always enthusiastic about the innovations in his music and accused him of lacking technique. Today, however, Mussorgsky is considered the innovator of Russian music par excellence. Although he gained fame primarily as a composer of operas and songs, Mussorgsky also wrote a number o…

Par JANACEK LEOS. The composition “ 1. X. 1905 , ” generally referred to as a “sonata, ” stems from the autumn of 1905, the peak of the riots between the Czech- and German-speaking populations in Janá ek ’s hometown Brno. Reacting to the violent death of a Czech worker, Janá ek wrote a three-part composition for Piano originally bearing the title “From the Street, on October 1, 1905. ” Dissatisfie…

Instrument : piano (4 hands) Nombre de Pages : 36 Cornelius Gurlitt is one of the co-founders of 19th-century piano teaching. Going on from the method of Carl Czerny, his rich educational material is extremely topical even today. Der Anfänger is a collection of little pieces for four hands with an easy primo and a somewhat more difficult secondo part which are ideal for music lessons at elementar…