Recognized for over 50 years as the best-paced and most comprehensive guitar method available, Alfred's Basic Guitar Method has introduced over five million beginners to the joy of playing guitar. Now included are blues, country, folk, jazz, and rock styles, plus more pop songs! Videos are available for the visual learner, and correlating theory, chord, and pop books provide everything you need fr…

Improvisation - Musicianship - Techniques. Par O'NEILL JOHN. Since it was first published in 1992, The Jazz Method for Saxophone has guided thousands of beginners of all ages from producing their first note on the saxophone to the performance of full-blown jazz pieces, including pieces by contemporary composers. Based on the tried and tested format of the original method (with step-by-step guidanc…

With his clarinet quintet, begun in 1915, Reger was remembering his role models Mozart and Brahms, whose works in this genre he particularly admired. This melancholic quintet that is worked through in a strictly motivic way was to be Reger's last opus. Shortly after he had sent it to his publisher, he died of heart attack in May 1916. The quintet was to become his swan song, first performed at a m…

Violin Edition. Par CHRISTIANSEN COREY. Saxophonist John Coltrane was one of the most innovative, creative, and influential jazz artists of the 20th Century. Both stylistically and harmonically, he opened doors for others to follow. This book will focus on the first period of Coltrane's career, when he was with Miles Davis, and the jazz vocabulary he used. First, to help the student better underst…

A Jazzy Christmas Book 2 is the great follow up to the popular A Jazzy Christmas Book 1 for solo Piano, containing a further 13 jazz arrangements of more of your favourite Christmas classics.This book is the next instalment in the series for the pianist who is tired of the same old arrangements of traditional seasonal songs that have been heard and played many times before. This songbook includes …

DOWANI 3 Tempi Play Along is an effective and time-tested method of practicing that offers more than conventional play-long editions. DOWANI 3 Tempi Play Along enables you to learn a work systematically and with accompaniment at different tempi.The first thing you hear on the CD is the concert version in a first-class recording with solo instrument and orchestral, continuo, or piano accompaniment.…

Par WINTERBERG HANS. Hans Winterberg, born in Prague in 1901, lived through almost the entire period of the 20th century and was influenced as a composer by its most important artistic innovations. Already a brilliant pianist as an adolescent, he studied with Alois Hába and Alexander von Zemlinsky in Prague. Both his life and his music reflect the Austrian-Czech-Jewish cultural symbiosis; he saw h…

In 1717 Telemann composed his cantata 'Gott der Hoffnung erfülle euch? for the first day of Whitsun based on a text by Erdmann Neumeister. It forms part of the 'Concerten-Jahrgang?, also known as 'Das Harmonische Zion? or 'Italienischer Jahrgang? where all the cantatas are conceived as concertos for vocal and instrumental parts and have been colourfully scored. This particular work includes two ob…

25 easy pieces from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic eras, playable in the first three finger patterns in the first position, for violin pupils from the second year of learning. Apart from lesser known works, this edition also contains many popular pieces, such as themes from Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Handel's Fireworks Music and Water Music, Mozart's Magic Flute or Beethoven's Symphony #9. This …

Opera prima. Libro primo. Par TARTINI GIUSEPPE. In 1727, the Amsterdam publisher Michel-Charles Le Cène published a collection of six concertos by Tartini for solo violin and orchestra, entitled Opus 1, 'Book 1'. It was the prelude to a large-scale publication project of initially twelve, later even 18 concertos, divided into three 'books'. While the first book was published without the composer's…

Description Available for the first time for solo piano, here are four fabulous arrangements from the motion-picture soundtrack of The Piano plus the two favourite themes from the award-winning film by Jane Campion. This is another wonderfully presented edition with stills from the film, an original manuscript sketch and note from Nyman to lead actress Holly Hunter, who performs the pieces he…

Italian composer Nicola Vaccai (1790-1848) was known for his operas in his day, but today is remembered as a master voice teacher. Vaccai composed these exercises for training the classical voice, extending range and increasing agility, breath support, and all other technical issues of singing. The art of singing reached a zenith in Italy in 1800-1840. Vaccai's 'Practical Method? has been used by …

Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Composed at the end of 1785, Mozart ’s Piano Concerto in E-flat major forms a group of three with the two famous concerti in A major K. 488 and in C minor K. 491, which he completed in March of the following year. What they all have in common is Mozart ’s inclusion of Clarinets in the Orchestra for the first time. In this he succeeded to particularly impressive effect …

This one-of-a-kind, hand numbered, limited edition takes you inside the inspired minds of the creators of Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - the animators, story writers, composers, cameramen, and Walt himself. This is the first time material of this kind has ever been accessible outside the Disney studios!- See the integration of story, art, and music.- Study the synchronization of m…

Offertorium. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Since the two verifiable autographs of the offertory Misericordias Domini have been lost, for the present new critical edition Robert Münster was able to rely for the first time on the manuscript parts from the music of the Court of Munich which he discovered. These can be traced back to the material used for the first performance of the work in Munich in …