Par RAE JAMES. Each movement is written to portray a specific characteristic life along the river. The Tyne starts its life as two rivers, hence the title of the first movement: The Sources. These converge to form the River Tyne at an appropriately named location west of Hexham called Watersmeet, the title of the second movement. The final movement is Sandgate Jig named after Sandgate, a street n…

Par RAE JAMES. James Rae's eminently successful tutor Introducing the Clarinet was the first of its kind providing the complete beginner with material in popular styles yet allowing for a sound musical development along traditional lines. Now, complementing the tutor, James Rae has produced these three volumes to introduce the beginner clarinettist to ensemble playing. The parts are of the same te…

A first book of very easy pieces for viola. Par BLACKWELL KATHY / DAVID. lively original pieces, traditional tunes, and easy duets using open strings to finger pattern 0-1-23-4 audio play-along tracks available on major streaming platforms or to download from a companion website fantastic illustrations by Martin Remphry piano and viola accompaniments available separately in printed collections ide…

Easy Violin Duets. Par IGUDESMAN ALEKSEY. Sir Roger Moore's drawings together with Aleksey Igudesman's music and poems make a wonderful package - all about fish. Written for two violins, these easy pieces would be great fun for developing players. The enclosed CD provides inspiring demonstration performances and play-along tracks for each part. The pieces could be performed with or without the rel…

Andrew Lloyd Webber 's first smash hit musical, Jesus Christ Superstar was written in collaboration with Tim Rice and released on Broadway in 1971. The musical featured a line-up up songs which have cemented their place in popular culture as some of the greatest stage songs ever written. This revised and updated songbook features 9 songs from Jesus Christ Superstar , with Lloyd Webber's ever popul…

The complete picture guide to playing the guitar. With this superb book you get a comprehensive guitar course featuring step-by-step pictures which take you from first day exercises to playing along with backing tracks. Small format. / Guitare

Par SCHUBERT FRANZ. Presented for alto recorder and piano, the two most famous Ave Marias in music. Gounod’s, based on Bach’s first prelude and Schubert’s equally well known composition. They offer an undemanding blow for treble recorder in these arrangements by Sylvia Corinna Rosin or, perhaps a little more challenging, the Schubert will fit the tenor recorder, whose mellower tone will suit the m…

Pierre Boulez wrote two pieces for solo violin, called ?Anthèmes? I and II. This is the first and shorter of the pair and was composed in 1991 for the Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition. Taking inspiration from childhood memories of Catholic church services, Boulez created a piece of two distinct sonic worlds, in seven short parts, ending with a ?col legno battuto?, characteristic of Boulez?s witty…

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…

A Tone Poem, Op. 62. Par CESARINI FRANCO. Franco Cesarini was commissioned to write The Light of Resistance by the Filarmonica di Villadossola APS (Piedmont, Italy) for its 125th anniversary. The Villadossola revolt was an uprising that took place in November 1943 in the homonymous municipality during World War II. The partisans, with the support of local workers, managed to temporarily liberate …

Par BARTOK BELA. For many countries, folk dances are important cultural treasures. While a first glance at these compositions shows their clear and simple structure with a distinct musical message, a closer look reveals rhythmic curiosities, interesting harmonic shifts, and a diverse expressive range. These characteristics must have enthralled Bartók, as he undertook several research trips to coll…

Arrangeur: Karl Scheit. Par VISEE ROBERT DE. Robert de Visée (c. 1655 – 1732) was a French lutenist, guitarist, and Court musician for both Louis XIV and Louis XV. Suite H-Moll is also known as Suite No. 11 in B Minor. It is written in 5 movements: Prélude – Allemande – Sarabande – Gigue – Passacaille. First published in the 1680s, it was almost certainly written when de Visée was already a respec…

Emmanuel Pahud Presents. Par DVORAK ANTONIN. Dvorák’s “String Quartet No. 12” was created during a three-year stay in the USA. Also, in this work he skilfully developed original melodies and peculiarities, which for him embodied the music of the American natives and integrated them into his Central European influenced romantic musical language. The spirit of this quartet fits perfectly into the na…

113 short technical studies for clarinet. Par VAN BEEKUM JAN. 113 Short Technical Studies for solo clarinet, first published in 1978./ Etude / Clarinette