Par SCHUBERT FRANZ. Schubert?s piano sonatas reflect the entire cosmos of his distinctive writing, spanning from an early experimentation with this form to the iconic last three sonatas, which the composer completed in 1828, the last year of his life. All three volumes are equipped with informative prefaces on the genesis and sources, as well as valuable notes on piano playing in Schubert's time (…

Accompagner notre auteur Ellen Mayer sur leur voyage musical à travers le monde du rythme et de l'émotion!Dans le nouveau volume de 'World of Percussion' le djembé est le focus.L'outil principal de nombreux rythmes traditionnels, chants et danses vous ouvrez le construit à l'origine de feuillus et de tambour en peau de chèvre, aux portes de la fascinante culture musicale de l'Afrique.Vous apprendr…

Par ASCH GLENN / REINER DAVID. For more than a century, violinists have played jazz, swing, blues and similar improvisational styles. With its rich tone, considerable range, and bowed rhythms and phrasing, the violin offers a unique opportunity for a creative and personal statement as a musician. This book presents a broad sampling of the styles of major jazz violinists, from blues to bebop, from …

Purity of line and harmony focus attention on the expressive text of this beautiful ballad. / Voix Mixtes

Par . This exercise book gives attention to many technic elements appropriate to early elementary piano students beginning with the down-up motion of the wrist in playing two-note slurs. Focus is also given to developing hands-together playing using mirror technics between the hands as well as parallel motion. It also includes preparation for playing 3-note chords including I and V7 chord (two-not…

Par THORVALDSDOTTIR ANNA. Commissioned by the Spektral Quartet, Carnegie Hall, and Washington Performing Arts and first performed in 2019. According to the composer Enigma was inspired by 'the notion of the 'in-between', juxtaposing flow and fragmentation... the perspective continuously moves between the two, the fundament and the fragmented shadows, but the focus is always their relationship.' / …

Variants on a Japanese Folk Song. Par CURNOW JAMES. The beautiful Japanese folk song 'Ancient Castle' is transformed and enhanced through subtle variation in this stunning setting by James Curnow. Curnow, who is so respected by directors of more experienced bands, shows how effective he is at the very easy level as well. Offering ample opportunity to focus your band's attention on intonation and b…

Restart Flute guides returning players through 12 specially selected tracks to bring them successfully back up to speed with the flute at their own enjoyable pace. With additional exercises, tips and theory reminders, latent flautists will find the learning curve engaging and rewarding yet flexible, with special focus paid to common issues such as hand position, breathing and posture, and remaster…

Par POE LARA. Lara Poe's (b. 1993) energetic Divergence (2015-2016) for string quartet was conceived cyclically: the four movements explore drifting in and out of focus between different materials. A light ditty of the second movement diverges to the third movement's overtone derived chords. Duration: c. 25' This product includes a set of parts (violin I, violin II, viola, violoncello) and a s…

Georg Frideric Händel 's Serse (Xerxes) has everything one would expect from a Baroque opera - many intertwining love stories, affairs, intrigues, scheming, misunderstanding and forgiving - all presented in the great master's magnificent music. The opera is set in Persia in 480 BC and is very loosely based upon Xerxes I of Persia, though there is little in either the Baroque libretto or music that…

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 understand Coltrane's b…

James Rae presents '42 More modern studies' for flute complementing the established favourite: '40 Modern Studies'. Again Pieces are from elementary to more advanced levels varying from modern Classical to Jazz and Rock. As the studies are technically demanding, they are all written in comfortable flute-orientated keys to allow the student to focus on interpretation. Each study is designed to impr…

The subtitle of this work dedicated to Christian Gerhaher, '23 sentences by Nikolaus Lenau', should be taken literally: some of the texts in Heinz Holliger's setting consist of only a few words. With relentless focus on essential elements, the texts are a distillation of the sensation which has been recorded in literary history as 'world-weariness'. Holliger reflects this concentrated emotion, pre…

Description The Complete Blues/Rock Drummer is an advanced instruction book specializing in blues and blues/rock beats. This book includes fills and instrumentals, both with and without drums for play-along. About half of the book features advanced beats with fills and the other half consists of instrumentals. Drummers interested in studying blues will learn much from this book. There is chal…

25 Piano pieces. Par HELLER BARBARA. Each piece of 'Klangblumen' has its own special focus, such as a certain interval, a specific playing technique, a uniform rhythm, or a general tone colour. The instructions on playing technique and aesthetics at the beginning of the movement provide information on the interpretation of the individual pieces. Despite much interpretive and dynamic information of…