The composer says: For years, my fellow guitarists have been asking me to compose a solo classical guitar piece that reflects that most American of musical styles'the blues. Their prodding was the motivation for Periwinkle Memories; the inspiration for the piece, however, really came from a maestro of extraordinary skill, and a teacher of even more extraordinary patience, Elias Barreiro, my guita…

2ème édition' prix à la baisse! Plus de 150 chansons, transcriptions note-pour-note pour Guitare tablatures avec les paroles complètes. Titres : Aerials [System Of A Down] All Apologies [Nirvana] All Day And All Of The Night [Kinks, The] All The Small Things [blink-182] All Your Love (I Miss Loving) [Rush, Otis] American Woman [Kravitz, Lenny] Badge [Cream] Best Of You [Foo Fighters] Birthday […

Par GRIFFIN MICHAEL. When it comes to musical skill, why is it that some people achieve so much more than others? We are frequently led to believe this is because of a talent hardwired into their DNA. Now, music educator Michael Griffin dismisses that age-old notion in favour of another known factor: practice. His new book, Learning Strategies for Musical Success illustrates how the quantity and q…

Par CARTER SYDNEY. 18 songs with piano or guitar accompaniment. CONTENTS After six and all day Sunday (A - B); Bird of heaven (A - A); British Museum waltz (B flat - C) Come, love, carolling (A - C); George Fox (C - C); Glass of water (G - A) Judas and Mary (B - B); Like the snow (B - D); Long time since I had a lesson (C - D) Man with a microphone (A - D); The Mask I wore (A - B); The Postmaster …

Opera in three acts. Par HAENDEL GEORG FRIEDRICH. ; Almira, Handel's first opera, was well received when premiered in 1705 at the Theater am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg. The director was Reinhard Keiser, who, remarkably, had himself already set Friedrich Christian Feustking's text to music. The role of Fernando was sung by Johann Mattheson. The translation used by Handel leaves several Italian arias in …

Of Noblest Cities is intended for a choir of between 12 and about 40 voices, although it may also be given by just six singers, one to a part (SSATBB). The piece can be performed unaccompanied, if no suitable organ is available, simply by leaving approximately two crotchet beats of silence between the end of the last note of one verse and the beginning of the next. Underlying the melody is a simpl…

Par PANUFNIK ROXANNA. When I was approached by Salisbury Cathedral to write a 30th anniversary anthem for their Girl Choristers, I immediately thought of the traditional 30th wedding anniversary symbol  a pearl. When George Herbert was also requested, it was incredible serendipity that he had actually written a poem of that title: The Pearl. Matthew 13:45. This was inspired by the very short parab…

Arrangeur: Claude Georgel. Since the success of the first volume in 2015, OpenSax has spoken for instrumentalists across the world who identify with an unbounded literature for saxophone that' s firmly in touch with today' s musical world. Claude Georgel, who directs the Vent de Sax collection at the Editions Leduc, here presents a sequel to this great adventure that widens its scope: while the 1…

Par SMITH PAUL. A standalone work for SATB choir and SATB solo quartet, painting a picture of the different characters of a dream. This movement is both comforting and confusing, and is inspired by the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. A New World is a musical story across five movements with texts by authors from Cicero and Ovid to George William Russel; from nursery rhymes to war poets. The mus…

Par SUCKLING MARTIN. These three exquisite miniatures - composed in 2009 and lasting a total of 5 minutes - are responses to the poetry of George Bruce. In the first, soloist and piano are fused together as a single instrument, as if singing from a great distance. Suckling describes the following movements as 'inside a beam of light' and 'a never-ending lullaby'. Three Venus Haiku exist in version…

Ton Van Bergeyk launched his career as a musician during the late 1960s playing blues Harp and Ukulele in a duo setting, but he then switched to the acoustic Guitar and quickly learned and mastered the instrument using fingerstyle techniques. He started to transcribe and arrange classic ragtime compositions for fingerpicking Guitar and was discovered by Stefan Grossman during a tour in Holland. St…

If you want to be able to play a great guitar solo over any chord progression, you have come to the right place. Master guitarist, teacher, and best-selling author Jody Fisher unlocks the secrets to how scales work with chords in this comprehensive book. Conveniently organized into two sections, the first part of the book breaks down scale and chord theory in a simple, step-by-step manner that is …