in Full score. Par WAGNER RICHARD. Richard Wagner put his supreme effort, as well as his earnings, into constructing the perfect festival theater in the Bavarian town of Bayreuth where his masterpiece, the four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen, could be performed in a manner which would conform to his vision of how the drama should unfold. Wagner's own perception was that the unique and revolut…

Description Despite the amalgamation of Regiments and the many changes that have occurred in the Army since 1926, when this collection was first published, piping has remained an essential tradition of a Highland Regiment. The reprint of this collection emphasises the piping tradition and as the forerunner of books of regimental pie music it holds a special place in the bibliography of piping. …

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 IRIZARRY NEF. Immerse yourself in the vibrant world of Latin Jazz guitar improvisation with Contemporary Latin Jazz Guitar Vol 2: Solos by Neff Irizarry. This comprehensive guide is designed for musicians and enthusiasts eager to enhance their improvisational skills and infuse their playing with the distinctive “Sabor” characteristic of Latin Jazz. In this volume, Irizarry builds upon the foun…

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…

Par HAENDEL GEORG FRIEDRICH. When the librettist Paolo Rolli and George Frideric Handel composed an Italian opera about Scipio's conquest of the Iberian port city of Carthago Nova in 1726, these events from 209 BC were already almost two thousand years in the past. Research on the critical edition of the opera “Scipione” in the Halle Handel Edition suggests that the librettist and composer had so…

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 …