Includes Video Instruction and Audio Play-Alongs!. Par MAGIDSON JEFF. The Hal Leonard Guitar Method has been a mainstay for students of the guitar for many years. In this latest installment, the Hal Leonard Gypsy Jazz Guitar Method, guitarist Jeff Magidson (Hot Club of Francisco, Duo Gadjo) guides you through this ubuquitous style that first emerged in the 1930s as a result of cross-pollinating Am…

Par COCKER JERRY. Revised edition. Since 1900, when jazz - a uniquely American music form - began to evolve, much of its allure and artistic growth has depended on the creative freedom and expressive force that improvisation allows its performers. Jerry Coker, himself a teacher, composer/arranger, and noted saxophonist, has written How To Listen To Jazz to fill the need for a laymans guide to unde…

This book is a selection of 20 songs by Paolo Conte, the internationally renowned Italian singer-songwriter. The songs, reproduced here in a piano-vocal-guitar format, reflect the way Conte accompanied himself on the piano and the rich and sophisticated harmonic complexity of his works. / Piano/Vocal/Guitare (PVG)

Par LISZT FRANZ. Despite having already assumed the costs for a monument to Beethoven in Bonn, Liszt's spiritual affinity for Beethoven also moved this greatest piano virtuoso of the nineteenth century to pay an even finer tribute: a superlative set of piano transcriptions of the master's nine symphonies. Liszt's brilliant and sensitive transcriptions enabled 19th century audiences and amateur pia…

Par SATIE ERIK. Pedagogical in nature, these editions offer insightful interpretive suggestions, pertinent fingering, and historical and stylistic commentary. Throughout his life, Erik Satie was so surrounded with the creative and modern atmosphere that permeated La Belle Epoque (The Beautiful Era), that he himself became a symbol of the age. These six short pieces from the composer's early years …

Kantate Zum 3. Sonntag Nach Trinitatis Und Für Alle Zeit. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. The edition allows for the performance of this cantate in the various forms which Bach himself used. The solo parts for high voice are always allotted primarily to the voice specified by Bach in Leipzig, with the alternative authorized by the Weimar and Cöthen parts placed afterwards in brackets. / Musique religie…

Par MYERS TOKIO. The official songbook for Britain's Got Talent winner Tokio Myers' debut album, Our Generation. Created in close collaboration with the artist, it contains all 13 songs from the album, for solo piano, with chord symbols and full lyrics. The book also includes stunning imagery and specially-written song introductions. 'Instead of asking 'Why?', we should be saying: 'Why not?' T…

Par VAN NUETEN GUY. Light the fire, James. We'll take our digestive by the crackling of the hearth. Such were the thoughts that came to mind as I started listening to Guy Van Nueten's new record. Because, yes, there is a certain aristocracy to this music. There's the feeling of autumn and you immediately long to warm yourself on the sounds that issue from Van Nueten's bony fingers. But it could ju…

Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. Many anecdotes surround String Quartet op. 131: Beethoven is said to have considered it to be his finest quartet and of his late period works, the one dearest to his heart. It is also believed that the composer invested so much of himself in it: his ailing health, the social isolation brought about by his deafness and the suicide attempt of his nephew Karl. In addition it…

Jean-Pierre Couleau (b. 1948) studied at the Aix-en-Provence, Marseille and Versailles Conservatoires before devoting himself to teaching music, particularly jazz. He compiled Le Matin Des Musiciens to aid music theory beginners. This Couleau volume contains exercises on performance directions, dynamics, range, intervals, rhythm, phrasing, articulation, and time signatures, among other aspects. Co…

Par PROKOFIEV SERGEI. The Russian ballet director Sergei Diaghilev commissioned many composers to write music for the theatre. This was what caused Serge Prokofiev to compose the four part Scytische Suite (also known as Ala and Lolli) in 1916, from which The Enemy God and the Dance of the Spirits can be heard on this CD. This suite is one of Prokofiev's first works, and received negative criticism…

Piano Concerto N. 6 For Piano And String Orchestra. Par SHCHEDRIN RODION. With his five piano concertos, his sonatas and 24 preludes and fugues, Rodion Shchedrin is one of the most eminent composers of piano music of our time. A gifted pianist, he has given the first performances of most of his works himself. This concerto was written in honour of Bella Davidovich, to celebrate her 75th birthday. …

In the summer of 1913 Satie once more poked fun at himself and the world of music with a set of parodic piano pieces on various marine animals, giving it the grotesque title 'Embryons desséchés? (Dessicated Embryos)(BA 10811). The atmospheric cycle 'Avant-dernières Pensées? (Next-to-last Thoughts) (BA 10849) of 1915, with its underlaid words, likewise belongs to Satie's 'story pieces'. The notatio…

Writing's On The Wall is the theme song for the 2015 James Bond film Spectre, and was performed by the enormous talent that is Sam Smith. Learn to play this latest James Bond song for Piano, Vocal and Guitar, with full lyrics and chord symbols.Written and produced by Sam Smith himself, with help from James Napier and Disclosure, Writing's On The Wall has all the hallmarks of a classic Bond song. B…

Par PROKOFIEV SERGEI. Sergei Prokofiev was born in Sontsovka in the Ukraine on the 23rd of April, 1891. Soon showing a talent for piano and composition, by the time he was fourteen he was attending the St. Petersburg Conservatoire, where he received extensive schooling inpiano, harmony, composition and conducting. Prokofiev was greatly interested in contemporary composers (Reger, dIndy, Debussy an…