The matching songbook for the sparkling 2005 album by the New Zealand singing sensation, arranged for Piano, Voice and Guitar, and featuring the single Both Sides Now . Odyssey is the second album by Hayley Westenra, following the enormous success of Pure in 2003. Since then she has performed in front of presidents, prime ministers and royalty, duetted with Andrea Bocelli, José Carreras, Bryn Terf…

Live At The Smithsonian Jazz Cafe. Par CHRISTIANSEN COREY. Recorded in concert at the Smithsonian Jazz Café - November 11, 2005 Vic Juris and Corey Christiansen, two of the first guitarists on Mel Bay Records, joined bassist Bill Moring and drummer Tim Horner on this remarkable set of standards and originals. Awakening, Corey's first CD as well as the first release on Mel Bay Records, was hailed b…

Extended instrumental solo taken from MacMillan's 70-90-minute 'Since it was the day of Preparation ? ' for voices and ensemble, commissioned by the Hebrides Ensemble, Edinburgh International Festival, Soli Deo Gloria and Kings Place, and first performed by the Hebrides Ensemble at the 2012 Edinburgh Festival.The parent work sets the Resurrection narratives from St John's Gospel. Five instrumental…

Par BARGIELSKI ZBIGNIEW . After the first performance of my Fourth Quartet, in Salzburg in 1997, the artists of the excellent Hugo Wolf Quartett approached me with the appealing proposition that I write a new quartet. Rather problematic, however, proved to be the musicians’ delicate suggestion that I invest the work with elements of a more pungent expression and elements of folklore – ideally Poli…

Par WILLIAMS JOHN / HVEEM DAVID (Arr.). «Cantina Band (or «Mad About Me») was written by John Williams in 1977 for the film Star Wars (later Star Wars IV: A New Hope). Even with quite a bit of the Star Wars music being quite well known, Cantina Band is literally in a style of its own. In the Star Wars-universe this style is called «jizz», Williams’ take on the more well-known genre «jazz». William…

Salsa and Afro Cuban Montunos For Piano authored by Carlos Campos is an extremely informative 92 page book containing hundreds of musical examples showing you how to play in these aforementioned Latin styles. Mr. Campos originates from Lima Peru and has studied Latin music for over 20 years. This book contains great study material for learning the various techniques and rhythms used in playing Lat…

Extended instrumental solo taken from MacMillan's 70-90-minute 'Since it was the day of Preparation ? ' for voices and ensemble, commissioned by the Hebrides Ensemble, Edinburgh International Festival, Soli Deo Gloria and Kings Place, and first performed by the Hebrides Ensemble at the 2012 Edinburgh Festival.The parent work sets the Resurrection narratives from St John's Gospel. Five instrumental…

When Taylor Swift's first official pop album, 1989, was released in October 2014, it quickly achieved record-breaking sales. According to Billboard®, it sold almost 1.3 million copies in its debut week, the largest sales week for an album since 2002 and made Taylor the first artist ever to have three albums top $1 million in sales in a week. Our songbook features all 13 songs from the album, inclu…

Aus: Israelsbrünnlein. Geistliche Madrigale. Par SCHEIN JOHANN HERMANN. Johann Hermann Schein’s Israelsbrünnlein, published in Leipzig in 1623, is a supreme achievement not only among the works of this composer, who had been Thomaskantor in Leipzig since 1616, but also for the entire body of German music written during the first half of the 17th century. Among the 26 motets written “in the Italian…

This book teams up Grammy winner Lennie Niehaus with the great jazz saxphonist and educator Greg Fishman for a set of exciting jazz solos written for the intermediate sax player. These 14 jazz solos were written to be played with Jamey's popular Volume 54, Maiden Voyage play-a-long and, since they are by Lennie, you know they swing and are fun to play. To make it even better, we've included a play…

DescriptionLearn to read, understand, and create music. This book will help musicians of all levels communicate more effectively, learn new music faster, and memorize repertoire more easily. This approach has been developed and refined at Berklee College of Music since the 1950s and has been used by many thousands of musicians worldwide – currently as a textbook in Berklee's Aspire: Five-Week Musi…

Par DOBBINS BILL. The Stranger is titled after the novel of the same name by the French existentialist philosopher and writer Albert Camus. The piece seems to capture some of the general mood of the story, with its underlying feeling of melancholy and sense of inevitability. Since the music is written in an even eighth-note style, with either a contemporary classical or a Latin rhythmic feeling, t…

3rd Edition. Par . Trusted by hundreds of teachers since 2001, Scale Shapes is the popular, diagram-based way to learn piano scales using the Stocken Method. Based on the new ABRSM syllabus, this fully revised and updated third edition is an invaluable aid for grade exams and general progress. ' BASED ON THE NEW ABRSM SYLLABUS ' UNIQUE KEYBOARD DIAGRAMS make playing scales easy; left- and right-ha…

Par BARTOK BELA. Béla Bartók?s six string quartets, composed between 1908 and 1940, are 20th-century milestones of the genre. His First String Quartet is closely linked to his unhappy love for the violinist Stefi Geyer, to whom he sent the initial measures of its first movement in early 1908 with the remark: ?My song of death?. When he completed all three movements of the work a year later, he had…

Par RADIOHEAD. A first in the music industry, this album was initially only available through the bands website. Since then it has been released on CD and vinyl, and you can now learn to play all of the songs yourself, including the forthcoming single Jigsaw Falling Into Place . Instrumentation for Piano, Voice and Guitar. The song 15-Step recently featured on the credits to the box office hit Twi…