Remember fighting off the Sandman, desperately struggling to stay awake at the chance that you might catch a glimpse of Saint Nick. Every rustle or bump made you jolt from your quilted pod and race to the living room where the lit tree posed, draped in soft light. Still no Santa!It took all your energy to climb back into bed with your eyelids drawn and your body heavy. Tucked back in as best as yo…

Remember fighting off the Sandman, desperately struggling to stay awake at the chance that you might catch a glimpse of Saint Nick. Every rustle or bump made you jolt from your quilted pod and race to the living room where the lit tree posed, draped in soft light. Still no Santa!It took all your energy to climb back into bed with your eyelids drawn and your body heavy. Tucked back in as best as yo…

With a libretto written by Judith herself based on the cryptic supernatural short story Der blonde Eckbert by Ludwig Tieck. This one act pocket version of the opera makes use of a Chamber group rather than a fullorchestra and omits the chorus.'Eckbert and his wife Berthe live in seclusion in the Harz Moutains. One stormy night Eckbert's friend Walther arrives and to while away the time Berthe…

'Iolanthe' premiered on November 25 1882 simultaneously at the Savoy Theater in London and the Standard Theater New York. The wit of Gilbert's dialogue and sparkle of his lyrics is matched only by the energy of Sullivan's setting imbued with his sense of both Mendelssohnian grace and Victorian popular song. In two acts 'Iolanthe' presents the convergence of the world of Fairies with that of H…

Par HANNICKEL MIKE. Sometimes though, it’s hard to find performance literature that lets us continue teaching the basics while we prepare the beginning band for a concert. We need easy performance music that helps make basic techniques come alive for the students. Composed by a full-time “young band” director, Abaco Beach Vacation is designed to do just that. There are a lot of great suggestions i…

Copyright Essentials for Today's Music Business-With the free-form exchange of music files and musical ideas online understanding copyright laws has become essential to career success in the new music marketplace. This cutting-edge plain-language guide shows you how copyright law drives the contemporary music industry. By looking at the law and its recent history you will understand the new iss…

This volume in the Little Black Songbook series includes a copy of the Little Black Songbook: Abba , containing over 70 songs by the Swedish pop group arranged with Guitar chords and lyrics, as well as a CD featuring 18 of the band's greatest hits. The Abba 18 Hits CD includes the favourites The Winner Takes It All, Super Trouper, Waterloo, Gimme! Gimme1 Gimme!, The Name Of The Game, Ring Ring, I …

Par DILWORTH ROLLO. Historically, the arts have always fulfilled the dual roles of responding to change while at the same time creating change. Weather is a poem that gives voice to the voiceless, especially those who have been and continue to be marginalized because of difference. It responds to and reflects realities that are both culturally specific and humanly universal. Professor Claudia Rank…

Par LEVENSON DAN. You asked for it and you got it! More tunes to play at festivals and jams or just sittin' at home with a friend or two. 62 more tunes with both basic and advanced standard notation lines with suggested chords as well as a 'mandolin' tablature line to get you going in the right direction and playing these old-time favorites.As in Old-Time Festival Tunes for Fiddle and Mandolin (MB…

We come from many different lands and no two journeys have been the same. Yet we are all the followers of dreams. We are all followers of dreamers. Can you hear the heartbeat of the freedom marchers ... Harriet Tubman AbrahamLincoln Rosa Parks Martin Luther King? The dreams of peace hope and freedom echo in our hearts from those who have gone before us. And to honor these dreamers and leader…

While Robert Burns is celebrated today for his body of poetry the composer of Auld Lang Syne was also the composer or arranger of more than three hundred songs. A Rosebud by My Early Walk is set to the traditional tune The Shepherd’s Wife and it was a favourite of drawing room musicians for many years. According to at least one researcher the ‘rosebud’ was the daughter of a family with w…

Niels Marthinsen's Symphony No. 2 - Snapshot Symphony (2009). 1st movement Fiesta Mexicana: fortissimo accelerando (ca. 6 minutes) 2nd movement Arabian Nights: adagio intensivo e furioso (ca. 11 minutes) 3rd movement Great Fireworks in China: giocoso esplosivo e marcatissimo (ca. 8 minutes)   Programme note I’ve never been to Mexico and Arabia or to China. But I love the way those countries…

This book is the latest addition to Carlos Campos? series of Afro-Latin books for keyboard. Mr. Campos? previous books in this genre are Salsa: Afro-Cuban Montunos for Piano, Salsa: Further Adventures in Afro-Cuban Music, Latin Jazz Piano Vol. 1, Ultimate Latin Riffs and Salsa: Afro-Cuban Montunos for Guitar. In Merengue Piano Styles, Mr. Campos delves into an aspect of the music of the Dominican …

Hal Leonard Instrumental Play-Along: 12 Smash Hits (Alto) est une feuille de musique / CD Pack confiture emballée avec des arrangements solos de 12 smash hits des artistes récents comme Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars et plus encore.Lire la musique de la livre, et de jouer avec l'accompagnement professionnellement enregistré sur le CD, des chansons telles que Skyfall, en direct Pendant que no…