Intermediate/Advanced. When Charlie Parker made his famous with strings recordings, jazz musicians realized the potential of lushly orchestrated strings to enhance their own creativity. Legendary players soon followed suit, making a with strings album almost an essential rite of passage. Here are 10 beautiful standards arranged by jazz great and award-winning arranger Lennie Niehaus. Rhythm S…

Written for and first performed at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The music celebrates the moments we share when making music together with friends and family during the holidays. / SATB

Par CURNOW JAMES. Inspired by the poetry of Henry David Thoreau and Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, this symphonic poem in three movements for winds brings Eastern and Western cultures together, meeting on the common thread of Thoreau's and Matsuo's love of nature. Eastern and Western musical elements are layered throughout, making for a unique effect. / Niveau : 6 / Pièce de concert / Répertoire /…

With online audio of piano accompaniments. Intermediate level arrangements for solo instruments and piano accompaniment, in a range flattering to each instrument. The music has been edited with added dynamics, articulations, and phrasing, making it appropriate for lessons or performances. The accompaniments have been recorded on an acoustic grand piano and are available online for download or stre…

Après plus de 350 000 albums vendus, le DVD du spectacle arrive enfin ! Filmé dans un lieu magique (les Arènes de Nîmes le 18 août dernier), Roberto Alagna nous offre un spectacle total mis en lumière et chorégraphié. Gérard Pullicino à la réalisation et Yvan Cassar à la direction musicale entourent notre Sicilien préféré pour une étonnante performance musicale unissant naturellement musique popul…

In 2012, I composed a set of variations (originally for orchestra and subsequently arranged for two pianos in 2013 ) based on one of Wagner's most inspired and haunting melodies, the 'alte Hirtenweise' [old shepherd's song], an extended cor anglais solo at the start of Act III of Tristan and Isolde. This seemingly simple, yet deceptively complex melody was my starting point for an expansive fantas…

Now it's your chance to swing along with the greatest composers of the Romantic era! This book and CD pack features 12 favourite Romantic works, with a difference - exciting, inventive arrangements by Mark Armstrong that make them appealing and fun for all ages. The CD features live jazz trio backing tracks, complete with full instrumental performances of each track. Also included on the CD are pr…

Par BENNETT NED. This book contains ten pieces that reflect the diverse Jazz styles used by professional jazz musicians over the past fifty years or so. Each piece has been written specifically for tenor saxophone making best use of the range, timbre and agility of the instrument. / Pédagogie / Recueil / Saxophone Ténor et Piano

Per Violino, Violoncello E Pianoforte. Par CALLIGARIS SERGIO. Sergio Calligaris was born in Rosario (1941), Argentina. He is one of the last musicians to incarnate the traditional 19th century figure of pianist, teacher and composer, inaugurated at the beginning of the 19th century by Muzio Clementi and carriedon after that by a sequence of famous names that the history of music has handed down to…

The Violinissimo series attempts to make the rich repertoire of five centuries of violin music accessible for lessons, concerts and private music-making. The anthology Serenade contains a selection of 36 intermediate arrangements for violin and piano which can be used for performance purposes to enlarge the educational standard repertoire and make it more interesting and may therefore be a constan…

When Weber offered the sonatas for violin and piano to the publisher André from Offenbach in 1810, the latter refused to print them because they were 'too good and demanding'. In order to reach as large a target group of music-making amateurs as possible, the editors at that time increasingly saw to the works' easy playability. Fortunately, the sonatas nevertheless found their way into the reperto…

For guitar players who want to expand their repertoire:This collection provides a fantastic introduction to the works of John Dowland, containing the easiest of his compositions, arranged in their order of difficulty. Dowland ranks among the outstanding figures in the history of 16th- and 17th-century European lute music.Martin Hegel arranged the works originally composed for lute so that they can…

Par DICKBAUER KLAUS. In the previous edition, Klaus Dickbauer covered major scales, triads, and interval exercises - combined with groovy beats - in a fresh and contemporary way. He now continues his well-thought-out approach to scales with a concentration on Dorian, Mixolydian, pentatonic, and blues scales - the perfect tools for building first improvisation skills on the recorder. Methodically s…

Joan Boytim has selected some of the easisest songs in English from The First Book of Solos series and transposed them for a different voice type for many of the selections in Introduction to Art Song, making the songs available to more students. Additionally, other suitable songs, not found in other Boytim collections, have been included. Each voice type has a unique song list. These books may be…

Mary Cohen's Superseries grade 1-2. Par COHEN MARY. An irresistible collection of tunes for beginner violinists (UK grades 1-2). Written and arranged by the UK's leading string pedagogue Mary Cohen, creator of a wide range of imaginative teaching publications including 'Superstart' Here are over 40 tunes in styles children will love including nursery rhymes (London Bridge), rounds (Frère Jacques),…