Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development for Young Concert Band is a complete curriculum for beginning band students to help them grow as ensemble musicians. The series complements any band method and supplements any performance music. It contains 167 exercises, including more than 100 chorales by some of today's most renowned young band composers. Various exercises at the grade 1/2, 1, and 1 1/2 l…

Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Long considered the noblest, most inspired musical treatment of the crucifixion of Christ, Bach's St. Matthew Passion remains an immensely popular work. First performed in the late 1720s, the great choral masterpiece was scored for a vast ensemble of double chorus, soloists, double orchestra and two organs. Richly dramatic and theatrical, its deeply moving story unfolds …

80 Arrangements For Weddings And Celebrations. What would love be without music - or music without love! Many couples associate unforgettable beautiful hours, a first meeting, or first kiss with a particular song. And composers have always been inspired and stimulated by love, have celebrated romantic love and longing from afar, secret love, and jealousy. In her selection of 80 songs from seven ce…

Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development for Young Concert Band is a complete curriculum for beginning band students to help them grow as ensemble musicians. The series complements any band method and supplements any performance music. It contains 167 exercises, including more than 100 chorales by some of today's most renowned young band composers. Various exercises at the grade 1/2, 1, and 1 1/2 l…

Par BARTOK BELA. Bartók composed his first pedagogical collection For Children between 1908 and 1911. The first edition was issued between 1909 and 1911 in four volumes, comprising two of Hungarian and two of Slovak folk song arrangements. After moving to America, Bartók considered it important to produce new editions of his earlier works. Thus in autumn 1943, together with his new publisher Boose…

Written as a tribute to her husband, this moving Joan Baez song first appeared on her album (I Live) One Day at a Time. Lawson's gentle a cappella setting is quickly learned by large or small ensembles. / Choeur SSA A Cappella

Par HOSAY JAMES L.. The breathtaking beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains in autumn is legendary. James L. Hosay, one of today’s most lyrical composers, brings you a moving impression of that indescribable vista. At its peak, the flowing, glowing melodies are certain to lift every spirit and warm every heart. Bring out the musicianship in your group with this lush new composition. Nice little solos …

Yiddish Rhapsody. Par HOSAY JAMES L.. This moving and beautiful 'Yiddish Rhapsody' includes the songs 'Hine' Ma Tov', 'Black Cherries' and 'Why Is The Sky?”. This skillful arrangement for intermediate level concert band will add drama to your concert or special event and raise your student's awareness of the importance of basic human rights. Drawn from arrangements of Holocaust songs he has done o…

Par KOWALCHYK GAYLE / LANCASTER E. L.. Designed for pianists who are moving into late intermediate to early advanced levels of study, this book features three sections. The first section includes études for the development of specific skills. The second section features selected Hanon exerc / Pédagogie / Etude / Piano

Mallet Chord Studies provides exercises that cover the open and closed positions found in most jazz phrasings on keyboard instruments. The etudes are designed to improve the improvisational skills needed to play all seventh chords in various open and closed positions. They will help the player to become proficient in moving from one chord and scale sequence to another. Though written primarily wit…

Par SCULTHORPE PETER. '. . .the most evocative and moving piece of chamber music composed by an Australian. It is tragic and deeply felt, terse, shattering in its impact.'The Bulletin (Kenneth Robins), 27 September 1969/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

Par BRUCH MAX. Aside from his popular Violin Concerto no. 1, “ Kol Nidrei ” numbers among Max Bruch ’s most famous compositions. The melancholy “Adagio after Hebrew melodies” was written in 1880 for the cellist Robert Hausmann. It treats two old Jewish songs whose extraordinary beauty proved deeply moving to the Protestant Bruch, by his own admission. The tenor Cello sound is the ideal medium for …

Par MATTHEWS DAVID. Setting both English and German texts, Sure of the Sky, Sure of the Sun - Des Himmels sicher, der Sonne sicher is a haunting and moving reflection on the futility of war. The 5-minute piece for SATB choir and brass was premiered at one of the UK's three main World War I centenary commemoration events on 4 August 2014./ Feuillet / Choeur Mixte

Valjean's gentle and moving solo in Les Miserables has been skillfully arranged for Choir of Men's Voices (TTBB) with Piano accompaniment by John Leavitt. Taken from the ever-popular musical, Bring Him Home is a beautifully emotive song, which is guaranteed to move your audience. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Rép International / Feuillet / Chant

Oper in 3 Akten aus dem mährischen Bauernleben. Par JANACEK LEOS. With his third opera Jenufa Leoš Janácek succeeded in making his breakthrough as an operatic composer. Since the premiere of this moving story about the fate of the sexton and her stepdaughter Jenufa at the Brno National Theatre in 1904, it has become one of the composer's most frequently performed works. Janácek was the first to su…