Par HESS NIGEL. Classic FM: Silent Nights is a collection of beautiful carols imaginatively arranged by Nigel Hess for Piano solo, suitable for intermediate to advanced players (Grade 5-7). Charming and nostalgic, these arrangements offer a different perspective on Christmas tunes with which everyone will be familiar. Following a poll conducted by Classic FM to find the nation's favourite traditio…

Par SAUMELL MANUEL. Select 'Contradanzas Habaneras' by 19th century Cuban composer Manuel Saumell (1817-1870). Saumell is known as the 'Father of nationalism in Cuban music'. In more than 50 Contradanzas Habaneras, Saumell never repeated himself, for within those 8 or 16-bar phrases, he was capable of astounding rhythmic and melodic invention. This group of contradanzas were originally written for…

Beati is dedicated to the more than two thousand victims of National Socialist euthanasia killings at the hospital and sanatorium of Kaufbeuren-Irsee. The piece is characterized by speech rhythms and improvisation and also includes the audience. / Choeur Mixte A Cappella

Par COLE GRAHAM. Pentacle a été choisi comme l'éprouvette le championnat 2009 National Brass Band, première Section. C'est un travail de cinq-mouvement, a joué sans interruption. Le Pentacle est l'image d'une étoile à cinq branches up-droit dessinée à l'intérieur d'un cercle avec une seule ligne faisant cinq points également espacés. Traditionnellement, chacune des cinq angles a été attribuée aux …

Par DAUGELA KAZYS. The contemporary Lithuanian composer Kazys Daugla created Festive Rock in celebration of the 2003 Lithuanian national holiday. The premier took place at a concert with not one, but two concert bands being eluminated by the many colours of a concert closing firework display. This unforgettable event led to the piece’s popularity among concert bands. Now it can also become a part …

plus CD: Full performances and Play-Along-Tracks - Piano part to print. Quite a different sort of well-known folk songs: Newly arranged for melodic instrument and piano, slightly jazzy and mixed with pop music elements - making the well-known songs sound fresh and interesting again! All pieces have a very melodic character and sound very pleasant even without piano accompaniment. This is why they …

Upper Elementary to Lower Intermediate Level. Par . 'Upon embarking on this project, I had little idea of what I would find. There were, of course, the 'usual suspects:' women composers whose name and whose music have stood the test of time and are familiar to many. There were also those whose names ring a bell but whose music does not. The real unknowns were, well, the unknowns. How many women co…

This text covers every possible style appropriate to an intermediate book for woodwinds. It includes music from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Twentieth Century eras while representing more than a dozen countries. Original compositions are included to strengthen young artist skills in developing both facility and tone. The musical collection provides a diverse selection of quality repertoir…

New Version 1994. Par HENZE HANS WERNER. Symphony No. 6 was created in the late 1960s, and was first performed in Havana on 26. November 1969 by the Cuban National Orchestra under my direction. This symphony reflects not only the excited atmosphere of awakening during those years but also my efforts to include in the composition the large number of new human and artistic stimuli that I experienced…

Idéale pour les guitaristes acoustiques aynat acquis les bases du Blues et désireux de franchir une étape supplémentaire.Cet ouvrage commence par un rappel des notions de base, la technique, la notation musicale en solfège et en tablature, et les bases de la théorie.Ayant pour socle l'ouvrage BLUES GUITARE ACOUSTIQUE POUR DEBUTANT (MB219), cette méthode aborde rapidement les progressions de blues …

Enzo Gieco composes an exciting work for Flute Quartet with Percussion ad lib accompaniment. From furious, fast passages to legato, lyrical melodies, A Plusieurs Flûtes is an exciting addition to the ensemble repertoire. Gieco's A Plusieurs Flûtes is in six movements - 1) The Brazilian Woman, 2) Orillera 1, 3) The Caribbean Woman, 4) The Bolivian Woman, 5) Orilla 2, and 6) The Star, and incorporat…

There is no rose of such virtue is an anonymous mediaeval text, already well known through beautiful settings by Britten (in his Ceremony of Carols), John Joubert and others. The poem is 'macaronic' (it presents a verse in English, followed by a varying Latin refrain). This new version follows the illustrious examples above by remaining strophic and presenting broadly the same music in a successio…

Leichte Kavallerie. Par VON SUPPE FRANZ. Although he was born in Split, Croatia, of Belgian descent, Franz von Suppé’s nationality is defined less by his actual descendents than by the country and city where he lived and worked and had the great majority of his success, the Austrian capital, Vienna. It was here where, with assistance from the Johan Strausses and Franz Lehar, he helped to assure Vi…