Par LERDAHL FRED. Waltzes, a cycle of twelve virtuoso waltzes for violin, viola, cello, and double bass, was commissioned by the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, where the first nine waltzes were premiered in 1981. Soon thereafter I composed the final three waltzes. The violinist Rolf Schulte led the first performance of the complete work in New York City in 1983. Waltzes lasts about 22 minutes…

Tropus. Par SCHNEIDER ENJOTT. In this composition Schneider uses the famous words from the liturgy for Good Friday: “Darkness fell, and on the ninth hour Jesus called out with a loud voice: My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?” Here he draws on the earlier form of the “trope”, using what was a common device in composition in medieval times, inserted into already completed works as a sort of commenta…

Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Trumpets, uplift ye! loud drum-rolls, now thunder! BWV 214/ Répertoire / Soliste, Choeur Mixte et Orchestre

Boostez votre performance avec ces chansons, toutes spécialement arrangées pour les élèves de niveau 2e année.
Les chansons comprennent Thinking Out Loud (Ed Sheeran), Shotgun (George Ezra), Havana (Camila Cabello), A Million Dreams (The Greatest Showman), Star Wars : Main Theme (John Williams), et plus encore.
Les démonstrations, les pistes d\'accompagnement et les PDF d\'acco…

Put all those 'extra-curricular' sounds your students like to make on their instruments to good use in this fun and entertaining novelty selection. Your audience will laugh out loud as each section takes a turn adding an unusual sound to a simple dance in 3/4 time. As the piece progresses the counting gets more and more challenging, keeping all of your students on their toes. There's even a part f…

This massive collection will keep you fingerpicking for days! It features a fun and diverse collection of 100 great arrangements of classic songs like: Africa · Ain't No Sunshine · Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You · Blackbird · Brave · Careless Whisper · City of Stars · Crazy · Creep · Dust in the Wind · Every Breath You Take · Fire and Rain · Free Fallin' · Fur Elise, WoO 59 · Good Riddance (Time of You…

Par CURNOW JAMES. Perfect for a combined Choral/Band concert as an opener, closer or anywhere in between. This medley of familiar tunes is tied together by the recurring concept that MUSIC SHALL LIVE. A swingin' WADE IN THE WATER, a soulful NOBODY KNOWS THE TROUBLE I'VE SEEN, and an inspiring BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC make it a crowd pleaser. The unison choral part makes sure the chorus can come…

Born in South Africa, but now an Irish citizen, Kevin Volans' musical idiom has been shaped by an unusually diverse range of experiences, including studies with Stockhausen in Cologne, field trips to South Africa to study traditional music, his own involvement with the New Simplicity movement, his collection of contemporary art and African textiles, friendships with composers like Morton Feldman a…

Advanced Professional Techniques. Par PESCATORE PABLE. In this expansive book, versatile Argentine guitarist and teacher Pablo Pescatore provides a masterclass in the theory behind creative rock soloing. From the ground up, he presents the theoretical building blocks of major, minor, pentatonic, and modal scales followed by triads and seventh chords in all keys, not just the guitar-friendly ones. …

Par HARRISON PHIL. Here are some more duets slightly more challenging than the First Duets to get your teeth into. These can be played in any order depending on what kind of technical/musical thing you need to work on, or just what you feel like. Even though I’ve marked these duets in a certain way you could always experiment a bit by seeing how loud/quiet, fast/slow etc. you can make them. It’ll …

The New Decade Series provides great synopses of the musical decades and lets you play the iconic songs along with optional orchestrated backing tracks that make you sound great! The audio is accessed online for download or streaming and features PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right…

The seven-minute composition is based on an English text by John Cage: a quasi-musical calculated succession of 56 short basic questions about music. Singer and instrument have to perform various vocal, playing and breathing techniques, mostly in parallel motion. Their performance develops from a kind of ritual to free expression, with the piece itself becoming an answer to what the text wants to …