Aulos to a certain degree continues Orbán's easy piano pieces for children, which he composed for Ágnes Lakos's piano tutor and which Editio Musica Budapest published in a separate volume entitled Enchanted Forest in 2011 (Z. 14742). Yet on this occasion the composer took on something which was both significantly different and more than his earlier pieces for children. On the one hand, he did not …

Does the thought of sight-reading make you groan? The ability to sight-read fluently is a vital skill, enabling you to learn new pieces more quickly and play with other musicians. The best-selling Improve your sigh-reading! series, by renowned educationalist Paul Harris, is designed to help you overcome all your sight-reading problems, especially in the context of graded exams. Step by step you bu…

A workbook for examinations including over 100 practice tests for Associated Board exams, supporting the new syllabus requirements from 2012. The ability to sight-read fluently is a vital skill, enabling you to learn new pieces more quickly and play with other musicians. The best-selling Improve your sight-reading! series, by renowned educationalist Paul Harris, is designed to help you overcome al…

Par HARRIS PAUL. A workbook for examinations including over 60 practice tests for Associated Board exams, supporting the new syllabus requirements from 2012. The ability to sight-read fluently is a vital skill, enabling you to learn new pieces more quickly and play with other musicians. The best-selling Improve your sight-reading! series, by renowned educationalist Paul Harris, is designed to help…

A workbook for examinations including over 60 practice tests for Associated Board exams, supporting the new syllabus requirements from 2012. The ability to sight-read fluently is a vital skill, enabling you to learn new pieces more quickly and play with other musicians. The best-selling Improve your sight-reading! series, by renowned educationalist Paul Harris, is designed to help you overcome all…

Par HARRIS PAUL. A workbook for examinations including over 100 practice tests for Associated Board exams, supporting the new syllabus requirements from 2012. The ability to sight-read fluently is a vital skill, enabling you to learn new pieces more quickly and play with other musicians. The best-selling Improve your sight-reading! series, by renowned educationalist Paul Harris, is designed to hel…

Par CHOSTAKOVITCH DIMITRI. Just back from a trip to Leipzig in the early autumn of 1950 where he heard Bach's Well-Tempered Klavier at the Bicentennial Bach Competition played by the Russian pianist Tatiana Nikolaeva, Shostakovich began his own series of 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87, based on Bach's model. He composed them quickly, starting on October 10, 1950, and finishing on February 23, 1951…

Par HOLLIGER HEINZ. Heinz Holliger has dealt intensively with Friedrich Hölderlin and Robert Schumann. The third movement of his Partita, a Barcarole, is preceded by the motto: ‘We should let ourselves be cradled | As if on a boat rocking on the sea.’ These lines have been taken from the poem ‘Mnemosyne’ (Memory) by Hölderlin. The piece starts in the rhythm of old gondola songs. But sometimes it l…

Par D\'ADAMO DANIEL. ?Quatuor n°2? was first performed by the Tana string quartet on April 14, 2013, at Radio France, Paris. ?I conceived a piece whose principal subject was going to consist in the description of a minuscule sonic element. The description of this tiny initial material would be so precise, so detailed that, deployed on a much larger scale than its original one, it would occupy the …

Par MATSUDA MASA. The half life of Masa Matsuda (Masa-san) is here! Masa Matsuda has been a performer of Electone and keyboard harmonica (pianica). Known as “Masa-san”, Masa Matsuda has created a one-of-a-kind performance style and a variety of genre-borderless works. In recent years, he has been focusing on arrangements and compositions for piano. This volume contains arrangements for piano of wo…

for four male voices. Par BRYARS GAVIN. Glorious Hill may be performed by a male choir. Text by Pico della Mirandola (1463-1497) from De Hominis Dignitate. Glorious Hill was commissioned by the Hilliard Ensemble and first performed by them at its summer Festival of Voices in Lewes, Sussex, in August 1988. It was the first piece I wrote for the ensemble and I focused on the singers' unique abilit…

Par PASTORE CARMINE. A Grade 1 rock anthem! It’s a perfect way to keep your beginners motivated while you drill them on that new concept called “eighth notes. ” Lots of repetition of simple eighth note figures will help your young band players enter the fascinating world of the divided beat with ease. This solid minor key rock-type piece will also help to keep your audience attentive by letting th…

Op. 79. Par BRAHMS JOHANNES. Brahms' vivacious 'Rhapsodies” op. 79 of 1879 are among his most frequently played works. He had a hard time finding a suitable title for them, vacillating between 'Piano Piece”, 'Capriccio” (No. 1) and ”Caprices”. His hand was forced by the dedicatee Elisabeth von Herzogenberg, who welcomed the pieces with the salutation 'Ye (to me) nameless ones in the nebulous garb …