Par DE HAAN JACOB. Jacob de Haan was commissioned to write Choral Music a concert band from Dinxperlo (Netherlands). This band gave the work its premiere in 1997 during the World Music Contest in Kerkrade. Choral Music is based on the chorale Sollt ich meinem Gott nicht singen by the seventeenth century German composer Johann Schop. Contrary to the title, Choral Music has nothing in common with a …

17 Duet Arrangements For Middle Grade Players From Ireland, Scotland And Brittany. These duet arrangements of traditional music from Scotland and Ireland with a few original pieces by Florian Bramböck himself will make excellent concert performance material for intermediate clarinet players and beyond. Exciting arrangements of famous traditional music from Scotland, Ireland and Brittany Learn ty…

Beethoven's Sonata in G is published as part of ABRSM's 'Signature' series - a series of authoritative performing editions of standard keyboard works, prepared from original sources by leading scholars. Includes informative introductions and performance notes. / Piano

Par HANNICKEL MIKE. History! Introduce a bit of good old early-Americana to your audiences this year. GEORGE WASHINGTON SUITE is made up of three tunes known to have been composed for (or about) George and Martha Washington in their own time. Probably the best known of the three is the first movement, WASHINGTON’S GRAND MARCH, which is believed to have been written by Francis Hopkinson. He was one…

The great Austrian composer's most highly regarded work, a fusion of song and symphony epitomizing both his genius and the very spirit of late Romanticism. Reprinted from the original Viennese edition published in 1912 by Universal Edition, with English translations of song texts.

This edition from The Little Black Book series features a pocket-sized collection of over 70 All-Time Smash Hits presented in chord songbook format, arranged in the same keys as the original recordings with chord symbols, guitar chord boxes and complete lyrics. / Paroles Et Accords

The Sondheim For Singers series is the most comprehensive multi-volume collection of Sondheim songs ever published.Each volume has a different contents list and includes songs in original keys, as well as appropriate transpositions. An extensive introductory section, featuring plot synopses and comments from Sondheim about his music and shows, is also included.This volume is for Baritone/Bass sing…

Description Ravel brought to the art of the song that distinctive fusion of classicism and the modern spirit that characterized all his musical works. This superb collection includes many of his most admired and performed songs and song cycles. Reprinted from authoritative French editions and with new English translations of the original French texts. Edited by Arbie Orenstein. Songlist Cha…

English Folk Tunes contains 29 original arrangements of traditional and contemporary tunes including ballads, sea shanties, and carols. Most of the pieces are arranged for solo guitar, with several also offered as trios and with accompaniments.Experienced folk guitarist, and author of Scottish Folk Tunes for Guitar (ED 13359) Hugh Burns provides notes on all of the pieces, as well as playing tips,…

Par DVORAK ANTONIN. Dvorák's 'String Quintet in G major” op. 77, had five movements when it was premiered on 18 March 1876. Its second movement was the 'Intermezzo” from his 'String Quartet in E minor” (1870). Later Dvorák removed this movement from the quintet, expanded it, and published it as a separate 'Notturno” for string orchestra op. 40. The 'Intermezzo” is included in its original version …

Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. Volume 1 of Beethoven’s Sonatas for violin and piano includes the Three Sonatas Op. 12 composed around 1797/98 as well as the Sonatas Opp. 23 and 24 composed in 1800, the latter later becoming known under the epithet 'Spring Sonata'. Right from the start, Beethoven’s violin sonatas are duets for two equal partners. Musically, they are of different characters and are in no…

Op 45 No. 2. Par DVORAK ANTONIN. Dvorak composed the 'Slavonic Rhapsodies' op. 45 in 1878, launching his so-called 'Slavonic period'. When they were issued by the publisher Simrock the following year, these three self-contained orchestral pieces in D major, G minor and A-flat major were gathered together into a single opus. The 'Slavonic Rhapsodies' are now available in separate scholarly-critica…

In 1648 Heinrich Schütz published a collection of 29 motets with five to seven parts titled 'Geistliche Chor-Music? (Sacred Choir Music). Here, the term 'Chor? (choir) refers not only to a (large) vocal ensemble but, more generally, to a group of musicians, vocal or instrumental. As explained by Schütz in the foreword he published with the collection, all parts of the motets can be performed vocal…

Par DIAMOND EILEEN. Paul Harris ’ Clarinet Basics series is widely regarded as the leading method for beginner Clarinet players and their teachers. Starting at absolute beginner level and progressing to about Grade 2, the new edition of Clarinet Basics (Pupil’s book) offers a fresh design, clear technical drawings, fun illustrations, new activities, pull-out fingering chart and of course all of th…

Ricordi, the well-known printer of classical opera, presents the works of the great opera composers in its CRITICAL EDITION · PRACTICAL SERIES. These revised definitive scores are produced by using all the currently available sources ranging from the original autographs to printed editions, in line with strict philological and critical criteria. Each edition has a brief introduction providing the …