Gioachino Rossini chooses Semiramide as the opera subject of the Carnival season 1822-23, the last of his Italian career. The opera - composed on a libretto by Gaetano Rossi - was performed for the first time in Venice, Teatro La Fenice, on February 3rd 1823. The history of this work is characterized right from the first performances by frequent manipulations, cuts and consecutive adjustments beca…

The Top Ten Most Beautiful Pieces To Play On Piano brings you the most stunning musical outpourings offered by composers over the last 300 years. Lose yourself in heart-rending melodies by Beethoven, Elgar and Debussy. / Piano

This work is part of a cycle of five short pieces for a single instrument and piano, focused on the five ages in the cosmogony of Ancient Mexican civilisation. The peoples of the Mexican highlands believe that time follows specific cycles and that the world was created following the pattern of 'trial and error'. The creation of the world is divided into several periods which are termed 'suns' (we …

Par VARINI MASSIMO. The FINGERBOARD series was created to progressively improve upon fretboard knowledge, sight-reading, and all other topics, and to be included in a study plan that corresponds to the other volumes in my catalogue of educational material. In this 4th Volume of the FINGERBOARD series we get a deeper knowledge of MELODIC ARPEGGIOS: that’s why I named it ARPEGGIOLOGY. 3, 4 and 5 not…

(Lonely Angel). Par VASKS PETERIS. For my Meditation for violin and string orchestra Lonely Angel, I was guided by the following vision: An angel hovers over the world, contemplating the state of the battered Earth with tears in his eyes. But an almost imperceptible, loving touch with his wings brings comfort and healing. This piece is a response to the pain. The solo part of the violin lends a so…

La leçon de compagnon à ' La mandoline de Bill Monroe : un à un avec le maître ' est un outil d'enseignement pratique produit surtout pour le joueur de mandoline en développement qui veut apprendre les subtilités de Bill Monroe style puissant et technique. Mandoliniste vétéran Sam Bush dissèque dix-huit des morceaux joués sur la leçon novateur du projet de loi, leur part prenant note-pour-note en …

Performance Pieces, Etudes and Technical Exercises for Advanced-Level Pupils - Expanded, revised ed.. Par MOSOCZI MIKLOS. This publication is a completely revised edition of our five-volume guitar tutor. In the decades since the first edition, the musical interests of our students and their practice possibilities have changed. To adapt to this, we have partly expanded and partly reduced the musica…

Jim Papoulis fait don de ses redevances de compositeur à la Fondation pour petites voix, une organisation à but non lucratif dédiée à la sensibilisation et de financement de programmes de soutien à l'autonomisation des enfants dans le monde en favorisant leur créativité à travers la musique et des modèles. / Choeur Mixte (SAB) Et Piano

Symphony for Winds, Percussion and Pre-recorded Soundscape. Par SHAPIRO ALEX. IMMERSION brings listeners on a sonic journey into a private, aquatic realm. Beneath the surface of the ocean is a world of liquid beauty and grace hidden from our eyes and from our imagination. Follow your ears and your heart to the deepest unseen places we often neglect to consider. Shapiro's electroacoustic wind symph…

Liebeslieder nach Gedichten von Catarina Carsten. Par REGNER HERMANN. As a professor of music education and elementary composition at the Orff Institute in Salzburg which he was instrumental in establishing, the composer Hermann Regner (1928–2008) examined the work of Carl Orff and, like him, rendered outstanding services as a composer to the work with the young generation of up-and-coming musicia…

Par REIBEL EMMANUEL. Cet essai interroge la façon dont se sont articulées historiquementles relations entre la musique et la révolution industrielle, de façon générale, et entre les musiciens et les machines, de façon particuliêre. Du métronome au gramophone, en passant par les orchestres mécaniques ou par les premiêres diffusions téléphoniques de la musique, ce livre montre comment au xixe siècle…

Par ROSSINI GIOACHINO. Aside from The Barber Of Seville, most of Rossini's thirty-nine operas are revived only rarely today. The overtures to his operas, however, are another matter entirely. Evergreen in their appeal, many remain popular mainstays of orchestral repertoires worldwide, loved by audiences for their elegance, lively rhythms and beautiful melodies. This volume contains five of the mos…

Par GRANDGIRARD MELANIE. Écouter et fredonner Goldman aux tout-petits ! Avec ce livre sonore, l'enfant découvre les classiques de Goldman. Il s'amuse à chercher la puce dans une scène tendre et colorée, et appuie dessus pour lancer la musique tout seul. Un vrai moment de complicité et d'émotion à partager avec bébé. Dans ce livre : - Quand la musique est bonne ; - Je te donne ; - Envole-moi ; - En…

14 des plus grands titres du grand Bob Marley en arrangements piano facile, voix et diagrammes d'accords guitare. Titres : Buffalo Soldier - Could You Be Loved - Get Up Stand Up - I Shot The Sheriff - Is This Love - Jamming - No Woman No Cry - One Love - Redemption Song - Satisfy My Soul - Stir It Up - Sun Is Shining - Three Little Birds - Waiting In Vain / Piano

Kantate Zum Sonntag Jubilate. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. On the 2nd March 1714 Bach, who until then had been employed as a chamber musician and organist at he Court of Duke Wilhelm Ernst in Weimar, was promoted to the position of concert master, and was instructed to relieve the ailing Kapellmeister Johann Samuel Drese by composing and performing 'new pieces monthly' for the church. Following the …