Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. Beethoven's bagatelles are short compositions written over the span of the composer's lifetime, from the early to the late periods. Ranging from easy to intermediate level, these popular pieces display a wide variety of moods and musical ideas and are favourites with students and accomplished pianists alike. The Romantic era abounded in short compositions for piano: etude…

Junior Guest Spot is ideal for beginners and young performers. Play these fifteen hit songs in easy melody line arrangements by Paul Honey, with specially recorded backing tracks. The arrangements are short and simplified, using simple keys and rhythms, with short phrases for comfortable breathing. The accompanying CD contains full performance versions of the songs on tracks 2-16, the instrumental…

Par SPARKE PHILIP. MASQUERADE was commissioned by Stadtmusik Willisau from Switzerland (Reto Güdel, conductor) to celebrate their 175th anniversary in 2003 and first performed by them in November that year. 1. OvertureThe first movement opens with a fanfare-like figure, featuring the brass, before the main them is introduced over staccato chords. After a short, syncopated interlude a legato theme …

Par CURNOW JAMES. What a way to open any concert. Fanfare and Flourishes is a spectacular short work that mixes all the pageantry of a military tattoo with the well-known Charpentier (1634-1705) Te Deum, a tune everyone will recognise as the theme tune for the Eurovision Song Contest! A brilliant piece to start a concert with a bang! What a way to open any concert. Fanfare and Flourishes is a spec…

Tonalité : G-Dur - Woo Vi/5. Par KALLIWODA JOHANN WENZEL. Bohemian-Czech music has always been famous for it’s melodious, extrovert style and lively rhythms. Even the Bohemian church music, which often contains folk-like elements, has this character. With the first publication of the three-voice a-cappella mass by the Prague composer and violin virtuoso Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda, Carus extends it’s …

Junior Guest Spot is ideal for beginners and young performers. Play these fifteen hit songs in easy melody line arrangements by Paul Honey, with specially recorded backing tracks. The arrangements are short and simplified, using simple keys and rhythms, and short phrasing for comfortable breathing. The accompanying CD contains full performance versions of the songs on tracks 2-16, the instrumental…

Belle Nuit, Ô Nuit d'Amour (Barcarolle) (à 2 voix Soprano et Mezzo-Sop. ou Contralto). Par OFFENBACH JACQUES. Les Contes D'Hoffmann or The Tales of Hoffmann is an opera fantastique by Jacques Offenbach, based on three supernatural, gothic tales of German author E. T. A. Hoffmann. Appearing as the protagonist, E. T. A. Hoffmann was a world-renowned author of fantastical and supernatural short stori…

The Magical Witch. Par VANNEBO ELISABETH. “The Magical Witch» is a tango covered with Spider web. After an opening like a horror-movie (first in percussion and then winds), a traditional tango starts. The tango is interrupted by the main theme from “Jaws” and then a short sequence from the shower-scene from “Psycho”. The tango then moves on, only interrupted by short, scary features. The dynamics …

Par SAINT-SAENS CAMILLE. Camille Saint-Saëns composed this Romance, Op. 51, in 1877, originally in the key of D major for cello and piano. The form of the piece is relatively simple, opening with a lyrical melody over a repetitive and somewhat rhythmic accompaniment. The middle section modulates to the key of the flattened 6th scale degree (B-flat major), using this to arrive at the dominant chord…

orchestrated by Ferde Grofé edited by Ryan Raul Bañagale. Par GERSHWIN GEORGE. The names of George Gershwin (1898–1937) and Ira Gershwin (1896–1983) are synonymous across the globe with American musical creativity. The Gershwin family estates, their publishers, and the University of Michigan have joined forces to produce The George and Ira Gershwin Critical Edition—the first-ever scholarly edition…

(He's a relatively short, but strong guy with an interesting accent) New Standards Band Series. Par ADAMS DAN. Mark is a relatively short, but strong guy with an interesting accent. He gives emphasis to everything he does. He often stands out in a crowd, sometimes even wearing a cap to get noticed. Your students will never forget this humorous, yet effective, lesson in marcato playing. / Date paru…

This composition for solo violin was written in 1987 for the violinist Roger Zahab who performed the world premiere in New York. As is typical of Ursula Mamlok, the work of about 5 minutes' duration is very short. In one movement, divided into five short sections, she sums up her musical cause in an extremely virtuoso manner: A powerful opening theme, which varies several times, is followed by a q…

Par STANFORD CHARLES VILLIERS. In recent years Stanford's music has undergone a major reassessment and revival as a new generation of musicians has discovered its format strengths and attractive classical qualitites. These are precisely the virtues of the Fantasia and Toccata, a short yet dramatic pair of movements that begins with quiet melodic paragraphs and swiftly builds to a powerful conclusi…

Par SPARKE PHILIP. Flying the Breeze opens with three repeated B's (representing the initials of the Breeze Brass Band from Japan who commissioned this work). A short introduction leads to a robust theme from the baritones and euphoniums which is taken up by cornets and trombones. A restless bridge passage leads to a syncopated tune from the solo cornet and then to a third theme from a solo trombo…