Volume 3 is perfect for jazz ensemble directors looking for one book to keep their students engaged and progressing all year long, as well as any musician interested in Sher Music's series of world-famous fake books. At over 200 pages, THE REAL EASY BOOK - VOL.3 comes in C, Bb, Eb and bass clef versions. It features 5-10 tunes from each historical era of jazz: Trad Jazz, The Swing Era, Classic Beb…

Wq 217. Par BACH CARL PHILIPP EMMANUEL. His Heilig Wq 217 is just 6 minutes long. Bach, however, put all his art into these few minutes, as he himself wrote to his publisher: „ Here I have proved the most daring and hard work . . . It will be my swan song of this nature, and serve to ensure that you do not forget myself too soon after my death“. The work requires an extraordinary instrumentation: …

Par BARNES LARRY. Cloud Breathing by Larry Barnes, for Oboe and Piano. Cloud breathing is a technique in Chinese martial arts involving short, sharp inhaling breaths and a slow exhale to oxygenate the body in preparation for fighting, meditation and healing. In this work, the piano begins in the upper register with tones like wind chimes, with the oboe entering beneath. This meditative first secti…

Par D'ADAMO DANIEL. “…zik” is a short piece coommissioned by the ensemble “L'Imaginaire” for the celebration of its ten years of activity dedicated to contemporary music. It was first performed on June 23, 2019, in Strasbourg, France. / Date parution : 2022-02-03/ Répertoire / Flûte, Saxophone Ténor et Piano

Par AMMANN DIETER. 'CUTE' in this context, refers to a fusion of compositional techniques between Clarinet and Flute, rather than the literal 'charmingly innocent'.The main idea is to treat the clarinet and flute as converging to a single instrument. Independent voices are therefore rarely heard, the interlocking of the instruments, the blending of the colours are important components. Although th…

Composer and violinist János Lavotta (1764-1820), as a member - together with János Bihari and Antal Csermák - of the ''virtuoso trio'' who played a great role in the history of Hungarian music, was one of the pioneers of verbunkos music. Although his violin duos op. 49 must have also been used for playing music at home, they show the composer's clear educational intent, since the fourteen consecu…

The Grade By Grade series draws on the rich and varied Boosey and Hawkes catalogue of classical, contemporary and educational repertoire, highlighting composers including Serge Prokofieff, Dmitri Shostakovich, Karl Jenkins, Carol Barratt and Christopher Norton, alongside arrangements of traditional music from around the world by Peter Wastall, Vera Gray and others. Carefully selected by Janet Way,…

Every student's first concert is a special experience. Finding the right piece is important: it should be something easily manageable that sounds great, and isn't too long or too short.This collection contains the most beautiful original piano pieces from Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Contemporary music, including some rock, pop and tango. There are works by well-known composers amongst lesser-…

A selection of 33 pieces composed by the Spaniard, Francisco Tárrega, one of the fathers of modern guitar. Although the corpus of his works is not particularly large, after a careful process of selection this anthology includes all his most famous compositions, from Lágrima to his ever popular Capricho árab and the achingly beautiful Recuerdos de la Alhambra, not to mention his Gran vals a short p…

Par MAIZELS YURI. This collection of etudes was written, compiled and edited by Russian oboist and pedagogue Yuri Maizels to provide the most efficient means possible for young players to learn the basics of oboe playing. The composers, Hinke (a German composer who taught and worked in St. Petersburg during the reign of the Tsars), Wiedemann, Garnier and Debondue are among the finest of writers an…

To a greater extent than almost any others, Mozart's Masses combine a very high degree of artistic accomplishment and tonal beauty with fulfilment of the demands made by the Liturgy. Even the textually expansive movements Gloria and Credo are, in most of Mozart's Masses, short enough to meet the requirements of a festive service, today as in his time. The choral parts are not too difficult for…

Par VASKS PETERIS. Peteris Vasks' Summer Dances (Vasaras dejas or Summer Dances) for two violins consists of seven easy dances of different character. The short pieces are lively throughout and ideal for music lessons and performances. / Niveau : Facile / Répertoire / 2 Violons

Use Energize Your Fingers Every Day to develop correct technique from the very beginning. The books in this series by Helen Marlais with Timothy Brown are filled with short, patterned exercises with explicit 'how to? tips that will help you to build technical skills that can be used with all Piano methods.Each technical goal is written under the title of each 4-8 measure piece i.e. balance between…

for Euphonium BC. Par . Steven Mead has chosen this collection of 19 original concert studies by such well-known composers as James Curnow, Jacob de Haan, Jan van der Roost and Allen Vizzutti. It will be of great use to all euphonium players who are looking for short unaccompanied solos. / Date parution : 2024-04-27/ Etude / Baryton/Euphonium BC

Joseph Horovitz. Suite of five pieces for brass quintet: two trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba. Full Score. This work was composed in 1964 at the request of the well known American tuba player Roger Bobo. It was soon taken into the repertoire of the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, who gave the first BBC broadcast. The first recording was on Pye records, by the Hallé Brass Ensemble. Since then it has …