St. Michael. Par BOURGEOIS LOUIS. The French composer Louis Bourgeois lived from c. 1510 to 1560. Bourgeois was cantor in Geneva and, commissioned by John Calvin, he composed melodies for metrical (rhyming) versions of the psalms. After completing about a hundred one-part psalms, he made some four-part arrangements, which were denounced and even resulted in his imprisonment for a day. Later, Bourg…

Par JOHNSON TIMOTHY. This delightful piece describes the robust nature of the many beautiful scenic lakes formed around the Cumberland River in Kentucky USA. An enchanting short concert work for beginner bands. / Niveau : 1 / Pièce de concert / Répertoire / Concert Band

Par MC LACHLAN MURRAY. The Psychology of Piano Technique is much more than a musical self-help book, dealing with a large range of topics and problems which pianists of all levels constantly face. This fourth volume in the Piano Professional series takes a technical perspective on what have traditionally been seen as psychological issues, presenting a new approach for performing musicians and thei…

Joining The Dots' offers guitarists lots of material to help build confidence and skill in sight-reading. The series brings together a range of activities to help students improve their sense of fingerboard geography, helping them to read new music more quickly and easily.The five books cover the requirements for ABRSM's sight-reading tests at each of Grades 1 to 5, and include:many short, charact…

Short Works and Selected Sonatas. Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. This comprehensive volume contains 134 pieces from Early Intermediate to Early Advanced level, including Beethoven's complete bagatelles, various dances, sonatinas, selected variation sets, and some of his most popular sonatas. / Classique / Recueil / Piano

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,…

Variation on a theme by Rameau. Par CASKEN JOHN. This short solo piano piece is a variation on a theme by Rameau. Casken has created in this work a broad Gaelic sound world along with sultry Debussian colours. The piece was written for the British pianist Stephen Gutman for his Rameau Project in 1999. / Date parution : 2003-11-20/ Recueil / Piano

Arrangeur: Matt Johnston. Par HERBERT VICTOR. L'Encore is a short vignette originally composed for Flute, Clarinet (in A) and orchestra accompaniment. For this edition with piano reduction, to transpose the A Clarinet part for B-flat Clarinet would put the clarinet in an awkward key, so instead, included in the volume are additional transposed parts for the flute and piano. Thus, the clarinetist w…

Par VAN DER ROOST JAN. Jan Van der Roost originally composed each and every note of ‘Slavia’ (as in case in ‘Puszta’, ‘Rikudim’ and ‘A Highland Rhapsody’). Consequently, ‘Slavia’ does not contain any arrangement of existing tunes, but is an original composition ‘in the style of…’. The introduction has an ABA structure and exposes a broad melodic line. Following a short cadenza, there is a second m…

Par BOMHOF GERT. Following Malletino and Fun-4-All, this work is the third in a series of compositions for five mallet instruments and five percussion instruments (including bongos and timpani). Malletino was written specifically for beginnerpercussion ensembles, whereas the technical and musical level required for Sequenza Percussola is clearly higher. In short, this work is a challenge for the e…

Par BOESMANS PHILIPPE. Ph. Boesmans 'intègre [...] la référence aux musiques du passé à travers trois gestes compositionnels : l'écriture en palimpseste, les libres réminiscences et les citations assumées' écrit Cécile Auzolle dans un article de 2016 'Composer avec ce qui existe' [...]'. Cette nouvelle parution Tunes, pour piano, est en fait une reprise remaniée de son Love and Dance Tunes créée …

Par PUCCINI GIACOMO. Puccini wrote the short Requiem – actually the setting of the antiphon to the Introit of the Mass for the Dead – as a commission for the publisher Giulio Ricordi for the fourth anniversary of the death of Giuseppe Verdi, which occurred on 27 January1905. Today the work is often performed, since this setting for three voices can be easily performed by amateur choirs and require…

Making music on Skype? Impossible? No, here is a printed world premiere for two violins composed by a violin playing globetrotter. The title Miles and More says it all and you will not be disappointed. Aleksey Igudeman's duets range from the Distance Indication to Miles Davis. Performance tips and short stories about the origin of these miniature pieces complete this extraordinary volume. / 2 Viol…

Par LUTYENS ELISABETH. This new engraved edition of Elizabeth Lutyens? Sinfonia continues Schott?s commitment to re-publishing Lutyen?s works which have previously only been available in manuscript. As one of the great 20th century serial composers, in this mature work, Lutyens mixes formal structures of palindromes and canons across a number of short movements. / Date parution : 2023-07-31/ Répe…

Par LISZT FRANZ. Despite having already assumed the costs for a monument to Beethoven in Bonn, Liszt's spiritual affinity for Beethoven also moved this greatest piano virtuoso of the nineteenth century to pay an even finer tribute: a superlative set of piano transcriptions of the master's nine symphonies. Liszt's brilliant and sensitive transcriptions enabled 19th century audiences and amateur pia…