Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development for Advanced Concert Band builds upon the concepts in Ensemble Development for Intermediate Concert Band with 399 new exercises that are more technically and musically challenging, including over 70 chorales written by some of today's most renowned composers for concert band, including: Roland Barrett, Chris Bernotas, Andrew Boysen, Ralph Ford, Rossano Galan…

Ideal for intermediate bass guitar players, the book covers several styles of bass playing with example music in both the book and on the provided audio CD. Written as a practice aid for the improvisation part of the LCM Bass Guitar exam, the sections are expertly designed to progress at the perfect pace for the intermediate player. The CD backing tracks are all professionally recorded and cover a…

This exuberant work for soprano soloist, SATB chorus and accompaniment was composed in 1771 (at the age of 15) in Salzburg and is the first of several settings Mozart made for these words. In Latin only - vocal score with piano accompaniment, edited by Richard Platt. / Chant Et Piano

Par PIGA DARIO. Sardinian flamenco guitar virtuoso, Dario Piga, delivers 18 intermediate to advanced exercises in this progressively arranged book addressing: arpegio, pulgar, picado, rasgueo, alzapua, and trémolo techniques. Dario himself studied in Spain with several prominent guitarists and singers, so is fluent with the authentic rhythms and techniques essential to effective flamenco guitar so…

Par ABBA / ULVAEUS BJORN (Arr.). This song by ABBA is the core of the European disco-sound in the eighties. It was released in 1980 when ABBA was in its superstardom. A good tune with almost a sing-along guarantee from the audience. This arrangement in the Young Band series is suitable for many bands as the instrumentation is limited in its demand to number of instruments. In the same series sever…

Viulusonaatti. Par KILPINEN YRJO. Yrjö Kilpinen (1892-1959) is most known for his hundreds of lieds and song cycles. His instrumental compositions have been less know, ie. the six piano sonatas and suite for gamba and piano. Large-scale Sonata for violin and piano is dated in 1935 with opus number 87. The work was never finished, and National Library in Helsinki holds several sketches and versions…

Par PART ARVO. Arvo Pärt came across a legend concerning the patriarch Agathon, from the 4th century, in a book containing stories of The Desert Fathers. They take us back to the cradle of Christian monasticism, in the Egyptian desert, the narrative telling of the meeting between the hermit Agathon and the leper. Agathon is tested several times by the leper. Not until after he has passed these tes…

El Libro Completo de Guitarra Shred. The Complete Book of Shred Guitar focuses on the technical aspects of playing the electric guitar in the shred style. As the guitar plays such an important role in metal, neoclassical and hard rock, much is demanded of lead guitarists. Having precise and effective technique is paramount, and usually the result of disciplined practice and critical listening over…

Arrangeur: Ralf Bienioschek. Par BEATLES THE. The 1967 song 'Penny Lane' is one of the Beatles' biographical songs. Penny Lane is a street in Liverpool, where The Beatles were from, and the song's lyrics reference several aspects of growing up in the city. This arrangement was made by the renowned German recorder soloist and teacher Ralf Bienioschek for his special 'Ralf Bienioschek Signature Edit…

Par TEDESCO TOMMY. This book was written by one of America's greatest studio guitarists, the late Tommy Tedesco. It details his approach to mastering the guitar and his reflections on his remarkable career playing for motion picture and television soundtracks. He includes solos, magazine articles he authored, his reflections on technical aspects of the guitar such as sight reading, and even severa…

Par KIEFER JOHN. A collection of 'classical' transcriptions for modern electric guitar - selections include several of Telemann's flute Fantasias, C.P.E. Bach's Solfegietto, Saint Saens' Danse Macabre, Debussy's Syrinx and more. Guitar techniques involved include alternate and hybrid picking, string skipping and sweep picking in a time-tested context. Includes companion CD of the selections in a v…

Par VAN DER ROOST JAN. Arsenal was composed for the 50th anniversary of the ‘Harmonie van het Spoorwegarsenaal’[railroad arsenal], based in Mechelen (Belgium). Rather a stately concert march, it has beautiful themes and a broad melody in the trio. It was premiered in the Mechelen Cultural Center on the 11th of May 1996 during the solemn ceremony, opening the anniversary year and conducted by the c…

Blues Rhythm Guitar concentrates on the heart of blues music: the rhythm. You'll learn the crucial elements of the style that no guitarist should be without, including blues changes and variations, several shuffle rhythms, slow and fast blues rhythms, how to combine different rhythm parts, and much more. The included CD demonstrates all the concepts and features rhythm tracks so you can try out yo…

This setting of See amid the winter's snow was written for Philip Redfern and the choir of St George's School, Edinburgh, who first performed it in December 2014. The lovely words, which I've adapted slightly from the 19th-century carol by Edward Caswall, have been a part of my Christmas celebrations for as long as I can remember, and there are several wonderful tunes associated with the text. In …

Par KREISLER GEORG. Georg Kreisler was a voice of warning, both severe and understanding, who saw his non-homelike chances in music and language and used them to show his fellow human beings manifold opportunities of feeling and thinking. The first edition of Lieder und Chansons compiles all of Kreisler's marvellously wicked works in several anthologies for voice and piano. Organized by topics lik…