Par HOUBEN KEVIN. Commandé par WMC Kerkrade (NL) Dédié à mon cher ami et source d’inspiration: Maestro Tijmen Botma Le titre APATHEIA trouve son origine dans le stoïcisme et est décrit de manière pertinente dans le best-seller international Ikigai – The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life. Les stoïciens ne recherchaient pas la gloire ou le succès matériel, mais la paix intérieure: l’absence d…

More Than Hymns is a new two-volume collection of anthems for mixed voice choirs featuring extended arrangements of existing hymn tunes, together with original anthem-style settings of the texts of several well known hymns. Of the sixteen works in this first volume, six are published here for the first time, including new arrangements by composers of today: Malcolm Archer, Rogers Covey-Crump, John…

Offertorium In Festo Sti Benedicti. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Since the autograph of the offertory 'Scande coeli limina' KV 34 has not survived, the discovery of the oldest existing copy of the parts in 1998 in the archives of the Holy Chapel in Altötting were a significant contribution to the preservation of this work. Robert Münster discovered the parts, the new source upon which the present …

from La Vida Breve. Par DE FALLA MANUEL / ELLIS NICHOLAS (Arr.). Drawn from his early opera La vida breve (1905), de Falla’s Spanish Dance No. 1 has become one of his most celebrated pieces. Bursting with rhythmic fire and Andalusian colour, it captures the spirit of Spanish folk tradition with its driving pulse, passionate melodies, and sudden shifts between delicacy and intensity. In this arrang…

Part I-VI. Par EGGERT MORITZ. Hämmerklavier' is a full-length cyclical work. The composer tries casting off the straight-jacket of hide-bound musical traditions, sending the listener on a voyage of discovery and liberation. The 'Hämmer' of the title refers not to the action of the pianoforte nor to Beethoven’s 'Hammerklaviersonate' but to the mental approach required of the performer who needs to …

Unlike some of his other late works, Franck's Violin Sonata (HN 293), composed in 1886, was well-received by the public and critics from the very start. The beautiful arrangement for cello published in January 1888 distinguishes itself from the numerous other arrangements in that Franck expressly authorised it. The cellist Jules Delsart, who had heard a performance of the sonata in Paris in Decemb…

Par PANUFNIK ROXANNA. When I was approached by Salisbury Cathedral to write a 30th anniversary anthem for their Girl Choristers, I immediately thought of the traditional 30th wedding anniversary symbol  a pearl. When George Herbert was also requested, it was incredible serendipity that he had actually written a poem of that title: The Pearl. Matthew 13:45. This was inspired by the very short parab…

Par COULOMB LAURENT. Cette Valse précieuse et lunatique est un clin d’œil à un genre majeur de la musique pour piano des XIXe et XXe siècles, à la fois parodie et hommage (à Chopin, à Poulenc). Conformément à son titre, elle présente des caractères variés qui alternent dans une forme simple en arche (ABCBA), tour à tour distinguée (précieuse) et légèrement mélancolique, mais aussi capricieuse et j…

Media Type : Book Level : Beginning-Intermediate Musical Genre : All Styles Number of pages : 40 This book offers a large number of essential chords and scales for the DADGAD tuning of the guitar. The material assembled here opens up a multitude of possibilities to expand and improve your playing in this unique tuning. Chords are shown in their customary harmonic contexts, instead of just listing…

A Logical Method for Enhancing Your Jazzabilities. Par BAUMGARTNER ERIC. Book 2 of a two-volume series that presents the fundamentals of jazz in a logical and accessible way, primarily through short progressive exercises. Ideal for classically-trained pianists in traditional lessons who may be a little cautious to learn jazz, as well as for players simply wishing to expand their existing 'jazzabil…

Newly Revised!. Par GRUNOW RICHARD F. / MARTIN MICHAEL. The newly revised Jump Right In: The Instrumental Series for Strings incorporates hundreds of improvements designed to make the series practical, engaging, and, most of all, musical. Like its counterparts for winds and recorder, the string series includes high-quality CD recordings of folk songs and melodies and performances by some of the wo…

herausgegeben von Fulvio Luciani. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. A new critical edition of Bach?s Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin ? possibly the very pinnacle of the whole repertoire for violin ?, by violinist Fulvio Luciani. The edition is based on the autograph and is equipped with an apparatus of critical notes: they indicate problems with the reading of the original source, suggest possible n…

Boasting a star-studded cast and music by Academy Award-winning composer Howard Shore, the 2015 film Spotlight tells the story of The Boston Globe's watershed 2002 investigation of the sexual abuse of minors by Catholic priests. Regarding the main title theme, Howard Shore commented, 'The piano has such a black and white, ebony and ivory quality to it. It was the instrument that I felt could be th…

Par BATTAGLIA DODI. Note pour note transcriptions de seulement le plus célèbre. CD avec moins-un de base. Introduction technique et notes par Philadelphe Castro. Grâce à l'étude de la seule dans ce livre, il ya l'épaisseur d'un musicien qui a certainement contriber quarante années de sa carrière distinguée, l'évolution de l'Italien pop-rock guitare. Car il n'est pas guitariste qui n'a pas appris d…

This authoritative edition presents full-score reproductions of three of Liszt?s best-known symphonic poems. Les Preludes (Symphonic Poem No.3) grew out of the composer?s unpublished choral setting of Joseph Autran?s poem ?The Four Elements?, blending stirring martial music and lovely pastoral themes to make this work the most popular of the symphonic poems. Mazeppa (Symphonic Poem No.6) evokes Vi…