Par SARASATE PABLO DE. George Bernard Shaw once remarked that although there are many composers of music for the Violin, there are only a few composers of Violin music. But where Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908) is concerned, Shaw declared that the Spanish musician's talents as both a performer and composer 'left criticism gasping miles behind him. ' Famous for his fiery, forceful, and passionate pla…

This First Chart Toppers songbook is a collection of best selling, popular songs arranged for Piano, designed to complement the acclaimed John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course.The songs included in First Chart Toppers are presented in simplified arrangements, making this an ideal repertoire for pupils working through parts two to four of the Easiest Piano Course. The order of the songs is such that…

The Occasional Overture is a piece of two parts, the first meditative and singing with the dotted rhythms that denote grandeur, while the march is confident of victory. Handel composed the Occasional Oratorio - or cobbled it together, as some sources would have it - in the winter of 1746 and performed it almost immediately.The oratorio contained some new music and some borrowings from earlier musi…

Par HARRIS PAUL. Improve your theory! Grades 1-5 are the latest additions to the bestselling 'Improve your …' series by Paul Harris. This theory workbook takes students through every aspect of music theory covered in the grade 1 ABRSM examination. Firmly rooted in Paul Harris's Simultaneous Learning approach, it will transform how music theory is taught and learnt, improving every aspect of musici…

'La Mer?, which is an impressionistic work through and through, was composed between 1903-1905. Debussy however refined this work up until at least 1913. These corrections are found in a score which Debussy gave to his wife as a present for her private library in 1913.The new scholarly-critical edition draws on several important sources previously unavailable to musicologists, resulting in an arra…

Ballet in one prologue and three entrées. Par RAMEAU JEAN-PHILIPPE. 'Les Fêtes d'Hébé' or 'Les Talents Lyriques' (1739) belong to the highly opulent ballet opera genre, which was only common in 18th century courtly France. Rameau's 'Indes Galantes' (1735) is often considered the pinnacle of this “mixed” genre, which connects instrumental music, song and dance in the form of a prologue with subsequ…

Concerto for Brass Band. Par SPARKE PHILIP. Perihelion was commissioned by the Cory Band as their own-choice piece for the 2013 European Brass Band Championships, held in Oslo, Norway. Winning the set piece section of the contest and coming second to Eikanger-Bjorsvik Musikklag with their own choice selection, Cory went on to become European Champions for the fifth time. Cory MD Philip Harper had …

Jake joins the band at school to play clarinet. He continually refuses to play the clarinet correctly as demanded by his band director and private music teacher. Jake is stubborn. All Jake wants to do is play the clarinet his own way until he receives a mysterious letter in the mail from the Clarinet Wizard. The Wizard warns Jake that if he doesn't play his clarinet correctly and folllow his teach…

Teri has a beautiful guitar feature on this ballad that has all the richness and color that Gerald Wilson is known for, while maintaining a contemporary and modern sound. / Ensemble De Jazz

If you've ever felt compelled to play Flight of the Bumblebee on the 5-string banjo, this is the book for you!Challenging banjo transcriptions of classical masterpieces may seem like a humorous anachronism to some, but not for Italian master Claudio Parravicini, a conservatory graduate who, while majoring in French horn, always believed that the banjo was 'a virtuoso instrument capable of enrichin…

Par BRIGGS FRANK. This book offers challenging material for the intermediate to advanced drummer. Addressing a multitude of styles, author Frank Briggs helps guide your playing to a higher plane while improving your technique and raising your awareness of cutting edge concepts such as metric modulation, displaced beats, polyrhythms, and more. Briggs states, 'He believes the more you know about dif…

Pedagogical in nature, these editions offer insightful interpretive suggestions, pertinent fingering, and historical and stylistic commentary.Carl Czerny's (1791-1857) popular set of Piano exercises is now available in an easy-to-read edition containing extensive performance and historical notes that guide teachers and students in the techniques that can be gleaned from each exercise. Although des…

20 Mysterious Easy Piano Pieces. Par HEUMANN HANS-GUNTER. Mystery Piano is ideal for introducing beginners of any age to modern compositions and for their first performances. This volume can be used as a complement to any piano method, thus giving variety to the lessons. The pieces lead the player to mysterious places like Stonehenge or Dracula's Castle and let the magic of Merlin and others come …

Par VAN DER ROOST JAN. Jan Van der Roost was commissioned to write this hymn by the “International Association for Human Rights” in Frankfurt. The commission specified that the instrumentation of this simple hymn should be so, that it can be performed by a variety of combinations of players. The piece starts with an “intrada” for brass ensemble based on the first bars of the hymn, but is “ad libit…

Par MENDONCA VASCO. 'Terrance Hayes? series of sonnets is an extraordinary collection of poems: his poetry captures the spiralling social and political chaos in America (and the world) in a way no newspaper article or scholarly essay has been able to; his words have the rare quality of clarifying a collective feeling that is messy and confusing, an elusive and disturbing combination of fear, hope,…