A series available as violin duets or violin and piano.Whether a student or a great artist, the desire to make a beautiful sound is a constant in the life of any musician. Sound is the musician's voice, the means of communicating an artistic vision to the audience and it should be the aim for children of any age or standard to be engaged in good tone production.The inspiration for writing these pi…

Par HOSAY JAMES L.. This regal and stately fanfare-opener is a sterling new offering for band. Sixteen opening bars of thrilling fanfare lead inexorably to a theme expressing dignified momentum. Frequent but simple meter changes help to make this an interesting and educational piece that both the band and the audience will enjoy. A recap of the opening fanfare brings the piece to an exciting finis…

'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…

No. 2 The Little Land (Barcarolle). Par TREDICI DAVID DEL. From Del Tredici's Program notes: “In this traumatic post-9/11 world, I felt an urge to connect with, and even comfort, the youngest generation of budding musicians. Heart and felt are two words that directed my choice of texts: I wanted to tell something about myself, as well as about the joys of childhood . . . Stevenson's The Little Lan…

Par IGUDESMAN ALEKSEY. Brace yourselves, Beethoven lovers and purists everywhere; here is the famous Fifth Symphony as you never dared to imagine it! In “Beethoven Takes Five”, Aleksey has changed the meter to an audacious 5/4… but that’s just the beginning of his machinations! He throws in Mexican music, latin, swing and jazz and, in his own words, “all sorts of other abominations on top”. The re…

Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe are perhaps the most thrilling young duo performing today, offering adrenalized classical concerts that are revolutionizing the piano duo experience for the 21st century. Described as 'Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers transposed from the dance floor to the keyboard' (The Southampton Press) and 'the intense synchronization of genius' (ThirdCoast Digest), Greg and L…

Par OTTO M. SCHWARZ. This advanced work by Otto M. Schwarz is full of exciting time changes that follow affect the pulse rhythmically and melodically, in exciting and unexpected ways. The solo trumpet's displays of technical prowess and bravura alternate with the film score- like sections of the piano. The slow, almost elegiac, central section can be performed on the flugel horn, while the closing…

While he was still in Bonn, perhaps in 1792 the year he departed for Vienna, Beethoven wrote this Duo for Violin and Violoncello. We do not know whether he ever completed his work as only the beginning of a fast sonata movement has survived. It is on a page in a collection of sketch leaves that is today known as the 'Kafka Miscellany?. Robert D. Levin has completed this fragment in the same style …

Contemporary Japanese composer, Yuko Uebayashi moved to Paris in 1998. Uebayashi 's works have been met with much success in both Japan and France, Sonata for Flute and Piano being no exception. Flautist Jean Ferrandis described Uebayashi 's works as 'gems that, although they are so different, they yet belong to the same world, a world of vivacity, dreams, tenderness, humour, and one that is subtl…

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 3 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…

Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Fine edition contains all eight Piano trios, the two Piano quartets and the Piano quintet, reprinted from the definitive Breitkopf and Hartel editions. All of these works display the melodic richness, inventiveness and inimitable grace that characterize Mozart's finest compositions. Indispensable for pianists and chamber musicians. Fine edition contains all eight Piano…

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…

America has, for hundreds of years, been a country built on tradition, the most powerful of which may be the hope that their children might have a better life. Father/daughter songwriting team Laurie and Larry Hochman have created a tribute to the American dream that connects the past, present and future, framed with the treasured America the Beautiful. Ideal for schools and community concerts for…

An excellent, fresh-feeling set of 25 songs for Primary age children that contains something for everyone!Packed with great songs that children will love to sing - fantastic new repertoire as well as previously unfeatured favourites from within the Starshine catalogue. Ideal for Christmas concerts and assemblies. / Voix

Arrangeur: Rou Reynolds. Par ENTER SHIKARI. Dear Future Historians: Lyrics and exegesis of Rou Reynolds for the music of Enter Shikari 2006-2019 charts the lyrical creativity of the hardcore rock-metal band, through their five hugely successful albums. Bringing together the popular 2017 limited hardback edition Dear Future Historians and 2018 limited paperback The Spark, this updated and expanded …