Par LOPEZ VICTOR. Give your students the opportunity of playing a piece for beginning strings that is upbeat and full of excitement! Violento, is an original beginning strings composition by veteran composer Victor López. This exciting work is a forceful and rhythmically driven composition that sounds more difficult than written. A mixture of the danzón---Cuba's unique genre of song and dance---an…

Par BROUWER LEO. Composed in 1960 and revised in 1994, this wonderfully lyrical solo Sonata offers a substantial challenge to the performing Cellist. The piece has a three-part structure, with a lively and playful central Scherzo flanked by two exciting Allegro movements, with melodic material that ranges from a clipped pizzicato to a rapid tremolo. A superb showcase that explores the full range o…

The Playlist presents a red hot collection of songs that took the world of rock by storm in 2005, all transcribed in accurate Guitar Tab. Here's your chance to learn the very best tunes by the guitar bands that have been hitting the headlines and scaling the charts in 2005! Every song has been transcribed in the original key, straight off the actual recordings, including smash hits by Franz Ferdin…

From the Classic Hot Licks Video Series Newly Transcribed and Edited!. Par BURTON JAMES. For the first time, the legendary Hot Licks guitar instruction video series is being made available in book format with online access to all of the classic video footage. All the guitar tab from the original video booklets has been re-transcribed and edited using modern-day technology to provide you with the m…

Movie themes have their own special appeal. Their role is to convey and amplify the atmosphere and emotions of moving pictures. In many cases they take on a life of their own and it is such titles as these, classics in their own right, which we selected for this book.With a lot of effort and patience in both arranging this broad musical palette and recording the play-along CD, Alfred Music Publish…

Arr. Frederik Kampstra. Par BULLA STEPHEN. Authentic Big Band swing style music for the concert band! You know this one will be a crowd pleaser, and SO much fun to play! Stephen Bulla works his magic with the great Jazz sounds of the 40s and 50s in such a way that your band will be able to put it together and make it happen. Lots of great jazz style articulation and harmonic considerations ensure …

Arrangements for Solo Acoustic Guitar 2 - more instrumentals from a national champion.Pete Huttlinger continues his exploration of the guitar arrangements that have won him accolades throughout the acoustic guitar world - and a National Fingerstyle Championship! An engaging and accomplished instructor, Pete brings his spectacular playing with dramatic performance pieces that are as challenging as …

Par . Scale, chord, arpeggio and cadence studies in all major and minor keys presented in a convenient two-page format. Includes an in-depth 12 page explanation that leads to complete understanding of the fundamentals of major and minor scales, chords, arpeggios and cadences plus a clear explanation of scale degrees and a two-page guide to fingering the scales and arpeggios. In addition, several '…

Arrangeur: James Galway. Par LETHIERE CHARLES. Charles Le ThiÚre's Maritana Fantasy is a lyrical and dramatic work along the lines of the famous Fantaisies of Paul Taffanel and Francois Borne. It is based on themes from the three act opera Maritana, the first of six operas composed by William Vincent Wallace. The plot, which is often cited as the inspiration for Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera,…

Par SHEPPARD MIKE. Commissioned by Jo McNally for the 2016 AMIS European Middle School Honor Boys' Choir Festival at Frankfurt International School. Noster Nostri explores the idea of the past and the present, as seen from a male perspective — that of son, brother, father. It looks back through history, adopting a melodic and harmonic style that could have been written over a century ago. / Choral…

Media Type : BookLevel : IntermediateMusical Genre : JazzNumber of pages : 96 Enormous demands are placed on the control and manual dexterity of the contemporary drum set player, particularly in the Jazz idiom. Today's drummer is expected to have developed limb coordination to a degree that would have been thought unachievable a few short years ago. This text presents an effective method of dealin…

Solo And Chamber Works. Par KURTAG GYORGY. Signs, Games and Messages are series for solo instruments and small chamber ensembles. Each of the three notions refers to an essential factor in Kurtág’s music. Signs ties it with the composer’s period of study in Paris as a young man, when he could not compose, merely put graphic signs on the paper. Games links with his nine-volume series for the piano …

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…

Par WILSON CHRISTOPHER. This is part of a series of inter-related instrumental workbooks for keyboard, guitar, bass guitar and percussion. Planned so that concepts are carefully introduced, consolidated and extended, this is the second of three workbooks each containing twenty-five units. They support and complement the teacher's resource through an innovative approach that encourages a creative a…

Not every singer can write a song - not every songwriter can sing... This stunning collection celebrates 26 of the greatest male artists who have combined the skills of song craft and performance to dazzling effect. The last fifty years of pop music has seen folk singers, rock icons, sultry soloists and punk revolutionaries all prove that nothing is more important than the right song, sung by the …