Johann Kuhnau, who preceded Johann Sebastian Bach as Thomas Cantor in Leipzig, left a wealth of works, including pivotal compositions for keyboard instruments. Now for the first time all of these works are appearing in one volume. Peter Wollny, an Early Music specialist, supervised the volume from a scholarly point of view. Ornaments that are no longer usual today have been explained so that espec…

Par BEATLES THE. This surprisingly compact pocket-sized book boasts a massive 195 songs by the Liverpudlian heroes, all arranged with full lyrics and guitar chords. From She Loves You to The Long And Winding Road , this collectable edition features all the Beatles tunes you could ever want to play, and each song is complete with a handy chord reference sheet. An ideal addition to your guitar case,…

My Violin Concerto is scored for a Classical-sized orchestra, with the addition of a harp and celeste, and lasts around 17 minutes. Although the work sets out to explore the lyrical characteristics of the solo instrument, it is only gradually that the violin finds its full, lyric voice, and thence, as the work progresses, a more dominant role. This, in one sense, is the 'journey' of the piece.The …

Thelonious Monk ? Omnibook for Piano
Transcribed Exactly from His Recorded Solos
All Alone
April In Paris
Ask Me Now
Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are (Bolivar Blues)
Bemsha Swing
Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
Blue Monk
Body And Soul
Bright Mississippi
Bye-Ya
Darn That Dream
Dinah

Par KNUSSEN OLIVER. Michael Steinberg says 'I hear in this Symphony an extraordinary feeling for the sound of poetry and for its meanings, a sure skill in timing and in plotting the motions from event to event, and beyond any question, that gift without which you might as well give up being a composer, the gift of writing music that keeps you fully absorbed.' Boston Globe, March 1972/ Répertoire /…

Edizione Critica F. Della Seta - Riduzione Per Canto E Pianoforte. Par ROSSINI GIOACHINO. Composed in 1818 on commission from an unknown individual in Lisbon, Adina was left to languish some years until its premiere in 1826, with a single performance in that city remaining virtually the only one on record until the opera's revival in 1963. The present vocal score is based on the critical edition o…

Transcription for Violin and Piano by the Composer. Par SAINT-SAENS CAMILLE. In his symphonic poem “Danse macabre” Saint-Saëns takes up a poem by Henri Cazalis that he had already set as an art song. Here the Devil brings the dead to life by playing his violin. Although the orchestral work was given a lukewarm reception in its early performances, or was even rejected, it became highly popular and …

How to Play Alternating-Bass Fingerstyle Guitar Solos. The 30th anniversary edition of this fingerpicking instruction book will help you learn the essential techniques of virtuoso-level fingerpicking through astute exercises and 14 fun instrumentals. Included in 50 Greatest Guitar Books, this updated title from Grammy-Award winner Mark Hanson includes four new guitar solos, instruction, listening …

As a child, I sometimes closed my eyes for an extended period of time and imagined what it would be like to experience the world exclusively through my ears. In doing this exercise, I found over and over, with increasing intensity, that my sense of hearing enabled a far denser differentiation of images and information to penetrate my soul. It is my wish that audiences listen to my composition with…

Quintette à vent
Composed in 1959, the wind quintet represents the second phase in the process started in Kurtág's compositional activity by the String Quartet. A lengthy stay in Paris (studies with Milhaud and Marianne Stein), acquaintance with 20th century music other than Bartók's induced Kurtág to radically reevaluate his oeuvre. The new artistic orientation that resulted from that reeva…

Farewell to philosophy. Par BRYARS GAVIN. I have a great fondness for the lower string instruments: I am a bass player, my mother is a cellist, as are both my daughters; my own ensemble includes two violas, a cello and a bass, and for the instrumentation of my opera Medea I omit the entire violin section from the orchestra. As I have written a number of works for solo instrument or voice with or…

This book contains both exercises and songs for performance. Intonation, articulation, phrasing, and rhythm are strengthened in the exercises, and the conditioning is extended so that the playing of the songs and the recital pieces will be a pleasure for players as well as for listeners. The first and second parts are of the same degree of difficulty, so that the parts can be exchanged in the repe…

Dvo?ák worked longer and more intensively on this Trio than on just about any other chamber music work. After his first successes with pieces inspired by Czech folk music, namely the popular Slavonic Dances (HN 757 and 918), he now wanted to prove himself as a composer of the highest order. This is why in the following summer, he thoroughly reworked the Trio that he had written within eight weeks …

Par ANDREWS DREW. Finally! A chord book written for the young beginner (or even beginners of any age) showing a creative and simple way to learn and play banjo chords. Chords are taught beginning with the most essential to more advanced. Chords are presented with exercises that build upon each other and eventually lead the student to playing logical and common chord progressions. These progression…

Par VEIT ANSELMA. Brings aspiring bassonists from Adam and Eve to Mozart. Completely revised and happily optimized edition, fully packed with great bassoon pieces. - Slow and steady wins the bassoon race! The beautiful little pieces are progressing slowly but continuously for an effortless learning experience. - lovely and tasty exercises, etudes and duets that delight childrens' (and big childre…