Par COURT DOUGLAS. With stately majesty your band transports the audience back to medieval days. The music fires the imagination, which is a real asset when directing young bands. Careful doubling of important parts makes sure MARCH OF THE NOBLES will be accessible to bands with sketchy instrumentation as well as complete ensembles. And, there are enough accidentals to keep the musicians’ skills m…

'One More Dream' is a wonderful alto sax ballad feature played at 68 BPM. The woodwinds have various doubles for alto flute and clarinet but are optional, plus there are optional horn in F parts. This Patrick Williams chart has a gorgeous melody with space to solo. A class act all the way. (2:39) / Ensemble De Jazz

There is not a great deal known about the violinist, teacher and composer Edward Mollenhauer (1827-1914) from Erfurt. However, two of his compositions virtually immortalized him: the fantasia The Infant Paganini as well as the somewhat more difficult sister work The Boy Paganini (Schott ED 21703). Both are played with great enthusiasm by young violinists all over the world. Both compositions prese…

Par HUWS JONES EDWARD. These nine jazzy pieces have been specially written to help students work through technical difficulties with position changes in a fun and exciting way. Not only are they an excellent way to learn, there perfect for end of term concerts too. / Methods & Tutors / Etude / Alto et Piano

This book is a condensed, made-for-guitar version of Nicolas Slonimsky's publication Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns - the book that musicians as diverse as John Coltrane and Frank Zappa used for ideas and inspiration. Musicians familiar with the original Thesaurus know that it contains a daunting amount of information crammed in it's over 230 pages. But there is a definite symmetry and l…

Although there are many fine scale books on the market, none of them are really for INSIDE the scales to explore the various intervals, harmonized scales in triads and diatonic 7ths, and neighbor tones to achieve some chromaticism. This book helps to employ multiple-use scales (modes) by superimposing them over the given chords to expand and color them. A variety of chord progressions, taken from …

Nouvelle Edition. For each song you will hear the full version, featuring the instrument with an Orchestral accompaniment, as well as a playback version for you to play along to. For each piece there are four versions: A simplified version for Alto Saxophone (for beginners) A simplified version for Tenor Saxophone (for beginners) A medium difficulty version for Alto Saxophone A medium difficulty v…

A star studded collection of thirteen hit tracks from great movies, in melody line arrangement for Trumpet, with a backing CD of full accompaniments. This selection features some of the most recognisable and inspirational themes from the silver screen and there are plenty of enjoyable moments from Braveheart to Back to the Future, and Star Trek to Chariots of Fire. / Trompette

In Bright Mass With Canons, the canonical motifs are present right from the beginning and carry through almost every bar of the work.There are echoes of early English Choral writing and abstracted sections with flurries of sound interspersed with more Choral writing, all in the most modern idioms.Contemporary American composer Nico Muhly is a prolific writer and arranger who, at 32, is the younges…

'Virtuoso piece in the style of a Hungarian rhapsody? - thus reads Ravel's entry on 'Tzigane? in the so-called 'Autobiographical Sketch?. Composed in 1924, there are three versions of this work: with piano, with orchestra and with luthéal, a device for keyboard instruments to extend the timbre. 'Tzigane? was inspired by the Hungarian-English violinist Jelly d'Aranyi, to whom Ravel had already prom…

Mamma Mia! , the stage production based upon the wonderful hits songs of ABBA, has become one of the most successful and biggest-selling shows of all time - and this special set of Easy Piano arrangements gives you the chance to learn the songs at a very early stage. All 22 songs from the musical spectacular are included here. Each song has been carefully arranged and presented to be as accessible…

Media Type : Book Level : Intermediate-Advanced Musical Genre : Jazz Number of pages : 264 This book of twenty compositions spans an approximately 20-year period of writing. They can all be found on one or another of Ben's four solo releases: Flux, Dust, Excavation, and Oceana. It reflects a broad sample of work involving the exploration of various harmonic, technical, and textural elements of th…

Choralkantate. Par REGER MAX. The choral cantatas are Reger's most personal and most substantial contribution to one of the principal categories of Protestant church music, and they are only major works in this field by one of the foremost composers of his time. This is true despite the fact that Reger himself does not appear to have considered the cantatas to figure among his principal compositio…

Schmitz: Mini-Tango Heft 2 for Piano for six hands With These Minis, It Takes Three to Tango For a long time, there was a little gap in Manfred Schmitz's 'mini' piano series (Mini Jazz, Mini Rock, Mini Tango). Now it's been closed. The 'Mini Tango' now welcomes its six-hand book, which contains a mix of newly written pieces and highlights from the basic book for two and four hands, which were ar…

On December 18th, 2004 three of today's most talented flatpicking guitar players Brad Davis, Tim May, and Cody Kilby got together and performed a concert near Kansas City, Kansas, and Flatpicking Guitar Magazine had cameras rolling. On that night at Jim Curley's Mountain Music Shoppe in Shawnee, Kansas, the crowd was not only treated to some amazing guitar work, but these talented musicians also p…