Miles Davis gave the jazz world innumerable musical innovations and his supporting musicians provided a virtual who's who of the modern jazz era. This updated Real Book featuring Miles' music contains highly accurate, easy-to-read, musician-friendly lead sheets for 70 of his most famous original compositions: Agitation Aida All Blues Back Seat Betty Bitches Brew Blue Haze Blue…

The updated colour edition of this best-selling Christmas title. Here's a feel-good assortment of music, stories, recipes and poems that perfectly captures the traditional spirit of Christmas and the season of goodwill. Includes: Magical stories from the likes of Dickens and Hans Christian Anderson Recipes of good cheer and Christmas dishes with a difference Yuletide poems by Tennyson, Hardy, Shak…

Par HANNICKEL MIKE. This addition to the Curnow Music Press GREAT FOUNDATIONS SERIES of pre-Grade 1 publications is accessible to young musicians who have been playing for just a few weeks. A simple, repetitive theme with flashy, but very easy percussion writing ensures that you can have THE CHARIOTEERS ready to perform in time for the concert, even if you have “precious little” rehearsal time. Th…

Little Voices Christmas brings together five fun festive songs specially selected and arranged in two parts for young groups and choirs. The included CD contains compete vocal and Piano versions plus Piano-only accompaniments to each song. Each themed book in the Little Voices series contains five songs that make a perfect introduction to part-singing for beginner groups. 'No frills, good quality …

The most useful book each contains 26 fairly simple scales, each presented as an exercise with a second part to be played by the teacher, or the CD. The book introduces other aspects such as tonality, harmony and how scales are constructed to give the beginner an all round knowledge of how music is constructed. The three speed CD that is included with both these volumes contains the second part at…

Par PARK OWAIN. Owain Park’s piece is a masterful recomposition of Allegri’s iconic choral work, placing voices and saxophones in dialogue and translating the original music into a rich contemporary soundworld. On BBC Radio 3 Record Review, Andrew McGregor called it “an intriguing adaptation of the Allegri Miserere”, going on to say that “the intimate way the saxophones and voices interweave and b…

C Major. Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. In Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, a piano trio provides the soloists – a first in the history of music. Beethoven’s treatment of the trio is pioneering: he does not apply a typical piano trio setting in contrast to the orchestra, but varies his treatment of the solo parts, allowing each instrument to play alone with the orchestra (particularly the cello), using two…

Par PART ARVO. Arvo Pärt has been fascinated by the life and work of St Silouan of Athos (1866-1938) for many years. As early as 1991, the writings of Silouan inspired Pärt to his composition Silouan's Song, 'My soul yearns after the Lord ...' for string orchestra. Pärt's new work Adam's Lament is once again based on a text by Silouan, in which the monk laments Adam's pain over the loss of paradis…

The 25 Easy Exercises that comprise Friedrich Burgmüller's Opus 100 are perennial favourites for both Piano students and teachers alike. Originally entitled 25 Etudes faciles et progressives, composées et doigtées, expressément pour l'etendue des petites mains , the pieces offer a uniquely melodic and elegant opportunity to develop your Piano technique whilst learning a real repertoire of performa…

The book covers examples and guidance for the Improvisation and Aural Assessment components of the LCM Rock Guitar exam. All the scales and chords that are useful in the exam are provided in the handbook. There is no requirement to read traditionally notated music as all music is also provided in easy-to-read TAB or fretboxes. / Exams / Tablatures / Guitare Electrique

Par BERLE ARNIE. Not just another book of scales and patterns, this is a method that trains the mind, the ears and the fingers to work in perfect synchronization to respond instantaneously to any given chord progression. This ability is of paramount importance to any musician who wants to improvise in the jazz idiom. Leading jazz players have used this method for years, but this is the first time …

Par DOBSON SIMON. Torsion was commissioned by the Leyland Band and first performed on 23 January 2010 at the Royal Northern College of Music Festival of Brass, Manchester, by Leyland Band conducted by Jason Katsikaris. This colourful and dynamic work is the most personal and ambitious that Simon Dobson composed during his residency with the Lancashire brass band. The dictionary defines torsion as …

This book with online audio features 10 complete songs in standard notation and tab, including: About a Girl - Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You - Breaking the Girl - Free Fallin' - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) - I'm Yours - Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) - The Scientist - Tears in Heaven - Wonderwall. The price of this book includes access to audio tracks online, for download or streaming, usi…

Historia Des Leidens Und Sterbens Unsers Herrn Und Heilandes Jesu Christi Nach Dem Evangelisten St. Lukas. Par SCHUTZ HEINRICH. With his three purely a cappella Passions, Schütz closes his series of historical settings: text-oriented compositions that are both technically demanding and intensely expressive. These are works of maturity, which bring an entire musical period to a close. With the Stut…

Par L'ESTRANGE ALEXANDER. Ahoy Sing For The Mary Rose is a fantastic songbook of sea shanties that takes the singer on a trip across the oceans and centuries. Ahoy Sing for the Mary Rose is a celebration of King Henry VIII famous warship, the Mary Rose, written superbly by Alexander L'Estrange This fantastic songbook includes sheet music for Soprano, Alto Voice, Tenor and Bass voices, as well as u…