Reconstruction by Anssi Mattila. Par TULINDBERG ERIK. The first composer to warrant a place in the musical history of Finland, Erik Tulindberg (1761-1814) was an excellent violinist, and he also played the cello. His musical reputation spread all the way to Stockholm (Finland was at that time part of the Kingdom of Sweden), and in 1797 was there admitted as a member of the Royal Academy of Music. …

Par ZANON FABIO. Brazil guitar sensation Fabio Zanon exploded on the international scene in 1996 when he won the first prize at the prestigious Guitar Foundation of America International Competition, just weeks after having won the first prize at the 30th Francisco Tarrega International Competition... the most prestigious guitar contest in Europe. This was an unprecedented achievement in the guita…

for two Flutes without Bass. Par TELEMANN GEORG PHILIPP. Though recovered as part of the long lost Sing-Akademie Berlin archives in 1999, these sonatas were first examined in 2002. Knowledge of their existence, or at least their presumed existence, is due to their partial use by Johann Joachim Quantz in his solfeggi for the Flute. The sonatas, possibly composed sometime after 1730, are presented i…

Standard notation and a simple alpha-numerical tablature system are used to present this unusual collection of pre-18th Century tunes for the standard 12/11-course hammered dulcimer. Creating a hybrid of folk and classical elements, Carol Koenig has expanded the repertoire of the hammered dulcimer with melodies from France, Spain, England, and Scotland. The tunes are first presented in a simple me…

Joan Boytim has selected some of the easisest songs in English from The First Book of Solos series and transposed them for a different voice type for many of the selections in Introduction to Art Song, making the songs available to more students. Additionally, other suitable songs, not found in other Boytim collections, have been included. Each voice type has a unique song list. These books may be…

Par DOWNLAND JOHN. For years, classical guitarists have enjoyed playing the lute music of the English composer, John Dowland (1563-1626). Forty of his beautiful compositions are included in this volume. The book is intended for the guitarist with intermediate to advanced fingerstyle technique, and can be played on both nylon and steel string instruments. In order to help capture the unique charact…

Par BACEWICZ GRAZYNA. Grazyna Bacewicz realised at a very early age that her main purpose in life was to compose music. Already during the 1920s, as a student of Lódz Conservatoire, as part of her lessons in harmony and counterpoint, she made attempts at composing, in which she tried to resolve nagging technical problems and impart an artistically satisfying form to them. She grew up in an atmosph…

When The Rolling Stones released Aftermath in '66, it was the first time Mick and Keith had written all the songs for an entire album, cementing one of the greatest writing partnerships in rock history. With the complete, easy-to-follow video lessons on this DVD, you will learn all the great guitar parts to 10 of the Stones' most classic songs, including many legendary riffs in Open G and Open E t…

Opera prima. Libro primo. Par TARTINI GIUSEPPE. In 1727, the Amsterdam publisher Michel-Charles Le Cène published a collection of six concertos by Tartini for solo violin and orchestra, entitled Opus 1, 'Book 1'. It was the prelude to a large-scale publication project of initially twelve, later even 18 concertos, divided into three 'books'. While the first book was published without the composer's…

The easiest tunes from Horace Silver, Eddie Harris, Freddie Hubbard, Red Garland, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Rollins, Cedar Walton, Wes Montgomery, etc. Get yourself---or your beginning jazz combo --- sounding good right away with the first fake book ever designed for the beginning improviser: Easy, but classic jazz tunes give the student a good start in learning the jazz repertoire.Sample piano v…