Taken from Songs Between The Soul And The Bridegroom.Canciones entre el alma y el esposo is a poem consisting of forty verses. Having previously set two sections of it as separate a cappella choruses andone for two countertenors and strings I've long wanted to make a complete setting of the work and by arranging the countertenor piece for a cappella chorus and setting the remaining verses as two…

A hard rockin' double-DVD set providing a note-for-note guide to five classic anthems by the kings of New Jersey Bon Jovi.Jamie Humphries disects the legendary guitar style of Richie Sambora giving you a detailed look at every riff and lick as played by the hero of blues-rock. Discover how Sambora combines the very best of hard rock and metal technique with a pure blues sensibility to create his…

Schwarzer Tanzer was written for Christopher Boatwright whose career began as a principal dancer with the Stuttgart Ballet one of the first black dancers to achieve recognition at this level in Germany. Much to his frustration media coverage of his performances focused on his colour rather than his talent.When he wanted a piece that could be choreographed I therefore avoided ethnic music clich…

Commissioned by ecat with funds provided by the Scottish Arts Council. First performed by Simon Smith and The Queen's Hall Edinburgh October 2009.'In 10 Miniatures I wanted to explore the idea of transformingmaterial in unusual ways. Each miniature is related to its predecessor. I have taken an idea or series of ideas whether it is a chord melodic fragment or rhythmic cell and used it to for…

Ever since his father gave him a disc recorder at the tender age of 10 Bruce Swedien has known what he wanted to do for the rest of his life.The names of the people he has worked with are too many to list but when one mentions musicians like Count Basie Duke Ellington Oscar Peterson Sarah Vaughan Eddie Harris Quincy Jones Jennifer Lopez and even Michael Jackson a great deal is immediatel…

Nico Muhly's Step Team for 9 players. Full score.'Stepping is a form of almost militaristic dancing involving the entire body as well as the voice. The routines are highly choreographed and precise but maintain an expressive freedom that comes out of the energy required to pull off the moves. In writing this piece for the Chicago Symphony MusicNOW I wanted to avoid too much delicate pointillisti…

Guitar Play-Along DVD Volume 17-The Guitar Play Along DVD series lets you hear and see how to play songs like never before. Just watch listen and learn! Each song starts with a lesson from a professional guitar teacher. Then the teacher performs the completesong along with professionally recorded backing tracks. You can choose to turn the guitar off if you want to play along or leave the guitar…

Par SOREY TYSHAWN. Commissioned by violinist Jennifer Koh as part of her Limitless recital project collaborating with composer-performers, Tyshawn Sorey's In Memoriam Muhal Richard Abrams for violin and glockenspiel is itself dedicated to the memory of another composer-performer, the titular pianist and cofounder of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. The music of Sorey's fr…

50 chansons preferees, arrangees simplement, a connatre absolument ! Les chansons comprennent : Against the Wind - Barely Breathing - Change the World - Dust in the Wind - Every Rose Has Its Thorn - Fire and Rain - Hey There Delilah - Iris - Landslide - More Than Words - Patience - The Sound of Silence - Toes - Wonderwall - Yesterday - et plus encore. Les arrangements comprennent egalement les par…

Par REINHARDT DJANGO. In the world of Gypsy Jazz, the original Quintette of the Hot Club of France achieved an energy output seldom equaled or surpassed for 7 decades or so. Django wanted to have two rhythm guitars behind him when he soloed to give him a full sound. Then when Grappelli soloed, Django would interject himself between Grappelli and the rhythm guitar section. From this vantage point, …

POD-Nico Muhly's Stabat Mater Dolorosa for Soprano Baritone and Ensemble. Parts. My Stabat Mater is a very simply-constructed piece of music. I knew I wanted to write a duet a piece of religious music and something to go along with a bit of Birtwistle. My initial instinct was to base the piece on drones as Birtwistle's music has so very many notes but then I decided that an austere but ecstat…

Orchestral Version-John McCabe's Psalm-Cantata (Orchestral Version). Vocal score for Soprano Baritone and SATB choir.This work was commissioned by the English Baroque Choir and their music director Jeremy Jackman who gave the first performance on 16th March 2013 at St. John’s SmithSquare London.'I’ve wanted to write a choral/instrumental piece based on texts from the Psalms for a very long…

Expert guitarist Stuart Bull gives you the tools you need to construct your own showstopping guitar solos. This groundbreaking DVD begins from the simplest point guiding you right through to extended and complicated licks and phrases. Bull shows you how to take your own existing ideas and transform them into the solos you've dreamed of playing and you will discover a whole new bag of tricks and …