This Easiest Pop Songs edition of John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course allows the beginner pianist, who is progressing from part one to part two of the world-renowned course, to learn some fantastic and well-known pop songs. With simplified arrangements and large notation, these are popular hits in the familiar John Thompson style.As well as reinforcing basic technique, developing musicality and m…

Par FEASTER HALLEY. New cello students nearly always start in first position aided by finger tapes or guides for accurate finger placement. As they advance, they are expected to learn to shift out of first position, but the focus is on the movement of the shift rather than on note locations or pitch accuracy.In this book, author and versatile cellist Halley Feaster introduces a step-by-step approa…

Here's a whimsical concert march your beginning band will be ready to perform after only a few weeks! John O'Reilly has taken four of the beginning band repertoire's 'greatest hits' including 'Hot Cross Buns,' 'Lightly Row,' 'Go Tell Aunt Rodie' and 'Merrily We Roll Along' and cleverly worked them into a delightful medley, ideal for your band's very first concert! The familiar tunes work their way…

Par MASSIMO PALERMO. Learn bass fingerboard secrets with this quick and useful guide through the fundamental triad and seventh chord arpeggios. Learn to recognize these essential items and to easily find them over the whole neck. Each chord in Encyclopedia of Bass Arpeggios is provided with a brief introductory chart analyzing the arpeggios rising from chords and relevant inversions. The developme…

Par CAFARO PASQUALE. Pasquale Cafaro, born in S. Pietro in Galantina in 1715; he was directed by his family to 'scientific' studies (science of law) but soon abandoned them for musical ones. He then entered the Conservatorio della Pietà de' Turchini as a son at the age of 18, almost as an adult. His main teacher was one of the greatest musicians of the 18th century, Leonardo Leo, who immediately r…

The books in the Five-Star Solos series give students and teachers a wide variety of pieces at graded levels. Different styles, colors, tempos, and moods are included in each book. Ballads, waltzes, Latin tunes, contemporary sounds, and 'showstoppers' all combine to make teaching both fun and exciting. Students will be rewarded with music that clearly sets them apart from the crowd. / Piano

Par HISAISHI JOE. This book is a collection of sheet music for solo guitar performances of Music of Studio Ghibli Films.A total of 26 popular songs from Studio Ghibli films, including ‘My Neighbour Totoro,’ ‘Princess Mononoke’ and ‘Howl's Moving Castle,’ in both musical notation and tablature. Each song is beautifully and tastefully arranged for solo guitar, both melody and accompaniment played by…

Par WILLIAMS ANTHONY. This is a collection of original piano pieces written by real, living composers who eat breakfast, get tired and irritable, laugh at jokes and have favourite things. Using their imagination and with a love for piano music, they have captured a little bit of what makes them who they are within some inspired pieces and left these as a set of musical fingerprints for you to play…

The organ book contains a treasure of works from all eras, among them pieces which are little known and hard to find that will expand and enrich the repertoire of every organist. The works of easier and medium difficulty will be welcomed by beginning organ ists, but also more experienced players will discover little-known gems of organ music. In addition to the main volume, a second volume include…

Nymphea Reflection is a work by renowned composer Kaija Saariaho, arranged for String Orchestra. Commissioned by the Schleswig Holstein Festival, it was first performed on the 16th of August 2001 in Elmshorn, Germany by Sinfonietta Cracovia, conducted by John Axelrod.Saariaho states that the starting point for Nymphea Reflection came from the idea of arranging her string quartet Nymphea. Originall…

Par RAMEAU JEAN-PHILIPPE. Amongst Rameau?s stage works which have come down to us in two main versions, such as ?Dardanus? (1739, 1744), ?Platée? (1745, 1749) and ?Zoroastre? (1749, 1756), none fell into oblivion for as long a period as ?Castor et Pollux?. After the work had been premiered in 1737, not until 1754 did Rameau decide to revise it. He asked his librettist ?Gentil-Bernard? to add an ac…

The Flute Collection. Par SCHUMANN ROBERT. Remarks in his household books indicate that Robert Schumann (1810–1856) composed the Märchenbilder (Fairy-Tale Pictures) for piano and viola (or violin) op. 113 in just four days between 1st and 4th March, 1851, in Düsseldorf. Schumann only gradually came to the title Märchenbilder. The four pieces are unified by their shared opus number and keys (D mino…

Par BEATLES THE. Play along with thirty songs from the early years of The Beatles. Specially arranged from actual recordings. Includes chord symbols, chord boxes and lyrics. A playing guide to show you how to play like the Beatles as well as just sound like them. Two magnificant, specially recorded soundalike CDs by a live band. / Niveau : Elémentaire / Rép International / Recueil / Chant et Gu…

Arr. Don Campbell. Don Campbell has taken four songs which reflect the period of Flower Power and made a swingin' groovin' medley out of them. Put on your flares and sunglasses and enjoy the sound of the 60's. / Niveau : 3 / Pop and rock / Recueil / Brass Band

The composer, pianist and musicologist Antonio Ruiz-Pipó (1934-1997) wrote works of various genres which follow Albéniz and de Falla: Written in a neo-classical style with a strong personal influence, they show a strong attachment to his Spanish roots. One of them is the piece Endecha for harp which was created in 1975 for the soloist David Watkins, premiered and recorded on LP in the following ye…