Raising the curtain on Christopher Norton's Micromusicals - exciting and accessible musicals for schools based on popular classroom teaching topics from the creator of the internationally-acclaimed Microjazz series. Designed for children aged 6-12, each production lasts around 30 minutes and can be learned, rehearsed and performed in as little as 2 days.Stage a real class act with this comprehensi…

Par KELTERBORN RUDOLF. “At the request of the work's commissioner, Heinz Holliger, this duet has very few passages that call for 'unconventional' performance techniques. In exchange, it exploits the many musical possibilities opened up by two instruments with closely related timbres: wide-ranging antitheses and commonalities of expression and movement, cantabile duets, convergences in unisons, oct…

Cd: Full Performances And Play-Along-Tracks - Piano Part To Print. This collection presents well-known folk songs - with a twist: the tunes, newly arranged for melodic instrument and piano, are slightly jazzy and mixed with pop music elements - making traditional songs sound fresh and interesting again! All pieces are very melodic in character and work well even without piano accompaniment, which …

Par MARTINU BOHUSLAV. Unusual instrumentations were by no means the exception in the chamber music works of Bohuslav Martinu, most notably the works he wrote in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s being characterised by his experimentation with sound and form. It is from this period that four short serenades also originate (1932), each with a different instrumentation. The serenades were issued by the Pr…

Par WRIGHT RAYBURN. This acclaimed text reveals the writing secrets of jazz greats Thad Jones, Sammy Nestico, and Bob Brookmeyer! It presents detailed examinations of 8 of their best charts by analyzing voicings, melodic construction, form, orchestration, textures, passing harmonies, etc. Interviews with each writer and a superb CD featuring all 8 charts are also included./ Etude / Tout Instrument…

Par TEDESCO TOMMY. This book was written by one of America's greatest studio guitarists, the late Tommy Tedesco. It details his approach to mastering the guitar and his reflections on his remarkable career playing for motion picture and television soundtracks. He includes solos, magazine articles he authored, his reflections on technical aspects of the guitar such as sight reading, and even severa…

The first three movements of Johannes Brahms' E minor Cello Sonata were composed in 1862, the last movement was written in 1865. During the first years of its performance the work was received with mixed enthusiasm. By the end of Brahms' life, however, it was widely performed and by the first decades of the 20th century it was firmly embedded in the repertoire of many distinguished cellists. It wa…

Par MCHUGH JIMMY. 'I'm in the Mood for Love' is today a 'standard' song released in 1935. The music was written by Jimmy McHugh, with lyrics by Dorothy Fields. The song was introduced by Frances Langford in the film 'Every Night at Eight' and released that year. It became Langford's signature song. Bob Hope, who often worked with Langford entertaining troops in World War II, later wrote that her p…

The Practical Handbook for Mastering Rhythm - UK & Europe Edition. Par HARRISON DAVID. Hal Leonard Rhythm and Counting is the essential, practical handbook for mastering rhythm. Designed for students and musicians of any instrument or voice, this book provides a comprehensive and systematic approach to understanding rhythms, rhythmic devices, and how to count them. Packed full of practical exercis…

Par VIVALDI ANTONIO. Throughout his life, Antonio Vivaldi wrote almost thirty instrumental works that use the cello as a solo instrument. Vivaldi knew how to tailor his music to the cello and in doing so, helped to establish this still young instrument in the music of that time. The Concerto RV 531 is the only double concerto in Vivaldi?s ?uvre for two solo violoncellos. The two solo parts take ce…

Anton Bruckner (18241896). Par BRUCKNER ANTON / DOSS THOMAS (Arr.). Anton Bruckner composed about 40 motets during his lifetime, the earliest a setting of Pange lingua around 1835, and the last, Vexilla regis, in 1892. Thomas Doss has compiled some of these motets in this volume for symphonic wind orchestra. These motets show many characteristics of personal expression, especially Bruckner's colou…