Tackling the Challenges That Small Bands Face. Par DEVONA CHRIS. Small bands can be great bands! Small Band, Big Sound is an indispensable guide for success in middle and high school band programs with students of all ability levels. It addresses the day-to-day challenges of finding and creating appropriate repertoire, adapting music for playability, establishing tone and blend with unconventional…

Par SPEARS GREGORY. The Tower and the Garden is a setting of three poems for choir and string quartet. The texts juxtapose the dangers of technological hubris (the tower) and the need for a place of refuge (the garden) in a world threatened by war and ecological disaster. Each text suggest ways in which Catholic thought and imagery might challenge the status quo. The first text, poem 80 from the …

Par BIZET GEORGES / DELIBES LÉO / MOZART WOLFGANG AMAD. This is one of VOCES8’s earliest arrangements by Jim Clements and was first performed at London’s Royal Opera House. Many well-loved tunes from famous operas appear in this 4-minute piece and there is plenty of opportunity to bring them to life on stage, unleashing the singer's inner diva! / Choral Music / Recueil / Voix Mixtes

This collection of 47 favorite guitar picking tunes includes reels, jigs, waltzes, fiddle tunes and more, each presented in standard notation and tablature with backup chords. As these melodies lend themselves well to jamming, this collection is sure to bring any guitarist many hours of picking pleasure. Includes access to an online audio recording of the author performing each piece on a 12-strin…

Par SCHWARZ OTTO M.. Asteroids and comets have played an important role throughout the history of life on earth. It is quite probable that the dinosaurs have been exterminated by an asteroid's impact in the Gulf of Mexico. Huge tidal waves and fire storms wiped out all life. This is the year 2067 according to the Christian calendar. A collision has just taken place in the asteroid belt between Mar…

Par RAVEL MAURICE. This volume includes 'Ma Mere L'oye' (Mother Goose), 'Valse Nobles Et Sentimentales' and Ravel's own piano transcription of his world-famous 'La Valse'. Intermediate and advanced pianists will welcome this superb compilation of piano classics, reproduced from authoritative French scores./ Répertoire / Piano

Avec une variété de styles musicaux allant de classique et jazz grâce aux alentours et de chansons populaires, ces collections mettra l'enthousiasme à l'apprentissage du piano et fournir une alternative divertissante pour les élèves qui travaillent à, ou qui ont récemment terminé leurs examens de grade. Chaque pièce offre doigtés suggérée, la dynamique et la tempo avec des conseils techniques et d…

This book features twenty superb arrangements of traditional Old Time American tunes by ukulele maestro Rob MacKillop. Included are classics such as Wildwood Flower, Man Of Constant Sorrow, Whiskey Before Breakfast, Angeline The Baker, and many others. All the music is playable with a pick or finger style, and the tunes are presented in both tablature and standard notation. Includes access to onli…

Par DOWLAND JOHN. During his lifetime John Dowland was one of the few English composers whose fame spread throughout Europe. He has never been entirely forgotten although his music was almost completely ignored during the whole of the eighteenth century and most of the nineteenth. The early twentieth century saw a dawning recognition among scholars and specialists of the rare quality of his work. …

Instrumental Play-Along« Series. Themes from 14 favorite contemporary video games are included in this collection for beginning solo instrumentalists. It features online access to audio demonstration and backing tracks for download or streaming to help you hear how the song should sound and then to play-along and sound like a pro! Includes themes from: Angry Birds - Assassin's Creed III - Assassin…

Instrumental Play-Along« Series. Themes from 14 favorite contemporary video games are included in this collection for beginning solo instrumentalists. It features online access to audio demonstration and backing tracks for download or streaming to help you hear how the song should sound and then to play-along and sound like a pro! Includes themes from: Angry Birds - Assassin's Creed III - Assassin…

Instrumental Play-Along« Series. Themes from 14 favorite contemporary video games are included in this collection for beginning solo instrumentalists. It features online access to audio demonstration and backing tracks for download or streaming to help you hear how the song should sound and then to play-along and sound like a pro! Includes themes from: Angry Birds - Assassin's Creed III - Assassin…