One-act play by Peter Kien-In September 1942 Viktor Ullmann was interned in the concentration camp of Theresienstadt where he composed the opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis [The Emperor of Atlantis] on a libretto of Peter Kien a fellow prisoner in 1943.This opera was rehearsed by a chamber ensemble founded with the permission of the SS but its first performance was prohibited after the final rehear…

Young children would enjoy creating this pantomime version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in Four Acts and a Tableau. The lyrics are straightforward though the topical references to Frankie Laine and Eisenhower would benefit from updating.

A fun harvest celebration for schools and Sunday schools with six short new songs. Simple props humour and short easy-to-learn songs combine to make a meaningful and fun harvest celebration involving very child. Four topicsections each with a presentation and a short catchy song: Water Vegetables Fruit Bread. Each section is approximately 5 minutes long. Script available in student book.You …

The Music About Us Series provides a library of topical resource material for key stage one and two, with ideas for performing, composing, listening and appraising. Sing and learn with a collection of carefully selected and arranged songs, respond to music through actions and movement games, learn to recognise and explore musical elements. / Pédagogie / Recueil / Chant

for American School Songbooks. Par HINDEMITH PAUL. A collection of English songs with various instrumentations, from simple children's song accompanied by piano to mixed a-cappella choirs, according to their purpose at a really easy level. The content covers the fantasy world of fairies and children's dreams, to a prayer for a pilot which was of topical interest at the time of composition./ Répert…

The fun and easy way to learn to play the mandolinThe newest addition to the highly successful Dummies instrument-instruction line Mandolin For Dummies gives you easy-to-follow step-by-step instruction on learning to play the mandolin. Following the time-tested Dummies format Mandolin For Dummies provides a level of content and instruction greater than anything currentlyavailable.Mandolin For Du…

Ideal for classroom use school choirs or as an assembly item. The exciting Topical Ideas with each song provide fascinating background information fun performance ideas and lots of cross-curricular possibilities. A matching cassette of the music is also available.

This bittersweet song from 1967 is a real classic, partly due to the rendition by two queens of soul, Dionne Warwick and later also Aretha Franklin. The theme was very topical at the time: A woman is concerned about her husband fighting in the Vietnam War, and thinks about him during her day-to-day worries. Top arranger Peter Kleine Schaars created a tasteful and carefully orchestrated version. Hi…

Step Up To GCSE Music is the authoritative resource for getting you up to speed with the core content of the new GCSEs which will be taught in schools in England and Wales from 2016.   Whatever instrument you play whatever your background this clear and accessible guide:   Provides 14 sessions that can be tackled one-per-day for a fortnight's 'crash-course' in the holidays or spaced o…

Studienpartitur. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Premièred at the Vienna Hoftheater on 1 May 1786, Wolfang Amadeus Mozart?s and Lorenzo Da Ponte?s Le nozze di Figaro may be safely regarded as one of the greatest operatic successes of all times. Yet its success was not entirely due to Mozart?s music: on the contrary, because of the extraordinary demands it placed on the orchestra (especially the woodw…

Par BEDNALL DAVID. David Bednall 's Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day? for SATB double choir unaccompanied. A setting of Shakespeare 's much-loved Sonnet 18, Bednall 's expressive work highlights this timeless text with sumptuous harmony, including pleasing tonal shifts and topical false relations. Various choral textures are explored, from the imitative lines of 'Sometime too hot', to the wa…

Par GILEWITZ RICHARD. Direct from the master of guitar clinics, this 96-page book contains a plethora of topics based on Richard Gilewitz\'s experience of conducting fingerstyle guitar and sound seminars for nearly a decade in a variety of settings worldwide. Sections are built around the most frequently asked questions from players of all ages and skill level, with topics supported by written exp…

4th edition with answers. Par KOH JOSEPHINE. In this second level comprehensive course book for advanced students, Practice in Music Theory Grade 7 continues with the exploration of complex harmonic and melodic concepts. The study of chromatic harmony includes the diminished 7th, the Neapolitan 6th, and the secondary dominants. Figured bass and non-harmony notes are explained in context with adequ…

Par JOHNSON CHAD. How to Sight Sing aims to help readers master the art of singing a melody correctly upon first glance. Though this may seem a daunting task initially, like any other skill, it simply takes practice to master. Like learning a new language, there are fundamentals to learn and drills and exercises to cement the concepts, but there are other helpful tools to make the process enjoyabl…