The Beatles' North American tours turned the entertainment business on its ear and forever changed the landscape of the concert touring industry. In February 1964, after finally achieving a number-one hit in America, the Fab Four came to the country with high hopes, performing on the wildly popular Ed Sullivan Show in both New York City and Miami and playing concerts at Carnegie Hall and the Washi…

Par SPARKE PHILIP. Norfolk is one of the most beautiful counties in England, famous for its charming villages and boundless broads, a popular centre for sailing holidays. It is also the home of one of the best known of all British composers, Sir Malcolm Arnold. The date of the premiere of this piece was to fall close to his 80th birthday, so Philip Sparke decided to write something of a birthday t…

All twelve songs from the original release of the third album from the South Wales trio, fully arranged in guitar tablature with lyrics and chords. In five short years, Stereophonics have risen from unknown peddlers to one of Wales' biggest exports. Just Enough Education To Perform entered the charts at number one and, having just turned platinum, looks set to top the success of their previous out…

Par SIBELIUS JEAN. This collection of Six Part-Songs for Female Voices contains six relatively different pieces that vary both in the language of their texts (Finnish and Swedish) and in length and number of voices. Nevertheless, they form a coherent and interesting set of moderate difficulty throughout, making Sibelius as a composer accessible to smaller female choirs and ensembles. The pieces w…

One of the world's most revered and talented exponents of the Delta Blues style presents a two-part in-depth guide to the earthy, hard-driving sound of the Mississippi.Rory Block dissects and teaches a breathtaking set of key Delta Blues performances, including the rhythmic pounding of Charlie Patton, the fingerpicking style of Tommy Johnson and the slide/open-tuning sounds of the great Robert Joh…

In 2012, I composed a set of variations (originally for orchestra and subsequently arranged for two pianos in 2013 ) based on one of Wagner's most inspired and haunting melodies, the 'alte Hirtenweise' [old shepherd's song], an extended cor anglais solo at the start of Act III of Tristan and Isolde. This seemingly simple, yet deceptively complex melody was my starting point for an expansive fantas…

Guitar Edt., Bcd 2-Cd Set. Par DIX BRUCE. A collection of over 200 great Bluegrass, Old Time, Country and Gospel standards. Melodies are presented with standard notation and tablature along with lyrics and chords. Learn to play songs written and recorded by the giants of traditional American music: Bill Monroe, The Stanley Brothers, Flatt and Scruggs, Ralph Stanley, The Osborne Brothers, Jimmy Mar…

The Children's and Female Choruses were composed in a single burst of creative activity at the zenith of Bartók's career, in the summer of 1935, between such masterpieces as the String Quartet #5 and the Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. These short choral pieces are based on folk texts that Bartók further polished and stylized. The music, however, is wholly the composer's own, although i…

Par KIDANE DANIEL. The initial stimulus for this set of pieces was a painting by Kandinsky, Composition VII (1913). The painting represents a period when he was concerned with emotional, abstract paintings of two sorts: (a) improvisations (‘unconscious, spontaneous expression of inner character, the non-material nature’ that contain no recognizable objects, but coloured shapes that express feeling…

Par VOLANS KEVIN. Based on material from the South Africa-born composer?s 1997 Cello Concerto, this advanced-level solo piece creates the effect of two voices in dialogue. Its single movement is made up of a series of contrasting episodes in the manner of a set of variations and lasts around 10 minutes. This version of the piece was composed for violinist Darragh Morgan and first performed in 2021…

Par CHAGGAR RICKY. 4 Dance movements. Sentimental Dances tells the story of two strangers who meet and develop feelings for each other, but who ultimately cannot be together. There are a range of emotions through the pieces, from excitement and affection to the melancholy and sorrow of Last Dance. Sentimental Dances is a versatile set of pieces, which can be performed at functions, events or as pa…

Par FROBERGER / SCHOTT. The first volume of the second tome of the Complete Harpsichord Work by Johann Jakob Froberger, this volume is a set of sixteen pieces for Harpsichord. Edited by Howard Schott, the book has its preface and information in French, English and German. It features sixteen pieces features eight Toccatas, five Capriccios, a Fantasia and two Ricercars. The works are of medium diff…