Par SPARKE PHILIP. Morning Song features the horn quartet mostly in a soloistic role - indeed there is an accompanied cadenza towards the end of the piece - but there are moments where the horns assume their conventional concert band role as harmonic support or playing the counter melody. This expressive composition shows all the versatility of the horn quartet and gives them the chance to be in t…

The choro, like bossa nova or the samba, is among the most popular of Brazilian musical styles. This book guides you, step by step, towards your own interpretation of, and improvisation on traditional choro melodies. All pieces are notated for C, B flat, E flat and bass instruments. / Tout Instrument

For Fingerstyle Guitar. Par GROSSMAN STEFAN. As aspiring fingerpicking guitarists started expanding their horizons from folk, blues, and ragtime in the 1970s, it was only logical to look towards early jazz tunes as a vast source for new possibilities. For one thing, they could follow the same evolutionary path from ragtime to jazz that had been taken by pianists such as Jelly Roll Morton and Harle…

Par WEDGWOOD PAM. This book is perfect for those people looking for something to bridge the gap between grades. This is the latest addition to Pamela Wedgwood's supremely successful Up-Grade! Series, and it is guaranteed to breathe new life into a student's trumpet playing. The varied pieces and duets in this sparkling new collection range from toe-tapping jazzy numbers to more classical styles, a…

Kaddish (Aramaic: 'holy') is the Jewish mourning prayer recited for the dead. My Kaddisch für David Stahl was conceived to honour the memory of the long-serving chief musical director of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich and begins with a lyrically flowing lament on the clarinet which towards the end rears up in a despairing wail of grief. The piano and double bass punctuate the arching …

Editor: Heinemann, Ernst-Guenter Towards the end of the 18th century, Clementi increasingly advocated the piano as the successor to the harpsichord. He composed expressly for the new instrument and in 1801 published a piano school. His interest in teaching is also shown by the 'Six progressive Sonatinas' op. 36 ' six sonatinas in ascending order of diffi culty, which are still extremely popular w…

Par MILNE ELISSA. 'Little Peppers' is the third book in a series of five. Each book is filled with fun jazz pieces that can be used both as pedagogical studies and as repertoire pieces. 'Little Peppers' is around Grade 3 standard and each of the pieces has been written with the young pianist in mind, avoiding leaps that are difficult for small hands and incorporating relatively short, lighthearted…

Ed. Critica A. Borin. Par VIVALDI ANTONIO. Casa Ricordi Milano in partnership with Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venezia (Istituto Antonio Vivaldi). Critical edition by Alessandro Borin. The six Concerts op. VI for violin, strings and continuo by Antonio Vivaldi were published in Amsterdam by Roger in 1719. Although the contribution of Vivaldi was probably modest – even to assume that the collection wa…

From Coppelia Ballet. Par DELIBES LEO. French composer Léo Delibes (1836-1891) was primarily known for his operettas and short comic operas. He was also famous for the ballet Coppelia from which arranger Wil van der Beek has transcribed the czardas for concert band. Characteristic of this work and the music of Delibes' in general are rhythmic, alternating melodies. Another trademark of Delibes' wo…

Báïlèro (Soprano, SATB, Tenor). Par CANTELOUBE JOSEPH. Composed by Joseph Canteloube, Bàï lèro is part of the first series out of five, from Songs From The Auvergne. It is the most famous song of the series, and this edition was written for Soprano Solo, Tenor Solo and SATB. The lyrics are in local dialect ; Occitan and have the French translation below, they consist of questions asked to the bàï …

Ed. Critica A. Borin. Par VIVALDI ANTONIO. Casa Ricordi Milano in partnership with Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venezia (Istituto Antonio Vivaldi). Critical edition by Alessandro Borin. The six Concerts op. VI for violin, strings and continuo by Antonio Vivaldi were published in Amsterdam by Roger in 1719. Although the contribution of Vivaldi was probably modest – even to assume that the collection wa…

Par SIBELIUS JEAN. Five multi-movement trios for piano and two string instruments by Sibelius are known from the years 1883?1888. The ?large? trios, such as the Havträsk and Korpo Trio (JS 207, JS 209), were written for the classical piano trio scoring of violin, violoncello and piano. Apparently, Sibelius kept composing trios to play among his family and friends, having in mind to be one of the m…

Par HEROUX MICHEL. In musical styles ranging from blues to classical, jazz and modern Latin, the 32 original duets in this book are designed to improve sight reading on the guitar at all levels, beginner to advanced. Canadian guitarist and music educator, Michel Héroux suggests playing these short but complete pieces at different tempos, exchanging parts on repeats, playing select passages an octa…

Par POHJOLA SEPPO. According to Jouni Kaipainen, the fourth string quartet (2006) is one of key works of Seppo Pohjola (b. 1965) and holds a place as a landmark in Finnish quartet literature. Of the composer's five string quartets, it is the longest and has the widest thematic arcs of his quartets. Seppo Pohjola has gone through a variety of styles in his musical career. He began as a strict Moder…