Par . If you're the type of person who can't wait to learn their favorite songs on guitar, this series is what you need! The Hal Leonard Really Easy Guitar series features easy-to-follow charts with lyrics, chords and basic tab-everything you need to start playing right away. This edition features 22 songs that only contain three chords each! In no time, you'll be able to play: Ain't No Sunshine ·…

a-Moll. Par SCHUNCKE HUGO. An oboe concerto from the romantic era? Embarassingly, due to the small amount of solo literature for the instrument from this period, this question often asked of oboists, must be answerded with a reference to the few small concert pieces and sets of variations available. The A minor Concerto by Hugo Schuncke, who was a musician at the Court of Stuttgart, fills a need. …

Offertorium für Weihnachten. Par EBERLIN JOHANN ERNST. Next to Leopold Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johann Michael Haydn, Johann Ernst Eberlin is regarded as one of the most important musicians who worked at the Court of the Archbishop in the 18th century. As Court Music Director, organist and composer he had a lasting influence on musical life in both Salzburg, as well as in the entire sou…

Par JOLIVET ANDRE. Andre Jolivet (1905-1974) composed this Concerto for Flute and Strings in 1949. Initially written for Flute and String Orchestra, this version contains the scores for the Flute and the Piano and lasts 12 minutes. This strong> Concerto for Flute and Strings is quite unusual as it was only created in two movements, each divided into a slow introduction and a fast main part. Used a…

Overture. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. In 1786 Mozart composed his wonderful opera Le Nozze di Figaro (KV 492). The Italian libretto, based on the play Le mariage de Figaro by Beaumarchais, was written by Lorenzo da Ponte who also made the libretti of Mozart’s opera’s Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte. In the opera Le Nozze di Figaro, Count Almaviva tries to seduce the fiancée of Figaro, his valet. …

Par DAVIS OLIVER. The composer writes: 'Simon Littlefield wrote the poem Sun stands still in June 2020. On reading it I could immediately see it working well as a song for treble and piano. I recorded a guide vocal and sent the song to the Hi Lo Singers agency. They suggested we record treble Benedict Moriarty, who appears on the recording accompanied by myself on piano. / Date parution : 2022-02-…

O Take My Hand, Dear Father. Par SILCHER FRIEDRICH. This celebrated song is based on a poem by Julie Hausmann (1826-1901), a Latvian teacher who was probably blind. The text draws on her personal experience and unshakeable faith in God, death and eternal life. The melody by Friedrich Silcher is written in a simple and delicate style but also draws on the grand romantic tradition of Wagner and Bruc…

Par HALL ALEX. This stately and sonorous grace was written for a celebration held at Oundle School of the civil partnership of two friends of the composer, who points out that as one studied at Oxford and the other at Cambridge, he chose a text with no association to any particular college! Though appropriate in purpose to any occasion where a communal meal is shared with a sense of thankfulness, …

Variations on a melody by Adriaen Valerius (1575-1625). Par SPARKE PHILIP. Dutch composer, artist and poet Adriaen Valerius is mostly remembered today for his collection of 79 songs for voice and lute or cittern, published posthumously in 1626. Philip Sparke has taken one melody from this collection that tells of the War of Independence with Spain. The beautiful slow melody is followed by a series…

Playing Piano Easily - A Way to the Piano for the Young and Grownups Who Have Remained Young (German text only) / Clavier

Par LERDAHL FRED. Waltzes, a cycle of twelve virtuoso waltzes for violin, viola, cello, and double bass, was commissioned by the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, where the first nine waltzes were premiered in 1981. Soon thereafter I composed the final three waltzes. The violinist Rolf Schulte led the first performance of the complete work in New York City in 1983. Waltzes lasts about 22 minutes…

Bohuslav Martinu wrote his First Violin Concerto in Paris in 1932-33, this work having been commissioned by the violin virtuoso Samuel Dushkin. However, it was never performed during the composer's lifetime and was even considered lost after his death. It was not until 1961 that musicologist and collector Hans Moldenhauer bought it from Boaz Piller, contrabassoonist of the Boston Symphony Orchestr…

The Collected Lyrics of Kevin Ayers. Par AYERS KEVIN. Shooting at the Moon celebrates the music and lyrics of Kevin Ayers, one of the great bohemian voices of British music. Kevin Ayers was an English singer-songwriter who was a major influential force in the English psychedelic movement and a founding member of the band Soft Machine in the 60s. With introductions by Galen Ayers, Josh Payne and Ro…

Par NUTINI PAOLO. 6 Of The Best: Paolo Nutini comprises the sheet music to six of his greatest hits, arranged for Piano, Voice and Guitar. 6 Of The Best simply does what it says - 6 of the best hits from leading artists available in a new and competitively priced format. Scottish singer-songwriter Paolo Nutini was first encouraged to sing by his music-loving grandfather, Jackie, and a teacher at h…

'Zeeland' was written as a celebration of the community and the students who make music come to life. It is a reflection of those special moments experienced by young musicians and teachers when the performance of music brings them closer together and creates memories that will last a lifetime. (3:45) / Concert Band