(Essential Elements for Band and Essential Elements Interactive are fully compatible with Essential Elements 2000)Essential Elements for Band offers beginning students sound pedagogy and engaging music, all carefully paced to successfully start young players on their musical journey. EE features both familiar songs and specially designed exercises, created and arranged for the classroom in a uniso…

Par DRAKE ERVIN. This upbeat swing standard remains one of the most popular tunes recorded by the Duke Ellington Orchestra. Here is a carefully arranged chart that sounds sophisticated, yet is easily attainable by young ensembles. Our Easy Jazz Ensemble series is written for full band, playable with four saxes, three trumpets, three trombones, and rhythm section. Each arrangement also includes op…

Romberg's adaptation of melodies by Franz Schubert for Lilac Time (1921) and started him on the path to greatness. He subsequently wrote his best-known operettas, The Student Prince (1924), The Desert Song (1926) and The New Moon (1928), which were in a style similar to the Viennese operettas of Franz Lehar. He also wrote Rosalie (1928) together with George Gershwin. His later works, such as Up in…

Par BERG ALBAN. Composed by a young Berg, while studying with Schoenberg, these Seven Early Songs would be revisited and reworked ten years later, and then again ten years after that. Perhaps influenced by Mahler, Berg created orchestral settings of these songs, in addition to the voice and piano versions./ Répertoire / Voix Haute et Orchestre

The clarinet method op. 63 by Carl Baermann from 1867 is still a standard work in classical clarinet education today. The thoroughly revised new edition aims at reviewing the educational concept, which is still valid today, for modern lessons, adjusting the music and texts, and sensibly complementing the teaching contents.The editor who draws on many years of experience as a clarinettist in an orc…

For the Young Ensemble. Par RODGERS RICHARD / HART L.. En vedette une trompette ou flugel sur cet arrangement créatif d'une norme intemporelle. Ecrit dans un style de ballade, ce graphique présente également ensemble nice marquant et une brève section très facile en 3/4. Ce paramètre formidable pour les groupes les plus jeunes mérite d'être dans la bibliothèque de chaque bande. / Jazz / Répertoir…

A classic repertoire book for young pianists, which provides a wealth of piano favourites. As with volume one, the scope of the material included is broad and thorough, ranging from the works of the great masters, to the folk tunes and dances of many lands. This collection encompasses grades one through to four. / Piano

Tango Guitar Duets. Par GARDEL CARLOS. Gardel's tangos remain classics, which no performer who aspires to be taken seriously can ignore. For this album Argentinian Tango specialist Diego selected some of Gardel's most popular tangos and arranged them for two guitars. The timbre of this instrument is exceptionally well suited to evoking in sound the musical riches of an impoverished community of im…

The CD enables you to hear full performance versions of the works featured in the book, and then enables you to perform solo with the recorded accompaniment. Features themes ideal for young performers, including 'Sesame Street', 'The Wombling Song' and the Pokemon theme. / Clarinette

Antologia Critico-Tecnica per gli studenti di canto. Par BATTAGLIA ELIO. The Art of the Vocalise, Part II (Mezzo-Soprano - Baritone), is a major teaching work edited by Elio Battaglia and written for those young singers who have assimilated the basic concepts of vocal technique and feel that they are ready toundertake a conscientious study of the vocalise. This method provides a rich anthology of …

A book of 12 fun and easy piano duets, supplementing the other books in Level 2 of this definitive beginner method by leading piano educator H-G Heumann. This illustrated duet book is ideal for getting pupils together to learn the valuable skill of ensemble playing. Visit www.piano-junior.com to find out moreWhat is Piano Junior?Piano Junior is a superb piano course for beginners. It's creative, i…

Avec Rock Harmonica, les débutants peuvent apprendre à jouer de l'harmonica à partir du sol. Les joueurs plus expérimentés peuvent prendre leur jeu au prochain niveau avec l'extérieur, des sentiers battus et des leçons de jouer dans différentes positions.Le premier semestre comprend un enseignement sur les notes, les échelles, le blocage langue, vibrato, trilles et plus encore. Le second comprend …

Par DE KEYSER PAUL. Violin Duet Time presents easy/intermediate duets for young violinists. Following on from Violin Playtime Duets, this anthology provides a selection of carefully graded duets for more advanced players, or for a pupil to play with a teacher. The material covered by this volume ranges from Mozart, Mendelssohn, Schubert and Rossini to folk tunes from Bulgaria and the Canary Island…

A collection of pieces, all carefully selected and arranged to provide supplementary material for today's young violinists. Each piece offers suggestions and guidelines to breathing dynamics and tempo together with technical tips, performance notes and a simple, but effective piano accompaniment. Contains a variety of musical styles ranging from folk and classical through to showtunes and popular …

Five great songs are given the gospel treatment, and the result is a guaranteed showstopper - fun, funky, slick and stylish.The arrangements are by vocal coach and choral director Mark De-Lisser, and were performed by his choir, ACM Gospel Choir, on BBC's Last Choir Standing - they are all uplifting, modern and a joy to sing.Arranged for SAT choir with downloadable backing tracks using the accompa…