Par VASKS PETERIS. The Latvian composer Peteris Vasks, who is known for his atmospheric pieces for string orchestra, “Cantabile”, “Musica dolorosa” and “Voices”, is concentrating increasingly on chamber music: his latest works are the “Partita” for cello and piano, the “Fifth String Quartet” and a piano quartet. Vasks has brought elements of ancient and folk traditions in Latvian music into his co…

Travis-picking is a fingerpicking style that uses on-the-beat, alternating bass patterns picked by the thumb to support treble notes picked by the fingers. This book presents a dozen classic songs from a variety of genres and eras arranged beautifully in this distinctive style for intermediate to advanced fingerpickers. Songs include: Fields of Gold - Clocks - Happy Together - Brown Eyed Girl - Ho…

Just like our wildly popular E-Z Play Today songbooks - but smaller! These 6x9 songbooks are easily portable and easily played thanks to handy note names in the note heads and minimal page turns. This collection features 80 Beatles favorites. / Piano

Premiered in London in 1733, Handel's 'magic opera? 'Orlando? is based on a libretto by Carlo Sigismondo Capeci that derives indirectly from Ludovico Ariosto's epic poem 'Orlando furioso?.This subject was very popular at the time and was frequently set to music, e.g. by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Agostino Steffani and Joseph Haydn. The title role of Orlando is the last one that Handel wrote for the cele…

The Ukulele Decade Series: The 1950s features Ukulele arrangements for 80 favorites from the early days of rock, including All I Have to Do Is Dream, At the Hop, The Great Pretender, Peggy Sue, A Teenager in Love, You Send Me and more. / Ukulélé

Tout le monde aime à chanter des chants de Noël! Donc faire simple avec ce facile à utiliser la collection contient 50 chants de Noël bien connus arrangé pour toute combinaison de voix. Idéal pour des vacances chantent en choeur, la communauté ou rencontres familiales, ou une maison à maison de chant. Includes: Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella - Deck the Hall - The First Noel - Go Tell It on the…

Ce fabuleux livre contient les paroles complètes pour une centaine de vieux favoris de l'énorme réserve de chansons de parti irlandais. Comprend de nombreux favoris traditionnels et classiques populaires comme Tie A ruban jaune, House of the Rising Sun, Scarborough Fair, For The Good Times et Amazing Grace. La forme et le style du livre signifie qu'il est parfait comme référence gig-sac, mais la c…

A Gaelic Blessing is a simple and catchy piece by Craig McLeish. This piece will be particularly useful for school, junior and community choirs, and a tuneful introduction to singing simple contrapuntal lines. The second soprano part repeats the tune at bar 33 and should dominate here - the first sopranos and altos should support appropriately. Ease and beauty of tone should be of paramount import…

Par . What would composers such as Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, or Rachmaninoff have done if they had arranged Dust in the Wind for solo piano' Would Bach have penned a prelude or minuet' Would Chopin have crafted a nocturne or mazurka' What about Mozart, Tchaikovsky, or Bartok' Here are 16 pop songs, arranged for piano solo, as if covered by the likes of these music giants. The focus is on c…

Arrangeur: Samuel Applebaum. Par APPLEBAUM SAMUEL. String Tunes was compiled from melodies Samuel Applebaum used to teach his string students. Michael Katz has produced the accompaniment CD (in traditional, jazz and rock styles) to motivate students to practice and perform for friends and family. The melodies are arranged in progressive order from the first three notes students learn to hte end of…

'Ingenting utanför / Nothing Beyond? is another collaboration between Mårten Jansson and the Swedish poet Einar Askestad. This a cappella choral work deals with sorrow and loss. After a forceful, harmonically ambiguous section and a clear break in the music, the piece ends with a comforting decrescendo of reconciliation. It was commissioned by the Uppsala female choir 'La Cappella? and is dedicate…

Shortly after a rather unsuccessful performance of his Piano Concerto #1, Johannes Brahms wrote to Joseph Joachim in 1859: '... a second one will sound different?. Nevertheless, a good 20 years elapsed before that second concerto finally took form, and only in 1881 was he able to announce: 'I wanted to tell you that I have written a very small Piano concerto with a tiny little delicate Scherzo?.Th…

Six Mozart Opera Arias. Par MARTLAND STEVE. With Wolf-Gang, the British composer Steve Martland, ironizingly, follows the 18-century tradition of wind music ensembles with which underpaid musicians made some money on the side. Martland arranged six arias from Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute and Le Nozze di Figaro for wind octet, adapting them to today‘s possible playing techniques. By adding cor ang…