Par LINJAMA JYRKI. Jyrki Linjama composed Sonata da chiesa I for piano as a commission from the Carinthischer Sommer festival in Austria and premiered by Juho Pohjonen at Ossiach Abbey in summer 2010. The title alludes to the sonata tradition of the Baroque at its weightiest and most solemn. The polyphonic church sonata with its strict adherence to form for a long time occupied an important role i…

Hailing from New York City, indie rock band American Authors have burst on to the music scene with their debut album Oh, What a Life. This folio matches the album and includes piano accompaniment, guitar chord diagrams, and all the lyrics needed to play their hits at home. / Piano/Vocal/Guitare (PVG)

Arrangement: Harris Richard. Par HARRIS RICHARD. The 1960s and 70s were decades of flower power, short skirts and soul. This new sound forged from R 'n' B and gospel took the world by storm, influencing artists across the decades. Play Soul features 10 of the best soul songs ever - from legendary pioneers James Brown, Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin to Michael Jackson and Alicia Keys. All songs h…

Par SAMITZ NICO. Nico Samitz has been composing for chamber ensembles since his school days. For over ten years he has been writing works in a wide variety of genres for the ?BlechReiz BrassQuintett? ensemble, in which he himself plays trumpet and piano. His field of expertise ranges from classical pieces to jazz and meditative music?and even to pop-oriented compositions. While honing his skills i…

In this series, pop hits receive unexpected fresh treatments. Uniquely reimagined and crafted for intermediate piano solo, these favorites have been All Jazzed Up! Play 12 Disney songs: Belle · Circle of Life · Cruella De Vil · Ev'rybody Wants to Be a Cat · It's a Small World · Let It Go · Mickey Mouse March · Once upon a Dream · Part of Your World · Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious · Under the …

Par CARTER SYDNEY. 17 songs with piano or guitar accompaniment. CONTENTS All alone and all together (D - B); Bell of creation (A - C); Better take a book to bed (C - C) Bitter was the night (C - E flat); Down below (B flat - E flat); Feeling sad and lonely (C - B) Friday morning (C sharp - E); Good literature (B - B); I want to have a little bomb like you (C - C) Lord of the Dance (D - D); Middle-…

The ART of Teaching (AoT) is written in a methodical and musical approach bursting with ‘colours’. The ‘colours’: theory, practical, aural training, composing, improvising and transposing studies make up a musical palette. These ‘colours’ blend together and enhance the students’ musical adventures making it educational yet wholesome and exciting. In addition to the teaching aspect, the teachers ca…

Par RAE JAMES. All of the pieces in the Universal Edition Debut series are written for young instrumentalists in their earliest stages of learning, and can be performed as solos or in unison with other players. Some of the pieces have an optional second part and can also serve as ensemble material. For the student, this collection contains fun inspiration cartoons, a CD providing demo performances…

The three movements of Op. 81a are entitled 'The Departure,' 'The Absence,' and 'The Return,' dedicated to the Archduke Rudolf, an excellent pianist, friend, and patron of the composer. Rudolf's departure was part of an evacuation plan for Viennese aristocracy to escape the imminent occupation of Vienna by Napoleon's armies. An autograph of the first movement believed to have been presented to the…

Für Flöte Und Klavier Bearbeitet Von Elisabeth Weinzierl / Edmund Wächter. Par MARAIS MARIN. Marin Marais, the legendary gambist at the court of Louis XIV, mainly left works for his own instrument, which are entirely in the French ‘taste’. Marais points out that, although his works are written for viola da gamba, they can equally be playedon flute, violin or other melody instrument. Five pieces fr…

Par WEILL KURT. Trois Chansons by Kurt Weill is a set of three French songs for Voice and Piano. The lyrics have been written by Maurice Magre and Roger Fernay and the general level of difficulty is medium. The first piece, Complainte de la Seine (Complains of the Seine), is three page long and its lyrics are about what lies at the bottom of the river. The second song, Je ne t'aime pas (I don't lo…

In this series, pop hits receive unexpected fresh treatments. Uniquely reimagined and crafted for intermediate piano solo, these favorites have been All Jazzed Up! Play 10 favorites from the guitar icon: Castles Made of Sand - Fire - Hey Joe - Little Wing - Purple Haze - Spanish Castle Magic - The Wind Cries Mary - and more. / Piano

Par RUSSELL-SMITH GEOFFREY. Young players of today are exposed to a variety of contemporary styles and this new series of jazzy and relaxing pieces for Recorder attempts to provide players with experience of the syncopated patterns of Jazz, Rock and Pop music, whilst keeping within technical bounds which will have been achieved at various grades. The Piano accompaniments are deliberately simple in…

Like many composers who found themselves in exile during the war years, Castelnuovo-Tedesco composed in a very neoclassical and neoromantic style, reviving more traditional or antiquated ideas of melody, tonality and texture. His collection of Shakespeare Songs feature settings of verse from across the full range of the Bard's plays, and have proved to be great critical successes still widely perf…