Bring singable songs and practical pedagogy together with 20 MORE children's songs, rhymes and games from around the world! Songbook Three also features extension activities for the classroom, historical references, pedagogical indices and suggestions for including these songs in the First We Sing literacy-based music series available from Hal Leonard. In addition, there are suggestions for Orff i…

Simply arranged, this must-know collection includes 50 holiday favorites for beginning pianists to learn, including: Away in a Manger - Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella - Coventry Carol - Deck the Hall - The First Noel - God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen - Hark! the Herald Angels Sing - In the Bleak Midwinter - Jingle Bells - Joy to the World - O Holy Night - Silent Night - The Twelve Days of Christm…

Every student's first concert is a special experience. Finding the right piece is important: it should be something easily manageable that sounds great, and isn't too long or too short.This collection contains the most beautiful original piano pieces from Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Contemporary music, including some rock, pop and tango. There are works by well-known composers amongst lesser-…

The first three movements of Johannes Brahms' E minor Cello Sonata were composed in 1862, the last movement was written in 1865. During the first years of its performance the work was received with mixed enthusiasm. By the end of Brahms' life, however, it was widely performed and by the first decades of the 20th century it was firmly embedded in the repertoire of many distinguished cellists. It wa…

Par HAYDN JOSEPH. The culture of piano-duet arrangements begins in the early-to-mid nineteenth century, the great epoch of domestic bourgeois music-making, with its easy availability of decent instruments for every front parlour or gilded salon. All the way from the Wittgenstein Palace in Vienna with its eight grand pianos, to the uprights in the suburban best-rooms of Europe and beyond; and above…

The Best of Belwin Jazz: First Year Charts for Jazz Ensemble is a collection of twelve outstanding jazz ensemble arrangements for the young player. Each chart is written by experienced educational arrangers and composers in various styles and tempos: swing, Latin, ballad, waltz, holiday and pop.This collection is written for full instrumentation - five saxophones, three trumpets, three trombones, …

Available for the first time: easy to advanced solo works from the Rubank archives with online performance and accompaniment recordings, printable piano accompaniments, and PLAYBACK audio tools. This new collection of 13 Rubank solos includes many that have long been unavailable. All are suitable for contest and festival performance (grades 2-4). Purchase includes exceptional performance tracks (…

Music Street is a three-year program for beginners four or five years of age. Students are motivated through various singing and playing activities as they are introduced to all the note names and animals that 'live? on Music Street. Unlike many courses for young children, the Tritone Junior Courses create students who develop good performance skills within their first year, while still developing…

Just as Serge Rachmaninoff's piano virtuosity ranked him among the greatest pianists of the twentieth century, his compositions for piano and orchestra won him an important position among modern composers. Among the works that ensure his reputation are the first three piano concertos, reprinted here from the authoritative full-score Russian editions.
Rachmaninoff wrote the stirring Piano Conc…

This volume devised by Martin Weyer contains organ music of easy to medium technical difficulty for use at communion. The broad range of styles encompasses Johann Sebastian Bach and early Classical works through to the late Romantic period. The album contains original compositions and first publications as well as arrangements for organ and twelve pieces for communion in settings by Johann Sebasti…

In 1790, during the lifetime of Mozart and Haydn, Ernst Ludwig Gerber wrote of Ko?eluch in his famous handbook for musicians, 'without opposition, by young and old, (?) generally the best-loved composer alive today?. His works display 'liveliness and grace, the noblest of melodies with the purest of harmonies, and a pleasing organisation of rhythm and modulation.? Until now, pianists have had litt…

Herrscher des Himmels, erhöre das Lallen - BWV 248 III, BWV3 248.3. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. The Christmas Oratorio with just organ instead of orchestral accompaniment' Can this work with such a festive and colorfully orchestrated piece' This arrangement shows that it can, and surprisingly well!Carsten Klomp has carefully transcribed the orchestral writing for organ. Staying close to the origina…

Three Pieces For Violin And Piano Op.11 were the first works to be written by composer Ian Venables after he moved to Worcestershire in 1986. The pieces, Pastorale, Romance and Dance have been called some of the most beautiful pieces for Violin and Piano ever composed.Brimming with melodic invention and radiant lyricism, the music of Three Pieces For Violin And Piano is both rich and varied. Pasto…