Exercises Of Tenacity, Op. 50 is a set of thirty exercises for intermediate Pianists by Isidor Philipp. This volume will help the players to gain in tenacity, flexibility and dexterity. It focuses on developing the use and the strength of the five fingers of each hand, to be able to use them equally, without any weaknesses. Really important and really useful, this book will enable players to exec…

Par . Our Singing for Musical Theatre exams give students the opportunity to perform the songs they love, while developing musical skills that will help them flourish in rehearsal, audition and performance situations. The Practical Grades include performing accompanied and unaccompanied songs, sight_x0002_singing and aural tests. Our new Sample Aural Tests and Sight-Singing publications support ca…

Par FISHER. This unique book offers six 'lessons' with six of today's top jazz guitarists: Joe Diorio, Ron Eschete, Jody Fisher, Mark Whitfield, Steve Khan and Scott Henderson. This is a rare opportunity to hear them explain how they think, practice and play. Subjects covered include fingerstyle blues, exercises for the left and right hands, creating harmonies with intervallic patterns, the ii min…

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…

Par BARTOK BELA. Béla Bartók’s “For Children” is one of the best known pedagogical works for piano teachers of the twentieth century, second only perhaps to the same composer’s “Mikrokosmos”. It was based firmly on the huge number of folk songs he collected, recorded and studied with his colleague Zoltán Kodály. At the time, Bartók was offering something very new to piano teachers and their studen…

Big sister plays the flute? Little brother plays the saxophone? Dad plays bassoon? Buy all three solo books and they can play together. Mum plays the piano? She can accompany them using the piano accompaniment book. These books contain loads of popular Christmas tunes including Jingle Bells, Silent Night, O Christmas Tree, O Come All Ye Faithful, The First Noel and many more. / Trompette / niveau …

Score Parties. Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. When Beethoven wrote these three quartets he was 15 years old and a composition student of Christian Gottlob Neefe in Bonn. They reveal a strong Mozartian influence while the brilliant piano writing already gives a sense of the mature Beethoven. He may conceivably have written the works for the wealthy Mastiaux family in Bonn, as he gave piano lessons to …

This collection of Easy String Quartets includes 5 pieces suitable for players Grade 1-3. The pieces cover a wide range of musical periods and European styles, from Baroque to Romantic, from Italy to Austria and England, to give young players a broad spectrum while acquainting them with the basics of playing chamber music. The compositions included are: Allegretto Op. 72 #3 (Mendelssohn), Allegro …

Despite his young age (born in 1991), the Russian pianist Vyacheslav Gryaznov has already written quite an impressive number of transcriptions for piano solo or chamber music ensembles, among them many arrangements of chamber music and orchestral works by Russian composers like Borodin, Tchaikovsky or Rakhmaninov. However, Gryaznov also studies intensively the music from J. S. Bach, Mahler and Deb…

Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development for Young Concert Band is a complete curriculum for beginning band students to help them grow as ensemble musicians. The series complements any band method and supplements any performance music. It contains 167 exercises, including more than 100 chorales by some of today's most renowned young band composers. Various exercises at the grade 1/2, 1, and 1 1/2 l…