The Master of Funk Teaches You How to Thump! Book with Full-Length Video. For the first time, the legendary Louis Johnson Star Licks bass instruction videos are being made available in book format with online access to all the classic video footage. This package compiles Volumes I and II of the original Star Licks Master Classes into one bundle, giving you over an hour and a half of instruction, w…

Par NOSKOWSKI / GREIVE. Written within throughly romantic style Melody is a highly attractive example of the composers typically elegant melodic writing, strong sense of structural proportion and lush romantic harmonies. The totally idiomatic violin writing reflects ahigh degree of attainment in its composers violin studies with J. Hornziel and A. Ktski. [Tyrone Greive]./ Répertoire / Violon et Pi…

Par SILVERMAN ROB. Intended for the beginning drum student, this book contains many essential reading and playing skills for the snare and drumset. These studies are integrated in a logical, sequential order. For example, a new rhythm is introduced and studied on the snare drum, then later applied as a beat and then a fill. The same rhythm will appear later in the book for review and then in one o…

a 6 et a 8. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. The Serenade in E-flat, K. 375, exists in two versions, one for two clarinets, two horns and two bassoons, and another for the same forces plus two oboes, forming an octet. From Mozart himself we know a fair amount about the occasion that led to the first, six-instrument version of this work and about its early performances. Written for the sister-in-law of…

Par ADLER-MCKEAN JACK. This book on the tuba is a companion for composers and players alike, deepening their understanding of this somewhat neglected family of instruments. It gives tuba players an opportunity to master and employ new performance techniques on their instrument, particularly in contemporary music. Jack Adler-McKean offers helpful instruction in various tuning mechanisms, resonance…

Par CURNOW JAMES. Commissioned by the Glenbard East High School Music Department of Lombard, Illinois in grateful appreciation for the 34 year teaching career of Ross Kellan and his tireless commitment to excellence in music education, where he led by example each and every day. A scintillating opener! The joyful spirit will light up your concert hall like fireworks as you set your next performanc…

This four-language dictionary of music contains more than 4000 terms and is intended for musicians, teachers, students and amateurs who wish to understand and use specialist foreign terms. The book is not academic in scope- it is based on practical experience, derived from the examination of directions given on a large number of orchestral scores, piano pieces and transcriptions, and instrumental …

A brilliant example of Moussorgsky's innovative techniques, this dramatic work was completed and orchestrated by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov after Moussorgsky's death. Full of intense effects, the piece has long been a staple of the orchestral repertoire, particularly after its memorable accompaniment to the Witches' Sabbath sequence of Disney's Fantasia.

The work was composed in 1992 for the 85th birthday of Kurtág's teacher, Sándor Veress. The ensemble of instruments is unusual: two basset horns and two quarter-tone pianos (the well-known predecessor of the latter is Charles Ives' Three Quarter-Tone Pieces for two pianos). The special tuning in this case is not that the tonality moves in an ultra-chromatic direction, rather that it makes the cont…

More than just a handy reference book, this book and CD set provides a complete guide to reading tablature for the beginner guitarist. Tablature offers an intuitive and coherent way of using printed music on the guitar without having to learn to read traditional notation - rather than seeing only the notes to be played, tablature guides your fingers to exactly the right frets and strings! This com…