Score-Paul Creston wrote in an accessible style that incorporated song and dance idioms and often featured unusual instruments like the trombone marimba or saxophone along with lush harmonies expansive orchestrations rhythmic drive and spontaneity. A large proportion of his music included the word 'dance' in the title either of the piece itself or of the movements. These 'Choric Dances' are …

A collection of anthems to be used as a guide for teaching score-reading to the childrens choir.Anthems included:1. Praise The Lord With Psalms (Based On Psalm 47)2. Prayer (Based On Psalm 20)3. Let Us Be Glad (Based On Psalm 118)4. The Lord Is Like A Shepherd (Based On Psalm 23)5. The King Of Glory (Based On Psalm 24)Part II includes teaching strategies and the study plans for each above anthem.

The magnificent interweaving of harmonies and dialogue-like Voices in Handel’s For Unto Us A Child Is Born make it a perfect addition to the festive choral repertoire. German-born British Baroque composer George Frideric Handel originally composed this piece in 1741 for the English-language oratorio Messiah which eventually became one of the best-known and most frequently performed choral…

Klaviertrio-As with all of his mature chamber music works Ravel also emerges as an innovator of traditional forms and techniques in his piano trio composed in 1914. Thus the ?Passacaglia? movement corresponds to the underlying form of theBaroque Period. The music on the other hand was according to Ravel ?like that of Saint-Saëns? which was surely meant ironically. For the historicizing templat…

A collection of music for French Horn intended to display the instrument's characteristic tone qualities both lyric and fanfare-like. Transcribed (with Piano accompaniment) and edited by Mason Jones.

Now solo instrumentalists can play play along with 14 intermediate-level tunes from Musicals like The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins and Beauty and the Beast. These books include CDs with orchestral accompaniment tracks.ABC (THRILLER - The Musical)Always Look on the Bright Side (SPAMALOT)Beauty And The Beast (BEAUTY AND THE BEAST)Belle (BEAUTY AND THE BEAST)Circle of Life (THE LION KING)Defying Grav…

Par SIBELIUS JEAN. The Piano runs through Jean Sibelius's oeuvre like a red thread. After some first student pieces, he composed the Sonata op. 12 (EB 8142) in 1893, and his first cycle of Piano pieces, the Six Impromptus op. 5. Here the Finnish composer self-assuredly takes up a great romantic genre significantly shaped by Schubert and Chopin. Sibelius draws inspiration from some of his own early…

Chords and The Scales That Fit Them-Not sure which scales work with which chords' Feel like you???re stuck in a musical rut' Tired of using the same pentatonic scales for every solo' Ready to take your playing to the next level' Then join Stuart Bull for a clear and methodical series of lessons in Chords And The Scales That Fit Them. In this 2-DVD set Stuart will provide you with scale options n…

Learn Bass Recorder in Ensemble Playing Partitur und Stimmen - Mit Playback CD vom Ensemble Dreiklang Berlin - Anleitung zum Bassblockflötenspiel - for 3-5 recorders (sa(a)tb) and cd arranger: Ripper, Martin arranger: Rosin, Sylvia C. arranger: Beutler, Irmhild The bass recorder brings a deep, rich timbre to the recorder ensemble. Nevertheless, when beginning with the bass recorder, even players…

Par VAN DER ROOST JAN. Minerva by Jan Van der Roost was composed on the commission of the German “Musikverein Braunshausen” on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the orchestra. The composition, first performed on September 17, 1999, is not a street march but a concert march, just like Mercury and Arsenal. The use and variation of different rhythmic patterns gives the first part of this march …