Following the highly successful publication Strings Extraordinaire! this collection offers 25 arrangements for Christmas Chanukah and wintertime. Like its predecessor Holidays Extraordinaire! is a progressivecollection designed for students of different playing levels. All pieces are scored with an advanced and beginning part for each instrument while being progressively ordered throughout. …

Rev. Gary Davis is the real thing. The authentic blind-seer. He is a genius with a brightly burning spirit enormous musical intelligence technical brilliance an encyclopedic memory driving passion deep faith araunchy and gracious sense of humor. A mystic. He is an icon of the style of Guitar he was born into known today as the Piedmont blues. Through players of the first half of the twentie…

'Celebration' was written for the baroque violinist Maya Homburger in 1994. Its writing coincided with the composition of 'Ceremony' for violin and tape and some of the articulations are common to both pieces. The piece is like an extended cadenza with all the implications of rubato and individual expression open to the performer.

Imaginative thematic interplay threads its way throughout this dynamic new concert piece. Your Grade 2 ensemble will enjoy finding several traditional armed forces songs hiding in the fabric of this piece as neatly as if Betsy Ross herself had stitched them together. The parade-like atmosphere is uplifting and energizing. The stars and stripes fly high with Yankee Doodle Salute!Spirited!

Like many of Davies’s smaller works this is in a relatively lucid modal style midway between the clarity of his carols and the complications of his symphonies: the opening is in a kind of B flat minor and the close is triumphantly in G flat major. What happens in between -- always in 4/4 march time but usually with exuberant syncopations and cross-rhythms - is a sequence of transformations of…

Features 30 songs with complete lyrics, chord symbols, and guitar chord diagrams from the incomparable British band, including: Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 - Brain Damage - Breathe - Comfortably Numb - The Great Gig in the Sky - Hey You - Money - Mother - Run like Hell - Us and Them - Wish You Were Here - Young Lust - and many more. / Guitare

Your listeners will all be in the Christmas spirit with this selection that combines two holiday favorites: (There's No Place Like) Home For The Holidays I'll Be Home For Christmas. Performance Time: Approx. 3:50.Available separately: SATB SAB 2-Part ShowTrax CD and Instrumental ePak (parts for Synthesizer Guitar Bass and Drums).

from the Columbia Motion Picture RENT-The blockbuster and award-winning musical RENT has been adapted for the screen by the popular director Chris Columbus with some of the original Broadway artists reprising their roles. This eagerly awaited film features a new songby the late composer Jonathan Larson. When you feel like you can't go on love heals!Available separately: SATB SAB SSA and ShowTra…

Traditional Shaker-This simple piece is taken from a large body of traditional shaker lullabies. Most tunes were sung in unison and were unaccompanied like the first statement from this arrangement. Try it on a spring concert coupled with early English madrigals and/or contemporary American song.

Joe Cutler's Comfortable Music for Violin and Piano accompaniment.Comfortable Music was commissioned by the 2007 Stratford-upon-Avon Music Festival with the support of Arts Council England. The piece is in three movements which are marked 'Restrained and Elegant' ?Gritty (like some roadhouse music)' and 'Tense'. The piece is dedicated to the memory of William 'Winkie' Padel (1915 - 2007) who was…