Arr. Herman Oldenstijl. Par TRADITIONAL. This lovely Scottish hymn, also known as The Lord’s My Shepherd, first appeared in 1929 in the Scottish songbook Northern Psalter, where it was incorrectly credited to David Grant, an Aberdeen businessman and amateur musician. It was, in fact, composed by Jessie Irvine the daughter of the parish minister at Crimond. This arrangement will be a musical jewel …

Michael BublÚ says keep on swingin' in this 1940s throwback with a new century kick! Arranged by Steve Zegree with his daughter Sarah your pop jazz and show choirs will love this number that captures all the excitement of the big band era!

The Nashville Number System is the standard way for a professional country musician to notate a song. The system has been around since the 1950s, and it rapidly became widespread within the country music community because of how efficiently it can represent music. In essence, a Nashville number chart conveys the harmony, key, meter, rhythm, phrase structure, instrumentation, arrangement, and form …

Composed in 1823 but not performed during his lifetime, Franz Schubert's Fierabras is a 'number opera? with spoken dialogue in the manner of opéra comique. It is based on the medieval legends associated with Charlemagne, including that of Eginhard and Emma, and draws on the old French heroic epic (chanson de geste).Emma, the daughter of Charlemagne secretly loves the knight Eginhard who is not bef…

Claude Debussy dedicated Children's Corner to his daughter Chou-Chou when she was three years old. Some of the movements were inspired by her toys. The six lovely pieces in this suite for solo Pianoare an excellent starting point for introducing Grade 5-6 Piano students to impressionism. The pieces are not intended to be played by children; rather they are meant to be evocative of childhood. A t…

The Sapphire is dedicated to Heath's daughter Naima Sapphire. On the day she was born in 2000 Heath was walking over the meadows in Edinburgh to see her and could hear bagpipes playing in the distance. That inspired him to write this piece.The melody and over-all style are influenced by Scottish traditional music however the harmonies come from modern jazz.

Peter Maxwell Davies wrote this set of six short pieces in 1993 as a gift for a friend (a double bass player and composer from the BBC Philharmonic)who was celebrating the birth of his daughter. Despite the reason for writing thembeing most ‘occasional’ these pieces are certainly not lacking in musical substance as one might expect an ‘occasional’ piece to be. These pieces are ideal works…

Berners The Triumph of Neptune Suite arranged for Piano. Described as 'A pantomime in twelve scenes' this was composed in 1926 for Diaghilev's Russian Ballet. With a book by Sacheverell Sitwell and choreography by GeorgeBalanchine it was inspired by a series of Victorian drawings which Diaghilev had bought Pollock and Webb's theatrical bookshop in Hoxton. It depicts the fortunes of Tom Tug a sa…

Opera Vocal Score-'More than anything else Margaret Garner is an opera that reminds us that we all belong to the same human family and it demonstrates what can happen when we forget this fundamental truth... - RichardDanielpour This Opera by Grammy-winning composer Richard Danielpour tells the story of Margaret Garner an enslaved African-American woman in pre-Civil War America who gained notor…

Buster B. Jones is a master of the guitar styles of Chet Atkins Merle Travis and Jerry Reed. He has explored their music styles and techniques and has developed his own unique approach. Buster is known as a blazing fast anddynamic player but his original compositions expose a lyrical and gentler side to his musical personality. In this DVD lesson he presents six original instrumentals. They ar…