Par SADELER GEORGES. Schola Vitae, dedicated to the former director of UGDA Music School in Luxembourg, Paul Scholer, describes in an 8-minute piece that learning and playing music is a school for life. Starting with popular scales that ascend and descend through various keys, an essential tool familiar to every musician appears: the metronome. It sets the tempo, and musicians practice their them…

Vol. 10/II - Edizione critica a cura di Alessandro Borin-David Bryant (testi in italiano e inglese). Par GABRIELI ANDREA. Vol. 10 of the Complete Works, articulated in two parts, contains the music found exclusively in manuscript and printed anthologies compiled prior to the great sixteenth-century Venetian composer?s death in 1585. Broadly speaking, Gabrieli?s contributions to collective antholog…

for wind quintet and piano. Par SCHWEITZER BENJAMIN. Benjamin Schweitzer presents his first work for this combination. Willing to try out something new, he adds to the typical character of the wind instruments the sound of the piano. The work is made up of two movements, each movement of several parts. Complex interwoven passages are set against stringently composed sections. The composer says of …

Satie's progressive incidental music of 1891-92, though explicitly aimed against French 'Wagnérisme?, is not intended as a parody. Commissioned by the Rosicrucian master and ardent Wagnerian Joséphin Péladan, this plain, purely instrumental music proceeds independently from the dramatic action. For the first time, this pioneering Urtext edition on Satie's incidental music evaluates a previously ne…

Par DOVE JONATHAN. A lilting a cappella setting of a text by Richard Crashaw (1612-1649), where the clear vocal lines are set against a dark and dense harmonic background. This short piece can be performed at any point in the year, but is particularly suitable for Christmas./ Feuillet / Choeur

Par ADAMO MIKE. The most in-depth study of breakbeat drumming in print! The style is divided into thirteen essential elements, with each element discussed in its own chapter. Hundreds of exercises and beats give the reader ample opportunity to practice the elements, which, when assembled, will give the drummer the ability to integrate a complete language of incredibly funky concepts into his or he…

Par PARADIS PHILIPPE. Si vous êtes fan de Rage Against The Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Urban Dance Squad et autres Extreme ou Living Colour, ce DVD vous comblera inévitablement ! Vous y trouverez en effet une floppée de rythmiques saignantes, de grooves percutants, de riffs imparables et de plans solos bien sentis, qui vous aideront à évoluer 'guitaristiquement? dans le plus pur style Hard-Fun…

Craig McLeish writes of The Negro Speaks of Rivers - Langston Hughes (1902-1967) was the first black American to earn his living from writing. He was an innovator of jazz poetry, becoming part of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and 1930s. He wrote plays, short stories, novels, and his poetry was widely read. He was also a journalist, columnist and lecturer. The Negro Speaks of Rivers was perha…

Une méthode incontournable pour savoir jouer comme les guitaristes de groupes célèbres! Green Day, U2, Téléphone, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, ZZ Top, Metallica, AC/DC, Eddie Van Halen, John Lee Hooker, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Buddy Guy, BB King, Robben Ford, Eric Clapton, Rage Against The Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Extreme, Collective Soul, Nirvana, Faith No More, Lenny Kravitz, Prince. Pour vo…

Par MYERS TOKIO. The official songbook for Britain's Got Talent winner Tokio Myers' debut album, Our Generation. Created in close collaboration with the artist, it contains all 13 songs from the album, for solo piano, with chord symbols and full lyrics. The book also includes stunning imagery and specially-written song introductions. 'Instead of asking 'Why?', we should be saying: 'Why not?' T…