Good King Wenceslas. Par JOHNSON TIMOTHY. Young band directors are always on the lookout for something new and a little different for the winter concert. Timothy Johnson’s new Christmas arrangement for Beginning Bands fits the bill perfectly. It remains technically accessible to the young band while exploring this old familiar tune in new and different ways. You even have the option of including a…

Par PHUNG TUAN VU. Pieces are inspired by Vietnamese folk music. The eight beginning bars of Nostalgia, in natural harmonics emulate the unichord, a Vietnamese single-stringed instrument. The two movements of Two Dreams were written ten years apart and triggered by the musical sounds the composer heard upon waking from his actual dreams. The whole piece is polytonal but based on Vietnamese folk to…

Playing on the Changes features 13 jazz etudes through the various chord qualities found in standards and jazz tunes in all 12 keys. Areas covered include major 7th chords, minor 7th chords, dominant 7th chords (Mixolydian, altered dominant, and half-whole diminished), minor ii (flat-5) chords, tritone substitutions, and a variety of progressions using all of the above. Bob Mintzer has written out…

For all Treble clef instruments. Par BRECKER MICHAEL. The legendary saxophonist Michael Brecker kept extensive notes on things to practice over the whole span of his career. This unique and beautifully produced book presents the essence of these notebooks - jam-packed with useful, and often brilliant, musical ideas and over 700 exercises. The Practice Notebooks of Michael Brecker can be used with …

Score + Parties. Par MENKEN ALAN. Aladdin, l'un des films d'animation les plus populaires de Disney, est sorti en 1992 et a été suivi, en 2019, de sa version en live action. Trois chansons de la bande originale de cette dernière - ' Nuits d'Arabie ', ' A Whole New World ' et ' Prince Ali ' - ont été arrangées par Robert van Beringenwhich pour quatuor à instrumentation variable, permettant ainsi à …

Kantaten I-Iii. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. ?A widely-accepted form for the Christmas Oratorio is to perform parts I?III exclusively. In their concentration on the actual Christmas story they form a rounded whole. The present edition is conceived especially for this kind of performance. ? [Singen und Musizieren im Gottesdienst, Juli/August 2000] / Oratorio / Répertoire / Solistes SATB, Choeur SATB…

Ed. E. Battaglia. Par VACCAI NICOLA. Nicola Vaccai's Practical Vocal Method (Mezzo-Soprano Baritone) is complete and scrupulous, providing an ideal preparation for a certain type of 'pre-Rossinian vocalism' which is attracting renewed interest. This edition is a critical and technical revision of the composer's original work by Elio Battaglia. The completeness and centrality of Vaccai's method is …

Dr. Checkup, que nous connaissons déjà grâce à la méthode Écouter, Lire et Jouer a élaboré ce recueil rassemblant des airs célèbres extraits du vaste répertoire cinématographique des productions Disney. Le degré de difficulté des morceaux est progressif et tout élève ayant atteint le niveau de la leçon 10 du premier volume de la méthode pourra travailler et interpréter ces petits joyaux musicaux. …

Open the door to a whole new guitar universe with this universal method for navigating the fretboard in all tunings, how to cultivate new composing and improvising concepts, and how to broaden your fingerstyle skills and techniques. It includes: audio demonstration tracks - standard notation and tablature - theory essentials - DADGAD and other tunings - fingerstyle techniques - picking patterns - …

The mastery of scales and scale patterns has long been established as the best way to improve technical abilities on all instruments. The Complete Scale Compendium focuses on what is most common in the study of classical music: core major and minor scales, as well as chromatic, pentatonic, whole-tone, and blues scales. Students will learn the construction of these scales while practicing unique pa…