Kantate Zum 3. Weihnachtstag. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. The cantata 'Ich freue mich in dir' was first performed during Bach's second year as Thomaskantor, on the 3rd day of Christmas, and belongs to the so-called annual cycle of chorale cantatas. Here the focus of the composition is the hymn of the same name by Philipp Ziegler, in which the first and final strophes were adopted, word for word, in…

An Anatomy of Position Playing for Jazz Guitar. Par MOONEY DAVY. If you?ve ever wondered about the depth of thought vs. pattern playing that goes into jazz guitar improvisation, you?ll find the answer in this book. University of North Texas jazz guitar instructor and stellar musician, Davy Mooney is as fluid in writing about the physical and cerebral processes of jazz guitar improvisation as he is…

Yesterday and Today is a duet suite commissioned by the Emporia (Kansas) Area Piano Teachers. The suite contains two movements, with primo and secondo parts leveled equally. 'Memories of Yesterday' is an expressive piece in 6/8 meter. The lyrical melody is traded back and forth between the two parts. 'Celebrate Today!' is a lively march featuring ascending and descending scale figures. / Piano 4 M…

Par ROKEACH MARTIN. Going Up? was commissioned in 2007 by the New York trio Eight Strings and a Whistle and completed in 2008. The material and energy of the piece continually pulls the listener upward, hence the title. There are three themes, all ascending, introduced in the first moments respectively by the flute as the piece opens, the pizzicato cello in measure 4, and the pizzicato cello again…

Trombone basse solo / Ensemble instrumental : Flûte traversière - Cor anglais - Petite Clarinette en Mib - Cor en Fa - Harpe - Contrebasse - Piano / Percussions : Vibraphone - Cloche tube (Do#) - Fouet - Crécelle - Petit gong chinois ascendant. / PHAETHON : Le poète latin Ovide [43 av. J.-C./17 après J.-C.] a consigné dans ses Métamorphoses, véritable texte fondateur de la mythologie classique, qu…

Vivre sax légende Jackie McLean est l'un des plus grands joueurs d'alto de l'ère post-Parker. Pour ce livre, il a rassemblé essentielle des exercices d'échauffement pour aider les étudiants à se familiariser avec la lecture grâce à des touches différentes ascendant et descendant chromatiquement. Inclut une biographie, une interview, de nombreux exercices, et des transcriptions de ses solos dans 'B…

Offertorium Zum Ostersonntag. Par EBERLIN JOHANN ERNST. Eberlin’s programmatic setting of the offertory “Terra tremuit” was written for the festive liturgy of Easter Sunday at Salzburg Cathedral, which in the 17th and 18th centuries was a center of the cultivation of the polyphonic offertory. Verses 9 and 10 of Psalm 76 [Vulgata 75], with their vivid description of the earth trembling and falling …

Par BARTOK BELA. Bartók's Mikrokosmos has been one of the milestones in pedagogical piano repertoire for 80 years - and yet it is also far more than a 'classical' piano primer. These 153 piano pieces, organized in ascending order of difficulty, engage not only with technical aspects of piano playing but also with the fundamentals of composition - from 'Imitation and Inversion,' 'Ostinato,' and 'Fr…

Par SPARKE PHILIP. A Nottingham Festival débute par un motif ascendant qui contraste avec la fougueuse entrée des cuivres. Puis l’ambiance se fait sereine pour introduire une mélodie jouée par les clarinettes et accompagnée d’un motif rythmique à la caisse claire. Un crescendo mène à un passage puissant repris par l’orchestre entier qui réintroduit la trame initiale. Le tableau final est rehaussé …