This volume contains favourite Israeli, Hassidic and liturgical songs as well as selections for the Sabbath and Festivals. The arranger, Albert Rozin, has created sensitive settings which are easy to play but which do not sacrifice the flavour of the original harmonies. Organists and guitar players will find little difficulty in playing the songs harmonically by using the chord symbols indicated i…

Par CHRISTIANSEN COREY. Saxophonist John Coltrane was one of the most innovative, creative, and influential jazz artists of the 20th Century. Both stylistically and harmonically, he opened doors for others to follow. This book will focus on the first period of Coltrane's career, when he was with Miles Davis, and the jazz vocabulary he used. First, to help the student better understand Coltrane's b…

Par CURTIS MIKE. The eight pieces are all well crafted, with underlying jazz roots, butemploying more sophisticated compositional techniques...Throughout,there is great, engaging counterpoint, a down-home bluesy feel that issometimes missing in more composed-out jazz pieces, and a harmonicand melodic freedom that is rare among published jazz material...Any ofthese duos would also work well on a re…

Being a fascinatingly unique composer, Olivier Messiaen pushed the conventions of composing to its very limits. The composer's music remains ever-popular and The Technique of my Musical Language provides the key and necessaryknowledge into the study of his delightful music. Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire at the mere age of 11, where he won many prizes. As a pa…

Fauré's 2nd Violin Sonata was written in 1916 in Evian and Paris, the first in a series of chamber music works. It is thus one of Faure's late works, characterised by austerity, introspection and the intensity of its expression. It is hard to imagine a greater contrast to the brilliant and ornamental style of the virtuosic 1st Violin Sonata (HN 980), published 40 years earlier. The 2nd Sonata conc…

...called dusk II for string quartet draws its inspiration from a line in Samuel Beckett's short story Lessness: 'Figment dawn dispeller of figments and the other called dusk'.The work is a kind of double Chaconne, each part of which contains 26 chords based on specific permutations of fundamental notes and their harmonics. Each of the parts pass through alternating, harmonically contrasted planes…

Par BRASSENS GEORGES. Georges Brassens: Spécial Guitare Album N°2 - 40 Chansons features a vast collection of George Brassens' songs for Guitar. George Brassens was a iconic figure in France, he achieved fame through his elegant songs with their harmonically complex music for Voice and Guitar./ Recueil / Guitare

Par MANLEY MALLARD. A delightful collection of chamber music by Jean Phillipe Rameau and Johan Helmich Roman arranged for four guitars. These seven dances vary in style and tempo and are uniquely interesting both harmonically and rhythmically. Parts range in difficulty from easy to moderate in the lower parts and moderate to more advanced in the first part. Pedagogically, these pieces will challen…

Par DOBBINS BILL. Pastoral Landscape has definite leanings toward Impressionism and late Romanticism. Both of these historical styles have much harmonically in common with the American traditions of popular song writing (Gershwin, Porter, Arlen, etc.) and jazz. Medium/ Recueil / Instrument en Sib ou Trombone et Piano

Par ARMAN HOWARD. Howard Arman, director of the Bavarian Radio Choir, has been actively engaged with international Christmas carols through various Christmas-related CD productions of his choir in the past years. This has resulted in a number of original arrangements for four- to eight-part mixed choir a cappella, shedding new light on well-known classics such as O du fröhliche [O, you joyful], St…