Jamaican music is loved throughout the world for its laid-back feel as well as its intense, lively rhythms. Its influence is apparent across many musical styles, from the reggae rhythms in the music of popular bands like The Police, to ska beats in the music of groups such as The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and The Toasters. Even rap music evolved from the Jamaican vocal style called 'toasting,' and t…

Par RUTTER JOHN. European Sacred Music est une collection de plus de 50 des plus beaux exemples de la musique chorale sacrée de l'Europe continentale, allant du XVIe au XXe siècles. John Rutter a préparé complètement nouvelles éditions de tous les éléments pré-XXe siècle, remontant au manuscrit premiers et les plus fiables ou de sources imprimées. De nouvelles traductions en anglais sont fournies …

Cohen Mary (Editor). Par COHEN MARY. Expand your musical scope and your performance repertoire in new worlds of expression with a special selection of 14 contemporary works, all written by some of today's celebrated composers. Here's your chance to learn some music by real, living composers - not just those only known by their surnames who dies long ago! The musical styles are diverse and exciting…

14 Middle-Grade Duets From The Last Four Centuries. With so many young flautists in the musical world today it is only natural to pair them up and give them some wonderful duets to play. It's amazing what 'big” music, these two small instruments can cope with - indeed, in the eighteenth century the flute duet was almost the gramophone record of the time as countless operatic arias were brought to …

Edward MacDowell was one of America's first and most important native-born composers. Smaller piano works have enhanced MacDowell's reputation more than any of his other compositions. He was a miniaturist and his small works are naturally imbued with sparkle and a charming romantic atmosphere. This early collection of piano pieces was written while the MacDowells lived in a small cottage outside o…

In the autumn of 1974 György Kurtág began to copy selected pieces from the series Games into a music notebook for Zoltán Kocsis who had been his student in earlier years and who, even today, is one of its most authentic performers. Kocsis played from this notebook in the first public performance of Games in 1974. The gradually expanding series of piano pieces also appeared in print in the course o…

The Flute Collection. Par SCHUMANN ROBERT. Remarks in his household books indicate that Robert Schumann (1810–1856) composed the Märchenbilder (Fairy-Tale Pictures) for piano and viola (or violin) op. 113 in just four days between 1st and 4th March, 1851, in Düsseldorf. Schumann only gradually came to the title Märchenbilder. The four pieces are unified by their shared opus number and keys (D mino…

The Great American Songbook contient certains des meilleurs et des plus célèbres chansons du pays pour sortir de l'Amérique. Y compris des chansons telles que Jolene, Ne prenez pas vos Guns To Town, la ville de Detroit et beaucoup plus.Cette fantastique collection de 100 pièces de musique en feuilles, arrangées pour Piano, Voix et Guitare, devra vous gifler votre genou et de se balancer autour de …