Euphonium and Piano. Par LOPEZ ALAIN. 'Le but de cette composition est de vous familiariser à la métrique inhabituelle 5/4, souvent assimilée au fameux standard de jazz de Paul Desmond, Take Five. Les rythmes et l'articulation y sont variés mais sans difficulté majeure. Elle est dédicacée au saxophoniste 'Michel Itier' (passionné de jazz).' - Alain LOPEZ Une Pièce originale adaptée pour une auditi…

Par CUI CESAR. Russian composer, Cesar Cui (1835-1918) was a member of 'The Five', a group of Russian composers dedicated to the production of a specifically Russian type of music. His 1916 composition for Flute and Piano, Scherzetto, also incorporates Russian characteristics. Cui composed for all genres, however, his style was often compared to Robert Schumann or Charles Gounod, rather than his R…

Par PHILIPP. A set of thirty exercises for intermediate Pianists by Isidor Philipp. This volume will help the players to gain in tenacity, flexibility and dexterity. It focuses on developing the use and the strength of the five fingers of each hand, to be able to use them equally, without any weaknesses. Really important and really useful, this book will enable players to execute pieces with more …

The Girl from Ipanema | One Note Samba | Meditation | Desafinado | No More Blues. Par JOBIM ANTONIO CARLOS / WESTBY OIVIND (Arr.). Øivind Westby has written a number of excellent but demanding instrumental arrangements for Concert Band. In the present one, he has transcribed five of the most famous by Antonio Carlos Jobim. Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim (1927-1994) grew up near Ipanema, t…

Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. The most intimate form of chamber music in Beethoven’s day, the piano sonata became the composer’s vehicle for his boldest and most private thoughts. The five compositions in this collection, the most famous of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas, are among the most frequently recorded and performed in the piano repertoire. Highly desirable for instruction, study, reference and …

Par VAUGHAN WILLIAMS RALPH. In his Prelude ? The Truth from Above, outstanding arranger and curator Paul Hindmarsh has distilled the essence of a timeless Christmas classic by Ralph Vaughan Williams into five minutes of ravishingly unforgettable music for brass band. The variants of the Herefordshire tune popular from the Fantasia on Christmas Carols and The Oxford Book of Carols are skilfully and…

This unaccompanied SSATB choral arrangement of The Beatles classic With A Little Help From My Friends by Carsten Gerlitz includes 10 vocal scores to allow mixed choirs to sing this paean to friendship.One of The Beatles' most popular compositions, it was composed for Ringo Starr to sing, and therefore needed to have just five notes in the melody to accommodate his limited vocal range. The song ins…

Christmas round the world brings together carols from five countries, in settings which explore the vivid national characteristics of each country through the ages. Ideal for both string orchestra and quartet use, the arrangements exploit all the techniques and colours of the school or amateur ensemble. There is plenty of melodic interest for the inner parts and cello, while jazz, Latin-American a…

Passionskantate. Par TELEMANN GEORG PHILIPP. In this five-movement Passion cantata dating from Telemann’s Frankfurt years, the vocalist and the violist are each given attractive, though not excessively difficult tasks. This edition contains the original version for voice, viola and bassocontinuo, as well as the version by Telemann’s successor at Frankfurt, Johann Balthasar König [1691–1758], which…

Oratorienfragment. Teil I: Die Geburt Christi - Teil Ii: Das Leiden Christi. Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. Mendelssohns unfinished 3rd oratorio in its first critical edition. The parts 'Die Geburt Christi' and 'Das Leiden Christi' are presented with full orchestration. In 1852, five years after Mendelsohn’s death, two independently-performable fragments of an unfinished oratorio were published …