This Recorder Fun!(TM) pack makes learning to play recorder easy, even if you've never played before! In no time at all, you'll be playing your favorite songs from the Disney live action film Beauty and the Beast. The pack includes a high-quality beginner's recorder with the feel and tuning of a pro model, plus a songbook with easy instructions. The book features a fingering chart, black-and-white…

Par SHELTON MELVIN L.. A touching and intense memoriam piece, the mechanics are on the easy side of Grade 4, but the demand for tone quality and control in tenuto passages and long slurred phrases calls for the best of musicianship from any group. The 'Adagio e Rubato' tempo indication invites the kind of wonderfully expressive ensemble playing that should probably make up a larger part of band li…

Italian opera was at the centre of Handel's output for over 35 years with solo arias constituting one of the most important elements in Baroque opera. Dramatic roles, with their various moods and reactions, are characterised through arias. A large number of Handel's operas also contain at least one entire scene for two to three voices. These numbers make use not only of similar lyrical or expressi…

Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. The Barenreiter study scores are a prime example of how Barenreiter takes a musical text and transfers it into a practical format. The Barenreiter Study Scores, format 16. 5 x 22. 5cm, are ideal for musical analysis, rehearsal purposes and even conducting. The Study Scores are distinguished by high quality paper and binding as well as an excellent layout. In this way mast…

Choralkantate. Par HERZOGENBERG HEINRICH VON. Reprint of the first edition. Friedrich Spitta recommended to Herzogenberg that he set Gerhard Tersteegen’s text “Gott ist Gegenwärtig” on the occasion of that poet’s 200th birthday. Besides the obbligato organ, Herzogenberg restricted the instrumentation to strings, two trumpets, three trombones and timpani, and thus achieved a majestic quality which …

Busoni was just sixteen years old when he wrote the extraordinary Serenata, and the quality of the music is exceptional. The work draws inspiration from the serenade as love song, and the interplay between the warm, lyrical cello line countered by its bright and lively piano partner is highly effective. In preparing this new addition, cellist Lowrii Blake has consulted the original manuscript of t…

Par . What is more lovely than the sound of a classical guitar' Maybe two! These magical duets are wonderfully rewarding and will keep you coming back for more! Now digitally remastered in a 2-CD set with complete stereo versions, and stereo versions minus guitar for your accompaniment pleasure. Includes a high-quality printed music score with both primo and secondo guitar parts in dual-guitar due…

The autograph of a composition always makes fascinating reading - and this is particularly true of Schubert's Trio in Eb major op. 100, as it underwent many changes during its composition. The manuscript, parts of which were greatly revised, bears eloquent witness to this and offers an opportunity to trace the intricacies of Schubert's phrasing and articulation. This source is in a private collect…

Par CURNOW JAMES. Every conductor knows the importance of using excellent teaching materials to aid in the development of all aspects of musical growth. The quality of the band's performance must be continually improving. Each component of the ESSENTIALS OF MUSICIANSHIP series is designed to focus on a specific area of musical performance. By using these materials during the warm-up period, the co…

Par SPARKE PHILIP. Wind Sketches is a top quality concert work for wind band in three movements, inspired by the relationship between man and wind. Trade Winds, in the form of a march, is reminiscent of a shanty, conjuring up seafaring and the tradewinds. Becalmed, harmonically and melodically almost static, depicts the doldrums. All the more contrasting is Riding the Storm, which concerns the lov…