The 1st Recital Series presents high quality solo/recital literature appropriate for performers from beginner to early intermediate standard. A professionally recorded CD is included with each book providing a demonstration of each piece followed by an accompaniment track which can be used for performance or rehearsal. A separate piano accompaniment book is also available. / Percussions A Claviers…

Par DOWLAND JOHN. During his lifetime John Dowland was one of the few English composers whose fame spread throughout Europe. He has never been entirely forgotten although his music was almost completely ignored during the whole of the eighteenth century and most of the nineteenth. The early twentieth century saw a dawning recognition among scholars and specialists of the rare quality of his work. …

In spite of the most enthusiastic reception at the work's premiere, the famous pianist and conductor Hans von Bülow criticized Verdi's Messa da Requiem as 'an opera in ecclesiastical robes?. Nonetheless, or maybe precisely for this quality, the work has conquered concert podiums worldwide.For this scholarly-critical edition, the editor has consulted no less than 16 sources, many more than were eve…

Par MOUSSORGSKY MODESTE / KURTAG GYORGY. For György Kurtág, Mussorgsky's works have always been an important model. Several of his works contain pieces referring to Mussorgsky (Games III, The Small Snag), and in his opera, Fin de partie, he also refers to Mussorgsky's declamation style. He made these two transcriptions for piano duet in 1989, continuing a series of his earlier pre-Classical transc…

Joseph Horovitz. Suite of five pieces for brass quintet: two trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba. Full Score. This work was composed in 1964 at the request of the well known American tuba player Roger Bobo. It was soon taken into the repertoire of the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, who gave the first BBC broadcast. The first recording was on Pye records, by the Hallé Brass Ensemble. Since then it has …

Mid-Intermediate Level. Par HARTSELL RANDALL. A lovely piece infused with tragic beauty. The melody and harmonies have a yearning, intangible quality. Requires steady legato playing and a vivid imagination. Key: Fluid, with a tonal center of A. / Niveau : Moyen Intermédiaire / Recueil / Piano

A Proven Method to Increase Technique and Become a Complete Saxophonist. Par MAINELLA NICK. Your warm-up time is a precious thing. It can get you off to a great day of practicing or it can set you back every time you pick up your instrument. Learning the correct way to warm up will benefit every part of your playing and send you on your way to mastering the saxophone! This book is the product of t…

Classical guitarists, both students and professional performers, require the same high-quality editions that their pianist colleagues have come to expect from Alfred Music. Our Classical Guitar Masterwork Editions continue the Alfred tradition of providing carefully edited, beautifully presented music for practice and performance.This edition of Carcassi's Melodic and Progressive Etudes, Op. 60 in…

Arrangeur: Wolfgang Hirschmann. Par TELEMANN GEORG PHILIPP. This edition makes available a concerto of Telemann for viola da gamba - the only extant Telemann concerto for this instrument. The quality of this concerto lies in the abundance of the formal and stylistic traditions which it develops, and the resulting individual, unmistakable synthesis of those traditions./ Répertoire / Viole de Gambe …

Rockschool is about singing the songs you love. Your Vocals Grade 7 book contains six of the biggest tracks from the past six decades arranged for you to sing for your Grade 7 exam. This book also includes examples of all the supporting tests found in the Rockschool Grade 7 exam.This book for female vocalists contains the songs:Bleeding Love - Leona LewisWhat's Up? - 4 Non BlondesHeaven - Emeli Sa…