Par REID ELLEN. This piece for wordless voice and small ensemble was composed as part of Ellen Reid’s Soundwalk, a site-specific work created for urban parks around the world. The title comes from Christian Cooper, a black birdwatcher whose confrontation with a white dogwalker in Central Park, New York, in 2020 made headlines around the world and on social media. In the piece, Reid’s music imitate…

Par PENNETIER. French pianist, Jean-Claude Pennetier (b. 1942) studied at the Paris Conservatoire and his since won many prizes for his performances. He also composed and published a variety of works, including his unusual yet significant Bruits De Paroles. Pennetier 's Bruits De Paroles is an unusual yet helpful aid to choral singing. The study book provides detailed instruction on the pronunciat…

These etudes build on the elements introduced in Artie Shaw's Jazz Technic, Book One and provide exercises for tongue and fingers, with an additional emphasis on phrasing. They are written in various styles and changes of key and tempo to assist the player in developing a smooth, melodic style of improvising.

Par BOURBASQUET JACKY / GASTALDIN. With few study books for Drums in existence, Drums Movie Session contributes to a series of prolific studies for the instrument, filling a vital gap. Accompanied by a CD, this progressive book effectively focuses on all styles of cinematic music, from Western to suspense. Compiled by Jacky Bourbasquet and Claude Gastaldin, two prominent drummers of our day, and w…

Par FREEMAN ALEX. Alex Freeman found initial inspiration for his string quartet (2015) in a series of photographs a geologist friend showed him of en échelon veins in rock formations. The open strings punctuated with pizzicato unisons that begin the single-movement work call to mind something crystalline and shimmering, which is immediately infused with tumbling lyrical lines in something of a rap…

Par SCHREKER FRANZ. Franz Schreker had a long and close association with choral music. As founder and director of Vienna's Philharmonic Chorus he led world premieres and first performances of works by contemporary composers. It is surprising, therefore, that Schreker wrote relatively few independent choral works; only three of these works [with various scorings] were published in his lifetime. Now…

Basso (Cello). Par TELEMANN GEORG PHILIPP. Concerto in F major for 3 Violins, Strings and Basso continuo TWV 53:F1 Tafelmusik II If Telemann was regarded by his contemporaries as one of the greatest of all composers, his star, faced with the overwhelming presence of Bach and Handel, paled in the course of the 19th century to the verge of contempt. This assessment changed radically during the cours…

Andrew D. Gordon has created 30 12bar blues play-a-long backing tracks in various Blues styles, keys and tempos such as: Funky Blues, Boogie Blues, Jazz Blues, Minor Blues, Country Blues, Latin Blues, Old Time Jazz Blues, Jazz Swing Blues, Classic Blues Rock, Soulful Blues, Slow Blues and many more.Each of the 30 play-a-long tracks has been recorded with 12 choruses of the 12 bar blues progression…

In addition to being a collection of transcriptions of the Buddy Rich solos featured on the Buddy Rich Jazz Legend videos (VH0196, VH0197), this publication concentrates on the specifics of The World's Greatest Drummer's playing. The techniques covered include left-handed/bass drum coordination, drumset crossovers, cymbal patterns, left-hand/right-hand singles, left-hand time patterns, hi-hat work…

Easter Cantata. Par PACHELBEL JOHANN. Christ lag in Todesbanden (Christ lay in grim death's prison) Easter Cantata In recent years the demand for making available a larger number of choral works by Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) has made itself felt more strongly than ever before. Within the past few years the search for unpublished manuscripts of choral compositions written by Johann Pachelbel has …