Par DOBSON SIMON. Firefly was composed by award-winning composer Simon Dobson (b.1981) to provide an entertaining up-tempo concert work for community and youth bands. Composed in funk-rock style, and is based on the groove beat with which it opens. Dobson says, 'Firefly was written as a break from my more serious music and as a 'hat tip' to the various types of beat orientated music I listen to.” …

Soloist: Humberto Araújo, tenor saxophone
Brazilian and Afro-Cuban Jazz Conception is the new exciting series of play-along books by award-winning Brazilian flutist and composer Fernando Brandão and features fifteen original tunes in various Brazilian and Afro-Cuban styles. This edition clearly aims at being more than a simple play-along collection. For each of the tunes a thorough analysis a…

An Essential Guide to Supporting the Large Jazz Ensemble. Par . No other ensemble is so readily identified with jazz music than the big band. Every component, from the saxes to the brass and rhythm sections, has drawn audiences for over a century with high-energy hits, lush ballad textures, and toe-tapping rhythms. The vehicle for the groove of the band lies with the drums, which dictates the inte…

Par WASTALL PETER. Peter Wastall?s award-winning series of tutor books for woodwind and brass instruments, now available in revised and refreshed editions to instruct and inspire the next generation of musicians, guiding them from beginner level to Grade 3 standard. Divided into units that provide clear explanations of each new stage of learning, alongside plentiful exercises and graded concert p…

Par LEVY J. / MARGOSHES STEVE. Fame: The Musical has been dazzling audiences since its debut in 1988. Originally based off the award-winning 1980 movie, then a long-running television series and even a reality show, the musical follows the lives of a group of aspiring entertainers at New York's High School for Performing Arts. Catchy songs and spectacular dance numbers fill the Broadway hit that…

17-year-old New Zealand newcomer Lorde released this, her debut album, in September 2013. It reached the top of the modern rock/alternative and rock albums charts, and the lead single 'Royals? won the 2014 Grammy® Award for Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance. Our folio features this break-out hit plus nine other tunes: Buzzcut Season - 400 Lux - Ribs - Still Sane - Team - Tennis Court …

Sixteen terrific musical numbers from this award winning show by Willy Russell, author of Shirley Valentine and Educating Rita. The songs have been specially arranged for Voice, Piano and Guitar with the complete lyrics for each and includes the hit song, Tell Me It's Not True, recorded by Barbara Dickson. Suitable for intermediate standard pianists. / Piano/Vocal/Guitare (PVG) (Avec Grille D'Acco…

My House comes from the second act of Matilda the Musical , the award-winning stage version of Roald Dahl's classic children's novel from the Royal Shakespeare Company. Tim Minchin's song celebrates the humble but love-filled home of Matilda's teacher Miss Honey. Simon Foxley has arranged this optimistic song for SSA and Piano accompaniment. / Choeur SSA Et Piano

Par MONTY PYTHON. Ce livre de chanson contient des airs de quatorze de la comédie musicale de Tony Award-winning qui a ' amoureusement arraché de la motion picture Monty Python et le Saint-Graal. ' Présenté en facile-à-play arrangements pour piano et voix, vous serez à Broadway en peu de temps ! Chansons comprennent : tous les pour un toujours regarder sur The Bright côté de vie Brave Sir Robin vi…

Par BAIGENT BERTIE. The composer was drawn to the beautiful stillness and sadness of the poem by Christina Rossetti, which transcends its rigid sonnet structure, and allude via the epigraph to the mysterious Willow-Wood cycle by Christina's brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The music suggests a division of the poem into three stanzas, alternating with tranquil interludes (using the opening melody) r…