Media Type : Book/CD Set Level : Intermediate-Advanced Musical Genre : Jazz Number of pages : 72 This book contains a study and breakdown of harmony in 4ths. The introduction of quartal harmony in modern jazz began in the 1960's. Compositions by Miles Davis and John Coltrane such as Impressions and So What showcased chord voicings derived from quartal harmony. The purpose of this book is to sh…

Schirmer'S Library Of Musical Classics, Vol. 2132. A collection of waltzes by 16 favorite composers including Brahms, Chopin, Grieg, Lizst, Ravel, Schubert, and Schumann. Highlights include Chopins Valse brillante in E-flat Major, Op. 18, and Tchaikovskys 'Waltz of the Flowers.” Intermediate to Upper Intermediate Level./ Recueil / Piano

Media Type : Book/CD Set Level : Beginning-Intermediate Musical Genre : All Styles Series : Qwik Guide Series Number of pages : 64 This handy case-size QWIKGUIDE book offers a baker's dozen effective warm-up exercises plus 31 progressive Warm-Up Solosâ?�. The book is written in notation and tablature with above average backup chords suggested for the solos. While written with the flatpicking guit…

Jazz, Rags and Blues, Books 1 through 5 contain original solos for late elementary to early advanced-level pianists that reflect the various styles of the jazz idiom. An excellent way to introduce your students to this distinctive American contribution to 20th century music. The CD includes dynamic recordings of each song in the book. / Piano

Par BARTOK BELA. Béla Bartók’s “For Children” is one of the best known pedagogical works for piano teachers of the twentieth century, second only perhaps to the same composer’s “Mikrokosmos”. It was based firmly on the huge number of folk songs he collected, recorded and studied with his colleague Zoltán Kodály. At the time, Bartók was offering something very new to piano teachers and their studen…

Arrangeur: Joseph Knaus. Par SUZUKI SHINICHI. Comprised of works from Volumes 1, 2 and 3 of the Suzuki Violin School, which have been arranged for string quartet by violinist/arranger Joseph Knaus. With lower string parts providing melodic and rhythmic counterpoint to set off the simple melodies (which match the Suzuki Method[R] repertoire), these quartets are nevertheless simple enough for beginn…

The standard edition! Now that all the scores, Critical Commentaries and complete performance materials have been published for Beethoven?s five Piano Concertos(BA 9021-9025), Bärenreiter are now presenting the five study score editions in a boxed set. The musical text reflects a judicious study of every surviving source, producing an Urtext edition at the very highest level. Rounding off the ed…

Level of difficulty: medium· Melodic lullaby in one movement· First and only Urtext Edition - with separate study score HN 7224· Parts in best layout for easy reading· No distribution rights for USA· For students, amateurs and professionals / Quatuor A Cordes

Par BALAZS ARPAD. Television viewers of nearly a hundred countries have experienced Árpád Balázs's touching melodies. The series of cartoons have neither dialogue nor text: the music presents the amiable and entertaining adventures of the rabbit with chequered ears and its friends. Balázs has rephrased and developed the well-known melodies and as a result a ''children's story symphony'' of seven m…

Gian Carlo Menotti (1911--2007) is best remembered as an opera composer and founder of three international performing arts festivals. Menotti has left behind a lasting legacy of lyrical and accessible music. Poemetti: 12 Pieces for Children was first published in 1937. These descriptive pieces demonstrate Menotti's celebrated lyric gift as well as the careful craft that characterizes his work. Tak…