Par KILLMAYER WILHELM. Unlike the highly virtuoso Études d’exécution transcendante by Franz Liszt, these études by Wilhelm Killmayer are written ‘in a deliberately anti-virtuoso manner, without chroma, i.e. with seven tones and largely in two parts’. (Wilhelm Killmayer) Each of the twelve pieces focusses on a single compositional or technical aspect. Diatonic scales, parallel thirds and major cho…

This book teaches everything you need to know to get started playing the banjo. Beginning with tablature reading and basic technique, you'll be guided all the way to reading music and playing great bluegrass classics like Bile That Cabbage Down, Old Joe Clark and Cluck Old Hen. With helpful tips from renowned artists such as Bela Fleck, Alison Brown and John Hartford, this comprehensive beginner's…

Dedicated to Doreen Rao and her CME institute, composer Andrea Ramsey, through her music, depicts a journey many of us have travelled or will travel in our lifetime - the sense of going to a place of great vulnerability and fearing we are not enough--fearing we are empty or hollow or perhaps wrestling with events that have occurred in our life. These deep emotions will be powerful for your women's…

A spirited and fun-filled partner song in vaudeville style arranged with new music by Don Besig and new lyrics by Nancy Price. The great new partner melody is fun to sing and easy to learn. Add some pizzazz with the exceptional SoundTrax cassette or grab your hats and canes and add some staging or movement. / 2 Parties Mixtes

Pierre Sancan's Sonatine for flute and piano is the very image of its composer: surprising, sensitive, and possessed of great elegance. It is a virtuoso piece with a unique aesthetic. Introduction et notes d'interprétation par Bruno Jouard. 'Musique française' is a series designed for students and teachers as well as professionals. These editions offer masterworks in French music, with performance…

Learning to play the Fiddle is a great experience, but getting started can be a challenge! Here at last is a book that helps you familiarise yourself with the instrument and then gets you playing - fast! Full-colour pictures, clear diagrams and really practical advice combine to make Start-Up Fiddle do exactly what it says on the cover. You'll start off on the right track and that makes everything…

Par PART ARVO. 'I have developed a highly formalised compositional system, which I have been using to write my music for twenty years. Summa is the most strict and enigmatic work in this series', said Arvo Pärt in 1994. The neutral title itself embodies the essence of the content as the work is based on the text of the Latin Credo. The great simplicity of the piece masks its complexity. The underl…

The poetry used in this setting of The Voices was presented to Dale Warland on the occasion of his final concert with the Dale Warland Singers by his friend, the poet Michael Dennis Browne. Dale writes, The art of choral singing has given my life great meaning and I hope to express that fulfillment through this music for mixed chorus and solo cello. The cello plays a leading role in the work, comp…

Piano arrangements of some of the great symphonic and operatic masterworks of Western music. / Piano

Par SUZUKI SHINICHI. The first classical Organ method for children, the Suzuki Organ School is based on Dr. Shinichi Suzuki's Mother Tongue Method. The Suzuki Method® of Talent Education is based on Suzuki's view that every child is born with ability, and that people are the product of their environment. According to Suzuki, a world-renowned violinist and teacher, the greatest joy an adult can kno…