for four male voices. Par BRYARS GAVIN. Glorious Hill may be performed by a male choir. Text by Pico della Mirandola (1463-1497) from De Hominis Dignitate. Glorious Hill was commissioned by the Hilliard Ensemble and first performed by them at its summer Festival of Voices in Lewes, Sussex, in August 1988. It was the first piece I wrote for the ensemble and I focused on the singers' unique abilit…

Grades -4-Teacher's Notes: These carefully graded pieces have been designed to help your pupils with their reading skills from elementatry to grade 3 - 4. The scale melodies will help to develop a feeling for keys and tonality. The pieces have no performance markings and you and your pupils are encouraged to add these as part of the learning experience. The chord symbols throughout are in concert …

Kenny Sultan. Centerstream Publications. This book for intermediate-level players is a follow-up to Kenny's first book Introduction To Acoustic Blues. It covers blues in five different keys and positions and incorporatesslide or bottleneck playing in both open and standard tunings. All songs are primarily finger-style with a monotone bass used for most. The accompanying CD features performances o…

Par REINHARDT DJANGO. In the world of Gypsy Jazz, the original Quintette of the Hot Club of France achieved an energy output seldom equaled or surpassed for 7 decades or so. Django wanted to have two rhythm guitars behind him when he soloed to give him a full sound. Then when Grappelli soloed, Django would interject himself between Grappelli and the rhythm guitar section. From this vantage point, …

With both sacred and secular texts available to choose from this treble work speaks of the joys of being alive with emphasis on the beauty of nature. The author an unknown child in a Czechoslovakian death camp is the supreme example of the human spirit overcoming even the bleakest of circumstances. The depth of the text has great appeal for teenagers but its childlike simplicity makes it equal…

String Quartet-'Hollyhocks is followed by a suitably lively and angular Deadly Nightshade (though alternative names are welcomed one example being Mother-in-law's Tongue) and there is a delightful use of alternating 3/4 and 4/4 time signatures to represent French Marigolds which achieves a suitably continantal flavour. Last is Canterbury Bells a fun and jazzy movement which would also work well…

Symphony No. 3 (1972-1975) by Per Nørgård. Per Nørgård's third symphony commissioned by The Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra (conductor Herbert Blomstedt) was premiered in Copenhagen in 1976 and received wide attention. The work gives comprehensive expression to a new realm of musical experience which the composer began to explore toward the end of the 1960s. While the first period in Nørgårds …

This edition of The North Sea Ground is dedicated to the memory of Gordon Cumming the former secretary of the Oxford and Cambridge Musical Club whose interest in Moeran prompted the intervention that rescued the manuscript from possible destruction and ensured its preservation.Editorial NotesThe text written by Moeran in his manuscript shows some differences when compared with the poem as it was…

Par BACH CARL PHILIPP EMMANUEL. C. P. E. Bach's nine-movement Magnificat (1749), the first great vocal work from his Berlin years, is among the most magnificent sounding, in which the solo vocal parts are also among the most ambitious settings of the 'Hymn to the Virgin Mary” (Luke 1). The work fulfills all the criteria required for a larger sacred composition: grandeur, dignity, polyphonic and co…

Intermediate-This is the second book of the three-part Improvising Bass Guitar series and accompanies the highly acclaimed Registry of Guitar Tutors Bass Guitar Playing Examinations. Ideal for intermediate players (Grade 3 to 5) the book covers several styles of Bass playing with example music in both the book and on the accompanying audio CD.  Written as a practice aid for the improvisation pa…