This double choir anthem setting a text from the 12th century Worcester Acclamations was written for St Paul's Cathedral, London, with the music incorporating breathing space to allow for the cathedral's natural reverberation. Counterpoint is contrasted with simple harmonies and glowing Alleluias to telling effect, plus melismatic solos for treble/soprano. The anthem starts from the sopranos and w…

Media Type : Book Level : Multiple Levels Musical Genre : Classic Series : Editiones Classicae Number of pages : 160 The guitar studies of Fernando Sor (1778-1839) have long been valued highly among the indispensable elements of a guitarist's training. A number of prominent virtuosi attribute a large portion of their development to the diligent study of these works. Sor's studies address an impr…

Par SPARKE PHILIP. Looking Up, Moving On est une commande du Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra. Cette pièce faisait partie du programme de la tournée effectuée par l’orchestre en mai 2012, qui s’est produit dans de nombreuses régions dévastées par le tremblement de terre et le tsunami de 2011. La composition a pour thème l’immense capacité humaine à surmonter de telles catastrophes et envisager l’avenir …

Media Type : Book Level : Intermediate-Advanced Musical Genre : Acoustic Music Number of pages : 192 Mel Bay Publications presents a collection of arrangements and original compositions from Australian guitarist Tommy Emmanuel's 2005 CD, Endless Road. Not for the faint of heart, this outstanding collection of intermediate to advanced solos includes two pop standards (Somewhere Over the Rainbowâ?�…

Arr. Jacob De Haan. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Even the most basic understanding of Western music must include an intimate familiarity with the magnificent body of works by J. S. Bach. The charming beauty of the ARIOSO from BWV 156 must almost certainly appear on anyone?s personal list of the world's most beautiful melodies. What a wonderful vehicle for the study of artful phrasing and expression!…

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's works for violin and harpsichord obbligato pervade his entire compositional oeuvre. The earliest works, like the Sonata in D minor still numbered BWV 1036, date back to the years of study with his father, yet show already a remarkable creative will of his own. The latest work, the fantasia 'C. P. E. Bachs Empfindungen' in F flat minor of 1787 is characterized by the com…

Par LLOYD WEBBER ANDREW. Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical adaptation of the classic Cinderella fairy tale will premiere in London's West End in 2021. This songbook features standard piano/vocal arrangements with melody in the piano part for 18 songs from the production: Bad Cinderella ' Beauty Has a Price ' The Cinderella Waltz ' Cinderella's Soliloquy ' Far Too Late ' Final Scene ' I Am No Longer Me…

Concerto No.2 'Haydn' A series of works based on the surviving two bars of Haydn's 'lost' Double Bass Concerto. Based on the two surviving bars of Haydn's 'lost' Double Bass Concerto and dedicated to David Heyes, this magnificent new concerto is a tour-de-force from a respected and leading Czech bassist-composer. In a tonal and accessible style, there are musical and technical challenges for the…

The Richard Wagner Complete Edition presents the composer's entire output for the first time in a reliable form. The conductor Michael Balling, in the early years of the 20th century, attempted to make Wagner's work more accessible for research and performance, but the edition only reached 10 volumes - some with grave shortcomings - and was discontinued after Balling's death in 1925. A further att…