'Old MacDonald's Christmas Book' is a collection of Christmas songs and carols for recorders and voices that everyone can enjoy. All the tunes can be both sung and played - some additional recorder phrasing marks have been added to the vocal parts to encourage expressive playing. Many of the traditional carols have also been given descant parts, giving recorder groups their own musical part to pla…

Singers will cherish these powerful solo arrangements by Mark Hayes, Jay Althouse, Philip Kern, Greg Gilpin, and other fine Alfred arrangers. Including favorite traditional spirituals like 'Deep River,' 'Sit Down Servant,' 'Witness,' and 'Down in the Valley to Pray,' this inspirational collection is essential to every solo singer's library. Fresh contemporary arrangements that sing and play well, …

Jamaican music is loved throughout the world for its laid-back feel as well as its intense, lively rhythms. Its influence is apparent across many musical styles, from the reggae rhythms in the music of popular bands like The Police, to ska beats in the music of groups such as The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and The Toasters. Even rap music evolved from the Jamaican vocal style called 'toasting,' and t…

'The idea of writing a 'Jazz Suite for cello solo' came out when I tried to imagine how it would have sounded like if one of the baroque masters (Gabrielli, Buxtehude, Bach) had lived in our time and wanted to write a suite of dances. I thought it would probably still keep some of the conventions of the traditional form, like maybe the use of a Prelude to establish the key and the alternation of s…

Five songs from German jazz musician Roger Cicero's critically acclaimed album Männersachen have been arranged here for Male Voices (Tenor, Baritone, Bass with Piano Accompaniment) by Carsten Gerlitz. The bestselling album sees Cicero sing big band music in the Rat Pack style with German lyrics, truly an exciting prospect!The arrangements in this choral songbook are full of life, with tracks alter…

for Fingerstyle Guitar. Par DIVERS AUTEURS / WEISER GLENN. This is a collection of twenty-five solo fingerstyle guitar arrangements of famous early blues, centuries-old ballads, and traditional folk songs. If you want to learn how to play a melodic fingerstyle solo break between the verses of a song, then these arrangements are a great way to start. All songs include standard notation with fingeri…

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra - Arranged on basis of the Cantata Yellow River. Par XINGHAI XIAN. Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky may have influenced it and Lang Lang has included it in his repertoire: the piano concerto 'Yellow River' features a brilliant virtuoso solo part, expressiveness and drama, contemplation, great pathos and wit. Based on the cantata of the same name by the famous Chinese …

Par GANGEL WILLIAM. A collection of tunes in the Celtic style arranged by some of today's best-known Fingerstyle guitarists. Several of O'Carolan's pieces are included, along with a number of traditional favorites. Both standard guitar notation and tablature are provided throughout for the convenience of those who are more comfortable reading in one style or the other. / Niveau : Débutant à Interm…

Par DAGENAIS JONAHTHAN. Spring March by Jonathan Dagenais was written for the Saint-Edmond High School music program in Quebec, Canada. Spring March is a short, lively, and exciting concert march for beginner bands. With several thematic and humorous elements, this piece is a fun way to work on lightness of style, functional balance, tempo stability, and is perfect for teaching cut time and the tr…

Pour Quintette de Vents. Par TOMASI HENRI. French composer and conductor, Henri Tomasi (1901-1971) published Five Secular and Sacred Dances for Wind Quintet in 1963. As with his other wind compositions, Five Secular and Sacred Dances was well-received by audiences. Tomasi was born in Marseille, but his Father and Mother were originally from La Casinca in Corsica. Despite being pressured into music…