Music Street is a three year program for beginners four or five years of age. Students are motivated through various singing and playing activities as they are introduced to all the note names and animals that 'live? on Music Street. Unlike many courses for young children, the TMA Junior Courses create students who develop good performance skills within their first year, while still developing the…

Par VILLALOBOS MAURO GODOY. New guitar music from Latin America This piece for two guitars by Mauro Godoy Villalobos is dedicated to the legendary Astor Piazzolla. It is suitable for highly advanced players and professional musicians and allows various possibilities for performing and interpretation./ Répertoire / 2 Guitares

Very easy arrangements of well-known works for various instrumentations for the first experiences of ensemble playing. / Ensemble Divers Et Piano

Flexible Four-Part Concert Pieces. Par DIVERS AUTEURS / RAE JAMES (ARR.). All together easy Ensemble! is a series of flexible arrangements of well-known pieces for students venturing forth into ensemble playing for the first time. The parts are of equal importance and are written within a comfortable range for each instrument. An optional piano part is included, to enhance the ensemble if necessar…

7 European Salon Pieces. Par POPP WILHELM. In the 19th Century nationalist themes came into fashion. Composers drew on songs and dances from their native lands, working them into paraphrased adaptations, pot pourri arrangements and sets of variations or incorporating folk elements from various cultures in their compositions. Flautist Wilhelm Popp (1828-1902), who wrote music for his instrument at…

Par SCHJELDERUP FREDRICK. Tension is a thematic work for brass band, commissioned by Eikanger-Bjørsvik Musikklag for their Summer Band Camp (called Feriespel) in 2014. The theme is moved around in various groups in the band, surrounded by different rhythms, time signatures and cluster chords. The title describes the tonality and character of the piece, but can also illustrate a young musician …

New Harmony Book. Par HAUNSCHILD FRANK. This workbook for all musicians gets down to the rudiments of music right from the start. Notation is dealt with in depth and in an easily understandable way, as are the harmonic series and the various intervals and triads as well. There are step-by-step explanations of how to use chord symbols, with the relationships of the chords to each other being demons…

The idea for this book series is to give instrumentalists the opportunity to practice solo improvisational techniques while playing along to rhythm tracks of keyboards, guitar, bass, drums/percussion in various different Latin styles including Calypso, Mambo, Salsa, Songo, Bossa, Guaracha, Samba and Latin-Blues. The 24 grooves totalling over 200 riffs/phrases and play-a-long tracks consists of a v…

Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. On the great feast days, the Magnificat was given at the evening service in Leipzig, following the sermon. Bach twice set this poem (Luke I, 46-55). One of these compositions, for solo soprano, has been lost. Of the other Magnificat, Bach composed his first version, In E-flat, with four inserted Christmas pieces, prepared for the evening service that holiday, 1723. His r…

The Bluesier Side of Jazz for Alto Saxophone and Eb instruments by Andrew D. Gordon and Frank Villafranca was inspired by the piano students Andrew teaches at Shepherd University School of Music in Los Angeles and is dedicated to those students: Jungwon, Yumiko, Yoko, Eunice, Sooji, Hae Ji and Ok Kyu. As with many students that come from a classical background it is a difficult transition to learn…