Vocal Score / Softcover. Par VERDI GIUSEPPE. In a letter of 2 January 1851, Verdi suggested for the first time Antonio Garcia Gutierrez play El Trovador as a possible subject for his new Opera: 'It seems to me very beautiful, imaginative, and full of strong situations'. Once he had settled on the subject, the composer immediately began looking for a theater in which to produce the Opera and after …

Fantasias and Selected Works. Par BYRD WILLIAM. William Byrd is one of the great English composers of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Today this creative Catholic at the Anglican court of Elisabeth I is known primarily for his masses, motets and madrigals. However, in addition to vocal music he also composed an impressive number of keyboard pieces that brook comparison in quality with thos…

Everyone wants to get there faster and easier. This guide from Fred Sokolow features 29 tips that save time and make you a more skillful Guitar player in any musical genre.Tip topics include:Sliding Major PentatonicsSoloing Off Chord ShapesPower ChordsThe 12-Bar Blues FormTurnaroundsSimplifying ChordsFinding the Relative MinorHow to Use the Capoand so much more.These shortcuts will improve your pl…

Have Fun Writing Music. Par HARRIS PAUL. Musical Doodles is the secret to having fun with composition! Writing music is often viewed either as complicated, with far too many rules, or something that a computer programme does for you. Imaginatively created by Paul Harris, this inspiring book is all about rediscovering a love for writing down music through musical doodling — enjoying and engaging wi…

Par DVORAK ANTONIN. The profound impression it makes on us is due in part to the sequence of variations on a death motif that seems to have been borrowed from the beginning of the second Kyrie from Bach's Mass in B minor. Written in 1890, it was commissioned by the publisher Novello for the Birmingham Music Festival and premiered there under the direction of the composer on 9 October 1891. For thi…

Par ROSENBLATT ALEXANDER. ?Suzhou Gardens? is inspired by the Classical Gardens of Suzhou. Alexander Rosenblatt wrote his own Chinese-style melody and spiced up the composition with jazz chords and harmonies. There are many fountains and waterfalls in the gardens, so he tried to depict the overflows and colours of the murmuring water in his music. / Date parution : 2022-02-10/ Répertoire / Piano

This album presents a variety of country blues and original tunes played solo by Stefan Grossman as well as with friends.Some were recently recorded while others were released on projects that are no longer available but that Grossman thought fitted together nicely in the jigsaw pattern of his musical development.There is a tab/music booklet that has most of the tunes transcribed in a PDF format o…

All this time was commissioned by Harrow School, for their 2012 Carol Service. There are two chapel choirs at Harrow - one of four parts, and the other, consisting of tenor and baritone voices, of two parts. For the Carol Service the two part choir sings from the Gallery, which also houses the organ, while the four part choir sings from the choir stalls at the east end of the Chapel. This carol is…

' Ave verum was commissioned early in 2011 by Edward Rowntree for the birthday of his father, John Rowntree, director of music at Douai Abbey in the UK. My aim was to write a piece both short and simple, suitable for regular liturgical use. There are, of course, many wonderful settings of this text already, not least those by William Byrd and Edward Elgar, both of which I sang as a boy. In this in…