Experiencing Music Expressing Culture-This book introduces the musical traditions of West Africa and discusses the diversity motifs and structure of West African music within the larger patterns of the region's culture. Drawing upon the author's extensive fieldwork it explores how the music's complex rhythmic combinations in fast-paced patterns and quick tightly orchestrated movements influen…

'Iolanthe' premiered on November 25 1882 simultaneously at the Savoy Theater in London and the Standard Theater New York. The wit of Gilbert's dialogue and sparkle of his lyrics is matched only by the energy of Sullivan's setting imbued with his sense of both Mendelssohnian grace and Victorian popular song. In two acts 'Iolanthe' presents the convergence of the world of Fairies with that of H…

Elisabeth Lutyens' Of The Snow for three voices (SSA). Duration: 7 minutes Composed: 1974 Also published as part of UYMP's Songspin Songbook ISMN M 57036 603 3. A lesser-knownwork by the formidable English composer drawing on her serial tendencies and use of sparse carefully-considered textures. The text is from F. Marten’s ‘Voyage To Spitzbergen’ originally published in 1694 whichdes…

JAM With Danny Gill is a new and unique way to have fun study and jam all at the same time.JAM With Danny Gill contains three top quality backing tracks and can be approached in two ways first you can 'JAM' with the tracks flying solo experimenting with different ideas licks and solos. Alternatively you can trade solos with Danny drawing inspiration from the ideas and techniques used in his …

For Hammered Dulcimer-This collection of dances and songs comes from Peggy Carter???s repertoire of hammered dulcimer arrangements drawing from years of playing live string-band music for contra dancing Irish dancing and Royal Scottish country dancing. If you like to dance and sing you???ll LOVE this book. Dances and Songs to Play and Sing for Hammered Dulcimer includes pieces from many parts o…

Par STRAVINSKY IGOR. Drawing on the composer’s transcriptions for violin (with Samuel Dushkin) and for cello (with Gregor Piatigorsky), Kim Kashkashian has produced a long-overdue viola version of this neoclassical masterpiece. The choice of movements from Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite differs between those for violin and cello - Kashkashian has in turn made a slightly different selection compris…

The renowned pianist Hans-Günter Heumann has arranged these 30 contemporary Piano classics which are some of the greatest hits of modern composers, inspired by minimalism and drawing on many other genres. Including arrangements of Einaudi, Yiruma and Yann Tiersen among many others, Piano Pur features many songs to soothe the soul. The most acclaimed composers of the genre like Dustin O'Halloran, …

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Par . In this notebook you have all the space you need to give wings to your imagination, just choose where to start. Take it wherever you want and start drawing and composing all your ideas, you have 100 sheets to express yourself. The spiral offer a 360 degree opening for easy notes taking and to write on both sides Printed with a hymn to Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of musicians and church…

With Christopher Hogwood’s new edition of Elgar’s much loved Serenade a scholarly-critical edition of the work is now available for the first time. As with other Elgar works modern editions of the Serenade have always suffered from an enormous number of inconsistancies between the score and parts and unclear divisi and unison passages. The editor has clarified these discrepancies drawing o…