Drawing inspiration from the hot version recorded by Aretha Franklin Roger Holmes takes this Motown favorite (originally recorded by Sam & Dave) and creates a sizzling chart for big band. A driving rock groove and powerfulensemble lines help to make this one a winner.

Par BARDEN CHRISTINE H. / KOWALCHYK GAYLE / LANCASTER . The Rhythm Speller Book 3 reinforces rhythm skills based on the concepts introduced in the Music Lesson Book 3. Each page of the Rhythm Speller Book has two activities---a rhythm-writing activity and a rhythm-reading activity. The written activities reinforce note values and counting through coloring, circling, drawing, or matching. The rhyth…

in Full score. Par WAGNER RICHARD. Richard Wagner put his supreme effort, as well as his earnings, into constructing the perfect festival theater in the Bavarian town of Bayreuth where his masterpiece, the four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen, could be performed in a manner which would conform to his vision of how the drama should unfold. Wagner's own perception was that the unique and revolut…

Par MESSIAEN OLIVIER. Drawing its material from the tui bird from New Zealand, Un oiseau des arbres de Vie (Oiseau Tui) was originally envisaged as the third movement of Éclairs sur l'Au-Delà..., Messiaen's last completed work. Despite having written all of the music in short score, the composer reluctantly decided to omit this remarkable movement from Éclairs at a relatively late stage. This real…

Another great secular text Green and Crescenz have set these beautiful words to a brilliant melody accompanied by piano. Drawing a correlation between nature and all of humanity this SAB piece would be effective at any civic celebration on Earth Day or even graduation.

Katie Melua and Bob Chilcott's version of Adolphe Charles Adam's carol O Holy Night for alto and tenor soloists SATB choir (with divisions) and Guitar.  As part of his collaboration with Katie Melua on her 2016 album 'In Winter' Bob Chilcott has created this arrangement of O Holy Night based on Cappeau de Roquemaure's poem and then translated. The carol is here arranged to enhance the appealing…

For SATTBB unaccompanied With a text by the composer this secular carol is a true celebration of all that we love about the festive season. Owain Park's arrangement presents a new take on this Christmas classic drawing on Rutter's evocative orchestral colours to create this characterful and heart-warming arrangement for a cappella voices. This arrangement of The Very Best Time of Year has been r…

This volume comprises twenty-eight of the finest oratorio choruses complete short choral works and movements from masses or requiems from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. Drawing repertoire from Britain and mainland Europe the volume features renowned choruses and familiar cornerstones of the repertoire as well as some choral discoveries all in new carefully researched and practi…

Esercizi Giornalieri Sulla Sonorità Per Flauto - Daily Sonority Exercises For Flûte. Par MORENA CARLO. When discussing flute performance practice, the term 'legato espressivo” ('expressive legato”) is used to refer to fluidity of phrasing and naturalness of expression, both fundamental aspects in the search for a good sound. The goal of this method is to offer a daily training plan that will help …

Pavane for a Dead Princess-Maurice Ravel was only 24 when his piano solo 'Pavane Pour une Infante Defunte ' which translated means Pavane for a dead princess became the rage of the drawing rooms and salons of Paris in 1899 but the work already held the unmistakable stamp of his style. Ravel orchestrated the work in 1910. Jerry Brubaker presents this lovely work in a Concert band setting with all…