Astor Piazzolla is regarded as the founder of Tango Nuevo, a further development of the traditional Tango Argentino. During his life he composed over 300 tangos. For this edition, Markus Luthy chose six tangos from Piazzollas rich creative work to elegantly arrange them for recorder quartet. Without further ado it is possible to combine the recorder with other melody instruments. The sets are suit…

Schumann's song cycle 'Frauenliebe und Leben?, on poems by Adelbert von Chamisso, deals with the trauma of a woman who loses the man who was her first love and the guiding light of her life. Schumann himself completed what is perhaps his most unified song cycle in blissful anticipation of his union with Clara Wieck.This new edition presents the work on the basis of the first print, using Schumann'…

Early Piano Music. Par STRAUSS RICHARD. The tonal language of the young Richard Strauss is still characterized by the traditions of the 19th Century; indeed, the musical content of the composer’s early piano works is determined to a large extent by his response to the examples of Schubert, Mendelssohn and Schumann. These previously unpublished piano pieces appear for the first time in this edition…

Eugène Goossens (1893-1962) was an English composer whose work was initially held in the same high esteem as contemporaries such as Walton, but who has since faded into obscurity. He worked across the UK, US, and Australia, and helped lobby for the Sydney Opera House to be built. He was knighted in 1955. His music helped incorporate French impressionism into English Romantic music. Kaleidoscope is…

A concise collection of 40 U2 songs presented with just their chords and lyrics.Songs include: Beautiful Day - Bullet the Blue Sky - Elevation - Even Better Than the Real Thing - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - I Will Follow - Mysterious Ways - New Year's Day - One - Pride (In the Name of Love) - Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of - Sunday Bloody Sunday - Walk On - When Love Comes…

Includes Bird On The Wire, Sisters Of Mercy, So Long Marianne and many more. Now you can sing and play your favourite Leonard Cohen hits on guitar in no time...with just a handful of simple, easy chords for each song! All the songs have been specially arranged by Rikky Rooksby in the original keys from the actual hit recordings. / Chant Et Guitare

Par BERLE ARNIE. Not just another book of scales and patterns, this is a method that trains the mind, the ears and the fingers to work in perfect synchronization to respond instantaneously to any given chord progression. This ability is of paramount importance to any musician who wants to improvise in the jazz idiom. Leading jazz players have used this method for years, but this is the first time …

Par CAMPBELL LAURA. By the prizewinning author of the 1983 Music Teacher Award in Music Education. This 258 page book is dedicated to the memory of Emile Jacques-Dalcroze who insisted that the sound, the feel and the enjoyment of music must be experienced before the use of notational symbols. It is appropriately sub-titled Harmonisation by Ear for Students of All Ages and has established itself as…