String Basics: Steps to Success for String Orchestra is a comprehensive method for beginning string classes. Utilizing technical exercises music from around the world classical themes by the masters andoriginal compositions students will learn to play their string instruments in an orchestra. Step-by-step sequences of instruction will prove invaluable as students learn to hold their instrument…

Uses: General Music Appreciation Scripture: Deuteronomy 10:12-19 Psalm 18:1 Song of Songs 8:4-8 I John 4:7 Composed especially for a devoted church musician this piece is a heartfelt expression of gratitude to God for the gift of worship through the sacred arts. A lyric melody arches with grace announcing a sense of sacred purpose sweetened at first in duet with unison men and then thickened …

Cantolopera is a publishing project devoted to students, professionals and enthusiasts who wish to approch the great vocal repertoire for practicing, performing or simply singing opera arias, sacred pieces, songs, standards. The editions include a vocal score and one or more CD containing orchestral accompaniment performed by Compagnia d'Opera Italiana, with its orchestra of over 130 instrumentali…

For many years Iron Maiden have represented the very peak of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal movement that swept the musical world in the mid 1970s. Their spectacular stage shows and thundering nightmarish metal anthems scored the band one of the most devoted followings in rock combining infamy and genuine musical thrills to devastating effect. The dual speed-metal soloing and shotgun riffs …

Vittorio Monti was born on January 6 1868 in Naples (Italy). His musical education (violin and composition) he enjoyed at the conservatory there. Around his 30's Monti went to Paris. He earned a living as a conductor and wrote several ballets and operettas. In his last years Monti died in 1922 he devoted himself to teaching and composing. His famous 'Czardas' has made his name known even toda…

Archduke. Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. By the time Beethoven completed the ?Archduke? Trio in 1811 he had been working on it for several years. In April 1814 he could finally give the work its première together with Ignaz Schuppanzigh and Joseph Linke, this being Beethoven?s last public appearance as a pianist. He dedicated the piece to his friend, pupil and patron, Archduke Rudolph of Austria. Today…

Szkhárosi Horvát András éneke egykorú dallam szerint-This large-scale work originally written for male voices has been adapted for mixed voices by Kodály himself. The work was written initially for the centennial of the Calvinist Teacher Training Institute in Nagyk rös. Nothing has been discovered as to when he actually did the arrangement. The year 1952 was suggested by eyewitnesses who have sai…

A Christmas Carol (Hungarian folksong)-The piece was written originally for equal voice choir in 1929. A mixed-choir adaptation was made in 1961 at the request of Oxford University Press. This appeared in print in the same year with an English text under the title A Christmas Carol in a collection of Christmas songs as well as in a separate print. The musical material of the mixed-choir version l…

One of the most widely used series of methods for individual or like-instrument class instruction. Using a very well-rounded approach including scales arpeggios technical studies studies for musicianship articulation studies solos duets and studies devoted to the special needs of each instrument this series provides a fantastic wealth of material for all student musicians.

Par ZUCKER LAUREL. From the composer: 'Biddy Biddy' is the name of a Jamaican children's folk song about a chicken. There are so many different melodies associated with Biddy Biddy that I simply made up a simple appealing tune and devoted the composition from there. This piece is dedicated to Mark Delpriora, my friend and amazing guitarist and guitar teacher at Juilliard and Manhattan School of Mu…