Par ZIEGELBACK ANDREAS. Bleak Forest is a piece for smaller concert bands and offers the musicians above all space to improve their sound and their effect playing. The technical requirements are therefore deliberately kept low. With this piece, the composer won the VLAMO International Composition Contest 2022. Thematically, the work is influenced by the composer's childhood memories. In his hometo…

There are a lot of books on the market offering ?licks? in the Funk/Fusion style but this book goes a lot further. The 16 challenging compositions by renowned Australian guitarist Peter O?Mara cover a variety of tempos and grooves and are presented using a real rhythm section (from Klaus Doldinger?s ?Passport?) to achieve a maximum of authenticity. Rhythm-guitar riffs are integrated into the overa…

Par DAVIS STEVE. The goal of this play along series is to provide the jazz drummer with play along and practice material that will be challenging, informative, and musical. The series contains important jazz tunes based on the standard jazz repertoire. While there is no written melody, there are a number of melodies that one can sing over the existing chord changes. I have been giving similar reco…

23 beloved songs by this talented team: Walk On By Alfie (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me The Look Of Love Anyone Who Had A Heart The April Fools (They Long To Be) Close To You Do You Know The Way To San Jose Don't Make Me Over A House Is Not A Home I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself I Say A Little Prayer I'll Never Fall In Love Again Magic Moments Make It Easy On Yourself Mes…

For Fingerstyle Guitar. Par GROSSMAN STEFAN. Ragtime is in many ways the quintessential American music. It arrived at the turn of the last century with many transitions, notably the discovery of the means to record sound, and the determination of Afro-Americans of genius to be appreciated as artists. The music we call ragtime represents not only a moment of great anticipation (as the advent of jaz…

This exciting resource provides you with a variety of ways to introduce the great composers and their music to your students. The Teacher's Manual includes an informative narrative written so that you can read it aloud with your students or refer to it as you prepare your lesson plan. But that's just the start. To add a new dimension to the learning, there is a unison song to perform for each comp…

Noël 2 is an exciting collection of Advent, Christmas and Epiphany music for mixed voice choirs, which follows on from the highly acclaimed Noël! Volume 1 (Catalogue No. NOV310800). The contents range from the Renaissance to the present: from Byrd and Sweelinck, via Bach, familiar settings of traditional and lesser known carols through the ages to Howells and Leighton, and work by today's composer…

This text presents beginning cello technique and basic music reading fundamentals. There is an emphasis on using melodies and classical pieces to instruct each new concept. The 28 lessons include basic technique and reading skills, scales in the keys of D, G, C and F and bowing techniques such as dynamic contrast, slurs, accents, and staccato bowing. There are 47 melodies presented including works…

Par CLARKE MICHAEL JON. Mel Bay's Children's Recorder Method is a new recorder method which stands on its own. There is an imaginative accompaniment CD which makes even the simplest one-note exercise into an attractive experience for the young student, and there are lyrics to all the songs. Large notes are used throughout and each melody is attractively illustrated. Clear and concise instructions …

(Lennon and McCartney) (F) Edited by Nicholas Hare. Kaleidoscope will save you time! Do you spend hours arranging music for odd assortments of instruments? Kaleidoscope is specially arranged to suit almost any instrumental combination and these varied ensembles are easy and enjoyable too. So much scope for virtually any combination of instruments! The series is successful with recorders, guitars, …