A collection of pieces, all carefully selected and arranged to provide supplementary material for today's young pianists. Each piece offers suggestions and guidelines to breathing dynamics and tempo together with technical tips, performance notes and a simple, but effective piano accompaniment. Contains a variety of musical styles ranging from folk and classical through to showtunes and popular so…

Par BONSOR BRIAN. A novel and comprehensive approach to transferring from the C to F instrument. 430 music examples include folk and national songs (some in two parts), country dance tunes and excerpts from the standart treble repertoire - Bach, Barsanti, Corelli, Händel, Telemann, etc. An outstanding feature of the book has proved to be Brian Bonsor's brilliantly simple but highly effective pract…

Par PARRY BEN. This Spiritual Medley comprises three songs that speak of a journey through trial to eventual salvation and liberty. It should gradually gather pace and energy from a slightly more reflective start, though retaining a lively feel throughout. All My Trials developed into a popular protest song in the 1950s and 60s and has been recorded by, amongst others, Joan Baez, Paul McCartney an…

Media Type : Book/CD Set Level : Beginning Musical Genre : Celtic/Irish Series : Complete Number of pages : 192 While the wooden simple-system flute is traditionally used in playing Irish music, a growing number of folk players have adopted the silver flute as a viable alternative. Here for the first time, The Complete Irish Flute Book presents the silver or Boehm flutist with a method for learni…

A collection of supplementary pieces ranging from folk and classical through to showtunes and popular songs for young clarinet players. Carefully selected and arranged each piece offers suggestions and guidelines plus a simple effective piano accompaniment. / Niveau : Facile / Méthode / Clarinette

Par LAURIDSEN MORTEN. Four poems sharing a common motif of 'Night' provide the texts for my choral cycle Nocturnes, the American Choral Directors Association's commissioned work for its 2005 national convention. For Rilke's atmospheric 'Sa nuit d'ete,” several melodic themes are supported by dense, colorful harmonies in both the choral and piano parts, leading to a climactic section where all are …

Par BRAHMS JOHANNES. The 'Deutsche Volkslieder” WoO by Johannes Brahms were published in altogether seven books in 1894. The first six books each comprised seven songs for voice and piano accompaniment, and Book VII contained the subsequently composed songs nos. 43 to 49 for four-part chorus and piano ad libitum. Brahms had completed his compilation of the books in the winter of 1893/94- however, …

Travis-picking is a fingerpicking style that uses on-the-beat, alternating bass patterns picked by the thumb to support treble notes picked by the fingers. This book presents a dozen classic songs from a variety of genres and eras arranged beautifully in this distinctive style for intermediate to advanced fingerpickers. Songs include: Fields of Gold - Clocks - Happy Together - Brown Eyed Girl - Ho…

In the past two decades tango has experienced a popular resurgence worldwide. Almost universally familiar as a dance form, tango is also a distinctive genre of song or canción that was born in the impoverished outskirts of late 19th-century Buenos Aires. Whether sung in Spanish, or as would happen later, in Italian or Russian. Twenty-six songs illustrate the growth and diversity of tango from its …

The perfect supplementary book for Ukulele students of all ages. Includes 40 favorite folksongs, famous classical melodies, songs from various cultures, and many fun-to-play original songs, appearing in order of level of difficulty. Each song is presented with the melody in a five-line staff and tablature. Chord names with fingerboard diagrams at every chord change are included, along with the lyr…