Par . Matches method series in which students learn notes from middle-C outward on the grand staff. Gives focus to lifting from the keys led by the wrists as well as shifting arm weight from one finger to the next. Playing melodic intervals and selected harmonic intervals (2nds, 3rds, 5ths) with the building blocks necessary for playing two- and three-note chords. Various note naming exercises are…

Percussion Section Feature. Par CURNOW JAMES. A vibrant and attentive Percussion section is crucial to the success of any concert band. However, the Percussionists play a supporting role so much of the time that it can be difficult to keep your best players excited about their music. One of the best ways to beat that problem is to program an occasional feature piece. James Curnow’s BLOCKBUSTER PER…

Eleven songs to warm the heart and praise the Lord. Par THOMAS RUTHIE. The words and music of Ruthie Thomas proclaim the power of Christ in our world, through a distinctive voice and vision blending African-Caribbean, jazz, soul and calypso styles. Singing in her father´s Pentecostal Church was an important part of herchildhood, preparing the ground for her vocation to offer the Lord´s praises thr…

Hammerklavier. Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. “Here’s a sonata that will challenge pianists and that one will be able to play in 50 years”: thus Beethoven is said to have written to his publisher Artaria regarding his mighty “Hammerklavier” Sonata Op. 106. Given its monumental scale and extreme musical and pianistic demands, the term “Grande Sonate” seems almost an understatement. Dedicated to Archduke…

From the stars in the heavens to the bottom of the deep blue sea, God's great big world is an amazing and marvelous creation! Something's Fishy! celebrates this creation, as well as God's greatest creation of all, you and me. Each of the five songs in this creative collection can be performed separately anytime during the year, or use the rhyming narration to link the songs together, creating a 20…

Par LANGER MANFRED. Uniform choral sound, homogeneous singing with singers in similarly uniform dress. What interest does the audience have in the fates of the individual singers? How good it is that today one may “act up“ again. When else is there time for chatting on the risers, screaming and shouting, articulating one’s ignorance concerning contemporary art expressing hopes of getting a solo, f…

Les rives vertes de Fogo porte les marques de provenance irlandais, bien que ses origines musicales ont été perdus avant Kenneth Peacock a recueilli la chanson de Mme John Fogarty en 1952. La mélodie, Peacock considérée comme une des plus belles mélodies modales il avait jamais entendu parler, a attiré plus d'un ensemble de paroles et il est aussi connue en Terre-Neuve and ldquo-The Blooming Brigh…

In Paradisum sets a prayer from the Roman Catholic Burial Service, often used as a movement in settings of the Requiem Mass. The opening emerges from silence and builds in texture until all eight parts are present. There follows a gentle two-part melody accompanied by humming lower parts ('In paradisum'), followed by a majestic, largely homophonic section ('Chorus angelorum'), and a closing sectio…