This encyclopedia is designed to provide mandolin players with a wide variety of chords in different voicings. This book is intended as both a starting point of learning chord voicings and patterns as well as a dictionary ofcommon mandolin chords. Each key section includes the first position scale for that key as well as the chord formula and notes for each chord. If you want to learn to be a bl…

Though somewhat dark and dramatic in character A Million Suns at Midnight is ultimately a hopeful optimistic work evoking the struggles of humanity to grow achieve and evolve finally overcoming our fear (and its mostcommon manifestation: violence) to transcend our physical and mental boundaries. Individuals now possess an unprecedented technological capability for both creation and destructi…

“Find your guiding inspiration in a place where dreams are made. With a lifetime's preparation it's no time to be afraid...” Originally written for the 2006 Commonwealth Games and subsequently performed by theAmerican Idol finalists this inspiring message of hope is perfect for graduation or as a special concert feature.Available separately: SATB SAB SSA and ShowTrax CD. Performanc…

In the pursuit of improvisation (jazz or other styles) scales are the ?palettes? utilized for creating melodies. Often scales are only practiced ascending or descending step-wise. ?Jazz Scale Workout? by Ken Karsh contains eightmeasure through-composed continuous eighth note exercises (or ?workouts?) utilizing ?jazz style? melodies based around the Major Dorian (minor seventh) Mixolydian (Domi…

Far Cry for Alto Saxophone and Piano. Composed 2014-5 published 2016. Duration: about 17 minutes. The composition of Far Cry arose in the first instance from a desire to write a really substantial and searching work for Anthony Brown and Leo Nicholson. But the piece was also stimulated by my experience of the Neolithic sites created by the people of Orkney around five thousand years ago. The exc…

?Sing your country sing your land!? Such was the advice of Déodat de Séverac to the young Joseph Canteloube de Malaret (1879-1957) when the latter shared his dismay at the petty squabbles taking over the Parisian music scene in the Belle-Epoque. Although Canteloube had started collecting folk songs from his native Cantal in 1895 he only began the harmonisation of Baïlero in 1923 thus inaugurati…

First published in 1960 Joan Last presents her authoritative commonsense approach to Piano playing that will bring your performances to life. Much more than simply pressing down keys the art of playing the Piano rests in the ability to capture and convey the essence of a composition filling each note with character and purpose to create a performance that transcends the notes on the page. Last…

Le second volume de cette série d'anthologie contient 25 oeuvres originales de compositeurs des 17e et 18e siècles, transcrites pour la guitare par le co-auteur Stuart Willis. Y compris les pièces de Corbetta, Falkenhagen, Gallot et Weiss, parmi d'autres, il offre un large éventail stylistique des oeuvres, dont beaucoup sont rarement disponibles. La collection est accompagnée d'un enregistrement s…

A setting after Psalm 21 for mixed voices and organ accompaniment. For non-Commonwealth choirs the text can be changed to ???O Lord may thy servant sovereign Lord???. The work was written for Matthew Owens and the choir of Wells Cathedral.