Par GILLESPIE DIZZY. by Luke Gillespie. Covers all styles of comping, from basic and fundamental approaches to modern! A complete collection of II/V7/I voicings for jazz keyboard, starting with simple diatonic voicings and progressing into more harmonically rich and diverse voicings with intricate passing tones and complex harmonies. No longer will you be stuck using the same kinds of voicings ove…

...called dusk II for string quartet draws its inspiration from a line in Samuel Beckett's short story Lessness: 'Figment dawn dispeller of figments and the other called dusk'.The work is a kind of double Chaconne, each part of which contains 26 chords based on specific permutations of fundamental notes and their harmonics. Each of the parts pass through alternating, harmonically contrasted planes…

Note by the composer:'Triple Quartet is for string quartet and two pre-recorded quartets, or three live string quartets with no pre-recording. The piece is in three movements, fast-slow-fast, and is organized harmonically on four dominant chords in minor keys a minor third apart: E minor, G minor, Bb minor, C# minor and then returning to E minor to form a cycle.The first movement goes through this…

Here we have a typical minor blues in all 12 keys. Few chord progressions offer the freedom and variety of expression found in the minor blues progression. Great players have all approached this chord progression in a variety of ways from attacking each chord vertically in its pure form to playing horizontally ?across? the progression, usually with a blues or minor pentatonic scale, to taking all…

This is not your grandfather's lip slur book! It is an innovative method incorporating an entirely new vocabulary of harmonically rich and rhythmically varied exercises; challenging, fun and interesting to practice.­As a professional trumpeter, lead player, jazz artist, soloist, chamber player, educator and composer, Belck combines a unique writing style, challenging musicians to think and practic…

Par RAFF JOACHIM. The Violin Sonata No. 1 in E minor, op. 73, a “Grand Sonata for Violin and Piano,” occupies an important position in Joachim Raff’s oeuvre: it reflects numerous artistic, aesthetic, biographical, and reception-historical aspects characteristic of Raff. The work was composed in Weimar in 1854, when Raff was going through a process of artistic self-discovery. He increasingly distan…

This volume contains favourite Israeli, Hassidic and liturgical songs as well as selections for the Sabbath and Festivals. The arranger, Albert Rozin, has created sensitive settings which are easy to play but which do not sacrifice the flavour of the original harmonies. Organists and guitar players will find little difficulty in playing the songs harmonically by using the chord symbols indicated i…

Par BENJAMIN GEORGE. George Benjamin wrote Sortileges especially for Paul Crossley, to a commission for Northern Arts with funds provided by the Arts Council of Great Britain. Andrew Porter from The New Yorker called it '...fresh, beautifully constructed, harmonically bewitching, and sensitively written for the instrument.' / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Répertoire / Piano

Par LAMBERT RICHARD. 3 movement sonata in a modern style The Sonata for euphonium and piano was written in 2013, an idiomatic transcription of the Sonata for bassoon and piano (Op.36) Lasting about 13 minutes, it has three movements: Allegro Moderato - Larghetto - Allegretto con spirito. The first movement is free-ranging tonally, continually developing the initial thematic material - a neo-Baroqu…

Par SPARKE PHILIP. Wind Sketches is a top quality concert work for wind band in three movements, inspired by the relationship between man and wind. Trade Winds, in the form of a march, is reminiscent of a shanty, conjuring up seafaring and the tradewinds. Becalmed, harmonically and melodically almost static, depicts the doldrums. All the more contrasting is Riding the Storm, which concerns the lov…

Jamey Aebersold. For singers, vocalists, drums, bass, guitar, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, piano, keyboard, organ, saxophone, trombone, trumpet, harmonica. Play-Along series with accompaniment CD. The culmination of Jamey's 35 years as the world's leading jazz exponents. Play-…

(33 Works by 25 Composers from the 20th and 21st Centuries). By Various. For Piano. Piano Collection. 240 pages. Published by G. Schirmer

Edited by Denes Agay. For piano. Format: piano solo book. With fingerings, introductory text, biographical sketches of composers and glossary of musical terms. 20th century. 238 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Yorktown Music Press.

By Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Keyboard. Level: Intermediate/Late Intermediate (4/5/6). Published by Alfred Publishing.

By Oliver Nelson. For singers, vocalists, drums, bass, guitar, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, piano, keyboard, organ, saxophone, trombone, trumpet, harmonica. An exhaustive collection of improvisational jazz patterns in various meters and feels. Level: intermediate, advanced. Bo…

By Jamey Aebersold. For singers, vocalists, drums, bass, guitar, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, piano, keyboard, organ, saxophone, trombone, trumpet, harmonica. Play-Along series with accompaniment CD. 8 jazz originals written by Miles Davis. Play-Along Categories: Artists. Lev…

Performed by Big Walter Horton, Little Walter Jacobs, compiled by Tom Ball. For diatonic harmonica (10-hole). Includes instructional book and examples CD. With harmonica notation, instructional text, performance notes, introductory text, discography and black and white photos. Bl…

Book and accompaniment CD for singers, vocalists, drums, bass, guitar, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, piano, keyboard, organ, saxophone, trombone, trumpet harmonica. Celebrate the music of great innovaters who started in all with these Dixieland favorites. Level: Intermediate/Ad…

By Jamey Aebersold. For singers, vocalists, drums, bass, guitar, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, piano, keyboard, organ, saxophone, trombone, trumpet, harmonica. Play-Along series with accompaniment CD. Finally, an authentic collection of Salsa/Latin favorites. Level: intermediat…

27 Pieces for Solo Piano on the Quiet Side. By Various. Boosey and Hawkes Piano. 56 pages. Published by Boosey and Hawkes.