Practical Tips and Activities for Measuring Student Progress-Take the stress out of assessment with this musical playground of activities and singing games your students will love! Elementary music specialist Cristi Cary Miller shares a wealth of material in this easy-to-use resource tohelp identify and define students' musical skills and progress while having a barrel of fun! Designed for studen…

When I Needed A Neighbour

For Solo Cello-'Gordon Wright was the friend of a lifetime. For thirty years Gordonand I shared our two greatest passions: music and Alaska. Gordonwas my musical collaborator my next-door neighbor my fellowenvironmentalistand my camping buddy. These miniatures aremusical sketches of three moments and places in our friendship.Like Alaska Gordon was larger than life. He always lived his ownway. A…

The Complete Libretto-The enticing music of Puccini's La Bohème perfectly conveys the enchantment of new young love and the anguish that comes with loss and death. This gorgeous souvenir libretto includes extensive background notes and photos from productions staged through the years by the Metropolitan Opera.There's a reason La Bohème has been staged at the Met more often than any other Opera. …

Twelve pieces by John Bull, Giles and Richard Farnaby, Orlando Gibbons, Leonhard Woodson and others are here collected to make an attractive anthology of English keyboard music found in the precious Lynar A manuscripts, which also contain primary sources for the keyboard music of Sweelinck, Peter Philips and Tarquinio Merula. Edited by Pieter Dirksen. CONTENTS ANONYMOUS: (A toij; Courant; Courant;…

A Fairytale Opera In Two Acts-The Thirteenth Child - A Fairytale Opera In Two Acts by Poul Ruders (2014-15). Libretto by Becky Starobin and David Starobin. Scenario by Becky Starobin. Suggested by 'The Twelve Brothers' by the Brothers Grimm. SYNOPSIS Act 1 Scene 1 The neighboring Kingdoms of Frohagord and Hauven are in crisis. Following a warning by his embittered cousin Drokan Regent of Hauven …

Par . The musical appeal of the Blues, as they began to be heard in the early twentieth century, was so infectious that musicians with open minds and ears were drawn to it as soon as they heard it. And that appeal crossed the racial and ethnic divides that characterized American society. So it was, that even before African American guitarists were recorded playing fingerstyle blues guitar, their w…

Peer Gynt ' Suites de Grieg sont parmi les oeuvres les plus populaires du répertoire orchestral. Chaque mélomane est familier avec des titres comme ' De Anitra danse ' ou ' Du Solvejg Song '. Arrangements pour piano faciles par Hans-Günter Heumann sont joliment complétées par / Piano

Mance Lipscomb was a sage a songster a responsible elder a self-made man... He played so many types of music in his own style with powerful conviction... Tilting his head back closing his eyes and thumping that Harmony Sovereign Mance brought the past to the present and turned the present into story into song and into life. -Taj Mahal Mance Lipscomb (1895-1976) the son of a former slave …