A real showpiece for the advanced choir! Transcribed for SATB a cappella with an ornamental solo soprano descant.

Babylonian Prayer. Par MARTLEW ZOE. Salat Babilya was inspired by music from Iraq, in particular the beautiful sonorities of the oud, a variety of Middle Eastern lute dating back to antiquity. An oud-like resonance is evoked without the use of a bow via a combination of “arabic” scales, open strings, ringing harmonics and ornamental inflections. The particular oud piece that inspired this one was…

Dreaming of love. This is the theme of the folksong on which the composition was based. Its characteristic melody inspired Jacob de Haan to this instrumental romance with a transparent structure consisting of an introduction the folk-melody a development of the theme the folk-melody accompanied by ornamental triplets followed by the final bars.

Here’s the ultimate course in Jorma Kaukonen’s unique and influential blues and country guitar finguerpicking style. These lessons are filled with wisdom advice and invaluable skills for pickers at all levels. You’ll learn five traditional and original songs each one becoming a springboard for important musical information that will be applicable to any songs you want to play. An experienc…

Seven lively pieces for players at grades 2 - 3. Each piece helps with specific technical points - eg: Dim Dragon uses pauses and explores diminished chords while Ornamental Dragon uses various trills and mordents etc but all within an entertaining framework. The piano accompaniment is of the same grade as the solo part encouraging pupils to play together.Grade: 2 - 3

The composer states that'the piece begins with a slowly falling scale of seven notes, thrown from one player to another, repeated nine times and embellished with ornamental flurries which outline a gradually evolving harmonic pattern. The repetitive nature of the music is like a peal of bells or some other kind of evocation. Eventually the music breaks out of this cyclic inevitability and heads in…

Traditional Irish-This arrangement of the tune St. Columba is scored for mixed voices with organ. The lovely melody (sometimes sung by the men and sometimes by the women) is enhanced by an ornamental organ part and closes with a powerful melody and descant.

Violin Sonata no. 2 e minor op. 108-Fauré?s 2nd Violin Sonata was written in 1916 in Evian and Paris the first in a series of chamber music works. It is thus one of Faure?s late works characterised by austerity introspectionand the intensity of its expression.It is hard to imagine a greater contrast to the brilliant and ornamental style of the virtuosic 1st Violin Sonata (HN 980) published 40 …

Dreaming of love. This is the theme of the folksong on which the composition was based. Its characteristic melody inspired Jacob de Haan to this instrumental romance with a transparent structure consisting of an introduction the folk-melody a development of the theme the folk-melody accompanied by ornamental triplets followed by the final bars.