Unlike Nigel Hess's other works for wind band The Winds of Power is not a programmatic work. After a dark and menacing opening a solo trumpet introduces a theme which will eventually become the centre of a piece and is soon heard tutti in a lyrical form. This is interrupted by a return to the opening mood with only a brief respite in the form of a chorale for clarinet choir and harp. The theme t…

Brentwood-Benson Music Publications presents Vol. 4 in its Instrumental Worship Series with I Could Sing of Your Love Forever: 12 instrumental duets for piano and cello. These tasteful, worship-centric arrangements by Christopher Phillips, Music Director at Christ Church Nashville, are perfect for offertories, postludes, or as intimate, stand-alone performances. With a focus on flexibility, these …

Ed Hughes' A Time For Singing for Clarinet Cello and Piano. Score and parts.'My sister the clarinettist Alison Hughes is a member of the Camilleri Trio who gave the first performance. The work was conceived in memory of our aunt Gillian Nicholls.The four movements are:1. Walk with rainstorm2. Song3. Scherzo4. Until the day breakIt is a kind of narrative - in one sense an imagined walk through …

Active Songs for a Swingin' Classroom. Par ECKERT ROSANA / BURCH SHARON. Experience jazz in the music classroom with this swingin' collection designed for kids! Each song is written and arranged in a distinctive jazz style, or groove, while keeping it fun with movement, a singing game or activity - learning music concepts in the process. The music, piano/vocal arrangements and recordings are authe…

Because Stardom Takes Practice. Essential vocal instruction for the pop singer with a terrific companion CD of a dozen warm-up exercises specific to men and women. Each exercise begins with a sung example then the piano plays the exercise for you to sing. The exercises address: warming up your lower and upper voice connecting the two voices loosening the throat placing the sound forward rela…

As the title suggests More Than Singing concerns not only music and proper vocal techniques but also life and the transcendent power of art. Lotte Lehmann was among the most eminent lyric-dramatic sopranos of the early twentieth century especially noted for her passionate and sensitive renderings of lieder. In this guide she distills a lifetime of work research and experience into concise rev…

The Real Vocal Book has many of the selections from volumes 1 and 2 of the instrumental Real Books, but now with the lyrics added to the pre-existing melody line.This songbook contains nearly 300 essential songs compiled especially for singers, including: Alfie, All of Me, Autumn Leaves, Bewitched, Bluesette, Don't Get Around Much Anymore, Fever, Georgia on My Mind, Misty, Moon River, My Funny Val…

Par DE HAAN JAN. Inspiration was commissioned by the Solothurnischer Kanotonal Musikverband in Switzerland in 1993. The composition begins with an A-theme written in a Phrygian tonality and, after an enormous climax, moves on into a quicker B-section, characterized by the use of wide interval jumps. Then follows the development in which both themes return individually and together. Peace and quiet…

Written by Robert Saxton in 1988 for piano left hand only.'The Chacony was commissioned by the Aldeburgh Festival and first performed there in 1988 by the American pianist Leon Fleisher. In rising to the challenge ofwriting for left hand alone Saxton has reduced the basic material (the underlying ground bass theme) to the simplest element: a whole tone scale. Thus the opening section gradually …

This new scholarly-critical edition of String Quartet Op.127 the first of Beethoven’s late quartets follows upon Urtext publications of Opp.18 59 74 and 95.Once more the editor is the renowned Beethoven authority Jonathan Del Mar. All surviving sources have been consulted including sketches to clarify the conflicting readings in the autograph. Not only has Del Mar reconstructed Beethoven 

From the composer: “Nature's Way for intermediate level band was commissioned by BandQuest a project initiated by the American Composers Forum. Their mission is for major composers of national reputation to writeworks of high quality that take into consideration the (still comparatively limited) levels of musical development--both technical and conceptual--typical of such ensembles. I eager…

Favourite songs of Ireland for children to sing and play, plus beautiful illustrations. Piano arrangements are suitable for players of Grade 1/2 standard. Includes Londonderry Air , Cockles And Mussels , Danny Boy plus many more. / Piano