Minor: Triads. Par ORFF CARL / KEETMAN GUNILD. Carl Orff devoted much of his life to the development of a philosophy of Music for Children, based on his belief that music is the natural outcome of speech, rhythm and movement. His ideas and pioneering work have had a major influence on music and dance education throughout the world and today that work continues under the guidance of leading teacher…

For three-part upper-voice choir.This is a witty and ingenious work scored for three-part upper voices (either unaccompanied or with instruments doubling the voices). The three riddles each explore ideas of balance and symmetry whether through the use of canon inversion or palindrome and the result is an intriguing and unusual concert piece

Study Score No. 127-Charles Fussel's Three Processionals for Orchestra.Three Processionals is drawn from ideas contained in an earlier work by the composer Voyages based on the poetry of HartCrane.'In this work I was interested in connecting Hart Crane's use of sea images as a basic vocabulary for his cycle of love poems with Debussy's orchestral sea poem La Mer. The third processional concludes…

Urtext (1932-1939). Bartók's Mikrokosmos has been one of the milestones in pedagogical piano repertoire for 80 years - and yet it is also far more than a "classical" piano primer. These 153 piano pieces, organized in ascending order of difficulty, engage not only with technical aspects of piano playing but also with the fundamentals of composition - from "Imitation and Inversion," "Ostinato," and …

Another delightful offering from classroom teacher and storyteller Susan Milligan and jazz singer and music teacher Louise Rogers, Jazzy Fairy Tales Volume II continues the jazz adventures for young children with three new fairy tales designed to bring jazz music into your classroom. The activities provided are a charming way to introduce young children to jazz with the musical stories of 'Georgie…

This book is great for keyboardists who have learned the basics of jazz harmony and improvisation. It introduces the modes of the major scale, chord extensions, making the changes, using chromatic and guide tones, chord substitution, 'rhythm changes,' the blues, altered dominant chords, and more. Continuing the format of Beginning Jazz Keyboard, new concepts are accompanied by etudes and songs for…

Par THOMAS LINDA G.. This book and accompanying audio present a comprehensive array of ideas intended to add interest and decoration to basic melodies. Mastery of these embellishment techniques will also help in the development of complete arrangements. This project offers some familiar and possibly unfamiliar song titles. The accompanying audio is a valuable tool for learning both the melodies an…

Par HOLENKO JOHN. This collection includes over 70 compositions from the Renaissance presented as melodies with accompanying chord changes. This simple format makes the material suitable for flute. The music includes some well-known Renaissance melodies such as \'Greensleeves\' and \'La Folias\', along with rarer dance pieces and song melodies. Some of these melodies come from as early as the 1400…

Jazz Play-Along Vol.116. 2 CDs and book. What do you play when you have one chord for 8 or 16 bars? The Modal Jazz era presented new challenges for improvisers, spawning a fruitful period rich in new ideas, concepts, and harmonic exploration. This play-a-long includes several 'Standard' forms and important practice tracks; many of which are 'period accurate' and others which are stylistically more…

Amazing Phrasing is a practical and pleasing manual for any Alto saxophone player interested in learning how to improvise and improve their creative phrasing. The ideas are divided into three intuitive sections: Harmony which exploresscales and barpeggioschord substitutionsharmonic embellishments and other phrasing ideasRhythm coverslegato tonguingswing feelrhythmic displacementhow to manipulate a…

This superb DVD is a new and unique way to have fun study and jam all at the same time. The DVD contains three top quality backing tracks and can be approached in two ways first you can 'JAM' with the tracks flying solo experimenting with different ideas licks and solos. Alternatively you can trade solos with Sam drawing inspiration from the ideas and techniques used in his solos.Each track …

JAM With Danny Gill is a new and unique way to have fun study and jam all at the same time.JAM With Danny Gill contains three top quality backing tracks and can be approached in two ways first you can 'JAM' with the tracks flying solo experimenting with different ideas licks and solos. Alternatively you can trade solos with Danny drawing inspiration from the ideas and techniques used in his …

Have fun, study and jam all at the same time with this unique tutorial DVD featuring renowned session guitarist Michael Casswell.Jam With Michael Casswell contains three top quality backing tracks and can be approached in two ways, first you can 'jam' with the tracks alone, experimenting with different ideas, licks and solos. Alternatively you can trade solos with Casswell, drawing inspiration fro…