Guitar World presents its latest DVD, Mastering Arpeggios, a deluxe crash course in guitar theory. With over 2 hours of lessons, you'll learn everything you need to know about major, minor, diminished, and augmented triad arpeggios, plus a bonus tutorial on how to play like Paganini! Your Instructor is Jimmy Brown, who over the last 25 years has built a reputation as one of the world's finest musi…

Par BURNETTE SONNY. The Yellow Saxophone and Other Colors is a five-movement work for soprano voice, alto saxophone and piano. It was commissioned in 2001 by the Kentucky Music Teachers Association and features music by Sonny Burnette and lyrics by Michael Campbell, both professors at Georgetown College in Georgetown, Kentucky. The movements are titled: The Yellow Saxophone, Rooster Tail, Why I Am…

Young composers often make their living with incidental music. Such was the case of Leonid Desyatnikov (*1955) who wrote in his early years a lot of music for puppet shows and dramatic performances. Later the author collected some pieces together forming the suite 'Reminiscences of the Theatre?, the title being of course a reminiscence of Robert Schumann's famous 'Album für die Jugend? (No 25). De…

Par PART ARVO. Arvo Pärt has been fascinated by the life and work of St Silouan of Athos (1866-1938) for many years. As early as 1991, the writings of Silouan inspired Pärt to his composition Silouan's Song, 'My soul yearns after the Lord ...' for string orchestra. Pärt's new work Adam's Lament is once again based on a text by Silouan, in which the monk laments Adam's pain over the loss of paradis…

This volume brings together an eclectic mix of 100 hits, oldies, pop and folk songs for Accordion, all in easy arrangements. All titles are popular in the field of Schlager, oldie and mood music, including of course shanties and popular folk music.This book has specially designed fold-out pages, meaning nearly all of the songs can be played without having to turn the page.The varied songlist inclu…

John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course . Par . An ideal book for children preparing for Initial and Grade 1 piano. Featuring easy-to-read, large-print notation and attractive illustrations, this book has been specially created and graded to be used alongside John Thompson?s Easiest Piano Course. First published in 1954, John Thompson?s Easiest Piano Course is one of the most-loved and best-selling p…

Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. Owing to severe illness, Beethoven had to wait for over a year after completing op. 109 before beginning work on the second piece in his triptych of late sonatas: the Piano Sonata in A-flat major op. 110. The initial sketches date from summer 1821: the work was completed by the end of the year and appeared in print the following summer – in an edition so riddled with mist…

Böhmische Hirtenmesse. Par RYBA JAN JAKUB. Freely rhymed Mass settings; available either in German or Czech. The Bohemian Christmas masses are a typical product from the end of the 18th century. Jan Jakub Ryba’s Pastoral Mass from 1796 is a prototype of this genre. It was set in Czechoslovakian and filled with a conscious simple, folk-like musicality, which every villager in Ryba’s time could unde…

Böhmische Hirtenmesse. Par RYBA JAN JAKUB. Freely rhymed Mass settings; available either in German or Czech. The Bohemian Christmas masses are a typical product from the end of the 18th century. Jan Jakub Ryba’s Pastoral Mass from 1796 is a prototype of this genre. It was set in Czechoslovakian and filled with a conscious simple, folk-like musicality, which every villager in Ryba’s time could unde…

Book C of My First Piano Adventure continues the staff-reading adventure with the introduction of skips (3rds). Students first explore skips aurally and kinesthetically across the full range of the keyboard. A delightful variety of songs follow which carefully and comfortably guide the child toward line-line and space-space staff recognition. The new CD for Book C offers a unique listening experie…