Par HIMES WILLIAM. Who but William Himes could have composed this one? Filled with humor, pathos, excitement and surprise, LIFE DANCES is a brilliant and rhythmic overture for the adventurous band. The dauntless contemporary sounds of the opening are contrasted by an almost Medeival character. You’ll traverse many intriguing and unpredictable paths before dazzling rhythmic interplay drives the ban…

Par KAUFMAN STEVE. This mandolin edition includes the same 16 tunes found in Kaufman's out-of-print Twin Pickin' flatpicking guitar book, soon to be available as Blazing Solos for Flatpicking Guitar for One Player or More. The tunes in both editions are in the same keys so the books can serve as a foundation for fabulous twin-picking jam sessions in which either guitarists or mandolinists can take…

Vocal Selections. Par MENKEN ALAN / SCHWARTZ STEPHEN. 17 songs from the stage musical adapted from Victor Hugo's 1831 novel of the same name and the music from the 1996 Disney animated feature film. This collection includes vocal line arrangements with piano accompaniment for the songs: The Bells of Notre Dame - Esmeralda - Flight into Egypt - God Help the Outcasts - Hellfire - In a Place of Mirac…

Irène (Eneri) Gorainoff was born as Irene Biriukov on 15th November 1897 in Ostrogoschk. Her parents were an officer Biriukov and Maria Bronikowsky (1874-1928). After a short marriage the mother married Alexei Gorainoff (1872-1935), who adopted the little Irène. At the age of twelve years Irène Gorainoff was a well known pianist. She also composed and had already written over eighty works, when pu…

Scored for clarinet, cello and piano Clarinet Trio (BH 12624) is in three movements, with a total duration of 20 minutes. The first movement, 'Ljud stort, ljud' (Sound big, sound), was commissioned in 2008 to celebrate the centenary of Svenska kulturfonden. 'Som det stilla vi söker' (Like the tranquillity we seek) and 'Slå våg, slå' (Crash wave, crash) were commissioned in the same year by the Ber…

This piece for Flute, Clarinet, Horn and Bassoon was premiered April 18th, 2012 in Istanbul by its commissioner, the Nis'tanbul Quartet, composed of Sibel Pensel, Aysegül Kirmanoglu, Patrick Peignier and Arthur Menrath. Armando Ghidoni's Swinging Counterpoint keeps all of its title's promises: flowing with the same naturalness, the same fluidity as Bach's, the counterpoint masterfully blends the …

Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development for Advanced Concert Band builds upon the concepts in Ensemble Development for Intermediate Concert Band with 399 new exercises that are more technically and musically challenging, including over 70 chorales written by some of today's most renowned composers for concert band, including: Roland Barrett, Chris Bernotas, Andrew Boysen, Ralph Ford, Rossano Galan…

Par BARTOK BELA. Bartók composed his first pedagogical collection For Children between 1908 and 1911. The first edition was issued between 1909 and 1911 in four volumes, comprising two of Hungarian and two of Slovak folk song arrangements. After moving to America, Bartók considered it important to produce new editions of his earlier works. Thus in autumn 1943, together with his new publisher Boose…

Pour Quatour De Saxophones. Par EOTVOS PETER. I got the idea of writing this piece during a rehearsal with Klaus Michael Grüber I saw in Berlin. Three actors were rehearsing a scene of Kleist. At the end, Grüber said: ‘… now once again in a different way.’ The text was identical but the interpretation was completely different and had almost nothing in common with the previous version. My piece is …

Pint-Sized Piano Pieces is the first in a series of three books featuring fun and enjoyably challenging Piano miniatures composed by South African pianist and composer Kevin Volans.If you're tired of playing the same old exercises, the same old études or boring studies, this book of Pint-Sized Piano Pieces is for you. Whether you're after something challenging, something fun or even something funn…