Arr. Naohiro Iwai. Par BILL CONTI / CAROL CONNORS / AYN ROBBINS. Bill Conti a composé les musiques de nombreuses productions hollywoodiennes ou séries télévisées américaines. Récompensé par un Oscar pour la musique du film L'Étoffe des Héros, il est pourtant entré dans l’histoire du cinéma avec le célébrissime thème Gonna Fly Now extrait du film culte Rocky (1976) qui révéla Sylvester Stallone. Pu…

Par GORDON ANDREW D.. Classic Keyboard Riffs And Rhythms by Andrew D. Gordon consists of 40 short riffs, 4 to 16 measures in length, covering blues, country, funk, gospel, jazz, latin, new age, reggae, R&B and rock styles. This book will help 'spice up' arrangements of songs by incorporating the techniques used for each of the different styles. There is also an analysis giving hints on the best wa…

Par LAURIDSEN MORTEN. Four poems sharing a common motif of 'Night' provide the texts for my choral cycle Nocturnes, the American Choral Directors Association's commissioned work for its 2005 national convention. For Rilke's atmospheric 'Sa nuit d'ete,” several melodic themes are supported by dense, colorful harmonies in both the choral and piano parts, leading to a climactic section where all are …

Par DE HAAN JACOB. Utopia is the name of a book written by the English author Thomas More and was published in 1516. The title is a word thought up by More himself, after the Greek language, meaning 'Nowhereland' and leading to the invention of the words utopian scheme and utopian. Utopia pictured an ideal state on an island far from the inhabited world. This idea was the basis of the composition.…

Par HENSELT ADOLPH. The composer and pedagogue Adolph von Henselt (1814?1889) can truly be considered one of the founding fathers of the Russian School of piano playing. He counted among his pupils Nicolai Sergeyvich Zverev, the teacher of Rachmaninoff and Scriabin. Rachmaninoff considered Henselt?s Etudes the equal of those by Liszt and Chopin for their great beauty. Henselt?s music was well-know…

Par CAGE JOHN. Bacchanale, John Cage\'s first work to exploit his influential \'prepared piano\' technique, arose from a request for musical accompaniment by dancer Syvilla Fort. Intending to write her a percussion piece, Cage discovered that the theater in which the premiere was to take place was too small to accommodate any instruments beyond the piano already present, and instead adapted the pi…

for piano and woodwind quintet. Par JALBERT PIERRE. Wind Dances is in seven short contrasting movements, each containing dance-like rhythms, both slow and fast. Having two sons who both play the clarinet, I've heard many a woodwind quintet, so I've been wanting to write for the medium for quite a while. In this instance, I also added my own instrument, the piano. The work opens with a fast moveme…