Par CURNOW JAMES. James Curnow has set a new standard for very beginning bands with LYRIC PRELUDE. Rarely has the easiest of band music been so musical. This piece sounds mature and vital in spite of carefully controlled ranges and rhythms for beginning players. LYRIC PRELUDE plays easier than it sounds, allowing your developing musicians the experience of being truly expressive and artistic. / Ni…

Par MARSH LIN. Show us a Song! offers a truly immersive approach to singing that embraces music, drama, movement, staging and performing - the Lin Marsh way! Structured around ten original songs on a variety of school topics, this book off ers teachers a treasure chest of ideas and activities to develop musicianship, creativity, literacy, and general knowledge and understanding. Each song comes wi…

This work is part of a cycle of five short pieces for a single instrument and piano, focused on the five ages in the cosmogony of Ancient Mexican civilisation. The peoples of the Mexican highlands believe that time follows specific cycles and that the world was created following the pattern of 'trial and error'. The creation of the world is divided into several periods which are termed 'suns' (we …

10 Original And Traditional Pieces. Par DIVERS AUTEURS / RAE JAMES (ARR.). Un recueil de dix pièces arrangées dans un styles variés, mais toujours dans esprit très irlandais! Ce volume propose des airs traditionnels et plusieurs compositions originales. La partie de flûte, d'une difficulté intermédiaire, bénéficie d'un accompagnement de piano offrant un bon soutien stylistique (James Rae - Juillet…

Sumer is icumen in. Par ORFF CARL. The first known canon of European art music, now in the British Museum in London, is preserved in a thirteenth-century manusript from the English abbey in Reading: This is the so-called 'summer canon', whose verses greet the advent of summer. An accompanying note elucidates the artistic layer-like construction of the sound structure: a two-voice foundation of bel…

Par D'ADAMO DANIEL. “Ombres portées” was commissioned by Radio France for the radio program Alla Breve. The piece is dedicated to Florentin Ginot. Performed without interruption, each of the five pieces of this cycle highlights certain characteristics and specific resources of the double bass, as are the natural harmonic sounds, the instrumental spectrum, the bowing techniques or those of the left…

Par RACHMANINOV SERGEI. Large lines, catchy melodies and romantic sounds characterize Rachmaninoff’s legendary Second Piano Concerto. The composer played the premiere himself in Moscow in October 1901. The work quickly achieved international popularity, making it one of today’s most famous and most performed piano concertos ever. With this lasting success, Rachmaninoff had finally broken a prolong…

Par VIVALDI ANTONIO. One of the best known and loved collections of string music in history. The programmatic nature of the Four Seasons, based on the lines of sonnets printed along with the music, brings seasonal sights and sounds readily and delightfully to the ear: the bird calls in Spring, the swarms of wasps in Summer, the hunters' horns in Autumn, the winds and icy snow of Winter. Dr. Eleano…