First to be published in the series was The Art of French Horn Playing by Philip Farkas, now Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Music at Indiana University. In 1956, when Summy-Birchard published Farkas's book, he was a solo horn player for the Chicago Symphony and had held similar positions with other orchestras, including the Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, and Kansas City Conservatory, D…

Par LEGG PAT. The Christmas Story aims to involve a whole community - whether school, music centre, workshop or club. It is ideal for a simple staging so children can be involved in all aspects of a musical production. The instrumentation is completely flexible: it will work successfully with anything from piano or guitar and voices right up to the full scoring suggested including strings, melody …

The mastery of scales and scale patterns has long been established as the best way to improve technical abilities on all instruments. The Complete Scale Compendium focuses on what is most common in the study of classical music: core major and minor scales, as well as chromatic, pentatonic, whole-tone, and blues scales. Students will learn the construction of these scales while practicing unique pa…

Description This in-depth blues rhythm guitar text is core curriculum of the University of Southern California's Studio Guitar Department, which is part of the prestigious Flora L. Thornton School of Music, located in Los Angeles, California. It features eighteen twelve-bar blues rhythm guitar accompaniments in the style of guitarists such as Chuck Berry, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Stevie Ray…

Arr. James Curnow. Par GRIEG EDVARD. Here is an opportunity to expose your band to the delightful, graceful music of Edvard Grieg. This elegant arrangement of his famous piano tune offers a wide array of learning possibilities with regard to phrasing, dynamics and the development of lyrical style. A wonderful piece for introducing your students to the joys of classical music. / Niveau : 1.5 / Rép…

(Essential Elements for Band and Essential Elements Interactive are fully compatible with Essential Elements 2000)Essential Elements for Band offers beginning students sound pedagogy and engaging music, all carefully paced to successfully start young players on their musical journey. EE features both familiar songs and specially designed exercises, created and arranged for the classroom in a uniso…

Bring singable songs and practical pedagogy together with 20 MORE children's songs, rhymes and games from around the world! Songbook Three also features extension activities for the classroom, historical references, pedagogical indices and suggestions for including these songs in the First We Sing literacy-based music series available from Hal Leonard. In addition, there are suggestions for Orff i…

Par . The perfect companion to The Rusty Pianist, Playable Pieces is packed with even more easy-to-learn piano solos designed to be ideal for returning players. Combining beautiful arrangements of well-known piano favourites with exciting new repertoire by best-selling composer Pam Wedgwood, pieces are presented progressively from lateelementary to intermediate level. With Pam's unique commentary …

Ultimate Rock Drumming by Jim McCall is the ultimate guide for learning the beats and fills used in today's music. There are over 16, 000 possible rhythmic possibilities that will be explored when studying this book. Ultimate Rock Drumming addresses all the different elements of rock 'n' roll including R& B, shuffles, 12/8 blues, pop, country, Latin and rock. Students will become quite the experts…

This second volume of easy duets offer a vast array of practice and performance material. The duets have been carefully composed and arranged to tie in with the Look Listen and Learn method books, although they can equally well be used separately. Titles in Book 2 includes: Party Animal, Cool Man, It’s Swingtime, The Chef of Kiev and many more. / Niveau : Facile à Intermédiaire / Méthode / Tuba, …