The Complete Guitar Player series has taught hundreds of thousands how to play and the accompanying songbooks have featured hits by Paul Simon, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, John Denver and many other top artists. Now these songbooks are available in super value omnibus editions like this one. The songs are still graded by ease of playing and everything is there... standard notation, Guitar chord bo…

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Par FREEMAN ALEX. Alex Freeman found initial inspiration for his string quartet (2015) in a series of photographs a geologist friend showed him of en échelon veins in rock formations. The open strings punctuated with pizzicato unisons that begin the single-movement work call to mind something crystalline and shimmering, which is immediately infused with tumbling lyrical lines in something of a rap…

Active Songs for a Swingin' Classroom. Par ECKERT ROSANA / BURCH SHARON. Experience jazz in the music classroom with this swingin' collection designed for kids! Each song is written and arranged in a distinctive jazz style, or groove, while keeping it fun with movement, a singing game or activity - learning music concepts in the process. The music, piano/vocal arrangements and recordings are authe…

The OperAria repertoire anthology was much applauded when it came on stage with three baritone volumes in 2015. The successful baritone debut was followed in 2017/18 by the appearance of the four soprano volumes, also conquering hearts in no time. Now, another performance: The curtain rises on the bass volumes, the foundation of the vocal family for heavier, darker voices, though nevertheless bril…

Par PEGLER HEIDI / KEMP N.J.. The ability to sing in foreign languages is a much-needed skill for singers, but few vocal training resources tackle this aspect comprehensively in one book. With this in mind, ABRSM examiners and professional singers Heidi Pegler and Nicola-Jane Kemp have written The language of song, a graded series of songbooks that provide classic song repertoire, carefully select…

Ce livre aria époque transmembranaire a été spécialement conçu comme une collection de matériel pour de jeunes élèves en chant et fournir à l'étudiant de commencer avec une base saine et équilibrée pour l'examen d'entrée. Outre de nombreuses pièces de répertoire, cet album aria invite l'étude des compositions rarement jouées. Le principe de base pour la sélection des oeuvres était de rendre effica…

« Ils se prennent le crâne à deux mains et susurrent : ?Ouh ! J'adore Bessie Smith? sans même voir que Bessie Smith est en train de leur chanter : ?Tiens, voilà mon cul, mon gros cul noir?. »

LeRoi Jones, Le Métro fantôme Rejetés en tant que Noirs, en marge comme musiciens (et doublement exclus comme Noirs et musiciens), blues singers, jazzmen et rappers parlent leur singularité…