SKU: PR.114423500
ISBN 9781491137758. UPC: 680160691531.
Commi ssioned by The Juilliard School’s Music Advancement Program, IMPRESSIONS FROM THE CHINESE ZODIAC is a suite of three characteristic pieces within reach of advanced pre-college saxophonists, and introducing advanced techniques. The work is equally satisfying and impressive for top-level performers. The movements are titled:1. Rooster Singing Out in the Morning2. Monkey Jumping Around in the Forest3. Tiger Walking Down from the Mountain.Commissioned by The Juilliard School for Juilliard’s Music Advancement Program, Impressions from the Chinese Zodiac was composed for any size saxophone in 2022. It consists of three independent movements featuring different musical characteristics with various performing techniques. The inspiration for the music came from impressions of three animal signs (rooster, monkey, and tiger), from the twelve in the Chinese Zodiac.The first piece begins with a repeated phrase imitating a rooster’s loud singing in the morning; the pitch with fluttertongue sounds like the noise from the rooster’s throat), followed by phrases of a pentatonic melody drawn from The Sun Is Rising With Our Joy, a Chinese folk song from Sichuan province. There are descending passages, simulating the dropping-down sound of the singing. Each passage is different from others, each of which should be played accurately and smoothly. The melody is moved up a step with variation, followed by an echo of the rooster singing at the end of the piece. Now the sky is bright, so the rooster call returns up four scale steps!The second piece includes two Chinese folk songs: Thinking of My Darling (from Shanxi province) and Guessing (from Yunnan province). Both songs have large interval skips spanning different registers, as well as microtonal intervals in their original singing, which show the characteristics of the regional musical languages respectively. The tone colors should be matched when registers are changed. The microtonal pitches (quarter-tone flat or three-quarter-tone flat) may be done by bending the tone with one’s lips. The image is the monkey jumping around lively, and the music is played humorously. The high and long pitch with a yelling-down effect at the end of the piece brings the music to an exciting peak.The third piece features the strong and brave tiger, with accented tones in the lowest register. The first 3-pitch motive is developed throughout the piece, while peristaltic chromatic material is formed in various shapes and directions, to show the gestures of a mighty and fierce image.Getting accustomed to special fingerings for the chromatic passages and trills, along with precisely notated articulations, and the techniques of tongue slap and key clicks, are the basic goals to achieve in this piece.
SKU: AP.46414
UPC: 038081527932. English.
In 1993, Maya Angelou recited this poem at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton, making her the first African American and the first female poet to deliver an inaugural recitation. Subsequently, Angelou's audio recording of On the Pulse of Morning won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word in 1994. Mark Hayes opens with a resounding See Me Rise choral fanfare before presenting the hope-filled latter half of the poem with rhythmic exuberance. This is the opening movement from the song cycle Like Dust I Rise.
About Alfred Choral Designs
Th e Alfred Choral Designs Series provides student and adult choirs with a variety of secular choral music that is useful, practical, educationally appropriate, and a pleasure to sing. To that end, the Choral Designs series features original works, folk song settings, spiritual arrangements, choral masterworks, and holiday selections suitable for use in concerts, festivals, and contests.
SKU: AP.46413
UPC: 038081527925. English.
SKU: AP.46412
UPC: 038081527918. English.
SKU: HP.9085
UPC: 763628190859.
In Little Seeds you will find new hymns from my heart. My devotional life is given to you in my hymnwriting. During the past three years I have been writing songs for the unity of the church - songs reminding us of our baptism. I have been writing biblical story hymns for lesser-known characters. I have written paperless songs that may be easily memorized. I set a Rumi poem. There are new hymns for Christian missions from everywhere to everywhere. You will find new texts and musical settings for folk songs from around the world. I hope I have treated these with the love and respect they deserve. You will find alternate arrangements of some songs that may be useful in different settings. Lim Swee Hong composed three tunes for this collection at my request. I am also pleased to include Lianne Tan's first published hymn tune in Little Seeds.
SKU: BT.EMBZ6748
Hungarian-English-Germ an-French.
The volumes of the series cover the entire music literature from the earliest centurties to our days. The material of the individual volumes containing short, easy pieces to be played in the first three-four years of studying the instrument has been compiled by accomplished music teachers. The majority of the contemporary works included in the volumes have been published in this series for the first time. An ABRSM syllabus title, 2010-16, Grade 2-3.
SKU: HL.49033322
ISBN 9783795757304. 9.25x12.0x0.606 inches. German.
This saxophone method is suitable for lessons and self-study and is aimed at young people and adults who want to learn to play the saxophone with fun and success. This is why this established method focuses on well-known songs - long-winded explanations and dry exercises are avoided. All subject matters have been wrapped up in attractive songs and pieces which sound like real music right from the beginning thanks to the live recorded playback tracks. Thus, exercising is fun. Another successful instrumental method in the well-known 'Hobby' series. Dirko Juchem has made a name for himself as a saxophonist, saxophone teacher and specialist author on both a national and international level for many years.His saxophone sound and wide range of styles are well in demand: He has played with well-known German and international artists such as Rolf Zuckowski, Barbara Dennerlein, Thomas Anders, Anne Haigis, Harald Juhnke, Pe Werner, Sara K. as well as with musicians of Jethro Tull, Jazz-Kantine or the Mike Oldfield Band. Apart from numerous concerts and productions with other artists and bands, he performs again and again with his own programmes - solo, as a duo or with an entire band. Up to now, he has performed in more than 100 CD and LP productions, and his tours have taken him as far as Los Angeles and Taiwan.Having taught at various music schools as a saxophone teacher and held lectures at the Bundesakademie Remscheid as a guest lecturer, he knows the problems of saxophonists from first-hand experience.In addition, Dirko Juchem is the author of numerous textbooks and tune books for the saxophone as well as a specialist author of articles for musicians' journals ('Sonic', 'Sound Check', 'Fachblatt Musikmagazin').
SKU: BT.MUSAM996996
ISBN 9781849380140. English.
Th e 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 othertopartists.N ow 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 boxes, full lyrics andevenstrumming patterns!Over 180 great songs! Perfect for all players and singers!The bonus CD contains backing tracks to 16 of the songs in the book.
SKU: BT.9781408192788
ISBN 9781408192788.
D esigned to complement Get Set! Piano Tutor Book 2, Get Set! Piano Pieces Book 2 contains an exciting collection of pieces by Heather Hammond and Karen Marshall, arranged and written specially for thetwenty-first century child.
Get Set! Piano Pieces Book 2 follows and supplements the tried and tested progressive teaching method of Get Set! Piano Tutor Book 2 (9781408193075), guiding the learner fromPrep test to Grade 1. It includes favourites like La Bamba, Frère Jacques and This Old Man as well as engaging new solo and ensemble pieces in a variety of styles.
The perfect repertoire bookforgetting to Grade 1, Get Set! Piano Pieces Book 2 is attractively laid out and fully illustrated, with quizzes and crosswords to reinforce learning.
SKU: AP.44839
UPC: 038081518367. English.
This work sensitively conveys the rising sun as it first greets America each morning on Cadillac Mountain at Acadia National Park. Written by Andrew H. Dabczynski in celebration of that park's centennial, this enchanting piece provides an opportunity for young string players to musically express the magic of dawn on the mountain, of light sparkling on the ocean, of swelling seas as a squall approaches, and of the returning calm as the light recedes. Acadia First Light will transport players and audiences alike to Acadia, that treasured national gem. (3:30).
SKU: AP.44839S
UPC: 038081518374. English.
SKU: MB.99251M
ISBN 9781513462202. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.
This is the first book ever of Yuletide music arranged for solo guitar in various open or altered tunings. Â In this genre of guitar music, the instrument is re-tuned to create a voicing ideally suited for each particular song. Â This book contains ten Christmas tunes and covers five open tunings that give voice and life to the music of the Yuletide season. Â The arrangements include old standards, like Silent Night and Joy to the World, and a sprinkling of more obscure tunes, such as Am Weinachts Baum die Lichte Brennen. Â All are beautiful, time-tested songs. Includes access to online audio.
SKU: MN.30-201
WIE SCHÖN LEUCHTET Busy, challenging for all ringers. Tune first appears in traditional hymn-like form, then with melody played by lower bells, concluding with melody in higher bells. Accompanying bells play 8th note moving figure. Also teaching piece for beginning ringers. Two octaves (20 bells)--3 octaves (28 bells).
