Musical Snapshots

Eine Musikalische Reise Für Junge Leute. Par RAE JAMES. City Snapshots est un recueil de douze pièces originales, solos ou duos, avec accompagnement de piano ou sur CD. Les compositions sont conçues pour familiariser les jeunes musiciens aux différents styles de musique associés à des lieux célèbres du monde entier. Les deux parties instrumentales, qui suivent le même rythme, peuvent être jouées par des élèves ayant un ou deux ans d'instrument. Toutes les pièces sont écrites dans des tonalités et des tessitures confortables, et les deux parties utilisent uniquement le registre chalumeau. Les parties de piano ont été ' pensées pour l'enseignant ' et comprennent des symboles d'accords. City Snapshots pour flûte peut être utilisé en combinaison avec les versions pour clarinette et pour saxophone, car les pièces sonnent à la même hauteur./ Recueil / 1 ou 2 Flûtes Traversières

These 10 elementary solos display the excellent writing style and attention to detail that many teachers have come to expect from Martha Mier. Students will experience culture from around the world as they are guided on a musical tour through Spain, England, Australia, Mexico, Japan, and the United States. / Piano

Niels Marthinsen's Symphony No. 2 - Snapshot Symphony (2009). 1st movement Fiesta Mexicana: fortissimo accelerando (ca. 6 minutes) 2nd movement Arabian Nights: adagio intensivo e furioso (ca. 11 minutes) 3rd movement Great Fireworks in China: giocoso esplosivo e marcatissimo (ca. 8 minutes)   Programme note I’ve never been to Mexico and Arabia or to China. But I love the way those countries sound in Hollywood movies and inpop culture generally: When Clint Eastwood rides south of the border when Disney’s Alladin or Mulan takes me far east when arabic pop music roars past me out of the open windows of a car... and bull fighter music and the sound of acrobatic beat-em-up’s in John Woo’s Hong Kong karate movies – and so on: powerful images splashed all over my eye balls and ear drums. My recollections of this ethnic-pop-film-music has turned itself into a symphony. And I don’t even have to just remember what I have heard: A few internet clicks gives me access to incredible sound libraries containing live-and-kicking ethnic music from my three favorite countries just waiting to be put together in new combinations and energize my personal imagery.  The symphony is like a huge slide show – musical snapshots from my travels in the western pop culture versions of three exotic locations: Mexico Arabia and China – original and popular melodies welded together by my personal musical language and associations. I use all the effects of modern pling-plong-music plus a few of my own inventions to create a spectacular contemporary orchestral sound sporting a bee hive of melodies from either East or West played simultaneously in different keys and differents tempos at once while kept firmly in place by