SKU: DZ.DZ-2566
ISBN 9782897374839.
SKU: HF.FH-2118
ISBN 9790203421184. 9 x 12 inches.
Robot Dance, Answer the Question.
SKU: ST.Y261
ISBN 9790220222580.
The ground bass, a type of theme-and-variations much favoured by English composers from Purcell to Britten, receives a 21st-century makeover in Morgan Hayes's Dances on a Ground. The 'ground' in this case is, appropriately, a robotic, march-like tune for cello that asserts itself in unrelenting mechanical repetitions according to the rules of the form. But among the other instruments there is little consensus about the path the music should take. Though the theme resists for a time, increasingly assaulted by their capricious flights of melody and spiky pizzicatos it abandons its stubborn resistance, is turned to fragments, then dissolves in a fierce conclusion, leaving only an outline of its former self. Premiered in Vilnius, Lithuania, in May 2009 by the Composers Ensemble with pianist Huw Watkins, Dances on a Ground revisits an earlier work written for the Smith Quartet, and presents its material in terms of a carefully chosen instrumentation of clarinet in A, violin, cello, piano and optional double bass. The same performers gave the work's UK premiere last September, at Kings Place, London.
SKU: HL.14046050
ISBN 9788850729968. Italian.
Do you know how to move like a robot?or as an agile dancer?How the sound changes when you move the keyslike the footsteps of a tired bear?
The exploration of music and movement can start from here,from the discovery of the body, from contact with joyful sound, from a relationship with the expressive tool that is music.
This book takes young pianists on an exciting adventure, teaching them the essential theory using an illustrated method that is clear, fun and relevant.
SKU: HL.49045014
ISBN 9790001202114. 9.0x12.0 inches.
The Belgian composer Nicholas Lens presents extremely varied etudes, exercises and simple phrases with wonderfully telling titles from poetry and everyday world for children and adults. For the most part the studies are tonal and simple and have no constructed line. They are not based on any educational concept but leave the musical dramatization to the pupils and teachers: 'Notes and rhythms are just notes and rhythms, they do not have that many rules, they do not have any pretension, they are just tools for you to use to express what you want to share'.
SKU: FG.042-07832-7
ISBN 979-0-042-07832-7.
Nordgren's long and fruitful association with the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra and its founder-conductor Juha Kangas has inspired several major works for strings and established him as the foremost Finnish exponent of the medium. The three movements of his Concerto for Strings have aphorismic titles: Premonitions of bad days, Dance away your worries! and A belated prayer for achieving fulfilment.
