The Sound Of Music - Arr. Peter Kleine Schaars (La mélodie du bonheur)

SKU: FH.VC2

ISBN 978-1-55440-538-1.

This inaugural edition of the Cello Series offers a sound and progressive collection of Repertoire, Recordings, Etudes, Technique, and Orchestral Excerpts for the aspiring cellist. With an expansive representation of musical styles from all eras, this series addresses the need for a single collection of quality educational materials to foster musical development and instill appreciation of the richness and diversity of music written for cello. Supporting a balanced course of study, this series organizes repertoire into nine volumes from the Preparatory Level through Level 8. Each level offers music from a range of styles and compositional eras, including standard literature, new arrangements of familiar tunes, and music written for cellists, by cellists. These selections provide the flexibility to choose pedagogically appropriate material suited to each individual, and to motivate students to fully develop their musicianship and technique.
Baroque and Classical Repertoire:
Chaconne - Handel, George Frideric arr. Peter Heilbut
Un ballo (A Ball) - Steibelt, Daniel arr. Eugen Rapp
Schwedisch (Swedish) - Romberg, Bernhard arr. Percy Such
When I Am Laid in Earth (from Dido and Aeneas) - Purcell, Henry
Concertino No. 4 in C Major, op. 22 - Breval, Jean-Baptiste arr. L.-R. Feuillard
Ombra mai fu (Never Was a Shade) Handel, George Frideric arr. Gaston Borch
Traditional and Romantic Repertoire:
The Joker, op. 126b, no. 3 - Grechaninov, Alexandr
Anitra's Dance - Grieg, Edvard arr. Ann Lindsay
She's Like the Swallow - Canadian folk song arr. Forrest Kinney
Joyeuse (Joyful) - Squire, William Henry
After the Bass Is Over - Harris, Charles K. arr. Pat Legg and Alan Gout
Repertoire Composed after ca 1930:
Hen and Rooster - Konicek, Zdenek
Latin Nights - Blackwell, David and Kathy Blackwell
Running of the Bulls - Cheney, Elliott W.
Wrist Watch - Birston, Harold
Sunday Drag - Perry, Anita D.
Soft-Shoe Dance - Reubart, Dale
For a Blue Note - Allerme, Jean-Marc.

SKU: FH.VA2

ISBN 978-1-55440-564-0.

This groundbreaking series for viola offers a sound and progressive collection of Repertoire, Recordings, Etudes, Technique, and Orchestral Excerpts for the aspiring virtuoso. Representing all major style periods and a variety of genres, Viola Series, 2013 Edition offers all the music and tools needed to support a comprehensive course of study from the beginner to advanced levels. A rich and varied selection of music in each of these nine progressive volumes of repertoire appeals to violists of all ages. From the Preparatory Level through Level 8, students will be exposed to quality selections originally written for viola, fun arrangements of traditional fiddle and folk tunes, as well as contemporary pieces by notable composers such as Violet Archer, Carey Cheney, and Fritz Kriesler.
Concertos, Concertinas, and Fantasias:
Concerto in E Minor, op. 35 - Rieding, Oskar
- First Movement
Concertino in the Style of Antonio Vivaldi, op. 15 - Kuechler, Ferdinand
- Third Movement
Concertino No. 4 in C Major, op. 22 - Breval, Jean-Baptiste
- Third Movement: Finale
The Infant Paganini: Fantasia - Mollenhauer, Eduard
Baroque Repertoire:
Chaconne - Handel, George Frideric arr. Peter Heilbut
Sarabande - Handel, George Frideric arr. Christine Gale
Giguetta - Bach, Johann Sebastian arr. Constance Seely-Brown
Ombra mai fu (Never Was a Shade), from Serse - Handel, George Frideric arr. Gaston Borch
Polonaise, BWV Anh. 119 - attr. Bach, Johann Sebastian arr. Jason Noble
Two Dances - Hasse, Johann Adolf arr. Johannes Palaschko
Concert Repertoire:
Andante grazioso - Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus arr. Jason Gray and Katharine Rapoport
Wiegenlied (Lullaby) - Wolf, Hugo
Dark Mood - Archer, Violet
On the Road - Teehan, Rob
Rigadoon - Jacon, Gordon
March, from The Nutcracker - Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich arr. Jason Noble
Hen and Rooster - Konicek, Zdenek.

SKU: HL.14021534

English-French.

Les titres de ce recueil sont issus des grands succes de la variete francaise et internationale. Tous les themes sont arranges de maniere a faire de chaque piece un oeuvre pianistique complete, doigtes et chiffrage harmonique a l'appui. Les professeurs trouveront aussi dans ce volume un repertoire plaisant et motivant a donner a leurs eleves. Afin de'apporter un cote ludique a recueil, les midi-files contenus dans le CD mixte (CD audio CD rom) offrent la possibilite d'ecouter les titres en MIDI au moyen de la carte son d'un ordinateur. De plus, avec un materiel approprie (sequenceur, editeur de partitions et autres), il est possible de changer les sons et les tempi, de jouer facilement des passages en boucles ainsi que toute autre possibilite offerte par les differents logiciels actuels. Nous vous souhaitons donc un excellent voyage au pays de Pops Hits et esperons vous apporter un reel plaisir pianistique. The titles in this collection are abstracts from the greatest French and International hits. All of the titles are arranged in a way to make each piece a complete pianistic work, fingered with support of chord symbol. Piano teachers will also find in this volume a pleasant and attractive repertory to make their students play with. The playful aspect is added to this anthology by way of the midi-files which accompany the mixte CD (CD audio and CD rom) offering the possibility to listen to the pieces in midi by using the sound card of a computer. In addition, it is possible to change the sounds and the tempi with appropriate equipment (e.g. sequencer, score editors and others). You acn also easily play in loop passages. Other options are offered by today's different software. We wish you an excellent journey into the Piano Pop Hits world and hope it will bring you true pianist pleasure.

SKU: BO.B.3664

Cuarteto San Petersburgo (The Saint Petersburg Quartet) was written between January and March 2011. It owes its name to the fact that Saint Petersburg has been a very significant city for me. I was invited there in 1988 to take part in a big contemporary music festival, but my uninterrupted bond with the city started on 2002, thanks to the negotiations of my friend and pupil Albert Barbeta. Since then, I have constantly travelled there in order to record a considerable part of my repertoire: seventeen pieces. In addition to the concerts we went to, I took the opportunity during my trips to visit the well-known conservatoire where so many great personalities from the world of music composition once taught, and the place that launched the most important violin school in the whole of Russia: the school of Leopoldo Auer. Spending a long time in Auer's classroom writing my concert for violin and orchestra was an unforgettable experience for me. His large portrait motivated me even further.

Cuartet o San Petersburgo evokes many of the most cherished and moving moments that I have had in this city. It is structured in four movements. The first one, Allegretto-Allegro, opens with an introduction that sets forth the two main themes, amid a soft and elastic atmosphere. The Allegro starts vigorously and in it we find changes in the tempo and moments of mystery, as well as certain seclusion, returning then to the emphatic theme where the counterpoint finds its place. The movement ends placidly.

The Scherzo-marcato that follows is marked by a persistent rhythm of triplets that carries on from beginning to end. The tempo does not change, but brief and decided themes are introduced, as well as passages of counterpoint. Brief and dissonant chords are heard throughout the movement, which ends vigorously.

The third movement, Ut, is a very special one. For a while already I had been playing with the idea of writing a movement that was to have the tonality C as a leitmotiv. This one is made up by two slow and static parts. In the first one, the first violin plays pizzicatti-glissandi. In the second, the first violin and particularly the violoncello settle on C while the other two instruments produce descending chromatic harmonies.

Final ly, the Introduccion-Presto (the Introduction-Presto). It starts with some bucolic passages which remind us of the introduction to the first movement. A fast and energetic Presto suddenly erupts. A kind of moto perpetuo which alternates with two expressive passages and, towards the end, a viola and violoncello tremolo, all of great mystery and expectation, make way for a resounding finale marcato.

SKU: PE.EP68500