SKU: AP.12-0571542506
ISBN 9780571542505. English.
Jóhann Jóhannsson: Piano Works presents transcriptions of the late composer's best and most-loved piano works, brought together in a stunning high-end cloth-bound hardback limited edition book. Featuring 30 accurate transcriptions of piano works from across his albums and films, including the soundtrack for The Theory of Everything, Free the Mind and Flight From the City. Suitable for intermediate pianists, it also includes a wealth of striking photographs and a specially commissioned introduction from American composer, Dustin O'Halloran.
SKU: SU.28190070
Three pieces inspired by photographs of Abe Morell. Recorded by the Hawthorne String Quartet for Naxos recordsString Quartet Duration: 12' Composed: 2005 Published by: David L. Post (BMI).
SKU: IG.IMF1824
9 x 12 inches.
Written for my first doctoral recital, Celestial Harmonies was a fun exercise in experimentation. I approached another graduate student, Allen Morris, about taking high quality photographs of each of the constellations, which he did between Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve in 2013. Upon receiving these photographs, I had staff paper printed on transparency paper and placed the constellation photos beneath the transparency paper and traced out the constellations on the staff paper. These became the introductory sketches for this new string quartet. Like a solitary photographer gazing up at the night sky, the music is quiet and intimate, but reflects the drama and wonderment of this wonderous phenomenon.
SKU: BT.WH31517CD
ISBN 9788759824825. International.
About the images in the enclosed book (80 pages)The photographs in this book are taken from The Father Browne SJ Photographic Collection. Frank Browne (1880-1960) sailed with the Titanic on the first part of the luxury ship’smaiden voyage from Southampton to Cobh (Queenstown) in Ireland.The trip was a gift from his uncle who had also given Browne a camera which enabled him to document the journey. Brown befriended a well-to-do American family onboard.They invited him to travel on to New York with them but Browne’s uncleopposed and ordered his nephew to land in Cobh. It was a blow for the young traveler but ended up saving both Browne and his unique photographs.The book isalsoillustrated with Per Nørgård’s scores for Titanic.TitanicMusic by Per NørgårdText by Thorkild BjørnvigChristian Steffensen, recitationEdit, mix and master: Gert Skjød SørensenRecording engineer: Benni BossThe original tapeelement used in the premiereof Titanic on April 14, 1962 has been digitizedand re-used on this CD.Svend Nielsen, violinJens Wilhelm Pedersen (Fuzzy), clarinetErik Norby, trumpetPer Nørgård, pianoBirgit Nielsen, vocalsTechnician:Harry Damgaard.
SKU: BT.MUSAM11429
ISBN 9781846090325. English.
Since if first appeared in the 1930s, the concise, clear content of the best-selling A Tune A Day series has revolutionised music-making in the classroom and the home. Now, for the first time, C Paul Herfurth’soriginalbooks have been completely rewritten with new music and the latest in instrumental technique for a new generation of musicians. The A New Tune A Day books have the same logical, gentle pace, and keen attention todetail,but with a host of innovations: the inclusion of an audio CD with actual performances and backing tracks will make practice even more fun and exciting, and the explanatory diagrams and photographs will help the studenttoachieve the perfect technique and tone. The book contains: Advice on equipmentInstructions for an effective technique and a comfortable postureExplanatory section on reading drum notationEasy-to-follow lessonsonclear, uncluttered pagesAudio CD with a virtuoso performance, backing tracks and audio examplesCompatible with A New Tune A Day for Electric Guitar and A New Tune A Day for Bass GuitarTests to check progressandcomprehensionUseful pull-out library of drum grooves. An all-round drummer Chris Baker played jazz in his early years in the English Midlands, before relocating to Los Angeles to study under some of the legends ofmoderndrumming: Steve Houghton (Woody Herman), Ralph Humphries (Frank Zappa) and Joe Porcaro (Frank Sinatra). Chris has toured internationally and records with a wide range of important ensembles. He continues todevelopheadhandsfeet, a successful teaching practice. Chris currently divides his time between London and the Midlands.
About A New Tune A Day
Since it first appeared in the 1930s, the concise, clear content of the best-selling A Tune A Day series has revolutionized music-making in the classroom and the home. Now, for the first time, C. Paul Herfurth's original books have been completely rewritten with new music and the latest in instrumental technique for a new generation of musicians. The A New Tune A Day books have the same logical, gentle pace and keen attention to detail, but with a host of innovations: the inclusion of an audio CD-with actual performances and backing tracks-will make practice even more fun and exciting, and the explanatory diagrams and photographs will help the student to achieve the perfect technique and tone. This book contains: easy-to-follow lessons on clear, uncluttered pages; tips for technique; improvising hints; audio CD with a virtuoso performance, backing tracks, and audio examples; great music, including duets and ensemble pieces; useful pull-out fingering chart
SKU: AY.PN3160PM
ISBN 9790543573093.
From the composer: This work was inspired by a set of photographs by my dear friend Breno Menini. One of the photographs captured my attention by the intensity of the feeling of loneliness and inexorability inherent in the statue and its stone world. Starting with a single note which expands itself on a melodic arc, the work develops through counterpoint on motifs and blocks related to the viewers' sensations. Like Atlas himself, each one has a world (a stone, cold world) to carry on his own..
SKU: AP.6-424227
ISBN 9780486424224. English.
This comprehensive guide presents an informative overview of wind instruments used in European orchestras, military, and other wind bands during the past 400 years. Included are well-illustrated, descriptive passages about the various types and sizes of woodwinds--flutes, oboes, clarinets, and bassoons--and brass instruments--trumpets, cornets, horns, trombones, bugles, and related instruments. For this historical survey, the author has incorporated information and materials from numerous sources: old instruments from public and private collections, catalogs, and photographs; written descriptions, instructions for playing the instruments, fingering charts, and illustrations of old instruments from contemporary sources; as well as contemporary music specifically written for an instrument. Among other topics, chapters cover the lengthening slide and valve systems of brass instruments, the mechanics of woodwinds and brass, the transverse flute and whistle-flute, saxophone, bassoon, and bugle horns. Brief descriptions accompany the illustrations. A valuable guide for musicians, teachers, and music students, this book will delight and inform music lovers. Unabridged republication of the edition published by Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, 1939. 30 photographs. 41 drawings and diagrams. 11 charts.
SKU: BT.MUSBM11462
ISBN 9781846090356. English.
C. Paul Herfurth's classic series of tutor books have now been completely revised and updated with a host of innovations to suit a new generation of musicians. A New Tune A Day features the same logical, gentle pace and keen attention to detail that made earlier editions so hugely popular and successful. Clear explanatory diagrams and photographs help guide you through the lessons and achieve the very best in tone, technique and posture. The selection of music is fresh and exciting, including duets and rounds to inspire the student and ensure that those vital practice hours are never boring! The book includes: Advice on your instrument and the equipment you will needInstructions for effective technique and comfortable playing Explanatory pages on reading and understanding music Tests to check your own progress and comprehension The accompanying audio CD features a virtuoso performance and backing track for each pieces, as well as recorded examples to support the lessons.
SKU: CL.012-4667-00
Looking for something different? This stunningly beautiful ballad was inspired by a series of photographs depicting the twilight times of sunrise and sunset. With flowing melodic lines and soaring countermelodies, Twilight Portrait provides a magnificent opportunity for your ensemble to develop and showcase a legato playing style, while presenting a striking image of musical lyricism. A video slideshow, featuring the photographs which inspired the work, is available for download so the twilight images can be presented in concert with the music as a unique multimedia event.
SKU: HL.390187
ISBN 9781574244069. UPC: 196288027584. 8.5x8.5x0.403 inches.
Guitar Dreams is a collection of interviews, articles and photographs that celebrate plucked string musicians and luthiers whose work delights, challenges, and inspires all of us who care passionately about the back stories behind the music and the instruments we love. Many of these pieces first appeared (some in different form) in the pages of The Fretboard Journal and Acoustic Guitar magazine, while others appear here for the first time. Included are many previously unpublished photographs. Contributors include Nato Lima (virtuoso nylong string guitarist), Jerry Byrd (steel guitar pioneer), Gabor Szabo (jazz and world music pioneer), Amos Garrett (Telecaster master), Muriel Anderson (fingerstyle virtuoso), George Barnes (seminal jazz guitarist), and many others.
SKU: BA.BVK01677
ISBN 9783761816776. 27.5 x 19.8 cm inches. Translation: John Warrack.
The volume contains 122 portraits of Hector Berlioz, including paintings, medals, busts, woodcuts, drawings, lithographs, photographs and caricatures. It also presents several doubtful or spurious portraits. Each reproduction is accompanied by information on its date, artist and present location. This collection of all known Berlioz portraits sheds entirely new light on the life and surroundings of the great French composer. The Portraits of Hector Berliozis the first collection of all the portraits made of Berlioz during his lifetime. It ranges from photographs, formal paintings and drawings by way of woodcuts and lithographs to the many caricatures which his striking appearance attracted. Each picture is accompanied by a full description and thorough documentation of its location and history, details of the artist's career and relationship with Berlioz, an explanation of the circumstances of the picture's creation, and much else in the way of relevant comment. This documentation also sheds light on the development of photography and its position in the society of the Second Empire , as well as on the emphasis on caricature in the often satirical journalism of the day. Where they contribute to the appreciation of the picture, the articles which the caricatures illustrate, or extracts from them, are also included in an Appendix. Some of the pictures are published for the first time and many for the first time in colour. As well as being fascinating and often entertaining, the collection adds to our understanding of Berlioz's life, times and the circumstances in which his music was composed and performed.
SKU: GI.G-9439
English.
A new book featuring Sydney Nicholson and the setting up of the College of St Nicolas and the School of English Church Music (now the Royal School of Church Music). Through the testimony of former choristers, archive letters and photographs (many of which have never previously been published), together with Nicholson’s personal accounts and diaries held in the RSCM archive, the two authors have pieced together a detailed account of the College’s first ten years, creating a fascinating insight into what life must have been like at this unique college. As well as biographical details of choristers, students and tutors at the College, there are details of the many well-known names in the music world and beyond who were associated with the early years of the SECM. The book also takes the opportunity to review the life and achievements of Sydney Nicholson, and to reassess the pioneering work of this remarkable man. With a foreword by Martin How and a wealth of photographs, the book also contains a detailed list of sound recordings made by the College choir, a list of Nicholson’s publications and comprehensive endnotes listing all the sources used, as well as additional information on the many characters mentioned. Dr John Henderson is Honorary Librarian of the RSCM, and Trevor Jarvis is Honorary Assistant Librarian.
SKU: BT.MUSBM11517
ISBN 9781846091360. English.
The DVD edition of this hugely popular series of tutors gets you even closer to your instrument with a set of real music lessons right there on your screen! A New Tune A Day features the same logical, gentle pace and keen attention to detail that made earlier editions so hugely popular and successful. Clear explanatory diagrams and photographs help guide you through the lessons and achieve the very best in tone, technique and posture. The selection of music is fresh and exciting, including duets and rounds to inspire the student and ensure that those vital practice hours are never boring! The book includes: Advice on your instrument and the equipment you will needInstructions for effective technique and comfortable playing Explanatory pages on reading and understanding music Tests to check your own progress and comprehension The accompanying audio CD features a virtuoso performance and backing track for each pieces, as well as recorded examples to support the lessons. The DVD features lessons on: Basic techniques Putting the instrument together Posture Looking after your instrument Basic music notation How to approach your first piece.
SKU: BT.MUSBM11913
ISBN 9781846095023. English.
Since it first appeared in the 1930s, the concise, clear content of the best-selling A Tune A Day series has revolutionised music-making in the classroom. The A New Tune A Day books have the samelogical,gentle pace, and keen attention to detail, but with a host of innovations: The inclusion of an audio CD – with actual performances and backing tracks – will make practice even more fun and exciting, and theexplanatorydiagrams and photographs will help the student to achieve the perfect technique and tone. This book contains:
SKU: HL.257818
ISBN 9788759839775.
Mulberry Street Symphony by Anders Koppel (2017) for Alto Saxophone, Double Bass, Drums and Symphony Orchestra. Based on seven photographs by the Danish-American journalist and photographer Jacob A. Riis (1849-1914). Dedicated to the KCB Collective: Benjamin Koppel, Scott Colley & Brian Blade. First performances: Benjamin Koppel, sax. Scott Colley, bass. Brian Blade, drums. Martin Yates, conductor - Oct.5 2017, the Concert Hall, Aalborg. Aalborg Symphony Orchestra - Oct.12 2017, Carl Nielsen Hall, Odense. Odense Symphony Orchestra.
SKU: PR.11641867S
UPC: 680160683208.
Contextures: Riots -Decade '60 was commissioned by Zubin Mehta and the Southern California Symphony Association after the successful premiere of the Concerto for Four Percussion Soloists and Orchestra. It was written during the spring and summer months of 1967. Riots stemming from resentment against the racial situation in the United States and the war in Vietnam were occurring throughout the country and inevitably invaded the composer's creative subconscious. Contextures, as the title implies, was intended to exploit various and varying textures. As the work progressed the correspondence between the fabric of music and the fabric of society became apparent and the allegory grew in significance. So I found myself translating social aspects into musical techniques. Social stratification became a polymetric situation where disparate groups function together. The conflict between the forces of expansion and the forces of containment is expressed through and opposition of tonal fluidity vs. rigidity. This is epitomized in the fourth movement, where the brass is divided into two groups - a muted group, encircled by the unmuted one, which does its utmost to keep the first group within a restricted pitch area. The playful jazzy bits (one between the first and second movements and one at the end of the piece) are simply saying that somehow in this age of turmoil and anxiety ways of having fun are found even though that fun may seem inappropriate. The piece is in five movements, with an interlude between the first and second movements. It is scored for a large orchestra, supplemented by six groups of percussion, including newly created roto-toms (small tunable drums) and some original devices, such as muted gongs and muted vibraphone. There is also an offstage jazz quartet: bass, drums, soprano saxophone and trumpet. The first movement begins with a solo by the first clarinetist which is interrupted by intermittent heckling from his colleagues leading to a configuration of large disparate elements. The interlude of solo violin and snare-drum follows without pause. The second movement, Prestissimo, is a display piece of virtuosity for the entire orchestra. The third movement marks a period of repose and reflection and calls for some expressive solos, particularly by the horn and alto saxophone. The fourth movement opens with a rather lengthy oboe solo, which is threatened by large blocks of sound from the orchestra, against an underlying current of agitated energy in the piano and percussion. This leads to a section in which large orchestral forces oppose one another, ultimately bringing the work to a climax, if not to a denouement. Various thematic elements are strewn all over the orchestra, resulting in the formation of a general haze of sound. A transition leads to the fifth movement without pause. The musical haze is pierced gently by the offstage jazz group as if they were attempting to ignore and even dispel the gloom, but a legato bell sound enters and hovers over both the jazz group and the orchestra, the latter making statements of disquieting finality. Two films were conceived to accompany portions of Contextures. The first done by Herbert Kosowar, was a chemography film (painting directly into the film using dyes and various implements) with fast clips of riot photographs. The second was a film collage made by photographically abstracting details from paintings of Reginald Pollack. The purpose was to invoke a non-specific response - as in music - but at the same time to define the subject matter of the piece. The films were constructed to correspond with certain developments in the piece and in no way affect the independence and musical flow of the piece, having been made after the piece was completed. Contextures: Riots - Decade '60 is dedicated to Mehta, the Southern California Symphony Association and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. The news of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King came the afternoon of the premiere, April 4, 1968. That evening's performances, and also the succeeding ones, were dedicated to him and a special dedication to Dr. King has been inserted into he score. All the music that follows the jazz group - beginning with the legato bell sound playing the first 2 notes to We shall overcome constitutes a new ending to commemorate Dr. King's death.
