SKU: PR.312416820
UPC: 680160050376. 8.5 x 11 inches.
Chen Yi’s most performed and most beloved choral music is a series of 10 Chinese folk songs adapted for S.A.T.B. Chorus (published in 3 volumes: 312-41731, 312-41732, 312-41733). This special version is a setting of the familiar collection, adapted for children’s chorus and strings.Remembering when I studied composition in the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, I learned to sing hundreds of Chinese folk songs collected from more than twenty provinces and fifty ethnic groups, and went to countryside to collect original folk music every year. I got to know that the folk songs are a mirror of people’s daily lives, their thoughts and sentiments, local customs and manners. They are sung in regional dialects and use the idioms of everyday speech with their particular intonations, accents and cadences. This correlation between speech and music distinguishes folk songs of one region from another. I learned all songs by heart and sang them back in the exams every week. They melted in my blood and became my natural music language. The more I walk into the music life,the more I treasure the rich culture I have learned from my homeland. When I became the Composer-in-Residence of Chanticleer and was invited to write the first work for its concert program, as well as another version for its Singing-In-The-Schools program, I decided to introduce A Set of Chinese Folk Songs to my American audiences, and add a new flavor to Chanticleer’srich repertoire. The work includes ten folk songs, taken from eight provinces (Anhui, Shaanxi, Yunnan, Shanxi, Taiwan, Sinkiang, Jiangsu and Guizhou) and five ethnic groups (Han, Hasake, Uighur, Miao and Yi). I arranged them for choirs (men’s or children’s chorus) with various combinations in voices, to be sung mostly in Chinese, some in English.  From the mysterious mountain songs originally sung in the open air with high and long notes that can carry over great distances, the sweet and delicate melodies of young love compared with nature, the humorous antiphony by little children, and the lively dancing tune by villagers, you may get an idea of various music styles in Chinese folk songs according to geographic, ethnic and linguistic differences, and appreciate the beauty of the Chinese folk music. The pure choir sound and the sophisticated singing by Chanticleer, in terms of pitches, language and musical expressions, really attract and inspire me to create some more new works in the years to come. In thisedition of A Set of Chinese Folk Songs for standard SATB mixed choir (with piano rehearsal score), I divided these ten songs into three volumes. They are Fengyang Song, The Flowing Stream, Guessing, Thinking of My Darling, Mayila, Jasmine Flower, Riding on a Mule, Awariguli, Diu Diu Deng, andMountain Song and Dancing Tune.—Chen Yi.
SKU: HL.50487189
ISBN 9790080124857. Bach (23 x 30,2 cm) inches. Hungarian, English, German.
The first volume of the present trumpet tutor comprises the teaching material for the preparatory and first grades of the music schools. It consists of two parts: in the first pupils learn the range of sound prescribed in the curriculum whereas in the second they continuously acquire the prescribed scales and rhythm formulae. Since musical training is laid special emphasis on, only children's songs, folk-songs and some pieces of art music have been included, i.e. whenever possible melodies that pupils have already come to learn previously at school apart from the explicitly functional studies.
SKU: BT.EMBZ12485
English-German-Hungarian.
The first volume of the present trumpet tutor comprises the teaching material for the preparatory and first grades of the music schools. It consists of two parts: in the first pupils learn the range of sound prescribed in the curriculum whereas in the second they continuously acquire the prescribed scales and rhythm formulae. Since musical training is laid special emphasis on, only children's songs, folk-songs and some pieces of art music have been included, i.e. whenever possible melodies that pupils have already come to learn previously at school apart from the explicitly functional studies.Das erste Heft der Trompetenschule umfaßt den Lehrstoff des Vorbereitungskurses und der 1. Klasse der Musikschule. Es gliedert sich in zwei Teile: Im ersten wird dem Schüler kontinuierlich der im Lehrplan vorgeschriebene Tonumfang vermittelt, im zweiten sind die vorgeschriebenen Skalen und Rhythmusgebilde enthalten. Da auf die musikalische Ausbildung großes Gewicht gelegt wird, sind außer den Übungen mit ausgesprochen funktionellem Charakter nur Kinderlieder, Volkslieder und Stücke aus der Kunstmusik aufgenommen worden, wobei möglichst die Melodien gewählt wurden, die die Schüler bereits im vorangegangenen Schulunterricht gelernt haben.
SKU: AP.12-0571541089
ISBN 9780571541089. English.
We Are Children of the World is an original song for unison or 2-part upper voices and piano, with words and music by Lin Marsh. This uplifting, multilingual composition was commissioned by the University of Oxford to help celebrate the many languages spoken in the UK's schools and communities. The piece features folk songs in seven different languages: Arabic, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Swahili, and Urdu, as well as English.
SKU: HL.50487752
ISBN 9790080140444. Bach (23 x 30,2 cm) inches. Hungarian, English, German.
The unique innovation in this publication is that, printed below the lines of the score, students can find a tablature containing all the necessary details of playing technique, which will help them overcome their initial difficulties. The author places particular emphasis on enabling them to gain a sure sense of rhythm and confidence in finding their way about the instrument. The volume offers a varied selection from the melodic treasures of the folk music of 32 countries. The twelve guitar duets that are included also provide an introduction to the world of chamber music. The textual instructions are given in three languages: German, English and Hungarian.
