SKU: PR.114423500
ISBN 9781491137758. UPC: 680160691531.
Commissioned by The Juilliard School’s Music Advancement Program, IMPRESSIONS FROM THE CHINESE ZODIAC is a suite of three characteristic pieces within reach of advanced pre-college saxophonists, and introducing advanced techniques. The work is equally satisfying and impressive for top-level performers. The movements are titled:1. Rooster Singing Out in the Morning2. Monkey Jumping Around in the Forest3. Tiger Walking Down from the Mountain.Commissioned by The Juilliard School for Juilliard’s Music Advancement Program, Impressions from the Chinese Zodiac was composed for any size saxophone in 2022. It consists of three independent movements featuring different musical characteristics with various performing techniques. The inspiration for the music came from impressions of three animal signs (rooster, monkey, and tiger), from the twelve in the Chinese Zodiac.The first piece begins with a repeated phrase imitating a rooster’s loud singing in the morning; the pitch with fluttertongue sounds like the noise from the rooster’s throat), followed by phrases of a pentatonic melody drawn from The Sun Is Rising With Our Joy, a Chinese folk song from Sichuan province. There are descending passages, simulating the dropping-down sound of the singing. Each passage is different from others, each of which should be played accurately and smoothly. The melody is moved up a step with variation, followed by an echo of the rooster singing at the end of the piece. Now the sky is bright, so the rooster call returns up four scale steps!The second piece includes two Chinese folk songs: Thinking of My Darling (from Shanxi province) and Guessing (from Yunnan province). Both songs have large interval skips spanning different registers, as well as microtonal intervals in their original singing, which show the characteristics of the regional musical languages respectively. The tone colors should be matched when registers are changed. The microtonal pitches (quarter-tone flat or three-quarter-tone flat) may be done by bending the tone with one’s lips. The image is the monkey jumping around lively, and the music is played humorously. The high and long pitch with a yelling-down effect at the end of the piece brings the music to an exciting peak.The third piece features the strong and brave tiger, with accented tones in the lowest register. The first 3-pitch motive is developed throughout the piece, while peristaltic chromatic material is formed in various shapes and directions, to show the gestures of a mighty and fierce image.Getting accustomed to special fingerings for the chromatic passages and trills, along with precisely notated articulations, and the techniques of tongue slap and key clicks, are the basic goals to achieve in this piece.
SKU: HL.48180087
UPC: 888680795368. 9x12 inches.
Characteristic Studies has formed many generations of trombone players. The compilation by French cornetist, conductor and composer, Jean-Baptiste Arban (1825-1889) successfully addresses requirements of modern technique and characteristics. Arban studied at the Paris Conservatoire and led a prosperous career as a versatile and accomplished musician. Characteristic Studies contains fourteen studies, each addressing a variety of musical characteristics. These elements include chromaticism, articulation, rhythm, range, intervals, breath control, and tempo, among other aspects. Arban's Characteristic Studies is not to be missed by aspiring trombone players.
SKU: HL.14003203
ISBN 9780711979321. UPC: 884088440039. 9.0x12.0x0.145 inches. English.
Ballooning Around The World, with seven new fun songs, explores food, cultural differences, costumes, musical characteristics and dance styles of the five countries visited. Educational notes and ideas for cross-curricular links are provided. This musical also provides an opportunity for children to perfom their own musical poems written as part of their Literacy Programme. If you need to license a school/youth theatre performance of this product, please use the online application form.
SKU: HL.3710090
UPC: 697643304888. 22.0x22.0x3.0 inches.
Series Description: Paiste Sound Technology stands for first-class manufactured cymbals and high quality sound design at an affordable price. PST5 is the entry to Paiste's world of bronze cymbals and since its introduction in 2005, it continues to be a best seller. Considering recent musical trends, the PST5 was newly designed by our Swiss Sound Development Team. Visually the PST5 were consciously altered only in detail but their fundamental sonic value changed considerably. The cymbals are lighter resulting in a deeper, warmer sound while preserving its bright basic character. They have increased flexibility resulting in a more appealing feel. Overall the new PST5 is significantly more musical. Alloy: BuSn8 Bronze, also known as “2002 bronze†Applications: All volume settings; live playing; entire range of music styles Sound: Bright, clean, focused, cutting and energetic with full functional and very musical characteristics The PST 5 Essential Cymbal Set has been re-voiced to offer players a more musical and fantastic sounding set of German made cymbals. This package offers players a full set up at an incredible price. The set contains a 14″ pair of medium hi-hats, and an 18″ ride/crash cymbal. It's an extremely versatile set of cymbals that is ideal for all styles and genres of music.
SKU: UT.CH-248
ISBN 9790215324183. 9 x 12 inches.
The considerable and important musical production by Nicolò Paganini for violin and guitar is now increased to a small but significant degree with the publication of the Sei piccoli Valtz (the title is not the composer’s). They are brief but very pleasing pieces, in which it is easy to perceive the spirit with which the great Genoese musician wrote his short compositions.These are autograph compositions, where the instrumental indication (violin) is present only at the sixth. They could be considered almost ‘musical jottings’ found in two manuscript collections of music for guitar, the Ghiribizzi and the 37 Sonate, but which have never been transcribed and completed before now. Their musical structure is simple, as is found in this kind of composition, and is organised mostly in bipartite form, except for the Valtz n. 6 which it is tripartite (with the Minore and the Da Capo al Fine).It is most likely to be the violin part of compositions for violin and guitar, given the musical characteristics of the six pieces, similar to other music by Paganini such as the Sei Cantabili e Valtz dedicated to Camillo Sivori. It must not then be ruled out, given the numbering allocated by the composer to the first five Valtz, that they might even be the evidence of a ‘project’ which was perhaps never completed, or else finished and lost, of which in fact only these few pages remain.
SKU: AP.1-ADV11400
ISBN 9783892210610. UPC: 805095114003. English.
Contemporary Harmony: Romanticism Through the Twelve-Tone Row is by Ludmila Ulehla. The understanding of the musical techniques of composition cannot be reduced to a handbook of simplified rules. Music is complex and ever changing. It is the purpose of this book to trace the path of musical growth from the late Romantic period to the serial techniques of the contemporary composer. Through the detailed analysis of the musical characteristics that dominate a specific style of writing, a graduated plan is organized and presented here in the form of explanations and exercises. A new analytical method substitutes for the diatonic figured bass and makes exercises and the analysis of non-diatonic literature more manageable. The explanations describing each technique are thorough. They are designed to help the teacher and the student see the many extenuating circumstances that affect a particular analytical decision. More important than a dogmatic decision on a particular key center or a root tone, for example, is the understanding of why such an underdeterminate condition may exist.
SKU: HL.3710093
UPC: 697643304932. 21.5x21.5x2.75 inches.
Includes: 14-inch Medium Hats, 16-inch Medium Crash, and 20-inch Medium Ride. Series Description: Paiste Sound Technology stands for first-class manufactured cymbals and high quality sound design at an affordable price. PST5 is the entry to Paiste's world of bronze cymbals and since its introduction in 2005, it continues to be a best seller. Considering recent musical trends, the PST5 was newly designed by our Swiss Sound Development Team. Visually the PST5 were consciously altered only in detail but their fundamental sonic value changed considerably. The cymbals are lighter resulting in a deeper, warmer sound while preserving its bright basic character. They have increased flexibility resulting in a more appealing feel. Overall the new PST5 is significantly more musical. Since: 2014 Alloy: CuSn8 Bronze, also known as “2002 Bronze†Applications: All volume settings • Live playing • Entire range of music styles Sound: Bright, clean, focused, cutting and energetic with full functional and very musical characteristics.
SKU: BT.PWM9354
ISBN 9780274009299. English.
Dictations were chosen out of existing treasures of music - they are fragments of authentic art.-music. The pupils writing dictations at the same time get to know more musical literature, familiarise themselves with characteristics of style, texture and form of different composers in different epochs. The textbook comprises also some examples of Polish folk songs, coming from different regions of Poland. The issue contains 2 compact-discs.