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MY DEAR PARENTS
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1024504 Composed by Do Kien Cuong. Holiday,World. Score and parts. 23 pages. Do Kien Cuong #339494...
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1024504 Composed by Do Kien Cuong. Holiday,World. Score and parts. 23 pages. Do Kien Cuong #3394943. Published by Do Kien Cuong (A0.1024504). I composed this composition MY DEAR PARENTS when I was far away from home for continuing my study at Brooklyn College - Conservatory of Music. The composition, is a letter to MY DEAR PARENTS, contains my emotions toward my parents.The duration is about 4 minutes.I think on the time of Mother's Day and Father's Day and Holidays can be a good reason to play this composition.The pdf file includes a full score and all parts.
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My Dear Little Sydney (A Debutante)
My Dear Little Sydney (A Debutante)
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Antonio Palma
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My Dear Little Sydney
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Flute,Guitar,Piano,Voice - Digital Download SKU: A0.1071881 Composed by Antonio Palma. Holiday,Pop. Accompaniment. Duration 275. Antonio Palma #4793585. ...
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Flute,Guitar,Piano,Voice - Digital Download SKU: A0.1071881 Composed by Antonio Palma. Holiday,Pop. Accompaniment. Duration 275. Antonio Palma #4793585. Published by Antonio Palma (A0.1071881). This composition is a song I wrote for my very first granddaughter, Sydney Katherine who was born on June 3, 2018. The content and meaning of this song is a Filipino custom in which we celebrate the growing up of our daughters becoming a REFINED LADY on their 18th birthday. I may not be around to sing this song for Sydney when she reaches the age of eighteen. However, my wish is for her father to sing and dance with her when the time comes. I also hope to inspire all parents to sing and dance with their daughters when they reach the age of eighteen.
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My Dear Little Sydney (A Debutante)
My Dear Little Sydney (A Debutante)
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My Dear Little Sydney
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Guitar,Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1032203 Composed by Antonio Palma. Pop,Rock. Score. 13 pages. Antonio Palma #4766557. Publi...
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Guitar,Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1032203 Composed by Antonio Palma. Pop,Rock. Score. 13 pages. Antonio Palma #4766557. Published by Antonio Palma (A0.1032203). I wrote this song for my first granddaughter who was born June 3, 2018, thinking of her when she reaches the age of 18 years. A Filipino custom in which we celebrate the age of a woman becoming a full grown Lady. I hope this will inspire other parents to sing and dance during their daughter's 18th birthday.
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Lullaby - Dear Little Dreamboat
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Instrumental Solo,Piano and Keyboard - Level 3 - Interactive Download SKU: A0.480715 By B. Scott Christmas. By B. Scott Christmas & Elissa Christmas. Thi...
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Instrumental Solo,Piano and Keyboard - Level 3 - Interactive Download SKU: A0.480715 By B. Scott Christmas. By B. Scott Christmas & Elissa Christmas. This edition: Interactive Download. Children,Classical. Individual part. 1 pages. Duration 39. B. Scott Christmas #4bf7vzCjXsl2kGrYvT7vng. Published by B. Scott Christmas (A0.480715). Key: C major.When we were kids, my sister wrote a bed time song for our parents to sing to us before we went to sleep. It was called Dear Little Dreamboat. I decided to take her melody and make a piano song out of it.
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My Music Practice Journal
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Large Ensemble Bassoon,Cello,Clarinet,Double Bass,English Horn,Flute,Marimba,Oboe,Piano,Trumpet,Viola,Violin,Xylophone - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.9...
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Large Ensemble Bassoon,Cello,Clarinet,Double Bass,English Horn,Flute,Marimba,Oboe,Piano,Trumpet,Viola,Violin,Xylophone - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.981989 Composed by Victoria Voronyansky. Instructional. Score and parts. 40 pages. Volidera Musica #6447573. Published by Volidera Musica (A0.981989). Dear Students, Parents, and Teachers!The purpose of this journal is to help build a framework for practice sessions within which a young musician can thrive. By filling out a weekly planner and a daily practice journal, student is encouraged to plan, reflect, identify problems, and set goals. Younger students may need help filling out the daily journal and for their teacher to assist in organizing the weekly planner, but over time student can get into a habit of writing in the journal independently.Every new song or unfamiliar skill will present different challenges, but with this practice journal a student can tackle each obstacle and celebrate every advance, while keeping track of progress, thinking about what works and what needs to change, all framed in a friendly and flexible manner. This journal is intended to allow students to follow their own path, advance at a pace which is most natural for them, and feel positive about their progress on the instrument.Keep Practicing and Enjoy your musical journey!Victoria Voronyanskywww.redviola.comhttps://www.youtube.com/redviolaVictoria
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Jacques Leguerney: Impromptu for piano
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Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.533319 Composed by Jacques Leguerney. 20th Century,Concert,Standards. Score. 12 pages. Musik Fabrik Music...
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Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.533319 Composed by Jacques Leguerney. 20th Century,Concert,Standards. Score. 12 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #2343097. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.533319). This charming piano solo was first performed by its dedicatee, Jacques Leguerney’s good friend and muse Thérèse Cahen (1897-1944), in the Salle Debussy-Pleyel. They met around 1925. Cahen was the first person outside of his family to encourage his musical aspirations. For years, they met every Saturday to read through and discuss his music. She not only helped him with piano and harmony, but also performed his early chamber works, recruiting from her entourage to help him find high level interpreters for his music. Other early Leguerney works that she premiered included the Trio pour violon, violoncello et piano; the Sonatine pour flûte et piano; and two vocal chamber works presented by the Société Musicale Indépendente (S. M. I.), Epitaphe guerrière and Clair de lune for voice, flute and piano. Their friendship lasted until Cahen was deported from Paris on July 31, 1944, only a few weeks prior to the Liberation of Paris. Working with the Center of the Union Générale des Israélites de France in Saint-Mandé (a Parisian suburb), Thérèse Cahen had dedicated herself to the care of children of deported French parents. She left Paris with these children in the Convoy 77, and was taken to the gas chamber of Auschwitz. She left a letter for him, along with her grand piano, which remained in his apartment until his death.My dear Jacques,It is impossible to write on this little page how much I have appreciated your kindness toward me for years and years, and how much happiness this has given me: there have been thousands of Saturdays, and I thought of them every day of the week. Probably you didn’t realize the influence you have had on me: it seems that my whole personality, my way of thinking and feeling has been transformed by you; it is a very deep imprint. If I am taken and in consequence you read this letter, tell yourself that I will continue to count the Saturdays in order to have an idea of the number of songs composed during my absence and that I will be delighted to hear them when I return. If I don’t return, I definitely want you to keep my piano but I don’t think it will happen and I say that I will see you soon.Very tenderly,ThérèsePS Speaking of tenderness, I think with emotion about the little passage concerning tenderness in your latest song.[La Fontaine d’Hélène]
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All The Things You Are
All The Things You Are
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Piano Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1237260 By Jack Leonard with Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. By Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein. Arranged by Ti...
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Piano Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1237260 By Jack Leonard with Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. By Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein. Arranged by Timothy Stapay. Broadway,Film/TV,Jazz,Musical/Show,Singer/Songwriter,Standards. Score. 8 pages. Timothy Stapay #832776. Published by Timothy Stapay (A0.1237260). This arrangement of All The Things You Are is written as performed by piano artist, Liberace. It has an extended introduction based up the theme from Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto.All the Things You Are is a song composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics written by Oscar Hammerstein II.The song was written for the musical Very Warm for May (1939)and was introduced by Hiram Sherman, Frances Mercer, Hollace Shaw, and Ralph Stuart. It appeared in the film Broadway Rhythm (1944) when it was sung by Ginny Simms, and again in the Kern biopic Till the Clouds Roll By (1946), sung by Tony Martin.Popular recordings of the song in 1939 were by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra (vocal by Jack Leonard), Artie Shaw and His Orchestra (vocal by Helen Forrest) and Frankie Masters and His Orchestra (vocal by Harlan Rogers). The song has been recorded by a plethora of artists. It is considered a jazz standard.Lyrics:Time and again I've longed for adventure Something to make my heart beat the faster What did I long for? I never really knew Finding your love I've found my adventure  Touching your hand, my heart beats the faster  All that I want in all of this world is you  [Chorus:]  You are the promised kiss of springtime  That makes the lonely winter seem long  You are the breathless hush of evening  That trembles on the brink of a lovely song You are the angel glow that lights a star The dearest things I know are what you are  Some day my happy arms will hold you  And some day I'll know that moment divine When all the things you are, are mineWładziu Valentino Liberace(May 16, 1919 – February 4, 1987) was an American pianist, singer, and actor. A child prodigy born in Wisconsin to parents of Italian and Polish origin, he enjoyed a career spanning four decades of concerts, recordings, television, motion pictures, and endorsements. At the height of his fame from the 1950s to 1970s, he was the highest-paid entertainer in the world!
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Irish National Anthem (Unofficial) for String Orchestra
Irish National Anthem (Unofficial) for String Orchestra
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String Orchestra - Intermediate - Digital Download Composed by trad. Arranged by Keith Terrett. 20th Century, European, Patriotic. Score, Set of Part...
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String Orchestra - Intermediate - Digital Download Composed by trad. Arranged by Keith Terrett. 20th Century, European, Patriotic. Score, Set of Parts. 10 pages. Published by Music for all Occasions
Londonderry Air arranged for String Orchestra.
A big band version of the song is used as the theme for The Danny Thomas Show (a.k.a. Make Room For Daddy).
"Danny Boy" was used to represent Northern Ireland at the start of the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony, sung by a choir of children on the Giant’s Causeway.
On November 25, 2014, the Vancouver Canucks used the song in honor of the recently deceased Pat Quinn, who played and worked in many executive capacities for the team.
There are various theories as to the true meaning of "Danny Boy". Some listeners have interpreted the song to be a message from a parent to a son going off to war or leaving as part of the Irish diaspora.
The 1918 version of the sheet music included alternative lyrics ("Eily Dear"), with the instructions that "when sung by a man, the words in italic should be used; the song then becomes "Eily Dear", so that "Danny Boy" is only to be sung by a lady". In spite of this, it is unclear whether this was Weatherly’s intent.
Why the name Londonderry Air? Londonderry and Derry refer to the same place, a city in the north of Ireland, and also to the surrounding county. Supposedly the city of Derry was founded by St. Colmcille, although archaeological evidence shows that people were living there thousands of years earlier. There is an excellent museum in the city, which is worth a visit if you want to find out more. The name of the city was actually "Doire", corrupted to "Derry" by people who can’t pronounce Irish. It thought to derive from an Irish root meaning "oak tree".
Moving quickly along in history, about a millenium later the government of England was having a difficult time colonizing Ireland because of the fierce and warlike clans living there, especially in the north of the country, Ulster. The monarchs of England, almost all of whom were notorious cheapskates, were continually looking about for ingenious ways to conquer places without actually having to put up the money themselves, or run the risk of unpopularity if they lost. In the case of Ireland, some of these schemes of the "Brish gummit" (as it is termed nowadays in Ulster) are still producing unfortunate long-term consequences.
In 1608, King James I gave the city of Derry to the City of London corporation. I guess the deal could be summed up by saying that if the City of London could figure out a way to chase all the inhabitants out of Derry, they would be allowed to keep the loot, minus a percentage for the King of course. If they lost, well too bad. In celebration of this historic agreement, the name of Derry was officially changed to Londonderry. (For further information, check out the Northern Ireland Tourist Board’s History of Derry.)
The linguistic outcome of all this today is that, if you think that King James’s deal with the City of London was a good idea, you call both the city and county "Londonderry". If you do, you are probably a supporter of the Unionist movement that seeks to keep Ulster a part of the United Kingdom. If you think it was a bad idea, you call both "Derry", and you are probably a supporter of the Irish Nationalist cause. Or you might just be someone who thinks it’s confusing for kings to be going around changing the names of places all the time for no good reason.
You can find plenty of discussion about the political side of the question elsewhere, but here let’s look at the musical side. We have an air, collected in county Derry/Londonderry, and it doesn’t have a title. What do we call it?
If you were a proper Victorian, there’s no way you were going to call it the Londonderry Air, much less the Derry Air, because of the improper sentiments that these titles might suggest. My parents tell me that in their youth in Australia, it was usually called the Air from County Derry. (This would, I suppose, support Winston Churchill’s theory that Australia was inhabited by "convicts and Irishmen".)
My mother also sends the following information, referring to an arrangement of the tune by the Australian composer Percy Grainger:
Just another note about Danny Boy, that I grew up in Australia believing to be the Air from County Derry. We were looking through some LP’s last night (back to vinyl yet!) and found a Mercury Wing Classical Favorites stereo LP SRW18060, COUNTRY GARDENS and other favorites by Percy Grainger {played by} Eastman-Rochester Pops, Frederick Fennell, conducting. The cover notes included the following: "Irish Tune from County Derry was harmonised in memory of Irish childhood friends in Australia." Considered by many to be Grainger’s masterpiece of harmonization, the tune was collected many years ago by Miss Jane Ross of New Town, Limavady, Ireland. Grainger has set it for many instrumental combinations. So there’s another variant on the name for it. It doesn’t say who wrote the notes, but the bits in quotes for each of the works on the record are Grainger’s original comments.
The references to Londonderry Air that I’ve seen don’t go back any earlier than the late 1930s. For example, the Glenn Miller Orchestra recorded Danny Boy (Londonderry Air) in February 1940. Bing Crosby’s version was recorded in July 1941 (reference). (So many different things I could check up on!) Londonderry was an important American naval base during WWII, but the US hadn’t come into the war in 1940.
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