Recorder From The Beginning : Pupils Book 2 (2004 Edition)

This fun collection of graded repertoire with accompanying CD will appeal to pupils and teachers alike. Featuring well-known tunes plus exciting new pieces by John Pitts in authentic blues, ragtime and boogie styles. Suitable for players who have reached the end of Book 1 in the Recorder From The Beginning teaching scheme. / Flûte A Bec Soprano

Keyboard From The Beginning is a practical teaching method for younger students who are just starting to learn the instrument. Ideal for 6- to 12-year-olds, this introduction to playing the Keyboard or Piano uses a mix of original and favourite melodies, as well as fun pictures, to get pupils making music from their very first lesson.Keyboard From The Beginning uses a enjoyable melodies to introduce different techniques and principles, guiding young students in the beginning of their Keyboard-playing career. No previous musical knowledge or experience is necessary, this book will take students from the absolute beginning to playing their first fun tunes with ease. Using over 30 enjoyable and simple tunes, this book will allow young beginners to express their musicality at the same time as learning the basics of playing. With timeless tunes like Au Clair De La Lune, This Old Man, London Bridge and Ode To Joy, children will learn to play these simple melodies while at the same time learning new notes and techniques like different time signatures, rests, dotted rhythms and even scales and chords. As the book progresses, new techniques are introduced, providing a structured and logical course, making this an ideal book for students to work from either on their own or as part of a larger group. The book is accompanied by a unique download card, giving instant online access to audio downloads of demonstrations and backing tracks. Pupils will be able to hear how each tune should sound, before playing it along with a professional recording. Fun images throughout make this a hugely fun and enjoyable book to introduce young beginners to the joys of playing the Keyboard.Keyboard From The Beginning is a brilliant way for young pupils with no previous musical experience to learn to play the Keyboard. Musical melodies, easy-to-understand lessons and colourful images combine to create a Keyboard method that will keep children interested and start them on their way towards becoming proficient keyboardists. / Clavier

Brahms had already announced his ?retirement' from composition when in the spring of 1894 he played chamber music with the cellist Robert Hausmann and the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld. This encounter apparently renewed his enthusiasm for Mühlfeld's much admired playing and inspired him to write two clarinet sonatas in the summer of the same year. Brahms conceived an alternate version of the works for viola from the beginning and already before the publication of these two versions he intended to do another one for violin, a version which was to require changes and was to result in an independent edition. While the clarinet and viola versions have developed a rich performance tradition, the violin version is almost unknown. Yet for the violin version the composer revised the original clarinet part much more extensively than he did for the viola version and also rewrote the piano part to achieve a thoroughly convincing violin and piano idiom. This Bärenreiter edition aims to bring the neglected violin sonatas op. 120 back into players' hands.An important part of this edition is the extensive preface. Firstly it informs about the sonatas' origins, their compositional process, pre-publication performances, their publication history as well as early reception. Truly remarkable is the unique Performance Practice Commentary. Here the editors start from the premise that already a few decades after Brahms' death, a widening gulf developed between the composer's expectations and the performance practices of the early 20th century. On the basis of manifold sources which include memoirs by pupils and chamber music partners, treatises and essays, early instructive editions and historical recordings, the editors deal with key issues in understanding Brahms' notation. By a section-by-section analysis of rhythm and timing, dynamics and accentuation, dots and strokes, slurring and non legato, piano pedalling and overholding, piano arpeggiation and dislocation, string instrument fingering, string instrument harmonics and vibrato, the editors provide an indispensable assistance for a historically informed interpretation of the works.At the same time, the edition offers an exciting and often surprising insight into musical interpretation of the German Romantic Era in general.- A pioneering Urtext edition- With an unmarked Urtext part- With a second part including fingering and bowing based on the practices of contemporaries of Brahms- With an extensive Performance Practice Commentary- For further information on Romantic performance practice we recommend the text booklet: 'Performance Practices in Johannes Brahms' Chamber Music?, BA 9600 / Violon Et Piano