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Intermediate/Advanced Piano Solo. Par BRUBECK DAVE. Dave Brubeck has been described as a 'musician who always crossed generational boundaries'. He has been, and will continue to be, one of the great geniuses of American music. Book 1 contains Piano solos. / Jazz / Recueil / Piano

Continuo part for Henry Purcell's Thy Genius Lo! for Bass and Continuo 2nd setting for Soprano and Continuo. Duration: Approximately 6.5 minutes

A vivid and frank account of the life times and music of Britain's most misunderstood composer. Malcolm Arnold rose to fame and acclaim in the 1950s composing countless film score and works for the stage that were characterised by a distinctive melodic style that captured the post-war optimism. As musical tastes shifted towards the distinctly anti-melodic avant garde Arnold suffered severe depression and a tragic fall in popularity that would continue to fuel his illness. His dramatic personal and professional rehabilitation makes for a remarkable saga of survival.Anthony Meredith and Paul Harris present a meticulous and detailed authoritative account of atrue British musical hero and rogue genius.

The Flatpicking Sourcebook is a comprehensive collection that teaches the fundamental techniques involved in this important playing method. Written by Italian virtuoso Beppe Gambetta this weighty bookcovers all the essentials along with examples in standard notation tab and downloadable demonstrations. Flatpicking is a Guitar technique that involves playing with a plectrum as opposed to the fingers. Amaster of this technique and many styles of music Beppe Gambetta is your guide in this newly-translated edition of his definitive guide to playing in this style.  From the fundamentals- left and right hand techniques plectrum grip - all the way to solo pieces duets and ensemble arrangements this is both a fantastic introduction to Flatpicking Guitar and a useful resource for moreexperienced players looking for a reference work. Other essential topics in The Flatpicking Sourcebook are warm-ups strumming crosspicking scales improvisation open tunings anddifferent arrangements. Not only will Gambetta teach you how to flatpick you will get important practice with the 75 exercises licks solo pieces and other arrangements also demonstrating the full extent of thisfascinating and rich style. The accompanying download card includes demonstrations of all the material by Beppe Gambetta himself letting you hear a true master show you how it'sdone. This thorough and authoritative Flatpicking Sourcebook is a detailed guide to the techniques and fundamentals of an inimitable style passed down through generations ofgenius musicians.

Joan Tower's Dumbarton Quintet (2008) for Piano Quintet. This work was premiered on 12 April 2008 at Dumbarton Oaks Washington DC by the Enso String Quartet with Joan Tower on thePiano. Following Stravinsky and Copland as the third commissioned composer by the Dumbarton Oaks Estate is of course quite daunting — particularly since these are two very strong composers that had an enormousinfluence on me. Their sense of musical continuity and profiling of ideas puts them in the category of musical geniuses. I have in fact dedicated two pieces to them: Petroushskates (to Stravinsky) and Fanfare for the UncommonWoman (to Copland). My musical debt to these two great composers is profound. The Dumbarton Quintet is a Piano Quintet dedicated to Susan Feder my longtime publisher at G. Schirmer and Associated MusicPublishers. (She is now with the Mellon Foundation). It was commissioned by the Dumbarton Oaks Estate. It is a 14-minute work in one movement that travels through several themes with different emotional contents.The first is a flowing line that is cast in a narrow space of smaller intervals first soft then loud but with a restrained kind of intensity that finally 'bursts out' into a more 'forward' and visceral type of intensity. Thisshifting between intensities in fact is part of the 'dna' of the work and as the piece progresses; each side tends to take on more and more extremes of expression. At particular points the 'softer' material becomes almostromantic consonant and singing in its expression whereas the 'louder' passages become the opposite — manic and aggressively dissonant. - Joan Tower

First time in paperback! Noel Coward and Cole Porter's fascinating lives celebrated. Fresh on the heels of the popular motion picture based on Cole Porter's life De-Lovely Noel And Cole presents a delightful and often surprising portrait of these two geniuses. The author provides insight into both men's private lives - including a frank discussion of their homosexuality - while illuminating their musical achievements. Born an ocean apart - one in Indiana the other in England - Cole Porter and Noel Coward have come to represent the ultimate in sophistication and urbanity.Noel and Cole will be an essential reference as well as a fascinating dualbiography of two men who brought style and dazzle to the art of popular entertainment. Based on access to previously unpublished manuscripts lyrics scores and letters plus dozens of interviews the book also includes a chronology and a fifty-page section devoted to the analysis of select works.

This Little Black Songbook is a pocket-sized collection of 90 classic Beach Boys songs presented in chord songbook format with Guitar chord boxes and complete lyrics. Learn all of the best tunes from oneof the greatest pop bands ever.Look inside this pint-sized Beach Boys songbook and you'll find everything you need to start playing all the songs you could ever want by this incredible quintet of geniussongwriters and virtuoso singers. Songs like the immortal God Only Knows Surfin' USA Barbara Ann and Good Vibrations are included reading like a list of some of the greatest songs of all time! TheLittle Black Songbooks represent the best of a particular artist in an easy-to-use format giving you the chords and lyrics so you can get playing and harmonising like Wilson brothers. Since theirinception in 1961 The Beach Boys transformed their sound from simple surf rock to pop balladry psychedelia rock and roll and doo-wop with intricate arrangements multi-layered harmonies and some simply divineproduction. Their influence on modern music has been incomparable turning pop music from something bland and dry to something incredibly well-composed and hugely beautiful. Their album 'Pet Sounds' all the songs of which arefeatured here was named by Paul McCartney as the primary inspiration for one of the greatest albums of all time 'Sgt. Pepper'. If this band influenced The Beatles then they must be great! With animpeccable back catalogue The Beach Boys have gone down in history as the producers of some of the greatest songs ever written. If that isn't incentive enough to pick up the Little Black Songbook perhaps just the fact that with this Beach Boys chord book you can sing and play 90 of their incredible tunes with ease from the lyrics chord symbols and chord boxes. Not only this but all the songs are in the