Considérée comme une véritable diva Christina Aguilera interprète aussi bien des chansons au tempo enlevé que des ballades romantiques telles que Beautiful enregistré sur l album Stripped sorti en 2002. Roland Kernen en a réalisé un arrangement pétillant à quatre voix pour ensemble à instrumentation variable avec partie de percussion optionnelle.
SKU: KN.SN70060S
UPC: 822795700602.
In this beautiful showcase for alto saxophone, the overall performance can be loose but must convey great warmth. Brass section volume during background passages should be kept to a minimum. The pyramids in the introduction and at measure 37 will need to be more pronounced.
SKU: AP.43700S
UPC: 038081501376. English. Words by Alan; Marilyn Bergman.
The beautiful tune, Windmills of Your Mind has been treated as a jazz waltz by Eric Richards at around 155 BPM. The initial melody is stated by tenor and trumpet, then is followed by a hot sax section soli, with written solos for tenor and trumpet. All this and more in this brilliant chart. (5:35).
SKU: KN.KEN60066S
UPC: 822795600667.
Brimming with a wealth of interesting material for developing bands, this beautiful tune is surrounded by gentle rhythms and lush backgrounds. The winding, Brazilian-style chord progression will be very popular with listeners, and the open solo section provides written lines with chord changes for lead alto and/or tenor sax. A guitar chord chart by Jim Greeson is included in each set. Duration 4:55. Available in SmartMusic.
SKU: KN.62625
UPC: 822795626254.
You'll definitely want to add this terrific Brazilian chart to your next festival or concert program. Alternating between the bossa style and a Brazilian funk feel known as partido alto, this engaging groove is adequately notated in the rhythm section parts to ensure an authentic rendering. A beautiful winding melody for horns is featured in this wonderful example of Kendor's continuing quest to offer sophisticated, yet accessible music for proficient groups. Duration 7:50.
SKU: LO.60-1019H
UPC: 000308076394.
If you have a beginning jazz ensemble, this work deserves your serious consideration. Based upon a traditional Native American song, this composition is a theme and variations tour de force! The simple theme is stated by all the winds with some Stravinsky-like punctuation in the rhythm section. This theme is then transformed through four key centers and a contrapuntal treatment before arriving at the shout chorus, in this case a beautiful reharmonization of the melody.
SKU: HL.51487234
UPC: 196288023531. 6.75x9.5x0.242 inches.
When Dvorák wrote his Serenade for 10 winds and 2 lower strings in January 1878, the heyday of the great wind serenades and “Harmoniemusik†wind ensembles was already long gone. He was probably inspired by hearing Mozart’s Gran Partita shortly beforehand in Vienna. The home key of d minor here is striking, as is the often serious, even tragic atmosphere that repeatedly darkens the otherwise cheerful mood that is typical of the serenade genre. Perhaps this was a reaction to the death of two of his children just a few months earlier. Despite the work’s dramatic character - or perhaps because of it - Dvorák's Serenade was taken up in many European cities soon after its first performance in Prague, and fêted as a significant contribution to the chamber music repertoire for wind instruments. The autograph sources in Prague have been consulted for this Urtext edition. The parts are printed with player-friendly page divisions, perfect page-turning opportunities, and practical alternative parts in F for the three horns.
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SKU: CY.CC2976
ISBN 9790530057957.
Norine', by the famous cornet soloist and composer Herbert L. Clarke, is a haunting, melodic solo for Cornet or Trumpet. This three-minute work gives the soloist a chance to show their ability to turn a beautiful phrase. In this setting by Geoffrey Bergler for Cornet or Trumpet solo with an ensemble of winds or band, it can be effective as either an introduction to the world of solo playing for a young performer or as an encore for a veteran soloist following a more virtuosic piece.
SKU: HL.51481261
UPC: 840126933031. 9.0x12.0x0.202 inches.
For flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (B flat), 2 bassoons, double bassoon or bass tuba, 4 horns (E flat major/B flat) with additional parts for horns in F. When he was a mere 18 years old, Richard Strauss composed the highly Romantic, one-movement Serenade for Wind Instruments, op. 7. Extremely popular among wind players to this day, this work recalls in instrumentation and structure Mozart's “Gran Partitaâ€, which certainly served as a model for Strauss. The serenade was not premiered in its Bavarian homeland as might have been expected, butrather in Dresden, in 1882, under the direction of the then much-esteemed conductor Franz Wüllner, who had also given the inaugural performances of Richard Wagner's Rheingold and Die Walküre and later premiered Strauss' tone poems Till Eulenspiegel and Don Quixote. So it was a great honour for the young Bavarian! Editor Norbert Gertsch presents this little masterwork here for the first time in Urtext quality - in full score and instrumental parts - for which not just the first edition but also the autograph manuscript was scrutinised fastidiously.
SKU: XC.ZJE2301
This dreamy Brazilian samba sets the haunting melody of Chopin’s Prelude #4 as a background to a beautiful Trombone feature that takes us through a lushly-scored journey of a life well lived, as it soars to a joyous, half-time funk groove before winding back down to an introspective end will truly leave the audience floating. All rhythm parts are completely written out, with suggested solos included.
