Eight Pieces by French Composers: Saxophone: Instrumental Collection

This unique book of 14 lever harp arrangements includes excerpts of some of the most famous French works by Debussy and Ravel including Clair de lune The Girl with the Flaxen Hair and Pavane. The book features classicalexcerpts but there are five folk tunes and a medieval melody. The level of difficulty ranges from advanced beginner to advanced intermediate. This is a collection of some of the most beautiful French melodies and is a perfectaddition to almost every harpist’s repertoire. The arrangements all have fingering and dynamics. The keys range from two sharps to one flat but a full set of levers is needed for several of the more advanced classical excerpts.Eight of the pieces require no lever changes and five of the classical melodies require multiple lever changes.

A selection of 20 pieces by great English composers arranged for piano solo. Includes 'Chanson De Matin' (Elgar) and 'Elegy From A Downland Suite' (Ireland).

Maurice Ravel's Gaspard De La Nuit is one of the most important Piano works of the 20th century and constitutes the height of the extension of the pianistic playing techniques and tonal possibilites which was already begun by Chopin and Liszt in the 19th century. The three movements Ondine Le Gibet and Scarbo are based on poems by Aloysius Bertrand which Ravel put in front of each of the three pieces. Thus too the work is in a tradition represented by composers such as Schumann and Liszt in the 19th century that combines instrumental music with literary models. For the new edition published by the Wiener Urtext Edition the editorsconsulted not only the first edition used almost exclusively up to now but also Ravel's autograph as well as his personal copy of the first edition on the basis of which numerous passages in the musical text could be corrected and brought closer to Ravel's original intention. In addition the editors included corrections from personal copies of various students of Ravel. Entries of the composer going well beyond mere text corrections and practical performance tips handed down by his students are analysed in the Notes of Interpretation. The reader-friendly large-format Wiener Urtext edition is completed by a trilingual glossary of the French performance instructions used by Ravel as well as English and German translations of Bertrand's three poems.

The first volume of the second tome of the Complete Harpsichord Work by Johann Jakob Froberger this volume is a set of sixteen pieces for Harpsichord. Edited by Howard Schott the book has its preface and information in French English and German. It features sixteen pieces features eight Toccatas five Capriccios a Fantasia and two Ricercars. The works are of medium difficulty and can be played by intermediate players. Johann Jakob Froberger (1616-1667) was a German Baroque composer. He was a really famous musician amongst his peers and influenced many of them.

Frap an anglicized version of the French ‘frapper’ meaning ‘to hit’ was commissioned by the Safri Duo of Danish electronic Percussionists as a short opener for their concerts. Wallin describes thelighthearted pieces as ‘a game exploring togetherness and not-togetherness’. At various points the musicians are instructed to play in unison in syncopation or freely or to play in canon with an eighth (quaver) note separationand are given other choices. Therefore each performance of Frap will be unique. Composer Rolf Wallin is a renowned Nordic composer whose work encompasses elements of classical training jazz early music and avant garde rock while incorporating a wide range of techniques and expressions.