Inspiring Flute Solos

SKU: M7.APUE-516223

ISBN 9781875516223.

This captivating collection of 30 works for unaccompanied flute, offers refreshing and exhilarating repertoire for intermediate level flute players. Be inspired as you discover scenes of natural beauty - starry skies, a dragonfly, bird songs; enjoy lively dances with elves and ghosts; and immerse yourself in music of tender reflection. The collection features contemporary composers from around the world, with exclusively commissioned works, together with inspiring new arrangements of music by 19th and 20th century masters. Biographies of all the composers are at the end of the music, as well as notes and performance suggestions for each work.

SKU: MB.95381

ISBN 9780786603213. UPC: 796279023641. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.

Whispering Stones won the award for �??Best Recording�?� from the Washington Area Music Association and has continued to be a favorite with fans of fingerstyle guitar music throughout the world. The book features Celtic-inspired original and traditional tunes performed on solo acoustic guitar with the occasional addition of flute, mandolin, cello, piano, or bells. The tunes appear in the same order as in the recording. Al Petteway is an award-winning fingerstyle guitarist and composer. His many �??Wammie�?� awards from the Washington Area Music Association include �??Artist of the Year�?� and �??Musician of the Year�?�. Al�??s playing fuses Celtic/British ideas and tunings with American themes and drive. Acoustic Guitar Magazine praised his �??concise, clean arrangements similar to John Renbourn�??s better work�??. In notation and tablature.

SKU: WD.080689322587

UPC: 080689322587.

Redeemer is a remarkable collection of top inspirational and praise songs featuring outstanding instrumental solos. The accompaniment tracks vary from contemporary rhythm tracks to full symphonic orchestration. The recording highlight Fletch Wiley's light jazz artistry with performances on the flute, flugelhorn and trumpet. Redeemer is availabe in two formats: Bb Treble Clef instruments (trumpet, clarinet & tenor sax) and C Treble Clef instruments (flute, oboe, violin & viola). The arrangements are designed to be performed with piano and optional rhythm section using the chords in the book, or with the accompaniment CD (available separately). The instrumental solo part can be pulled out and used separately by the instrumental soloist.

SKU: PR.416416140

UPC: 680160642441.

Time is one of the main factors impacting the world and our lives. Einstein saw time as the relationship of the motion of one object relative to the position of another object, as measured through observation. But can we really measure time objectively? Music, the art which moves through time, can affect our perception of time, and can affect each person's perception of time differently. Depending on the emotion it stimulates, music can make time seem to pass quickly or slowly. A composer can use music to convey time to an audience and different musical ideas can create different sensations of time. Absence of Time is a concerto for woodwind quartet and orchestra. It has three main sections (fast, slow, fast), recalling traditional concerto form, but it does not use the solo instruments in the traditional way, i.e., as soloists in contest with the orchestra. Inspired by the idea of juxtaposing different experiences of time, I divided the instruments into two groups: the four soloists and the orchestra. The orchestra functions mostly as the keeper of time (real time) while the quartet of soloists fluctuates (in imaginary time or in the absence of time) around the orchestra's time. While the quartet's instruments do play solos, they also play in ensemble with the orchestra. You could say that they play in both imaginary time (as soloists) and in real time (with the orchestra). In addition to this, the woodwind section of the orchestra plays in conversation with the solo quartet, calling it back to real time. Fusion is achieved at the end of the piece through the use of strong, driving rhythm. Absence of Time was commissioned by the Pacific Symphony and was first performed by the Pacific Symphony and the Pacific Symphony Woodwind Quartet with Carl St. Clair as conductor on October 20, 2016.