Musical Pictures

SKU: FP.FDC24

ISBN 9790570504336.

An imaginative first violin book, featuring 12 music sketches with fingering and tips on technique and reading music, inspired by the composer's experience teaching a young boy named Peter, and the musical pictures they painted together.


Composer and critic Cyril Carr Dalmaine graduated from the Royal College of Music and was Music master at Uppington School before going on to become chorus master to the BBC. He is most famous for coining the term 'Lord Haw-Haw' in his work as radio critic of the Daily Express under the pseudonym Jonah Barrington, in reference to the Nazi propaganda broadcasts of William Joyce during the Second World War.

Dalmaine was also a record presenter in the pre-1955 days and responsible for the 'discovery' of the then deceased Italian tenor, Alessandro Valente, giving Valente enjoyed a considerable posthumous vogue. As a composer Dalmaine wrote chamber music, and transcribed the cantatas of J.S. Bach to piano as well as a wide range of piano and string works published by Forsyth. His works such as Variation from Versailles and Pathway to the Proms remain in print and are well worth re-discovering, while his arrangements of popular classics in our Silhouette Series remain best sellers.

SKU: HL.49016117

UPC: 073999229370. 8.25x11.75x0.143 inches.

Iwar Arssejew, born in 1937 in Moscow, studies the piano with G. Ginsburg and composition with A. Alexandrow at the conservatory there. He has composed orchestral works, ballets, musical and chamber music, but above all he writes light music for children. In 1994 he was awarded the Jan Frenkel Prize for his compositions for children. The sun smiles, the morn-ing begins * A happy day * Stars shine in the evening * Once upon a time, there were three bears * Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf * The elephant and the little dog * The military outpost at night * Brightly sound the trumpets * The boys' dance * The girls' dance * Somewhere people are marching * Mother and father are having a conversation * Grandfather and grandchildren are going for a walk * The trumpet and the echo * The cockerel crows and the cuckoo calls * Spring buds on the branches * Balalaika and concertina.

SKU: BA.BA11471

ISBN 9790006574759. 29.7 x 21 cm inches.

The powerful intensity of colour and expressiveness of the mosaic images in the apse and altar area of the late antique church of San Vitale (from the 6th century) in Ravenna made a lasting impression on Zsigmond Szathmáry. The fascination of how imposing images emerge from tiny, luminous mosaic cubes and vividly tell the biblical stories inspired the composer to write his piano piece: In my composition, I tried to follow this path: to organise the smallest coloured and angular glass cubes â?? that is, the smallest coloured and angular musical miniature events â?? in such a way that they constantly grow and finally culminate in a tangible musical statement. Despite this seemingly archaic procedure, the composer wants his piece to be understood as a continuation of the virtuoso piano music tradition of the 19th and 20th centuries. The Mosaikbilder â?? (Mosaic Pictures) are dedicated to the great Hungarian pianist Zsoltán Kocsis, for whom they were written in 2012.

SKU: HL.4008025

Who has not heard of Empress Elisabeth of Austria? Wife of Emperor Franz Joseph I she became world famous posthumously, especially through the “Sissi” films and the musical Elisabeth. Otto M. Schwarz is not only a composer of symphonic music, but he also composes for films and documentaries. This is the genre in which Pictures of Vienna for string orchestra were written, depicting various sights, events, or characters from Vienna's golden age. By writing this work as if composed in that time, the composer has created an immediate link to the era.

SKU: BT.EMBZ12368

9x12 inches.

The teachers under whom Árpád Balázs (b.1937) studied composition - Ferenc Farkas, Aram Khachaturian and Goffredo Petrassi - each independently formed the opinion that with his lyrical gift Árpád Balázs's true creative field would be that of choral music and wind ensembles. Their early predictions are borne out by the roughly two hundred and fifty works for choir and almost twenty for wind orchestra that the composer has since produced. It is interesting that in the suite entitled Négy kép (Four pictures) the stylistic features of these two related musical fields are united. In it the wind instruments sing! It was not by chance that the expansive second movement was given thetitle Cantilena, while the slightly livelier but just as lyrical third movement was entitled Arietta. The opening movement of the work is a stridently jolly, energetic Induló (March), but not one of the rigidly military kind: the 6/8 rhythm contributes to its light-hearted character. This music is avowedly akin to the ballet music of Prokofiev. This choice series of four character pieces is crowned by Játék (Play) in which conveying the effect of the mixture of lines moving in parallel and then colliding with each other may be more technically demanding, but is well worth the effort! (Hungaroton HCD 31353).

SKU: FG.55011-733-4

ISBN 9790550117334.

Ilkka Kuusisto's raucous and technically somewhat challenging suite for clarinet and piano Kissalan Aapelin soitteita (Aapeli of Kissala plays the Clarinet) is a musical portrait gallery of the Seven Brothers by playwright Aleksis Kivi. They all get musical pictures played by Aapeli, a character also appearing in the play. Musical motives are derived from the characteristics of the main persons, ie. the movement Tuomas is in slow tempo, as if portraying the trustworthiness of stable Tuomas. Aapo's Menuetto may refer to the characters abilities to tell stories. Simeoni wrestles with the Devil, as he does in the book with both alcohol and in his religious beliefs. Eero, the youngest of the brothers is portrayed in a fast polka. The suite was commissioned by Tapio Lotjonen for specifically for piccolo clarinet. In this volume the solo part is published both in B-flat and E-flat transpositions, as prepared by the composer. Contents: 1. Jussin polska * Jussi's polska 2. Tuomas 3. Menuetti Aapolle * A Menuetto for Aapo 4. Simeoni ja Perkele * Simeoni and the Devil 5. Timon Masurkka * Timo's mazurka 6. Laurin marssi * Lauri's march 7. Eeron polkka * Eeros's polka.

SKU: M7.APUE-516063

ISBN 9781875516063.

This is the second method book in The Young Flute Player series and it's packed with a huge amount of repertoire! The music includes everything from Baroque masterpieces by Bach to Ragtime music by Joplin. There are also traditional folk tunes, exercises, studies, festive music and a section of longer concert pieces. The progressive units introduce new material gradually, and the exercises and scales are directly related to the pieces. Words are included for some of the song tunes to assist with understanding breathing and phrasing. Italian words for style and tempo are illustrated with fun cartoon pictures to help students remember the meaning of terms. To help students practise, there are FREE YOUTUBE recordings for every piece, as well piano backing tracks and duet recordings. The Young Flute Player also features: Easy-to-read fingering charts for every note of the flute Manuscript paper Practice charts Scales charts Theory reference section Music puzzles Graduation Certificate - FREE download from website www.theyoungfluteplayer.com.

SKU: HL.50511501

ISBN 9790080085349. UPC: 840126939712. 9.0x12.0x0.184 inches. Hungarian, English, German. Zoltan Kocsis.

Claude Debussy: Valse romantique - arranged for clarinet and piano by Zoltan KocsisZoltan Kocsis, who died recently, was not just a phenomenal pianist. He is mourned also as a musical 'polymath', whose genius embraced the activities of a composer, conductor, editor, and not least instrumentalist and arranger. In the last capacity, he added some 150 works to the symphonic, chamber, song and piano repertoires.