SKU: HL.383303
ISBN 9781705154137. UPC: 196288021421. 9.0x12.0x0.666 inches.
Do you need a perfect contemporary song for a vocal audition or performance? The Singer's Anthology of Pop/Rock Ballads gives you over 30 pop/rock classics to choose fromââall transposed into appropriate keys and based on the original recorded hits. These songs fall into the new wave of standards that you are hearing more often at cabaret, concerts, and special occasions. These songs are most often identified with singer-songwriters, so this collection features the work of Billy Joel, Carole King, Adele, and others. These arrangements were custom made for this collection as authentic performing editions, friendly to both the singer and accompanist. Keys were carefully chosen, either preserving the original recorded key or transposing as near the original as possible to increase accessibility. This volume is presented in separate editions for Soprano/Alto and Tenor/Baritone, with some songs shared between the two, and others specific to the voice type. The Soprano/Alto edition features 31 songs, including: All by Myself ⢠At Last ⢠Don't Know Why ⢠Hallelujah ⢠Hello ⢠I Can't Make You Love Me ⢠I Will Always Love You ⢠Killing Me Softly with His Song ⢠Landslide ⢠Million Reasons ⢠(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman ⢠New York State of Mind ⢠She Used to Be Mine ⢠Someone like You ⢠A Thousand Years ⢠Time After Time ⢠When We Were Young ⢠Will You Love Me Tomorrow (Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow) ⢠and more.
SKU: HL.122254
UPC: 884088948986. 6.75x10.5 inches. Adapt. Mac Huff.
The cast of Glee features the next generation of New Directions singers in Season 4, while continuing to follow some of the alumni in their post high school experiences. The music continues as an important dramatic element in the show, with a hit parade of classic songs and the latest hits. This 10-minute medley includes: Holding Out for a Hero, Homeward Bound/Home, It's Time, Live While We're Young, New York State of Mind, The Scientist, Some Nights.
SKU: HL.383304
ISBN 9781705154144. UPC: 196288021438. 9.0x12.0 inches.
Do you need a perfect contemporary song for a vocal audition or performance? The Singer's Anthology of Pop/Rock Ballads gives you over 30 pop/rock classics to choose fromââall transposed into appropriate keys and based on the original recorded hits. These songs fall into the new wave of standards that you are hearing more often at cabaret, concerts, and special occasions. These songs are most often identified with singer-songwriters, so this collection features the work of Billy Joel, Carole King, Adele, and others. These arrangements were custom made for this collection as authentic performing editions, friendly to both the singer and accompanist. Keys were carefully chosen, either preserving the original recorded key or transposing as near the original as possible to increase accessibility. This volume is presented in separate editions for Soprano/Alto and Tenor/Baritone, with some songs shared between the two, and others specific to the voice type. The Tenor/Baritone edition features 30 songs, including: Ain't No Sunshine ⢠All by Myself ⢠Bridge over Troubled Water ⢠Crying ⢠Dust in the Wind ⢠Fields of Gold ⢠Fire and Rain ⢠Hallelujah ⢠Imagine ⢠Lean on Me ⢠Mad World ⢠New York State of Mind ⢠Rocket Man (I Think It's Gonna Be a Long Long Time) ⢠Thinking Out Loud ⢠Time After Time ⢠Unchained Melody ⢠With or Without You ⢠Wonderful Tonight ⢠Your Song ⢠and more.
SKU: HL.327506
ISBN 9781540081520. UPC: 888680989743. 9.0x12.0x0.416 inches.
If you're anxious to put those piano lessons to work, here are 50 calming pieces to play while you continue your studies! Songs are arranged for easy piano with lyrics and include: Bella's Lullaby • Blowin' in the Wind • Brian's Song • Chariots of Fire • (They Long to Be) Close to You • Dawn • Fields of Gold • Gabriel's Oboe • Imagine • Longer • Mia & Sebastian's Theme • New York State of Mind • Over the Rainbow • Tears in Heaven • Time After Time • The Wind Beneath My Wings • Yesterday • You've Got a Friend • and more!
About First 50
You've been taking lessons, you've got a few chords under your belt, and you're ready to buy a songbook. Now what? Hal Leonard has the answers in its First 50 series. The First 50 series steers new players in the right direction. These books contain easy to intermediate arrangements for must-know songs. Each arrangement is simple and streamlined, yet still captures the essence of the tune.
SKU: PR.416414230
ISBN 9781598066630. UPC: 680160602087. 9x12 inches.
Colonnade is James Matheson’s intriguing response to the Albany Symphony’s commission to create a work inspired by the NY State Board of Education Building, designed by the renowned architect Rafael Guastavino. Matheson explains that “A colonnade acts as a metaphor for the tension between knowledge and perception. The columns are the same height and equidistant from each other; while the mind understands this fully, there exists no place from which one can perceive this – the columns always appear to be of uneven height and spacing. If one then adds motion to perspective, identical columns acquire elasticity, and begin to change kaleidoscopically – they shrink, grow, become closer, and then further apart.†This structural paradox is given musical life in the outer sections of Colonnade, while the long, arching middle section is inspired by the vaulted ceiling of one of the building’s largest rooms, enhancing the structure’s spacious openness and lightness.Colonnade is inspired by Albany’s majestic New York State Board of Education Building, and written on a commission from the Albany Symphony Orchestra. It was an intriguing task, in part because in order to accept the commission I had to agree to write a work “inspired by†a building I had not yet seen. Thisproblem was compounded by the fact that, for me, the very notion of extra-musical inspiration is a complex one, particularly with respect to literary or visual sources. I generally find ideas and abstracted notions more generative of musical ideas than specific ones (a poem, an experience, a painting). So when I went to seeand tour the building, I sought to identify fundamental formal aspects of the building which I could process into musical ideas, and would then be linked to the building through a sense of formal relationship. In theend, two characteristics of the building stood out as noteworthy and undiminished by time (compared with, for instance, the building’s rotunda, which contains a series of quaintly outdated allegorical paintings): theexterior colonnade and a beautiful interior vaulted ceiling, designed by Rafael Guastavino.For me, a colonnade acts as a metaphor for the tension between knowledge and perception. We all know, for instance, that the columns are of the same height and are equidistant from each other. Nevertheless, while the mind understands this fully, it is also the case that there exists no place – no standpoint or viewpoint – anywhere in the universe – from which one can perceive this; the columns always appear to be of uneven height and spacing. If one then adds motion to perspective – a walk along the colonnade, for instance – the fixed, even, rigidly identical columns acquire elasticity, and begin to change kaleidoscopically – they shrink, grow, become closer, and then further apart. Further, the detail of the building’s façade behind the colonnadeshifts into and out of visibility, with different portions obscured by the columns from each vantage point. These considerations underlie the outer sections of Colonnade, in which a continuously repeated, continuously varied rising figure – suggestive of a column – dominates. The iterations of this elastic, evolvingfigure are interspersed with other music – suggestive of the building’s façade. The second feature of the building that caught my attention was the vaulted ceiling, designed by Guastavino,of one of the building’s largest rooms. The ceiling enhances the spaciousness of the room, giving it an openness and lightness that is quite captivating. The middle section of Colonnade has this openness at its core, and is dominated by long, arching lines that, to me, suggest the refined beauty of this ceiling.World premiere March 8, 2003; Albany Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Alan Miller.
SKU: HL.282484
ISBN 9781540034410. UPC: 888680789282. 9.0x12.0x0.709 inches.
64 pop hits which have become modern-day standards are included in this collection for easy piano. Includes: Billie Jean (Michael Jackson) • Don't Stop Believin' (Journey) • Dream On (Aerosmith) • Every Breath You Take (The Police) • Free Bird (Lynyrd Skynyrd) • Free Fallin' (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) • Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley) • Imagine (John Lennon) • Landslide (Fleetwood Mac) • Purple Rain (Prince) • Ring of Fire (Johnny Cash) • Rolling in the Deep (Adele) • Tears in Heaven (Eric Clapton) • With or Without You (U2)• You Raise Me Up (Josh Groban) • and more.