Format : Sheet music + DVD
SKU: HL.49033128
ISBN 9790001132626. German.
A man lives in a town in which he can barely hear the music going round in his head for the noise. He purchases a house in the country and numerous tenants move in: the string family, wind players, a pianist, a female harpist, a drummer and a timpanist. They all learn to listen to each other and play together whilmaking music. During the progress of the work, orchestral instruments and the role of the conductor are explained.This work is based on a children's book by Margret and Rolf Rettich (ED 9307 = Book; ED 9307-50 = Book + CD)A contemporary piece suitable for a young audience. The various soloists and instrumental sections of the orchestra are introduced in characteristic passages. The story linking the musical items is told by a narrator.
SKU: AP.BD9956C
UPC: 029156998740. English.
Robert W. Smith takes one of the world's best-known and best-loved melodies and fashions a highly effective new work that features your percussion section in the concert spotlight. As we have all come to expect from this brilliant young composer's work, the energy level is extremely high, and the writing is most effective. It is one of those special works your players will enjoy rehearsing and your audiences will greet with great enthusiasm. Driving! (2:01).
SKU: M7.VHR-13515
ISBN 9783864341991.
31 Weihnachtslieder bearbeitet für 1-2 Altsaxofone in leichtem bis mittlerem Schwierigkeitsgrad. Ideal für den Musikunterricht und das häusliche Musizieren. Eine Klavierbegleitung (VHR 13519) ist separat erhältlich. Neben den traditionellen Weihnachtsliedern sind auch die deutschen Hits 'In der Weihnachtsbäckerei' und 'Küss mich, halt mich, lieb mich' sowie internationale Titel enthalten, wie z. B.: 'White Christmas', 'Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer', 'Feliz Navidad', 'Sleigh Ride', 'Les anges dans nos campagnes', 'Winter Wonderland', 'Santa Claus Is Coming To Town', 'Little Drummer Boy', 'Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow' Aufnahmen aller Lieder sind als Hörversionen und Play-alongs auf den gängigen Streaming-Plattformen verfügbar (z. B. Spotify). Alle Ausgaben der Serie 'Weihnachtslieder aus aller Welt' sind kompatibel (Ausnahme: Gitarre solo) und bestens geeignet für das Zusammenspiel.
SKU: PR.44641192L
UPC: 680160610860. 11 x 14 inches.
One of my greatest pleasures in writing a concerto is exploring the new world that opens for me each time I enter the sometimes alien, but always fascinating, world of a solo instrument or instruments. For me, the challenge is to discover the deepest nature of the solo instrument (its karma, if you will) and to allow that essential character to guide the shape and form of the work and the nature of the interaction between soloists and orchestra. In recent years, many of us have become more aware of the musical world outside the Western tradition of musics that follow different procedures and spring from other aesthetics. And contemporary percussionists have opened many of these worlds to us, as they have ventured around the globe, participating in Brazilian Samba schools, studying Gamelan and African drumming with local experts, collecting instruments from Asia and Africa and South America and the South Pacific, widening our horizons in the process. I will never forget our first meeting in Toronto when Nexus invited me into their world of hundreds of exciting percussion instruments. The vast array of instruments in the collection of the Nexus ensemble is truly global in scope as well as offering a thrilling sound-universe. I was inspired by the incredible range of sound and moved by the fact that so many of these instruments were musical reflections of a spiritual dimension. After long consideration, I decided that it would not only be impossible, but even undesirable for this Western-tradition-steeped composer to attempt to use these instruments in a culturally authentic way. My goal was an existential kind of authenticity: searching instead for universal ideas that would be true to both myself and the performers while acknowledging the traditional uses of the instruments. Since many percussion instruments are associated with various kinds of ritual, I decided that I would allow that concept to shape my piece. Rituals is in four movements, each issuing from a ritual associated with percussion, but with the orchestral interaction providing an essential element in the musical form. I. Invocation alludes to the traditions of invoking the spirit of the instruments, or the gods, or the ancestors before performing. II. Ambulation moves from a processional, through march and dance to fantasy based on all three. III. Remembrances alludes to traditions of memorializing. IV. Contests progresses from friendly competition games, contests to a suggestion of a battle of big band drummers, to warlike exchanges. In the 2nd and 4th movements, another percussion tradition, improvisation, is employed. Written into these movements are a number of seeds for improvisation. Indications in the score call for the soloists to improvise in three different ways, marked A for percussion alone; marked B for percussion with and in response to the orchestra; and C where the percussionists are free to add and embellish the written parts. These improvisations should grow out of and embellish previous motives and gestures in the movement.
SKU: HL.49007464
ISBN 9790001080293. 9.0x12.0x0.217 inches. English.
Keyboard Essentials is aimed at all who want to learn to play keyboards successfully in methodically thought-out teaching units with the aid of popular songs and useful tips, though tutoring or private study. It is aimed at beginners of all ages but also, for example, wind players, singers or guitaristswho want to become musical 'insiders' and who though playing the keyboard see an introduction to improvisation, composition, harmony, etc. On the keyboard in particular, with its clearly arranged, regular structure of keys, scales, chords, and harmonic relations are presented more clearly and systematically than on any other instrument. Musicians with previous knowledge may join in at volume 2 or 3.
SKU: AP.B21M0005
ISBN 9780769292809. UPC: 654979008224. English.
This collection of 12 popular songs for the beginning band is correlated to the Belwin 21st Century Band Method, Levels 1 and 2, but it can also be used with any other recognized beginning band method. Each selection is presented in two ways: The solo arrangement is written so that it can be played as a solo, unison (octaves) ensemble, or full unison band with piano accompaniment or CD accompaniment. The snare and bass drummers play a rhythmical accompaniment part. The band arrangement uses the same rhythms and melodic lines included in the solo arrangement, and, in most cases, even the dynamic levels for the melody lines are the same. The piano accompaniment in this arrangement is not essential, as the selections can be performed without it. Titles are: Augie's Great Municipal Band * Linus and Lucy * Eye of the Tiger * All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth * Tequila * Fun, Fun, Fun * The Rose * I'm Walkin' * Helena Polka * Sing, Sing, Sing * Star Wars (Main Theme) * Theme from Superman.