Format : Sheet music + CD
Description Nine songs from the world-famous film and stage musical have been carefully arranged for the Flute soloist, complete with a set of full band backing tracks. With such familiar and memorable melodies as Edelweiss and My Favorite Things , The Sound Of Music offers a world of music that you and you audience will love. What's more, the specially recorded accompaniments will really transform your performance! Songlist Climb Ev'ry Mountain Do-re-mi Edelweiss Maria My Favorite Things Sixteen Going On Seventeen So Long, Farewell The Lonely Goatherd The Sound Of Music
SKU: HL.14043500
UPC: 840126947366. 9.0x12.0x0.042 inches. English.
Click here to download the pre-recorded element (first link below the separator). Please email Wise Music if you encounter problems downloading the audio file. On the page, the violin part for Honest Music looks something like Terry Riley's In C, insofar as it's a collection of discrete, modular phrases to be recombined in “performance,†or in this case, by the electronic manipulation of the recording. But these aren't Riley's musical Lego blocks; most of these are long, expressive, idiomatic gestures, combining Nico's soaring English-choirboy diatonicism with Romantic, violinistic leaps and slides up and down the fingerboard. As these figures pile on top of each other, the close-miked, aberrant fiddle timbre comes to seem, as per the title of the piece, brutally candid. The other fragments, imitated in character by the sputtering harp and percussion of the accompaniment, sound more like scraps swept from a cutting-room floor somewhere - all false starts, warm-ups and afterbeats - and the glitchy, staticky noises in the background contribute to the sense of something rough, half-finished. The result is to suggest that all of Honest Music is an out-take, a rehearsal for another, wholly imaginary piece. But the gravity and authority of the harmonies (and the low drones) lend the makeshift nature of the piece an authentic drama in its own right: the sad beauty of things coming together and things falling apart.
