What Love Is This? SAB

The most romantic instalment of the Really Easy Piano series this collection of 22 popular Love Songs from the past and present features simplified Piano arrangements full lyrics as well assong background notes and performance tips so that your planned serenade can be perfectly successful.   Featuring a vast number of beautiful love songs from a variety of eras and genres thisReally Easy Piano love song sheet music is perfect for a beginner who wants to delve into some of the most popular romantic songs ever to have been written. Including timeless favourites like Elvis Presley'sLove Me Tender Patsy Cline's Crazy and Elvis Costello's She this songbook contains some of the best of those songs that have stood the test of time.   There truly issomething for everyone with this songbook though since contemporary love songs like Vanessa Carlton's divine A Thousand Miles Will Young's Leave Right Now and You Give Me Something by JamesMorrison are included here to get your heartbeat racing with the emotion and power of the modern love song. These songs will be familiar to most conjuring up memories of past romances former flings or your current nearest anddearest. If there are any you don't already know you'll be sure to love discovering a new ballad.   What sets the Really Easy Piano: Love Songs book apart from the countless otherlove song collections out there is that this really does mean really easy. The simplified arrangements allow beginners to pick up the familiarly moving melodies while the helpful performance tips will help you to perfect thesong ready to perform for your paramour. The background notes for each of the 22 songs are interesting giving you fascinating context behind who sung the song and why.   For the best way to learn the

This a cappella collection of pieces for mixed choir by Eric Whitacre is the first available printed music compilation of its kind for the composer. The book includes pieces of varying difficulty wide-rangingin theme from the iconic Sleep and Water Night to the quietly angelic Lux Aurumque (Light and Gold) and the recent Nox Aurumque (Night and Gold). A Boy and a Girl and ThisMarriage are both wonderfully tender pieces and the inclusion of the early Go Lovely Rose marks the beginning of a journey through Whitacre's choral output from this first success to the present day.Eric Whitacre is a Los Angeles-based composer and conductor who is held in the highest esteem everywhere inspiring and motivating a new generation of singers and musicians. His music creates a visceral impassioned response in audiences and performers. In 2008 the all-Whitacre choral CD 'Cloudburst' released by the British ensemble Polyphony on Hyperion Records became and unexpected international best-seller topping theclassical charts and earning a Grammy nomination. The BBC raves that 'what hits you straight between the eyes is the honesty optimism and sheer belief that passes any pretension. This is music that can actually make yousmile'.

“Five appealing works for intermediate guitarists” Having enjoyed this composer’s first book of “Medleys”, I was really looking forward to playing through this third series, and I wasn’t in the least bit disappointed. The first book dealt with the lower range of grades, with ten relatively easystudent pieces; for this one, Tisserand has raised the bar somewhat with five works well-suited to the intermediate-plus guitarist.
There is a nice variety of stylistic composing here, opening with an exceedingly rhythmic calypso, which on first glance appears to be very complicated, but once the first bar is sorted out, things should fall into place for a while.
“Des jours meilleurs”, which follows, is a very attractive and nostalgic piece, with a lovely tune of a pop-ballad style. “Mecha Mambo”, with its Beatles’ “Day Tripper”-style opening, is another highly energetic and rhythmic work containing somelovely chord sequences reached at the half-way point (including a brief nod to Jimi Hendrix with a particular chord).
“Azur” takes the player on a melodically romantic journey, putting the hemiola (6/8 against 3/4) effect to good use. A swing-styled blues piece, “Les rues de marciac” concludes the collection in fine style.
All the music is clearly presented and well-fingered. Not having seen Medley No. 2, I cannot vouch for its quality, but if these other two are anything to go by, it must certainly be worth getting hold of. Thierry Tisserand must be one of thispublishing houseÂ’s most favored composers, if his presence in their catalogue is anything to go by; hereÂ’s why.
Steve Marsh (Classical Guitar Magazine) / Partitions classique / Guitare - luth / Guitare / PRODUCTIONS D'OZ

This Musical Showstoppers edition of the brilliant Piano Playbook series offers excellent new arrangements of 35 of the greatest most enduring showstoppers from the biggest musicals of all time.All tunes are arranged for solo Piano including vocal melody and chord symbols so you can stop your very own shows with these powerfully perennial numbers. Certain songs from certain musicals have that winningcombination of emotion melody and a cracking singer that elevates the tune into the upper echelons of the show itself. These songs are the ones that everyone remembers the ones that effectively stop the show and thisPiano Playbook?collects the best of these Musical Showstoppers?so that you too can relive those moments that send shivers up your spine. Songs like I Dreamed A Dream from 'LesMisérables '?Can You Feel The Love Tonight?from 'The Lion King' and Defying Gravity from 'Wicked.' Each of the tunes in this?Musical Showstoppers songbookperfectly encapsulates what the show itself is about this is why they are so well-loved. You'll be able to play Dancing Queen Cabaret A Whole New World and Singin' In The Rain on the Piano among many others.You can take as your inspiration for learning from this show tunes sheet music the many incredible singers who originally performed such songs and the composers who wrote them. Each song has been beautifully arranged allowing youto recapture the quintessence of the musicals that you love and the songs to which you keep coming back. This selection has been chosen to reflect a number of moods and has been produced to thehighest standards in a handy format that combines convenience with durability. The spiral binding ensures that the Playbook sits flat on a piano or other music stand while the crisp engraving is a pleasure to

Durkle Bandrydge is the name of the composers imaginary world but it could very well be anyones invisible dream world with a different name. In this very versatile suite by Bruce Fraser 8 characters are featured each with its ownpeculiarities making Durkle Bandrydge such a colourful place. Do these characters differ that much from us? That is for you to find out! In the last part all characters come together in a special way.Durkle Bandrydge exists at the end ofyour street. It is invisible to humans but Durkle Bandrygators can watch us with great interest. The music will introduce you to some of the characters who live in this unusual place. The parts: Somnanbulyss who is a giant trollguarding the entrance to Durkle Bandryde. At least he is supposed to but he tends to sleep most of the time. His music is therefore very slow moving and sleepy. Long Gwysteen is a tall mysterious and somehow sophisticated character who walls around with a shell on his back. His music glides along rather gracefully. Squelfitch is a rather unpleasant and smelly character who lives in a bog which is why his music sounds rather slimy and a bit like trying to walkthrough quicksand. Perfydlia is a meddling old woman who gossips about everybody and squeals with sudden delight at the small exciting bits of tittletattle about others in the village. In the music you can hear her sudden little squealsof delight. Maryann Lovely is a beautiful young lady graceful gorgeous absolutely devine and her music is obviously just the same. Thistledoo Nicely is a lively character who spends and spends and spends with her credit card buying the latest fashion and never worries about having to pay the bills. Her music reflects her excitement when shopping and het ‘happy go lucky’ approach to life. Marsyn Edginton is the Lord of the manor the richest man in town the‘big cheese’ the man with all the power and of course the biggest house. He is very grand and his music like he could be a king. Jimmy McScotsmyn is a red haired scotsman wearing tartan cap. He misses his home country terribly and eatslots of shortbread oatcakes scotch eggs porridge and drinks an enormous amount of Scotch Wisky which helps him to have fond memories of the kind of music he would like to dance to when he was a younger man. His favourite dance is a Jig andthis is the music he remembers. Grand March of the Durkle Bandrydgators. We hope that you have enjoyed meeting these characters from Drukle Bandrydge and would invite you to listen to all the villagers now march along in a grand parade -it is a pity that you can not see them what is a wonderful sight. If you listen carefully you will hear the melodies which belong to the characters as they march past. Oh what a grand spectacle!

Durkle Bandrydge is the name of the composers imaginary world but it could very well be anyones invisible dream world with a different name. In this very versatile suite by Bruce Fraser 8 characters are featured each with its ownpeculiarities making Durkle Bandrydge such a colourful place. Do these characters differ that much from us? That is for you to find out! In the last part all characters come together in a special way.Durkle Bandrydge exists at the end ofyour street. It is invisible to humans but Durkle Bandrygators can watch us with great interest. The music will introduce you to some of the characters who live in this unusual place. The parts: Somnanbulyss who is a giant trollguarding the entrance to Durkle Bandryde. At least he is supposed to but he tends to sleep most of the time. His music is therefore very slow moving and sleepy. Long Gwysteen is a tall mysterious and somehow sophisticated character who walls around with a shell on his back. His music glides along rather gracefully. Squelfitch is a rather unpleasant and smelly character who lives in a bog which is why his music sounds rather slimy and a bit like trying to walkthrough quicksand. Perfydlia is a meddling old woman who gossips about everybody and squeals with sudden delight at the small exciting bits of tittletattle about others in the village. In the music you can hear her sudden little squealsof delight. Maryann Lovely is a beautiful young lady graceful gorgeous absolutely devine and her music is obviously just the same. Thistledoo Nicely is a lively character who spends and spends and spends with her credit card buying the latest fashion and never worries about having to pay the bills. Her music reflects her excitement when shopping and het ‘happy go lucky’ approach to life. Marsyn Edginton is the Lord of the manor the richest man in town the‘big cheese’ the man with all the power and of course the biggest house. He is very grand and his music like he could be a king. Jimmy McScotsmyn is a red haired scotsman wearing tartan cap. He misses his home country terribly and eatslots of shortbread oatcakes scotch eggs porridge and drinks an enormous amount of Scotch Wisky which helps him to have fond memories of the kind of music he would like to dance to when he was a younger man. His favourite dance is a Jig andthis is the music he remembers. Grand March of the Durkle Bandrydgators. We hope that you have enjoyed meeting these characters from Drukle Bandrydge and would invite you to listen to all the villagers now march along in a grand parade -it is a pity that you can not see them what is a wonderful sight. If you listen carefully you will hear the melodies which belong to the characters as they march past. Oh what a grand spectacle!

Oxford's highly successful listener's guides—The Symphony The Concerto and Choral Masterworks—have been widely praised for their blend of captivating biography crystal clear musical analysis and delightful humor.Now James Keller follows these greatly admired volumes with Chamber Music. Approaching the tradition of chamber music with knowledge and passion Keller here serves as the often-opinionated but always genial guide to 192 essential works by 56 composers providing illuminating essays on what makes each piece distinctive and admirable.Keller spans the history of thisintimate genre of music from key works of the Baroque through the emotionally stirring 'golden age' of the Classical and Romantic composers to modern masterpieces rich in political psychological and sometimes comical overtones. For each piece from Bach through to contemporary figures like George Crumb and Steve Reich the author includes an astute musical analysis that casual music lovers can easily appreciate yet that more experienced listeners will find enriching.Keller shares the colorful often surprising stories behind the compositions while revealing the delights of an art form once described by Goethe as the musical equivalent of 'thoughtful people conversing.'

Jerry Garcia the lead guitarist singer and alleged leader of the Grateful Dead became an icon of the 60s youth movement. It was well-known that Jerry was a huge fan and probably considered himself a player of old-timeAmerican music from mountain fiddle and banjo music to English ballads to jug band music to bluegrass and blues and more. On the 'Shady Grove' recordings one can hear the deep commitment respect and love Jerry had for thistraditional American music. He's very faithful to the original artists' music. That may be surprising if you expect more of an ego-driven 'my version' approach from one the biggest rock stars ever. What you have here is a vibrantcollection of wonderful traditional American songs from a great variety of genres played in a style closely based on their traditional sources. Of course within those parameters we hear wonderful and personal readings of thetunes from both Jerry and mandolinist David Grisman. Dix Bruce has carefully transcribed many of Jerry's solos from the album trying to determine not just what he was playing but how he was playing it. Melodies tablature lyrics and chords are included in arrangements designed to be playable on the guitar while presenting the melodies as closely as possible. Jerry's banjo solos are transcribed here for guitar.