Caprice No. 4 for Mandolin (mandolin solo) MO158

Mandolin Solo

Music by Mark O?Connor

5 pages - 3:00 minutes in length



From the Thirty-Year Retrospective album notes; ?I began to choose and arrange some of the best tunes of my 30-year recording career. As I worked, it all came flooding back. The places, the people, the feelings. Tunes from my childhood... ?Pickin? in the Wind,? the first tune I ever wrote...material from my Rounder and early Warner Bros. recordings...The Championship Years, New Nashville Cats, Heroes, Strength in Numbers, the Appalachia projects for Sony Classical. It was all there. A musical biography...started out as a retrospective of my career, during the process it became more. As I listen now, I realize that these recordings stand as a testament to the living, breathing, ever-evolving heritage of American music. As I watch these and other young players rise, I know it couldn?t be in better hands.?

ISBN 9781609749989. You Can Teach Yourself Mandolin is written as a teach-yourself text with play-along examples and tunes on the companion recording. In the author's word, "It is aimed at helping you get started immediately on your way to mandolinhood by giving you the basics of the mandolin and mandolin playing." With this informal, often humorous text, Dix Bruce will guide you step-by-step through the basics of learning this versatile instrument. Learn all about accompanying yourself and others, common chords and useful strums, reading simple melodies, playing a colorful assortment of mandolin folk songs, and more. All musical examples and tunes are written in bothstandard notation and tablature. Diagrams of all the principal chords used on the mandolin are shown in the Chord Appendix, making this book a particularly useful study aid for the beginning mandolinist. Illustrated with drawings and photographs of vintage instruments. This book has accompanying audio and video.

You'll feel the gentle tropical breeze as your beginners play this easy and contagiously hum-able tune! Simple rhythms (half-, quarter-, and a few eighth-notes) make CUBAN BREEZE an ideal piece for your concert.

FEATURES: Easy notes, easy rhythms, repeated sections; uses rhythm instruments for color; simple, unison low brass/low woodwind parts.

CHALLENGES: Percussion break (4 measures); tenor drum line uses a two-sixteenth/eighth-note rhythm pattern.

KEY and RANGES: Concert B-flat major. Beginner ranges: all parts use 5 or fewer different notes. Flutes, Clarinet 1, Trumpet 1 use concert D to A; Clarinet 2 uses low G to D below staff; all others use first 5 notes of B-flat concert scale.

INSTRUMENTATION: Flute, Oboe, Bassoon, Clarinet 1, Clarinet 2, Bass Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, Trumpet, Horn in F, Trombone/Euphonium, T.C. Euphonium, Tuba, Percussion 1 (Tenor Drum, Bass Drum), Percussion 2 (Guiro, Maracas), Percussion 3 (Claves).

MINIMUM INSTRUMENTATION REQUIREMENTS: At least one: Flute, Clarinet 1, Clarinet 2, Trumpet, Bass line (any low reed, saxophone, or low brass instrument), and 3 Percussionists.

NOTE: This Digital Download document is assembled with the Trumpet part appearing as page 1 so you may view it on the web site as you listen to the sound file. When you download/print the full document (26 pages, total), the first page to print will be the Trumpet part, followed by 8 pages of the FULL SCORE, then the remaining PARTS (16 pages), and a Site License permitting you to make multiple copies of the score and parts for use by your school.

?In Two Minds? (Gemini Song) from the song cycle COSMIC WHEEL OF THE ZODIAC although originally composed for voice, has been re-imagined as a chamber work for flute, alto flute, and piano. It has melodic contours which work well for flute and jazz-influenced harmonic structures which add sparkle to the arrangement. Dolores S, pianist with the UK chamber ensemble Hooked on Flutes writes "We really love your pieces that we play, gorgeous harmonies." The duration is just under two minutes. Suitable for concert performances by professionals or advanced students. The work has been performed several times in Australia and the UK. The composer is affiliated with the Australian Performing Rights Association (APRA). More information and contact details are available on the website. www.margaretbrandman.com linkedin.com/in/margaretbrandmanmusic
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ISBN 9781429136433.

Add some sparkle and zest to your next concert or festival with this lively pairing of two spiritual favorites. This gem for developing choirs abounds with playful and engaging interplay between parts.

Here?sa new collection of thirty-two of America?s best-loved hymn tunes, at a bargainprice too! The arrangements are intended either as stand-alone pieces thatcould be used as interludes in a service, or they could be used to accompanysolo, choral or congregational singing.

Thepublication consists of a four-staff score in concert pitch together withfifteen separate parts in various transpositions including a simplifiedoptional keyboard part. These four-partarrangements use flexible instrumentation so that you can exercise considerablecontrol over the instrumental voicing or use them for non-standard ensembles. You can also create interesting instrumentaltone color by omitting groups of instruments. If the ensemble is large enoughyou could omit brass instruments in the quieter sections, or use a solo trumpetagainst a woodwind background. There are endless possibilities.

Thecomplete set includes Part 1 in B flat, E flat and C (high and low pitch); Part2 in B flat, E flat and C; Part 3 in B flat, E flat, F and C and Part 4 in Bflat, E flat and C. While Part 1 (high pitch) is suitable for flute and oboebeing an octave above concert, the low pitch version is more suited toelementary players. Part 2 in C is an octave higher than concert. Parts 3 and 4in C are in the bass clef. The arrangements could be played by virtually anycombination of conventional wind instruments. Using the optional keyboard partthey could also be used as solos, duets or trios. The scores and all the parts are containedin a single 244-page PDF file.

The collection includes the followingtitles: A Mighty Fortress IsOur God (Ein? Feste Burg); All Creatures Of our God and King(Lasst uns Erfreuen); All People that on Earth do Dwell (OldHundredth); Abide with Me (Eventide); AllHail the Power of Jesus? Name (Coronation); Amazing Grace (Trad); At the Cross(Alas and Did My Savior Bleed) (Hudson); Be Thou My Vision(Slane); Blessed Assurance(Assurance); Blest Be the Tie That Binds (Dennis - N�geli); ComeThou Fount of Every Blessing (Nettleton); ComeWe That Love the Lord (St. Thomas);Crown Him with ManyCrowns (Diademata); Guide Me OThou Great Jehovah (Cwm Rhondda); Holy, Holy, Holy(Nicea); How Firm a Foundation (Foundation); It is Wellwith my Soul (Ville du Havre); Jesus Christ is Risen Today(Easter Hymn);Jesus, Lover of My Soul (Hollingside); JesusPaid it All (All to Christ); Joy to theWorld (Antioch); Just as I Am, Without one Plea (Woodworth); Love Divine, AllLoves Excelling (Hyfrydol); Nearer my God to Thee (Bethany); Praise To the Lord, The Almighty(Lob den Herren); Rock of Ages (Top�la�dy); Shall we gather at the River?(Hanson Place); The Day thou Gave us, Lord is Ended (St. Clement);To God Be The Glory(To God be the Glory); There is a Fountain (Cleansing Fountain);What a Friend WeHave in Jesus (Converse) and WhenI Survey the Wondrous Cross (Hamburg).

The audio demo contains the followingtitles (1) Abide with Me; (2) All Hailthe Power of Jesus? Name; (3) A Mighty Fortress is our God and (4) Love Divine,all Loves Excelling.