La première partie de ce livre contient une entretien avec Tirstan Murail et trois essais sur les travaux musicaux de Claude Vivier (Lonely child, 1980), de Gérard Grisey (Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil, 1997-98), et de Tristan Murail (Le Lac, 2001) par Bob Gilmore, Jean-Luc Hervé et Rozalie Hirs. Les auteurs fournissent des analyses détaillées de ces oeuvres, se concentrant sur les techniques basées sur la fréquence ainsi que les processus compositionnels utilisés par les compositeurs. La deuxième partie du livre trouve son origine chez OpenMusic and Contemporary Compositional Techniques, une séries de conférences et ateliers animées par Rozalie Hirs et professeurs invités Tristan Murail, Mikhail Malt, Benjamin Thigpen, Marco Stroppa et Niels Bogaards au Conservatorium van Amsterdam pendant l'année d'universitaire de 2005 - 06. Cette série a été créee par le Nieuw Ensemble et son directeur artistique, Joël Bons, dans le cadre du Componistenpracticum annuel, qui allie la théorie et la pratique d'une manière unique au monde. Le Nieuw Ensemble et le directeur Lucas Vis ont répété et interprété des nouveaux oeuvres écrits par un groupe international d'étudiants de composition du fourgon Amsterdam de Conservatorium van Amsterdam et le conservatoire royale néerlandais. Les étudiants ont documenté leur processus créatif et se trouvent dans les sept essais inclus dans ce volume. Un essai conséquent sur des concepts compositionnelles de Tristan Murail et des techniques basées sur la fréquence trouve son origine dans la série de conférence donnée par Rozalie Hirs. Il fournit la discussion la plus détaillée du travail de Murail disponible aujourd'hui en anglais. / Livre

The GCSE Performance Pieces series provides exciting contemporary repertoire levelled specifically for GCSE performance examinations accompanied by expert commentary to help your students prepare and achieve their potential with material they really want to play. This book contains pieces for Voice.  Each book in the GCSE Performance Pieces series has been compiled by an experienced instrumental teacher/examiner and overseen by our Series Editor Andrew Coxon who is a senior GCSE examiner and an experienced classroom teacher. The songs have been carefully chosen to provide students with the bestopportunity to show off their instrument and skills with a broad range of artists and styles to choose from. This Voice book features: Material suitable for all exam boards Ten songs with a range of difficulty appropriate for around Grades 3 to 6 A CD accompaniment of professionally recorded backing tracks so that you can hear exactly how each song is meant to sound allowing you to master every song The book includes a range of songs from 1968's Son Of A Preacher Man to two of Adele's biggest hits Someone Like You and Rolling In The Deep. Every song should be immediately familiar but if not you can enjoy discovering and then singing a great new song. With other songs by Bruno Mars Pixie Lott and Ed Sheeran included this book is perfect for nailing a contemporary song that you enjoy listening to and so will enjoy singing. Every song includes a page of information about it detailing the key range and some really useful performance tips. Helpfully a  YouTube playlist has been created containing all the songs in the book along with additional suggested listening such as interesting cover versions or other

This is a primer in jazz theory intended to prepare the student for the serious study of jazz improvisation arrangement and composition. The focus is on the harmonic language of jazz especially the harmonic practices which coalesced in the bebop and post bop periods of the 1940’s and 1950’s when bebop and standard tunes formed the core of the mainstream repertoire. The harmonic language of that period is still the framework on which contemporary jazz musicians build. Included are many musical examples and written assignments for practice in the theoretical skills. Appropriate exercises are provided to reinforce theoretical concepts by immediate application to theinstrument.

Inside Improvisation Series : vol. 7 Hexatonic scales are six note scales. This book presents a practical method for the construction of hexatonic scales that are useful for both the improviser and composer. Many modern piano players use hexatonic voicings by stacking the triads to create a particular harmony. We improvise “in” the sound of the voicing and using hexatonic voicings and lines can lend a very contemporary sound.

Originally published in 1948 this orchestration manual is one of the cornerstone texts on the topic but has never before been published in English. Profusely illustrated with musical examples this manual gives technical and subjective advice aboutwriting for each of the instruments of the orchestra.Paperback 278 pages.