Les chants dans ce nouveau livre sont prélevées dans le monde entier et comprennent des sélections sacrées et fantaisistes. L'objectif de ces dispositions est de permettre l'instrumentiste l'occasion de donner des éloges et adoration à Dieu par le biais de leurs habiletés musicales. Les titres comprennent : Hark ! The Herald Angels Sing, Silent Night, nous avons trois rois, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Jolly vieux Saint-Nicolas, Pat-A-Pan, loin dans une crèche, maximum sur la Housetop, We Wish vous un joyeux Noël et Coventry Carol. / Saxophone Alto / niveau : Facile / Partition + Cd

Par NODA. Maï by Ryo Noda, a Japanese composer, is a unique piece of work for solo Saxophone that is strongly influenced by Japanese music. With some sonority supposed to be quite close to those of a koto and of a shakuhachi, this piece is very technical and complex to play. The story behind this work is about the ghost of a Japanese Samurai. While his wife asks why he let her behind and left to fight in the war, he tries to justify his choices. Most of the work depicts the struggle within the mind of the Samurai, between ending his life and living in the end of his enemies. The screaming altissimo at the end is the climax of his strugglewhich then followed by a 10 second silence that represents his death. The technical abilities required are: large interval leaps, rapid trills, alternate fingerings to achieve pitch bending, multiphonics, altissimo, portamento and cutting tone./ Répertoire / Saxophone en Mib