Beat it! African Dances is a brilliant resource for both general and more specialised music teachers working with beginner percussion groups. It presents sixteen contrasting workshops based on four African dances providing invaluable material built on the National Curriculum requirements in music for year 4 and up. Inspired by the thrilling traditional music of Africa this book demonstrates how to develop a range of rhythmic ideas using everyday classroom percussion and the body. The group's work will culminate in performances of the four dances (with or without the enhanced CD backings provided) ideal for school concerts or assemblies.

Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development for Young Concert Band is a complete curriculum for beginning band students to help them grow as ensemble musicians. The series complements any band method and supplements any performance music. It contains 167 exercises, including more than 100 chorales by some of today's most renowned young band composers. Various exercises at the grade 1/2, 1, and 1 1/2 levels are grouped by key, including: * Long Tones* Passing the Tonic* Pitch Matching* Scale Builders* Interval Builders* Expanding Intervals* Chord Builders* Moving Chord Tones* Diatonic Harmony* Rhythmic Subdivision* 5-Note Scales* Scale Canons (5-, 6-, or 8-Note Scales)* Scale Chorales (5-, 6-, and 8-Note Scales) * ChoralesThe compositions were written by Roland Barrett, Chris Bernotas, Jodie Blackshaw, Matt Conaway, Ralph Ford, Tyler S. Grant, Rob Grice, John O'Reilly, Robert Sheldon, Todd Stalter, Randall Standridge, Michael Story, and Scott Watson. Whether your students are progressing through exercises to better their technical facility, or improving their musicianship with beautiful chorales, we are confident your performers will be excited, motivated, and inspired by using Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development for Young Concert Band. / Percussions

Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra - Percussion duo parts only.What determines the special character of a piece of music written for percussion instruments is the very choice of sets of instruments. In Udacrep Akubrad I have chosen a similar set of instruments for each of the players: a marimba two Darbuka and a tom-tom. This piece draws its inspiration from the ?Eastern? music extending the boundaries of the region as far as the Indian sub-continent. The main source materials in this piece are scales and the rhythms emanating from the traditional classical music of the peoples of the Mediterranean; and repetitive minimalism fromthe music tradition of the Middle East as well as the recently developed techniques in western music. ? Avner Dorman

Cet ouvrage, destiné à faire travailler le percussionniste dans des conditions musicales proches de celles du groupe, est proposé avec un CD, comportant de nombreux play-backs complets (batterie, claviers, guitares, basse, etc.) sur lesquels le percussionniste devra jouer une interprétation guidée, mais pouvant être personnalisée, dans des styles et musiques actuels (Rock, Soul, Funk, Fusion, Jazz, Reggae, Latin, etc.). Véritable support d'expression pour le percussionniste, celui-ci pourra s'appliquer à reproduire scrupuleusement les lignes de percussions présentées dans le livre et ainsi s'enrichir de quelques idées d'interprétation ou s'en inspirer pour élaborer un jeu plus personnel. A vous de choisir ! / Percussions

Akrodha meaning ‘freedom from anger’ in Sanskrit was commissioned for international Percussion soloist Jonny Axelsson and written in 1998. Of this work composer Volans says ‘What would appear as a fairly moderate piece forKeyboard is amplified a hundredfold in difficulty and effect when translated into drum music…I had it turned out written an unspeakably difficult piece.’ The sheet music includes specific instructions on instrumentation andtonality ‘A pentatonic or diatonic scale is to be avoided’ though it is clear that the performer has some leeway to make his own choices of elements to create the sounds.Kevin Volans is a twentieth century composer andpianist who was born in South Africa and has had a variety of inspirational experiences including time spent studying with Karlheinz Stockhausen association with the New Simplicity movement research into African music andmany non-musical friendships and influences. Some of his most celebrated work have been his String quartets.

Couvrant trois générations de Hank Williams, la tradition familiale est à la fois unique et vaste portée. À partir de ce jour avec Hank III - qui a donné l'accès à l'auteur sans précédent - en temps et en voyageant à travers les années, cette examine quel genre de rebelles mojo inspirée de cette famille folle de la musique country, Hank Sr. partir - souvent considéré comme l'un des les plus influents de musiciens américains - à Hank Jr., le modèle de cette année, Hank III, qui a en quelque sorte trouvé un moyen de réconcilier profondément enracinés son héritage de twang et de haute Lonesome sonore avec notamment brûlant les souches de punk et heavy metal, le lancement une guerre tous azimuts avec les classiques de Nashville dans le processus. / Livre