SKU: PR.114422520

ISBN 9781491134788. UPC: 680160683833.

After decades as a renowned oboe virtuoso, Katherine Needleman was improvising at the piano during the quarantine summer of 2020 when her ideas congealed in a powerful way. Within a week she completed a 16-minute oboe sonata inspired by the world’s overlapping crises. This riveting three-movement sonata bears the title qua resurget ex favilla, drawn from the Dies Irae text referring to rising back from ashes. Needleman won the International Double Reed Society’s Inaugural Commissioning Competition by entering her own recording of this work, performing as both oboist and pianist from her living room. As a result, IDRS commissioned her to compose a new work for English horn and piano which was premiered at their 2021 Virtual Symposium and programmed for the live 2022 convention.
I’m not exactly sure how, in a life consumed by music, I never put anything on paper between the time I stopped at age 10 and the age of 42. I mean, I have some ideas why, but that could easily dissolve into a feminist manifesto or a condemnation of my musical education and the overwhelming culture of American oboe playing, the vehicle through which I’ve made a living my entire adult life. Rather than go there, I will just say this is the first piece I put on paper in my adult life.Six months into COVID-19 lockdown in the US, the world was feeling pretty weird. I had familiarized myself with the music notation program, Sibelius, for recent arranging projects. I had written some mockeries of A.M.R. Barret oboe etudes in response to an assignment I was given (and did appropriately first). When I descended into a dark chorale in the middle of the fourth mockery, I realized I needed a new vehicle. I wrote a short, ridiculous piece for my husband’s birthday, and then, the next night, when improvising at the piano, like I’ve done since I was seven years old, this piece came to me. However, this time, I sketched it out into Sibelius. Over the course of the next week, I found notating and picking permanent, official notes to enter into the computer challenging. But it was all done on paper in seven days, and I took another few for dynamics and articulations thinking they might be useful for someone else, if I would ever be lucky enough for someone else to play it.I don’t have much to say about the music of qua resurget ex favilla itself. It’s a personal statement couched in the feelings of that time. The US presidential election was looming large and ugly in my mind, well, that and the end of life as we knew it, but I also had some bizarre feeling that everything would be okay.

SKU: HL.49045896

Barbara Heller opens a new world of etudes by combining finger technique with vocal quality. Pianist and teacher Irina Schwertfeger presents all these studies in progressive order from easy to difficult. This edition is a collection of different studies, containing both diatonic, chromatic and bitonal studies as well as studies using only black keys, and easy triad exercises and studies concerning unusual rhythmic figurations, touch technique, and hand postures. All studies are fairly short and designed to develop dexterity, strength and agility.

SKU: M7.AHW-1045

English.

A graded series of 16 studies designed to develop finger flexibility and tongue and finger coordination. The exercises are to be played in all keys and in a variety of articulations: legato, single, double and triple tongue. From the patterns set forth in the studies, Dr. Colin has developed fifteen virtuosic etudes.

SKU: BT.EMBZ5457

German-Hungarian.

'In our flute tutor we have tried to allocate the musical and technical content in such a way as to make the path of development smooth and obstacle-free for beginners. This is a Hungarian tutor that we are publishing. Our aim is that the beginner should first play on his instrument in his musical native language, that of Hungarian folk music. For this reason the majority of the exercises are folk melodies or compositions created in the spirit of folk song. In addition to Hungarian folk music, the volume also contains folk music from other countries, and classical music. Of etudes in the traditional sense of the word we have included only as much as was absolutelyessential...' (Zoltán Jeney)

In der vorliegenden Flötenschule waren wir bestrebt, durch gestuftes Aufschlichten des musikalischen und technischen Lehrstoffes den Entwicklungsweg für den Anfänger möglichst leicht und reibungslos zu gestalten. Unsere Absicht war eine moderne, den heutigen Erfordernissen entsprechende Flötenschule zusammenzustellen. Eben deshalb sind die Übungen größtenteils Volksliedbearbeitungen oder Kompositionen, die im Geiste der Volksmusik geschaffen wurden. Neben den Volksliedern ist aber auch der klassischen Musik entsprechender Raum gelassen worden. Etüden in altem Sinne des Wortes bringen wir nur in unbedingt notwendigem Ausmaße. Die Übungen sind in ihrer überwiegenden Mehrzahllebendige Musik, musikalisch anspruchsvolle, sorgfältig geformte Werke, deren Verfasser zu den besten ungarischen Komponisten zählen.

SKU: SU.00220545

This CD Sheet Music™ collection features the numerous, varied works for solo and duo piano by Claude Deubssy and Gabriel Fauré. DEBUSSY: Children's Corner, Deux Arabesques, Estemps, Etudes (Books I & II), Images (Books I & II), L'isle Joyeuse, Preludes (Books I & II), Pour le Piano, Suite Bergamasque, and more FAURÉ: Ballade, Barcarolles, Impromptus, Nocturnes, Preludes, Valses-Caprices, Dolly, plus more Also includes composer biographies and relevant articles from the 1911 edition of Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians 1200+ pages

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SKU: HL.49045856

Written for Isabelle Faust, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Hansheinz Schneeberger and Thomas Zehetmair are the 4 Hommages: partly enjoyable encores, partly full-blown concert pieces and etudes in advanced contemporary playing techniques.