SKU: HL.49045998

ISBN 9781540034960. UPC: 888680790998. 9.0x12.0x0.142 inches.

In The Diamond Sutra, an early Buddhist text also known as The Diamond that Cuts Through Illusion, the Buddha leads his interlocutor, the Elder Subhuti, through a series of questions and provocations. The Buddha then concludes the session by offering this teaching to those assembled:All composed things are like a dream,a phantom, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.That is how to meditate on them;that is how to observe them.This duo piece is in four sections, corresponding roughly to these four disparate visions of impermanence: four distinct moments of interplay between form and emptiness, four corners of a diamond. This series of images is itself a 'composed thing,' gathering dissimilar elements into a unified system. It suggests that the things we make are similar to things that exist beyond intention. The Buddha's utterance helps us hear so-called 'composition' and 'improvisation' - or the encompassing category, 'music' - as part of an even larger aggregate: that which forms and recedes.- Vijay Iyer.

SKU: HL.49019982

ISBN 9783795746599. 9.0x12.0x0.201 inches.

This publication is designed as a supplement to the first volume of the textbook 'The Merry Violin' (ED 7299). All of the pieces are suitable for beginners. Musically, however, the issue goes far beyond the content of the first year of teaching, so that the pieces are also ideal for repetition and practice. The pieces include a wide variety of musical ideas and styles, from Baroque to modern, from the shanty to the Japanese national anthem, from a simple song to the ideal audition piece.