SKU: HL.49045907

ISBN 9783795710507. UPC: 888680792671. 9.0x12.0x0.239 inches.

The Easy Concert Pieces series for alto saxophone and piano provide easy to intermediate pieces from the Renaissance to the modern era for music lessons, concert performances or private music-making. The volumes with accompanying CD add to the not very extensive repertoire of performance pieces for saxophone. They were carefully selected according to technical and musical requirements and arearranged in three volumes according to their level of difficulty. All pieces are included on the accompanying CD as demo and play-along versions (piano accompaniment). The piano part contained in the volume is very easy so that it can even be played by a pupil, e.g. at a music school concert. Volume 1 (ED 22553) contains easy pieces which mainly range from d' to c'', occasionally even to d'''. The keys range from C to D major or the respective minor keys. This volume contains works by Charpentier, Vivaldi, Handel, Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Smetana, Putz, Moser, and others. Volume 2 (ED 22554) contains intermediate pieces ranging from c' to e''', with unusual metres and demisemiquavers appearing occasionally. Including works by Wolkenstein, Peuerl, Schein, Purcell, Telemann, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Gounod, Humperdinck, Elgar, and others. Volume 3 (ED 22942) - in preparation: Will contain pieces at even higher levels of difficulty and add further works to the repertoire.

SKU: HL.49044711

ISBN 9790001190503. UPC: 841886019409. 9.0x12.0x0.049 inches.

One of the most famous melodies by Faure is now available in arrangements for oboe, alto saxophone and trumpet.

SKU: HL.49044175

ISBN 9790001181013. UPC: 841886018266. 9.0x12.0x0.045 inches.

A wedding without a famous wedding march - unimaginable! Wagner's 'Bridal Chorus' from 'Lohengrin' and Mendelssohn's 'Wedding March' from the incidental music of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' vie for the favour of bridal couples and wedding parties. If, however, the music shall be festive, Mendelssohn's background music for the wedding ceremony remains first choice. In order that the march cannot only be performed with the organ but also with a melodic instrument with piano (or organ) accompaniment, the present editions provide easy-to-play arrangements.

SKU: HL.49044150

ISBN 9790001181679. UPC: 841886018457. 9.0x12.0x0.058 inches.

Mit einem Paukenschlag wurde die Musikwelt auf Erik Satie (1866-1925) aufmerksam: Als am 18. Mai 1817 sein Ballett 'Parade' uraufgefuhrt wurde, kam es zum Skandal. Die Produktion, an der auch Sergei Djagilew mit seinen 'Ballets Russes', Pablo Picasso (Buhnenbild und Kostume), Jean Cocteau (Handlung) sowie Leonide Massine (Choreographie) beteiligt waren, entzweite die Pariser Musikwelt, machte den Komponisten aber weithin bekannt. Satie, der kaum eine fundierte musikalische Ausbildung genossen hatte und fast zeit seines Lebens in Paris lebte, entwickelte einen neuen musikalischen Stil, in bewusster Abkehr vom 'Wagnerisme' seiner Zeit. Klassische Formmodelle, neue Harmonik, Leichtigkeit im Stil, Meditatives und Clowneskes verschmolzen originell. Zum Musterbeispiel dafur sind seine '3 Gymnopedies' von 1888 geworden, deren erste hier fur ein Soloinstrument mit Klavierbegleitung arrangiert wurde: Das Musizieren dieser beruhmtesten Miniatur von Satie wird damit auch Nicht-Pianisten ermoglichst - die einfache Spielbarkeit erlaubt den Einsatz auch fur padagogische Zwecke.

SKU: HL.49015579

ISBN 9790001123822. 9.0x12.0x0.055 inches.

Szelenyi (1904-1972) studied with Kodaly and later taught at the Academy of Music and the Conservatory in Budapest. He chiefly wrote chamber music and material for his students. Simple, chordal streams in the piano accompany a rhapsodic, improvisatory saxophone part, strongly influenced by Eastern European folk music.

SKU: HL.49015692

ISBN 9784890664566. UPC: 884088138370. 9.0x12.0x0.132 inches.

In recent years, Gondai has collaborated with Buddhist priests and Shomyo chanters and broken new ground through interchange with Buddhist music. This piece was inspired from Tibetan Buddhism and is composed of seven chapters' basis of seven tones after rainbow (in Japan people thinking that the rainbow is made of seven colours).