SKU: UT.CH-227

ISBN 9790215324145. 9 x 12 inches.

Emilio Calandin: Piccola sfumatura
Claudia Montero: Lagrimas de Buenos Aires
Marco Reghezza: Como Preludio
Marco Smaili: Preludio
Alessandro Spazzoli: Preludio in Do maggiore
Roberto Tagliamacco: Prelude sur le nom de Tarrega
Paolo Ugoletti: Prelude sur le nom de Tarrega

Having been invited several times onto the jury of the prestigious Certamen Tarrega in Benicasim, I thought I would involve a few composers in a gift to the father of the modern guitar. So I asked the composers to write a Prelude of the kind that Tarrega wrote and which count among his most significant compositions.
These Preludes for Tarrega, all written between August and November 2015, are very different from each other. The common feature, however, between these and the Preludes by Tarrega is their brevity, an average level of performance difficulty and guaranteed easy listening, even when written in a non-tonal language (like the meditative and melancholy piece by Emilio Calandin and the one by Marco Smaili, with its Impressionistic feel reminding one of Tarrega's most famous pupil, Miguel Llobet).
In some Preludes (the ones by Paolo Ugoletti, Roberto Tagliamacco, Claudia Montero) the reference to Lagrima, one of Tarrega's most famous Preludes, is evident in form, title and some citations. Ugoletti and Tagliamacco work well and expressively on harmony and counterpoint, while the Argentinian Claudia Montero links Tarrega to a heartbreaking Buenos Aires...
In Alessandro Spazzoli there is rather more a connection with Tarrega's sense of melody and deep simplicity, while Marco Reghezza remembers ironically what was brewing in European music when Tarrega was alive: in fact, his Como Preludio goes across the 24 keys - and even a reference to Wagner's Tristan raises its head...
I am delighted for this volume to come out at the time of the fiftieth edition of the Certamen Tarrega.
(Piero Bonaguri).

SKU: A8.SAB014

Try this in your Christmas concert if you want a calm reflective moment. Its haunting melodic setting provides an enticing mood that sounds vocally advanced, but is actually technically within the grasp of most choirs.

SKU: ST.B801

ISBN 9780852498019.

The Reverend Alan Gaunt, a minister of the United Reformed Church, is particularly known for his hymn texts We pray for peace and Lord Christ, we praise your sacrifice. This volume brings together his corpus of writing. He is strongly biblical in his approach and is prepared to look at Bible, faith and the contemporary world squarely, bringing them together in texts for use in worship. His work also includes some new translations from early texts intended for use by a new generation. Such new exposure to the original through a new translation can be salutary. The introduction is written by the Reverend Alan Luff.

SKU: HL.359107

The award-winning Alan Parsons' Art & Science of Sound Recording video series lies at the heart of a brand new Music Production Curriculum specially created for High School through College recording arts, music production and audio engineering programs. More than ten hours of high quality video installs on either school or student computers. Streaming access is also available. Supporting the videos are ten raw multitracks from Alan Parsons-produced recording sessions, many of them featuring world-class session players. Students are directed to access, listen to, edit and finally mix or remix from this material as the course progresses. Twenty-four graded Lesson Plans (from basic to advanced) provide you and your students with a wide variety of projects and tasks, hooks, new information, Standards Addressed and Rubric. Online Quizzes are available for each lesson/video, administered by teachers on ASSR's simple LMS. The course is delivered on two custom USB Installers for the videos and raw multitracks. Lesson plans, Quizzes and other supporting material is accessed from the ASSR website. Alternatively, this course can be delivered on Canvas. Minimum purchase of 15 seats.