SKU: HL.49003135

ISBN 9780946535132. UPC: 884088991623. 8.25x11.75x0.436 inches. English.

This anthology of 72 music examples, consisting of the Teacher's Manual, Pupil's Questions, Music Book and two recordings on CD or cassettes, is intended to provide comprehensive resource materials for the listening component of the GCSE music syllabuses. The extracts have been selected especially to illustrate the periods, styles and rudiments of music encompassed within the syllabuses, and the four components of the publication produced to ensure maximum assistance to the teacher in the classroom. Selected contents: MUSIC IN THE LATE RENAISSANCE O quam gloriosum est regnum * T. Morley: MUSIC IN THE BAROQUE ERA: H. Purcell: Hark, each tree (from Ode for St Cecilia's Day) * A. Vivaldi: Second Allegro (from Op. 3 No. 11) * G.F. Handel: Lascia ch'io * J.S. Bach: Erschienen ist der herrliche Tag (BWV 629) * F. Couperin: Le Petit-Rein MUSIC IN THE ROMANTIC PERIOD: F. Schubert: Am Meer (from Schwanengesang) * H. Berlioz: Un Bal (from Symphonie fantastique) * F. Chopin: Mazurka (Op. 7 No. 5) * R. Schumann: Fantasiestuck (Op. 73 No. 1) * R. Wagner: Prelude (to Tristan and Isolde) * R. Strauss: Epilog (from Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche) * MUSIC IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: B. Bartok: Third movement (from Sonata for two Pianos and Percussion) * K. Stockhausen: Zyklus * C. Berberian: Stripsody * JAZZ AND POP: F. Molton: Peace in the Valley * Bix Beiderbecke and his Gang: Jazz Me Blues * The Platters: Only You * E. Fitzgerald: Mack the Knife * S. Getz and A. Gilberto: The Girl From Ipanema and more.

SKU: PR.114419720

ISBN 9781491134863. UPC: 680160685790.

In a musical style strongly influenced by (and occasionally parodying) American popular music, the subtitle “Baroque” may seem a puzzle at first. It is also the key to Pann’s approach in composing for multiple wind soloists and ensemble. With Bach’s Brandenburgs in the rear-view mirror, Pann has created a glorious hybrid of inspirations with intricate counterpoint, cadenzas, beautiful slow textures, and wild rides, creating a 16-minute, fast-slow-fast concerto grosso. The published piano reduction is fully practical for live performance.
My Double Concerto (subtitled “Baroque”) from 2018 posed an immediate challenge which gave me some real trepidation as a composer. The two solo instruments, Clarinet and Alto Saxophone, are quite varied in their timbral characteristics yet they have nearly identical ranges. I gave many hours of thought to solving this challenge and eventually settled on an obvious mission: make each instrument as independent from the other as possible. Explore opposite areas of each range simultaneously. Set very different contours against one another in the solo parts. These kinds of things.I. Bach in the Fifties sets the soloists up as competing crooners. I wanted to write a 1950s-style teen idol tune, complete with electric organ, and writing the music I imagined J.S. Bach might tend towards if he was writing for The Platters or Perry Como. This first movement also presents within it a traditional concerto-style cadenza for both soloists together.II. Desert Arias should transport the listener to an arid, barren land over which a mirage of canons emerge.III. Pronouncements is set in the style of a baroque concerto’s final movement. Nuance is forfeited on behalf of straight-ahead melodic dueling. Stravinsky lingers like a ghost behind this finale.

SKU: HL.48024544

9.0x12.0 inches.

Newspaper advertisements of hotels and music halls announced: 'Boulanger plays today' - Georges Boulanger (1893-1958) was one of themost famous café violinists and band leaders of his time. He performed in Romania, Russia, Dresden, Berlin, London and Brazil and appeared on the screen next to many film stars in the 1930s/1940s. He left about 250 compositions, all of which were inspired by Balkan folklore and light Viennese music. Avant de mourir, written in 1926 and known as My Prayer in English-speaking countries, is one of his greatest hits which was recorded on vinyl by Glenn Miller, Jimmy Dorsey, Ella Fitzgerald, Lionel Hampton, Bert Kaempfert,Gene Krupa, Dean Martin, Roy Orbison, and Engelbert Humperdinck. The version of The Platters from 1956 reached the top of the charts. The wistful piece was often used in films as well.