SKU: HL.50601138
9.0x12.0 inches.
15 easy pieces for alto sax and piano. Swing and thereabouts answers the needs of the young instrumentalist by providing: newly written music that is a delight to play and listen to; a wide range of genres: swing, habanera, mambo, cha-cha-cha, bossa nova, hully gully, dixieland and blues; audio tracks giving two different versions of the music: one with sax/clarinet, piano, bass and drums; the other with just the accompanying instruments; a complete piano score for live performance; the possibility of working with or without a teacher.
SKU: BT.CAMCM238
Following in the footsteps of the hugely popular Jazz Routes for Flute, this set of graded pieces for Saxophone and Piano will delight players of all ages. The music can be performed exactly as written or there is scope forimprovisation should you wish to do so.
SKU: PR.114419850
ISBN 9781491135808. UPC: 680160681044. 9 x 12 inches.
Both a spectacular concerto for saxophone, and a dramatic tone poem on Roman mythology, QUICKSILVER is a 23-minute concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble by one of the sax literature’s most commissioned and admired composers.Through worded captions as well as gorgeously expressive tone painting, Movement 1 depicts the birth and childhood pranks of Mercury, Movement 2 shows him escorting souls to the gates of the Underworld, and Movement 3 is a phantasmagoric finale portraying Mercury as messenger amid the conflicts of other mythological figures. There are many YouTube performances available, both in the original version with Wind Ensemble, and with Piano.In addition to being another name for the element mercury, “quicksilver†is used to describe something that changes quickly or is difficult to contain. My concerto of the same name was inspired by the Roman god Mercury, as well as the mercurial nature of the saxophone: unpredictable, very lively, and volatile. Mercury (known as Hermes in Greek mythology) is best known for his winged shoes, which allowed him to fly swiftly as the messenger of his fellow Olympians. Mercury had other duties too, including serving as the god of merchants, travelers, and tricksters; he also ushered souls of the departed to the Underworld.Quicksilver tells three tales of the Roman god. The first movement (Antics of a Newborn God) opens with the birth of Mercury; after he takes his first steps, he toddles around, gleefully looking for mischief. He stumbles across a herd of cows that belong to his brother Apollo; Mercury slyly lets the cows out of their pen before toddling onward with his mischief-making.In the second movement (Guiding Souls to the Underworld), Pluto, god of the Underworld, bids Mercury to bring him fresh souls. The movement begins with death-knells tolling for humans who are about to die; Mercury picks up these souls and leads them down to the gates of the Underworld.The third and final movement (Messenger of Olympus) depicts Mercury as he is busily running errands for various gods and goddesses. We first encounter him mid-flight as he dashes to earth to find Aeneas, a Trojan lieutenant who had been run out of Troy by the invading Greeks. Aeneas is on a quest to find land on which to establish a new city that would eventually become Rome. While traveling, he is distracted from his quest when he meets the beautiful queen Dido. They live together for many years before Mercury intervenes; he chastises Aeneas for giving up on his quest and persuades him to pick it up again. As Aeneas mournfully resumes his journey, we hear Dido perish of a broken heart. Mercury then takes to the skies to seek out Perseus, who is preparing to kill Medusa, the hideous gorgon who has snakes for hair and a gaze that turns those who catch her glance into stone. Mercury advises Perseus on how to slay Medusa and lends Perseus his sword to do the deed. We hear Perseus victorious in the beheading of Medusa, after which Mercury takes to the skies once more to fly home to Olympus.
SKU: BT.GZ-00652700
15 easy pieces for sax alto or clarinet and piano, Swing and thereabouts answers the needs of the young sax/clarinet player by providing: - newly written music that is a delight to play and listen to - a wide range of genres: swing, habanera, mambo, cha-cha-cha, bossa nova, hully gully, dixieland and blues - audio tracks giving two different versions of the music: one with sax/clarinet, piano, bass and drums: the other with just the accompanying instruments - a complete piano score for live performance - the possibility of working with or without a teacher 15 leichte Stücke für Altsaxophon oder Klarinette und Klavier. Swing und seine Umwelt bietet dem jungen Saxophonisten/Klarinettisten nun endlich: - bislang unveröffentliches, attraktives Material - einen umfassenden stilistischen ÃÅberblick: Swing, Habanera, Mambo, Cha-Cha-Cha, Bossa nova, Hully Gully, Dixieland und Blues - Audiotracks mit Aufnahmen aller Stücke in zwei Versionen: einerseits in vollständiger Besetzung (Altsaxophon/Klarinette, Klavier, Kontrabass und Schlagzeug), andererseits nur die Rhythmusgruppe als Mitspielversion - die vollständige Klavierstimme für eine mögliche öffentliche Aufführung - die Möglichkeit, entweder mit Lehrer oder im Selbststudium zu arbeiten15 pezzi facili per sax alto o clarinetto e pianoforte. Swing e dintorni offre al giovane saxofonista/clarinettista: - materiale inedito di grande gradevolezza - unââ¬â¢ampia panoramica di generi: swing, habanera, mambo, cha-cha-cha, bossa nova, hully gully, dixieland e blues - basi audio in due versioni: una con sax/clarinetto, pianoforte, contrabbasso e batteria, lââ¬â¢altra con i soli strumenti di accompagnamento - lo spartito completo della parte di pianoforte, per unââ¬â¢esecuzione anche dal vivo - la possibilit di lavorare con, ma anche senza, un maestro.
SKU: HL.50601598
8.0x11.75 inches.
The catalogue of Edison Denisov's works includes 16 concertos. It was a genre to which he returned time and again throughout his life, from the Concerto for Cello and Orchestra of 1972 to the Double Concerto for Flute, Clarinet and Orchestra of 1996.In Denisov's music the role of the soloist, or rather the protagonist, is extraordinarily important, not so much for its virtuosity as for its confessional character. The solo part is a monologue distinguished by poetic diction and a very personal message from thecomposer. The dramaturgical conception of the Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra, a reworking of the Viola Concerto of 1986, draws on traditional sonata form, thereby reaffirming the ubiquitous classicism in Denisov's thought. In this late work, we find all the typical features of his style: sinuous melodic lines layered into dense contrapuntal textures, and an interplay of orchestral colours, with pure sonorities contrasting with complex mixtures of sounds. It is a perfect dramaturgy that governs the evolution of the music to the very end. The first movement assumes the role of a sonata-allegro, with the standard formal sections of exposition, development,recapitulation and coda. The second movement is an Adagio for strings. The third takes the form of a little contrasting intermezzo that introduces both new thematic material and a new range of colours. Here tunefulness gives way to pointillism enriched with soniceffects. The only movement with a virtuosic solo part, its nervousness and inner tension set it worlds apart from the second and fourth movements that surround it. The fourth movement assumes the traditional form of a final set of variations. It is the dramaturgical and semantic heart of the concerto. The theme of the variations is Franz Schubert's Impromptu in B-flat major, op. 142, which in this case is 'born' from the celesta as the product of a dodecaphonic string cluster. This finale represents Denisov's homage to his great mentor, Schubert's music being for him a symbol of eternal and universal beauty. 'The attentive listener', Denisov stressed, 'will recognise that the Impromptu theme is already suggested very slowly in the course of the three preceding movements, not only thematically, but also psychologically. That's what makes the appearance of the Schubert theme sound so natural.' The variations relate to the variation genre less in their form than in their spiritual and conceptual metamorphoses. It is, one might say, 'music round about Schubert'. (Ekaterina Kouprovskaia-Denisova).
SKU: FL.FX071545
Original composition using the famous habanera rhythmic cell (dotted quarter/dotted quarter/quarter), without which there would not be any tango...
© 2000 - 2024 Home - New realises - Composers Legal notice - Full version
