SKU: GI.G-MBCL
English.
For the teacher of instrumental music classes, individual differences among students are inevitable. Unfortunately, the lack of flexible materials frequently forces teachers to adopt a quasi-instructional procedure best described as lockstep, where all students in the class rehearse each exercise until the slow members of the class succeed or until the teacher gives up. The Individualized Instructor was designed with the expectation that students are different. With this method, high-, average-, and low-achieving students in a class are able to progress simultaneously at their own rate according to their interest and ability. In addition, the flexibility of the instructional format often allows twelve or more students to perform different musical material simultaneously, thereby eliminating the “follow the leader†approach to music learning. All study materials in the series are musical. Nonmusical exercises are excluded in favor of folk song literature, musical rounds, and musical ensembles. Furthermore, The Individualized Instructor encourages students to think about their music: to analyze unfamiliar material, generalize previously learned concepts and skills, and synthesize all elements into a musically proficient performance. In addition, this series develops many fundamentals (tonality, phrasing, tempo, and musical style) through the use of the singing voice. Singing best provides the “musical†experience that, subsequently, can be applied to the development of musically sensitive instrumental performance. Books 1, 2, and 3 and the supplementary books ensure that these fundamental ideas are carried well beyond the first year of instruction.
SKU: IS.BC6927EM
ISBN 9790365069279.
Gareth Churchill trained in London with Rhian Samuel and in Cardiff with Anthony Powers (PhD Composition 2007); other teachers having included Peter Maxwell Davies, Judith Weir, John Metcalf and Charles Camilleri. Commissions include works for Vale of Glamorgan Festival for Arvo Pärt's 75th birthday, Aberystwyh Musicfest, Bangor New Music Festival, Mavron Quartet and South Wales Gay Men's Chorus. Performances have reached audiences in Belgium, Estonia, Italy, Japan, Norway, Spain, the USA and throughout the UK. His output reflects an interest in musical cryptography with many works' titles providing the key to understanding their musical means. He has taught at Cardiff University School of Music, at Aberystwyth Musicfest and is composition teacher for Cardiff University Centre for Continuing and Professional Education.This composition was written for bass clarinet soloist Sarah Watts, who did extensive research on bass clarinet multiphonics. This piece is a great illustration on the integration of multiphonics in contemporary music.
SKU: GI.G-J183
Compositions and arrangements for winds and percussion with optional improvisation! Twelve selections for concert band in one book. Highlights include: • Optional improvisation sections in each selection • Grade levels II–IV • Full score with complete instrumentation • Music for all ages and for all seasons • Recordings (CD or cassette) available, performed by instrumentalists from the Eastman School of Music • Playable with minimal to full instrumentation Part books (specify instrument and catalog number below): Flute (J179) - Oboe (J180) - Clarinet I (J181) - Clarinet II (J182) - Bass Clarinet (J183) - Bassoon (J184) - Alto Saxophone (J185) - Tenor Saxophone (J186) - Baritone Saxophone (J187) - Trumpet I (J188) - Trumpet II (J189) - Horn (J190) - Trombone I (J191) - Trombone II (J192) - Baritone BC (J193) - Baritone TC (J194) - Tuba (J195) - Bells/Xylophone/Piano (J196) - Percussion (J197) - Demonstration compact disc (J198CD).
SKU: HL.48025211
UPC: 196288133391. 9.0x12.0x0.067 inches.
With his opera Hamlet, which premiered in Glyndebourne in 2017, the composer Brett Dean added a new, modern analysis to the certainly numerous artistic ones of the famous subject - with enormous success, as the press reviews and many subsequent stage productions attested. The composer's and his librettist Matthew Jocelyn's fruitful examination of Shakespeare's text material yielded both the full-length opera and several concertante “by-productsâ€: And once I played Ophelia for soprano and string quartet, From Melodious Lay, an orchestral poem with solo soprano and solo tenor, the suite Gertrude Fragments for mezzo-soprano and guitar, and Confessio for solo bass clarinet. Confessio describes an appearance by Hamlet's uncle Claudius: In the castle chapel he deliversa short monologue – rather a reflection than a prayer or confession. Claudius reveals to himself the deep fear of the consequences of his murderous deed - and a vague, though hardly justifiable, hope for mercy.
SKU: HL.48024907
UPC: 840126931600.
An alternating stream of thoughts for bass clarinet - free and restless, tender and brutal, angry, singing. This short solo piece, like an exclamation mark, is given by the interpreter * in space to struggle to shake off conventions, in short, to play. The composer - i.a. Professor of media composition (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna) and visiting professor forexperimental composition (UdK Berlin) - encourages quasi-improvisation, a wild ride through emotional states and playing techniques. Caution, risk of explosion!
SKU: P2.30124
Composer Lori F. Ardovino says, Sessionography: A description of various musical sessions. This piece for solo bass clarinet is in three movements. The first movement, King Super 20, is inspired by the artistry of Charlie Parker. The fast improvisatory runs represent his virtuosic technique. A quasi 'walking bass' can be heard between the sudden bursts of notes. The title of this work is the brand of saxophone that Parker mainly played. Composition No. 2 is inspired by the free jazz style of Anthony Braxton. His music is free improvisation based and named by Braxton 'creative music'. Extended techniques such as flutter tonguing and singing while playing add to the creative process and the flavor of Braxton's style. The name comes from similar titles for works by Braxton. The final movement, Just Groovin', is what Miles Davis' composition Move was dubbed by jazz critics. This movement is inspired by the rhythmic style and free improvisation style of this bebop tune..
