Instrumental Play-Along-Who needs a singer? With Play Puccini instrumentalists can bathe themselves in luxurious Italian melody! These ten opera arias are among the composer's most famous and distinctive achievements here transcribed forintermediate level solo instrument and piano. The book includes a biography of Puccini notes about the plot of each opera and the dramatic context of the selected aria. The companion CD features excellent performances as wellas piano accompaniments for practice. Includes arias from: La Bohème La Fanciulla Del West Gianni Schicchi Madama Butterfly Manon Lescaut Suor Angelica Tosca andTurandot.

Instrumental Play-Along-All your favourite instrumental themes are in this superb collection for soloists! The 15 themes include Hollywood hits like ?Axel F? from Beverly Hills Cop and ?Bella's Lullaby? from Twilight; inspirational sports anthems like ?Bugler's Dream? (Olympic Fanfare) and ?Chariots of Fire?; as well as popular TV show theme songs from Hawaii Five-O and I Love Lucy. Includes a full-accompaniment play-along CD with tempo adjustment software.

Per Violoncello Solo. Par CALLIGARIS SERGIO. Sergio Calligaris was born in Rosario (1941), Argentina. He is one of the last musicians to incarnate the traditional 19th century figure of pianist, teacher and composer, inaugurated at the beginning of the 19th century by Muzio Clementi and carriedon after that by a sequence of famous names that the history of music has handed down to us. As a pianist, he began to give public performances at the age of 13, making his debut in his home town Rosario. Following this success, he embarked upon an extremely busy career as a soloist, giving numerous recitals in Buenos Aires and other citiesin Argentina. He continued to take advanced lessons with eminent exponents of the most prestigious international piano schools. In 1974 he became an Italian citizen and settled in Rome, teaching piano as principal instrument at the S. Pietro a Majella StateConservatory in Naples, the Luisa DAnnunzio Conservatory in Pescara and the Alfredo Casella Conservatory in Aquila. As a composer, he began - at just 9 years of age - to study in the rigorous school of Paul Hindemith, under the guidance of Father Luis Machado, from whom he inherited a love of counterpoint and a strong taste for harmony. He took a diploma incomposition, counterpoint and fugue at the age of 16 at the Amigos del Arte Society in Rosario, going on in 1964 to do an advanced course in 12-tone counterpoint at the Cleveland Institute of Music. The catalogue of his compositions, which has nowreached Op. 55, encompasses a huge range of instrumental/vocal chamber music and symphonic works: a vast and articulated catalogue, in which Sergio Calligaris’s composition expresses its inspiration through the dramatic development of a dialecticalcontrast between the two natures of the composer’s personality - the elegiac and the dithyrambic - which confront and interact with each other giving rise to artistic outcomes of a deeply moving nature. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Date parution : 1905-06-13/ Répertoire / Violoncelle

Two volumes entitled Cello Meets Piano edited and published by Árpád Pejtsik were issued many years ago by the Könemann Music Budapest. The first edition was quickly sold out and no further editions followed. EMB has undertaken to issue a new edition entitled Cello & Piano with the content unchanged. The two volumes contain a selection from 200 years of music. Eight Baroque sonatas are included apart from the famous D minor one by Corelli there are some that are appearing in a modern edition for the first time in 300 years. In addition to cyclical works (Haydn: Sonatina Mozart: Divertimento Vivaldi: Concerto)and sets of variations (Beethoven Tartini) there are many shorter pieces as well not only the famous minuets by Boccherini Mozart and Beethoven but also works published for the first time here. Virtuoso pieces are represented by Goltermann's Etude-caprice and Jenkinson’s Dance of the sylphids the lighter kind include Joplin's Ragtime. Book II Contents: 1. Aldrovandini G. A. V.: Sonata2. Bella Domenico dalla: Sonata 3. Boni Pietro Giuseppe Gaetano: Sonata Op. 1 No. 5 4. Passionei Carlo: Sonata 5. Bach Johann Sebastian: Air BWV 1068/II 6. Tartini Giuseppe: L'arte del arco 7. Haydn Joseph: Sonatina Hob. XI:101 5 108 8. Albrechtsberger Johann Georg: Scherzando 9. Boccherini Luigi: Minuetto 10. Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus: Divertimento from KV 487 11. Beethoven Ludwig van: Andante con variazioni WoO 44b 12. Schubert Franz: Ave Maria Op. 52 No. 6 13. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Felix: Lied ohne Worte Op. 19 No. 4 14. Schumann Robert: Schlummerlied Op. 124 No. 16 15. Goltermann Georg: Étude-caprice Op. 54 No. 4 16. Tchaikovsky P. I.: Chanson triste Op. 40 No. 2 17. Dvorák Antonín: Appassionato Op. 75 No. 3 18. Massenet Jules: Air de Ballet (Scene pittoresque)

Studies play an important role in musical instrument training. Gerhard Mantel's new edition Etüden üben (Practising studies) (3 volumes) complements his previous successful book Cello üben' (ED 8714). The basics of cello technique are worked on in selected studies, with the focus being not only on the ability to learn a technically and musically oriented text within a reasonable time but also on the solution of certain problems typical of the cello. Vol. 1 covers aspects ranging from the orientation on the fingerboard via changes of position, vibrato and trills to changes of strings and double stops. Vol. 2 deals with fingerings, whole-bow stroke, dynamics, articulation and types of bowing, among others. The final volume contains studies on legato, arpeggios, chords, martellato, staccato, spiccato and changes of rhythm. The accompanying volume of commentaries (for all three volumes) describes in detail the methodological practising processes.

The composer Patrick Burgan and the giant of French music Henri Dutilleux formed real elective affinities with each other. Dutilleux never missed an oppor­tunity to mention the high esteem in which he held the younger musician’s work. Dedicated to the memory of Henri Dutilleux Songe À La Douceur takes its title from the 2nd verse of 'L’Invitation au Voyage' from the 'Fleurs du mal' by Baudelaire – a poet who was a constant source of inspiration for Dutilleux.    Burgan invites listeners to explore the musical universe of the French master: the numerous quotations of his work duly flagged in the score form a superb constellation that stretches from the Mystère de l’Instant to the Deuxième Symphonie via the quartet Ainsi la nuit Métaboles and the concerto for cello Tout un monde lointain. Reflecting L’Invitation au Voyage the composer follows the principle of verse and refrain and the hypnotic return of the soft chords in pizzicato echoes the famous lines: “Là tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté / Luxe calme et volupté”. This tribute in the form of a delicate alchemy combines sparkle sweetness and spirit.

Instrumental Play-Along-Pick up your Cello and play along with 14 timeless classics from Disney films. This pack includes a CD of backing tracks and matching sheet music in the book allowing you to join in.

The Italian cellist Lucio Amanti devotes himself to the crossover between classical and jazz music. His well-known 'Jazz Suite' for cello solo bridges the gap between the solo suites by Bach and the jazz music of our time.Now he attends for the first time to the subject of the étude, with suggestions from pop, jazz and improvisation. The individual études use different styles from jazz ballad to samba rhythms to funk music. / Violoncelle

Enfin une collection moderne de mélodies populaires pour violoncelle! Les chansons viennent de l'Angleterre, l'Irlande, l'Ecosse, la Russie, l'Italie, la France, l'Espagne et les Etats-Unis. Mélodies populaires tels que 'Auld lang syne' et 'Oh Happy Day' sont définies dans des arrangements simples et peut être joué à plusieurs reprises, que ce soit à la maison, à l'école, ou dans un ensemble. Les arrangements peuvent également être joué avec une pièce supplémentaire seconde. / 1 Ou 2 Violoncelle(s) / 24 pages / niveau : Facile / Partition