SKU: AP.36-52720600
ISBN 9781429126267. UPC: 679360613795. English.
This volume continues the development of playing skills found in Book 1 and progresses to more complex rhythms, left-hand finger patterns and techniques, bowing techniques, and preparation for shifting. Book 2 introduces students to: long and controlled bow strokes, slurred legato and staccato bow strokes, string-crossing slurs, and producing dynamic contrasts; new rhythmic patterns including dotted notes, triplets, sixteenth notes, swinging eighth notes, and syncopated rhythms; new time signatures including 6/8 and 3/8, along with cut time for cello/bass; and major and minor left-hand string patterns, extended fingerings, and beginning octave harmonics and shifting. Online audio available.
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SKU: AP.36-52720596
ISBN 9781633610019. UPC: 679360613108. English.
Volume 1 begins with open strings and basic notation, rhythms, and bowing skills. New notes, notation, and bowing skills are added in logical progression, reinforcing both right- and left-hand technique and developing the cognition for string performance. This book introduces students to: the basic major and minor tetrachords on all four strings; essential rhythmic notation from whole notes through eighth-note patterns; left-hand techniques such as easily played double stops, left-hand pizzicato, differentiating whole and half steps; and a variety of bow techniques. Audio available online.
SKU: AP.36-52720604
ISBN 9781633610088. UPC: 679360614877. English.
The third volume moves students toward more advanced playing techniques and literature. This text continues to develop playing skills found in Book 2 and advances the student through more rigorous and lengthy literature. Instrument-specific selections promote performance, reinforcing shifting skills, more advanced bowing techniques, and complex and multiple-meter pieces. The book contains solo literature that: enables the student to use higher positions with suggested fingerings; features accidentals that challenge left-hand intonation; utilizes more complex time signatures, multiple-meters, and challenging rhythmic patterns; and develops the bow stroke to perform more expressive dynamics and musicianship. Digital audio available.
SKU: HL.49019322
ISBN 9790220131899. UPC: 884088945329. 9.0x12.0x0.103 inches.
SKU: HL.49018407
ISBN 9790001175678. UPC: 841886016385. 9.0x12.0x0.067 inches.
A 'Last Night of the Proms' without this march - unthinkable! 'Pomp and Circumstance Military March No. 1' with its middle section, the hymn-like 'Land of Hope and Glory' by Edward Elgar (1857-1934), belongs to the finale of the London music event like the Radetzky March usually played as last piece to the New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. The fame and popularity of the other four military marches composed by Elgar between 1901 and 1907 fade in comparison to this secret national anthem of Great Britain (although strongly rivalled by 'Rule, Britannia!'). It is, indeed, an equally rousing and catchy piece of music, and the catchy tune in the middle has just become a classical 'hit'. Thanks to the present edition, all those who do not have a large symphony orchestra at home can now play this rousing march by themselves.
SKU: PR.114415430
ISBN 9781598064193. UPC: 680160606634. 9x12 inches.
Martin Amlin’s KENNEL is a suite of seven movements, each inspired by one of the seven groups of dog breeds defined by the American Kennel Club. Kennel’s music has all the charm suggested by its warm imagery, as well as the excitement and energy that drives Amlin’s rhythmically-infused concert music. For advanced players. Duration: 13’.
SKU: HL.49046384
ISBN 9781540086471. UPC: 842819108283. 9.0x12.0x0.079 inches.
This fantasy in song form, develops an expressive melody in Eb minor. Its characteristic iambic rhythm is announced in the initial bars of the ostinato piano accompaniment. The central section contrasts by its diversified themes and its tonal mobility. A tight recapitulation in the treble register is dramatically interrupted before the coda. Collected and harmonically dense, the last bars resound like a last breath, tone painting the 'in manus tuas domine commendo spiritum meum' (Ps. 31,6).
SKU: BR.EB-9441
ISBN 9790004189184. 9 x 12 inches.
The two sonatas of Johannes Brahms's op. 120 are widely hailed as crowning points of the repertoire for clarinet and piano. Moreover, in the version for viola and piano arranged by Brahms himself, they rank among the most frequently played viola works of the 19th century. They far surpass in compositional substance the relatively few original sonatas written for these instrumentations during the same period.Of the two fellow works, the Sonata No. 2 in E flat major is the more accessible. Diverging from the classical-romantic tradition, Brahms used the key of E flat major here not to express the heroic or monumental, but to obtain lyrical, chiefly restrained characterizations. The serenade-like beauty of the principal theme, which opens the sonata, has always been particularly admired. In his review of the world premiere, the renowned Viennese music critic Eduard Hanslick, a friend of Brahms's, raves with the words it was as if it had fallen from the Heavens. The closing set of variations also follows with gentle gracefulness this lyrical character. However, the middle movement, with its tempestuous outer sections in E flat minor and the hymnic trio in B major provides a passionate and serious contrast, which allows the flanking idyll to unfold its beauties all the more insistently.
SKU: FL.FX073522
A very nice exercice on 9/8 rhythm. ; Instruments: 1 Viola 1 Piano; Difficuly Level: Grade 4.
SKU: PR.114419860
UPC: 680160681129.
SKU: PR.114419100
ISBN 9781491129425. UPC: 680160674381.
MAGIC MAZE is the perfect title for this 8-minute adventure for viola and piano. Cycling through a form loosely inspired by numerical “magic squares,†the work is a chain of variations on a 12-note series built of perfect fourths and minor thirds. Miniature versions of various characters — march, canon, barcarolle, toccata, bolero, and sarabande — weave their way through the continuous labyrinth, all based on symmetrical patterns of pitch and rhythm that continually develop and return.
SKU: BR.MN-9604
ISBN 9790004790731. 8.5 x 11.5 inches.
Wasser, Luft, Erde und Feuer entsprechen den vier Hauptteilen dieser spielfreudigen und klanglich reizvollen Komposition. Brasilianische Tanzrhythmen und Fragmente von sudamerikanischen Volksliedern werden gekonnt mit Spieltechniken der Musik unserer Zeit verwoben. Widmer hat die Interpreten seiner Werke nicht nur als Ausfuhrende seiner Musik betrachtet, sondern ihnen ein Mitgestaltungsrecht eingeraumt. So konnen die vier Teile vom Interpreten in freier Wahl miteinander verbunden werden.
