Scales and Tuning Exercises for Superior Bands is a great resource for those bands seeking to improve their development in scale studies intonation and balance through chorales and harmonized studies. This book can be used as a daily warm-up for intermediate or advanced ensembles.Included is an in-depth explanation of how major and minor key signatures and scales are constructed as well as exercises for the students to complete. In addition to major and minor scales the whole tone blues and pentatonic scales are included.Balance is also addressed in detail. The student will not only study band balance but sectional balance as well. When playing the choralesand harmonized studies in this book the student should understand the importance of tone quality intonation blend and balance. Tips for playing chorales and harmonized studies are also included.This book continues the sequence of books in the Superior Bands series. Earlier books include Superior Bands in Sixteen Weeks and Chorales and Rhythm Etudes for Superior Bands.

The six-part suite Six Cocktails by French composer Pascal Proust offers something for every taste: some familiar flavours from closer to home mingle with those from lands afar. In additionâ??as per standard in the Music Box seriesâ??all four parts are flexible and can be combined with each other and supplemented by percussion instruments as required ensuring the perfect mix in a convivial atmosphere: shaken or stirred!

For the project The Music of Kurt Weill, Peter Kleine Schaars rewrote a number of works by the German composer Kurt Weill (1900?1950) for the ?Dreigroschen-Orchester? (an occasional ensemble with the line-up that Weill had prescribed for his Kleine Dreigroschenmusik). Kleine Schaars became inspired by the three periods that characterize the life of Weill: he successively lived in Berlin, Paris and New York. Three Aspects of Kurt Weill (with the subtitle Drei Kurzweilige Impressionen) has one theme that comes forward in three totally different atmospheres, corresponding with the three mentioned periods. Movement one is a ?Berlin-tinted? protest march and parodies the fascist use of music. Movement two is a French musette (valse de Paris). Finally, the theme is featured in big band style in movement three: here, your ensemble transforms into a swinging Broadway band.

/ Partitions variété - pop - rock / Variété internationale / Vents / ALFRED PUBLISHING

Jazzsteps is the perfect manual for any aspiring jazz musician. It teaches though aural based exercises starting with simple listening and rhythm games and moving on just one step at a time towards copying and then responding to short jazz phrases. The corresponding cassette (available separately Catalogue Number 0571513689) is designed to be re-used as new Jazzsteps are introduced and there are four original 'play-along' tunes on side B for you to try new ideas.Jazzsteps is ideal for individual learning or with a group in a more formal educational context. In no time at all you'll be creating your own jazz with confidence and skill.

Chandons Te Deum HWV 281. Par HAENDEL GEORG FRIEDRICH. Handel composed the 'Te Deum” in B-flat major HWV 281 in 1718 for the future Duke of Chandos, hence its nickname 'Chandos Te Deum”. Here it is called 'Te Deum for Cannons” after the Duke's stately home named Cannons where the first performance took place. The unusual scoring for flute, oboe, bassoon, trumpet, two violins and basso continuo plus a choir (one soprano, three tenors and a bass) probably reflects the musicians which were available at Cannons, bearing in mind that three tenors were used also in 'Acis and Galatea”, the masque which was composed at almost the same time. Though in many respects this 'Te Deum” is reminiscent of the 'Utrecht Te Deum”, its smaller forces tend to give it more the character of chamber music. This edition is based on the Urtext from the 'Halle Handel Edition” (BA 10708), which offers the first complete scholarly text of the music for the 'Te Deum”./ Répertoire / Orchestre à Vent

Flexible Woodwind Ensembl-This suite of folk songs is scored for woodwind quartet and a single unpitched drum. Although the nominal scoring is for flute two clarinets and bassoon the piece has considerable inbuilt flexibility of scoring. The options for instruments on each part are as follows: Part 1: Flute oboe or soprano saxophone Part 2: Bb Clarinet or alto saxophone Part 3: Bb clarinet alto saxophone or tenor saxophone Part 4: Bassoon bass clarinet or baritone saxophoneThe piece may be played by any combination of these instruments. Where necessary some passages have been transposed down an octave in the soprano alto and tenor saxophone parts.Where this occurs the lower pitch is also included in the score. There are also a few notes in the bass clarinet part of the March which have been taken up the octave through necessity; similarly this is indicated in the score.The drum should be unsnared and of medium low pitch. A bodhran tenor drum low tom-tom or floor tom are suggested although in the end it is up to the performer!The folk songs used in the piece are not particularly well known these days. 'Gan to the Kye' is an example of the rich culture of traditional music from Northumbria. The title means 'Go to the cows' and is a love song in which the herdsman asks his lover (in a gesture possibly lacking somewhat in romance) to accompany him whilst he tends his herd of cattle.The second movement is a setting of 'Rosemary Lane' a beautiful Somerset song. It tells of a serving girl ill-used by a sailor; as so often in traditional music the beauty of the tune is quite at odds with the unpleasant circumstances related.'Gently Johnny' is a good-humoured song in which the enthusiastic suitor is teased by the object of his affections: he is asked to cool his ardour whilst at the same time being left in no doubt that his attentions may be as bold as he wishes! The middle section uses another song this time from Middlesex called 'Jack Williams'.

Par HUET ESTELLE. Je consacre toujours les cinq premières minutes de mes cours à des jeux de formation de l'oreille que j'ai inventés. Ce rituel est un moment très précieux où l'élève se concentre, 'ouvre ses oreilles' et expérimente son instrument par de nouvelles approches. Ces jeux sont très appréciés des élèves et sont parus en 2019 sous la forme d'une méthode de violoncelle. Dans cette deuxième édition, je m'adresse à tous les professeurs de flûte traversière qui cherchent des outils pour aider leurs élèves à progresser et qui souhaitent diversifier leur cours en expérimentant de nouvelles méthodes. Des oreilles magiques est une méthode originale par de nombreux aspects : L'oralité L'élève ne voit jamais la méthode, qui fait uniquement appel à la transmission orale. Ainsi, l'élève fait vraiment jouer ses capacités auditives. L'apprentissage par le jeu Les jeux rendent le cours vivant et permettent de surmonter les difficultés en les abordant dans un contexte nouveau. La transdisciplinarité Cette méthode fait le lien entre le cours d'instrument et le cours de formation musicale, et permet de faire des progrès dans les deux disciplines. Une progression illimitée La plupart des jeux sont déclinés selon cinq niveaux progressifs. Chaque jeu proposé est faisable dès le premier cours de flûte et jusqu'aux plus hauts niveaux, et s'adresse aux enfants comme aux adultes. Le cinquième niveau est présenté sur un ton humoristique pour mettre en évidence le caractère illimité des progrès potentiels. Le lien avec le chant Cette méthode emploie le chant comme un outil central du travail de l'oreille. Tout au long des jeux, l'élève est incité à chanter pour développer son chant intérieur. Je vous souhaite beaucoup de réussite avec cette méthode, et suis certaine que vos élèves adopteront ces jeux avec autant de plaisir que les miens ! Estelle Huet/ Etude / Flûte Traversière

Par HESS NIGEL. Chansons de Normandie was commissioned by the Central Band of the Royal Air Force and premiered on BBC Radio 2 as part of their D-Day broadcast from the Royal Albert Hall on June 6th, 2014. This 4 minute piece is based on three traditional Normandy folk songs: Les Metamorphoses, Le marchand de velours and Le corselet. An ideal concert opener, the work is in a lively dance tempo with suggestions of Renaissance dance music./ Répertoire / Orchestre à Vent

Malcolm Arnold's Three Shanties arranged for Wind Octet by João M. Pereira. Set of parts.Three Shanties was composed in 1943 and is dedicated to the Portuguese Navy Band Wind Octet.The piece is arranged here for two Oboes two Clarinets in Bb two Horns in F and two Bassoons.

Par ZULEHNER CARL. Détails de la formation instrumentale: (Piccolo, Flöte, Klarinette in Es, 3 Klarinetten in B, 2 Alt-Saxophone in Es, Tenor-Saxophon in B, Bariton-Saxophon in Es, 3 Hörner in Es, 3 Trompeten in B, 3 Posaunen, 2 Flügelhörner in B, 3 Tenorhörner in B, Bariton, 2 Tuben, Schlagzeug (Lyra, Schellen)) -/ Répertoire / Ensemble à Vent

Par ZULEHNER CARL. Détails de la formation instrumentale: (Piccolo, Flöte, Klarinette in Es, 3 Klarinetten in B, 2 Alt-Saxophone in Es, Tenor-Saxophon in B, Bariton-Saxophon in Es, 3 Hörner in Es, 3 Trompeten in B, 3 Posaunen, 2 Flügelhörner in B, 3 Tenorhörner in B, Bariton, 2 Tuben, Schlagzeug (Lyra, Schellen)) -/ Répertoire / Ensemble à Vent

Par ZULEHNER CARL. Détails de la formation instrumentale: (Piccolo, Flöte, Klarinette in Es, 3 Klarinetten in B, 2 Alt-Saxophone in Es, Tenor-Saxophon in B, Bariton-Saxophon in Es, 3 Hörner in Es, 3 Trompeten in B, 3 Posaunen, 2 Flügelhörner in B, 3 Tenorhörner in B, Bariton, 2 Tuben, Schlagzeug (Lyra, Schellen)) -/ Répertoire / Ensemble à Vent

Par ZULEHNER CARL. Détails de la formation instrumentale: (Piccolo, Flöte, Klarinette in Es, 3 Klarinetten in B, 2 Alt-Saxophone in Es, Tenor-Saxophon in B, Bariton-Saxophon in Es, 3 Hörner in Es, 3 Trompeten in B, 3 Posaunen, 2 Flügelhörner in B, 3 Tenorhörner in B, Bariton, 2 Tuben, Schlagzeug (Lyra, Schellen)) -/ Répertoire / Ensemble à Vent

Leos Janacek almost seventy years old characterised the wind sextet he had just finished as 'a kind of memory of youth' in a letter to Kamila Stösslová. The suite Youth was written in the summer of 1924 prompted by the composer's need to take stock on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Janacek also heard the Parisian ensemble Societe moderne des instruments a vent several times in Salzburg and Brno. He expanded the classic quintet scoring by the addition of a bass clarinet.Janacek referred to an earlier part of his life in this work not only by quoting a theme from March of the Blue Boys but particularly through his general freshness ofexpression astute humour and use of form which adhered to the classical style.The piece was enthusiastically received by both critics and the public and appeared in print as early as 1925 issued by the Prague publisher Hudebni matice.Wind sextet in the classical styleUrtext based on the Critical Complete Edition of the Works of Leos JanacekNew foreword by Jiri Zahradka (Cz/Eng/Ger)