SKU: HL.324672

ISBN 9781540072726. UPC: 888680985196. 9.0x12.0x0.202 inches.

Imagine - learning to sight read while having fun! Singers will grasp concepts quickly while singing “real music” from day one. This step-by-step method includes fun songs with lyrics, dynamics, and accompaniment, along with prepatory exercises that are interesting, authentic, and flexible. This resource may be used with beginners of any age. The sequential approach focuses on the keys of C, F, and G major, basic rhythms, and simple intervals in the tonic, dominant, and subdominant chords. Teacher Edition comes complete with teaching suggestions and online digital access to student notation and audio files.

SKU: HL.1301492

ISBN 9798350107739. UPC: 196288171928. 9.0x12.0 inches.

Designed for SAB mixed voice choirs, â??Sound Patterns for Mixed Voicesâ? teaches sight-reading skills quickly while singing â??real musicâ? from day one. This step-by-step method includes age and range appropriate songs with lyrics, dynamics, and accompaniment, along with preparatory exercises that are interesting, authentic, and flexible. This resource may be used with SAB beginners from approximately age 12 through 15 and for older singers with less singing experience. The sequential approach focuses on the keys C, G, and F, basic rhythms and simple intervals in the tonic, dominant and subdominant chords.

SKU: HL.324673

ISBN 9781540072733. UPC: 888680985202. 10.0x12.5x9.0 inches.

This classroom bundle contains 30 Student Editions and 1 Teacher Edition. Imagine - learning to sight read while having fun! Singers will grasp concepts quickly while singing “real music” from day one. This step-by-step method includes fun songs with lyrics, dynamics, and accompaniment, along with prepatory exercises that are interesting, authentic, and flexible. This resource may be used with beginners of any age. The sequential approach focuses on the keys of C, F, and G major, basic rhythms, and simple intervals in the tonic, dominant, and subdominant chords. Teacher Edition comes complete with teaching suggestions and online digital access to student notation and audio files.

SKU: PR.114422710

ISBN 9781491136072. UPC: 680160688227.

DUO’s succinct movement titles (I. Here, II. Open, III. Stark, IV. Ardent) tease at revealing the grand and heartfelt inspiration for exuberant romanticism in this sonata-like work of symphonic proportions and depth. Charles Gibb is both an accomplished pianist and an award-winning flutist, who has written of this compelling major addition to the literature: “This work is a journey. What journey and whose journey does not matter. It is my journey, it is your journey. It is the journey of those who came before us, and of those who will come after us. I wrote this hoping that we can find each other along the road, so we can realize that we don’t need to go on the journey alone.” Gibb’s DUO is sure to become a favorite major work for flute recitalists.
This work is a journey. What journey and whose journey does not matter. It is my journey, it is your journey. It is the journey of those who came before us, and of those who will come after us. I wrote this hoping that we can find each other along the road, so we can realize that we don’t need to go on the journey alone.“Here” begins with three notes that shape the rhythmic and harmonic content of the entire work. Melodies and harmonies including the tonic, dominant, and leading tone can be found in each of the four movements. The first moments of this movement introduce the melody, offering itself unencumbered and uninhibited. It shows itself as it is. The melodies soar, the harmonies become voiced more intricately, and the opening theme repeats in full grandeur. The momentum slows down, and the movement ends with a sense of completion, yet remains unbalanced.A striking piano gesture launches “Open,” the idea of instability reflected with the flowing flute trills and unclear meter patterns in the piano. The sensation of an unsteady grace in 5/8 time arrives with a piano ostinato. The melody is expressive, yet insecure and unbalanced due to changing meters. After a grand pause, the movement transitions to 4/4 time with the flute switching between duplet and triplet flourishes. After a rapid descent in the flute, the opening gesture returns, changed and abruptly interrupted.The third movement, “Stark,” is very static, beginning plainly but markedly. The falling fifth calls out continually throughout the movement, searching, lost. Melodies appear in pieces, some smooth and flowing, others rather disjunct. The piece climaxes with a line of mournfulness, yet revealing a deeper strength through intense projection of tone in the high register. However, the static harmonies return, this time unsteady all the way to its foundation. This destabilization repeats, and then quietly recedes.“Ardent” is the longest of the movements and spans a wide range of musical emotion. Part of the movement is fast paced, energetic, and balances order and disarray. However, once the chaos dies down, a gentle, expressive theme comes in. The theme itself is very resolute; it is order appearing from the pandemonium. Conflict returns, and order and chaos become less distinguishable from one another, and soon fuse together. However, order returns with new meaning, synthesized with previous musical content, creating a truer, deeper sense of awareness or understanding. A moment of ambiguity arises, but the flute persists, supported by the sensitive but firm figuration in the piano, and resoundingly comes to a close, unburdened and at ease.

SKU: AY.FRD26

ISBN 9790302114628.

John La Montaine's Fuguing Set for Piano Solo consists of seven pieces: Prologue, Fugue in G, Pastorale, Fugue in D, Cadenza, Fugue in C, and Epilogue. It was originally composed in 1965. Jocelyn Mackey (Pan Pipes, music critic): Amazing contrapuntal skill. Fuguing Set explores three different fugal techniques: the traditional tonic-dominant relationship of subject and answer, modal treatment of the subject and its inversions (all modes, including the Locrian appear), and chromatic procedures. A Prologue and Epilogue frame the set, while a Pastorale and Cadenza appear between the fugues. These pieces appealed immediately to this reviewer, who feels that many people who may not care for contemporary music will find them more than satisfying..

SKU: HL.14046100

ISBN 9788438712535. Spanish.

Nueva edicion de la coleccion Lenguaje Musical de Felix Sierra que abarca los 4 cursos de Grado Elemental y 2 de Grado Medio. Cada curso consta de dos volumenes: A y B. En esta nueva edicion se han ampliado el numero de ejercicios dedicados, tanto ala formacion ritmica y de lectura de notas-escasa en la edicion original-, como a la entonacion de melodias. Los ejercicios de entonacion incluyen un sencillo acompanamiento pianistico, con el que se pretende un triple objetivo: facilitar su estudioestabilizando la afinacion, ayudar a la interiorizacion de las funciones armonicas y aproximarlos a esa musica que, como se ha dicho con fina ironia, tambien existe fuera de los conservatorios. No se trata, con ellos, de descifrar una partitura. Apesar de lo limitado de los medios empleados, se puede -y se debe- realizar con estas piezas en miniatura una labor artistica. El CD que se incluye con el libro, aunque nunca puede suplir al profesor, si que, al menos en parte, cumple esta funcion.Otra novedad la constituye la inclusion del arreglo para instrumentos escolares de una de las canciones con que se inicia cada unidad didactica, canciones que siguen siendo la materia principal que se desarrolla en el resto de la unidad. Canciones ymelodias a una y dos voces con acompanamiento de piano, ejercicios de ritmo y lectura de notas, percusion corporal, pequenas obras escritas para instrumentos de laminas, nociones de teoria, juegos musicales, practica de la improvisacion y la creacionmusical... y todo ello con un riguroso planteamiento didactico en el que la armonia es el eje vertebrador de todas las actividades que se proponen. Ayudar a descubrir el apasionante mundo musical debe de ser, a juicio del autor, la tarea principal delmaestro de musica. Esperamos con estos libros, favorecer esta dificil labor. Lenguaje Musical, Lecciones De Entonacion y Educacion Audivita son las colecciones de Felix Sierra que contemplan la ensenanza del lenguaje musical. En un ambito de decima(LA a DO) y tratando de que se interiorice la modalidad, se trabajan en este cuaderno las tonalidades de DO, mayor y menor y LA, menor y mayor. Ademas de las figuras presentadas en el cuaderno anterior, en este se incluyen la semicorchea y lasincopa, el compas de seis por ocho, la clave de FA y se sigue trabajando con las funciones armonicas basicas: tonica, dominante y subdominante.