SKU: M7.ART-80701

ISBN 9783936807011. English.

Steve Baker is one of today's most influential harmonica players. Each of the 11 titles represents a different contemporary blues style and employs well-known verse structures and grooves which are used by countless bands and harmonica artists all over the world. Each tune comes in two versions, one with Steve's harmonica and one as a playback without harp. Transcriptions in musical notation and tabulature as well as detailed explanations and practising tips show you exactly how the top players create their exciting sounds. A separate section covers harmonic theory and how to relate it to the diatonic harp.

SKU: M7.ELLI-3610

ISBN 9781559614818. UPC: 052296361020.

Nach dem Überraschungs-Erfolg der ''Gravikords''-Compilation (die bewiesen hat, daß man mit experimenteller Musik ein großes Publikum begeistern kann) gibt ellipsis arts eine zweite Folge mit schrägen und faszinierenden, selbstgebauten Musikinstrumenten heraus. Dies 96-seitige Buch mit CD (oder umgekehrt) nimmt den Hörer mit auf einen weiteren Streifzug durch die Werkstätten der Erfinder und Erbauer neuer und / oder ungewöhnlicher Musikinstrumente. Diemal sind sogar einige echte Stars mit von der Partie, wie z.B. Ambient-Ikone Aphex Twin, Tom Waits (mit einem Ensemble aus Nähmaschinen), John Cage und das viel-gefeierte Tanz- und Percussions-Ensemble Stomp. (ZGA - Collin Offord - Tom Waits - Bill Colvig & Lou Harrison - Arthea - Aphex Twin - Les Phones - Peter Whitehead - Ela Lamblin - John Cage - Stomp - Sharon Rowell - Bradford Reed - Ellen Fullman - Uakti - Leonard Solomon).

SKU: FJ.ST6075S

English.

Featuring a chromatic first-finger slide from D-sharp to E, this simple fiddle tune is sure to be a huge favorite with your students! The cello and double bass parts are divided into melody and harmony, the melody being the more difficult of the two. Directors can thus keep their advanced students busy while also encouraging lesser developed musicians with the same piece. Ideal for real-world situations!

About FJH Developing Strings

Slightly more advanced than Beginning Strings, this series begins to involve more position work and a slightly more complex rhythmic figures. Rehearsal piano is often provided. Ideal for middle school and smaller high school programs. Grade 2 - 2.5

SKU: PE.EP68737

ISBN 9790300762005. 297 x 420 mm inches. English.

Kitimbua Kivumbiis a Swahili phrase that loosely translates as 'Stomp the Dust'. This work was inspired by a trip the composer, Shawn Okpebholo, took to Kenya where he studied the music of the Akamba living in the Machakos region. It was the Second Place Winner of the 2016 American Prize in Composition (orchestral division). Okpebholo is the recipient of the 2021 Walter Hinrichsen Award which is bestowed by the American Academy of Arts and Letters annually. A performance of the work by the Wheaton College Symphony Orchestra can be viewed on YouTube.

SKU: PR.164002390

UPC: 680160038091.

I became interested in the work of Plato through my friend and collaborator, the writer and philosopher Paul Woodruff. Paul's new translation, with Alexander Nehamas, of the Symposium gave me insights into ancient Greek ways of thinking about Love, Beauty, and Wisdom -- and managed to keep the earthy, and often bawdy side of it all in full view. But their new translation of Plato's later dialogue Phaedrus went even further: the beauty of the speeches is breathtaking, and the discourse itself is enough to keep one awake at night. Basically the Great Speech of Socrates in the Phaedrus dialogue has to do with the place of Eros in the world, and with the conflict in the soul between fleshly pleasure and philosophic discovery. I will not attempt to encapsulate this brilliant discourse in a program note: suffice it to say that reading it gave rise to my two-sided work for clarinet, violin, and piano, Phaedrus. The first movement represents the Philosophic life, and is thus subtitled Apollo's Lyre (Invocation and Hymn). It begins with an unaccompanied melody for the clarinet, which (after a pair of harp-like flourishes for the piano, expands into an accompanied canon. The voices in the dialogue (clarinet and violin) follow each other by a prescribed number of beats, but the music is totally devoid of any meter at all. The piano, representing the lyre, accompanies this lyric love-feast with repeated strummed chords. The canon has three large sections, and ends with violin echoing the unaccompanied clarinet invocation as the sound of the lyre fades. The second movement, called Dionysus' Dream-Orgy (Ritual Dance) presents, after a brief introduction, another kind of unmetered music. Rather than long lyric flights of philosophic song, however, this time we hear a unison dance of unbridled energy and sensual transport. The piece soon forms itself into a loose arch form, with contrasting metered dance sections divided by the unison unmetered orgy tune. Midway through the movement, Apollo's melody returns from the first movement, but it is a temporary reminiscence. The orgiastic dance returns, reaches a climax, and ends with a stomping of feet. While Plato asserts that a proper balance between lust and reason is necessary in all men, he (naturally) gives the nod to Philosophy as the better choice in which to live. Not so in my music: the two sides are meant to coexist and to complement each other. No sides are taken. Phaedrus was commissioned of the Verdehr Trio by Michigan State University. It is dedicated to the Vedehr Trio with great affection and admiration.