Music Express is an outstanding new teacher's resource and provides a complete music scheme for 3-5 year olds. It is simple straightforward and fun and no music reading is required. It contains all the resources and activities needed to implement the QCA's Stepping Stones and Early Learning Goals for music throughout foundation stage. Active holistic and play-based the book CD and CD-Rom includes: Foundation Stage learning intentions and activity contentPicture gallery including templates to print outVideoclipsStoriesMelody LinesAll the recordings needed to accompany the activitiesSix themed units supporting the six areas ofFoundation Stage learning144 activities with differentiated learning intentions

Par PENARD OLIVIER. Composé d'une brève ouverture et de trois mouvements, le quatuor Artefact propose un parcours musical évolutif en utilisant un langage tout d'abord âpre et dissonant conduisant progressivement vers une stabilisation rythmique et harmonique où l'évocation du jazz est probante. La forme de chacun des mouvements corrobore cette intention. Après une violente ouverture où la matière musicale se désagrège dans la plus grande instabilité rythmique, le second mouvement, pièce maîtresse du quatuor, est un scherzo épousant la forme du rondeau dans lequel se développe un tissu contrapuntique sur les intervalles de seconde et de septième. L'énergie rythmique est au centre du discours et oscille constamment entre une dynamique ternaire et binaire. La virtuosité instrumentale y est prépondérante. Les intentions mélodiques sont rares, mais des mélismes en constante transformation assurent la cohésion formelle. Construit lui-même de manière palindromique, comme un écho miniature à la forme rondeau (ABA'CAB'A''), le trio central transpose certains éléments motiviques du scherzo dans une atmosphère harmonique plus diatonique qui prélude au dernier mouvement. L'interlude est une passerelle entre le scherzo et le final, un moment de méditation transitoire qui nous plonge dans un monde d'angoisse et de poésie où l'évocation des musiques nocturnes de Belà Bartok ressurgit comme un hommage. La construction formelle est également de type ternaire. Les tensions chromatiques des mouvements précédents sont ici exacerbées par l'utilisation des instruments dans leurs tessitures les plus élevées. Cependant, le mouvement de libre passacaille qui débute et achève la pièce se déploie dans un langage harmonique où le diatonisme de plus en plus présent propose un apaisement de l'écoute qui préfigure le quatrième mouvement. Enfin, la Rapsodie-jazz se présente comme un final libéré de la dissonance et des cadres formels utilisés précédemment. Le rythme est ici tout autant structurant que dans le scherzo, l'emploi des intervalles de seconde est toujours aussi présent, mais la pièce se déroule dans la plus grande régularité métrique, animant le discours d'une exaltation jubilatoire que l'évocation du jazz vient renforcer. C'est dans cette proposition de synthèse du langage savant avec le jazz que le parcours dramaturgique du quatuor prend sa pleine justification. Loin du pastiche et de la citation, la réunion de ces deux mondes musicaux parfois dissociés fonde un langage uniforme donné comme une alternative personnelle à la musique d'aujourd'hui. '...Une musique forte, sensible et harmoniquement subtile, très bien écrite pour les instruments: un musicien qui n'hésite pas à aller a la rencontre du public au lieu de le mystifier... ...Une force d'expression et un raffinement d'où découle le style Penard, identifiable entre tous...' Alan Ball, pianiste / contemporain / Répertoire / Clarinette, Violon, Violoncelle et Piano

Vaughan Williams's 6th Symphony was composed immediately after the Second World War and its dramatic and at times violent musical language was long felt to be a comment on that conflict (though the composer denied it had any programmatic intent). Its power and invention were immediately recognized and it has remained part of the concert repertoire ever since. For this newly engraved edition editor David Lloyd-Jones has consulted all extant sources and materials to create a score matching the composer's intentions.

In the autumn of 1974 György Kurtág began to copy selected pieces from the series Games into a music notebook for Zoltán Kocsis who had been his student in earlier years and who, even today, is one of its most authentic performers. Kocsis played from this notebook in the first public performance of Games in 1974. The gradually expanding series of piano pieces also appeared in print in the course of later decades- however, since then he has used this collection - expanded over 32 years since by Kurtág - whenever he plays pieces from Games in concert. Since the time of this 1974 concert, as he writes: I didnt know that the spiral notebook I received at the premi?re would later become, as it were, my permanent companion. That I would take it with me from Japan to Canada, from Australia to Iceland, travelling to the worlds most prominent concert halls, surviving fire damage, flood, transport catastrophes, theft attempts, forced landings and so on, and that - well beyond the intention of its being copied with love - it would include works and sketches for which this notebook would become the principal source. The manuscript gives a glimpse into Kurtágs workshop from the viewpoint of both performers and musicologists. The former can understand more from Kurtágs handwriting about the composers intentions than from the printed score. The musicologists, however, can study the historical origins of the works: some works can be found here in more than one version, others appear in a version different from the printed score. The publication is accompanied by a booklet and a CD supplement. The booklet contains Kocsiss own personal preface, as well as András Wilheims essay providing information about the collection and the pieces contained therein. On the CD we hear 11 works performed by Kocsis, from a recording made in 1982 which has not previously been commercially issued. This edition has been published for György Kurtágs 90th birthday. (Tünde Szitha) / Piano

The most famous and popular edition of Chopin's works prepared by I. J. Paderewski, L. Bronarski and J. Turczyński. The edition has been based primarily on Chopin's autograph manuscripts, copies approved by him and first editions. The principal aim of the Editorial Committee has been to establish a text which fully reveals Chopin's thoughts and corresponds to his intentions as closely as possible. The full version of this edition includes 21 volumes. - Impromptu A flat major, Op. 29 - Impromptu F sharp major, Op. 36 - Impromptu G flat major, Op. 51 - Impromptu C sharp minor, Op. posth. (66)

Piano Concerto No.25 in C major K.503.Piano Solo Flute Oboe (2) Bassoon (2) Horn (2) Trumpet (2) Kettledrum Strings. 2-Piano reduction. The New Mozart Edition offers researchers a musicologically unimpeachable text based on all the available sources (first and foremost Mozart's autograph manuscripts). At the same time it also serves as an aid to authentic performances. BÄRENREITER URTEXT: In the international music world ?Bärenreiter Urtext? is synonymous with performing editions in which the musical text has been prepared using clearly formulated scholarly critical criteria. Editorswhich include prominent musicologists as well as musicians take all available sources into account thus guaranteeing an authentic musical text which represents the latest in musicological research. For Bärenreiter ?Urtext? is more than just a label ? it is also a pledge and a guarantee for sheet music performing editions that present the authentic text and the latest findings of scholarly research enabling musicians to get as close to the composer?s intentions as the surviving sources will allow. There are no arbitrary editorial additions and the quality of the musical text is matched by an appearance on the page that satisfies the most discerning eye.

Beethoven's Piano Sonatas are among some of the greatest writings for Solo Piano and remain firm favourites in the repertoire today. Throughout the sonatas one can sense a maturing composer whose music bridged from the elegant and precise world of Classical music to the intensely expressive and virtuosic world of Romantic music. These pieces provide a wonderful enrichment to the repertoire of any advancing and accomplished pianists.This Urtext edition of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Volume 1 provides you with the most accurate realisation of the composer's original intentions with thoroughly comprehensive and detailed editorial markings and suggestions. Thisedition has been edited by Claudio Arrau and Lothar Hoffmann-Erbrecht.This is the first of two volumes which contains sonatas from No.1-15.

Handel wrote the famous Dixit Dominus with the text of Psalm 109 during his time in Italy in c. 1707. Although he was only 22 years old the work already demonstrates his wide spectrum of compositional abilities which are later fully realized in his operas and oratorios. Central to this work are the six choral movements which with their polyphonic structure are closely related to German choral music of the 17th century.The first Urtext edition BA 4002 based on the Halle Handel Edition was published in 1960. At that time no critical commentary was published so that in cases of doubt the basis on which editorialdecisions were made was not officially recorded. A new complete edition volume (BA 10704/01) due to be published in 2013 will include a detailed foreword providing information on the genesis and the first performance of this work as well as information on the psalm on which this work is based and on performance practice. In addition several facsimiles pages will be included giving a view into the source material. The critical commentary will provide a detailed insight into all the available sources and how they have been passed down.This newly revised Urtext performing edition offers a thorough revision of this frequently-performed work and meets all the requisites of a scholarly-critical edition. Former readings in the old edition regarding a small number of pitches but mostly basso continuo figures and the underlying text have now been able to be amended on the basis of the new findings. In the new edition the work appears in nine movements no longer eight which reflects the composer's intentions.The new performance material is not compatible with the old one.Presented in a revised Urtext editionClear straightforward Piano reduction in the vocal scoreUrtext of the Halle Handel EditionFull score performance material (BA10704) & Vocal score (BA10704-90) available for sale

Solfège pour l'étude de l'harmonie classique. Par DESPORTES. Precise Harmonic Analysis intends to accompany and aid harmony and analysis classes at conservatoires and other musical institutions. Covering a wide range of aspects, Yvonne Desportes ''s book succeeds in its intentions. As a student of Paul Dukas, Desportes (1907-1993) won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome for harmony in 1932. She then went on to teach at the Paris Conservatoire, compose over 300 works, and publish many music textbooks. Compiled in 1948, Precise Harmonic Analysis addresses intervals, modulations, chords, suspensions, appoggiaturas and echappees, among many other aspects. Thisbook is essential to accompany all intermediate to advanced music studies./ Solfège/Formation Musicale / Formation Musicale

The Ave Maria has been sung chanted and prayed in churches cathedrals and cloisters since before the Middle Ages. This setting which includes quotations from the plainsong chant depicts the voicing ofindividual intentions that echo through cathedrals minds and hearts. Duration: Approx. 4:10. Recorded by the Dale Warland Singers Concert recording (p) 2002 Minnesota Public Radio. Used with permission of Minnesota Public Radioand the University of Cincinnati.

Ce recueil de chansons correspondant à l'album de 1999 counting crows est maintenant disponible en EuAvailablee pour la première fois, mettant en vedette les hits hanginaround et les daltoniens (vedette dans le film Cruel Intentions) / Guitare Tablatures

Johann Sebastian Bach most likely composed the Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue during his stay in Kothen between 1717 and 1723. Originally written for the harpsichord the work was duly recognized as a masterpiece within its ownera.Néstor Ausqui has taken extraordinary measures in creating a guitar transcription of this monumental piece. The fundamental tonality of D minor was retained to preserve the work?s sonority and the 6thstring of the guitar had to be lowered to D to expand the guitar?s range and adhere to the original key.The articulation of the piece often requires the use of the slur technique to maintain and enhance thelegato effect in the melodic line. As the guitar has a more percussive character than the harpsichord various inconveniences occur in the management or execution of the legato but the transcriber has done his best to preservethe character of the original piece.Ausqui admits that the most arduous task was the fingering of the piece. He had to familiarize himself with Bach?s intentions and avoid shortcuts and aberrations which wouldhave depleted the original harmonies and melodies. In the process he discovered that utilization of the open strings can subtly enhance the balance of right and left-hand duties to achieve the timbre the original scoremandates.Written in standard notation only with each line of music forming only one measure this piece is meant for the classical guitarist willing to accept an interpretive challenge to reap enormous musicalbenefits.

Urtext-The new Mozart: Sonatas Fantasies And Rondos Urtext Edition features selected sonatas rondos fantasies and variations for Piano composed by Mozart and painstakingly engraved by Ephraim HammettJones.Printed to precisely reproduce the composer's original intentions Mozart: Sonatas Fantasies And Rondos Urtext Edition features a dozen of Mozart's works. This second volume contains Mozart's laternine sonatas and is suitable for intermediate to advanced pianists of all ages.