Par RAE JAMES. INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP LEARNING All of these pieces for young cellists in their earliest stages of learning can be performed as a solo or in unison with others. Some have an optional 2nd part and may also serve as ensemble material. MIXED ENSEMBLE OPTION Whilst written specifically for the instrument and addressing the challenges beginners would encounter, a special section is included of four pieces which are 'key friendly' for beginners on most instruments and are therefore ideal pieces for mixed instrumental groups. These same four pieces appear in books for other instruments in the Debut series./ Recueil / Violoncelle

Par ASCH GLENN / REINER DAVID. For more than a century, violinists have played jazz, swing, blues and similar improvisational styles. With its rich tone, considerable range, and bowed rhythms and phrasing, the violin offers a unique opportunity for a creative and personal statement as a musician. This book presents a broad sampling of the styles of major jazz violinists, from blues to bebop, from jug band to jazzgrass, from big-band swing to Texas swing. Tunes represent the styles of Stéphane Grappelli, Joe Venuti, Stuff Smith, Eddie South, Mark O'Connor, Benny Thomasson, Jean-Luc Ponty, and Darol Anger. Helpful jazz theory sections with exercises alternate with tunes that show how the theory works inpractice. This book has two objectives: first, to present a broad, roughly chronological sampling of major jazz violinists and the styles associated with them, and secondly, to introduce the basics of jazz theory as applied to the violin. Whether consciously or intuitively, through critical listening or by practicing jazz patterns and exercises, the more knowledge of jazz you acquire, the better you will be able to think about the content of your playing without being bound by technical and theoretical aspects. This anthology was written to help provide that foundation. Interspersed with pragmatic jazz theory lessons, you'll find 28 original tunes in the style of various jazz violin luminaries. The book ends with an extensive discography of recommended jazz recordings with a violin focus. Mandolinists as well as other instrumentalists will find a wealth of useful information in this outstanding collection. Delightful broadcast-quality recordings of the repertoire are available online. Includes access to online audio. Written for intermediate to advanced violinists. / Niveau : Intermédiaire à Avancé / Jazz / Recueil / Violon

In Sonata 7 in D major Balicourt opens with a suave intricately rhythmic Adagio. The following Presto with its delightful interplay between flute and bass including both octave doubling and stretto imitation is the most skittish movement to emerge from the composer’s pen. The finale is a ‘sandwich’ movement in which a Minuetto encloses a duple-metre Cantabile in D minor. Although the minuet could be said to exemplify one of those ‘easy’ movements referred to in Balicourt’s prospectus for subscribers its complex prescribed ornamentation requires sensitive handling. Sonata 8 in E minor is strategically placed as the final work inthe set being one of the longest as well as the most conservative; adopting the traditional four-movement configuration it continually harks back to the grand Handelian style. An eloquent Andante ushers in a Presto containing many slightly academic contrapuntal touches and much chromaticism. The subsequent Largo is only five bars long: its plain melodic line in minims and crotchets is the skeleton around which the flautist is expected to weave an elaborate embroidery. For the finale Balicourt introduces in effect a new version in triple metre of the second movement. The fact that all four movements are in E minor heightens the sense of unity which is expressed very concretely through their sharing of some thematic material.

Acallam na Senórach by Tarik O'Regan was co-commissioned by the National Chamber Choir of Ireland The DeBartolo Performing Arts Center at University of Notre Dame Indiana and Peak Performances at Montclair State University Montclair New Jersey.First performed on 25 November 2010 at St Ann’s Church Dublin by the National Chamber Choir of Irelandwith Stewart French (Guitar) directed by Paul Hillier.The Guitar part was edited by Stewart French.Tarik O'Regan on the music:In writing this musical setting of Acallam na Senórach I was drawn to the evenness of the dialogue. Instead of St Patricksimply converting the pagan warriors he is encouraged to listen to Ca lte’s stories and poems of an earlier time in which the saint delights.This secular/sacred osmosis is maintained unwaveringly throughout the entire text. By the end of the narrative one has witnessed not only the arrival of a new religion in Ireland but also a richly-recounted secular narrative map of the entire island: the peaceful and enriching shaking of two great hands.In preparing the libretto (the sung text) I have focused on only a few of the shorter constituent tales. This decision was born of the practical constraints of duration. I have however kept the skeleton albeit smaller of the overall frame in place. Finally for the sake of simplicity Ois n is removed from the primary narrative.The characters are not assigned specific voices. The narrative as a whole is carried by a persistently changing combination of voices and guitar. The one exception is Cas Corach the musician of the s d (underworld) who is most closely embodied throughout this setting in the solo interludes for guitar.The music itself is not ethnographically inclined; that is I have not attempted to reconstruct theories on Irish music of the period from which Acallam stems. However the score generally and especially in the guitar writing is imbued with an air

Le premier cahier des Vexierbilder (1991) (Vexierbild se traduirait par attrape , rébus ) exploitait l'idée d'image trompeuse, de référent décalé, se concentrant autour d'un matériau délibérément appauvri. Dans ces trois nouvelles pièces, la musique cherche à se construire autour d'un geste, d'une figuration systématique, d'une forme coupant court à tout développement.

Dans une veine années de pèlerinage , Rome était la matière des images cryptées des trois premiers Vexierbilder. C'est l'art du poète américain Wallace Stevens qui est au centre de ceux-ci, et plus particulièrement son premier recueil Harmonium (paru en 1923), où il tente de trouver, avec des moyens resserrés, le caractère transcendant inhérent à la musique (Claire Malroux). En somme : remplacer le grand orgue de la poésie, devenu inadapté, par un instrument moins noble en apparence, dont le souffle et la portée naîtraient d'une activité têtue, concentrée mais presque dérisoire.

Pratiquant les rappels sacrés, parfois ironiques, Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), par un jeu de degrés étourdissant de raffinement, a porté au plus haut l'art de faire du neuf avec la mémoire.

Speech of clouds
Deux notes - une simple tierce do-la dans le médium - sont sollicitées par une navette de deux mains qui n'en seraient qu'une, sans chant ni harmonie, et sonnent comme un carillon brouillé. Dans la seconde partie de la pièce, après un court récitatif sorti de silence, ces trajectoires virtuoses, ces fusées d'artificier pour solo de concert , régressent, involuent vers une formule égrenée simplement par les cinq doigts, en ombre, ppppp possibile, comme une trame usée, ou un envers montrant la pauvreté de ses noeuds - et de ses ficelles - sur laquelle, au même endroit du clavier, vient se poser un contre-chant, comme si ces deux mains du médium n'appartenaient plus alors au même corps - invention rebrodée ton sur ton où une voix contrepointe l'autre par soustraction.

...An uncertain green,
Piano-polished, held the tranced machine
Of ocean, as a prelude holds of holds.

... Un vert incertain
D'un poli de piano, tenait la machine enchantée
De l'océan comme un prélude tient sans fin.

Negation
Pièce lente qui revient à cet arte povera cherché dans le premier recueil des Vexierbilder. L'objet harmonique est ici donné dans une grande nudité, comme une anti-figure dont le caractère obvi se retournerait en ambiguïté interrogative, et à partir duquel plusieurs ostinati se construisent, s'épuisent sans développement, écho au poème éponyme de Stevens : Hé ! Le Créateur aussi est aveugle / Qui cherche à bâtir son harmonieux ensemble, / Rejetant les parties intermédiaires, / Les horreurs, les faussetés et les maux, / Maître incapable de toute puissance, / Trop vague idéaliste, submergé / Par un souffle qui persiste.

Rondo
Une courte séquence construit la pièce en refrains, comme le titre l'indique, empruntant au contre-chant de la première pièce. Certaines strophes font entendre un précipité des ostinati de la seconde pièce, mais rejetés dans les extrêmes du clavier. Est-ce alors le grave qui vient orner, fouetter l'aigu à contre-emploi? Ces agrégats doivent sonner comme des sacs de grains lâchés par terre. C'est comme un tribut déposé au pied de la rhétorique, un geste d'embrassement qui voudrait naïvement fermer le ban du pianisme. D'autres strophes, plus fugitives, font entendre des sortes de chants d'oiseaux dont la mécanique se serait bloquée. Après un dernier retour du refrain, ourlé de résonances, la pièce se termine par une clausule dansante, livide, itérative, pendant aux Jeux d'os squelettiques qui achevaient les premiers Vexierbilder :

Mow the grass in tue cemetery, darkies,
Study the symbols and the requiescats,
But leave a bed beneath the myrtles.
The skeleton had a daughter and that, a son.

And that one was never a man of heart.
The making of his son was one more duty.
When the music of the boy fell like a foutain,
He praised Johann Sebastian, as he should.

Tondez l'herbe du cimetière, négros,
Examinez les symboles et les requiescats,
Mais laissez un lit sous les myrthes,
Ce squelette avait une fille, et cet autre, un fils.

Celui-là ne fut jamais un homme de coeur
Engendrer son fils ne fut qu'un devoir de plus.
Quand la musique de ce garçon retomba comme un jet d'eau,
Il loua Jean-Sébastien, comme il se devait. / Partition /

Par COHEN MARY / SPEARING ROBERT. Masterful duo Mary Cohen and Robert Spearing team up once again in this wonderful collection of original pieces for established beginner string quartet. Quartetstart Level 2 is full of stimulating and enjoyable repertoire which has been carefully devised for string players of around ABRSM Grade 2?3. Building on the skills and ideas first introduced in Quartetstart Level 1, this truly original collection explores a wide range of musical styles as well as many interesting string effects (including simple harmonics, collegno, pizzicato and tremolo). Containing invaluable rehearsal tips throughout, these imaginative pieces will give string players the opportunity to discover the joys of ensemble playing right from the early stages of learning. A violin 3 alternative to the viola part is provided. / Ensemble Music, Methods

Bienvenue dans l\'univers des Strange Sounds. Les 10 solos pour piano uniques de cette collection sont parfaits pour un concert sur le thème d\'Halloween, mais ils sont également parfaits à tout moment de l\'année pour stimuler l\'imagination et encourager la créativité ! Il y en a pour tous les goûts avec des titres tels que : The Cool Skeleton (Carolyn Miller) - Creepy Crocodile (Carolyn C. Setliff) - Escape from the Dark Forest (Randall Hartsell) - The Goblins (Thompson) - A Haunted House (Burnam) - Into the Abyss (Charmaine Siagian) - Lupus Ululat (Jason Sifford) - The Midnight Ball (Naoko Ikeda) - On This Eerie Night (Glenda Austin) - Spooky Night (Gillock). / Partitions variété - pop - rock / Variété internationale / Piano / THE WILLIS MUSIC COMPANY

You'll shudder...you'll shake...with this wonderful collection of 'pumpkin carols' for Grades K-6. Each song features clever Halloween lyrics set to well-known familiar melodies! Use the songs in your music classes or create yourown all-school program or Halloween parade. You'll love the ?scary? sound effects on the professionally recorded CD. And there's more! The collection includes reproducible song sheets for your students and innovativesuggestions for adding movement rhythm instruments or games.Available: Songbook Performance/Accompaniment CD. Grades K-6.

The Faber Music Contemporary Piano Anthology is an exciting collection of best-loved neoclassical music for solo piano. The book includes well-known pieces from Max Richter, Ludovico Einaudi, Enya and Philip Glass alongside stunning works from the likes of Agnes Obel, Imogen Heap and Anne Lovett, all arranged for the intermediate pianist and many in print for the first time./ Recueil / Piano

Concerto for String Orchestra - the magnum opus of Grayna Bacewicz (1909-1969) the outstanding composer and violinist - was composed in 1948 and at once became one of the most frequently performed works of this Polish artist. This masterpieceof neoclassicism fascinates as much by its invention and virtuosic briliance as its harmonious combination of formal elements of a traditional nature with new tonal ideas. The form of the three-movement Concerto oscillates between that of the baroqueconcerto grosso and the early classical sonata cycle. The neoclassical tendency is evident above all in the articulation of the musical structure in keeping with the rigours of periodicity and the manner of developing thematic threads derived fromthem while the concertato character of particular movements and the generally linear texture indicate baroque connections. The first movement (Allegro) - in the form of an early classical sonata allegro - begins with a subject with energeticfigurations emblematic for the whole piece and based on a constant pendulum-like semiquaver movement anchored securely on D. It is precisely because of the nature of this subject that Bacewiczs work has been compared to the Brandenburg Concertosby Jan Sebastian Bach The second movement (Andante) while retaining its concertato charakter is at the same time an example of the composers ability to create emotionally serene lyrical moods and her sense of cantilena derived from the spiritof romantic song (a motto-subject presented at the beginning by cello solo). In this movement it is both the process of evolution and the instrumental colouring which constitute the constructional agents forming here a self-containedvalue. In thethird movement (Vivo) the composer returns to her favourite type of music understood as an expression of pure motion in the form of figural motives with infinite transformational possibilities. The spontaneity of the music the constant mutabilityof the tonal situations and the sophisticated acerbic harmonies - as Witold Lutosawski described them - form a colourful mosaic built in the structural skeleton of a sonata rondo. Concerto for String Orchestra is not only proof of thestylizing tendency of the composer but also of an unerring intuition concerning the technical and expressive possibilities inherent in a string instruments ensemble. [Magorzata Gsiorowska translated by Ewa Cholewka]

Mid Intermediate Essential Elements Guitar Repertoire-Hal Leonard's Essential Elements Guitar Repertoire Series features great original guitar music that is carefully graded and leveled for easy selection. The songs are presented in standard notation and tablature and are fully demonstrated on the accompanying CD. Mysterioso features 10 original songs with spooky melodies and riffs.

Join acclaimed bassist composer and teacher Patrick Pfeiffer as he explores the anatomy of a bass groove from the inside out.Learn to dissect each groove and discover what makes it so groovy - from its skeleton to its apex - while evolving your playing skills and musicality along the way.There are plenty of exercises and a huge number of groove ideas along with an audio CD that is packed with full-band demo tracks and examples.