SKU: SP.TS281

ISBN 9781585604753. UPC: 649571102814.

Reflect on this past century with 20 unforgettable jazz standards that first defined popular American music with Essential Jazz Standards for Horns from Santorella Publications. Every page is packed with toe-tapping favorites certain to make anyone dance and sing along. Share these memorable tunes with family and friends and spread the sheer joy a song can evoke. This best-selling collection is arranged in accommodating keys for clarinet, trumpet, alto sax, flute and trombone by Jonathon Robbins. Now everyone can have some fun and play along! Essential Jazz Standards for Clarinet is available with or without a piano accompaniment CD. Alexander's Ragtime Band - I Want a Girl - Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight - For Me and My Gal - Chinatown, My Chinatown - Melancholy Baby - Little Brown Jug - Fascination - You Made Me Love You - Moonlight Bay - Bill Bailey - Rock-a-Bye Your Baby - Oh, You Beautiful Doll - When the Saints Go Marching In - Swanee - St. Louis Blues - After You've Gone - A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody - They'll Be Some Changes Made - Baby Face.

SKU: AP.F3228FLX

ISBN 9780769256337. UPC: 029156005677. 9x12 inches. English.

15 intermediate to advanced level arrangements of the most often requested classical pieces for weddings. These can be played as solos, duets or trios. Additional instrumental parts and piano accompaniment sold separately.

SKU: HL.400061

ISBN 9781596153585. UPC: 077712334112. 9x12 inches.

Performed by Elaine Douvas, oboe Accompaniment: Erik Nielsen, piano This wonderful album for the beginning to early intermediate oboe player includes thirteen pieces ranging from Boccherini to Grieg to Richard Strauss to William Walton. Says James Roe of The Double Reed: “With the poise of a great virtuoso, [Ms. Douvas] approaches these 'easy' pieces as she would a solo line in a great symphony...the richness of her tone, the variety in her articulation, and the beauty and clarity of her line all represent the very best example for students as they develop their concept of playing. And it's all pretty inspiring for us professional oboists as well.” Ms. Douvas's extensive performance notes “are a delight, and will be inspiring to students and an important aid to teachers.” Includes a complete printed solo part annotated with performance suggestions and access to online recordings with complete versions (with soloist) followed by piano accompaniments to each piece, minus the soloist.

SKU: BT.DHP-1185925-404

ISBN 9789043155052. English.

Look, Listen & Learn sets the bar for brass and woodwind teaching nowadays. These exciting method book/CD packs for beginners contain songs, music puzzles and games to increase the pupils’ understanding of music, information about their instrument, and lots of fun pieces to play. The three volumes of the method that form the basis of this series are enhanced by several books with supplementary material designed to correspond with the progress of the method.

In Meet the Masters, the melodies are arranged in increasing order of difficulty and can be used in conjunction with all three volumes of the Look, Listen & Learn method series. Pupils takea journey through music history and meet the most important composers of classical music, from Tielman Susato to Anton n Dvo ák, together with pertinent historical commentary. The present edition includes printed music for piano accompaniments, expertly arranged at a moderate level of difficulty, which are also available in recorded versions online to stream or download.

SKU: BT.AMP-356-400

ISBN 9789043138796. 9x12 inches. English-German-French-Dutch.

Philip Sparke’s Skilful Solos is the second volume of a progressive series of solo books that takes the young wind player from beginner to accomplished musician. Following on from the first book in the series Starter Solos this collection generally contains longer pieces suitable for the developing young musician. Specifically tailored for each instrument, Skilful Solos introduces the concept of phrasing by suggesting suitable breathing points and takes the player into new keys with extended instrumental ranges, new notes being introduced in a gradual and logical manner.Skilful Solos comes with a play-along CD. The advantages of playing eitherwith piano or CD accompaniment are that the beginning player can now experience the important aspects of ensemble playing from their earliest lessons, thus developing the essential skills of listening while they play and maintaining strict tempo, which is not always achieved when playing alone.

Skilful Solos past in het rijtje Starter Studies, Skilful Studies, Super Studies en Starter Solos, een succesvolle reeks van Philip Sparke. Net als de eerdergenoemde uitgaven bevat Skilful Solos waardevol,motiverend speelmateriaal dat de keuze voor een methode aanvult. Nieuwe muzikale elementen komen in een logische volgorde aan de orde - om de ontwikkeling van de complete muzikant te bevorderen. Uitgave met cd: De voordelen van het spelen metbegeleiding - hetzij op de piano, hetzij op de cd - zijn dat de beginnende speler de belangrijke aspecten van het ensemblespel kan ervaren vanaf de eerste lessen en essentiële vaardigheden kan aanleren: het luisteren tijdens het spelen en hethandhaven van een strak tempo. Bij het alleen spelen komen deze factoren minder aan de orde.

Das frühe Lernstadium ist, neben einem guten Lehrer im Unterricht, für jedes Instrument zweifellos das Wichtigste. Von großer Bedeutung ist aber auch motivierendes Lehrmaterial.
Für diese zwei Solobücher beriet sich Philip Sparke mit vielen Lehrern, wie man am besten neue Noten einführt und zugleich einen Rahmen schafft, in den sich neue musikalische Elemente in sinnvoller Reihenfolge einfügen lassen. Unterstützt von diesenSoli und Etüden in drei verschiedenen Schwierigkeitsstufen können Instrumentalschüler schnell zu richtigen Musikern heranreifen. Jedes Buch ist genau auf die Bedürfnisse und Anforderungen des einzelnen Instrumentes zugeschnitten.
STARTER SOLOS und SKILFUL SOLOS können dank der im Buch und auf der CD enthaltenen Begleitungen auch gut alleine oder mit einem Pianisten einstudiert und aufgeführt werden. Der Vorteil dabei ist, dass Anfänger so nicht nur die wichtigsten Aspekte desEnsemblespiels erfahren sondern auch von Anfang an die Fähigkeit entwickeln, zu hören während sie spielen und das Tempo zu halten.

Inhalt: Nice to See You Again -Pony and Trap -Summer Siesta -Spring (Vivaldi) -A Victorian Ballad -Trumpet Tune -Promenade -Greensleeves -Could You Repeat That? -Alladale Aria -Scales of Justice -Largo from Winter (Vivaldi) -Waltz with Variations -Atthe Circus - Adagio (Mozart) - Marche Militaire (Schubert) - Thinking of You - Fives and Threes - Daydream - Rhode Island Rag

SKU: BT.DHP-1185894-404

ISBN 9789043154543. English.

Look, Listen & Learn sets the bar for brass and woodwind teaching nowadays. These exciting method book/CD packs for beginners contain songs, music puzzles and games to increase the pupils’ understanding of music, information about their instrument, and lots of fun pieces to play. The three volumes of the method that form the basis of this series are enhanced by several books with supplementary material designed to correspond with the progress of the method.

In My First Opera, famous arias, choruses, and overtures have been arranged in increasing order of difficulty so that they can be used in conjunction with all three volumes of the Look, Listen& Learn method series. Some of the loveliest melodies ever written for opera have been collected together with accompanying historical commentary. Pupils can accompany themselves using the piano recordings, which are available online to stream or download. The edition also includes printed music for piano accompaniments, expertly arranged at a moderate level of difficulty.

SKU: PR.114419280

ISBN 9781491132357. UPC: 680160676125.

Inspired by Chinese tradition, this concerto-like dance suite includes: 1. Lion Dance, 2. YangKo, and 3. Muqam. Each movement draws from melodies and rhythms characteristic of various regions of China many centuries ago. CHINESE FOLK DANCE SUITE is available for violin with full orchestra, or as a recital work with piano.
Supported by a major commissioning award from the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress, Chinese Folk Dance Suite is written for solo violin and orchestra; it was premiered by The Women’s Philharmonic with violin soloist Terrie Baune, conducted by Apo Hsu, on March 10, 2001, at Yerba Buena Center For the Arts Theater in San Francisco.Inspired by various Chinese traditional folk dances, the suite has three movements:I. Lion Dance. Traditionally, people dance with richly decorated hand-made lions, accompanied by percussion ensemble, to celebrate happy occasions and major festivals throughout the country. In this composition, I use Chinese drum and other percussion instruments in the background, to form a dynamic and rhythmic texture responding to the solo part, which imitates the tunes played on the suona (traditional Chinese trumpet). The pitch materials came from the traditional Guangdong tune “Dragon Boat Racing,” and the Chaozhou tune “Lion Playing Ball.”II. YangKo. Originating in northern China, this is a major folk dance form in mass performance popularized in the country. In YangKo performance, people play rhythmic patterns on the drums hung around their waists while singing and dancing. In the second movement, I imagined a warm scene of YangKo dancing in distance. The solo violin plays a sweet and gracious melodic line while all members of the orchestra sing non-pitched syllables in different layers as the soft background, to imitate the percussion sound which produces the ever-going pulse.III. Muqam. This large-scale music and dance form, from the Uygur nationality in Xinjiang province, originated in the 15th century. My third movement use a 7/8 meter and the melodic style of Muqam music. The fiery dancing gesture culminates in the sustained climax section at the end of the work, after a colorful violin cadenza in both improvisational singing style and polyphonic writing with woven lines.