SKU: SP.MP012
ISBN 9781585606115. UPC: 635344000128.
The Essential Composer Series published for Piano by Minstrel Press and distributed by Santorella Publications features the original works from some of the greatest composers that ever lived. The selections have been carefully chosen to give the user a source of essential core literature from that specific composer. This transcribed series by Avis Fedge Romm has only had minor editing when seen as a valuable aid in facilitating the musician in authentically interpreting the composer's music. The Essential Composer Series has become a staple stock item for many music retailers throughout the world. Each edition includes a performance CD, which is also a great tool for younger players to hear the melodies that they have been practicing so diligently. This edition contains the following works of Ludwig van Beethoven; German Dance - Ecossaise - Landler No. 5 - Landler No. 7 - Sonatina in G - Allemande - German Dance No. 2 - German Dance No. 7 - Fur Elise - Menuet in G - Waltz - Sonata Quasi Una Fantasia (Moonlight Sonata).
SKU: HL.50606900
UPC: 196288201441.
A school musical on the theme of acceptance and difference, suitable for secondary school performances. Playing time approx. 35 minutes. Story: Somehow he is different, the new student: his name is Elec and he has uncanny abilities. His classmates wonder and whisper about him. Even the schoolhouse detective is on his trail. What he finds out leads to only one conclusion: Elec is an alien! But on what mission? Elec only trusts Judith and reveals himself to her: he was sent to Earth to learn humanity. When his classmates offer Elec not to betray him if he uses his abilities in their favor, he agrees and prevents the next class test. But things get out of hand and the police are called in. Shortly before they take Elec away, he learns what humanity means and the class stands united with him. Elec's Secret was created based on ideas from students at Pestalozzi Middle School Oberlungwitz.
SKU: HL.49033270
ISBN 9790001136860. 9.25x12.0x0.3 inches.
The Jagdquartett (Hunt Quartet), which Jorg Widmann wrote as his third string quartet in 2003, following the Choralquartett, also begins with a visible gesture. After a short signal cry from the performers, the piece starts by quoting Robert Schumann's Papillons op. 2, and for its full duration retains this gesture, these starting sounds. The degrees of recognizability do change continuously, to be sure, in the furious, racing organism of the score. The contours change into forms on another level, yet now and then the begining material returns clearly to the fore, initiated anew by a cry from the performers, and is then digested or mutated as a rhythmic study into a field of harmonic experimentation. On rare occasions, there are moments of pause - as though the musicians were testing the atmosphere, as though they were sensing the weather, so as ultimately to continue playing the quartet across the fields an forests of notes. A hunt after joyful performance, a chase, the whip cracking, after the thing to be shot, the sound, its performer, perhaps the composer himself? - A last shout, morendo, dal niente... - The victim is not the audience, at any rate.When comparing the output of string quartets from the 18th century to thetime of Schumann, it appears to have dropped considerably. Schumann composed only three complete quartets, all of them in the so-called 'chamber music year' 1842. Jorg Widmann, who counts Robert Schumann among his greatest inspirations, finished a series of five string quartets in 2005, at the same age as Schumann. The quartets in the cycle form in themselves the characters of the movements of the classical quartet. Jagdquartett represents the fast middle movement, the scherzo. Widmann's work appears rough and wild in the style of Schumann's alter ego Florestan. His hunt begins in the tempo of 'allegro vivace assai' with the final theme of Schumann's Papillons which often appears or is cited in many of Schumann's compositions. Widmann eventually dismantles the thematic material of his fierce quartet, thus skeletonising his prey.
SKU: UT.CH-393
ISBN 9790215328457. 9 x 12 inches.
Though the Catalan composer and pianist Enrique Granados (1867-1916) is often considered more conservative than Albéniz or Falla, his music made a significant contribution to the development of a national Spanish school. Granadosâ musical language is rooted in mainstream European traditions, frequently blended with elements derived from traditional Spanish folk music, including brash guitarish idioms in imitation of the punteado and rasgueado styles of playing. His Valses poéticos, dedicated to Joaquin Malats, are a suite of eight waltzes with a lively Introduction in duple meter and a reprise of the first dance at the conclusion of the final piece. We cannot be sure when Granados composed his Poetic Waltzes, but almost certainly they were of early vintage, in 1893-94. In any case, these waltzes have remained popular with performers from that day to this, especially among guitarist. This transcription, conceived for a chamber guitar ensemble (in formations ranging from duo to quartet), is an effective aid for the study of ensemble music from high school to a conservatory level.
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