Par BARTOK BELA. Bartók himself collected the material for 'Rumanian Dances' in Transylvania at the beginning of the century; Transylvania is the place in which this folk-dance music is part of everyday life. Bartók considered this music so very valuable that it became his new source of renewal of the musical mother tongue. This edition includes the 'Romanian Folk Dances' for alto saxophone and piano. • Style and atmosphere have been captured in these six colourful duets for players of intermediate to more advanced levels • These dances with such diverse melodies, rhythms and origins make sophisticated and entertaining concert pieces/ Répertoire / Saxophone Alto et Piano

12 Easy Zoological Pieces. Par RAE JAMES. In 'Zoo Time!? for alto saxophone and piano, James Rae has imagined how our friends in the zoo might perform on the dance floor! This has inspired some delightful pieces such as 'Tiger Tango?, 'Rhino Rumba?, 'Cobra Calypso? and many more. But it's not just fun for pupil and teacher alike - musical styles are explored even at this early (Grade 1) stage and the student will be inspired to try and interpret the music to portray the animals as vividly as possible. Attractive, teacher-friendly piano accompaniments are provided, which include chord symbols for further musical possibilities. 'Zoo Time!? follows on naturally from James Rae's 'Child's Play? (UE21699) where all the beginners' notes are introduced one at a time, just as in a standard tutor book./ Recueil / Saxophone Alto et Piano

Pop Performance Pieces includes 10 carefully selected contemporary and classic pop songs in special arrangements for Alto Saxophone with a Piano accompaniment suitable for Grade 2-5 students, as well as teachers. With a Piano score, separate Alto Saxophone part and performance hints and tips, these fun pieces will hone your skills and develop ensemble playing.These pieces present a fun alternative to graded exam material, and many are suitable for GCSE performance exams. The tunes will be familiar to most players, with classics like Simon and Garfunkel\'s Bridge Over Troubled Water and Elton John\'s Your Song, as well as contemporary pop songs like Adele\'s When We Were Young and Katy Perry\'s Firework. These 10 songs can be played in instrumental lessons, in the classroom and, of course, on stage. The separate booklet with the Alto Saxophone part features tips by professional musicians, with some fingering guidance, while the Piano score also includes the tips, along with chord symbols and helpful fingering suggestions. / Saxophone Alto Et Piano

Alto Saxophone. 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 Antonín 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. / Niveau : Très Facile à Facile / Classique / Date parution : 1905-07-10/ Recueil / Saxophone Alto et Piano

Piano Reduction including solo part. Par DENISOV EDISON. The catalogue of Edison Denisov's works includes 16 concertos. It was a genre to which he returned time and again throughout his life, from the Concerto for Cello and Orchestra of 1972 to the Double Concerto for Flute, Clarinet and Orchestra of 1996. In Denisov's music the role of the soloist, or rather the protagonist, is extraordinarily important, not so much for its virtuosity as for its confessional character. The solo part is a monologue distinguished by poetic diction and a very personal message from the composer. The dramaturgical conception of the Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra, a reworking of the Viola Concerto of 1986, draws on traditional sonata form, thereby reaffirming the ubiquitous classicism in Denisov's thought. In this late work, we find all the typical features of his style: sinuous melodic lines layered into dense contrapuntal textures, and an interplay of orchestral colours, with pure sonorities contrasting with complex mixtures of sounds. It is a perfect dramaturgy that governs the evolution of the music to the very end. The first movement assumes the role of a sonata-allegro, with the standard formal sections of exposition, development, recapitulation and coda. The second movement is an Adagio for strings. The third takes the form of a little contrasting intermezzo that introduces both new thematic material and a new range of colours. Here tunefulness gives way to pointillism enriched with sonic effects. The only movement with a virtuosic solo part, its nervousness and inner tension set it worlds apart from the second and fourth movements that surround it. The fourth movement assumes the traditional form of a final set of variations. It is the dramaturgical and semantic heart of the concerto. The theme of the variations is Franz Schubert's Impromptu in B-flat major, op. 142, which in this case is 'born' from the celesta as the product of a dodecaphonic string cluster. This finale represents Denisov's homage to his great mentor, Schubert's music being for him a symbol of eternal and universal beauty. 'The attentive listener', Denisov stressed, 'will recognise that the Impromptu theme is already suggested very slowly in the course of the three preceding movements, not only thematically, but also psychologically. That's what makes the appearance of the Schubert theme sound so natural.' The variations relate to the variation genre less in their form than in their spiritual and conceptual metamorphoses. It is, one might say, 'music round about Schubert'. (Ekaterina Kouprovskaia-Denisova)/ Répertoire / Saxophone Alto et Piano

The Boosey and Hawkes Bartók Edition showcases brand new stylish arrangements of highlights from the leading twentieth century composer for developing musicians to learn and enjoy.Bartók for Alto Saxophone features selected highlights from Bartók's most popular pedagogical repertoire including For Children, Mikrokosmos, Romanian Folk Dances, Romanian Christmas Carols and others, arranged for alto saxophone with piano accompaniment by Hywel Davies. An accompanying audio CD features demonstration and backing tracks. / Saxophone Alto

Born to an Italian father and a French mother, Eugène Bozza (1905-1991) divided his music studies between the Academia Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Conservatoire de Paris, where he was taught by Henri Büsser and Henri Rabaud. His chamber music compositions reveal a marked predilection for wind instruments, as reflected in Fantaisie pastorale for oboe and piano (1939) and New-Orléans for bass saxhorn and piano (1944). During his stay a few years earlier at the Villa Medici in Rome (1936), Bozza had written his Aria Pour Saxophone Alto Et Piano - a free adaptation of the third movement of Johann Sebastian Bach's Organ Pastorale in F major BWV 590. This expansive and nostalgic melody, which unfolds over a regular meter, has become one of the most widely played Saxo­phone pieces in the world. Having enjoyed such success, Editions Leduc has decided to supplement its republication with an audio version that will enable saxo­phonists to carry out 'full-scale? practice. / Saxophone Alto Et Piano

Par SZELENYI ISTVAN. Szelényi (1904-72) studied with Kodaly and later taught at the Academy of Music and the Conservatory in Budapest. He chiefly wrote chamber music and material for his students. Simple, chordal streams in the piano accompany a rhapsodic, improvisatory saxophone part, strongly influenced by Eastern European folk music./ Répertoire / Saxophone Alto et Piano

Depuis des siècles, « la lecture à vue » également appelée « déchiffrage » est une épreuve pour les concours de musique. Les compositeurs sont sollicités pour cet exercice et composent un texte court selon un cahier des charges assez précis (minutage, difficulté, modes de jeu instrumental, etc). Depuis la création d'une classe de saxophone confiée à Adolphe Sax en 1857 au Gymnase musical militaire, qui n'est autre qu'une annexe du Conservatoire de Paris, et jusqu'à la nomination de Marcel Mule en 1942, les concours se multiplient partout en France, tant au conservatoire qu'aux orchestres divers et variés, principalement militaires.
Les trois textes anonymes de style purement français (volume 4 de cette série consacrée aux déchiffrages : « andantino » de date inconnue / « morceau à vue » en 1881 / « andantino » en 1890) nous parviennent des Archives Nationales en lien avec le Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. Si ces dates ne correspondent pas à une possible affectation à la classe de saxophone car Adolphe Sax n'était alors plus en service, on pourrait imaginer qu'elles aient été composées pour un concours extérieur.
L'origine de la « lecture à vue » signée par Gabriel Dupont (1878-1914) non datée (volume 2), est également une énigme. Un doute plane sur le fait que ce texte soit bien du compositeur français, même si on en reconnaît la tendresse de cette page délicieuse. En 1922, Guillaume Balay (1871-1943) alors chef de musique de la Garde Républicaine de Paris compose deux « lecture à vue » pour saxophone (alto et ténor) vraisemblablement pour un concours militaire (volume 5) ; rappelons qu'entre 1870 et 1942, le conservatoire de Paris sera dépourvu de classe de saxophone.
La Ville de Reims accueillera deux jeunes compositeurs qui deviendront des personnalités musicales à l'esthétique prononcée ; tout d'abord Georges Migot (1891-1976) qui propose une « lecture à vue » (volume 3) en 1929 pour le concours de l'institut de musique, puis André Jolivet (1905-1974) qui compose son « déchiffrage » en 1938 (volume 1).
Toutes ces courtes pièces ont été étudiées méticuleusement avant de décider de leur redonner vie. Cette publication leur permet à présent de faire partie du patrimoine musical du saxophone classique.
Nicolas Prost
Saxophoniste
Association Saxiana

Durée : 2'15
Collection Nicolas Prost
Nomenclature : saxophone alto et piano / Partitions classique / Bois / Saxophone / KLARTHE

Alto Saxophone and Piano. Par LOPEZ ALAIN. 'Cette composition, créée pour les jeunes musiciens (principalement adolescents), devra être jouée comme une chanson pop. En effet, sa texture (soyeuse et policée) est liée à l'utilisation des triolets et à l'enchaînement harmonique construit sur le principe des 'couplets /refrain'. Son tempo (proche de celui des battements du corps humain) et sa durée (3 mns) en feront le tube de l'été !' - Alain LOPEZ Une Pièce originale adaptée pour une audition ou un examen de fin de Cycle I/ Répertoire / Saxophone Alto et Piano

What Else Can I Play? Alto Saxophone Grade 1 makes learning more fun with carefully selected and arranged supplementary repertoire for today's young player. Each piece offers suggestions and guidelines to bowing, dynamics and tempo together with technical tips, performance notes and a simple piano accompaniment.    / Instrumental Music, Methods & Tutors / Recueil / Saxophone Alto et Piano

The Grade By Grade series draws on the rich and varied Boosey and Hawkes catalogue of classical, contemporary and educational repertoire, highlighting composers including Serge Prokofieff, Dmitri Shostakovich, Karl Jenkins, Carol Barratt and Christopher Norton, alongside arrangements of traditional music from around the world by Peter Wastall, Vera Gray and others. Carefully selected by Janet Way, this practical anthology provides the complete repertoire resource for the aspiring Grade 3 saxophonist and creates the perfect package for teaching, exam preparation and performance. Each volume contains:19 pieces and short studies, each complemented by a useful practice and performance tipgrade-appropriate scales and arpeggios linked to the repertoire through bespoke text and exercisesbrand new sight-reading activitiesnewly-commissioned aural awareness tasksa piano accompaniment bookletPackaged with a CD of full performance demonstrations, piano backing tracks, and grade-appropriate aural awareness resources. Janet Way is an experienced performer and teacher. She is a tutor for the LRAM woodwind teaching course at the Royal Academy of Music, and has worked as a mentor and diploma examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. She is founder and director of the internationally-acclaimed Oxford Flute Summer School. / Saxophone Alto Et Piano

Par HARRIS PAUL / CALLAND B.. Premier répertoire pour Saxophone Alto ' est une combinaison de pièces originales et arrangements imaginatives soigneusement sélectionnés et écrit pour le Grade 1-4 joueur qu'il y a quelque chose ici pour chaque occasion ! Paul Harris et Beverley Calland ont mis en commun leur richesse d'expérience pour mettre sur pied cette collection variée et stimulante./ Recueil / Saxophone Alto et Piano