Composed by Various. Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook. Softcover. 240 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

By Various. For Guitar. Education. Level: Grades 1-2. Published by ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music).

String Quartet

SKU: HL.14030979

Score. Composed by Bent Sorensen. Music Sales America. 20th Century. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #KP30120. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14030979).

Parts available: KP00248 The composer writes: The slow choral-like music which initiates Adieu was the result of an image or almost a dream that I had. Without being able to explain why, I imagined a procession of people, maybe medieval munks, wearing large gray mantles with Ku-Klux-Klan-like white cowls on their heads, something like a funeral procession. The title Adieu is partly a comment on this funeral procession, but also used because the piece is split up by three slow-ascending glissandi, a kind of farewell glissandi which removes the intervening music. The first absorbing glissando is soft and removes both the slow funeral choral and the agitating figures in the first half of the piece. The second glissando is given only to the cello and crawls out from the elegiac melodies in the middle part. The third and final glissando is intense and agitating, and prepares the way for the end of the piece. This end primarily deals with the relationship fast - slow. This relationship is turned topsy turvy: the music gets faster and faster until it is so fast that it suddenly becomes slow, so slow in fact that it is very quickly able to become extremely fast again.

Progressive Graded Repertoire for the Developing Saxophonist. Edited by Hywel Davies. Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music. Softcover. 30 pages. Boosey & Hawkes #M060133091. Published by Boosey & Hawkes

By Amy Appleby. For Piano and Voice, with Guitar chord symbols. Irish, Folk, Celtic. Level: Intermediate to Advanced. Sheet Music. Published by Wise Publications.