Flatpicking Guitar has taken an interesting journey since its inception first with Maybelle Carter then Don Reno Doc Watson and Clarence White. Younger players who began by listening to the original masters have melded thoseinfluences with other styles including blues swing classical and even various world music styles.When first listening to Doc Watson and Clarence White Barry Solomon was particularly attracted to their use of swing andjazz licks and phrasing and their choices of songs straight from the Tin Pan Alley and Great American Songbook.Tunes like Limehouse Blues All of Me and Honeysuckle Rose were exciting challenges toexplore after becoming comfortable with bluegrass and fiddle tunes. Barry always thought that bluegrass and jazz were a wonderful combination and the most gratifying challenge has been to create arrangements that meld both stylesin a tasteful and exciting manner.Titles presented in Volume 2 include: The Way You Look Tonight All of Me Oh Baby and Limehouse Blues. Accompanying audio tuition is included.

Born in South Africa, but now an Irish citizen, Kevin Volans' musical idiom has been shaped by an unusually diverse range of experiences, including studies with Stockhausen in Cologne, field trips to South Africa to study traditional music, his own involvement with the New Simplicity movement, his collection of contemporary art and African textiles, friendships with composers like Morton Feldman and Gerald Barry, as well as a love of virtuoso piano music which he performs, broadcasts and records. While having an easily recognised, unique voice, Volans' music resists compartmentalisation. He is as comfortable working in conventional genres as embarking on innovative collaborations with artists of other disciplines.String Quartet #1 (White Man Sleeps) was written for the Kronos Quartet and was first performed by them in July 1986, London.The title 'White Man Sleeps' comes from a moment in nyanga Panpipe music where the performers leave off playing their loud pipes for a few cycles and dance only to the sound of their ankle rattles, to let the white landowner sleep - for a minute or two.'In composing this piece I drew from the following sources: the first movement owes something to the style of Basotho concertina music - the second and fourth movements are drawn from traditional Nyungwe music played by Makina Chirenje and his Nyanga panpipe group at Nsava, Tete, Mozambique, recorded and transcribed by Andrew Tracey (to be found in an article entitled 'The nyanga Panpipe dance' in African Music, Vol.5, #1 (1971) - the third movement derives from the San bow music (recorded by Tony Traill of the University of Witwatersrand) and from Basotho lesiba music, transcribed by myself - in the fifth movement I added my own invented folklore. My approach to the original music was anything but purist - it is played in Western tuning, filtered, slowed down by a few 'time-octaves?, cast into non-African metres (like the 13-beat pattern of the first dance) and redistributed between the players in several ways. I also used interlocking techniques where they were absent in the original models and vice versa' - Kevin VolansDuration 24 minutes. Parts available: CH61205. / Quatuor A Cordes (Conducteur)

Par ARCENS GILLES. Diplômé du conservatoire de Toulouse de 1982 à 1985 (1er prix de saxophone, 1er prix de musique de chambre, prix de perfectionnement de saxophone, 1er prix d'harmonie, 1er prix de contrepoint, 2ème prix de solfège), il poursuit des études de composition de musique de films à l'Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, avec Antoine Duhamel et Laurent Petitgirard, entre 1987 et 1988. De 1986 à 1992, il exerce en temps que professeur de saxophone, de musique de chambre, d'harmonie et de contrepoint au conservatoire d'Andorre la Vieille (Principauté d'Andorre). Il joue en parallèle dans le quatuor de saxophones Tetrasax de 1981 à 1990, puis de 1989 à 1993, avec le Jazz Time Big-Band, dirigé par Richard Calléja. Il rejoint le grand orchestre de René Coll en 1992, en temps que saxophoniste arrangeur, et compositeur. Il réalise des orchestrations pour de nombreuses émissions de télévision (Sacrée Soirée, les Années Tubes, FaSiLa Chanter, Vivement Dimanche, les 25 ans du Loto, Prima Dona, Le Plus Grand Cabaret du Monde, Music-hall et Compagnie, les émissions pour l'élection de Miss-France de 1996 à 2003), sur des compositions originales de Vladimir Cosma, Gérard Presgurvic, Richard Sanderson, Gilles Arcens, etc. Il travaille en étroite collaboration avec Patrick Sébastien depuis 1998 : co-compositions et arrangements de ses chansons, réalisation de tous ses albums, composition de ses génériques de ses émissions télévisées, mise en forme et orchestration de ses spectacles et tours de chants, accompagnement sur scène en tournée dans toute la France et dans les grandes salles parisiennes (Olympia, Palais des Congrès, etc.). Durant sa carrière, il a accompagné de nombreux artistes dont J. Hallyday, F. Pagny, Barry White, N. Croisille, S. Distel, H. Salvador, Maurane, V. Samson, S. Lama, C. Aznavour, G. Lenorman, D. Briand, Adamo, Dave, H. Léonard, L. Fabian, E. Macias, M. Delpech, J. Montagné, Garou, Nadya. Ses compositions regroupent de nombreuses musiques pour big-band, ballet, film, ensemble de clarinettes, orchestre d'harmonie, piano, clarinette et cordes, clarinette et orchestre d'harmonie, contes musicaux pour enfants, choeur mixte et orchestre d'harmonie, et pour ensemble de cuivres. / Niveau : Avancé / Répertoire / Trompette Solo et Orchestre d'Harmonie

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Mvt 1. Par ARCENS GILLES. Diplômé du conservatoire de Toulouse de 1982 à 1985 (1er prix de saxophone, 1er prix de musique de chambre, prix de perfectionnement de saxophone, 1er prix d'harmonie, 1er prix de contrepoint, 2ème prix de solfège), il poursuit des études de composition de musique de films à l'Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, avec Antoine Duhamel et Laurent Petitgirard, entre 1987 et 1988. De 1986 à 1992, il exerce en temps que professeur de saxophone, de musique de chambre, d'harmonie et de contrepoint au conservatoire d'Andorre la Vieille (Principauté d'Andorre). Il joue en parallèle dans le quatuor de saxophones Tetrasax de 1981 à 1990, puis de 1989 à 1993, avec le Jazz Time Big-Band, dirigé par Richard Calléja. Il rejoint le grand orchestre de René Coll en 1992, en temps que saxophoniste arrangeur, et compositeur. Il réalise des orchestrations pour de nombreuses émissions de télévision (Sacrée Soirée, les Années Tubes, FaSiLa Chanter, Vivement Dimanche, les 25 ans du Loto, Prima Dona, Le Plus Grand Cabaret du Monde, Music-hall et Compagnie, les émissions pour l'élection de Miss-France de 1996 à 2003), sur des compositions originales de Vladimir Cosma, Gérard Presgurvic, Richard Sanderson, Gilles Arcens, etc. Il travaille en étroite collaboration avec Patrick Sébastien depuis 1998 : co-compositions et arrangements de ses chansons, réalisation de tous ses albums, composition de ses génériques de ses émissions télévisées, mise en forme et orchestration de ses spectacles et tours de chants, accompagnement sur scène en tournée dans toute la France et dans les grandes salles parisiennes (Olympia, Palais des Congrès, etc.). Durant sa carrière, il a accompagné de nombreux artistes dont J. Hallyday, F. Pagny, Barry White, N. Croisille, S. Distel, H. Salvador, Maurane, V. Samson, S. Lama, C. Aznavour, G. Lenorman, D. Briand, Adamo, Dave, H. Léonard, L. Fabian, E. Macias, M. Delpech, J. Montagné, Garou, Nadya. Ses compositions regroupent de nombreuses musiques pour big-band, ballet, film, ensemble de clarinettes, orchestre d'harmonie, piano, clarinette et cordes, clarinette et orchestre d'harmonie, contes musicaux pour enfants, choeur mixte et orchestre d'harmonie, et pour ensemble de cuivres. / Niveau : Avancé / Répertoire / Trompette Solo et Orchestre d'Harmonie

A beautiful illustrated collection containing over 100 folksongs from the British Isles. Songs of longing, of love, of the Irish and Scottish rebellions, as well as lullabies, children's songs, and even a few composed songs which have become part of the folk heritage can be found in this collection.Easily played piano and guitar accompaniments are provided, and not only translated lyrics, but phonetic transcriptions are also included so that songs may be sung in their original language. England: Hares On The Mountain; Allan Water; My Boy Willie; When Cockleshells Turn Silverbells; The Banks Of The Sweet Primroses; I?m Seventeen Come Sunday; Greensleeves; The Trees Are Geting High; On Ilkla Moor Baht? At; O Waly, Waly; Weel May The Keel Row; The Three Ravens; Early One Morning; O No, John!; A May Day Carol; The Oak And The Ash; Lavender?s Blue; Blow The Wind Southerly; The Cherry Tree Carol; The Green Bushes; Over The Mountains; Gently, Johnny, My Jingalo; Two Maidens Went Milking One Day; Cock Robin; Died For Love; Buttercup Joe; Ireland: Down By The Salley Gardens; Let Erin Remember The Days Of Old; The Crusikeen Lawn; Shule Aroon; The Little Red Fox; When Pat Came Over The Hill; The Bold Fenian Men; The Parting Glass; Bendemeer?s Stream; The Mountains O? Mourne; The Wearing Of The Green; The Rising Of The Moon; The Lark In The Clear Air; I Wish I Had The Shopherd?s Lamb; O?Donnell Aboo; She Moved Through The Fair; Mrs. McGrath; Lilli Burlero; Monday, Tuesday; Farewell! But Whenever You Welcome The Hour; Kevin Barry; Kilgary Mountain; Oft In The Stilly Night; Molly Brannigan; John O?Dywer Of The Glen; The Time I?ve Lost In Wooing; The Croppy Boy; The Banks Of Roses; The Bard of Armagh; ?Tis Pretty To Be In Balinderry; Whack Fol The Diddle; Scotland: Green Grow The Rashes, O!; Wae?s Me For Prince Charlie; The Wark O? The Weavers; Flow Gently, Sweet Afton; The Blue Bells Of Scotland; Baloo Baleerie; Is There For Honest Poverty; Corn Rigs Are Bonnie; Can Ye Sew Cushions?; A Hihgland Lad My Love Was Born; Ho Ro My Nut-Brown Maiden; Robin Adair; Awa?, Whigs, Awa?; My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose; Weaving Lilt; Turn Ye To Me; To The Beggin? I Will Go; Ye Banks And Braes O? Bonnie Doon; Scots Wha Ha?e Wi? Wallace Bled; Charlie Is My Darling; Oh Rowan Tree; Will Ye No? Come Back Again?; The Piper O? Dundee; Leezie Lindsay; The Road To The Isles; An Eriskay Love Lilt; Wales: The Bells Of Aberdovey; To See Swainson; Robin Redbreat; David Of The White Rock; The Kind Old Man; Men Of Harlech; Fairest Gwen; Over The Stone; Cuckoo Dear; Megan?s Fair Daugher; Little Saucepan; The Ash Grove; Rise, Rise, Thou Merry Lark; Lullaby; All Through The Night; Joy Upon The Bright Cheek Dances; Idle Days In Summertime; Counting The Goats; The Dove; Welsh National Anthem.

200 chansons arrangées pour piano solo, chant et accords guitare?Un livre exceptionnel !

Arrangement: Harris Richard. Par HARRIS RICHARD. The 1960s and 70s were decades of flower power, short skirts and soul. This new sound forged from R 'n' B and gospel took the world by storm, influencing artists across the decades. Play Soul features 10 of the best soul songs ever - from legendary pioneers James Brown, Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin to Michael Jackson and Alicia Keys. All songs have been carefully arranged by Richard Harris for the intermediate Piano player, with a funky backing CD!/ Recueil / Piano