By James Swearington. For young concert band. Rising Band Series. Grade 2. Score and set of parts. Duration 1 minute, 52 seconds. Published by C.L. Barnhouse

Composed by Chris M. Bernotas. Concert Band. Concert Band; Part(s); Score. Alfred Concert Band. Grade 4. 284 pages. Published by Alfred Music

Young concert band - Grade 2

SKU: CL.024-4095-01

Young Concert Band. Rising Band Series for Developing Bands! Audio recording available separately (item CL.WFR377). Extra full score. Composed 2012. Duration 1 minute, 52 seconds. C.L. Barnhouse #024-4095-01. Published by C.L. Barnhouse (CL.024-4095-01).

Your mallet players will stand tall when given the unique opportunity to be featured on this beautiful rendition of What Child Is This? Cued for various solo players, this lyrical work captures all the highs and lows that younger students need to develop a better understanding of musical expression. Audiences of all ages will be deeply touched by the message of peace portrayed in this, sure to be, Christmas favorite. Breathtaking!

SKU: AP.74-0143180401

Composed by Randy Bachman. Artist/Personality; Reference Textbooks; Textbook - General. Rock. Book. Alfred Music #74-0143180401. Published by Alfred Music (AP.74-0143180401).

ISBN 9780143180401. English.

Randy Bachman has been rolling out chart-topping songs his whole life---You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet, These Eyes, American Woman, Takin' Care of Business---and, since 2005, treating fans to a lifetime of rock 'n' roll stories on his hit CBC Radio show, Vinyl Tap. His approach is always fresh--even the most hardcore music fans will be surprised by what they can learn from Bachman. Whether he is touring with Ringo Starr, jamming with Little Richard, or recording with Neil Young, music is his life, and his anecdotes put you at the center of it all. A fifty-year career in music is full of extreme highs and lows. It is also a life filled with some very colorful characters. Bachman's stories are candid and always entertaining. These are his best stories. The most memorable Vinyl Tap moments are all here, from Randy's Guitarology 101 to his favorite songs to be played at funerals. For fans of the radio show and perennial rock 'n' roll lovers from the sixties through to today, Randy Bachman's Vinyl Tap Stories invites readers to relive their favorite musical experiences. And for new fans, it opens up a joyous world of rock and popular music. Despite his success, Bachman is still that kid from Winnipeg, and his enthusiasm for great music is as strong as ever. Funny, raucous, and engaging, Randy Bachman's Vinyl Tap Stories is irresistible.

By Emeli Sande. Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook. Softcover. 88 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

Concert Band (Score)

SKU: HL.4007556

Concert Band Score. Composed by Philip Sparke. Anglo Music Concert Band. Softcover. 22 pages. Duration 440 seconds. Anglo Music Press #AMP257140. Published by Anglo Music Press (HL.4007556).

UPC: 196288064695.

In Letter from Home Philip Sparke portrays the many feelings and emotions that a letter from home can evoke. This intimate work opens with a gentle woodwind melody, which gradually becomes more confused as new emotions are introduced. Finally resignation sets in, but a sense of peace and balance is restored with the final chorale. In this emotional work Philip Sparke truly captures the highs and lows of being away from home.

SKU: AP.6-828476

Rock Life in the Sixties--Augmented Edition. Composed by Edited by Ellen Sander. Reference Textbooks; Textbook - General. Dover Edition. Rock. Book. Dover Publications #06-828476. Published by Dover Publications (AP.6-828476).

ISBN 9780486828473. English.

Name an iconic Sixties rock moment and Ellen Sander was probably there. A beautifully written, sweeping yet intimate account of America's cultural awakening in that decade. Massively entertaining -- Rolling Stone.

As a pioneering rock journalist for Hit Parader, Vogue, Saturday Review, and other publications, Ellen Sander had a backstage pass to the hottest music scenes of the 1960s. In this feast of juicy anecdotes and keen social commentary, she draws upon her professional and personal experiences to chronicle pop culture's highs and lows during the turbulent decade. Join her for weird and wild road trips with companions ranging from Yippies to the members of Led Zeppelin. Stops along the way include the folk music clubs of Greenwich Village, Haight-Ashbury in its riotous heyday, and the euphoric festivals at Monterey and Woodstock.
It is a memoir, a sourcebook, and a love letter, Sander writes, a recollection of a time, parenthesized by ambivalence and apathy, a search for the ultimate high, a generation with an irrepressible vision, its art, artists, its audience, and the substance of its statement. This expanded edition of Trips adds The Plaster Casters of Chicago, Sander's seminal piece on groupie culture, the lengthy Concerts and Conversations, as well as a new Preface and chapter postscripts.

Simply one of the best pieces of rock reportage ever written. -- Los Angeles Review of Books.

(A Musical Caper About Finding a Place to Belong!). By John Jacobson and Mac Huff. For Choral (Performance Kit with CD). Expressive Art (Choral). 128 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

Orchestra orchestra

SKU: PO.UME01

Composed by Anthony Ritchie. This edition: perfect bound, softcover. Perfect. University Music Edition. Full score. Promethean Editions #UME01. Published by Promethean Editions (PO.UME01).

ISBN 9780877564000. 305 x 220mm inches.

The driving force and subject of Anthony Ritchie's third symphony is the idea of being human, which encompasses the full range of highs and lows of extreme emotions. Winner of The Supreme Achievement Award by The Listener magazine in New Zealand (2010) for the first performance, the work is bold in colour and gesture with challenging orchestrations that interweaves soloistic passages throughout all sections of the orchestra. The symphony portrays two sides of human personality, represented by the two movements of the work: Up and Down. Ritchie writes: the music depicts the constant struggle to find balance in one's life, in terms of mood and relationships with other people. The work is rich with layers of textures and colour, Up underpinned by continual momentum forward, driven by the prominent log drum and tom toms of the percussion, bright brass and the upper registers of the woodwind. The second movement, Down, contrasts markedly with the first by being melancholic, slow and mournful in mood with interjections of agitated gestures. The tension that they create ultimately subsides as melodies of the strings emerge. This work reveals Ritchie's highly personal and compelling writing, and extracts the inner world of human emotion as a heightened experience through the orchestra. This publication is the first of the University Edition New Zealand Series, which showcases important works by leading composers in New Zealand.

Books and Journals

SKU: UT.QC-4

Edited by Roberto Illiano and Rohan H. Stewart-MacDonald. Paperback (Soft Cover). Quaderni Clementiani. Essays by Jean-Pierre Bartoli, Alan Davison, Therese Ellsworth, Erik Entwistle, Jeremy Eskenazy, Michaela Freemanova, Stephan D. Lindeman, Rudolf Rasch, Renato Ricco, Jeanne Roudet, David Rowland, Massimiliano Sala, Laure Schnapper, Rohan H. Stewart-MacDo. Classical. Books and Journals. 568 pages. Ut Orpheus #QC 4. Published by Ut Orpheus (UT.QC-4).

ISBN 9788881094783. 6.5 x 9.5 inches.

Saggi di Jean-Pierre Bartoli, Alan Davison, Therese Ellsworth, Erik Entwistle, Jeremy Eskenazy, Michaela Freemanová, Stephan D. Lindeman, Rudolf Rasch, Renato Ricco, Jeanne Roudet, David Rowland, Massimiliano Sala, Laure Schnapper, Rohan H. Stewart-MacDonald, Marie Sumner Lott


The career of Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760-1812) was notable for its peripateticism. Starting out in his native Bohemia Dussek spent periods of time in Germany and the Netherlands, settling in London for about ten years in the 1790s, progressing to Hamburg and ending his days in Paris. Although his activities centred on the piano, like so many musicians of his day Dussek branched out from performing and composing to encompass teaching, publishing and instrument retail, with varying success. A plethora of reviews and biographical accounts attest to Dussek’s renown throughout Europe as a pianist and composer, particularly when it came to sensitive and cantabile playing; and he interacted with some of the most eminent musicians, artists and political figures of his time. Dussek’s reputation declined sharply in the nineteenth century, however, and with the exception of isolated revivals of his work, for instance in London in the mid-nineteenth century, he has remained on the verge of obscurity in the minds of many musicians and music-lovers until the present day: even his well-known innovation of placing the piano sideways-on to the audience to display his striking profile is often mistakenly attributed to Franz Liszt. Although Dussek has provided the subject of a number of student dissertations over the years, in the published literature he has largely been restricted to cameo appearances or brief entries in historical surveys.
The bicentennial anniversary of Dussek’s death provides a fitting occasion for bringing together scholars from all parts of the world to produce the first multi-author, multi-lingual study of the composer. Several chapters deal with aspects of Dussek’s biography and iconography that receive only sparse treatment elsewhere; others survey the different branches of his output, including the piano sonatas, the piano concertos, the chamber music with and without harp and the three String Quartets, Op. 60, which are currently enjoying a revival via recordings and a new edition.
This book has two fundamental aims. One is to stimulate renewed interest in, and debate about, a less than celebrated – one might say unjustly neglected – figure. The other aim is to approach Dussek’s multi-facetted, geographically diverse career as an interface between ourselves and the music business at the beginning of the nineteenth century, whose complexity and vicissitudes emanated from the sociological dynamics and political events with which Dussek was, to an almost unique degree, inextricably associated. The highs and lows of Dussek’s career, the surviving contemporary accounts of Dussek the performer and composer, and the letters he exchanged with colleagues in several nations vividly portray the struggles of a worldly, ambitious, versatile and extremely perspicacious musician striving to carve out a place of eminence and material security for himself. This meant negotiating the complex progression, underway at this point in history, from the patronage system to the emergence of the artist as a socially and financially autonomous entity.

Brass Band (Score)

SKU: HL.44011258

Brass Band Score. Composed by Philip Sparke. Anglo Music Concert Band. Softcover. 28 pages. Duration 440 seconds. Anglo Music Press #AMP257130. Published by Anglo Music Press (HL.44011258).

UPC: 884088890681.

In Letter from Home Philip Sparke portrays the many feelings and emotions that a letter from home can evoke. This intimate works opens with a gentle melody, which gradually becomes more confused as new emotions are introduced. Finally resignation sets in, but asense of peace and balance is restored with the fi nal chorale. In this emotional work Philip Sparke truly captures the highs and lows of being away from home.

Organ Solo

SKU: AP.36-M234191

Composed by Louis Vierne. Organ. Master Organ Series - LudwigMasters. Part(s). LudwigMasters Publications #36-M234191. Published by LudwigMasters Publications (AP.36-M234191).

ISBN 9798892706698. UPC: 659859051352. English.

French organist and composer Louis Vierne (1870-1937) was a student of César Franck and Charles-Marie Widor and worked as the organist for Notre-Dame de Paris from 1900 until his death, which took place on the organ bench at a recital. He composed many works for organ, among them six organ symphonies and a Messe solennelle for chorus and two organs. His six symphonies express the highs and lows of his personal life, and all are written in minor keys. Vierne's Organ Symphony No. 2, Op. 20, is in E minor. Movements: I. Allegro; II. Choral; III. Scherzo; IV. Cantabile; V. Final.

These products are currently being prepared by a new publisher. While many items are ready and will ship on time, some others may see delays of several months.

SKU: BR.BV-417

Complete Letters in 35 Volumes and Supplements. Composed by Richard Wagner. Edited by Martin Durrer. Linen. Buchverlag Breitkopf & Hartel (Music Books). Romantic period. Complete Works. 800 pages. Breitkopf and Haertel #BV 417. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.BV-417).

ISBN 9783765104176. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. German.

Banned after Tristan world premiere The year 1865 held its fair share of highs and lows for Richard Wagner. The artistic high point was the much-acclaimed Munich world premiere of Tristan, which had been considered unplayable up to then. Wagner also envisioned a music and art school in Munich, as well as a festival theater on the River Isar. King Ludwig II was thus his most important correspondent in this year, as Wagner described his projects to his royal patron in great detail. By the end of the year, however, public pressure against the composer had taken on such dimensions that Ludwig had to banish him from Bavaria. Wagner left the Bavarian capital for Switzerland...

Violin - Level 6

SKU: BA.BA11433

Composed by Zsigmond Szathmary. In a folder. Performance score. Composed 2010. 12 pages. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA11433_00. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BA11433).

ISBN 9790006568215. 29.7 x 21 cm inches. Preface: Zsigmond Szathmary.

In ancient times, language and music were already regarded as an inseparable unit. Homer’s epic poems, for example, were sung, and in the highly developed art of rhetoric, words were used to communicate reason, while music spoke to the soul. Since Monteverdi’s time, musical delineation of text has become even more important: rhetoric terms such as “exclamatio”, “saltus duriusculus”, and “climax” were applied to music in order to render the emotional content of the text in even more expressive ways.

Szathmàry used this compositional method as a model when he drafted his work for violin “Rhetorica”. He wrote about this work: “My aim was to instill a “speaking quality” into even the tiniest musical elements in order to allow for the music to become a powerful narration of the moments experienced in a human life with all its highs and lows – entirely without the use of words.”

By Chris August. For Piano/Vocal/Guitar. Sacred Folio. Softcover. 96 pages. Word Music #080689553288. Published by Word Music

Composed by Artie Almeida. Arranged by Jennifer Lee-Alden. Classroom Music. K-6. Text, CD-Rom. Published by Heritage Music Press

SKU: HL.1479055

Black. Hotone Pedals. Guitar/Bass Amplifier. Hal Leonard #AP-30BK. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.1479055).

19.5x10.25x8.5 inches.

Pulze is a modern Bluetooth digital modeling amplifier with a minimalist exterior design, suitable for a variety of electric and acoustic instruments. Meticulously designed enclosure and speakers ensure high-quality audio playback performance and professional instrument tones within a portable form factor, faithfully reproducing classic sounds found on records. With a fully touchscreen operation combined with Bluetooth 5.0 module and a companion mobile app, Pulze offers a user-friendly, intelligent operating experience. It integrates recording, live streaming, and more features to inspire and capture your musical creativity at any time. For a long time, Hotone's comprehensive effects, have been acclaimed by many musicians for their excellent sound quality and authentic feel. Hotone's signature CDCM HD and F.I.R.E. digital modeling technology has continually evolved. Now, our experienced team has injected our digital modeling technology into the all-new Pulze Amplifier. With a high-quality dual-core digital processing platform, powerful algorithms can be fully utilized. Pulze strikes a perfect balance between tone and size. With a carefully designed ABS enclosure and a pair of custom 3.5-inch full-range speakers, everything is tailored to provide dynamic, rich, detailed, and exceptional tones during your performances. Typically, tube amplifiers require ample space to unleash their immense volume. However, Pulze delivers outstanding sound performance at any volume level, making it the ideal choice for both practice and home performances. Additionally, the stereo Class D amplifier, combined with 30 watts of output power, allows Pulze to shine in small-scale live venues. “It's a professional instrument amplifier and a portable audio system for enjoying music” -- That's the initial concept behind Pulze's design. Engineered with precision, Pulze not only faithfully reproduces the characteristics of musical instruments but also serves as a stunning stereo speaker. With multiple connectivity options like USB, Bluetooth, and Aux In, Pulze allows you to play high-quality music from your computer and smartphone anytime, anywhere. Its transparent highs and well-defined lows provide a live music experience wherever you are. Building upon true stereo signal processing and audio playback, Pulze incorporates the innovative Space+ stereo enhancement technology. It creates a broader soundstage, more realistic presence, and richer sound depth, whether you're playing or listening to music. Pulze surrounds you with an immersive listening experience. A wealth of tones 46 amps simulations 48 cabs simulations 60+ classic effects simulations 20 user IR slots with 5 built-in Celestion-authorized classic speaker IRs.

The Inside Truth and Road-Tested Wisdom from the Brightest Minds in the Music Business. By Mr. Bonzai. Arranged by David Schwartz. This edition: 0876390521. Berklee Press. Softcover. 200 pages. Published by Berklee Press.

SKU: HL.3710702

Model SG15030. Paiste Gongs. General Merchandise. Hal Leonard #SG15030. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.3710702).

UPC: 697643590151. 32.75x33.0x3.75 inches.

Our oldest version of the instrument, Symphonic Gongs have a slightly raised surface (without boss) with a harmonic and universal sound structure. The fundamental note of the gong is balanced with the instrument's complex overtones. The characterizing word “Symphonic” thereby should not be misinterpreted as describing the literal sense of classical symphonic orchestra application but its original sense to unite harmonic sounds. The describing word universal shall be understood as “sound in its entirety.” The sound of these gongs can be influenced and varied through the nature of the stroke, as well as the size, weight, and composition of the mallets. By varying the striking points, highs, lows, and various sound mixtures contained in the entirety of the gong's sound sphere may be extracted and played up. The fundamental note of the gong is balanced with the instrument's complex overtones. The sound of these gongs can be influenced and varied through the nature of the stroke, as well as the size, weight, and composition of the mallets. By varying the striking points, highs, lows, and various sound mixtures contained in the entirety of the gong's sound sphere may be extracted and played up.