Das Liederspiel. Par HUMPERDINCK ENGELBERT. When Engelbert Humperdinck’s fairy tale opera Hänsel und Gretel was premiered on 23 December 1893 in Weimar conducted by Richard Strauss, the work could look back on an extensive history of origin. Humperdinck’s younger sister Adelheid Wette (born in 1858) had displayed a great interest in literature in her youth and written a variety of poems for special occasions. In 1888, she wrote a fairy tale entitled Schneewittchen [Snow White] and her brother supplied some songs for this piece. Further fairy tale collaborations followed which were customarily performed within the family circle, and the first draft of the Hänsel und Gretel was begun in 1890. Adelheid’s husband would be celebrating his 34th birthday on 16 May of this year and his wife intended to surprise him with a performance of her version of this fairy tale. Her brother was allotted the task of composing the accompanying songs and, a month before the birthday, she wrote a letter to him in Mainz where Engelbert Humperdinck was among other activities working as an editor for the Schott publishing house, ordering a “very pretty folkloric” Tanzlied [Dance song], a Waldlied [Forest song] (or Echolied [Echo song]), a Schlummerlied [Lullaby] and a Kickericki-Lied [Cock-a-doodle-doo song] from her “dear sugar-sweet little brother... Engel-Bärtchen [angel beard]”. She enclosed the corresponding verses with the letter and “for fun” also provided her own invented melody for the Schlummerlied and rhythmic suggestions for the Tanzlied. Humperdinck went straight to work and, as related in an entry in his diary, was already able to play the songs to the director of the publishing house, Dr Ludwig Strecker, by 19 April. This was the history of origin of the four songs published for the first time edited in form of their original versions in this edition Brüderchen komm’ tanz’ mit mir, Wer ruft mir im Walde doch alles nach, In den Zweigen die Vögelein und Tirelireli! ‘s ist nicht mehr früh “for two children’s voices and piano accompaniment” (see manuscript1). In his reply letter to his sister in which the fair copy of the songs were enclosed, Humperdinck wrote: “As you see, the pitch of the melodies is not too high and I have incorporated your melodies. Let me know soon whether you like the little songs. By the way, the ‘cock-a-doodle-doo’ can also be sung on one note (E flat) instead of on the four notes of the chord.” The first performance of the song-play was held as planned within the family circle with Wettes’ two eldest daughters in the two principle roles. Spurred on by the success of the family performance, initial plans were forged to adapt the song-play into a singspiel with numerous musical numbers and rhymed dialogues; Hermann Wette participated in a draft of the text. The particell of this singspiel had been completed by Christmas 1890. Hugo Wolf and a few others however advised the composer to extend the singspiel into a through-composed fairy tale opera. Humperdinck followed this advice and worked on what he ironically termed as a “Kinderstubenweihfestspiel“ [sacred festive play for the nursery] during the next two summers in Bayreuth. Tanzliedchen [Dance song] and Morgenweckruf [Cock-a-doodle-doo song] were eventually included in the opera in a modified form. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Répertoire / 2 Voix et Piano

Whitney Houston. Par HOUSTON WHITNEY. 6 of the Best: Whitney Houston comprend la partition à six de ses plus grands succès, y compris, I Will Always Love You et The Greatest Love Of All, tous arrangés pour piano, voix et guitare. 6 Of The Best fait simplement ce qu'il dit - 6 des meilleurs hits des artistes de premier plan disponibles dans un nouveau format et un prix compétitif./ Recueil / Piano, Chant et Guitare

In this, his first volume of sheet music, Peter Broderick collects 20 works for solo piano alongside exclusive new recordings. Taken from his piano-led records such as Docile, Float, How They Are, Partners and Grunewald, some are original solo works while others have been stripped back and arranged for solo piano for the first time. The collection also includes the composer's performance and repertoire notes.Unique recordings exclusively available through digital download20 beautiful piano scores bound in a two-colour-printed volumePersonal notes written by the composerComposers Note:Ever since I started releasing records of piano music back in 2007, it seems that every few months I get an email from a stranger, asking me if I have sheet music for my piano songs. Sometimes people even write to me assuming that the sheet music already exists, asking in regards to a particular song, 'Where can I find the sheet music?? My response to all these requests has been always been the same? 'Unfortunately the music is only written in my head and in my fingers, but I do hope that maybe one day I'll be able to write some of it out and publish a book of sheet music.? And finally, ten years later, that day is here! I am very proud to announce that Piano Works Vol. 1, my first book of piano sheet music, will be available in mid-June. Thanks to my dear friends at Erased Tapes and Music Sales for helping this come to fruition.- Peter Broderick / Piano

La plus grande collection de musique country catalogue ! Presque 200 chansons, tous en facile à jouer format de ' busker '. Comprend ' Achy Breaky Heart ', ' Crazy ', ' Prendre ces chaînes de My Heart ', 'I Can ' T Stop Lovin' vous' et bien plus encore ! / Chant Et Guitare / 128 pages / Partition

Released to the surprise of fans, pundits and even Columbia Records' own PR department, The Next Day is David Bowie 's twenty-fourth studio album, announced on his sixty-sixth birthday. Containing Bowie's first collection of all-new material for over ten years, The Next Day débuted at number 1 and number 2 on charts across the world. A critical as well as commercial success, the album garnered five star reviews from Q , the Independent and the Telegraph , while the Guardian, Mojo, Rolling Stone and the Times gave it four stars. This matching songbook contains sheet music for all the tracks from The Next Day , including the singles Where Are We Now?, The Stars (Are Out Tonight), The Next Day and Valentine's Day . It also contains the songs from the deluxe version of the album: So She, Plan and I'll Take You There . All the songs have been expertly arranged for Piano, Vocal and Guitar. / Piano/Vocal/Guitare (PVG)

Par CAENS. Thierry Caens' Short Studies In The Keys for Trumpet. I am very happy that Hamelle is publishing the collection I have been planning to produce for several years. This collection includes works written or arranged for myself, as well as a representative selection of my own compositions (original works or arrangements). It should be of interest to all kinds of groupings, from the most standard (Trumpet and Piano, Trumpet and Organ, Trumpet and Orchestra, Wind Quintet, Trombone Quartet) to the most unusual (Cornet and Brass Quintet, large Brass Ensembles, Trumpet and Trombone with Organ), and it of course also includes teaching material(studies, exercises, competition pieces). My concern has been to present useful new pieces, but above all to awaken and develop the musical sense of brass instrumentalists. & Thierry Caens/ Etude / Trompette

Melody, Lyrics And Chords. This series of beginning fake books for players new to ' faking” includes: 100 memorable songs, all in the key of C - lyrics - chords which have been simplified, but remain true to each tune - easy-to-read, large music notation. 100 songs from the 60s: Baby Love - Dancing in the Street - The Girl from Ipanema - Good Vibrations - Hey Jude - I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Leaving on a Jet Plane - Respect - (Sittin On) the Dock of the Bay - Soul Man - Turn! Turn! Turn! - and more. / Niveau : Facile / Recueil / Ligne de Mélodie, Paroles et Accords

Par WENIGER PETER. This CD (including music booklet) has not especially been worked out for the use in musical education. It is, on the contrary, an audio CD which has been recorded for sale as a trio CD under my name. Mixing the recordings at the studio, however, gave us the idea to offer this CD Legal Paradizer also as a play along CD. For this reason I have never taken a pedagogic approach to the musical conception of the pieces performed, which, in my opinion, is exactly what makes these recordings so unique. The structure of none of the pieces is, for instance, as simple as that of the tunes on some other play along CDs. Therefore, I have taken the liberty of adding a short explanationand/or comment on every piece meant to make it easier for you to follow the road map of the tunes. Additionally I have explained some stylistic features to help you interprete the individual pieces. Working with my students has shown me how much fun it can be to also offer groove and funk oriented music on a CD to play along. In most of the pieces you do not necessarily have to follow the changes; you should rather develop simple ideas in time. A real strong emphasis is here placed on the term groove./ Recueil / Instruments en Sib