Each piece is descriptive in nature primarily focusing on expressiveness and musical interpretation. Contents include: Forest Canopy; Poison Arrow Frog; Snake Appeal; Giant Purple Butterflies; Monkey Talk; Into the Night Mist; Orchid Tears.

Come explore all the layers of the rainforest with this swingin' collection of songs and activities filled to the canopy with facts about many of the wonderful creatures that dwell inside this fascinating habitat! Designed forboth music and general classroom use in Grades 1-3 Singin' in the Rainforest can be performed in its entirety as a musical revue replete with eight songs and easy rhyming script or it can be divided into smaller segmentsto reinforce learning done in other disciplines across the curriculum. This collection includes fourteen reproducible educational activities a “Rainforest Vocabulary and Facts Guide” “Life Science CurriculumObjectives” and “Fast Facts for Teachers” for each of the seven different animals featured to help answer basic questions and allow you to have meaningful fun in both the classroom and onstage.Songsinclude: Singin' in the Rainforest; Agouti; Toucan You Can Do It; Red-Eyed Tree Frog; Ocelot; Spider Monkey; Blue Morpho Butterfly; Snakes Can Slither.

Toy Box - Very First Pieces For Piano contains 26 simple yet impressive Piano songs composed by experienced teacher June Armstrong. This book is ideal for a beginner to put theory into practice with a wide variety of pieces in a number of styles.Each title in this songbook is evocative of the way the piece is meant to be played, with songs like Ballerina, Hula Hoop and Kaleidoscope suiting the instructions that Armstrong has provided like ?Daintily? and ?Steadily?. Unique touches like this make Toy Box perfect for a young child who is working their way towards grade one standard, as the composer has skilfully attempted to represent the nature of various toys through the medium of music. This will help a young musician to learn the basic concepts of musical theory in a fun and familiar context, with songs like Jumbo and Slinky sure to entertain all who are within earshot through humour and musicality. If you would like to listen to audio recordings of all the songs included in Toy Box, they are all available to download free of charge from the author's website.What sets this songbook apart from other beginner books is the personality and dedication that June Armstrong brings to her compositions, noting that her pieces are all inspired by her own Piano students and giving detailed and informative notes for each song at the beginning of the book. For the song Dinosaur, Armstrong writes that ?You will want to create a very scary atmosphere?The right hand note heads are strange bird calls in the forest. The left hand Ds, Es and Fs are the dinosaur??. The care that has been put into creating this sheet music shows that Armstrong is acutely aware of the best way for students to learn, and that she truly wants students to learn effectively, but in a fun and light-hearted way.Each song in Toy Box occupies a single page making it easy for a player to track their progress and learning, while there are additional helpful bits of information peppered throughout to clarify anything that may be unfamiliar to the student. Armstrong is keen on developing a student's ear for tone and atmosphere, so these extra notes not only reinforce how to play the piece physically, but also how to include emotion and feeling in music, for example how to conjure imagery like that of Blowing Bubbles. The songbook will be perfect for a child who already understands basic musical terms, will be able to play in a few keys other than C Major and is able to play in simple time signatures. As a first step into new compositions, Toy Box will introduce new concepts as well as reinforce what a student is already accustomed to, nevertheless, Armstrong's message is clear - ?Have fun!?. / Piano

Baritone Book Only-For aspiring and professional singers who love Broadway Alfred's Singer's Library of Musical Theatre presents an elegant collection of the best-loved musical theatre songs in their original keys authentically transcribed from their original vocal scores. Perfect for study and equally suitable for the most important auditions and performances each volume is dedicated to a specific vocal range and contains dozens of songs from a variety of shows that span decades of theatre history. Multiple volumes are available for each of four vocal ranges: Soprano Mezzo-Soprano/Alto Tenor and Baritone/Bass. Authoritative historical and contextual commentary audition tips and 16-barcut suggestions for each song make it the most useful and relevant song library of its kind. Titles include: Everything Old Is New Again (The Boy from Oz) · She's My Love (Carnival) · Those Were the Good Old Days! (Damn Yankees) · A Jug of Wine (The Day Before Spring) · Anyone Would Love You (Destry Rides Again) · All of My Life (Do Re Mi) · After Today (Dr. Doolittle) · Gigi (Gigi) · Store-Bought Suit (The Golden Apple) · The Best Things in Life Are Free (Good News) · Where Do I Go' (Hair) · I Love My Wife (I Do! I Do!) · It's a Well Known Fact (I Do! I Do!) · No More (Into the Woods) · They Go Wild Simply Wild Over Me (Irene) · Progress Is the Root of All Evil (Lil' Abner) · Love Who You Love (A Man of No Importance) · Marriage Proposal (March of the Falsettos) · Me and My Girl (Me and My Girl) · Reviewing the Situation (Oliver!) · I Talk to the Trees (Paint Your Wagon) · Isn't It a Pity' (Pardon My English) · No One Has Ever Loved Me (Passion) · I'm Back in Circulation (Redhead) · Love's a Bond (Saturday Night) · Bless Your Beautiful Hide (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) · I Don't Remember Christmas (Starting Here Starting Now) · Once in a Lifetime (Stop The World I Want to Get Off) · The Barber and His Wife (Sweeney Todd) · The Mansion (Two Gentlemen of Verona) · If I Were the King of the Forest (The Wizard of Oz) · A Quiet Girl (Wonderful Town).

Baritone Book/2-CDs Pack-For aspiring and professional singers who love Broadway Alfred's Singer's Library of Musical Theatre presents an elegant collection of the best-loved musical theatre songs in their original keys authentically transcribed from their original vocal scores. Perfect for study and equally suitable for the most important auditions and performances each volume is dedicated to a specific vocal range and contains dozens of songs from a variety of shows that span decades of theatre history. Multiple volumes are available for each of four vocal ranges: Soprano Mezzo-Soprano/Alto Tenor and Baritone/Bass. Authoritative historical and contextual commentary audition tips and 16-barcut suggestions for each song make it the most useful and relevant song library of its kind. Titles include: Everything Old Is New Again (The Boy from Oz) · She's My Love (Carnival) · Those Were the Good Old Days! (Damn Yankees) · A Jug of Wine (The Day Before Spring) · Anyone Would Love You (Destry Rides Again) · All of My Life (Do Re Mi) · After Today (Dr. Doolittle) · Gigi (Gigi) · Store-Bought Suit (The Golden Apple) · The Best Things in Life Are Free (Good News) · Where Do I Go' (Hair) · I Love My Wife (I Do! I Do!) · It's a Well Known Fact (I Do! I Do!) · No More (Into the Woods) · They Go Wild Simply Wild Over Me (Irene) · Progress Is the Root of All Evil (Lil' Abner) · Love Who You Love (A Man of No Importance) · Marriage Proposal (March of the Falsettos) · Me and My Girl (Me and My Girl) · Reviewing the Situation (Oliver!) · I Talk to the Trees (Paint Your Wagon) · Isn't It a Pity' (Pardon My English) · No One Has Ever Loved Me (Passion) · I'm Back in Circulation (Redhead) · Love's a Bond (Saturday Night) · Bless Your Beautiful Hide (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) · I Don't Remember Christmas (Starting Here Starting Now) · Once in a Lifetime (Stop The World I Want to Get Off) · The Barber and His Wife (Sweeney Todd) · The Mansion (Two Gentlemen of Verona) · If I Were the King of the Forest (The Wizard of Oz) · A Quiet Girl (Wonderful Town).

Scottish and Irish Tunes for Celtic Harp. Discover over two dozen traditional tunes from Scotland and Ireland: a mix of novel and familiar jigs, reels, airs, marches, and strathspeys. Intermediate through advanced harp players will enjoy these lovely melodies and their fresh, sparkling accompaniments. The arrangements include several optional transitions for combining tunes into sets, as heard on Claussen?s album The Road Home from Skye. Suitable for harps with a range of at least two octaves below middle C. Contains dynamics, chords, practical technical exercises, and fingering suggestions.

This major concert work cosists o five movements.1st movement: La Laguna del ShimbeSituated high up in the Andes mountains in Northern Peru are the Huaringas a group of lagoons in isolated and mysterious surroundings. The water has healing powersand for centuries traditional healers have settled there in small villages. From far the sick come to the Huaringas to be treated in nightly rituals in which the hallucinating juice of the San Pedro cactus gives the prophet a look inside hispatient. The biggest lagoon is the ?Laguna del Shimbe? one of the countless wells of the immense Amazon stream.2nd movement: Los AguarunasFurther downstream in Northern Peru we come across the rain tribe of Los Aguarunas. It?s a proud beautiful andindependent race which has never succumbed to domination not even from the Incas. They live from everything the forest has to offer: fish fruit plants ... . They also grow some crops and live as semi-nomads. They take their fate into their ownhands and after having made contact with modern civilisation they have integrated new elements into their lives without betraying their own ways.3rd movement: MekaronMekaron is an Indian word meaning ?picture? ?soul? ?essence?. The Indians are theorigina inhabitants of the Amazon region. They either live in one place as a group or move around a large region. They all have their own political system their own language and an intense social life. At the same time they are master of music andmedicine. ?Everywhere the white man goes he leaves a wilderness behind him? wrote the North American Indian leader Seatl in 1885. As a result of these contacts with the whites the disruption of most Indian societies began. (In this century alone 80 tribes have vanished completely).4th movement: KêêtuajêThis is the name of the initiating ceremony of the Krahô tribe in the Brazilian state of Goias in which young boys and girls enter adult life. They are cleansed with water painted with redpaint and covered with feathers after which the ritual dance holds the entire tribe spell-bound.5th movement: Paulino FaiakanIn 1988 the Indian chiefs Faiakan and Raoni Kaiapo came to Europe to protest against the building of the Altamira dam inBrazil. As a result of the dam the Indians would be driven from their traditional land and enormous artificial would be created. The project was supported financially by amongst others the European Community. In February 1989 the Indian tribesaround Altamira held a protest march for the first time in their history together. Amongst other things they paid tribute tot Chico Mendez who murdered in 1988 was the leader of the rubber syndicate and a fierce opponent of the destruction of theBrazilian rain forest. Brazilian and world opinion was awakened. The building of the dam was -albeit temporarily - stopped.

This major concert work cosists o five movements.1st movement: La Laguna del ShimbeSituated high up in the Andes mountains in Northern Peru are the Huaringas a group of lagoons in isolated and mysterious surroundings. The water has healing powersand for centuries traditional healers have settled there in small villages. From far the sick come to the Huaringas to be treated in nightly rituals in which the hallucinating juice of the San Pedro cactus gives the prophet a look inside hispatient. The biggest lagoon is the ?Laguna del Shimbe? one of the countless wells of the immense Amazon stream.2nd movement: Los AguarunasFurther downstream in Northern Peru we come across the rain tribe of Los Aguarunas. It?s a proud beautiful andindependent race which has never succumbed to domination not even from the Incas. They live from everything the forest has to offer: fish fruit plants ... . They also grow some crops and live as semi-nomads. They take their fate into their ownhands and after having made contact with modern civilisation they have integrated new elements into their lives without betraying their own ways.3rd movement: MekaronMekaron is an Indian word meaning ?picture? ?soul? ?essence?. The Indians are theorigina inhabitants of the Amazon region. They either live in one place as a group or move around a large region. They all have their own political system their own language and an intense social life. At the same time they are master of music andmedicine. ?Everywhere the white man goes he leaves a wilderness behind him? wrote the North American Indian leader Seatl in 1885. As a result of these contacts with the whites the disruption of most Indian societies began. (In this century alone 80 tribes have vanished completely).4th movement: KêêtuajêThis is the name of the initiating ceremony of the Krahô tribe in the Brazilian state of Goias in which young boys and girls enter adult life. They are cleansed with water painted with redpaint and covered with feathers after which the ritual dance holds the entire tribe spell-bound.5th movement: Paulino FaiakanIn 1988 the Indian chiefs Faiakan and Raoni Kaiapo came to Europe to protest against the building of the Altamira dam inBrazil. As a result of the dam the Indians would be driven from their traditional land and enormous artificial would be created. The project was supported financially by amongst others the European Community. In February 1989 the Indian tribesaround Altamira held a protest march for the first time in their history together. Amongst other things they paid tribute tot Chico Mendez who murdered in 1988 was the leader of the rubber syndicate and a fierce opponent of the destruction of theBrazilian rain forest. Brazilian and world opinion was awakened. The building of the dam was -albeit temporarily - stopped.

pour piano. Par LENS NICHOLAS. The Belgian composer Nicholas Lens presents extremely varied etudes, exercises and simple phrases with wonderfully telling titles from poetry and everyday world for children and adults. For the most part the studies are tonal and simple and have no constructed line. They are not based on any educational concept but leave the musical dramatization to the pupils and teachers: 'Notes and rhythms are just notes and rhythms, they do not have that many rules, they do not have any pretension, they are just tools for you to use to express what you want to share'. / Date parution : 2016-11-20/ Etude / Piano

The Battle on the Heath On 24 January 1597, the ?Tielenheide? - a stretch of moorland near the Belgian village of Tielen, south of Turnhout-was the scene of a great battle. Prince Maurice of Nassau, commander of the Dutch army, crushingly defeated Count Varax, a Burgundian general of the Spanish army. In military circles, the Battle of Turnhout caused quite a stir: a Spanish army of five thousand men was initially held up for hours through daring short moves by fifteen cavalrymen and a few hundred foot-soldiers -and subsequently, this Spanish army was overpowered by barely a thousand cavalrymen, without the help of the infantrymen. New weaponry proved its value that day. The Dutch cavalrymen were not armed with spears, as previously, but with long, carbine-like pistols . Before the pikemen of the Spanish army could stick their fearsome, six-metre-long spears into the ground to protect themselves against the onrushing horses, they were shot to pieces or knocked down. During the battle, the state troops seized a number of flags, which would embellish the Ridderzaal (Knights? Hall) in The Hague for years.In a contemporary Dutch military magazine, the victory at the ?Tielenheide? has been described as ? the heaviest blow ever delivered by the Dutch cavalry?. The location where the battle took place is no langer moorland: it is now a pine forest planted more than a century age, to meet the demand for wood in the old coalmines of Limburg . Part of the forest is now the military territory of the Third Paratroop Batallion, and part is now the De Waal nature reserve: it is not accessible to the public. In Tielen there is still a street called the Tielenheide, near the former moorland.

Siimes for Wind Quintet by Finnish composer Outi Tarkiainen (2017). Programme note Siimes is my second wind quintet and is based on the saxophone concerto Saivo. The title of the work suggests an allegorical hiding place deep in the forest from where one can easily observe the surrounding reality. The first movement flows and swirls like diving under water at times changing direction and always bubbling merrily. The second movement’s ethereal shimmering culminates into the last movement’s mighty chord pillars that pile up on one another like an ash cloud. Siimesis dedicated to Auriga Wind Quintet’s flautist Heli Haapala who commissioned the work with the support of the Sibelius Foundation. Outi Tarkiainen Parts are available: WH32984A

Trees - Concerto for Violin Orchestra and Electronics by Niels Rosing-Schow (2001).Manuscript copy.Parts are for hire: hire@ewh.dkProgramme noteThe title 'Trees' should be regarded as a metaphor even though the electronic sounds in the piece are actually derived from trees. The piece is a metaphor of the multifaceted nature of the leaves on the trees the 'united difference' as the trees of the forest the 'life-giving' as trees transform CO2 into Oxygen). It is a metaphor of the ever returning and optimisticfoliation each spring) and in a broader sense a metaphor of organic nature. The violin concerto is a sounding organism which in more or less gradual transition appears in different shapes and states of condition. At some points the music is round and flexible and at others it is edged and hard. Sometimes it might remind us of something well known and from time to time it changes into something intangible - an indefinite state of nature. In contrast to the sonorous extreme the solo violin is portrayed as a manifestation of maximum (human) presence.Niels Rosing-Schow