Arr. Jacob De Haan. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Even the most basic understanding of Western music must include an intimate familiarity with the magnificent body of works by J. S. Bach. The charming beauty of the ARIOSO from BWV 156 must almost certainly appear on anyone?s personal list of the world's most beautiful melodies. What a wonderful vehicle for the study of artful phrasing and expression! Don't let the Grade 2 designation make you overlook this exquisite rendition for bands that normally play at grades 4, 5, and 6. Musicians at any level of ability will find great rewards here. As the perfect festival centerpiece or as a lovely introspective moment on any concert, Jacob de Haan's touching arrangement of Bach'sincomparable ARIOSO, speaking its own inherent and spiritual truth, is sure to find a permanent home in your brass band library. / Niveau : 2 / Musique pour célébration / Répertoire / Brass Band

24 Heine-Vertonungen. Par STEFFEN WOLFGANG. To familiarize oneself with the basics of lied singing and at the same time work on technical and artistic issues using short and varied lieder, there is no way around the German 'Vaccai”. With lieder based on Heine's poems and following the Italian example Nicola Vaccai, Steffen Wolf succeeded in creating a real highlight in voice teaching. Each volume comprises the lieder with the international phonetic transcription below the music, short pedagogical comments on technical and artistic issues as well as a CD with recordings of the songs and piano playbacks in the respective voice range. Singers: Miriam Alexandra (soprano), Yvi Jänicke (alto), Dávid Csizmár (baritone) and the composer (tenor) himself. They are accompanied by the pianist Henning Lucius, who also recorded the piano playbacks for every CD./ Méthode / Voix Moyenne

A unique CD and matching folio specially developed for female singers auditioning for shows, revues and bands. The CD gives you full professional backing tracks, each recorded in the most appropriate key for the female voice. The music book features each song in Voice and Piano arrangements that are accessible for you or your accompanist. This broad collection offers 10 popular classical favourites from German Lieder to Italian Arias, ranging from the easily accessible to more the challenging. The CD features a mixture of orchestral backing tracks and live Steinway accompaniments, making this the ideal choice for both rehearsal and for the all-important audition performance. You are sure to impress with this winning combination of classical sophistication and popular familiarity! / Chant Et Piano

Easy popular pieces for young singers, selected and arranged by Olga Lantham and Jerry Lanning. This collection of 14 popular melodies has been carefully arranged and graded to provide attractive teaching repertoire for young singers. The familiarity of the material will stimulate pupils' enthusiasm and encourage their practice. With piano accompaniment. / Voix Et Piano

Easy popular Christmas pieces for young Clarinettists, carefully arranged and graded to provide attractive teaching repertoire by Jerry Lanning, and complete with a CD of accompaniments. New concepts and techniques are introduced progressively, and the familiarity with the material will stimulate pupils' enthusiasms and encourage their practice. The popular Christmas melodies will bring a smile to the face of every performer and listener, especially when heard with the backing tracks! The CD also features a demonstration version of each piece, to help you work through those tricky phrases. Suitable for players grades 1-2 standard. / Clarinette Et Piano

Jazz Play-Along Vol.116. 2 CDs and book. What do you play when you have one chord for 8 or 16 bars? The Modal Jazz era presented new challenges for improvisers, spawning a fruitful period rich in new ideas, concepts, and harmonic exploration. This play-a-long includes several 'Standard' forms and important practice tracks; many of which are 'period accurate' and others which are stylistically more contemporary. These practice tracks are designed to foster understanding, facility and familiarity. Many of the first tracks are slow, making them perfect for beginners. Intermediate and advanced players will enjoy the opportunity to doubletime and experiment with an endless array of chord/scalesubstitutions over the otherwise simple tracks. / Niveau : Débutant / Méthode en anglais / Méthode / Tout Instrument

Par BETTS JAMES. This book provides the bassist with an 'escape' from being locked in 1st position on the bass neck and improves left hand technique. Helps bassists familiarize themselves with notes and patterns throughout the entire range of the instrument, exploring modes and scales in all 12 keys. Each scale group is presented in a 'circle of fifths' format, starting with the scale or mode with no accidentals. Written in notation and tablature. Numbers are written below the tablature to suggest alternate fingerings - use of all the fingerings will enhance your ability to shift positions throughout the neck. / Niveau : Tous Niveaux / All Styles - Technic / Tablatures / Guitare Basse Tablatures

Easy duets for beginners. Par RAE JAMES. James Rae's eminently successful tutor Introducing the Clarinet was the first of its kind providing the complete beginner with material in popular styles yet allowing for a sound musical development along traditional lines. Now, complementing the tutor, James Rae has produced these three volumes to introduce the beginner clarinettist to ensemble playing. The parts are of the same technical level and are written, with hints and tips along the way, to familiarize the beginner with a new set of considerations and become a good team player. Each of the volumes contains: • easy pieces introducing the various aspects of music making with others • all parts are in the low register • especially suited to group teaching • ideal material for concerts and examinations / Pédagogie / Etude / 2 Clarinettes

Par RAE JAMES. 18 studies written to develop familiarity with the main types of scales and arpeggios in Jazz. More enjoyable than the scales themselves, James Rae has deliberately chosen keys that give a comfortable, user-friendly introduction to the various tonalities. Each section describes a particular type of scale and includes studies based on it. Included are: the major scale, the dorian mode, the mixolydian mode, the minor pentatonic scale, the jazz melodic minor scale, the blues scale, the chromatic scale, the whole tone scale and the diminished scale. Studies in each of these volumes have been set as an alternative to scales, for all grades, on the Jazz Flute, Jazz Clarinet and Jazz Saxophone syllabuses of the new Trinity Guildhall Examinations 2007. / Jazz / Etude / Saxophone

This volume builds on the progress achieved by following the outlines and good practice established in Book 1. This book helps to establish the habit of regular sight-reading, generally recognized as a vital skill in all fields of music. To this end, the exercises are progressive and structured to increase the pupil's awareness of new rhythms, keys and range of notes. Changes of hand position are introduced gradually, as is the recognition of and familiarity with chord shapes in both 2- and 3-note groups.

- A progressive approach based on self-learning

- 150 graduated exercises

- Both hands treated equally for melody and chord playing

- Hands together used throughout / Partition /

This superb collection of 19 Christmas Piano duets for grades 1-3 includes a mixture of popular Christmas songs and traditional carols, making it truly The Best Christmas Piano Duet Book Ever! All songs are arranged by Emma Coulthard.The interplay of the four hands involved in these Christmas tunes creates a rich and enjoyably powerful sound, perfect for any form of Christmas concert, or just for a rousing singalong on Christmas Eve. The Christmas classics included here range from the traditionals like Away In A Manger or Jingle Bells to everybody's favourite contemporary songs like Stop The Cavalry, Wonderful Christmastime and Jingle Bell Rock. Because these are relatively simplified arrangements, even those beginner pianists can select something to play together and impress their audience.This Christmas sheet music for Piano duet is perfect for getting into that Yuletide spirit because it brings people together and unites them through the familiarly festive tunes that we all know and love. A Christmas songbook like this covers all of the songs that are beloved by musicians of all ages and all tastes - the timeless seasonal songs that will sound brilliant when played by four hands on Piano. For a festive treat this Christmas, why not bring together two pianists at around grades 1-3 and have them double the dealing of Yuletide spirit with The Best Christmas Piano Duet Book Ever! / Piano/Vocal/Guitare (PVG) (Avec Grille D'Accords)

Joining The Dots' offers guitarists lots of material to help build confidence and skill in sight-reading. The series brings together a range of activities to help students improve their sense of fingerboard geography, helping them to read new music more quickly and easily.The five books cover the requirements for ABRSM's sight-reading tests at each of Grades 1 to 5, and include:many short, characterful pieces to sight-read, in a range of approachable musical styleswarm-up and technical exercises, to establish basic hand shapes and finger patterns within each keysimple improvisation exercises in which students can explore musical ideas and familiarize themselves further with the 'feel' of each keylonger solo pieces and some duets and trios, for additional sight-reading practice or to learn quickly and play through for fun / Guitare / 40 pages / niveau : Intermédiaire / Partition

This collection of 21 popular tunes has been carefully arranged and graded to provide attractive teaching repertoire for young clarinettists. The familiarity of the material will stimulate pupils' enthusiasm and encourage their practice. The technical demands of the solo part increase progressively up to the standard of Associated Board Grades 1 and 2. The piano accompaniments are simple yet effective and should be within the range of most pianists. Jerry Lanning is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He is a widely experienced arranger in both popular and classical fields, with many published arrangements to his credit. He also teaches (mainly the piano) at Wycombe Abbey School and Bradfield College. / Clarinette Et Piano