(The Most Famous Melodies of All Time Arranged for Easy Guitar). For Guitar. Thi...(+)
(The Most Famous Melodies
of All Time Arranged for
Easy Guitar). For Guitar.
This edition: Easy Guitar
TAB. Book; Guitar Mixed
Folio; Guitar TAB; Solo
Guitar TAB (EZ/Int). 288
pages. Published by
Alfred Music Publishing
For voice and C instrument. Format: fakebook. With vocal melody, lyrics and chor...(+)
For voice and C
instrument. Format:
fakebook. With vocal
melody, lyrics and chord
names. Traditional pop
and vocal standards.
Series: Hal Leonard Fake
Books. 424 pages. 9x12
inches. Published by Hal
Leonard.
by Stacy Phillips. For fiddle. All styles, fiddle tunes. Level: Multiple Levels....(+)
by Stacy Phillips. For
fiddle. All styles,
fiddle tunes. Level:
Multiple Levels. Book.
Solos. Size 8.75x11.75.
268 pages. Published by
Mel Bay Pub., Inc.
Fakebook (spiral bound) for Bb instrument and voice. With vocal melody, lyrics, ...(+)
Fakebook (spiral bound)
for Bb instrument and
voice. With vocal melody,
lyrics, chord names,
black and white photos
and introductory text.
574 pages. Published by
Sher Music Company.
Guitar SKU: BT.MUSAM996996 Arranged by Russ Shipton. The Complete Guitar ...(+)
Guitar
SKU:
BT.MUSAM996996
Arranged by Russ Shipton.
The Complete Guitar
Player. Pop & Rock. Book
with CD. Wise
Publications
#MUSAM996996. Published
by Wise Publications
(BT.MUSAM996996).
ISBN
9781849380140.
English.
Th
e Complete Guitar
Player series
has taught hundreds of
thousands how to play and
the accompanying
songbooks have featured
hits by Paul Simon, Elvis
Presley, The Beatles,
John Denver and many
othertopartists.
N
ow these songbooks are
available in super value
omnibus editions like
this one. The songs are
still graded by ease of
playing and everything is
there... standard
notation, Guitar chord
boxes, full lyrics
andevenstrumming
patterns!
Over 180
great songs! Perfect for
all players and
singers!
The bonus
CD contains backing
tracks to 16 of the songs
in the book.
(46 Songs of Hope). Composed by various artists and composers. For Guitar. This ...(+)
(46 Songs of Hope).
Composed by various
artists and composers.
For Guitar. This edition:
Guitar TAB Edition.
Artist/Personality; Book;
Guitar Mixed Folio;
Guitar TAB. The Guitar
Collection. Pop;
Pop/Rock; Rock. 200
pages. Published by
Alfred Music
The Definitive Paul Simon Songbook by Paul Simon. For Melody Line, Lyrics and Ch...(+)
The Definitive Paul Simon
Songbook by Paul Simon.
For Melody Line, Lyrics
and Chords. Music Sales
America. Folk Rock.
Softcover. 560 pages.
Paul Simon Music
#PS11594. Published by
Paul Simon Music
Score Concert Band (Full Score) - Grade 4 SKU: HL.50601575 Composed by Ro...(+)
Score Concert Band (Full
Score) - Grade 4
SKU:
HL.50601575
Composed
by Rossano Galante. G.
Schirmer Band/Orchestra.
Concert. Softcover. 28
pages. Published by G.
Schirmer (HL.50601575).
ISBN 9781540040084.
UPC: 888680896676.
9.0x12.0x0.059
inches.
According
to legend, Tolenas
Springs, in Solano
County, CA was once known
as The Land of the
Healing Waters due to the
restorative powers of the
water. This beautiful
descriptive work begins
with a slow, lyrical
melody reminiscent of the
flowing water, followed
with the music evolving
into a faster, heroic
theme stated by the
brass. The piece
culminates in a riveting
conclusion suggesting the
healing waters washing
over us. (Grade 4) Dur:
4:30.
(20 inspirational songs for schools and communities). By Brenda Rattray. For cho...(+)
(20 inspirational songs
for schools and
communities). By Brenda
Rattray. For choir and
piano. Book; CD;
Classroom/Pre-School;
General Music and
Classroom Publications;
Other Classroom. Faber
Edition. Book and 2 CDs.
Published by Faber Music
Chamber Music Piano, Trombone, Voice SKU: PR.111402650 A Song Cycle fo...(+)
Chamber Music Piano,
Trombone, Voice
SKU:
PR.111402650
A
Song Cycle for Baritone
(or Mezzo-soprano),
Trombone, and Piano.
Composed by Eric Ewazen.
Set of Score and Parts.
With Standard notation.
52+16 pages. Duration 24
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #111-40265.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.111402650).
Angel of
Dreamers is a song cycle
for bass-baritone (or
mezzo-soprano) singer,
trombone, and either
string orchestra, string
quintet, or piano. It is
based on the
extraordinary poetry of
the Jamaican-American
poet, Lorna Goodison,
whom I have had the great
pleasure of getting to
know in the course of
writing this piece. The
work was commissioned by
a friend from my
undergraduate college
years at The Eastman
School of Music, Maury
Okun, trombonist and
director of the Detroit
Chamber Winds And
Strings. The work was
premiered in 2011 by
bass-baritone Daniel
Washington, trombonist
and U. of Michigan
faculty member David
Jackson, and the string
section of the Detroit
Chamber Winds and
Strings. Daniel and David
gave the second
performance of the work
with Lorna Goodison and
Maury Okun in attendance
at The Juilliard School
the following year. I was
approached by Maury Okun
and David Jackson to
write this piece as a
tribute to Maury's father
who had recently passed
away. They also
introduced me to their
colleague and friend
Lorna Goodison,
suggesting her poetry.
Reading several volumes
of her work, I was
absolutely captivated by
the vivid imagery and
beautiful messages of her
words. I chose five of
the poems, forming a
cycle about life and
death and home and
parents. Lorna is
originally from Jamaica,
and the rich, vivid
imagery, language and
story lines of her poems
beautifully reflect her
roots. The work, in the
tradition of Brahms'
songs for voice, viola,
and piano, features a
singer with an obligato
lyric instrumental line,
which, in my piece, is
the trombone, an
instrument that blends so
beautifully with the
sound of a bass singer.
The first song, O Love
You So Fear the Dark is
hopeful and uplifting,
describing enduring love
throughout the twists and
turns of our lives. The
music is strong and
declamatory, but also
tender. The second song,
God A Me actually
portrays a fish in
Jamaica which is almost
amphibious, flying up out
of the water onto the
land, and somehow,
magically, returning to
the water! For me this
poem depicts the
enjoyment of seeing parts
of life that are fun and
enjoyable and almost
magical! The third song,
All Souls Day depicts a
holiday, somewhat
magical, but also full of
life and energy. The
final two songs are a
tribute to our parents --
My Mother's Sea Chanty,
recalling a dream of
seeing one's mother, with
lyrics of tender love and
remembrance, and finally,
This is my Father's
Country which is a
tribute to the life of a
loving father, recalling
his spirit, his love of
the music Harry
Belafonte, and his
enduring spirit. Angel of
Dreamers was a special
piece for me to write:
for and with friends, old
and new, collaborating
with a poet whose
beautiful, meaningful,
and touching words were
so inspiring, performed
by fantastic musicians
who poured themselves
into the music, and
commissioned by a dear
friend from years gone
by. THIS is why we write
and perform music!.
Fakebook (spiral bound) for Eb instrument and voice. With vocal melody, lyrics, ...(+)
Fakebook (spiral bound)
for Eb instrument and
voice. With vocal melody,
lyrics, chord names,
black and white photos
and introductory text.
574 pages. Published by
Sher Music Company.
Cassatt. Composed
by Dan Welcher. Premiere:
Cassatt Quartet,
Northeastern Illinois
University, Chicago, IL.
Contemporary. Full score.
With Standard notation.
Composed 2007. WRT11142.
52 pages. Duration 24
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #164-00272S.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.16400272S).
UPC:
680160588442. 8.5 x 11
inches.
My third
quartet is laid out in a
three-movement structure,
with each movement based
on an early, middle, and
late work of the great
American impressionist
painter Mary Cassatt.
Although the movements
are separate, with
full-stop endings, the
music is connected by a
common scale-form,
derived from the name
MARY CASSATT, and by a
recurring theme that
introduces all three
movements. I see this
theme as Mary's Theme, a
personality that stays
intact while undergoing
gradual change. I
The Bacchante (1876)
[Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania] The
painting shows a young
girl of Italian or
Spanish origin, playing a
small pair of cymbals.
Since Cassatt was trying
very hard to fit in at
the French Academy at the
time, she painted a lot
of these subjects, which
were considered typical
and universal. The style
of the painting doesn't
yet show Cassatt's
originality, except
perhaps for certain
details in the face.
Accordingly the music for
this movement is
Spanish/Italian, in a
similar period-style but
using the musical
signature described
above. The music begins
with Mary's Theme,
ruminative and slow, then
abruptly changes to an
alla Spagnola-type fast
3/4 - 6/8 meter. It
evokes the
Spanish-influenced music
of Ravel and Falla.
Midway through,
there's an accompanied
recitative for the viola,
which figures large in
this particular movement,
then back to a truncated
recapitulation of the
fast music. The overall
feeling is of a
well-made, rather
conventional movement in
a contemporary
Spanish/Italian style.
Cassatt's painting, too,
is rather conventional.
II At the Opera
(1880) [Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston,
Massachusetts]
This painting is one of
Cassatt's most well known
works, and it hangs in
the Museum of Fine Arts
in Boston. The painting
shows a woman alone in a
box at the opera house,
completely dressed
(including gloves) and
looking through opera
glasses at someone or
something that is NOT on
the stage. Across the
auditorium from her, but
exactly at eye level, is
a gentleman with opera
glasses intently watching
her - though it is not
him that she's looking
at. It's an intriguing
picture. This
movement is far less
conventional than the
first movement, as the
painting is far less
conventional. The music
begins with a rapid,
Shostakovich-type
mini-overture lasting
less than a minute, based
on Mary's Theme. My
conjecture is that the
woman in the painting has
arrived late to the
opera, busily stumbling
into her box. What
happens next is a kind of
collage, a kind of
surrealistic overlaying
of two different
elements: the foreground
music, at first is a
direct quotation of
Soldier's Chorus from
Gounod's FAUST (an opera
Cassatt would certainly
have heard in the
brand-new Paris Opera
House at that time),
played by Violin II,
Viola, and Cello. This
music is played sul
ponticello in the melody
and col legno in the
marching accompaniment.
On top of this, the first
violin hovers at first on
a high harmonic, then
descends into a slow
melody, completely
separate from the Gounod.
It's as if the woman in
the painting is hearing
the opera onstage but is
not really interested in
it. Then the cello joins
the first violin in a
kind of love-duet (just
the two of them, at
first). This music isn't
at all Gounod-derived;
it's entirely from the
same scale patterns as
the first movement and
derives from Mary's Theme
and its scale. The music
stays in a kind of
dichotomy feeling,
usually
three-against-one, until
the end of the movement,
when another Gounod
melody, Valentin's aria
Avant de quitter ce lieux
reappears in a kind of
coda for all four
players. It ends
atmospherically and
emotionally disconnected,
however. The overall
feeling is a kind of
schizophrenic,
opera-inspired dream.
III Young Woman in
Green, Outdoors in the
Sun (1909) [Worcester Art
Museum, Massachusetts]
The painting, one
of Cassatt's last, is
very simple: just a
figure, looking sideways
out of the picture. The
colors are pastel and yet
bold - and the woman is
likewise very
self-assured and not in
the least demure. It is
eight minutes long, and
is all about melody -
three melodies, to be
exact (Young Woman,
Green, and Sunlight). No
angst, no choppy rhythms,
just ever-unfolding
melody and lush
harmonies. I quote one
other French composer
here, too: Debussy's song
Green, from Ariettes
Oubliees. 1909 would have
been Debussy's heyday in
Paris, and it makes
perfect sense musically
as well as visually to do
this. Mary Cassatt
lived her last several
years in near-total
blindness, and as she
lost visual acuity, her
work became less sharply
defined - something akin
to late water lilies of
Monet, who suffered
similar vision loss. My
idea of making this
movement entirely melodic
was compounded by having
each of the three
melodies appear twice,
once in a pure form, and
the second time in a more
diffuse setting. This
makes an interesting two
ways form:
A-B-C-A1-B1-C1.
String Quartet No.3
(Cassatt) is dedicated,
with great affection and
respect, to the Cassatt
String Quartet, whose
members have dedicated
themselves in large
measure to the furthering
of the contemporary
repertoire for
quartet.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.164002720 Cassatt. Composed b...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.164002720
Cassatt. Composed
by Dan Welcher. Spiral
and Saddle. Premiere:
Cassatt Quartet,
Northeastern Illinois
University, Chicago, IL.
Contemporary. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed 2007. WRT11142.
52+16+16+16+16 pages.
Duration 24 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#164-00272. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.164002720).
UPC:
680160573042. 8.5 x 11
inches.
My third
quartet is laid out in a
three-movement structure,
with each movement based
on an early, middle, and
late work of the great
American impressionist
painter Mary Cassatt.
Although the movements
are separate, with
full-stop endings, the
music is connected by a
common scale-form,
derived from the name
MARY CASSATT, and by a
recurring theme that
introduces all three
movements. I see this
theme as Mary's Theme, a
personality that stays
intact while undergoing
gradual change. I
The Bacchante (1876)
[Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania] The
painting shows a young
girl of Italian or
Spanish origin, playing a
small pair of cymbals.
Since Cassatt was trying
very hard to fit in at
the French Academy at the
time, she painted a lot
of these subjects, which
were considered typical
and universal. The style
of the painting doesn't
yet show Cassatt's
originality, except
perhaps for certain
details in the face.
Accordingly the music for
this movement is
Spanish/Italian, in a
similar period-style but
using the musical
signature described
above. The music begins
with Mary's Theme,
ruminative and slow, then
abruptly changes to an
alla Spagnola-type fast
3/4 - 6/8 meter. It
evokes the
Spanish-influenced music
of Ravel and Falla.
Midway through,
there's an accompanied
recitative for the viola,
which figures large in
this particular movement,
then back to a truncated
recapitulation of the
fast music. The overall
feeling is of a
well-made, rather
conventional movement in
a contemporary
Spanish/Italian style.
Cassatt's painting, too,
is rather conventional.
II At the Opera
(1880) [Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston,
Massachusetts]
This painting is one of
Cassatt's most well known
works, and it hangs in
the Museum of Fine Arts
in Boston. The painting
shows a woman alone in a
box at the opera house,
completely dressed
(including gloves) and
looking through opera
glasses at someone or
something that is NOT on
the stage. Across the
auditorium from her, but
exactly at eye level, is
a gentleman with opera
glasses intently watching
her - though it is not
him that she's looking
at. It's an intriguing
picture. This
movement is far less
conventional than the
first movement, as the
painting is far less
conventional. The music
begins with a rapid,
Shostakovich-type
mini-overture lasting
less than a minute, based
on Mary's Theme. My
conjecture is that the
woman in the painting has
arrived late to the
opera, busily stumbling
into her box. What
happens next is a kind of
collage, a kind of
surrealistic overlaying
of two different
elements: the foreground
music, at first is a
direct quotation of
Soldier's Chorus from
Gounod's FAUST (an opera
Cassatt would certainly
have heard in the
brand-new Paris Opera
House at that time),
played by Violin II,
Viola, and Cello. This
music is played sul
ponticello in the melody
and col legno in the
marching accompaniment.
On top of this, the first
violin hovers at first on
a high harmonic, then
descends into a slow
melody, completely
separate from the Gounod.
It's as if the woman in
the painting is hearing
the opera onstage but is
not really interested in
it. Then the cello joins
the first violin in a
kind of love-duet (just
the two of them, at
first). This music isn't
at all Gounod-derived;
it's entirely from the
same scale patterns as
the first movement and
derives from Mary's Theme
and its scale. The music
stays in a kind of
dichotomy feeling,
usually
three-against-one, until
the end of the movement,
when another Gounod
melody, Valentin's aria
Avant de quitter ce lieux
reappears in a kind of
coda for all four
players. It ends
atmospherically and
emotionally disconnected,
however. The overall
feeling is a kind of
schizophrenic,
opera-inspired dream.
III Young Woman in
Green, Outdoors in the
Sun (1909) [Worcester Art
Museum, Massachusetts]
The painting, one
of Cassatt's last, is
very simple: just a
figure, looking sideways
out of the picture. The
colors are pastel and yet
bold - and the woman is
likewise very
self-assured and not in
the least demure. It is
eight minutes long, and
is all about melody -
three melodies, to be
exact (Young Woman,
Green, and Sunlight). No
angst, no choppy rhythms,
just ever-unfolding
melody and lush
harmonies. I quote one
other French composer
here, too: Debussy's song
Green, from Ariettes
Oubliees. 1909 would have
been Debussy's heyday in
Paris, and it makes
perfect sense musically
as well as visually to do
this. Mary Cassatt
lived her last several
years in near-total
blindness, and as she
lost visual acuity, her
work became less sharply
defined - something akin
to late water lilies of
Monet, who suffered
similar vision loss. My
idea of making this
movement entirely melodic
was compounded by having
each of the three
melodies appear twice,
once in a pure form, and
the second time in a more
diffuse setting. This
makes an interesting two
ways form:
A-B-C-A1-B1-C1.
String Quartet No.3
(Cassatt) is dedicated,
with great affection and
respect, to the Cassatt
String Quartet, whose
members have dedicated
themselves in large
measure to the furthering
of the contemporary
repertoire for
quartet.
Fantasy on Shenandoah . Composed by David Leisner (1953-). Premiered at ...(+)
Fantasy on Shenandoah
. Composed by David
Leisner (1953-).
Premiered at the
Diller-Quaile School of
Music. Contemporary. Set
of performance scores.
With Standard notation.
28 pages. Duration 11
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #144-40624.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.144406240).
Easy Piano Piano/Keyboard SKU: HL.282479 The New Decade Series. Co...(+)
Easy Piano Piano/Keyboard
SKU: HL.282479
The New Decade
Series. Composed by
Various. Easy Piano
Songbook. Motown, Pop,
Rock. Softcover. 410
pages. Published by Hal
Leonard (HL.282479).
ISBN 9781540034366.
UPC: 888680789237.
9.0x12.0x1.01
inches.
Starting
with the songs released
just after Woodstock all
the way through the disco
era, this collection
features almost 100 songs
from the 1970s arranged
for easy piano with
lyrics: ABC •
American Pie •
Bridge over Troubled
Water • (They Long
to Be) Close to You
• Dancing Queen
• Free Bird •
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
• How Deep Is Your
Love • I Shot the
Sheriff • I Will
Survive • Imagine
• Killing Me Softly
with His Song •
Layla • Lean on Me
• Maybe I'm Amazed
• Piano Man •
Reeling in the Years
• Smoke on the
Water • Stairway to
Heaven • Stayin'
Alive • Sweet Home
Alabama • Time in a
Bottle • Walk This
Way • We Will Rock
You • Y.M.C.A.
• and more.
Chamber Music SKU: PR.16400213S Composed by Dan Welcher. Spiral. Full sco...(+)
Chamber Music
SKU:
PR.16400213S
Composed
by Dan Welcher. Spiral.
Full score. With Standard
notation. 1+37 pages.
Duration 11 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#164-00213S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.16400213S).
UPC:
680160037636. 8.5 x 11
Landscape
inches.
The unusual
combination of cello,
percussion and piano
seems more incongruous
than it actually sounds.
When I first heard the
ensemble Aequalis, in a
full evening program I
was absolutely astonished
at the combination of
lyricism, pulse, and
color. Something about
the mix causes the cello
to sound marimba-like,
the vibraphone to imitate
the cello's harmonics,
and the piano to become a
kind of proto-orchestra
of colors and effects.
Tsunami was
written for Aequalis in
the summer and fall of
1991 with the assistance
of a grant from Chamber
Music America. The title,
the Japanese word for
tidal wave (which is a
misnomer -- tsunamis have
nothing to do with the
tides), refers to the
phenomenon of an undersea
disturbance causing a
huge wall of water to
flood the first land in
its path. The initial
earthquake or volcanic
eruption that sends a
seismic shock through the
water is invisible --
it's only when that shock
wave hits land, recoils,
and takes ocean swells
back with it, that the
wave begins to form. In
successive landings,
recoilings, and
re-landings, this force
finally spends itself,
usually inundating
anything in its path,
sometimes to a depth of
one hundred feet or more.
My piece does not
attempt to depict this
natural cataclysm -- how
could it, with three
instruments? -- but the
form of the first half of
the work is based on it.
The initial percussive
shock that opens the
piece creates a stir in
the form of a cello
motive marked swelling
and employing long
portamenti pushing
upwards. After a second
shock, the cello motive
begins an undersea
journey -- very slow and
lyrical at first --
accompanied by
non-pitched percussion
only. Eventually the
piano joins, first with
echoing bass notes, then
with a rather mechanical
motive high on the
keyboard. This force
grows, the cello line
climbs higher and higher
until another
double-shock is heard --
perhaps the energy has
hit land? Following this,
the percussion becomes
melodic (marimba), and we
now have two lines in
canon accompanied by a
separate line in the
piano. This, too, builds
to a climax, and an even
louder and more vigorous
shock results. Now the
texture is a three-way
canon with cello,
vibraphone, and piano
chasing each other in
ever faster cycles of
sound. The height of this
is a triple cadenza in
which all three players
spend their pent-up
energy, one at a time.
The second part of
the piece follows after a
settling-down, and is
marked Dancing. This is a
rondo, with a recurring
theme (heard first in the
marimba) followed by
three contrasting
sections heard between
reiterations of the main
tune (the form could be
diagrammed A-A-B-A-C-A).
The mood is one of joyous
kinetic energy, with
elements of Eastern or
Balinese gamelan sounds,
and employing several
pentatonic scales (as
does the first half of
the work). It ends in a
vigorous, stomping dance.
--Dan Welcher
 .
(Featuring: O Waly, Waly (The Water Is Wide) / Sakura (Cherry Blossoms) / Russia...(+)
(Featuring: O Waly, Waly
(The Water Is Wide) /
Sakura (Cherry Blossoms)
/ Russian Polka).
Orchestra. String
Orchestra. Belwin
Signature Performance
Series for Orchestra.
Grade 1. Conductor Score
and Parts. 124 pages.
Published by Belwin Music
. Score and Parts.