Format : Sheet music
SKU: CF.BF157
ISBN 9781491162095. UPC: 680160920839.
Learning to play chamber music is an important milestone in the music student’s journey. Playing with a teacher or friend helps develop rhythmic independence, intonation, listening skills, and sense of pulse that are vital to playing in an ensemble. These progressive duets offer beginning and developing players the opportunity to play along with others, or with the helpful support of the teacher in a lesson. Each duet adds new techniques and challenges that align with the natural advancement of lessons, moving from easy rhythms and keys to staccato bow strokes, slurs, accidentals (low or extended finger patterns), and more complex or independent rhythms. While the melody remains in the top line, musicians can alternate playing the melody as all efforts have been made to keep both parts at a similar difficulty level. This book features familiar melodies from traditional, folk, and Classical repertoire including tunes that many string teachers will recognize from Suzuki books. Appropriate for recitals or even small group concerts, there are 30 selections of different tempi, styles, and keys for variety, while remaining in string-friendly ranges. Each duet is one page or less in length, ensuring an immediate sense of success for young players. The perfect supplement to method book exercises and solo repertoire.
SKU: CF.BF154
ISBN 9781491162064. UPC: 680160920808.
Learning to play chamber music is an important milestone in the music studentââ¬â¢s journey. Playing with a teacher or friend helps develop rhythmic independence, intonation, listening skills, and sense of pulse that are vital to playing in an ensemble. These progressive duets offer beginning and developing players the opportunity to play along with others, or with the helpful support of the teacher in a lesson. Each duet adds new techniques and challenges that align with the natural advancement of lessons, moving from easy rhythms and keys to staccato bow strokes, slurs, accidentals (low or extended finger patterns), and more complex or independent rhythms. While the melody remains in the top line, musicians can alternate playing the melody as all efforts have been made to keep both parts at a similar difficulty level. This book features familiar melodies from traditional, folk, and Classical repertoire including tunes that many string teachers will recognize from Suzuki books. Appropriate for recitals or even small group concerts, there are 30 selections of different tempi, styles, and keys for variety, while remaining in string-friendly ranges. Each duet is one page or less in length, ensuring an immediate sense of success for young players. The perfect supplement to method book exercises and solo repertoire.
SKU: CF.BF155
ISBN 9781491162071. UPC: 680160920815.
SKU: CF.BF156
ISBN 9781491162088. UPC: 680160920822.
SKU: BR.EB-6761
ISBN 9790004169629. 9 x 12 inches.
This series of easy piano pieces for teaching purposes presents pupils in the early and early-middle stages with a careful selection from well-known and less-known compositions by important masters. The individual volumes are deliberately kept small in extent, since it is more stimulating for children if the literature used for instruction is changed frequently. Of all Grieg's piano music, it is the Lyric Pieces (EB 8832) that enjoy the greatest popularity. These character pieces, which are very varied in their difficulty and their length, preoccupied the composer throughout his creative life. The easiest pieces from the first three books (op. 12, 38 and 43) have been chosen for the present volume. In the musical sense, however, they are by no means light-weight. Only someone who has made the art of playing expressively in the Romantic style his own with the help of Schumann's Scenes from childhood (EB 8436) will be able to interpret this poetry filled with the soul of nordic peoples appropriately. Interpretative indications have been partly added to; fingerings and the distribution of the music between the hands have, as far as possible, been adapted to smaller hands. Sensitive use of the pedal and a tempo rubato imbued with the sense of the music are prerequisites. Heinz Walter, Salzburg, Summer 1977.
SKU: CF.BF178
ISBN 9781491166918. UPC: 680160925988.
The 24 easy-to-intermediate level solos in this collection represent the music of diverse composers who helped shape the musical landscape of their time. Many of these charming and lyrical melodies were written with young students in mind, highlighting how even history’s most prominent composers took interest in encouraging the next generation of musicians. Likewise, this compilation promises a rich and inspiring musical experience for developing players, exploring the music of ten women composers and notable writers Enrique Granados, Florence Price, Rentarō Taki, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and José White. While some key signatures and ranges have been changed to make each piece accessible, every effort has been made to preserve the spirit and integrity of the original work. Pedagogical bowings and fingerings have also been included, and a complete piano accompaniment book is available to ensure a successful performance.
SKU: TA.TSPB-44
In Mainstream Mallets, Jason Hammond-Wood has compiled over 20 short, 2-mallet solos with optional piano accompaniment to challenge more experienced middle school students while offering high school percussionists more performance opportunities. All selections are familiar tunes, including classical favorites such as The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Anitra's Dance (from Peer Gynt), and The Barber of Seville. Also included are nonclassical melodies like The Stars and Stripes Forever, The Entertainer, and On Wisconsin (the university's fight song). All pieces are playable on xylophone, vibraphone, or marimba, and two of the solos are adapted to be performed as duets! The optional piano accompaniment may be performed with a pianist, or by using the provided audio accompaniment tracks. Mainstream Mallets includes these 24 pieces: On Wisconsin | J.S. Hubbard and Charles D. Rosa | (Med-Easy, :35) The Happy Farmer | Robert Schumann | (Med-Easy, :51) Bourree | Johann Sebastian Bach | (Med-Easy, 1:51) Infernal Galop | Jacques Offenbach | (Med-Easy, 1:06) Sonatina | Muzio Clementi | (Medium, 1:07) Hungarian Dance No. 5 | Johannes Brahms | (Medium, 1:47) Pizzicati | Leo Delibes | (Med-Easy, 2:07) Sleeping Beauty | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | (Medium, 1:33) The Barber of Seville | Gioachino Rossini | (Medium, 1:22) The Royal Fireworks | George Frideric Handel | (Medium, 1:19) Anitra's Dance | Edvard Grieg | (Medium, 1:40) The Entertainer | Scott Joplin | (Medium, 2:10) Spring Season | Antonio Vivaldi | (Medium, 1:47) The Stars and Stripes Forever | John Phillip Sousa | (Medium, 2:12) Badinerie | Johann Sebastian Bach | (Med-Advanced, :57) The Chromatic Galop | Franz Liszt | (Medium, 1:19) The Sorcerer's Apprentice | Paul Dukas | (Med-Advanced, 1:43) Trepak [Russian Dance] | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | (Med-Advanced, 1:10) Turkish March | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | (Med-Advanced, 1:52) Csardas | Vittorio Monti | (Med-Advanced, 1:44) Back Home Again | James F. Hanley | (Medium, 1:18) Raindrop | Frederic Chopin | (Medium, 1:45) Bourree [Duet Version] | Johann Sebastian Bach | (Med-Easy, 1:53) Sleeping Beauty [Duet Version] | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | (Medium, 1:35) Mainstream Mallets ships as a fully-bound book with a sleek cover design by Bob Beck of Montreal's Design Society. Also included are reference recordings of each solo, PDF parts for duets, PDF parts for the piano accompaniment, and audio tracks with piano only, so that players can perform with just the piano accompaniment.
