Les Play-Along Accordéon série comporte des dispositions de l'accordéon personnalisé avec pistes de CD enregistrés par un live band (accordéon, contrebasse et batterie). Il ya deux pistes audio pour chaque chanson - une performance pleine d'écoute, plus une piste d'accompagnement séparée qui vous permet d'être le soliste! Le CD est jouable sur n'importe quel lecteur CD, et est également renforcée afin utilisateurs Mac et PC permet de régler l'enregistrement à n'importe quel tempo sans changer la hauteur! Ce volume contient 8 chansons: Beer Barrel Polka (Roll Out the Barrel) - Hoop-Dee-Doo - marelle Polka - Just Another Polka - Just Because - Pennsylvanie Polka - Tic-Tock Polka - Trop Fat Polka (Elle est trop gras pour me). / Accordéon / 48 pages / Partition Cd

In view of the enormous upswing in popularity that the accordion has experienced as an avantgarde instrument in the last decades of the twentieth century, a systematic elaboration of the latest instrumental techniques and forms of expression, as well as detailed instructions on how to employ the accordion have been sorely lacking.
This book explains all the playing techniques, registers as well as tonal potentials and expressive possibilities of the accordion. It demonstrates the distinctive elements of these techniques and in addition, gives composers valuable information concerning notation.
A CD with examples of sound techniques and excerpts from the repertoire is included. An extra fold-out chart presents a full-sized layout of the treble and bass sides, helping composers to check fingering possibilities. This long-awaited book will be an essential tool for composers, performers and teachers.

- Comprehensive description of all relevant playing techniques on the button accordion
- Practical notation suggestions for composers
- Music examples from important contemporary works
- CD containing examples of all registration and playing techniques and excerpts from the repertoire
- Full size, fold-out chart giving the arrangement of the buttons on the instrument
- Text in two languages (Ger/Eng)

?This book by Bettina Buchmann is a real boon; it gives not only a representative overview of the latest instrumental techniques and forms of expression on the accordion today, but paves the way for composers and accordionists to compose and perform idiomatically on the instrument. The author and publisher deserve the highest recognition for this.? (Teodoro Anzellotti)

?The accordion has enjoyed a revival in popularity in recent times ? numerous composers have discovered it as a solo instrument, in chamber music and also for its orchestral sound. I?m really happy to have this exceptionally clearly laid out book by Bettina Buchmann by my side as a guide and incentive for my further explorations into the instrument.?
(Beat Furrer)
/ [Les Techniques du jeu d'accordéon] / Méthodes

This tutor book has been written for general use and is suitable for beginners and players up to intermediate standard although material has also been included which will be of benegit to those beyond this grade. Care has been taken to introduce sufficient theoritical information necessary to give a sound musical grounding as well as the techniques required to play the instrument and each chapter complete in itself contains practical material relating to the theoritical text. Most of the pieces are classical in content but some arragements of standard popular songs have been included which show the wide range of music suitable for the accordion.

This book is a mixture of traditional and contemporary tunes from the Scottish accordionists' repertoire.

It explores the common tune types played in Scotland, i.e. the Jig, reel, strathspey, slow air, waltz, march and polka. Some tunes are arranged in a traditional, dance music style where others have been set with a more contemporary feel as used by the author and many of the ?new age? of Scottish accordionists. Strong emphasis has been placed on the use of the left hand to enhance the style and arrangement.

Ian Lowthian was brought up steeped in the Scottish accordion tradition; he is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music who, since leaving, has concentrated mainly in traditional music as a performer, teacher and composer. / Musiques du monde / Partition CD / Agrafé /

Nineteen favorite traditional Mexican songs arranged for piano accordion solo. No matter how long you've been playing these tunes will be a delight to play. The author has included registration markings indicating low middle orhigh reeds. Intermediate in difficulty these tunes are playable on any size accordion.

Within this compilation is a selection of compositions in the mode of Scottish Traditional Music suitable for piano accordion button key accordion violin etc. They have been composed over a period of time and I hope they give the same pleasure to whosoever plays them as I have had in their creation.Chords and bass notes for each tune are arranged by myself but can be altered by the player(s) if they feel that the music can be harmonically improved.It is my sincere wish that the tunes within will give pleasure to those who are inclined to give them a go.Graham Barbour.

In our new pop series for accordion, the experienced accordion player and music teacher Manfred Kaierle presents easy and well-sounding arrangements of hot chart hits, pop classics and evergreens. Timeless pop classics have been arranged specifically for this instrument and thus reinvented.Content: Atemlos durch die Nacht - Les Champs-Elysées - A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Rock Around The Clock - Wind Of Change - Take Me To Church and many more. / Accordéon

Gary Dahl: Mel Bay's Master Accordion Scale Book has been designed to develop the professional or recreational accordionist further toward advanced musicianship.Why do we practice scales? The great jazzaccordionist Art Van Damme when asked what he practised replied 'Only the fundamentals.' The fundamental classical and Jazz scales with explanations are presented here in a clear concise format.

10 tangos and other pieces-Ten magnificent tangos and other characteristic pieces by the Argentinian master of tango nuevo skillfully arranged for Guitar by James Crabb and now appearing in print for the first time.Intended for intermediate players these are idiomatic versions of this beautiful and compelling music based on Piazzolla's own recordings with his quintet and other ensembles. The volume includes Vuelvo al sur and Los sueños from the soundtrack to the film Sur (Fernando Solanas) and extracts from the incidental music to El sueño de una noche de verano (A Midsummer Night's Dream).Scottish-born classical accordionist James Crabb performs as a soloist anddirector with orchestras worldwide. He is a passionate authority on the music of Astor Piazzolla. He has recorded several CDs of Piazzolla's music and directed the operetta Maria de Buenos Aires from the Accordion. He has been a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and regularly gives masterclasses at music institutions worldwide.

This piece has been written according to exact pitch notation. The pitch indicated on the staff is the exact pitch of the lowest sounding set of reeds.It is conceived for 'concert accordion'. This one is made up of two Keyboards fully chromatic which excludes prepared chords and obsolete system unappropriate - as all musicians are aware of it - to serve subtle polyphony and an extra-tonal harmony.

Six beastly humoresques-Global Animals consists of six witty humoresques each depicting an extraordinary creature.There’s the Australian dancing buck that loves to dance in pairs a down-in-the-dumps Egyptian hippo in a permanent grouse with the world or the dastardly Southern European trill mosquito.The extinct Mongolian striped lion is deeply mourned while the arctic numbskull is so shy that he’s never been spotted. Then there’s the continuous shriek of the Columbian screeching ape that’s hard to miss.