SKU: JK.01984
Presenting the newest addition to the popular Hymn-Alongs series: Christmas Hymn-Alongs! The Hymn-Alongs series includes over 20 different instrumental books. They are simple enough for developing musicians to master, yet beautiful and fun for those advancing in music. The accompaniment book features beautiful, yet simple arrangments for piano, guitar (chord symbols), and voice. The many instrumental books can be played together in any combination. All instrument books include a melody part; treble instruments have a duet part, and bass instruments also include a bass part. View all Christmas Hymn-Alongs products HERE. Songs included in Christmas Hymn-Alongs:Angels We Have Heard on HighAway in a MangerHark! The Herald Angels SingI Heard the Bells on Christmas DayIt Came upon the Midnight ClearJoy to the WorldO Come, O Come, EmmanuelO Little Town of BethlehemOh, Come, All Ye FaithfulO Holy NightSilent NightThe First NoelWe Three KingsWhat Child Is This? Composer: VariousArranger: Brent JorgensenDifficulty: Easy hymn along, hymnalongs, hymnalong, hymn alongs.
SKU: BR.PB-5708
ISBN 9790004216453. 6.5 x 9 inches.
When his musical triad op. 192 was created in the winter of 1873/74, Raff was one of Germany's most successful composers and the central artistic authority in the Hessian spa, royal residence and imperial city of Wiesbaden. With op. 192, Raff cultivated his reputation as an erudite composer who was a master of contrapuntal forms. By the time the string quartets were composed, he had already established himself as one of the most prolific and versatile suite composers of the 19th century, as is evident here in the various suite conceptions: Opus 192 No. 1 (in C minor), as Suite in the ancient style, has with Baroque labels stylized dance movements follow one another. Die schone Mullerin [The Fair Maid of the Mill] op. 192 No. 2 (in D major), on the other hand, interprets the suite as a sequence of chapters in a musical narrative and thus becomes probably the first tone poem in string quartet scoring. In the third quartet (in C major), of which Raff the artist was proudest, other genre designations mix in among the dance movements, and with its free succession of different movement types, not usual for a sonata, it preserves structural openness. In collaboration with the Joachim-Raff-Archiv Lachen (CH)Some eighteen years elapsed between Raff's first counted String Quartet op. 77 and his Quartets Nos. 6-8 op. 192, combined as one work. As such, Raff parted with the weighty single opus in quartet composition - without, however, sacrificing musical quality.
SKU: BR.PB-5708-07
SKU: CF.BF160
ISBN 9781491162170. UPC: 680160920921.
The 26 masterworks contained in this collection have been carefully arranged for any combination of string duet. The selections appear in chronological order. They span nearly 200 years with 22 composers and feature works from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods of music. The arrangements are drawn from a variety of sources, including piano and chamber works. However, the majority of works were taken from actual duets originally written for two instruments by the composers themselves. Each work was selected for its quality, musical interest, and appropriateness. Arranged specifically for a chamber setting, the duets may be performed at recitals, adjudications, weddings, and social events. The various moods created through these works will compliment any occasion.
SKU: FG.55011-639-9
ISBN 9790550116399.
New Urtext edition (2020) of Einojuhani Rautavaara's String Quartet No. 1 is based on the composer's manuscript, incorporating corrections and comments by composer's hand in various sources. Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016) was one of Finland's internationally most successful composers. He made his major breakthrough with the Seventh Symphony, Angel of Light, in the 1990s, but his output includes numerous classic operas, concertos, chamber music works and choral works. Over his extensive career, he progressed from Neo-Classicism to strict dodecaphony to free-tonal Neo-Romanticism. His catalogue of influences over the decades includes Orthodox liturgical music and Finnish fiddlers. Rautavaara's first string quartet (1953) is from his Neo-Classical early period when he composed only little chamber music. Stravinsky and the Finnish folk music are present in the rhythmical first movement; later enters a characteristic scale alternating half and whole steps. After the Slavic romanticism of the slow movement Andante the fiddler is back in the cheerful Gigue.
