21 classic and contemporary Christmas songs to accompany the world-famous justinguitar.com courses for Guitar! This festive collection of songs is for all Guitar players who want to progress beyond beginner level. Thebook begins with easy ‘play on Christmas day’ songs before progressing to tunes you could learn in December and then onto material that might benefit from a November start. Each song is presented as lyrics andchords accompanied by performance tips and strumming patterns often with tablature and chord diagrams to help you through any tricky bits. In addition there are six arrangements written out in full TAB! With traditionalfavourites such as ‘Jingle Bells’ and ‘Silent Night’ jazzy numbers like ‘Winter Wonderland’ and pop classics including ‘All I Want For Christmas IsYou’ and Slade’s ‘Merry Xmas Everybody’ there’s something for everyone. This is the ultimate Christmas songbook for beginner Guitarists!

Composed during the summer of 1988. Commissioned by The Norwegian Brass Band Club First performed in the Grieg Hall¬? at the 10th Anniversary Concert for the Norwegian Championship Bergen February 1989. EBML conducted by Michael Antrobus. The work is important for me because it was my first piece to be played outside Norway. Black Dyke/David King performed it and did a recording of it in 1991. The composer: In the original score I quote a Swedish bishop (Olaus Mangnus) who lived in the 15th century. He travelled around Scandinavia and drew maps - very important historic material. When he came to the north of Norway (where I come from) hedescribed the wind from the north as Ciricus: (something like) Worst of all winds is Circius that revolves(?= turn upside down) heaven and earth. (Well not a good translation I¬?m afraid). The fast sections reflects the mighty winds from the north. In the middle section I borrowed a folksong-like tune (by C. Elling a norwegian composer). The text (by Kristoffer Janson) tells about old times when the fishermen used open boats: they had to put their lives in the hands of God. De opening en het slot van dit werk beschrijven 'Circius' de wind die hemel en aarde verwoest. Het middendeel is een bewerking van het Noorse volkslied 'The fisherman's speech to his son'. De inhoud van het lied komt overeen met Circius. De vader verzoekt zijn zoon de krachten van de natuur te trotseren maar bovenal te respecteren. Een kort doch spectaculair concertwerk dat het gehele orkest in de greep heeft.

Composed during the summer of 1988. Commissioned by The Norwegian Brass Band Club First performed in the Grieg Hall¬? at the 10th Anniversary Concert for the Norwegian Championship Bergen February 1989. EBML conducted by Michael Antrobus. The work is important for me because it was my first piece to be played outside Norway. Black Dyke/David King performed it and did a recording of it in 1991. The composer: In the original score I quote a Swedish bishop (Olaus Mangnus) who lived in the 15th century. He travelled around Scandinavia and drew maps - very important historic material. When he came to the north of Norway (where I come from) hedescribed the wind from the north as Ciricus: (something like) Worst of all winds is Circius that revolves(?= turn upside down) heaven and earth. (Well not a good translation I¬?m afraid). The fast sections reflects the mighty winds from the north. In the middle section I borrowed a folksong-like tune (by C. Elling a norwegian composer). The text (by Kristoffer Janson) tells about old times when the fishermen used open boats: they had to put their lives in the hands of God. De opening en het slot van dit werk beschrijven 'Circius' de wind die hemel en aarde verwoest. Het middendeel is een bewerking van het Noorse volkslied 'The fisherman's speech to his son'. De inhoud van het lied komt overeen met Circius. De vader verzoekt zijn zoon de krachten van de natuur te trotseren maar bovenal te respecteren. Een kort doch spectaculair concertwerk dat het gehele orkest in de greep heeft.

Evis Sammoutis' Particles (2015) for Flute (doubling Piccolo and Alto Flute) Violin and Cello. Particles was commissioned by the 2015 Milano EXPO for the musicians of the Divertimento Ensemble. The composer was one of 50 finalists selected after an International Competition by Expo 2015?s Italian Pavilion. The competition was organised by Divertimento Ensemble in collaboration with the City of Milano the Region of Lombardia MITO SettembreMusica and Sentieri selvaggi and all composers had to create compositions inspired by the theme 'Feeding the Planet Energy for Life'.The composer decided to concentrateon exploring the notion of ?Particles? (the smallest basic units of matter and energy) as the means of creating the main formal profile of this composition. This notion extends to all formal devises (texture figure and gesture).To use an analogy listening to this composition should feel like looking at a mosaic from an extremely short distance one?s eyes almost touching the intrinsic small tiles that create the larger picture. From this alternative perspective one begins to observe completely different patterns which went unperceived as part of the greater picture just as a closer look at a mosaic might reveal intricate bands of colour that would have been unnoticed from a greater distance. When this happens one can really appreciate the tiny details and nuances of the composition.Seen from afar these ?particles? create different textures than they do from a closer distance or through a microscope exploration different matters and different qualities of energy. This composition brings into foreground microscopic ?pictures? of the particles that constitute the totality of the work while simultaneously and unavoidably giving in its totality a larger formal picture over the course of time.Whilst the music is constructed into noticeably different blocks of sound each segment nevertheless originates from

P/V/G Folio. Matching folio to the album from this legendary artist. Over 30 songs including: Blowin' in the Wind · It Ain't Me, Babe · Maggie's Farm · It's All over Now, Baby Blue · Mr. Tambourine Man · Like a Rolling Stone · All Along the Watchtower · Lay, Lady Lay · If Not for You · Knockin' on Heaven's Door · Tangled up in Blue · Jokerman · and more.

Together Apart/Apart Together for Saxophone Accordion and Double Bass was composed by Karsten Fundal in 2004. Written for and commissioned by Poing. Programme note: This piece is the 3rd in a row of pieces which concentrates on a rhythmical relationship that continues to puzzle me. It is actually two relationships embedded. The 1st is a pattern that is very inspired by the composer Per Nørgård who in the beginning of the 90ies got very preoccupied with the idea that you can have rhythms that never meet. This happens if you start a rhythm like a quintuplet on the beat and one like a triplet off beat. This can with different rhythms give very intricate interwoven patterns that gives the illusion that they are not cyclic. In my case I use the two ratio five to seven in the described way. This rythms have the strange property that if you take each 5th note of the seven and each 7 note of the five you get a ratio almost identical: 49:50. This is very intriguing as you can use the possibility of letting them be equal or the possibility of letting them interfere. In the first case you get an interlocking rhythm which is ?smooth?; an equal rhythmic pattern. In the second case you get a similar situation but where one of them is one short after 50 of the other ones which results in a disturbing almost equality but not quite. Therefore the title: because when I use the unequal rhythm I put the two layers in a similar tone register or a similar way of playing and when I use the equal one I put them a part tone wise speaking. This is a very technical description but it is very hard to put it in more wide terms but you might compare it with driving in a train and looking at two fence rows behind each other: if the poles are placed exactly halfway between each other you will experience an illusion of a fast jump if there is enough distance between them as a result of the perspective. If they are placed in a way that there are almost the same numbers of

Unsurpassed in his day as a lute virtuoso, John Dowland (1563–1626) today continues to delight singers, musicians, and music lovers alike. This collection of 45 songs includes all the works in Dowland's original third and fourth books of lute songs, the composer's contributions to his son's anthology of 1610, and a dance for solo guitar. Content : THE THRID AND LAST BOOKE I. Farewell too fair II. Time stands still III. Behold a wonder here IV. Daphne was not so chaste V. Me, me and none but me VI. When Phoebus first did Daphne love VII. Say Love if ever thou didst find VIII. Flow not so fast ye fountains IX. What if I never speed? X. Love stood amaz'd XI. Lend your ears to my sorrow XII. By a fountain where I lay XIII. Oh what hath overwrought XIV. Farewell unkind farewell XV. Weep you no more, sad fountains XVI. Fie on this feigning XVII. I must complain XVIII It was a time when silly bees could speak XIX. The lowest trees have tops XX. What poor astronomers are they XXI. Come when I call (for two voices and two lutes) A PILGRIMES SOLACE I. Disdain me still II. Sweet stay awhile III. To ask for all thy love IV. Love those beams V. Shall I strive with words to move (Mignarda, a galliard is Dowland's title for the solo lute version of the lyre Shall I strive with words to move. VI. Were every thought an eye VII. Stay Time awhile thy flying VIII. Tel me true Love (with chorus) The next three with treble and bass viols ofr violin and cello: IX. Go nightly cares X. From silent night XI. Lasso vita mia XII. In this trembling shadow XIII. If that a sinner's sighs A three-part work: XIV. Thou mighty God XV. When David's life XVI. When the poor cripple XVII. Where sin sore wounding XVIII. My heart and tongue were twins The next with chorus: XIX. Up merry mates XX. Welcome black night XXI. Cease these false sports THREE AYRES FROM A MUSICALL BANQUET Far from triumphing Court Lady if you so spite me In darkness let me dwell GALLIART TO LACHRIMAE A lute solo from A Pilgrimes Solace, transcribed for guitar

The Old Chevalier (2005) - A Gothic Tale for Tenor Trombone and Ensemble. Piano reduction/Solo Trombone part: WH30940 Version for Bass Trombone: WH30942 Programme note The Old Chevalier for Trombone and Ensemble is the second of a series of seven compositions named after Karen Blixen's collection of short stories Seven Gothic Tales. My musical gothic tales are written for very different ensembles - THE SUPPER AT ELSINORE is a saxophone quartet - but they all share musical material in a criss-cross of contextual references reminiscent of Blixen's narrativecomplexity: Themes and motivsfrom one piece appears in others in new and surprising shapes and combinations. Karen Blixens The Old Chevalier begins with an old man talking to a youth about obl igation and passion. The old man tells a story about a beautiful woman who wanted tomake her husband jealous and cheated on him with a young man who admired him. Afterdiscovering the truth the young man meets a prostitute on her very first job. The girl is an innocent trading favors for shelter. The young man falls in love but she remains obliviousto his passion. She leaves after their encounter without emotional involvement. Many years later the young man - the old man telling the tale - recognizes the girl in a beautifulskull he's holding in his hand. The Old Chevalier isn't 'about' anything. The music is inspired by the artistic content of Blixen's short story - it's emotionalism dramatic construction atmosphere period and setting - but unfolds in time and musical space in ways that are completelyindependent of the story's narrative progression... except one might say that the trombone makes love to the piano and at the very end - just like the old man in the story is left contemplating its remains. The piece is written for the trombonist Jens Vind.

Piano reduction and solo Bass Trombone part for The Old Chevalier (2005) - A Gothic Tale for Bass Trombone and Ensemble. Full score: WH30942 Version for Tenor Trombone available: WH30941 Programme note The Old Chevalier for Trombone and Ensemble is the second of a series of seven compositions named after Karen Blixen's collection of short stories Seven Gothic Tales. My musical gothic tales are written for very different ensembles - THE SUPPER AT ELSINORE is a saxophone quartet - but they all share musical material in a criss-cross of contextual referencesreminiscent of Blixen's narrative complexity: Themes and motivsfrom one piece appears in others in new and surprising shapes and combinations. Karen Blixens The Old Chevalier begins with an old man talking to a youth about obl igation and passion. The old man tells a story about a beautiful woman who wanted tomake her husband jealous and cheated on him with a young man who admired him. Afterdiscovering the truth the young man meets a prostitute on her very first job. The girl is an innocent trading favors for shelter. The young man falls in love but she remains obliviousto his passion. She leaves after their encounter without emotional involvement. Many years later the young man - the old man telling the tale - recognizes the girl in a beautifulskull he's holding in his hand. The Old Chevalier isn't 'about' anything. The music is inspired by the artistic content of Blixen's short story - it's emotionalism dramatic construction atmosphere period and setting - but unfolds in time and musical space in ways that are completelyindependent of the story's narrative progression... except one might say that the trombone makes love to the piano and at the very end - just like the old man in the story is left contemplating its remains. The piece is written for the trombonist Jens

Par PART ARVO. 'In principio' takes its words from the Gospel of John 1:1-14 and puts them into a five-movement form. This work, as in all of Pärt's music, is governed by a strict formal design, with the clarity of the musical structure corresponding to that of the Latin text. The first movement (vv. 1-5) and the fifth (v. 14) are limited to two opposing formal elements: a static, syllabically articulated A-minor chord, and its timbral and tonal opposite, a fanfare-like figure that expands with each new section, growing in loudness and returning to its beginning after traversing all twelve keys. The second movement (vv. 6-8), devoted to John the Baptist, is conceived as a powerfully moving single-voice monody. The central third movement (vv. 9-11) is not only the longest but the one whose message Pärt specially emphasised by repeating the words three times - something he had never done before in his vocal music. He evidently did so to send a signal directly to each and every one of us. The fourth movement (vv. 12-13) seems to begin ex nihilo, growing slowly but with an ineluctable pulse in a mighty procession. The fifth movement (v. 14) constitutes, in combination with the first, the formal and expressive frame of the composition, albeit in mirror reflection. If the chorus in the first movement statically pulsates while the orchestra proceeds dynamically through the circle of keys, these roles are reversed in the fifth movement. Thus, the expanding thrust given to the orchestra in the opening movement is now focused entirely on the text of the chorus. (Wolfgang Sander, translation by J. Bradford Robinson)/ Répertoire / Chœur Mixte [SATB] et Orchestre

for Concert Band-If you have a large percussion section Credo might be a perfect piece for your young band. It is very carefully scored and cross-cued so that almost any size band can perform it. Composed in sonatina form it is highly energetic and tuneful and the bass instruments have lots of fun easy things to play. Like Prairie Winds Festival Credo is very safely scored with Piccolo 2nd Oboe 2nd Bassoon Contra-Alto Clarinet 3rd Trombone and Double Bass parts optional. Ranges are very reasonable: the only sixteenth notes in the piece are in the snare drum.

?Mors et vita? death and life. This antithesis opens a stanza of the ancient 11th-century Easter sequence Victimae paschali laudes where life and death are locked in mutual struggle. Zsigmond Szathmáry?s 12-minute composition of 2015 commissioned for the Freiburg Minster interprets this primal human experience with mighty explosions of sound. Here the organ can show what it?s capable of: its grandeur and strength are fully exploited but not at the expense of soft and gentle contrasts. Typical of Szathmáry?s compositional style is the alternation of seemingly improvised recitative-like writing and passages in strict rhythm. Time and again the composer takes upelements from the church hymn Christ ist erstanden von der Marter alle (Christ the Lord is risen again).