SKU: HL.1136474

ISBN 9781705183250. UPC: 196288113492. 9.0x12.0x0.237 inches.

This one-of-a-kind collection arranged by Fred Sokolow features accessible, must-know songs for anyone ready to start playing lap steel guitar, or any player wanting to expand their repertoire. Each song is presented in a combination of tab, standard notation, chords, and lyrics for the most popular songs lap steel players like to play. This collection features songs in several tunings, including open G, open E and C6, in these genres: country, Hawaiian, Western swing, rock/pop, folk, and blues. It also includes many transcriptions of solos by famous steel players. Songs include: Back in the Saddle Again â?¢ Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain â?¢ Can't Help Falling in Love â?¢ Crazy â?¢ Faded Love â?¢ Happy Trails â?¢ I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry â?¢ Mama Tried â?¢ (Ghost) Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend) â?¢ Together Again â?¢ Waikiki â?¢ Walkin' After Midnight â?¢ Won't You Ride in My Little Red Wagon â?¢ Your Cheatin' Heart â?¢ and more.

About First 50

You've been taking lessons, you've got a few chords under your belt, and you're ready to buy a songbook. Now what? Hal Leonard has the answers in its First 50 series. The First 50 series steers new players in the right direction. These books contain easy to intermediate arrangements for must-know songs. Each arrangement is simple and streamlined, yet still captures the essence of the tune.

SKU: KJ.WB486F

ISBN 9788402704832. UPC: 8402704832.

Red Sky at Morning is a great piece for teaching young musicians to play long phrases and expressive dynamics. The brass players blow air through their instruments (without buzzing) at the beginning and the end to imitate the wind and waves of the sea. The melody in the minor mode portrays the uncertainty one might feel on a ship with inclement weather on the way.

About Tradition of Excellence: Excellence in Performance

Excellence in performance is a concert band repertoire series correlated with the Tradition of Excellence Comprehensive Band Method by Bruce Pearson and Ryan Nowlin. The compositions in the series correlate to a specific page in Tradition of Excellence Books 1, 2, or 3 and reinforce and expand on skills and concepts introduced in the method.

/Selections include exciting parts for every player, grade-appropriate cross-cueing, accessible ranges and rhythms, creative percussion writing, electric bass and rehearsal piano parts, and full conductor scores with rehearsal suggestions, program notes and composer biographies. In addition, the Grade 1 works provide an Advanced Snare Drum part for percussionists who have achieved a higher level of ability, playable simultaneously with the more basic Snare Drum part to facilitate differentiated learning.

SKU: BT.WH31498

ISBN 9788759824603. English.

String Quartet No.4 was composed by Hans Abrahamsen in 2012. Commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Wigmore Hall For the Arditti Quartet. Programme note: The basic idea for my Fourth String Quartet was very clear to me: It should be quiet and soft music or to put it in a german term: hoch im Himmel gesungen ... (”High singing in heaven…”). Each of the four movements has a different scordatura/pitch. The first movement begins like my work ”Schnee” sky-high with an airy and soft melody by the first violin. The second movement is fast and ”movement and joy”-like. It consists of two duets and a reverse style counterpoint. While the sections were progressively longerin the first movement they are getting shorter and shorter in the second. ”Dark, heavy and earthy” is the third movement and its pizzicato recalls big black raindrops falling to the ground. It is the dark and grainy counterpart to the first movement whereas the fourth movement corresponds to the second. The fourth movement was planned as a dark and heavy counterpart but it turned out to be like ”babbling” music of a child. My Fourth String Quartet has become in its way a serene and cool piece. So the Quartet has been finished luckyly after twenty years it was already in 1990 that I was commissioned by Wittener Tage für Neue Musik to write the piece for Arditti Quartet. Hans Abrahamsen.

SKU: AP.49976S

ISBN 9781470658359. UPC: 038081575919. English.

This exciting overture by Chris M. Bernotas shares a title with the poem that inspired it, High Flight. The poem by John Gillespie Magee embodies the spirit to explore and dance freely in the sky. This piece offers students many musical opportunities and challenges and is the perfect selection for a contest, concert opener, or closer. (3:50).

SKU: ST.H495

ISBN 9790220224942.

Set for the Trinity examinations, Grade 3, Skylark is an atmospheric musical impression for pedal or non-pedal harp of the view from the composer's home, overlooking the farmland and broad aerial vistas of Norfolk. Contrasting textures of open arpeggios and accompanied melody convey the various stages of the bird's flight, and its singing from on high, rising to the climax of its song on a musical 'thermal' of sustained, arpeggiated chords before a descent to rest in pastureland. Contemplative, even quietly ecstatic in mood, Skylark will prove an effective element in balanced programme-building, whether as required by the Trinity syllabus, or as engaging repertoire for young players.