SKU: CF.FAS121
ISBN 9781491159163. UPC: 680160917747.
Searc hing for Destiny’s Diamond is a tension-filled, and mysterious work depicting young people seeking out their destiny during dark times — and ultimately towards the diamond that is their bright future. All parts can be learned at the same time since every section gets the melody in this work. The melodic figure in the second half is offset by one measure in Violin II, Viola and Bass, making for some intriguing harmonies that will increase the students' hearing ability. While optional, the piano part will add intrigue to your performance and was written to be accessible to developing pianists. If no pianist is available, a recorded piano part is available online.Searching for Destiny’s Diamond is a mysterious work that centers around the idea of young people searching out their destiny during dark times. It involves intrigue and tension, as they journey towards their purpose and the diamond that is their bright future.Every instrument in the orchestra begins with the melody and plays it throughout the piece, making this work an excellent teaching piece since all parts can be learned at the same time. The second half of the work is a musical stretto with the melodic figure offset by one measure in Violin II, Viola and Bass. This makes for some intriguing harmonies that will increase the student’s hearing ability and bring tension to the piece.While this piece can be performed without piano, it is desired that the piano be played in performance, as it adds intrigue to the sound. The piano part has been written so that it can be performed by developing pianists. To facilitate performances when no player is available, a recorded piano part is available at www.carlfischer.com/FAS12 1.
SKU: BT.MUSAM65749
ISBN 9780711911253. English.
Teaches you 16 popular songs including 'Uptown Girl', 'Feelings', 'What I Did For Love' and 'Hey There'.
SKU: HL.1300948
ISBN 9798350107579. UPC: 196288171744. 9.0x12.0 inches.
A special curated collection of Ikeda's most popular intermediate duets for 1 piano, 4 hands, including The Royal Seven, featuring a magical kingdom of cards, and Winter Songs, her first published duet trilogy. Ikeda re-edited several of the pieces and provided new descriptions for all of the duets.
SKU: HL.49045998
ISBN 9781540034960. UPC: 888680790998. 9.0x12.0x0.142 inches.
In The Diamond Sutra, an early Buddhist text also known as The Diamond that Cuts Through Illusion, the Buddha leads his interlocutor, the Elder Subhuti, through a series of questions and provocations. The Buddha then concludes the session by offering this teaching to those assembled:All composed things are like a dream,a phantom, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.That is how to meditate on them;that is how to observe them.This duo piece is in four sections, corresponding roughly to these four disparate visions of impermanence: four distinct moments of interplay between form and emptiness, four corners of a diamond. This series of images is itself a 'composed thing,' gathering dissimilar elements into a unified system. It suggests that the things we make are similar to things that exist beyond intention. The Buddha's utterance helps us hear so-called 'composition' and 'improvisation' - or the encompassing category, 'music' - as part of an even larger aggregate: that which forms and recedes.- Vijay Iyer.
