Instrumentalists will love this collection of Broadway classics, including: Any Dream Will Do - Cabaret - Defying Gravity - Do You Hear the People Sing? - Edelweiss - Getting to Know You - Guys and Dolls - Hello, Dolly! - I Dreamed a Dream - If I Were a Bell - Luck Be a Lady - Mame - The Music of the Night - Ol' Man River - People Will Say We're in Love - Seasons of Love - Send in the Clowns - The Surrey with the Fringe on Top - Think of Me - Tomorrow - What I Did for Love - You'll Never Walk Alone - and many more. / Alto

Play 50 of your favorite pop tunes on your instrument of choice! This collection features arrangements written in accessible keys and ranges with lyrics and chord symbols. Songs include: All My Loving · Blowin' in the Wind · Clocks · Don't Stop Believin' · Every Breath You Take · Fireflies · Hey, Soul Sister · In My Life · Love Story · My Girl · Nights in White Satin · Sweet Caroline · Unchained Melody · Viva La Vida · What a Wonderful World · You've Got a Friend · and more. / Alto

An amazing selection from VH-1's 100 Greatest Songs Of Rock and Roll, arranged for solo Viola.Includes the songs: All Along the Watchtower, All Shook Up, American Pie, Beat It, Blowin' in the Wind, Blue Suede Shoes, Bohemian Rhapsody, Born to Be Wild, Born to Run, Bridge over Troubled Water, California Dreamin', Dream On, Every Breath You Take, Fire and Rain, Free Bird, Gloria, Good Vibrations, Great Balls of Fire, A Hard Day's Night, Hey Jude, Hotel California, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, I Heard It Through the Grapevine, Imagine, Jump, Layla, Let It Be, London Calling, Maggie May, My Generation, Piano Man, Proud Mary, Respect, Rock Around the Clock, Roxanne, Smells like Teen Spirit, Stairway to Heaven, Stand by Me, Sunshine of Your Love, Superstition, We Are the Champions, When Doves Cry, Yesterday, You Shook Me All Night Long and more. / Alto

Viola-This volume in the Hal Leonard Instrumental Play-Along series contains 12 themes from the James Bond films in arrangements for solo Viola. A downloadable backing track is included for each piece so you can play alongand sound like a pro! From Monty Norman's classic James Bond Theme to Don Black's Diamonds Are Forever and Paul and Linda McCartney'sLive And Let Die this collection contains 12 of the best-knownpieces from the much-loved spy films. Other songs include: For Your Eyes only From Russia With Love Goldfinger Nobody Does It Better On Her Majesty's Secret Service Skyfall A View To A Kill Writing's On The Walland You Only Live Twice. This book includes Playback a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch set loop points change keys and pan left or right - availableexclusively from Hal Leonard.

This massive collection will keep instrumentalists busy with 101 pop hits to learn and play! Songs include: All About That Bass - All of Me - Brave - Breakaway - Call Me Maybe - Clocks - Fields of Gold - Firework - Hello - Hey, Soul Sister - Ho Hey - I Gotta Feeling - I Will Remember You - Jar of Hearts - Love Story - 100 Years - Roar - Rolling in the Deep - Royals - Say Something - Shake It Off - Smells like Teen Spirit - Uptown Funk - When You Say Nothing at All - and more. / Alto

A series of popular music for working string quartets. Light enjoyable repertoire pieces and entertaining encores. Each folio contains five pieces. Contents: 'Empty Chairs at Empty Tables', 'I Don't Know To Love Him', 'If I Were A Rich Man', 'Somewhere', 'Tonight'. / Quatuor A Cordes

for Viola. Instrumentalists will love this jam-packed collection of 101 timeless pop hits and favorite standards/ Recueil / Alto

Par MIRANDA LIN-MANUEL. Your orchestra (and audience!) will love the catchy music from Disney's big hit featuring Latin rhythms. / Date parution : 2022-05-17/ Recueil / Ensemble de Cordes

Par JANACEK LEOS. Janácek's 2nd String Quartet, Intimate Letters, is regarded as a highlight of the modern string quartet literature. It was written during the composer’s last year of life, between 29 January and 19 February 1928, inspired by the ageing Janáèek's exceptional love for Kamila Stösslová. The Moravian Quartet devoted themselves to this impressive work; Janácek attended a total of three of their rehearsals in May and June 1928. This had several consequences, including his abandoning his original idea of using a viola d'amore. After Janácek's unexpected death (12 August 1928) the uncertain genesis of the work became the greatest problem of the IntimateLetters : the surviving copies were not definitively authorised. The editors of this new edition have reverted to Janácek's autograph sketches as the main, most reliable source and using these as a basis, have reconstructed the work as it stood at the point of Janácek's death. The musical text, taken from the Critical Complete Edition of the Works of Leoš Janácek (Vol. E/4), therefore contains clear differences in comparison with older editions./ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

Les musiciens vont adorer cette énorme collection de classiques du jazz, notamment : All of Me - Autumn Leaves - Bewitched - Blue Skies - Body and Soul - Cheek to Cheek - Come Rain or Come Shine - Don't Get Around Much Anymore - A Fine Romance - Here's to Life - I Could Write a Book - In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning - It Could Happen to You - The Lady Is a Tramp - Like Someone in Love - Lullaby of Birdland - Manhattan - Misty - My One and Only Love - The Nearness of You - On Green Dolphin Street - Satin Doll - Stella by Starlight - Tangerine - Unforgettable - The Way You Look Tonight - Yesterdays - et bien d'autres. / Alto / Hal Leonard

Par PEPIN CAMILLE. Lorsque l'on m'a proposé de mettre en musique ce recueil de poèmes de James Joyce (1882-1941), j'ai été immédiatement séduite par l'idée. Il s'agissait de mettre en musique ces poèmes en respectant l'ordre original selon lequel ils ont été conçus par James Joyce lui-même lors de la première édition de 1905 [1]. Avec la précieuse aide de Philippe Blanchon [2], j'ai choisi de mettre en musique dix-huit poèmes, conservant ainsi les épisodes incontournables, la trame dramaturgique et l'essence de l'univers Joycien. Ce qui m'a attirée d'emblée, c'est qu'il s'agit d'une véritable histoire : de la naissance de l'amour à la passion déclinante, menant à une éventuelle et tendre amitié entre les deux amants. J'ai donc conçu Chamber Music d'un seul tenant. Au-delà des nombreuses références à la musique et aux sons de la nature - déjà 'musique' en eux-mêmes - l'oeuvre littéraire appelle à la mise en musique par sa forme. En effet, elle est déjà musicale dans sa construction. Les trois premiers poèmes constituent le prélude exprimant la solitude du poète. Nous assistons dans la première partie - crescendo - à la naissance de l'amour entre les deux amants, menant au poème central et point culminant de l'oeuvre : 'My Dove, my beautiful one'. La seconde partie - diminuendo - raconte la passion déclinante des amants qui nous conduit au finale, écho du premier poème et à la solitude du poète. Le prélude musical illustre le paysage - tant visuel que sonore - décrit par James Joyce : 'Strings in the earth and air make music sweet', 'There's music along the river', 'The sighs of harps', 'Soft sweet music in the air'. Inspirées de sonorités traditionnelles irlandaises, les mélodies de la première partie présentent un aspect populaire issu du folklore, comme une ode au monde de la danse - prégnant en Irlande. Ces mélodies modales et mélismatiques semblent improvisées, à la manière du chant gaélique irlandais. Elles se transforment au fur et à mesure en une véritable épopée romantique, expression de la relation passionnelle et charnelle des deux amants : 'Hurry over the dark lands and run upon the sea for seas and land shall not divide us my love and me', 'The odorous winds are weaving a music of sighs'. Ces mélodies extatiques, à la fois tendres et fragiles, tentent d'exprimer cette ivresse, cet état extatique - véritable état de 'transe' qui nous submerge lorsque l'amour envahit notre âme sans que l'on s'en aperçoive. La deuxième partie reprend ces divers éléments musicaux dans leur cheminement inverse. Passés par le filtre de la mélancolie de l'amour déclinant au fil du temps, ils témoignent de la perte de repères après la séparation avec l'être aimé : 'Lay aside sadness and sing how love that passes is enough', 'Love came to us in time gone by'. Enfin, le finale exprime le retour à la solitude du poète, comme une résonance du début de l'oeuvre : 'The voice of the winter is heard at the door', 'My kiss will give peace now and quiet to your heart'. Sans cesse en écho les unes des autres, les mélodies s'entremêlent dans un contrepoint lyrique et sensuel. En effet, le titre même du recueil m'a inspiré une oeuvre où chaque instrument serait d'égale importance. Le lyrisme de l'un ne peut exister sans l'autre. Ainsi, le rôle du quintette n'est pas seulement un accompagnement de la voix soliste. Leurs lignes d'amour se mêlent avec volupté les unes aux autres. Plonger dans l'univers Joycien a impliqué mon immersion totale dans l'oeuvre. Lire ses mots, penser ses images, imaginer ses sonorités, a été un travail passionnant et c'est avec nostalgie que je referme ce recueil aujourd'hui. J'espère cependant avoir su retranscrire son univers poétique au plus proche. Je profite de cette note pour remercier Philippe Blanchon pour son aide précieuse et Claire Bodin [3] pour sa confiance. C'est à la fois un grand honneur et un plaisir immense de rendre hommage à si grand artiste et de voir ce chef d'oeuvre littéraire naître une seconde fois en musique. / Contemporain / Répertoire / Sextuor

In 1922 Maurice Ravel heard the young Hungarian violin virtuoso and niece of Joseph Joachim, Jelly D'Aranyi, in concert in London. Following the performance, Ravel spent the remainder of the evening requesting D'Aranyi to play numerous gypsy tunes on her violin, probing her on the technical limits of the instrument. The result of this encounter is Ravel's virtuoso classic 'Tzigane?. Written originally for violin and piano or luthéal (a mechanism invented in 1919 that attaches to a piano, producing a sound similar to the rich overtones of the Cimbalon), the premiere took place in London in April 1924. The composer had finished the work only days beforehand. Ravel later orchestrated 'Tzigane? and both versions remain a 'must? for music-lovers and aspiring violinists today. Jelly D'Aranyi performed both versions regularly throughout her long career. This Urtext edition presents the first scholarly-critical edition of Ravel's masterpiece. It is published both in the orchestral version, complete with full score and performance material, as well as in the composer's earlier version for violin and piano. All known sources, including letters, have been drawn on for the new edition - one of the available sources, consulted for the first time, was a copy of 'Tzigane? from the estate of Jelly D'Aranyi, which is today part of a private collection. The version for piano and violin contains, besides the Urtext part, a second violin part as a facsimile with performance instructions by Jelly D'Aranyi. D'Aranyi's alterations and fingering reflect how Ravel must have heard the work in rehearsals and performance and as such are a document of early 20th century performance practice. The cooperation between Ravel and D'Aranyi is comparable to that of Brahms and Joachim working on the Brahms violin concerto.- First scholarly-critical Urtext edition of the work - Presented are both versions: for violin and orchestra and for violin and piano- Includes Jelly D'Aranyi's fingering / Alto

Kevin Volans' String Quartet No. 9: Shiva Dances was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and first performed by the Smith Quartet at the 2004 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.Kevin Volans (the composer) notes on the piece:In the past I have been interested in trying to go beyond historicism (1970s) beyond style(1980s) and beyond form (1990s) in my work. Looking back over the music of the twentiethcentury I was struck by the fact the nearlyall of it is extremely 'busy' almost cluttered. Italmost seemed that composers felt compelled to look industrious. In the new millennium Ithought it would be interesting to try and eliminate content. I also aspired to movingfrommusic (sound as art) to art (art as sound). This of course has already been done by a numberof composers (many from New York Phil Niblock and La Monte Young to name but two) butit was something I had never tried.AlthoughI found it annoying that the label 'minimalist' was given to my African-based work and fearing this would make the label stick I set out to write a piece which reflected my loveof minimal painting and architecture. The Japanesehave a term 'wabi' meaning 'voluntarypoverty' or 'emptiness' to describe their restrained minimal aesthetic an aesthetic which however pays greatest attention to the quality of material and fine detail. I like to think thatthelack of excessive pitch material in this piece reflects a kind of voluntary poverty.When Shiva is portrayed dancing (as Nataraj) He is depicted in a circle of flames crushing asmall figure the ego underfoot.You get theimpression He dances on the spot not movingaround at all. I like that.The piece is dedicated to Pablo Pascual Cilleruelo.

The quartet in a minor is one of the chamber music works with which Schubert wanted to 'pave the way to the great symphony? in spring 1824. At the same time he was paving his way to a wider audience, as the 'Rosamunde? Quartet was the first and only string quartet that was not only publicly performed in Schubert's lifetime but also published in parts. It is fortunate for us that this was the case because the autograph of this much-loved quartet is missing today and the only source for the work is the first edition. And this is precisely where the challenge lies, as the parts exhibit some inaccuracies regarding the articulation and dynamics. They have had to be carefully resolved, something which our new Urtext edition has done in an exemplary fashion. Its name can be traced back to Schubert's incidental music to the play Rosamunde, which can be heard at the beginning of the Andante. Quite a few people might, however, be reminded of the Impromptu in B flat major op. post. 142 #3, in which Schubert later once again took up the beautiful melody. / 2 Violons, Alto Et Violoncelle