Instrumental Play-Along-Arrangements for a dozen holiday favorites in the unique neo-classical electronic music style of Mannheim Steamroller are featured in this collection perfect for budding instrumentalists. It features online access to audio demonstration tracks for download or streaming to help you hear how the song should sound. Includes: Carol of the Bells · Deck the Halls · God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen · Hark! the Herald Angels Sing · Joy to the World · Silent Night · Traditions of Christmas · and more. Online audio is accessed at halleonard.com/mylibrary

Clog Dances Fom The Lanca-Clog Dances from the Lancashire Cotton Mills arranged for Two Violins (or Violin & Viola) with optional Cello. Clog dancing originated in the North of England over 200 years ago. It is thought to have developed in the Lancashire Cotton Mills where wooden-soled clogs were preferred to leather soles because the floors were kept wet to help keep the humidity high an important feature in cotton spinning as the nails in leather soles could cause sparks which could result in the risk of explosion.The Clog dance steps were inspired by the rhythmic sounds of the textile machinery and it is said to have first been danced by girls working in the cotton mills. Theywould beat out a rhythm with their wooden clogs to keep in time with the shuttle flying backwards and forwards across the loom. They would also sing choruses whilst stepping to the rhythm of their machines.There were a variety of machines in the many mills of the Midlands and North West each machine built for a specific function. There were many rhythms and as the girls clog danced it is said that those watching the dancers could tell which machines they worked at and from which mill.Clog dancers were also a common sight not only at the mill's lunch breaks but also at competitions in towns and in Music Halls throughout the 19^th and 20th centuries.

Par IGUDESMAN ALEKSEY. Aleksey Igudesman might reasonably be described as a modern day Victor Borge. With his cabaret partner, Hyung-ki Joo, he has toured concert halls all over the world, wringing all that is humorous out of classical music with just the basic tools of violin and piano. The “Happy Birthday Variations” for violin and piano are dedicated to his good friend, the late Sir Roger Moore and are typical of Igudesman’s brand of humour. They take the internationally known musical greeting on a world-wide tour, from a Viennese Waltz, through a Big Band number, a Bulgarian Vivace in 7/8, a Russian Presto, a Tango and an Alpine Air to conclude in a Paganini-esque finale that’s not quite as difficult as it looks. A great concert showpiece for intermediate students, not least if someone in the audience is celebrating a special day! Or, if the teacher prefers to play the violin, Igudesman’s “The Soloist’s Ultimate Happy Birthday” (UE37199) does a different but equally funny job for violin duet./ Recueil / Violon et Piano

Between 1996 and 2000 Bärenreiter published scholarly-critical editions of Beethoven's Nine Symphonies edited by the first class musicologist Jonathan Del Mar. The editorial process was a huge undertaking because of the complex source situation regarding Beethoven's Symphonies culminating in the Choral Symphony (No.9) which came down to us in nearly 20 different sources. So it was not surprising that Bärenreiter's new Urtext edition caused a considerable stir in the music world. Since publication Del Mar's edition enjoys the unabashed praise of conductors performers and critics alike and has become the most widely used publication of theBeethoven Symphonies which can be heard not only every day in concert halls but also on CD recordings by John Eliot Gardiner David Zinman Jos van Immerseel and Claudio Abbado. Full scores study scores and complete performance material to Beethoven’s Nine Symphonies are available for sale.

Easy Solo Violin and Piano-A collection of 12 traditional carols for easy violin (Grade 2) and piano accompaniment from master arranger Bruce Healey. This group of delightful arrangements will become your most valuable resource of holiday music for years to come. Each carol is given a fresh creative treatment yet is expertly arranged with younger players in mind. Songs include: Away in a Manger · We Wish You a Merry Christmas · Deck the Halls · Ding Dong Merrily on High · God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen · Greensleeves · O Come All Ye Faithful · Chanukah Oy Chanukah · O Holy Night · Pat-A-Pan · Silent Night · Three Holiday Songs (Medley including The Dreydl Song Jingle Bells and Joy to the World). Alsoavailable for: 00842194 Solo Viola and Piano 00842195 Solo Cello and Piano 04490404 String Quartet String Orchestra: · 04490308 Conductor Score · 04490309 Violin 1 part · 04490310 Violin 2 part · 04490311 Violin 3 part (Viola T.C.) · 04490312 Viola part · 04490313 Cello part · 04490314 String Bass part · 04490315 Piano · 04490316 Opt. Harp · 04490317 Opt. Percussion

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