Christmas Improvisations Book 2

Par . Favourite composer Dennis Alexander has done it again with two new Christmas collections that Intermediate level piano students are sure to enjoy! Inspired by the composer?s love of improvisation, each collection includes creative arrangements of some of the most beloved holiday carols. Each solo blends a colourful mix of harmonies with rhythms and textures to create an elegant improvisational character and sound. Your students will love practicing and performing these fun new settings of favourite Christmas classics! / Date parution : 2021-12-09/ Recueil / Piano

60 original compositions transcribed and edited by Pascal Wetzel. Leadsheets generally follow the latest recording to show the evolution of the tune and maturation of the artist. Counterlines, codas, chord extensions and chord changes for improvisation are included. Added features are lyric versions of 10 tunes, 3 essays about Bill Evans' life and music, photographs, and discography.

Sing Out! Christmas contains dazzling new Choral versions of five festive favourites arranged by renowned Vocal Coach and Choral Director Mark De-Lisser.From the reflective Happy Christmas (War is Over) to the cheerful upbeat arrangement of Winter Wonderland this seasonal selection offers well-loved pieces that will delight and inspire both singers and listeners alike. The positive message of all of these songs was crucial to their inclusion and this means that each performance will bring a message of hope and optimism for this Christmas. Arranged for SAT (Soprano/Alto/Tenor) Choir with the occasional solo part thispack includes an innovative and user-friendly download card with performance backing tracks full demonstrations and individual rehearsal tracks of each Vocal line recorded by members of ACM Gospel Choir. The scores feature Piano parts and chord symbols for band accompaniment. Helpful hints for performing each piece are also included in this book giving you everything you need to learn these well-loved songs.Mark De-Lisser is a celebrated Vocal Coach and Choral Director who has been featured on BBC1's 'Last Choir Standing'. His extensive introduction and notes within this songbook bring a personal touch as De-Lisser really is passionate about getting people singing improvising and most of all enjoying themselves. The new Choral arrangements of these Christmas classics are ideal for spicing up a performance while retaining the magic of the original songs. So this Christmas make sure you Sing Out! leaving your listeners speechless. 

With Online Audio-Smoky Mountain Christmas for Guitar Presents 24 carols skillfully arranged by flatpicking Guitar champion Steve Kaufman that range in treatment from beautiful lyrical Guitar settings to rousing joyous flatpicking solos presented in notation and tablature.The audio is designed as a listening recording first and instructional tool second. All 24 songs are played through three times at least. The first time is as itappears in the book and the two versions that follow are improvised versions. Making this a listening tool and an ear training tool. Recorded Digital to Analog in true stereo sound. Includes access to online audio.

Presents 24 carols skillfully arranged by flatpicking guitar champion Steve Kaufman that range in treatment from beautiful lyrical guitar settings to rousing joyous flatpicking solos. In notation and tablature. The CD isdesigned as a listening recording first and instructional tool second. All 24 songs are played through three times at least. The first time is as it appears in the book and the two versions that follow are improvised versions.Making this a listening tool and an ear training tool. Recorded Digital to Analog in true stereo sound.

For Children's Choir and Piano . Par PART ARVO. ‘I went to nursery school every day until the end of secondary school!’ Arvo Pärt says and pauses, staring slyly at his listener. ‘My mother worked at a nursery school in Rakvere, and I always went to visit her after my lessons.’ There, the future composer often sat at the piano and played or improvised for his little friends. Arvo Pärt is a composer best known for his 'tintinnabuli' compositions. It is a lesser-known fact that in his earlier years as a composer, he also wrote children's songs and piano pieces along with music for plays and animated films. This volume, 'Songs from Childhood', contains a selection of Arvo Pärt's music for children from the period 1956-1970. In those years he was involved with several children's studios and theatres as the piano accompanist and composer. Most of his music for children came about by way of improvisation in rehearsals and was only later completed and put on paper. These pieces therefore retain all the spontaneity and playful spirit in which they were created. 'Songs from Childhood' includes a CD of the same name, providing recordings of the songs with new and colourful instrumental accompaniments in the roiginal Estonian language for your enjoyment. These new accompaniments, which are also included as backing tracks on the CD, were arranged by the composer Tauno Aints in collaboration with Arvo Pärt. The sheet music of these arrangements is available on hire. The piano version doubles as a piano reduction. • 15 selected pieces for children‘s choir and piano written with all the spontaneity and playful spirit typical of Arvo Pärt‘s music for children • Includes a CD with full and sing-along versions of the songs • The recordings of the songs are in Estonian with new and colourful instrumental accompaniments by Tauno Aints in collaboration with Arvo Pärt/ Répertoire / Choeur d'Enfants et Piano

Category: Jazz Ensemble CollectionFormat: BookInstrument: SaxophoneInstrumentation: 2nd E-Flat Alto SaxophoneTwelve outstanding arrangements for the young jazz ensemble written by experienced educational arrangers and composers. A variety of styles and tempos is included: swing, ballad, Latin, holiday, rock, and the classic Take Five with a 5/4 time signature. This collection of charts is written for full instrumentation -- five saxophones, four trumpets, four trombones and four rhythm -- but designed to sound full and complete with reduced instrumentation of just twelve players -- four saxes, five brass, piano, bass and drums. Optional parts are available for flute, clarinet, horn, baritone horn and tuba. Rhythm section parts offer suggestions for rhythms and piano voicings, and guitar chords are included to assist young guitarists. Solos are written out for improvised sections, and there is plenty of full-sounding ensemble. The conductor's book includes full-length CD recordings. Titles are: Blues in the Night * Burritos to Go * Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas * Jumpin' at the Woodside * Jungle Boogie * Misty * Night and Day * On Green Dolphin Street * Sax to the Max * Summertime * Take Five * Tastes Like Chicken.