The Little Virtuoso

SKU: HL.300155

ISBN 9781540061874. UPC: 888680960902. 9.0x12.0 inches.

Play your favorite harmonica solos and learn new classics with this new collection of songs for 10-hole diatonic C harp! This comprehensive songbook presents an extensive collection of 140 songs spanning diverse genres including blues, rock, country, folk, traditional, gospel, and pop. Curated for harmonica enthusiasts of all levels, each song is meticulously transcribed with harmonica tabs, lyrics, and chord symbols, and skillfully adapted for various harmonica positions. Furthermore, the songbook offers valuable insights for performing each piece in its original key, along with note-for-note transcriptions of intros, licks, and solos by esteemed harp experts and virtuosos from varied musical backgrounds. Add this new songbook to your collection today to unlock the endless possibilities of your harmonica!

SKU: BT.EMBZ7783

International.

' 'Learning the piano is so widespread these days and good pianists so numerous that mediocrity on the instrument can no longer be accepted. In effect, the piano must be studied for eight or ten years before performance of a harder piece is attempted. Few can spare the years for this. It takes one hour to play the volume in full. Once it has been mastered, it is enough to set aside for it a little time each day and the difficulties will disappear almost like magic. Playing will become as attractive, accurate, fluent and pearly as that of the best performers.'' This piano method by the French music teacher Charles-Louis Hanon (1819-1900) appeared in 1874, with these introductory wordsaddressed to the realm of pianists. Almost a century and a half later, it remains among the most popular systems of piano tuition all around the world, and Hanon's name has become generic for systematic instrumental methods, even in types of popular music. The Virtuoso Pianist appears as a publication in six languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Hungarian.

The volume in a new, decorative cover is useful to every pianist. Students with a years study behind them will succeed in mastering the exercises. Advanced pianists after working through the exercises will be able to tackle even serious technicaldifficulties. In the volume different forms of technical difficulty are encountered. The exercises may be performed on more than one piano simultaneously, so that students become accustomed to ensemble playing.

Das Erlernen des Klavierspiels ist gegenwärtig so sehr verbreitet, und es gibt so viele gute Pianisten, dass wir uns auf diesem Instrument mit Mittelmäßigkeit nicht mehr zufriedengeben können. Das führt dazu, dass acht bis zehn JahreKlavierunterricht erforderlich sind, bevor wir riskieren können, ein schwieriges Stück zu spielen. Es gibt jedoch nur Wenige, die dem Erlernen dieses Instruments so viele Jahre widmen! Man benötigt etwa eine Stunde, um diesen Band voll und ganzdurchzuspielen. Wenn wir uns die Übungen bereits perfekt angeeignet haben, genügt es, sich täglich nur kurze Zeit mit ihm zu beschäftigen, und unsere Schwierigkeiten werden wie von Zauberhandverschwinden: Unser Spiel wird so schön, so akkurat, soleicht und perlend wie das der hervorragendsten Künstler.

SKU: HL.48025250

UPC: 196288142942.

The composer and conductor Oliver Knussen (1952 - 2018) was loved by many companions for his generosity and musical intellect. To Detlev Glanert, whose works he loved to perform, he was a friend and one of his 'personal heroes'. By his own admission, he learned attention to detail from 'Olly', with whom he worked at Tanglewood as early as 1986. If Glanert's Trumpet Concerto, composed in 2018, is the large-scale symphonic homage to his role model, the solo “Little Letter to Olly” does the same in a small format. Two elegiac adagio sections frame a boisterous presto with all kinds of virtuoso tricks. The 'Letter without Words' owes its existence to a suggestion by the cellist Anssi Karttunen, who asked for commemorative pieces for Knussen's 70th birthday from a number of composers and premiered them at the Aldeburgh Festival 2022.

SKU: M7.BP-2432

ISBN 9790015243202.

SKU: BT.PWM11376

SKU: M7.BP-2431

ISBN 9790015243103.

SKU: UT.MAG-266

ISBN 9790215326439. 9 x 12 inches.

Posse� ��s compositions for harp are rich and varied, and range from the easy pieces dedicated to his students to the virtuoso concert pieces; we must also remember his didactic works, in particular the ‘Six Small Studies’ and the universally known ‘Eight Great Concert Studies’.
It is not easy to draw a balance of his legacy in the harp world. On one hand his technical vision of virtuosity combined with a great stability of the hand and rigor of the fingerings certainly contributed to the development of the 20th Century harp technique; on the other hand, his use of the pedals, often driven by two together with the same foot (a very old French technique), has gradually become more and more difficult on modern harps. From the point of view of his contribution to the harp repertoire, the constant run-up to the piano has heavily influenced his compositional production, making him often completely miss the idiomatic effects of 19th Century harp music (except for the use of harmonic sounds), which were so loved by his friend Liszt in the compositions of Parish Alvars.

SKU: CA.993500

ISBN 9790007145170. Language: Spanish. Text: Lorca, Federico Garcia. Text: Federico GarcIa Lorca.

'Caracolitos chicos from Alberto Grau (*1937) ist a virtuoso composition for women's choir belonging to a group of works that Grau wrote for ensembles who were looking for new aesthetic proposals. The text of Garcia Lorca that serves as a point of departure, is only a short selection of playful verses describing the natural and untamed character of a child that imitates a horse. This is why the composition combines different layers of polyrythmic textures in the singing parts of the choir with body percussion, which are fully interconnected and must be interpreted as a whole.The intention of the composer is that the piece turns into a festive and happier experience on stage.

SKU: HL.14062600

UPC: 196288023203.

About A New Tune A Day

Since it first appeared in the 1930s, the concise, clear content of the best-selling A Tune A Day series has revolutionized music-making in the classroom and the home. Now, for the first time, C. Paul Herfurth's original books have been completely rewritten with new music and the latest in instrumental technique for a new generation of musicians. The A New Tune A Day books have the same logical, gentle pace and keen attention to detail, but with a host of innovations: the inclusion of an audio CD-with actual performances and backing tracks-will make practice even more fun and exciting, and the explanatory diagrams and photographs will help the student to achieve the perfect technique and tone. This book contains: easy-to-follow lessons on clear, uncluttered pages; tips for technique; improvising hints; audio CD with a virtuoso performance, backing tracks, and audio examples; great music, including duets and ensemble pieces; useful pull-out fingering chart

SKU: PE.EP68709

ISBN 9790300761664. 303x232 inches.

Jonathan Dove's rousing setting of Tennyson's poem, made famous in his choral cycle 'The Passing of the Year' is here given a thrilling new life as a concert band showpiece. Phillip Littlemore's exuberant arrangement is sure to provide concert bands with a show-stopper, a joyful and virtuoso celebration of life.

SKU: SU.00220521

This CD Sheet Music™ collection brings together over 70 sonatinas and nearly 200 standard study works composed during the development of the virtuoso piano repertoire from the 18th through the early 20th centuries. SONATINAS: Beethoven, Clementi, Diabelli, Dussek, Gurlitt, Haydn, Kuhlau, Lichner, Mozart, Reinecke, Spindler STANDARD STUDY WORKS: Albeniz (Danza Èpañola), CPE Bach(Solfegietto), JS Bach (Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring), Bartók (For Children, Ten Easy Pieces), Beethoven (Für Elise, Six Ländler, Twelve German Dances), Bizet (Toreador Song, Brahms (Ballade in D minor, Intermezzos, Op. 117), Chopin (selected Mazurkas, Preludes, Waltzes), Couperin (Les Moissonneurs, Debussy (Arabesque No. 1, Claire de Lune, Rèverie), Dvorák (Humoreske), Fauré (Sicilienne), Granados (Danza de la Rose), Grieg (Peer Gynt Suite), Handel (Giga, Sarabamde), Haydn (Andante Grazioso), Joplin (The Entertainer, The Easy Winners), Liszt (Consolation, Liebestraum), MacDowell (To A Wild Rose), Mendelssohn (selected Songs without Words), Mozart (Rondo a la Turca, Fantasy in D minor), Moussorgsky (Meditation), Pachelbel (Canon in D, Prokofiev (Vision Fugitive), Puccini (O mio babbino caro), Purcell (Suite in G), Rachmananoff (Prelude in C# minor), Ravel (Pavance pour une Infante Défunte), Satie (Gymnopédie Nos. 1-3), D. Scarlatti (selected Sonatas), Schoenberg (6 Little Piano Pieces), Schubert (Ecossaise, Marche Militaire), Schumann (selected pieces from Album for the Young and Scenes from Childhood), Scriabin (Preludes), Sibelius (Romance), J. Strauss (Mein Herr Marquis), Tchaikovsky (Album for the Young, None But the Lonely Heart), Verdi (Anvil Chorus from Il Trovetore, March from Aida), Weber (Variations on Vien qua Dorina bella), and more Also includes composer biographies and relevant articles from the 1911 edition of Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians 1100+ pages

Please note, customers using Macintosh computers running macOS Catalina (version 10.5) have reported hardware compatibility issues with this product. If you encounter these issues, we recommend copying the entire contents of the disk to a contained folder on a thumb drive or other storage device for use on your Mac.

SKU: BA.BVK01950

ISBN 9783761819500. 19 x 12.5 cm inches. Language: German. Preface: Tarkmann, Andreas N.

Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto op. 64, is a key work of the 19th century, adhering to the classical style of Beethoven while pointing the way to the romantic ethos of Brahms. It has long been known that Mendelssohn performed the work with three soloists in succession: Ferdinand David, who worked closely with the composer during its composition and played it at the premiere; the 'child prodigy' Joseph Joachim; and Hubert Leonard, a young Belgian virtuoso about whom little is known.

As proof sheets for the Violin Concerto in E minor were long considered lost, it could be described as somewhat of a sensation when proofs for the solo violin part resurfaced together with a letter from Mendelssohn to Leonard.

The letter informs us that the composer invited Leonard to his home in Frankfurt in order to make his acquaintance. It was already known that Mendelssohn had given proof sheets to David; now we know that he also gave some to Leonard.

The recently discovered proofs reveal how Leonard played the concerto with Mendelssohn on that memorable evening in February 1845. Besides containing bowing marks and fingering, they also show how Leonard executed shifts of position and where he employed open strings. Furthermore modifications made to dynamic markings and additional legato bowing are shown.

It is safe to assume that all of this was done with Mendelssohn's approval. That the young violinist made a positive impression on the composer is confirmed in the latter's correspondence following their joint performance. Mendelssohn is full of praise for Leonard's playing and offers to lend his support in finding employment in Germany.

This revised edition of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto (only the orchestral parts remain unchanged) includes a separate booklet on performance practice.

The editor, Clive Brown, is an acknowledged expert on Romantic performance practice.

- New source situation owing to recently rediscovered proofs
- Revised Urtext edition
- With a separate booklet on performance practice (Eng/Ger).

SKU: HL.14028041

ISBN 9788759810682. 12.0x16.5x0.533 inches.

The Small concerto for solo oboe and chamber orchestra was commissioned by The Royal Library of Copenhagen for the inauguration of a concert hall located at the new library annex, the so-called Black Diamond, September 1999. The work as such focuses more on the contemplative and sonorously introvert, rather than more virtuosity; it is in four movements, what could be called four little tone-poems on (and inspired by) the names of the four moon craters known as: Lake of Dream - Ocean of Storms - Sea of Tranquillity - Lake of Death, four enigmatic and deeply fascinating ancient conceptions of the landscape on this our closest, but at the same time most legendary and myth-shrouded celestial body. The work was composed in 1998 for Athelas-Sinfonietta Copenhagen and Swedish obo virtuoso Helen Jahren. The work was dedicated to Helen Jahren.

SKU: HL.44012547

ISBN 9789043157919. UPC: 888680087074.

An early and anonymous arrangement for two clarinets, two horns and two bassoons of Mozart's Horn Quintet K.407, originally for horn and strings. Mozart wrote it for his friend the horn virtuoso and cheese merchant Ignaz Leutgeb. The quintet was written in an entertaining style, without great depth and this perhaps reflected the character of his friend who was a brilliant musician but possessed little culture and intelligence. However, the tender and graceful middle movement was described by Albert Einstein as a love duet between the horn and violin.