Matériel : Partition + CD
8 carefully selected and edited piano arrangements with chord symbols in concert pitch. The accompanying CD includes full backing tracks professionally arranged and recorded and full demonstration recordings to help you learn the songs.
SKU: HL.1447614
ISBN 9781574244212. UPC: 196288207351. 8.5x11.0x0.341 inches.
Get ready to develop your performance skills and musicianship, and take your playing to the next level with Solos and Duets for Classical Guitar! This book has a little something for every guitarist, but mainly, it is an opportunity for creative musicians to take their guitar skills to the next level. If you are new to classical guitar, you will find manageable, memorable classics as well as new arrangements of modern masters. If you are an experienced guitarist, you will find many works to challenge your technical performance and reading abilities. If you need additional help of tablature and/or audio recordings, these are available to you for every piece. On these pages, you will find music by master educators and musicians, including J.S. Bach, Béla Bartok, Domenico Cimarosa, Hamza El Din, George Heussenstamm, William Allaudin Mathieu, Nelson Montalvo, W.A. Mozart, Alessandro Scarlatti, and Robert Schumann. Many of the included selections are transcriptions from works for toher new instruments and some are original guitar works that now appear in print for the very first time! You will find many beautiful solos and duets, and even some guitar quartet exercises to lead you into ensemble playing.
SKU: HL.50600915
UPC: 888680699697. 9.25x12 inches.
70 works for classical piano by some of the world's most famous composers from Scarlatti to Schönberg take us on a 250-year journey through the history of music. Carefully edited by leading scholars, these pieces are accompanied by fingering and performance tips. A key edition providing a preliminary approach to the piano drawing on works from the classical repertoire.
SKU: PR.11441684S
UPC: 680160625253. 9 x 12 inches.
On the occasion of its 30th anniversary, the ensemble Music From China commissioned Chen Yi for a new work, which became Three Dances from China South, scored for Chinese instruments. Its three descriptive movements (Lions Playing Ball, Bamboo Dance, Lusheng Dance) are each inspired by folk dances from the southeastern provinces of China.My chamber ensemble work Three Dances From China South is commissioned by Music From China tocelebrate its 30th anniversary, and scored for Chinese traditional instruments dizi, erhu, pipa, and zheng. The commission has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical CommissioningProgram, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund.  The world premiere is given at Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall in New York City, on November 21, 2014.  My Three Dances From China South is dedicated to Susan Cheng, the founder and Executive Director of Music From China, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of MFC. There are three movements in my Three Dances From China South for dizi, erhu, pipa, and zheng.  Thematerial in the first movement Lions Playing Ball is drawn from a folk tune played in the accompanyingensemble for the folk dance under the same title in Chaozhou region in Guangdong province.  The image of the folk dance is vivid and entertaining.  The movement includes several variations on the theme.  The variation methods are inspired by the various rhythmic patterns used in the traditional ensemble playing. The melodic material features a special mode with a tritone interval taken from the folk tune.  There are also lyrical sections with polyphonic layers in the variations.The music in the second movement is inspired by the folk Bamboo Dance, which is popular in Li minoritypeople from Hainan Island in the south.  The aged old folk dance is for ritual ceremony and harvest celebration in the history, in which there are pairs of people holding the ends of the long bamboo rods and clapping them loudly in stable pulse, for groups of dancers to dance between the bamboo shapes on the floor, in musical rhythms and ensemble patterns.  A musical motive with a jumping interval and articulation is used throughout the movement.The third movement is called Lusheng Dance.  I have witnessed the folk dance performance of the Dong minority people in Guangxi province in the 1980’s.  The exciting scene inspired me to imitate the large lusheng ensemble playing style in my ensemble of four Chinese instrumental musicians without using the sheng (a wind instrument with metal pipes that is popular in concert music, and similar to the folk lusheng).  On top of the rhythmic patterns, I imitated a two--voice folk song of Zhuang minority people in the same province.  The melody is played by the leading erhu and dizi.—Chen Yi.
