Keyboard World 2 (English)

While it's one thing plugging in a Keyboard and playing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star it's quite another discovering all the possibilities of harmony chords and counterpoint. The key to being a successful Keyboard pro is versatility. Basic Keyboard Workout offers you a pocket-sized guide packed to capacity with everything the modern working Keyboard-player needs to play and understand to get the best from their instrument.Beginning with the questions of posture and simple playing techniques this book then becomes a full theory guide that takes you into the worlds of harmony scales chords and rhythms. The tutorials include lessons on: Starting toread musicBasic rhythms and time valuesMajor and minor diatonic harmonyInversions and intervalsPlaying and recognising music by earTechnical skills such as voicings pedalling and developing your dexterityA further series of chapters dives deeper into advanced harmony with unusual and exotic chords and Jazz-influenced progressions all explained in clear and simple English. You will then find a full and detailed guide to your equipment including how to set up correctly using and abusing MIDI how to work with samplers and sequencers and much more besides.Soon you will be armed with the tools to become a formidable Keyboard player with the knowledge to succeed in any musical situation!

15 Easy to Intermediate pieces from 18th-century Ireland-The latest addition to the fast-growing 'Baroque Around the World' series is an Irish album consisting of fifteen haunting melodies by the legendary 18th-century Irish harpist Turlough O'Carolan. The selection of easy to intermediate standard has been made by Patrick Steinbach; the pieces range in style from the Corelli-influenced 'Carolan's Concerto' through the rumbustious 'Carolan's quarrel with the landlady' to the composer's moving final air 'Carolan's dream'. Arrangements for flute (violin oboe) and keyboard with optional cello or bassoon are by Jeremy Barlow who has edited three other volumes in 'Baroque Around the World' of English French and Swedishmusic.

It was a chance visit to a second hand bookshop in Nottingham that set me on the trail of Rossini's now well-known Duetto for cello and double bass. But the story begins earlier than that. In the 1960s I was studying the double bass at the Royal College of Music with Adrian Beers who was at that time principal of the English Chamber Orchestra on the front desk of the Philharmonia Orchestra and a member of the Melos Ensemble of London (then one of the leading ensembles of the world). I was working on the 'Dragonetti Concerto' as most young players do and I wanted to find out a bit about it. My teacher said he thought the autograph manuscript might be in the British Library which was all the encouragement I needed to secure a pass to the Reading Room so I could go and see for myself. There sure enough I found a large collection of Dragonetti's autograph manuscripts together with other bound volumes relating to his life. The papers had been lovingly collated and annotated by Vincent Novello one of Dragonetti's closest friends then deposited in the library before his departure to Italy in 1848 two years after Dragonetti's death. One of the volumes included a lot of letters about various engagements and music festivals copies of orders for strings Dragonetti wanted from Italy details about paintings he wanted to buy and numerous invitations to private functions. The manuscript of the 'Dragonetti Concerto' of course wasn't among the papers we now know it to have been written by Edouard Nanny a century or so later. One name that came up regularly in the documents was that of Sir George Smart. Smart had been a violinist in Salomon's orchestra and had played for Haydn at his London concerts in the 1790s. As a child he had learnt much about music from his father who had in turn been present at many of Handel's rehearsals when he was preparing some of his major works for the first time. Smart was also a fine keyboard player becoming organist of the Chapel Royal in 1822. As a conductor

SATB-This easy sprightly introduction to choral music of the classical era from one of the world's great composers works well for concert educational or service functions. In Latin with a singing English translation and accessiblekeyboardaccompaniment. Also available for SAB (08501159) and SSA (08501179) choirs.

Collection de 47 ?uvres de J.S.Bach des concertos aux musiques de chambre, en passant pas les Cantates et ?uvres pour clavier.Partitions pour piano solo du niveau intermédiaire à celui d'avancé. / Classique / Partition /