SKU: HL.50560104
6.75x10.5 inches.
SKU: LM.25360
ISBN 9790230953603.
ARROS (d') : Le Voilier - Le Phare - BAUDOUIN : Divertissement - Compere qu'as-tu vu (adaptation) - Valse lente - BAUMANN : Rouge vif - BERNAUD : Hexacorda - BILLET Jean-Pierre : Lima-Hong - Trois petits lapins dans la lune - BOISGARD : L'Ami harmonique - BRUN : Dans les couleurs de l'Arc-en-ciel - Dans le bleu du ciel - Dans la nuit etoilee - CASTAIN : Paresse valse - CASTEREDE : Simple valse - En ecoutant tomber la pluie - COUASNON : Chanson retro - Pour faire sonner la guitare - COURTIN : Histoire ancienne - CROUSIER : Le Pinson et le loup - La Marche des pingouins - DAMASE : Chanson - DEMILLAC Y : Promenade - Jeux - DEMILLAC F.P. : La Plaintive - DUMOND : 13 syllabes, 3 mots, 4 phrases et 1 impro - FABIANI : Le Cheval de bois - Histoire a ecouter - FOURCHOTTE : Cancion primera para ninos - FRANCE : Au-dela de l'ile - Glissades - Dabo-Abac - FRANCERIES : Tristesse - GRIVEL : Deux histoires courtes - HUBERT : Deux petites pieces pour une guitare presque neuve - KLEYNJANS : Le Petit Soldat de plomb - LAJARRIGE : Impression - LANCEN : Aux debutants (piece n. 1) - Aux debutants (piece n. 2) - LARC'HANTEC : La Valse du kangourou - Barcarolle - LARGE : Blues mineur - MALDONADO : Laetitia - Indiana - MARCHAL : Ballade d'octobre - MORANCON : Deux petites arabesques - NARVAEZ : Petit poisson - Berceuse de la mere qui a perdu son enfant - PIRIS : La Chanson paresseuse - RENAULT : M'en allant promener - Le Vieux Manoir - Petite valse - VITIELLO : Danse primitive.
SKU: FP.FSS02
ISBN 979-0-57050-278-3.
The albums in Forsyth's Silhouette Series are widely acknowledged to provide as some of the finest piano arrangements of the works of the great composers available to the player of intermediate ability. These albums provide excellent teaching material, as well as superb recreational pieces for the adult player.
SKU: AP.0034B
ISBN 9781576239483. UPC: 029156607673. 9x12 inches. English.
This volume in our new series features 29 compositions by Claude Debussy, including such famous pieces as 'Clair de Lune,' 'Reverie,' 'The Girl with the Flaxen Hair,' 'Golliwogg's Cake Walk,' and others. It includes pieces from the French master's wealth of piano compositions, including the 'Arabesques,' PETITE SUITE, CHILDREN'S CORNER SUITE, both books of 'Preludes,' and individual pieces. A wide variety of music from the French impressionistic genius! 29 titles on 160 pages.
SKU: TL.TCL012944
ISBN 9780857363411.
SKU: HL.49003411
ISBN 9790001033572.
SKU: HL.49003413
ISBN 9790001033596. 8.25x11.75x0.042 inches.
SKU: YM.GTW01101670
ISBN 9784636113440. 12 x 9 inches.
Debussy and Ravel are the most famous impressionist composers. This book contains a selection of pieces from their piano compositions, arranged for alto saxophone and piano ensemble. We hope that this new arrangement will enable a wider audience to enjoy the exquisite melodies of these songs! *Both the video of the model performance and the video of the performance commentary can be viewed at the URL given in this book. Performers in the video: Alto Saxophone - Kohei Ueno / Piano - Takuya Uchikado.
SKU: HL.49003412
ISBN 9790001033589. 8.25x11.75x0.042 inches.
SKU: YM.GTW01101671
ISBN 9784636113457. 12 x 9 inches.
Debussy and Ravel are the most famous impressionist composers. This book contains a selection of pieces from their piano compositions, arranged for flute and piano ensemble. We hope that this new arrangement will enable a wider audience to enjoy the exquisite melodies of these songs! *Both the video of the model performance and the video of the performance commentary can be viewed at the URL given in this book. Performers in the video: Flute - Ayako Takagi / Piano - Takuya Uchikado.
SKU: HL.49032406
ISBN 9783795754204. 9.0x12.0x0.098 inches. German - English.
A romantic evening for two or a drink by the fireside - music with atmosphere suits many occasions. In this new volume in the Keyboard Sounds series you'll find the loveliest classical melodies for evoking a romantic mood, either in solitude or in the company of other people. All the pieces are in simple arrangements and easy to play.
SKU: CF.H84
ISBN 9781491165539. UPC: 680160924530.
Marcel Tournier (1879–1951) was one of the most important harpist/composers in the history of the harp. Over his long career, he added a significant catalogue of very beautiful works to the harp repertoire. Many of his solo works, almost one hundred, have been consistently in print since they were first published. But in recent years harpist Carl Swanson has discovered a treasure trove of pieces by Tournier heretofore unknown and unpublished. These include the Déchiffrages in this edition, as well as songs set for voice, harp, and string quartet, and ensemble arrangements of some of his most beloved works.All of the works that Carl Swanson found were in manuscript only. With the help of the great harpist Catherine Michel, he has put these pieces into playable form, and they are being published for the very first time. He and Catherine often had to re-notate passages to show clearly how they could be played, adding fingerings and musical nuances, tempos, pedals, and pedal diagrams.Tournier wrote these pieces when he was in his 20s, and before he became the impressionistic composer those familiar with his work know so well. They are written in the late nineteenth-century romantic style that was being taught at that time at the Paris Conservatory. They are beautiful short, intermediate level pieces by a first rate composer, and add much needed repertoire to that level of playing.Marcel Tournier (1879–1951) was one of the most important harpist/composers in the history of the harp. He graduated from the Paris Conservatory with a first prize in harp in 1899. He also studied composition there and won a second prize in the prestigious Prix de Rome competition, as well as a first prize in the Rossini competition, another major composition competition of the day. From 1912 to 1948 he taught the harp class at the Paris Conservatory. But composition, and almost entirely, composition for the harp, was the main focus of his life. His published works, including many works for solo harp, a few for harp and other instruments, and several songs, number around one hundred pieces.In 2019, while researching Tournier for my edition MARCEL TOURNIER: 10 Pieces for Solo Harp, I discovered that there was a significant list of pieces by this composer that had never been published and were not included on any inventory of his music. Principal on this list were his déchiffrages (pronounced day-she-frahge, like the second syllable in the word garage).The word déchiffrage means sight-reading exercise, and that was their original purpose. Tournier numbered and dated these pieces, with dates ranging from 1900 to 1910, indicating that they were in all likelihood written for Alphonse Hasselmans’ class at the Paris Conservatory. Tournier was probably told how long to make each one, and how difficult. They range in length from two to four pages, with only one in the whole series extending to five, and from thirty to fifty-five measures, with only one extending to eight-five. The level of difficulty for the whole series is intermediate, with some at the easier end, and others at the middle or upper end.We don’t know if they were intended to test students trying to enter the harp class, or if they were used to test students in the class as they played their exams. The fact that they were never published means that students had to not only sight read them, but sight read them in manuscript form!I worked from digital images of the original manuscripts, which are in the private music library of a harpist in France. She had twenty-seven of these pieces, and this edition is the second in a series of three that will publish, for the first time, all of the ones that I have found thus far. The manuscripts themselves consist of little more than notes on the page: no pedals written in, no fingerings, few if any musical nuances and tempo markings, and no clear indication as to which hand plays which notes. These would have been difficult to sight read indeed! My collaborator Catherine Michel and I added musical nuances, fingerings, pedals and pedal diagrams, and tempo indications to put them into their current condition.At the time these were written, Tournier would have been in his twenties, having just graduated from the harp class himself (1899), and might still have been in the composition class. These are the earliest known pieces that he wrote, and they were written at the very beginning of a cultural revolution and upheaval in Paris that was to completely and profoundly alter musical composition. Tournier himself would eventually be caught up in this new way of composing. But not yet.All of the déchiffrages are written in the late romantic style that was being taught at that time at the Paris Conservatory. Each one is built on a clear musical idea, and the variety over the whole series makes them wonderful to listen to as well as to learn. They are also great technical lessons for intermediate level players.The obvious question is: Why didn’t Tournier publish these pieces, and why didn’t he list them on his own inventory of his music? Actually, four of them were published, with small changes, as his collection Four Preludes, Op. 16. These came from the ones that will be in volume three of this series from Carl Fischer. His first large piece, Theme and Variations, was published in 1908, and his two best known and frequently played pieces, Féerie and Au Matin, followed in 1912 and 1913 respectively. We can only speculate because there is so much still unknown about Tournier and about these unpublished pieces. He may have looked at them, fresh out of school as he was, as simply a way to make some quick money. The first several pieces that he did publish are much longer than any of the déchiffrages. So it could be that, because of their shorter length, as well as the earlier musical style that he was moving away from, he chose not to publish any more of them. We may never know the full story. But all these years later, more than a century after they were composed, we can listen to them for their own merits, and not measured against whatever else was going on at the time. The numbers on these pieces are the ones that Tournier assigned to them, and the gaps between some of the numbers suggest that there are perhaps thirty or more of these pieces still to be found, if they still exist. They will, in all likelihood, be found, as these were, in private collections of harp music, not in institutional libraries. We can only hope that more of them will be located in years to come.—Carl SwansonGlossary of French Musical TermsTournier was very precise about how he wanted his pieces played, and carefully communicated this with many musical indications. He used standard Italian words, but also used French words and phrases, and occasionally mixed both together. It is extremely important to observe and understand everything that he put on the page.Here is a list of the French words and phrases found in the pieces in this edition, with their translation.bien chanté well sung, melodiousdécidé firm, resolutediminu peu à peu becoming softer little by littleen diminuant becoming softeren riten. slowing downen se perdant dying awayGaiement gayly, lightlygracieusement gracefully, elegantlyLéger light, quickLent slowmarquez le chant emphasize the melodyModéré at a moderate tempopeu à peu animé more lively, little by littleplus lent slowerRetenu held backsans lenteur without slownesssans retinir without slowing downsec drily, abruptlysoutenu sustained, heldtrès arpegé very arpeggiatedTrès Modéré Very moderate tempoTrès peu retenu slightly held backTrès soutenu very sustainedun peu retenu slightly held back.
SKU: HL.44011232
ISBN 9789043129862. 9.0x12.0x0.217 inches. English-German-French-Dutch.
4 Collections to give a structured training scheme for the viola player to play in position. Positions 4 & 5 - the eighteen exercises and 32 pieces in this volume, with the accompaniments on the enclosed CD, provide a fine collection of material for further developing your viola playing using the fourth and fifth positions. With this book a sound basis is created not just for playing in the fourth and fifth positions but also for using these in combination with the first three positions. Various styles are featured which adds educational value and makes studying extra fun.Positions 4 & 5 bevat 18 oefeningen en 32 speelstukken - met begeleiding op de cd. De stukken en oefeningen zijn ideaal voor het ontwikkelen van het spel in de vierde en vijfde positie, en voor de combinatie met de eerste drieposities.Die 18 Ubungen und 32 Stucke in diesem Buch - samt Begleitungen auf der beiliegenden CD - bieten wertvolles Material zur Weiterentwicklung des Violaspiels in der vierten und funften Lage. Positions 4 & 5 schafft eine solide Basis, nicht nur was das Spiel in der vierten und funften Lage betrifft, sondern auch deren Gebrauch in Kombination mit den ersten drei Lagen. Durch die Verwendung verschiedener Stile wird das Uben nicht nur lehrreicher, sondern macht auch mehr Spass!Positions 4 & 5 contient 18 exercices, 32 melodies dans des styles varies et un accompagnement sur compact disc constituent cette excellente base de travail pour developper votre jeu et apprendre a jouer en quatrieme et cinquieme positions avec plaisir et motivation. 33 Brani per suonare in quarta e quinta posizione Diciotto esercizi, trentadue melodie in diversi stili, e un accompagnamento su CD costituiscono questa eccellente base di lavoro per sviluppare e migliorare la vostra tecnica, nonche per apprendere a suonare in quarta e quinta posizione divertendovi. Positions 4 & 5 crea la giusta base per suonare in quarta e quinta posizione, ma offre anche combinazioni che necessitano l'utilizzo delle prime tre posizioni. La diversita degli stili musicali garantisce uno studio piacevole, variegato e istruttivo.
SKU: BP.HB466
Arranged for 2-3 octave handbell choir and optional 2-3 octaves of handchimes. Recording is of the 3-5 octave version. This trio of pieces - What Wondrous Love Is This; To Mock Your Reign, O Dearest Lord; and When I Survey the Wondrous Cross - are perfect for any time during the Lenten season, and especially fitting for a Good Friday service. Full of interesting and unexpected harmonic twists, these arrangements capture the mood of the Lenten season perfectly. The two compatible sets - for 2 or 3 octaves, and for 3 to 5 octaves - make these pieces a good choice not just for worship, but for festival settings, as well.
SKU: HL.48180898
1. Douloureux; 2. Comme un Choral; 3. Allant; 4. Clair heureux; 5. Pathetique sans Lenteur; 6. Douloureux; 7. Decide, fierement; 8. Berceuse mysterieusement; 9. Allant; 10. Allant; 11. Sans Lenteur; 12. Allant, Brillant, Eclatant.