Samson and Delilah

From Samon and Delilah-MusicWorks ? Grade 4 Exotic and exciting certainly describe this familiar work from Samson and Delilah by Saint-Saëns. This masterful transcription for band by Jay Bocook presents challenging (yetcertainly attainable) parts for the woodwinds as well as dynamic writing for the brass and percussion sections. The vivace section to the end is simply hard to beat for full-throttle power and excitement. (4:20)

This is a wonderful collection of popular and some less well-known pieces. It contains three movements from The Carnival of the Animals the slow movement and the famous Maestoso section from the 'Organ' Symphony (No. 3) the meltingly beautiful aria 'Softly awakes my heart' from the opera Samson and Delilah the opening section of the Danse Macabre and several other pieces illustrating the range of Saint-Saëns' compositional style. All the pieces are immensely playable and have been chosen to suit the needs of both church and concert organists.

Compilation de 43 ?uvres Classique de compositeurs français pour piano solo.' Livre de 160 pages.' ?uvres françaises du 17ème au 20ème siècles avec des compositeurs tels que Ravel, Debussy ou encore Bizet.' / Variétés / Partition /

Now's your chance to play all those beautiful melodies and magical moments from your favourite ballets. Melodies by Berlioz, Borodin, Chopin and others are arranged here for the solo Piano, to be enjoyed again and again. / Classique / Partition /

Sérénades, Romances, Valentines et bien d'autres musiques romantiques, en arrangements simplifiés au piano par Denes Agay. / Piano

Rev. Gary Davis is the real thing. The authentic blind-seer. He is a genius with a brightly burning spirit enormous musical intelligence technical brilliance an encyclopedic memory driving passion deep faith araunchy and gracious sense of humor. A mystic. He is an icon of the style of Guitar he was born into known today as the Piedmont blues. Through players of the first half of the twentieth century like Alfred Shultz MoseRanger Merle Travis and Chet Atkins this is the signature American fingerpicking style that would so deeply inform the country folk blues and even rock and roll of our day.Rev. Davis (1896-1972) was bornblack in deep poverty in South Carolina blind from an early age. He overcame these longest of odds to become world famous a giant of American music. He brought together black and white styles country gospel folk themes blues jazz ragtime minstrel songs dance tunes and popular song. He developed his own brilliant fingerpicking style that was deep economical and adaptable enough to easily cover all these genres. Supporting all hiscreativity was an unshakable faith that pulled him through the obscurity the bitter hard times and crushing poverty he would endure until the folk music awakening of the fifties and sixties caught up to him.In this bookand accompanying audio Ernie Hawkins has transcribed 18 of Rev. Davis' best known gospel arrangements. The playing of Rev. Davis has influenced generations of Guitar players from Blind Boy Fuller to Dave VanRonk David Bromberg Ry Cooder Jorma Kaukonen Bob Weir Stefan Grossman and Woody Mann. His tunes have been recorded by a host of today's finest rock musicians: The Grateful Dead Hot Tuna Bob Dylan Jackson Browne and others.