Level 2 Upper Elementary Level-8 themes by 8 great classic composers: My Heart Ever Faithful (Bach) - Toreador March from Carmen (Bizet) - The Heaves are Telling (Haydn) - Spring Song (Mendelssohn) - Symphony No. 39 (Mozart) - The Wild Horseman (Schumann) - The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring (Sullivan) - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (Tchaikowsky).
SKU: HL.645139
ISBN 9781936098859. UPC: 008148017362. 9.0x12.0x0.072 inches. Margit Varro.
8 themes by 8 classic composers: Rondo (Wo04) (Beethoven) * Slavonic Dance (Dvorak) * Pomp and Circumstance (Elgar) * String Quartet Theme (Op. 72, No. 2) (Haydn) * Marriage of Figaro (Mozart) * Musetta's Waltz (Puccini) * William Tell March (Rossini) March from The Nutcracker (Tchaikowsky).
SKU: CY.CC2234
John Dowland (1563-1626) was an English Renaissance composer, singer and lutenist. He is well known for his melancholy songs and instrumental music, especially for lute and guitar. Mr. Beghtol's lovely transcription for intermediate Trombone is a wonderful short work that combines lyrical and Renaissance dance styles. The Trombone part is in bass clef.
SKU: HL.49008170
ISBN 9790001123099. 9.25x12.0x0.108 inches.
'Jazzuite', as the name implies, is a sequence of short pieces, inspired by jazz styles. With their compelling rhythms and intriguing harmonies these compositions are aimed at intermediate students and adult learners alike. Introduction * Week-End * Lychee * The et chocolat * Kaleidoscope * The Lizard Rag * Criss-Cross * Bitter-sweet * L'ecrevisse dans la crevasse.
SKU: HL.49003292
ISBN 9790220119446.
A series of original graded pieces for piano or keyboard with suggestions for improvisation and composition. Duets are included in each volume. The series can be used either as a first tutor or as supplementary material for students following other courses. Contents: Bells * Spiral Staircase * Downside Up, Upside Down * It's a mystery * Cute * Little Prelude * Trumpets and Drums * Short Story (Duet) * Robin Hood and his Merry Men * Church in the Mist * Sweetness and Light * Camel Train * Waving Goodbye (Duet) * Garden Swing * Small World * Marchin' Blues * Cool as a Carrot * Dead Man's Creek * Taide's Tune (Duet) * Teddy Bears in the Moonlight * Exercices * Terms and Signs * Key to the Written Music.
SKU: ST.C463
ISBN 9790570814633.
This volume contains contrasting works by Federico Ruiz spanning quite a large and rich period of his compositional output that goes from his early Micro-Suite (1971), to lilting, sweet and rhythmic Venezuelan waltzes passing by the mysterious, intimate, and intense Nocturno (1994) plus pieces originally composed for film, and theatre. Real eclecticism in styles, moods and atmospheres that show Ruizâ??s talents and scope.The Nocturno is a deep, intriguing, substantial piece presenting a satisfying length which moves from different paths of the mind and the heart written in an abstract, chromatic idiom, that does not dissociate itself from the Venezuelan waltz and the joropo. One could perhaps say that there is a deconstruction of the latter. For the interpretation, the composer has suggested to me that it is allowed to have some flexibility in the tempo. Ruiz kindly dedicated it to me, and I have had the pleasure of performing it in many concerts.Although all highly expressive, the Three Venezuelan Waltzes present in this collection as well as the piece titled Aliseo, are works that are close to the colourful Venezuelan folk tradition. Federico Ruiz had given me two of them when we first met: â??Tu Presenciaâ?? (1981) and â??EloÃsaâ?? (1989) and then I attended a performance of the play â??Office Number Oneâ?? by Miguel Otero Silva with a fantastic actor, Elba Escobar in the role of Carmen Rosa and, I just fell in love and was very moved by the incidental music that I later discovered, by reading the programme, had been written by Federico Ruiz. Later that evening, I called him and asked to please make a piano score of the composition, so I could have the desired piece in my hands. That is how â??Carmen Rosaâ? waltz (1987) came to exist in a piano version.â??Eloisaâ?? is another Venezuelan waltz with more jazzy harmonies where precision in the rhythm and elegant playing is also essential, as it is in most of his pieces.â??Tu Presenciaâ?? was dedicated to his mother, Margarita. It is written with the structure of the Venezuelan waltz, which consists of a nostalgic subject that leads to a faster, happier middle section where the typical graceful rhythm is given by the left-hand accompaniment figure of a dotted crotchet followed by a quaver and a crotchet.The craft and magic found in the five movements of the Micro-Suite is based on a dodecaphonic row by Ernst Krenek. They remind us of the idiom of the Second Viennese School. These real miniatures seem to tell short stories. The â??Preludioâ?? is full of humour. I imagine dancing figures given by the jumps all over the keyboard and extreme dynamics; the phrases give the impression of a conversation with many questions and answers. The â??Invenciónâ?? is a kaleidoscopic piece where the hands mirror each other. The â??Passacagliaâ?? is the longest movement, at just over a minute where the prime motif is repeated three times on the bass line. For its construction Federico Ruiz uses as well the retrograde and the retrograde inversion of the twelve-tone series. It must be played expressively with dynamic contrasts between pianissimo and louder events. The â??Scherzoâ?? has repetitive motifs of a minor third in both hands and the â??Finalâ?? displays virtuosic passages for the pianist.Aliseo was originally written for the film â??Aire libreâ? (1995), by Luis Armando Roche. It contains elements of diverse types of Venezuelan joropo. In the film, the character of Aliseo Carvallo is played by the composer himself who performs this piece on a harpsichord to welcome scientists Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland one day at the turn of the 1800â??s, as a sample of the new music from the South American land. It presents the refinement of the late European classical era in fusion with Venezuelan folk music.
SKU: HL.49045014
ISBN 9790001202114. 9.0x12.0 inches.
The Belgian composer Nicholas Lens presents extremely varied etudes, exercises and simple phrases with wonderfully telling titles from poetry and everyday world for children and adults. For the most part the studies are tonal and simple and have no constructed line. They are not based on any educational concept but leave the musical dramatization to the pupils and teachers: 'Notes and rhythms are just notes and rhythms, they do not have that many rules, they do not have any pretension, they are just tools for you to use to express what you want to share'.
SKU: CY.CC2237
John Dowland (1563-1626) was an English Renaissance composer, singer and lutenist. He is well known for his melancholy songs and instrumental music, especially for lute and guitar. Mr. Beghtol's lovely transcription for intermediate Trumpet is a wonderful short work that combines lyrical and Renaissance dance styles.
SKU: HL.282486
ISBN 9781540034427. UPC: 888680789299. 9.0x12.0x0.597 inches.
64 popular modern classics in our large print E-Z Play(r) Today notation with the note name in the note head. Includes: Billie Jean * Crazy Little Thing Called Love * Don't Stop Believin' * Dream On * Every Breath You Take * Free Bird * Free Fallin' * Hallelujah * Imagine * Landslide * Mad World * Purple Rain * Ring of Fire * Rolling in the Deep * Stand by Me * Tears in Heaven * With or Without You * Yesterday * and more.
About Hal Leonard E-Z Play Today
For organs, pianos, and electronic keyboards. E-Z Play Today is the shortest distance between beginning music and playing fun. Now there are more than 300 reasons why you should play E-Z Play Today. * World's largest series of music folios * Full-size books - large 9 x 12 format features easy-to-read, easy-to-play music * Accurate arrangements... simple enough for the beginner, but accurate chords and melody lines are maintained * Eye-catching, full-color covers * Lyrics... most arrangements include words and music * Most up-to-date registrations - books in the series contain a general registration guide, as well as individual song rhythm suggestions * Guitar Chord Chart - all songs in the series can also be played on guitar.
SKU: HL.49045929
9.0x12.0x0.057 inches.
The Austro-Hungarian composer Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942) was musically precocious: At the suggestion of AntonÃn Dvorák, he receivedpiano lessons at the age of seven, and at the age of ten became a student at the Prague Conservatory. Further piano studies in Vienna, Cologne and Leipzig as well as composition lessons with Max Reger supplemented his education. His Jewish heritage, which defamed his music as “degenerateâ€, and his sympathy for communism, however, cost him his life. In Prague and finally interned in Wülzburg near Weissenburg in Bavaria, he died of tuberculosis. Schulhoff's musical significance lies in the integration of jazz into art music, for example in his oratorio H.M.S. Royal Oak or in his Hot Sonata for alto saxophone and piano. He earned his living as a jazz pianist for a long time. In August 1922 he wrote four short piano pieces, his Rag Music, to which he added four more phrases in November: released as Partita, also known as Jazz-like Partita - with the fashion dances Ragtime, Foxtrott, Shimmy, Boston and - as No. 7 - a tango. From a piano to a string quartet movement, the arrangement presents itself as a delicate and smart, technically not too difficult sweet, suitable as a diversion or addition in a quartet program.
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