The Green Piano Book -16 short pieces-

200 songs recorded by the King Of Rock 'N' Roll for Piano, Vocal and Guitar, Electronic Keyboard, and all 'C' instruments. What is a fake book? One of the most useful possessions any musician can have is a fake book. The concise, one-line music notation consisting of melody, lyrics and chord symbols acts as 'musical shorthand' that makes it possible to have hundreds of songs in just one book! / Chant Et Guitare

for soprano saxophone and chamber orchestra. Par BRYARS GAVIN. The piece is dedicated to John Harle and the Bournemouth Sinfonietta, who commissioned it with funds made available by South West Arts. It makes use of the saxophone's ability to play long expressive melodic passages, and was written too, having seen the Sinfonietta perform, with some of its individual players in mind. Although played without a break, the piece does fall into a number of recognisable sections delineated by a change of tempo, or by a substantial shift of texture. For example, shortly before the end, there is a passage where the saxophone is accompanied by 21 solo strings - the entire string section playing divisi, followed by a coda, which contains simultaneous 'laments' (for saxophone, cor anglais, French horn, and solo violin). The Green Ray is the title of a romantic novel by Jules Verne, set in the West of Scotland, in which a peculiar atmospheric phenomenon plays the key part. A 'green ray' is seen at sunset in certain latitudes, and in certain coastal conditions, just as the sun touches the horizon and, for a brief moment, the orange sun emits a green ray of light. In the Verne story the simultaneous sighting of the ray will seal a couple's love, and the attempts of a young man to do this are constantly frustrated (by sudden clouds, by a yacht passing along the horizon, and so on). This part of Western Scotland is also the place where certain piping traditions originated. Male pipers practised in one cave on the seashore, females in another ( the 'piper's cave' and the 'pigeon's cave'). As they played their laments at twilight a triangulation, similar to that in the Verne story (male-ray-female) may well have occurred without the knowledge of the innocent participants, hence the sequence of simultaneous laments in the coda. On one occasion I witnessed the green ray in Southern California. I was returning along the coast after having climbed up Mt. Tecate, on the top of which is a house, now empty, where Evans-Wentz translated The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Gavin Bryars./ Répertoire / Saxophone Soprano et Piano

'Tunes from the movie' - Musical melodrama farce and comedy - well known film genres have through the last 70 years produced film songs that deserve to be remembered played and sung. Many of which have become beloved evergreens. Toner fra filmen contains 100 songs that explain why. 'Tunes from the movie' - Toner fra filmen is the first Danish song book that concentrates on songs written directly to the film medium - from 1932 until 2002. From swing music to a sailor's waltz from rock'n'roll to rap music and the publication contains 100 compositions and lyrics and with that the answer to why a specific film song book is relevant. The answer is quality and diversity.Toner fra filmen is a song book that is supposed to strengthen the joy of singing and the memory of everyone interested in songs and films. Predictable catchy tunes by eg. Sven Gyldmark standing side by side with surprises that have almost been forgotten by most but deserve a renaissance. Toner fra filmen is released now as the quality in the national film production makes people walk away from the television and into the darkness of the movie theatre to laugh and cry. Back at the television screen we enjoy the old Danish movies that make us wish to refresh the film songs. Most of us seldomly remember more than the refrain and then the need to look at the score arises. The songs chosen to Toner fra filmen has of course been an integrated part of the movies' set up but they can manage on their own. There are a lot of love songs but there are also songs for every taste and temperament nice as well as sexy short long poetic etc etc. The book makes you want to sing and play and is at the same time a piece of Danish cultural history.

169 grands classiques de chansons enfantines pour l'école, le feu de camp... / Partition /

The second volume of a thousand and one all-time hit songs ranging from essential standards to the latest pop hits - a must for all singers and musicians. / Chant Et Guitare