Antonin Dvorak: Biblical Songs for Ukulele (C tuning with low G). Czech romantic composer Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) wrote a brilliant song cycle Biblical Songs. This cycle belongs to the best what he composed and we are able to play on the ukulele. Moreover, you could listen to the song "God is my shepherd" in "Kolja" movie that was awarded by Oscar prize in 1997 (the best foreign language film). Check out samples from books: http: //osos.sweb.cz/preview-ukulele.pdf

Food writer Judy Jackson has a blog going out to over 25,000 young people. This is the audience for her second novel, Sextet. After the award-winning Camel Trail, she has come up with a story of music, adultery and a child's life in jeopardy. Does food come into it? Only in brief scenes where the two main characters are cooking and struggling to rebuild their lives. Joseph is a concert pianist; Tom is an art dealer. Both are coming to terms with tragedy. Sextet is a story for our time, written by an author (with twelve grandchildren) who has got into the lives and minds of young people today.

In this collection of academic essays, award-winning pianist and music professor Yaokun Yang shares her carefully compiled analyses of classical music and aesthetics during several different periods, focusing particularly on the aspect of piano performance practice.

Yang, who devoted six years to her research, offers extensive commentary, historical background, and comparisons of varied composers and their music. The pieces she studies include Beethoven's piano sonatas, an advanced piano teaching series, the development of opera in different areas, Bach's Brandenburg concertos, Haydn's piano sonatas, the Bach-Busoni Chaconne, Brahms's Intermezzo, Olivier Messiaen's Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jesus, Prokofiev's piano sonatas, Webern's Six Pieces for Large Orchestra, and Schumann's Piano Concerto.

With this collection of analyses, Yang hopes to provide information and commentary to help contemporary pianists recognize the beauty and the challenges of performing different musical styles in appropriate ways. "

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Dvorak received a commission for this work in 1877 for a benefit concert to raise funds for the construction of a new church in Prague. Composed between August 6 and 28 September, it was first performed on December 2 at the Provisional Threatre, with the orchestra conducted by Ludevit Prochazka as the composer's opus 40. It would be eleven years before the work was first published however, and Dvorak's publisher Simrock assigned the opus number of 78 to imply they were bringing out a new work. The work entered the symphonic repertoire gradually after its 1888 publication and remains extremely popular today. The score offered here is a reissue of the 1957 critical edition of Frantisek Bartos and Jiri Berkovec. Unlike so many of the on-demand scores now available, this one comes with all the pages and the images have been thoroughly checked to make sure it is readable. As with all PLP scores a percentage of each sale is donated to the amazing online archive of free music scores and recordings, IMSLP - Petrucci Music Library.

The book contains 15 monophonic and 6 polyphonic compositions which were cretaed and played in the Czech area during the Medieval. Vast majority of pieces is sacred but there ate four secular compositions, too and two instrumental music. Wishinh you lovely time with Medieval music.

Adam Vaclav Michna z Otradovic (1600 - 1676) Czech poet and composer. He belongs among most important early Czech Baroque composers, who influenced subsequent artist generation. Michna wrote and composed Czech Lute in 1653. It is the collection of 13 pieces. I cannot forgive and quote recommendations where and how to play songs from the first issue of notes. CZECH LUTE in the holiday, on Friday, at church, at table, as it likes, at any moment, joyfully, sadly, sounding saving. The are in the book songs without text. Check out samples from books: http: //osos.sweb.cz/Preview-Anglo-concertina.pd