A song cycle for baritone and piano featuring the poetry of Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, Kenneth Koch and others. 24 minutes.

This unique five-movement set was a collaboration between Bolcom and Curtis-Smith, both on the faculty at the University of Michigan. For a year, each composer would write ten measures before passing the piece back to the other, making these pieces true compositional collaborations. It was premiered by James Giles on November 15, 1998.

Premiered by the Philadelphia-based saxophone quartet PRISM, this one-minute work is both jaunty and delicate.

This "neoclassical" sonata pays homage to classical music as well as to other genres: classic rock, Broadway tunes and other 20th-century classics. 14 minutes.

Five songs for soprano and piano with texts from The Enlightened Heart, an anthology of spiritual poetry from many countries and disciplines.

For string orchestra and basso continuo. With regard to style, these short symphonies of 1735 resemble the Neapolitan opera buffa, the descriptive title implying the beginning of stage works. Locatelli's works were well known throughout Europe until the end of the 18th century, although the composer led a very secluded life. He had no students and never performed in public. In his adopted city of Amsterdam he worked freelance, without allegiance to church or court, an unusual arrangement for a composer of the era.

(Vocal Collection). More great songs for theatre singers of every description from contemporary withselections from recent shows ( The Drowsy Chaperone, Curtains, Grey Gardens, Hairspray, Jersey Boys, The Light in the Piazza, Spamalot, Spring Awakening, Wicked ), as well as a deeper look into classic musicals. As in all previous volumes in the series, all songs are in authentic versions in the original keys, with notes about each show and song. Available with Accompaniment CDs (2 CDs per set). 40 songs per volume. 00001152 Book $19.95 00001163 Book/CDs $39.95 00001158 Accompaniment CDs $22.9

(LKM Music). Andersen's opus 15 has been a core component in the flute repertoire for over a century. New Urtext edition with a first-time Flute 2 part created by Carol Wincenc, 2011 NFA Lifetime Achievement Honoree.

Early Keyboard Instruments discusses a variety of issues involved in the performance of keyboard music from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. It brings together a range of topics that have come to the fore in recent decades and forms a useful introduction to historical performance issues for the student performer or amateur, whether playing on period instruments or on the modern piano.

John's Book of Alleged Dances is a set of ten short dances for string quartet and rhythm loops stored on audio CD. Six of the dances have rhythm loops. Dances may be performed in any order, and may be excerpted. Notes on performance and CD technical information are included.

Influenced by American jazz, this brief piano piece uses disjunct rhythms at break-neck speed. American Berserk was composed in 2001 for the virtuoso Garrick Ohlsson.

The lute was one of the most important instruments in use in Europe from late medieval times up to the eighteenth century. Despite its acknowledged importance, this study is the first ever comprehensive work on the instrument and its music, apart from performance studies or bibliographical and reference publications. The book focuses on the lute's history, but also contains chapters on the lute in concert, lute song accompaniment, the thearbo, and the lute in Scotland. Written for the music student, the serious listener, the player, maker, and lute enthusiast, Spring makes available for the first time over 40 years of musical scholarship previously the preserve of academic journals.

Includes three new piano works: Recalling, a three-movement suite written for virtuoso pianist James Giles; Six Friends, simple miniatures written as gifts for friends; and Soundpoints, five small studies composed for pianist Gilles Vonsattel.

Schirmer Performance Editions are designed for piano students and their teachers as well as professional pianists. Pedagogical in nature, these editions offer insightful interpretive suggestions, pertinent fingering, and historical and stylistic commentary. Prepared by renowned artists/teachers, these publicatons provide an accurate, well-informed score resource for pianists. The charming inventiveness of Kabalevsky's 24 Pieces for Children, Opus 39 has made this collection a favorite source of piano teaching repertoire since its first publication in the 1930s. Kabalevsky began composing in his teens, and many of his earlier piano solos were written for his own students. The wide range of expression and exploration of varied dynamics, tempos, and articulations provide valuable opportunities for the late-elementary and early-intermediate student to hone their musical abilities.

This notebook is an homage to the pedagogue Bartolomeo Campanioli. Each etude is dedicated to a well-known violist. 20 minutes.

This 2004 piece was inspired by the transparency, ambiguity, and shiftiness of Franz Joseph Haydn's piano trios. 20 minutes.

This work is written for two keyboard players at two pianos, a harmonium and a harpsichord. Includes performance and historical notes by the composer.

Commissioned by the Memphis Symphony Orchestra and the Music Library Association, Shakin' had its first performance on February 24, 2006. The composer grew up in the 1960s and her music has been indisputably affected by Rock and Roll. This piece is her tribute to Elvis Presley, as well as Igor Stravinsky. 6 minutes.

(Boosey & Hawkes Voice). This landmark publication includes 61 songs, combining the contents of the seven published books of Britten folksong arrangements in High and Low Voice editions. Some of the songs have never before been transposed. The songs of Volume 6, for voice and guitar, have been transcribed for voice and piano for this edition.

(Boosey & Hawkes Voice). This lyric American master is celebrated in comprehensive collections of some of the greatest achievements in setting words to music in the 20th century. Fascinating, extensive essays by the composer give fresh insights into these masterworks. The Medium/Low Voice edition includes the first published transpositions of Songs about Spring and Six Elizabethan Songs.

Dowani Tempi Play Along is an effective and time-tested method of practicing that offers more than conventional play-along editions. Dowani 3 Tempi Play Along enables you to learn a work systematically and with accompaniment at different tempi. The first thing you hear on the CD is the concert version in a first-class recording with solo instrument and orchestral, continuo, or piano accompaniment. Then the piano or harpsichord accompaniment follows in slow and medium tempo for practice purposes, with the solo instrument heard softly in the background at a slow tempo. Finally, you can play at the original tempo to the accompaniment of an orchestra, piano, or basso continuo. All versions appearing on the CD were recorded live by renowned soloists, accompanists, and orchestras. There are no synthesised sounds in a Dowani edition!

These wonderful teaching pieces by the Russian keyboard pedagogue and composer are now available in convenient individual editions.

William Bolcom's oratorio, premiered in 1984, is based on writings of William Blake. The piece is enormous in its scale, requiring hundreds of performers, and was recorded for a Naxos release, conducted by Leonard Slatkin.

Commissioned by the "Friends of Today's Music" program of the Music Teachers' Association of California, this publication is a great follow-up to Bolcom's previous work, Nine Bagatelles (00294028). Includes notes from the composer for each selection.