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(Vocal Collection). This all-in-one package includes the original
Coloratura Arias for Soprano book from the G. Schirmer Opera
Anthology along with three accompaniment CDs AND the corresponding
Diction Coach book/three CD set. Diction Coach includes recorded
diction lessons, IPA, and word for word translations. In addition
to piano accompaniments playable on both your CD player and
computer, the enhanced accompaniment CDs also include tempo
adjustment software for CD-ROM computer use.
Composed in 1914, Ravel's sole work for the classical ensemble of
piano, violin and cello was first heard in Paris at the Salle
Gaveau on January 28, 1915, with Alfredo Casella on the piano,
Gabriel Willaume on violin and Louis Feuillard on cello. The work
was quickly recognized as a worthy addition to an already wealthy
repertoire and remains popular today. The score reproduced here was
first issued in 1915 by Durand. 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.
Sergei Rachmaninoff was the solo pianist for the world premiere of
his third concerto, renowned as one of the most challenging in the
entire piano repertoire, in New York on November 28, 1909 with the
New York Symphony conducted by Walter Damrosch. The score
reproduced here is an authoritative Soviet edition produced
sometime after the composer's death. 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.
David W. Barber has delighted readers around the world with
Accidentals on Purpose, When the Fat Lady Sings and other
internationally bestselling books of musical humor. His bestselling
Bach, Beethoven and the Boys chronicles the lives of the great (and
not-so-great) composers as you've never read them before -
exploring their sex lives, exposing their foibles and expanding on
our understanding of these all-too-human creatures. Filled with
information, interesting facts and trivia, this hilarious history
covers music from Gregorian chant to the mess we're in now. From
Bach's laundry lists to Beethoven's bowel problems, from Gesualdo's
kinky fetishes to Cage's mushroom madness, Barber tells tales out
of school that ought to be put back there. (Think how much more fun
it would be if they taught this stuff.) As always, Dave Donald had
provided witty and clever cartoon illustrations to accompany the
text.
Sound Innovations for Concert Band, Book 2 continues your student's
musical journey by teaching with segmented presentation of new
concepts and introducing ensemble playing. Isolating concepts and
teaching them individually helps facilitate understanding of the
more advanced material. Following the unique Sound Innovations
organization, the book contains four levels, each of which is
divided into several sections that introduces concepts separately
and provides plenty of practice and performance opportunities to
reinforce each lesson. Visit www.alfred.com/soundinnovations for
more information.
"Sound Innovations by Alfred Music is a dream-come-true method for
beginning concert band and string orchestra. Its infusion of
technology provides an open-ended architecture of the first order.
This unique blend of time-tested strategies and technology offer a
great foundation for a successful learning experience."
---John Kuzmich, Jr., BandDirector.com This title is available in
SmartMusic.
Sound Innovations for Concert Band, Book 2 continues your student's
musical journey by teaching with segmented presentation of new
concepts and introducing ensemble playing. Isolating concepts and
teaching them individually helps facilitate understanding of the
more advanced material. Following the unique Sound Innovations
organization, the book contains four levels, each of which is
divided into several sections that introduces concepts separately
and provides plenty of practice and performance opportunities to
reinforce each lesson. Visit www.alfred.com/soundinnovations for
more information.
"Sound Innovations by Alfred Music is a dream-come-true method for
beginning concert band and string orchestra. Its infusion of
technology provides an open-ended architecture of the first order.
This unique blend of time-tested strategies and technology offer a
great foundation for a successful learning experience."
---John Kuzmich, Jr., BandDirector.com This title is available in
SmartMusic.
Sound Innovations for Concert Band, Book 2 continues your student's
musical journey by teaching with segmented presentation of new
concepts and introducing ensemble playing. Isolating concepts and
teaching them individually helps facilitate understanding of the
more advanced material. Following the unique Sound Innovations
organization, the book contains four levels, each of which is
divided into several sections that introduces concepts separately
and provides plenty of practice and performance opportunities to
reinforce each lesson. Visit www.alfred.com/soundinnovations for
more information.
"Sound Innovations by Alfred Music is a dream-come-true method for
beginning concert band and string orchestra. Its infusion of
technology provides an open-ended architecture of the first order.
This unique blend of time-tested strategies and technology offer a
great foundation for a successful learning experience."
---John Kuzmich, Jr., BandDirector.com This title is available in
SmartMusic.
Sound Innovations for Concert Band, Book 2 continues your student's
musical journey by teaching with segmented presentation of new
concepts and introducing ensemble playing. Isolating concepts and
teaching them individually helps facilitate understanding of the
more advanced material. Following the unique Sound Innovations
organization, the book contains four levels, each of which is
divided into several sections that introduces concepts separately
and provides plenty of practice and performance opportunities to
reinforce each lesson. Visit www.alfred.com/soundinnovations for
more information.
"Sound Innovations by Alfred Music is a dream-come-true method for
beginning concert band and string orchestra. Its infusion of
technology provides an open-ended architecture of the first order.
This unique blend of time-tested strategies and technology offer a
great foundation for a successful learning experience."
---John Kuzmich, Jr., BandDirector.com This title is available in
SmartMusic.
50 Great Classics is a collection of pieces selected from works by
some of the finest composers. The difficulty of the pieces varies
considerably. This is quite deliberate - it is hoped that everyone
will find something they have already mastered and many more pieces
they would like to learn. The collection also includes a few works
of particular difficulty!
Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) was arguably one of the most iconic
figures in twentieth-century music, and certainly among the most
prominent musicians of her time. For many composers-- especially
Americans from Aaron Copland to Philip Glass--studying with
Boulanger in Paris or Fontainebleau was a formative moment in a
creative career. Composer, performer, conductor, impresario, and
charismatic and inspirational teacher, Boulanger engaged in a vast
array of activities in a variety of media, from private composition
lessons and lecture-recitals to radio broadcasts, recordings, and
public performances. But how to define and account for Boulanger's
impact on the music world is still unclear. Nadia Boulanger and Her
World takes us from a time in the late nineteenth century, when
many careers in music were almost entirely closed to women, to the
moment in the late twentieth century when those careers were
becoming a reality. Contributors consider Boulanger's work in the
worlds of composition, musical analysis, and pedagogy and explore
the geographies of transatlantic and international exchange and
disruption within which her career unfolded. Ultimately, this
volume takes its title as a topic for exploration--asking what
worlds Boulanger belonged to, and in what sense we can consider any
of them to be "hers."
(Essential Elements Guitar). The songs in Hal Leonard's Essential
Elements Guitar Ensemble series are playable by multiple guitars.
Each arrangement features the melody (lead), a harmony part, and a
bass line. Chord symbols are also provided if you wish to add a
rhythm part. For groups with more than three or four guitars, the
parts may be doubled. Play all of the parts together, or record
some of the parts and play the remaining part along with your
recording. All of the songs are printed on two facing pages, so no
page turns are required. This series is perfect for classroom
guitar ensembles or other group guitar settings. Includes 15 hits
arranged for three or more guitarists: Aqualung * Behind Blue Eyes
* Crazy Train * Fly like an Eagle * Free Bird * Hey Jude * Into the
Great Wide Open * Low Rider * Maggie May * Oye Como Va * Proud Mary
* Smoke on the Water * Start Me Up * We Will Rock You * You Really
Got Me.
(Dowani Book/CD). This edition features a full performance
recording as well as three separate speeds of accompaniment tracks
for rehearsal.
The world's most trusted source for great theatre literature for
singing actors. The CDs include piano accompaniments. The book
features authentic editions of each song in the original keys. The
songs have been carefully chosen for each voice type and are culled
from a wide selection of classic and contemporary shows.
This unique compilation is a wonderful, substantial sampling of art
song in the English language, with composers from both sides of the
Atlantic. The publication includes many first-time transpositions,
as the song list is the same for the High Voice and Medium/Low
Voice editions.
"It is hard to think of any music in which the composer is more spontaneous and masterful, and uncompromising in his thought."--Olin Downes, Thompson's International Cyclopedia.These revolutionary works brought a strikingly organic--almost architectural--unity to the symphony that music historians recognized as being far in advance of anything in the classical masters. Planted with seeds of change already evident in the beautiful, dark third symphony, the fourth symphony presented the most individual work in this form that the twentieth century had yet witnessed. Harmonically new, boldly innovative, and structured on a subtle continuity of line, this was a kind of music previously unheard in the concert hall. Austere and intensely concentrated, Sibelius's symphonies of 1907 and 1911 are frequently performed around the world by major orchestras.
The greatest of the heroic epics to emerge from medieval Germany,
the Nibelungenlied is a revenge saga of sweeping dimensions. It
tells of the dragon-slayer Sivrit, the mysterious kingdom of the
Nibelungs, a priceless treasure guarded by dwarves and giants, an
Amazonian queen, fortune-telling water-sprites, and a cloak of
invisibility. Driven by the conflict between Kriemhilt, the
innocent maiden turned she-devil, and her antagonist, the stoic,
indomitable Hagen, the story is one of love, jealousy, murder, and
revenge, ending in slaughter on a horrific scale. Since its
rediscovery in the eighteenth century, the Nibelungenlied has come
to be regarded as the national epic of the Germans, and has
inspired countless adaptations, including Richard Wagner's Ring
cycle. Cyril Edwards' prose translation, the first in forty years,
is more accurate and accessible and captures the poem's epic
qualities. Edwards also provides an introduction that discusses the
poem's historical background and its status as German national
epic. The volume includes an up-to-date bibliography, invaluable
notes, a map, and a list of people and places.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Richard Taruskin's sweeping collection of essays distills a half
century of professional experience, demonstrating an unparalleled
insider awareness of relevant debates in all areas of music
studies, including historiography and criticism, representation and
aesthetics, musical and professional politics, and the sociology of
taste. Cursed Questions, invoking a famous catchphrase from Russian
intellectual history, grapples with questions that are never
finally answered but never go away. The writings gathered here form
an intellectual biography that showcases the characteristic wit,
provocation, and erudition that readers have come to expect from
Taruskin, making it an essential volume for anyone interested in
music, politics, and the arts.
A group of resourceful kids start "solution-seekers.com," a website
where "cybervisitors" can get answers to questions that trouble
them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas,
the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the
prophecies of the Old Testament. What they find is a series of "S"
words that reveal a "spectacular story!" With creative characters,
humorous dialogue and great music, The "S" Files is a children's
Christmas musical your kids will love performing.
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