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Anyone who grew up watching Sesame Street on public television will
quickly be able to identify the inspiration for Avenue Q. Most of
the characters in the show are puppets, and the set depicts several
tenements on a rundown street in New York City. Several characters
are parodies of Sesame Street regulars: for example, the roommates
Rod and Nicky are based on Bert and Ernie, while Trekkie Monster is
based on Cookie Monster. However, these characters are in their
twenties and thirties and face adult problems; despite the fuzzy
faces, this is not a children's show. After a run lasting more than
six years and 2,534 performances, the Broadway production of Avenue
Q ranks in the top 25 longest running shows in Broadway history and
continues to have productions run worldwide.
After decades of anticipation, Alfred is proud to release the
officially licensed, collectible sheet music companion folios to
the Super Mario Bros.(tm) video game series. The 34 arrangements in
this Easy Piano edition contain the instantly recognizable melodies
beloved by generations of gamers around the globe. From Koji
Kondo's iconic "Super Mario Bros.(tm) Ground Background Music" to
the New Super Mario Bros.(tm) Wii(tm) themes, the dozens of pieces
in this book represent two and a half decades of Nintendo(R) video
game favorites. Adding to the fun, graphics from the corresponding
games grace each page of the sheet music. Impress friends, family,
and audiences of all ages by playing from this magnificent
collection, which makes a great gift for every pianist.
Titles: Super Mario Bros.(tm) Ground Background Music * Super Mario
Bros.(tm) Underground Background Music * Super Mario Bros.(tm)
Underwater Background Music * Super Mario Bros.(tm) Castle
Background Music * Super Mario Bros.(tm) Invincible Background
Music * Super Mario Bros.(tm): The Lost Levels Ending * Super Mario
Bros.(tm) 3 Map 1 * Super Mario Bros.(tm) 3 Ground Background Music
* Super Mario Bros.(tm) 3 Boss of the Fortress * Super Mario
Bros.(tm) 3 Skyship Background Music * Super Mario World(tm) Title
* Super Mario World(tm) Castle Background Music * Dr. Mario(tm)
Chill * Dr. Mario(tm) Title Background Music * Super Mario Kart(tm)
Mario Circuit * Super Mario World(tm) 2 Yoshi's Island(tm) Athletic
* Super Mario World(tm) 2 Yoshi's Island(tm) Ground Background
Music * Super Mario 64(tm) Main Theme * Super Mario 64(tm) Water
Land * Mario Kart(tm) 64 Circuit * Super Mario Sunshine(tm) Dolpic
Town * New Super Mario Bros.(tm) Title * New Super Mario Bros.(tm)
Giant Background Music * New Super Mario Bros.(tm) Battle
Background Music 2 * New Super Mario Bros.(tm) Battle Background
Music 1 * Super Mario Galaxy(tm) Ending Staff Credit Roll * Mario
Kart(tm) Wii(tm) Rainbow Road * New Super Mario Bro
This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 7 Piano syllabus
for 2021 & 2022, three pieces chosen from each of Lists A, B
and C. The pieces have been carefully selected to offer an
attractive and varied range of styles, creating a collection that
provides an excellent source of repertoire to suit every performer.
The book also contains helpful footnotes and, for those preparing
for exams, useful syllabus information.
This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 8 Piano syllabus
for 2023 & 2024, three pieces chosen from each of Lists A, B
and C - ideal for both Practical and Performance Grade exams. The
pieces have been carefully selected to offer an attractive and
varied range of styles, creating a collection that provides an
excellent source of repertoire to suit every performer. The book
also contains helpful footnotes and, for those preparing for exams,
useful syllabus information. A version of this book with audio
download is also available.
Offering commentary, musical analysis, and detailed interpretation
of her songs' lyrics, this book examines the qualities of Sheryl
Crow's music that have served to establish the artist's success and
popularity. Sheryl Crow continues to be celebrated for her legacy
as a singer-songwriter and pop culture icon. This book provides an
introduction to Sheryl Crow's entire music catalog. Organized into
chronological periods of time, the author weaves biographical facts
throughout a narrative rich with details about her songs: how they
were created, recorded, distributed, and modified in live
performance. Accompanying commentary features song
analysis-including song structure, chord progression, and
melody-and provides fascinating insights into the lyrical content
of Crow's songwriting. The work begins with Crow's upbringing, her
musical roots and influences, and how they manifested themselves in
her later career. Subsequent sections delve into her road to
success and eventual stardom, revealing how her rise to fame and
widespread popularity was littered with broken friendships,
acrimony, and suicide. The last several chapters follows her life
after a diagnosis of breast cancer and the adoption of her sons.
The work also includes a chapter on B-sides and rare songs by Crow.
Presents an in-depth and complete listening guide to all of Crow's
songs, including B-sides and rarities Features insightful
commentary with song analysis Includes a glossary of musical and
technical terms for the non-specialist
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 7 Piano syllabus
for 2023 & 2024, three pieces chosen from each of Lists A, B
and C - ideal for both Practical and Performance Grade exams. The
pieces have been carefully selected to offer an attractive and
varied range of styles, creating a collection that provides an
excellent source of repertoire to suit every performer. The book
also contains helpful footnotes and, for those preparing for exams,
useful syllabus information.Audio recordings of all 39 pieces on
the Grade 7 syllabus, performed by expert musicians, are included
(via the download code in the book). A version of this book without
audio download is also available.
In this concise and accessible volume, a noted keyboard artist and
Bach specialist takes a fresh look at the performance of J. S.
Bach's keyboard music. Addressing the nonspecialist player, Richard
Troeger presents a wide range of historical information and
discusses its musical applications. The author shares accounts of
the musical styles Bach employed and the instruments he knew. In
direct and pragmatic terms, he clarifies the importance of
notational and style details as guides to the composer's
intentions, particularly emphasizing changes in notational norms
between Bach's time and the present. Troeger offers core
information on dynamics, articulation, tempo, rhythm, ornamentation
and accompaniment. He considers controversial issues as well,
establishing the importance of the clavichord in Bach's milieu and
examining the link between baroque music and rhetoric - a dramatic
relationship that can bring great vitality to performance.
"They call it stormy Monday, but Tuesday's just as bad/Wednesday's
worse, and Thursday's also sad." There's a lot more to the blues
than three chords played on an old beat-up guitar. Squeeze My Lemon
is a collection of some of the best bluues lines ever recorded.
From birth ("Born under a bad sign/I've been down since I began to
crawl") to death ("Everybody wants to go to heaven/But nobody wants
tto die") and everything in between, this volume quotes classic
blues phrases by ssongwriter/artists B.B. King, Bessie Smith, Muddy
Waters, T-Bone Walker, Robert JJohnson and many, many others.
Compiled by award-winning author/Grammy-nominated record producer
Randy Poe, Squeeze My Lemon: A Collection of Classic Blues Lyriics
features classic photos of many leading blues artists. A great gift
book, itt is highly entertaining not only for blues lovers, but for
anyone who appreciatees great lyrics. Categorized by subject matter
(Love - Or the Lack Thereof, Bluess and Booze, Blues Behind Bars,
Make Mine a Double Entendre, etc.), Squeeze My Lemmon is a book
you'll return to - and quote from - again and again.
Pierre Monteux became famous at the age of 38 for conducting the
riotous world premiere of Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring in Paris
on May 29, 1913. The composer, fearing bodily harm, escaped through
a backstage window, while the imperturbable conductor persisted,
forever to be identified with the event. He would also conduct the
first concert performance and one of the first two recordings of
Stravinsky's masterpiece, the other one conducted by Stravinsky
himself. Though French by birth, the distinctively portly man with
the walrus mustache resisted being typecast as a French conductor.
He could have been a European maestro: he played for Brahms, worked
with Grieg, presided over the world premieres of major works by
Ravel, Stravinsky and many others, was Diaghilev's conductor of
choice. But it was Monteux's American audiences, especially in San
Francisco and Boston, who would love him the most over the course
of a long career. He conducted many American premieres, works of
Debussy, Falla, Ravel, and among the more than a dozen Boston
premieres, those of The Rite of Spring and of Mahler's First
Symphony. Canarina, a conductor and teacher of conducting himself,
studied with Monteux for seven summers and brings great personal
warmth and understanding to this wise, admiring and honest book,
the first full-length biography of the man whom so many knew and
loved as "Maitre."
Me and My Piano Part 1 takes the young pianist step-by-step through
the early stages of piano technique, first with separate hands,
then with a sequence of very easy pieces for hands together. All
pieces use a constant five finger hand position in the key of C
major. Games and puzzles give elementary theory a new lease of
life, and children will love the rhymes and songs introducing
characters such the Ostrich, Sammy Squirrel and the Old Man with
the Beard! Fanny Waterman and Marion Harewood's Me And My Piano
Series is probably the UK's most widely-used and biggest selling
piano method. It is now published in a new edition including a new
larger size, improved layout making it easier to read, a clean new
look with new typesetting and music-setting and the instantly
recognisable cover designs have been updated for extra vibrancy.
Enchantingly illustrated, in full-colour throughout, this essential
and irresistible book will encourage the young pianist to expand
his or her learning in the most enjoyable way.
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.
"A tapestry of plays, stories, and letters artistically woven
together to form a beautiful new work worthy of Chekhov's own heart
and hand. The American artists Sharon Gans and Jordan Charney have
reconceived Chekhov in their duets and arias with sensitivity and
passion of the finest dramatic caliber. The true wonder and
character of Chekhov shines through...enlightening!" - Moscow
Contemporary Theater
This rehearsal pack provides all of the material needed to help
prepare the unison voices for a performance of Birdland, Bob
Chilcott's engaging musical drama following the quest of Pip the
Sparrow to be accepted into the Dawn Chorus. Along with a copy of
the vocal score, the pack contains a photocopiable booklet
containing the part for unison voices and lyric sheets for all of
the movements in which the unison voices participate. In addition,
you will find a unique access code for a companion website
containing downloadable audio rehearsal tracks (performances) for
the unison voices part, PowerPoint resources for teaching and
rehearsing the unison voices, and PDFs of the unison voices part
and lyric sheets for printing.
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