Music Of Our Time. Par HENZE HANS WERNER. ‘My Sinfonia No. 8 is not at all tragic or moody like the Seventh. It is a summer piece and is based on three moments from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream‘, writes Hans Werner Henze. This, however, is all we get to know from the composer regarding the work’s reference to Shakespeare’s comedy. On closer examination of the three-movement symphony it …

The Gallipoli Campaign took place between April 1915 and January 1916 and marked the first significant military engagement for Australia as an independent dominion. The Gallipoli Songbook commemorates this crucial event of the Great War with a collection of contemporary songs relating to the soldiers, the public at home, and the sheer poignancy of such a tragic event, all arranged for Piano, Vocal…

Apple Records was a noble experiment created in the spirit of the 1960s by four musicians who came to represent everything that was best about those tumultuous, experimental, and liberating times. The Beatles started out with the greatest of intentions, but reality soon got in the way. Much has been written about this period in the history of The Beatles' evolution and dissolution---some of it tru…

Yet Another 365 More Great Songs for Better Living. Par . Strum a different song every day! Compiled and arranged by Jim Beloff, this latest addition to the Daily Ukulele songbook series features yet another 365 great songs (with no duplication with previous editions!) arranged for ukulele with melody, lyrics, and ukulele chord grids in uke-friendly keys. Perfect for groups of one to one hundred! …

Die kreative Klavierschule für Kinder. Par HEUMANN HANS-GUNTER. Kindern nachhaltig Spaß am Klavier lernen vermitteln – das ist das Ziel der neuen Klavierschule Piano Junior für Kinder ab 6 Jahren von Hans-Günter Heumann! In diesem neuartigen Konzept aus insgesamt 4x4 Ausgaben begleitet der liebenswerte Roboter „PJ“ gemeinsam mit seinem Hund „Mozart“ und ihren drei Freunden die kleinen Pianisten …

The perfect way to rediscover the piano. Par SPANSWICK MELANIE. Did you use to play the piano? And would you like to play again? This is the first of three books of Play it again: Piano. It will reunite you with the keyboard using real pieces from the piano repertoire to teach specific techniques and tips, to get you playing fluently once again. The level of pieces in this first book progresses fr…

Par BARTOK BELA. Bartók composed his first pedagogical collection For Children between 1908 and 1911. The first edition was issued between 1909 and 1911 in four volumes, comprising two of Hungarian and two of Slovak folk song arrangements. After moving to America, Bartók considered it important to produce new editions of his earlier works. Thus in autumn 1943, together with his new publisher Boose…