Description The greatest French organist of his day, Widor (1844?1937) composed 10 organ symphonies?actually solo compositions usually consisting of 6 or 7 short movements, that treat the organ as a kind of self-contained orchestra. Series II includes Symphonies 6-8, Symphonie Gothique and Symphonie Romane, frequently performed today. Also includes a glossary of French terms. Songlist Symph…

An Overview of Keyboard Composers and Literature. Par BACHUS NANCY / GEROU TOM. The Great Music & Musicians series provides a foundation for understanding the major cultural periods, musical styles, and development of music through the ages. The books include art and listening examples to deepen understanding. Although not correlated page by page, Book 2 is appropriate for piano students in variou…

Warm-ups and Essential Exercises for Violin. Par BERGMANN BENJAMIN. Fit in 15 Minutes is intended for occasional players who are very short of time and want to maintain and improve their violin technique in a concentrated and effective quarter of an hour. They can also be used at the beginning of a longer practice or rehearsal session. As the technical precondition of beginners and professional v…

A Logical Method for Enhancing Your Jazzabilities. Par BAUMGARTNER ERIC. Book 2 of a two-volume series that presents the fundamentals of jazz in a logical and accessible way, primarily through short progressive exercises. Ideal for classically-trained pianists in traditional lessons who may be a little cautious to learn jazz, as well as for players simply wishing to expand their existing 'jazzabil…

Par JANOSA FELIX. 12 Ragtimes in the style of Scott Joplin and beyond, short and easy to master, will rekindle the fun of playing ragtime! Felix Janosa is known to most children and parents in Germany as the composer of the Ritter Rost musicals. Although he studied school music and composition at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, he never went to school as a music teacher, but became a freelance …

Par CAENS. Thierry Caens' Short Studies In The Keys for Trumpet. I am very happy that Hamelle is publishing the collection I have been planning to produce for several years. This collection includes works written or arranged for myself, as well as a representative selection of my own compositions (original works or arrangements). It should be of interest to all kinds of groupings, from the most st…

Par BACEWICZ GRAZYNA. Grazyna Bacewicz realised at a very early age that her main purpose in life was to compose music. Already during the 1920s, as a student of Lódz Conservatoire, as part of her lessons in harmony and counterpoint, she made attempts at composing, in which she tried to resolve nagging technical problems and impart an artistically satisfying form to them. She grew up in an atmosph…

Par STEPHENSON JOSEPHINE. 'The Sestina is a fixed verse poetic form dating from the 12th century. It has a fascinating, very strict structure, consisting principally of six stanzas of six lines each, and requiring that the six line-ending words of the first stanza be re-used as end-words in each of the following stanzas in specific places, determined by an algorithm. In this musical Sestina, which…

Par CHRISTIANSEN COREY. Clifford Brown was one of the most influential jazz trumpeters and was a true master of jazz. His fantastic tone, time, feel and command of the jazz language have been inspiring jazz musicians on all instruments for decades. This book breaks down many of the one and two-bar phrases played by Clifford and helps students apply them to their own playing. Lines played over mino…

This short, highly compact song is based on an excerpt from a poem by Philipp Luidl. Thanks to the narrow ambitus of the vocal part, it is suitable for every vocal register. The piano part is strictly bound to the musical text, whereas the vocal part, though precisely notated, is granted almost unlimited leeway in performance. Almost anything is permitted, from traditional song interpretation to u…