plus AUDIO MIDIFlamenco Piano is a method devised to teach pianists how to play flamenco. It provides not only pianists but also composers, theorists and musicians in general with an in-depth study of the rhythm, harmony, melody and form structures of every flamenc and shows how these are practically applied to the piano. In addition to scores for learning and playing traditional flamenco, this in…

Concerto no. 2 in c minor op. 18 for Piano and Orchestra. Par RACHMANINOV SERGEI. Rachmaninoff's legendary Opus 18, often lovingly referred to as Rach 2,” is for many the epitome of the Romantic piano concerto. Following its acclaimed premiere in Moscow in 1901, it proved to be a show-stopper around the globe, finally helping cement Rachmaninoff's international reputation as a composer. To this da…

Par MACPHERSON STEWART. The three books are published separately, although the author firmly believed that melodic movement and harmonic progression should always be studied side by side. Book 2 teaches elementary harmonic progressions to use with your composed melodies. The books employ exercises in counterpoint, in figured-bass harmony and in the roman-numeral inversion analysis./ Livre / Livre

Par MACPHERSON STEWART. The revised edition of Stewart Macpherson's exhaustive guide to Form in Music. With special reference to the designs of classical music and using a vast array of musical examples to illustrate his ideas, he analyses the varied forms that have been fashionable, bound to society and culture through history. From Concertos and Symphonies, to simple binary, sonata-forms and bri…

Par SCHAARS PETER KLEINE. Melodia Blues, a swinging composition by PeterKleine Schaars begins with a robust intro. Fourbars follow, which can be repeated ad lib. toallow for an optional announcement (this is theso-called VAMP). The blues theme follows alongwith two written-out improvisations. These can beexpanded - depending on the resources withinyour band. After a richly scored reprise of thethe…

Arrangeur: Andreas Köln. Par SCHUBERT FRANZ. Franz Schubert's 'Stabat Mater” D 175 is one of a number of church works that he wrote for his local congregation in Lichtental. This edition is based on the sole surviving source, the composer's autograph full score. Unlike its like-named companion piece D 383, Schubert uses the original Latin poem here. In his setting of April 1815 he focuses on the …

Scored for chorus, children's choir, organ and chamber orchestra, St Luke Passion adopts a pared-back focus on choral voices over its 75-minute span. Seeking a more spiritual, inward approach to match Luke's text, the composer eschews settings of interpolated texts as arias and the customary Evangelist and Christ soli: everything is sung by choral forces. A children's choir grants a measure of inn…

A fairy tale in music freely after Wilhelm Hauff. Par NUTZENBERGER THOMAS. This is the bizarre and fantastic story of the boy Jacob who is transformed into a dwarf with a huge nose by an mysterious fairy. He spends seven years in the fairy’s palace, and during this time becomes a marvellous cook. The years go by as in a dream, and he does not imagine that he is in truth in the body of a loathsome …