Media Type : Book/CD Set Level : Multiple Levels Musical Genre : Jazz Series : Complete Number of pages : 184 This book is complete in the sense that there is something for everyone: beginners, intermediate players and professionals. Along with learning the basics, this book teaches fingerstyle guitar players to play two-string harmonies, accompaniment styles and much more. Alan De Mause has fill…

Par DOVE JONATHAN. Jonathan Dove?s We Are One Fire, was commissioned as a birthday present for the 90th anniversary of the BBC Symphony Chorus. Dove turned to playwright Alasdair Middleton for a text that could serve as both a response to and an echo of the sentiment in Schiller?s Ode to Joy, celebrating humanity?s ?shared ancestry?. / Choral Music / Répertoire / Voix Mixtes

Par COMBIER JEROME. Il a été question pour moi d'imaginer un 'événement' artistique intégrant le texte d'Impromptu d'Ohio qui puisse à la fois être donné dans une salle d'exposition et à la fois joué en concert. L'installation impliquait la rencontre de Pierre Nouvel, la version concert celle de Joël Jouanneau. Dans les deux situations aussi différentes soient-elles, j'ai tenté d'imaginer un événe…

for String Quartet. Par BAKER CLAUDE. A VOICE PASSES provides musical commentary on three haiku by the 19th-century poet Masaoka Shiki and one by the legendary master he most admired, Yosa Buson. Stricken with tuberculosis and addicted to morphine in the later years of his short life, Shiki wrote a large number of haiku that dealt with the pain and suffering caused by his illness. Of these, many w…

Par ARNOLD MALCOLM. Hugo Cole says '. . .a serious and substantial work. . .The slow movement, based on a dramatic unison, reminds us that Berlioz is one of Arnold's favourite composers. With the art that conceals art, Arnold makes us forget the limitations of the medium, and exploits these players' particular skills in ways that make it seem as though the skills must have been acquired to do just…

Released to the surprise of fans, pundits and even Columbia Records' own PR department, The Next Day is David Bowie 's twenty-fourth studio album, announced on his sixty-sixth birthday. Containing Bowie's first collection of all-new material for over ten years, The Next Day débuted at number 1 and number 2 on charts across the world. A critical as well as commercial success, the album garnered fiv…

Regarded as the greatest Spanish composer of the 20th century, Manuel De Falla (1876-1946) had a distinctively nationalistic style. His Andalusian influences are clearly seen in his ballet El Amor Brujo , which is often praised for its originality, while at the same time preserving the beauty of the Andalusian folk themes. The libretto was written by Gregorio Martínez Sierra, and the ballet was fi…

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It may come as a surprise to learn that Anton Webern's delicate, refined and intimate music can be transferred to the organ. Xavier Durasse (1934-1992), a pupil of Durufle and Messiaen, has produced an organ adaptation of the famous three-movement Variations for piano op. 27 (1936), a groundbreaking composition in serial music. His arrangement is accompanied by judicious registration marks and div…

With more than 180 No. 1 hit songs worldwide, Berry Gordy's legendary Motown Records forged the careers of superstars such as Diana Ross and the Supremes, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, the Four Tops, Stevie Wonder, and the Temptations. Celebrating the 50th anniversary, this compilation features the signature sound from the stars who recorded in the Detroit offices known as 'Hitsville U.S.A.' T…