A Creative Violin Method for Children. Par . Violin Junior ' is a fun and creative violin method for children from the age of 5 years upwards. The repertoire covers a wide range of styles from classical music to folk, world and popular music. Join Fiocco the Frog in this new approach and find out just how much fun playing the violin can be! Lesson Books include many duets for two students to play…

Three---Two---One---BLAST OFF! Rock the moon with your band on their next performance. The percussion section is featured, and even helps to provide a 'lift-off' for the moon launch. Great fun for everyone, this novelty-rock piece has a tune your audience will be singing long after the concert. With one-part writing for clarinet, alto saxophone, and trumpet, and clarinets staying under the break, …

Just imagine Mark Twain interacting with the vivid characters from his classic Americana novel! In this cross-curricular, 20-minute, riser-ready musical, the Missouri author takes the stage with the likes of Tom, Huck, Becky, and Aunt Polly. Five unison songs and selected vignettes highlight memorable moments from Twain's masterpiece. Discussion questions/writing prompts add to the educational val…

Par SCHUBERT FRANZ. Schubert?s piano sonatas reflect the entire cosmos of his distinctive writing, spanning from an early experimentation with this form to the iconic last three sonatas, which the composer completed in 1828, the last year of his life. All three volumes are equipped with informative prefaces on the genesis and sources, as well as valuable notes on piano playing in Schubert's time (…

These three choral vignettes are inspired by the whimsical poetry of Emily Dickinson. All three pieces require a free play of fancy and imagination. Using extended, aleatoric passages, non-metrical and free harmonic writing, directors and singers are given a pallet to create a piece that will be new every time it is performed. / Choeur Mixte (SATB) A Cappella

Media Type : BookLevel : IntermediateMusical Genre : JazzNumber of pages : 96 Enormous demands are placed on the control and manual dexterity of the contemporary drum set player, particularly in the Jazz idiom. Today's drummer is expected to have developed limb coordination to a degree that would have been thought unachievable a few short years ago. This text presents an effective method of dealin…

Weihnachtskantate. Par ZECHNER JOHANN GEORG. As the basis for his „Oratorio per il Natale“ Zechner used 4 Verses of the hymn „Ermuntre dich, mein schwacher Geist“ by Johann Rist. He also used some verses by another author. The reason for the reworking of Rist's text was undoubtedly Zechner's idea of writing a dramatic compositon after the model of the Italian cantata, rather than a succession of v…

Par RACHMANINOV SERGEI / GERSTEIN KIRILL (Arr.). In the Silence of the Secret Night is a piano arrangement of Sergei Rachmaninoff?s setting of Afanasy Fet, taken from the composer?s song cycle Six Romances, Op. 4 (1890-93). The poem describes a fitful lover?s nocturnal yearning. This three-minute piece draws on pianist Kirill Gerstein?s idiomatic grasp of the composer?s music, transcribing the son…

Weihnachtskantate. Par ZECHNER JOHANN GEORG. As the basis for his „Oratorio per il Natale“ Zechner used 4 Verses of the hymn „Ermuntre dich, mein schwacher Geist“ by Johann Rist. He also used some verses by another author. The reason for the reworking of Rist's text was undoubtedly Zechner's idea of writing a dramatic compositon after the model of the Italian cantata, rather than a succession of v…

Arr. Timothy Johnson. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. 'Melody is the very essence of music. ' -W. A. Mozart (1786)Mozart confirmed this view on melody by writing the Ave Verum Corpus near theend of his short life. Originally written for chorus, strings, and organ, this work standsamong the most beautiful musical expressions of all time. Timothy Johnson has skillfullymade Mozart's wondrous achievement…

(For mallet ensemble and two flutes). By George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). Arranged by Brian Slawson. For Two flutes, two glockenspiels, two small marimbas (4-octave), one 4.3 octave marimba (low-A), one 5-octave marimba (low C) (8 or 9 players). This edition: Percussion ensemb…

Three traditional fife and drum tunes arranged for solo snare drum and mallet quintet. Composed by Traditional. Arranged by Jason Baker. Score and parts on CD-ROM. 28 pages. Duration 7 minutes, 25 seconds (total. Published by Tapspace Publications (TA.TSPCE15-018).

(for percussion ensemble). Composed by Stuart P. O'Neil. Percussion Ensembles. For Glockenspiel, xylophone, small 4-octave marimba (shared), 4 timpani, cabasa, tambourine, sleigh bells, snare drum, bass drum, guiro, and triangle. (12 players). Difficulty: Medium-Easy. Folio and C…

(Dance of the Little Swans, Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks, and Danse Boheme arranged for mallet quartet). Composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Modest Mussorgsky, Georges Bizet. Arranged by Brian Slawson. Percussion Ensembles. For Glockenspiel, xylophone, vibraphone, and 4.3-oct…

By Jared Spears. Percussion Octet. Grade 4. Score and parts. Duration 4 minutes 10 seconds. Published by Kendor Music Inc

By Mark Ford. Percussion Ensemble. For 3 players on one marimba