Par TAFFANEL PAUL. Paul Taffanel (1844-1908) was a French flautist, conductor and composer. He contributed significantly to the repertoire of the Flute and his Wind Quintet also remains prominent to this day. In 1879, Taffanel founded the Society of Chamber Music for Wind Instruments, reviving the wind ensemble music of Mozart and Beethoven. His Wind Quintet in G minor had been composed three year…

Edward Huws Jones' popular series of traditional fiddle repertoire, now available with expertly-recorded audio CD. Containing colourful instrumental backing tracks and full demonstrations, the new audio resource will aid and inspire your private practice and public performance alike. These generous collections of authentic music, some familiar, some more exotic, but all of it faithfully arranged, …

Versions 1833 And 1850. Par SCHUMANN ROBERT. Schumann kept coming back to variation form. He often wrote his own variations in contrast to those on popular (operatic) themes, with which piano virtuosi of the time flooded the market. The “Impromptus” were written with the desire that they “should be seen to be variations of a new form” – he even skilfully joined two themes together. Although Franz …

Par STEINER JOHANNES. Get into the Groove – a-cappella-style. Gemeinsam mit coolen Body- und Vocal Grooves Songs aus der Popular- und Jazzmusik erlernen und performen! Das neue, praxisorientierte Konzept von Johannes Steiner ist für Chorsängerinnen und Chorsänger ab der 8. Schulstufe geeignet. Im Fokus stehen dabei das Spüren und Erlernen des jeweiligen Songrhythmus und -timings. Nur so können …

Par CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO MARIO. Born into a family that had lived in Florence since the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) entertained only a distant relationship with the music he heard at synagogue. It was only when he discovered Schelemo, a rhapsody for cello and orchestra written in 1916 by Ernest Bloch, that he began to understand what ' Jewish mus…

Dvo?ák worked longer and more intensively on this Trio than on just about any other chamber music work. After his first successes with pieces inspired by Czech folk music, namely the popular Slavonic Dances (HN 757 and 918), he now wanted to prove himself as a composer of the highest order. This is why in the following summer, he thoroughly reworked the Trio that he had written within eight weeks …

Contains a mixture of Piano/Vocal/Guitar arrangements, Melody line with Lyrics, and pictures with short biographies and descriptions of some of the featured songs. This stunning book features over 60 classic songs spanning many decades of popular musical history. Published to commemorate Carlin Music's 40th anniversary, it features songs in every style from vintage ballads and classics from the ro…

The Greatest Hits series features the most popular songs released throughout the year. Distinguished by genre, each book in the series provides lyrics, melody lines, chord changes, and professionally arranged piano accompaniments for all the songs. Titles in this compilation include Ain't No Other Man (Christina Aguilera), Chasing Cars (Snow Patrol), Crazy (Gnarls Barkley), Far Away (Nickelback), …

Oratorium. Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. Mendelssohn composed his first oratorio Paulus under the impression of his own revival of J. S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in 1829. He integrated chorale settings into St. Paul, for which he was accused by his contemporaries of making a stylistic break, using an element unsuitable to church music. In spite of these reservations, during Mendelssohn’s life…