'What's important in music that's based on a poem - on the emotion inspired by a poem - is the music and power of emotion it harbours within itself?. These words, written in 1949 by poet Pierre Reverdy, would make a deep impression on composer Betsy Jolas. She'd just sent the writer her Six mélodies for mezzo-soprano and piano composed on poems from his masterwork Plupart du temps. The songs were …

The Absolute Beginners award-winning method has been designed to make learning the 5-string Banjo easier than ever before! Step-by-step pictures take you from first day exercises to playing your first complete songs. Absolute Beginners Banjo gives you: An 'owner's manual' approach to the banjo. Practical advice and tips covering everything you need to know about setting up, playing and maintenance…

This Tuba Fingering Chart is a brilliantly useful reference guide for players of all ages and abilities. Featuring an expansive gatefold design that shows essential information such as fingerings for all notes, notation hints and instrument care, this is a guide that should never leave your possession.A chart such as this is the perfect supplement for your lessons or your self-teaching, giving you…

Chorheft 3: Fastenzeit / Ostern. Par . The German Catholic hymnal Gotteslob offers a wealth of possibilities for the celebration of the Divine Office by the congregation. With this third choral collection the editors encourage lively worship services, which choir and congregation can create and celebrate together. The collection offers many specific suggestions for this type of worship, as well as…

Par GORDON ANDREW D.. Get your solo playing up to scratch and discover a wealth of riffs and moves with Andrew D. Gordon's guide, complete with a CD of grooves to jam with! The book is intended as an improvisational tool, providing you with a generous range of riffs and phrases, groups into Rock, Funk and Blues styles. The CD tracks are supported by chord sheets, so you'll know where you are strai…

The Blues Guitar Chord Deck makes learning a real 'hands-on' experience and features over 40 blues chords in a convenient deck format of cardboard guitar-neck illustrations that fan out and indicate exactly where to place your fingers. Master a whole set of new skills with the deck's ingenious swivel pack design that literally puts a wealth of blues guitar information right at your fingertips. Dis…

Par . C. Paul Herfurth's classic series of tutor books have now been completely revised and updated with a host of innovations to suit a new generation of musicians. A New Tune A Day features the same logical, gentle pace and keen attention to detail that made earlier editions so hugely popular and successful. Clear explanatory diagrams and photographs help guide you through the lessons and achiev…

Study the trademark songs, licks, tones, and techniques of blues Guitar virtuoso Robben Ford.This comprehensive book and audio teaching method provides detailed analysis of Robben's gear, tone, techniques, styles, songs, licks, signature phrases, and much more.You'll learn everything you need to know about Ford's legendary Guitar playing, from his early years in jazz fusion with the Yellowjackets …

I Used to Play Viola is a new book for adults looking to get back into playing the Viola, and will help jumpstart their memory and comfort with music. Its #1 goal is to get people re-acquainted with their instrument by providing them with types of music they want to play, like pop, jazz, and classic tunes, rather than etudes. The book contains a CD with audio MP3 files of complete performances of …

Symphony for Winds, Percussion and Pre-recorded Soundscape. Par SHAPIRO ALEX. IMMERSION brings listeners on a sonic journey into a private, aquatic realm. Beneath the surface of the ocean is a world of liquid beauty and grace hidden from our eyes and from our imagination. Follow your ears and your heart to the deepest unseen places we often neglect to consider. Shapiro's electroacoustic wind symph…

(Artistic Expressions of Faith and Joy). By Mark Hayes. For organ: 2-staff. Sacred. Moderately easy. Published by Lorenz Publishing Company

By George Shearing. Organ. Level: 3-staff. Sacred Organ. Published by Sacred Music Press.

Composed by Ruth Elaine Schram. Sacred. Lorenz Publishing Company #70/2082L. Published by Lorenz Publishing Company (LO.70-2082L).

By Ritchie and Stauffer. For Book (Spiralbound). Published by Oxford University Press.

By Gilbert M. Martin. For organ. General, Hymn-based collection. Level: 3-staff. Sacred Organ. Published by Sacred Music Press. (70/1062S)

Composed by Alan Smith. Sacred. Published by Sacred Music Press (LO.70-2077S).

(40 Classic Hymn Tune Settings for Organ). By Dale Wood. For organ: 3-staff. Sacred. Moderately difficult. Published by Lorenz Publishing Company

Composed by Richard A. Williamson. Sacred. Lorenz Publishing Company #70/2109L. Published by Lorenz Publishing Company

Composed by Richard Elliott. Sacred. Lorenz Publishing Company #70/1874L. Published by Lorenz Publishing Company

(38 Organ Settings for Worship or Recital). By Douglas E. Wagner. For organ: 3-staff. Sacred. Intermediate. Published by Lorenz Publishing Company

(Preludes, Offertories & Postludes). By Various. Organ Folio. Softcover. 96 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

By Johann Sebastian Bach, Marcel Dupre. Edited by Gail Lew. Arranged by Marcel Dupre. Classical and sacred organ. Level: easy organ. 102 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

For organ. Level: 2-staff. Sacred organ. Published by Lorenz Publishing Company. (70/1515L)

Composed by Douglas E. Wagner. Sacred. Lorenz Publishing Company #70/2073L. Published by Lorenz Publishing Company (LO.70-2073L).

Composed by David Cherwien. For organ: 3-staff. Sacred. Moderately advanced. Lorenz Publishing Company #70/1927L. Published by Lorenz Publishing Company

For voice and organ. Format: organ/vocal songbook (two copies needed for performance). With vocal melody, lyrics, organ accompaniment and chord names. Hymn. 132 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Hal Leonard.

By Dale Wood. Organ. Level: 3-staff. Sacred Organ. Published by Sacred Music Press.

Composed by Various. For Organ. Shawnee Press. Softcover. 80 pages. Published by Shawnee Press