The Suzuki Method® of Talent Education is based on Dr. Shinichi Suzuki's view that every child is born with ability, and that people are the product of their environment. According to Dr. Suzuki, a world-renowned violinist and teacher, the greatest joy an adult can know comes from developing a child's potential so he/she can express all that is harmonious and best in human beings. Students are tau…

Mass in Time of War. Par HAYDN JOSEPH. The “Missa in Tempore Belli”, also known as the “Mass in Time of War”, composed in 1796, makes prominent use of timpani as well as a wind fanfare at the beginning of the “Dona nobis pacem” – both clear and unusual references to a warlike context. One year after the first documented performance which took place in the year of its composition as part of the Fi…

Features 16 of Bach's transcriptions for solo keyboard instruments (piano and harpsichord) of concertos for violin and other non-keyboard instruments by Vivaldi, Telemann, and others. Reprinted from the definitive Bach-Gesellschaft edition prepared by Ernst Naumann. Content :
Concerto No. 1 in D major, BWV 972 (based on a violin concerto by Antonio Vivaldi, op. 3, no. 9)
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Keyboard fireworksAs early as 1743, while Handel was still alive, Francesco Geminiani produced an arrangement of the 'Water Music? for keyboard instruments, thereby making it possible to perform this popular work in domestic surroundings. Then, presumably in 1749, an unknown musician arranged the 'Music for the Royal Fireworks? for transverse flute or violin and harpsichord.In addition to these tw…

Based on the traditional folk tune used in the 2015 Disney film, Cinderella, this simple arrangement is divided into 3 violin, 3 viola, 3 cello, and 2 double bass parts. It would be ideal for an ensemble of mixed abilities: every instrument can either play the melody, or one of the harmony or bass line parts. Alternatively, students can take turns picking one of the parts and changing lines during…

Par SAARIAHO KAIJA. Kaija Saariaho’s 2015 opera Only The Sound Remains was commissioned by Dutch National Opera, Finnish National Opera, Opera de Paris, Teatro Real Madrid and Canadian Opera Company. The work combines two short operas inspired by Japanese Nôh dramas: “Always Strong” (“Tsunemasa”) and “Feather Mantle” (“Hagoromo”), based on translations by Ezra Pound and Ernest Fenollosa. It is sc…

In 2012, I composed a set of variations (originally for orchestra and subsequently arranged for two pianos in 2013 ) based on one of Wagner's most inspired and haunting melodies, the 'alte Hirtenweise' [old shepherd's song], an extended cor anglais solo at the start of Act III of Tristan and Isolde. This seemingly simple, yet deceptively complex melody was my starting point for an expansive fantas…

An Orchestrator's Handbook. Par BRANT HENRY. Henry Brant's new guide to orchestration is, in fact, the result of his lifelong work as a conductor, composer, and teacher, its first page written in the 1940s, and its final page written in 2005. In observation of other orchestration texts throughout his life, Brant realized that many were incomplete, in that they gave instructions based on 'hoped-for…