Learn to play guitar like Robben Ford, Joe Bonamassa, Larry Carlton, John Scofield, Eric Johnson, and other blues/fusion masters! Blues/fusion merges the soulfulness of the blues with the sophistication of jazz. In How to Play Blues/Fusion Guitar, you'll study the key elements of style - what scales, chords, and arpeggios are most commonly used, and how to use them. You'll also take a look at exam…

Full scores of 5 great Beethoven piano concertos, reproduced from the authoritative Breitkopf & Härtel edition, with all cadenzas as he wrote them. The works reveal the pianistic and orchestral mastery of Beethoven's early and middle periods as well as his innovative genius.

The opera Nais was premiered on 22 April 1749 at the Academie royale in the Palais-Royal, Paris, in celebration of the signing of the so-called Treaty of Aachen. It was revived again in August 1764 shortly before Rameau's death and achieved great success as the 'opera of peace', even though it did not appear in print during the composer's lifetime.In numerous arias Rameau provides his singers ampl…

Par MULE. Part of the method for all Saxophones by Marcel Mule, this second volume of Fifty-Three Studies After Bohem, Terschak, Furstenau features the studies 19 to 35. Written for upper intermediate players, this book will help the players to maintain the acquired technique and develop even more their flexibility. This series of three books is a must-have to prepare the upper intermediate player…

Par MORTENSEN JOHN. John Mortensen's The Pianist's Guide to Historic Improvisation is a course-tested pedagogical method for learning to improvise, providing intermediate-level pianists with a path to mastery of the improvisational techniques of the 17th and 18th centuries. / Études et exercices / Etude / Piano

One must look long and hard to find a piano pupil who hasn't studied Beethoven's two 'sonate facile? op. 49. They are not only relatively easy to play but highly lyrical and effective, ideally combining joy in music-making with a mastery of early classical literature. The two works were composed much earlier than the opus number suggests. Beethoven wrote them around 1797/98, during a time when he …

Dans un programme artistique et extrêmement instructif, Guillermo Rios nous entraîne dans l'univers magique de la ' Libres de tuques '. L'absence d'un compteur d'impulsions dans ces formulaires en aucune façon les limites leur milieu musical potentiel pour servir à l'artiste les plus possibilités expressives. Malaguenas, Mineras, Rondenas, Granadinas, Tarantas sont tous discutés. Le split screen a…

Chorale Setting. Par TELEMANN GEORG PHILIPP. Chorale settings form a central part of Telemann's oeuvre. His 1754 setting of the church hymn Christus, der ist mein Leben, based on Melchoir Vulpius' melody from the Hamburg Hymnal, is especially well-suited to display his mastery in depicting the words of the chorale. The so-called 'Ausfüllungsbass” (a vocal bass added to the principal bass in tutti …

The renowned Czech bass player, composer and conductor Franti?ek Hertl (1906-1973) led the double bass section of the Czech Philharmonic during the Václav Talich era and later taught at the Conservatory and the Academy of Musical Arts in Prague. An outstanding virtuoso, he had a consummate mastery of his instrument's expressive potential and sound qualities. He also wrote successful concert and te…

Arr. Peter Kleine Schaars. The sisters Ruth, Anita and June Pointer from West Oakland in California learned how to sing in the sixties in church where their father was a minister. At the beginning of the 1970s they entered the music business, where they proved to have a mastery of many styles - including rhythm & blues, jazz, and country. However, the Pointer Sisters acquired international fame at…