Par MASSY SYLVIA. Recording Unhinged: Creative and Unconventional Music Recording Techniques dares you to unlearn safe record-making, to get out from behind the windshield, stick your head out the sunroof, and put the pedal to the metal! Sylvia Massy and her cohort of celebrity music industry producers, engineers, and recording stars discard fixed notions about how music should be recorded and exp…

Par GOSS STEPHEN. Wynwood Walls s'appuient sur 9 œuvres d'art dont les titres prêtent leurs noms aux 9 sections connectées du quintette. La musique reflète et amplifie mes propres réponses subjectives aux œuvres d'art. Les mouvements sont organisés par paires, émergeant d'un centre immobile - No Woman, No Cry. Le titre de cette pièce maîtresse provient du portrait émouvant de Chris Ofili de Doree…

Par PANUFNIK ROXANNA. When the Groot Omroepkoor's (Netherland's Radio Choir) Chief Conductor Benjamin Goodson and Stiftfestivals' violinist-director Daniel Rowland approached me to write a piece for them, I immediately googled Dutch poets. I was intrigued to find the French-sounding name, Isabelle de Charrire (1740 1805). Also known as Belle van Zuylen, she was born and brought up in Utrecht, whe…

Nancy Litten\'s Choral and Vocal Warm-Ups for Pianists provides the perfect accompaniment for a whole range of warm-ups she herself uses regularly with choirs. This invaluable guide leads the choral director, step by step, through the various stages of the warm-up and provides a suitable keyboard accompaniment. Litten also offers valuable advice about what and how to practice common harmonic progr…

Par BLANKEN JOHN. John Blanken wrote Intrada & Wilhelmus in 2002 for the brass band Euphonia from Wolvega, the Netherlands. The title speaks for itself. It's an introduction to the national anthem of The Netherlands; Wilhelmus. In this piece the national anthem is heared two times followed by a short postlude. / Niveau : 3 / Musique traditionnelle / Recueil / Brass Band

Yamaha Band Student will appeal to teachers looking for a well-paced lesson sequence that keeps students motivated to continue past the first critical year. It is affordably priced, attractively presented and meets the needs of today's students and educators. Each level includes numerous songs, duets, trios and four full-band arrangements right in the method itself---perfect for first-year concert…

Par BOSVELD JAN. Shortly after the Second World War, a combative movement of Danish, Belgian and Dutch artists chose the cobra snake - extremely dangerous yet considered sacred - as a symbol of their resistance to strict guideliness of form. The name 'Cobra' also happens to contain the first letters of the cities Copenhagen, Brussels ans Amsterdam, from where most of the movement's members came. T…

First ever publication based on the autographOriginally written for violin and orchestra between 1873 and 1877, Dvorák's 'Romance? immediately followed his String Quartet in F minor (1873) and draws on the theme from its slow movement. He probably wrote the 'Romance? for his friend, the violin virtuoso Franti?ek Ondrícek, who later premiered Dvorák's Violin Concerto in 1883.Our edition is the firs…

Par PART ARVO. 'I have developed a highly formalised compositional system, which I have been using to write my music for twenty years. Summa is the most strict and enigmatic work in this series', said Arvo Pärt in 1994. The neutral title itself embodies the essence of the content as the work is based on the text of the Latin Credo. The great simplicity of the piece masks its complexity. The underl…

Par VAUGHAN WILLIAMS RALPH. Of all his early chamber works, the 'Nocturne' is most clearly by the mature Vaughan Williams, almost anticipating the influence of Ravel which followed his lessons from the French composer in 1908. In the veiled beauty of its highly chromatic harmonies we hear already the tone-poet of the slow movement of 'A London Symphony', while in the fleet-footed 'Scherzo' there i…