Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development for Advanced Concert Band builds upon the concepts in Ensemble Development for Intermediate Concert Band with 399 new exercises that are more technically and musically challenging, including over 70 chorales written by some of today's most renowned composers for concert band, including: Roland Barrett, Chris Bernotas, Andrew Boysen, Ralph Ford, Rossano Galan…

THE Real Book, une sélection des plus grands thèmes de ces 60 dernières années, arrangés en Do. 464 pages

Par CRAMER RAY. Every conductor knows the importance of using excellent teaching materials to aid in the development of all aspects of musical growth. The quality of the band's performance must be continually improving. Each component of the ESSENTIALS OF MUSICIANSHIP series is designed to focus on a specific area of musical performance. By using these materials during the warm-up period, the cond…

Your favourite sheet music will come to life with the innovative Piano Play-Along series! With these book/CD collections, Piano and Keyboard players will be able to practice and perform with professional-sounding accompaniments. Containing eight cream-of-the-crop songs each, the books feature new engravings, with a separate vocal staff, plus Guitar frames, so players and their friends can sing or …

Timba: Modern Cuban Conga Rhythms. Par CRUZ TOMAS. Volume III is the first educational product to tackle the complex subject of Timba, the new musical genre which has been played in Cuba since 1989. Timba represents a quantum leap for all the instruments of the rhythm section and especially the congas. The recordings of Tomás Cruz are considered the most advanced examples of Timba conga-playing an…

Following up on the success of the Christmas Piano Solos books for levels 1-5 in the Hal Leonard Student Piano Library, these books contain additional holiday selections for each grade level that will work great with any piano method. Many songs include an optional teacher accompaniment.12 songs: Angels from the Realms of Glory - Blue Christmas - Christmas Time Is Here - Coventry Carol - Here We C…

Written for Jeffrey Douma and the Yale Glee Club, Stephen Feigenbaum has created a piece that is at the same time classically contemporary and jazzy, light-hearted and sad, insightful and fully transparent. / Choeur Mixte (SATB) A Cappella

Par SPARKE PHILIP. Whilst making no claims to be stylistically authentic, this little piece aims to capture the infectious spirit of mariachi, a word whose origins are lost in the mists of time, but which describes not only the performers (on guitars, vihuelas, violins, trumpets and harp) but also the music itself. Their music speaks of love, passion, politics, life in the country and revolutionar…

Giulio Briccialdi (1818-1881) has been one of the major European flutists of the Nineteenth Century. Praised by coeval critics as 'the first among the living flutists? in a period when virtuosos were reaching extraordinary levels, Briccialdi was a unique artist with a quintessentially Romantic personality. His refined activity as a composer is nowadays mostly known thanks to his paraphrases on ope…

This joyful Christmas carol from 15th century France may be sung in either the original French or in English. If a children's choir is used, it can sing the soprano part throughout. The words 'nouvelet? and 'noel? both come from the French root word meaning 'news? or 'newness? and this arrangement by Wayland Rogers is just that, fresh and new. / Voix (SATB), Flûte Et Piano