Par HARRIS PAUL. Improve your sight-reading! Guitar Grades 1-3 is designed to help classical guitarists overcome sight reading problems, especially in the context of graded exams. Step by step you build up a complete picture of each piece, firstly through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific technical issues, then by studying prepared pieces with associated questions, and finally 'go…

Par GREIF OLIVIER. À l’issue d’une longue période d’un silence alors ressenti comme nécessaire, Greif revient à la composition un peu plus de trois ans avant l’écriture de cette Sonate en 1994 achevée en tout juste un mois. Elle fait donc partie de la production des dernières années de création. Très attentif quant au choix des titres pour ses œuvres, Greif semble s’être interrogé sur les divers s…

Par DUFOURT HUGUES. Dawn Flight est le titre d'une toile que le graveur et peintre britannique Stanley William Hayter (1901-1988) réalisa en 1959. Sa formation scientifique - chimie, géologie - son habileté mathématique furent un atout considérable dans ses recherches de matières et de couleurs, qui peuvent atteindre des tons fluorescents. Hayter, qui fut l'une des premières figures du mouvement s…

The title refers to a Moroccan desert wind, but it was less a figurative association than merely the sound of the word that fascinated Johannes Boris Borowski. The lengthy one-movement work reveals the formal skills and the imagination of the composer born in 1979: A rhythmized melodic cell evolves into a construct with its very own structure, motivic-thematic work leads to two-dimensional sounds …

Terrestre was commissioned to celebrate the composer's fiftieth birthday and while the name Terrestre calls to mind earthbound things, the score suggests the physical sensation of taking wing. The first of the two movements, l'Oiseau dansant, describes an aboriginal tale of a bird that teaches a village to dance, while the second movement, l'Oiseau, un satellite infime (infinitesimal) takes flight…

Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. In association with the Mendelssohn House, Leipzig, Edition Peters proudly presents the Mendelssohn ‘Souvenir’ edition, containing a selection of piano works intended by Mendelssohn to be played at home, as generations of amateur musicians since the 19th century have done – learning to appreciate and love this wonderful music. Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words, in …

Par VAN DER ROOST JAN. Jan Van der Roost was commissioned to write this hymn by the “International Association for Human Rights” in Frankfurt. The commission specified that the instrumentation of this simple hymn should be so, that it can be performed by a variety of combinations of players. The piece starts with an “intrada” for brass ensemble based on the first bars of the hymn, but is “ad libit…

Par VAN DER ROOST JAN. Jan Van der Roost was commissioned to write this hymn by the “International Association for Human Rights” in Frankfurt. The commission specified that the instrumentation of this simple hymn should be so, that it can be performed by a variety of combinations of players. The piece starts with an “intrada” for brass ensemble based on the first bars of the hymn, but is “ad libit…

Composed by ABRSM. Book. ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music) #9781786013972. Published by ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music)

Composed by ABRSM. Book. ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music) #9781786014566. Published by ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music)

Composed by ABRSM. Book. ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music) #9781786014573. Published by ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music)

Composed by ABRSM. Book. ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music) #9781786014580. Published by ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music)

Composed by Stan Pethel. Sacred. Published by Lorenz Publishing Company

By Bruce Saylor. For unison treble chorus, organ and harp. Choral, Children, Christmas. Easy/Medium. Choral octavo. Published by Paraclete Press

By Eric Taylor. Music Theory in Practice Grade 2 (Revised Edition - 2008). Education. Level: Grade 2. Published by ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music).

By Gabriel Faure (1845-1924). Arranged by Raines. For SSA choir, piano. Choral octavo

By Eric Taylor. Music Theory in Practice Grade 1 (Revised Edition - 2008). Education. Level: Grade 1. Published by ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music).

(from 'Nocturnes'). By Morten Lauridsen (1943-). SATB. Peermusic Classical. Softcover. 12 pages. Peermusic #62128-122. Published by Peermusic

Composed by Vaclovas Augustinas. For double choir, a cappella. General. Medium. Octavo. Duration 3 minutes, 45 seconds. Published by Laurendale Associates

By Eric Taylor. Music Theory in Practice Grade 3 (Revised Edition - 2008). Education. Level: Grade 3. Published by ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music).

Composed by Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). Edited by Christoph Flamm. For Piano Quartet. Henle Music Folios. Softcover. 32 pages. G. Henle #HN1228. Published by G. Henle