The Training Programme for Young Guitarists. Good technique doesn’t appear overnight. Technical exercises are necessary but have a reputation for being boring and frustrating - perhaps this is down to perspective and attitude. Fabian Payr has developed an approach in Finger Fitness totrain dexterity—among other things—in a way that is anything but tedious. The focus of this collection of exercises…

Shhhh…don't tell anyone! Secret Songs: 18 Guilty Pleasures is a compilation of those all-time great songs that everyone loves and nobody will admit to liking. You know the ones - those songs that lurk in the back of every self-respecting record collector's hoard and come out late at night when you think nobody's around. They're all here, in an easy-to-hide book and CD with specially recorded backi…

Par . Accomodates the learning pace of younger students such as those in Alfred's Basic, Level 2. The scales are presented on one page, with one line of scales in parallel motion, one line in contrary motion, one line of cadences and one line of arpeggios. Includes all the major, harmonic minor and chromatic scales in a special one page per key format. These excellent all-inclusive books teach sc…

An Extinction Elegy. Par TIN CHRISTOPHER. The Lost Birds is a musical memorial to bird species driven to extinction by humankind. Sweeping and elegaic, it's a haunting tribute to those soaring flocks that once filled our skies, but whose songs have since been silenced. It's a celebration of their feathered beauty: their symbolism as messengers of hope, peace, and renewal. But it's also a warning a…

Par BLEZZARD JUDITH. Judith Blezzard This book looks at English church music from a new standpoint. It examines the relationship between English church music and the various types of other music that have influenced its development, revealing a vigorous tradition of interplay with extraneous musical material that is seldom apparent from the ways in which music is presented for church use. The borr…

Par OKAZAKI MILES. This book is designed to be useful for guitarists at any skill level. Beginners can use it as an introduction to the foundational concepts of the instrument, intermediate players can use it for training and theoretical work, and advanced players can explore the sections on advanced theory, extended technique and the exhaustive tables of melodic and rhythmic possibilities. It is …

Par SPARKE PHILIP. The Four Noble Truths are the most basic expression of the teaching of Buddha and therefore still form the guidelines for Buddhists to this day. The four truths are Dukkha, which describes times of major stress in our lives - birth, aging, desire and death; Samudaya which describes those parts of our life that induce stress, feeling, craving, desire; Nirodha which tells us how t…

Arrangeur: Jonathan Wikeley. Pop Carol Singing is the indispensible collection for carol singers who wish to add to the lighter side of their repertoire. Equally suitable for school and community choirs, or for those who want to get together for a good sing, these 24 simple, SATB arrangements have been specially designed to be hugely effective in performance, but equally easy and quick to learn. T…

Par SPARKE PHILIP. The Four Noble Truths are the most basic expression of the teaching of Buddha and therefore still form the guidelines for Buddhists to this day. The four truths are Dukkha, which describes times of major stress in our lives - birth, aging, desire and death; Samudaya which describes those parts of our life that induce stress, feeling, craving, desire; Nirodha which tells us how t…

In preparation for Carol Wincenc's landmark Naumburg Award Recital at New York's Lincoln Center, she asked composer Daniel Paget to create a work drawn from the world of wonderful Romanian folk music for nai, or panpipes. The result was Romania!, Fantasy for Flute and Piano, a duet suggestive of both the nai and the cimbalom (hammered dulcimer). The work is a brilliant tip-of-the-hat to Wincenc's …