The guitar is one of the best-loved instruments of all time, but few people ever learn how to play it. The reason is often the difficult chord fingering with the left hand. This is why Udo Zilkens has developed the internationally patented JelGi method. It uses a C-major tuning and makes song accompaniment child's play. Within minutes a wide range of songs can be accompanied by old and young from …

Song was Thomas Pasatieri's primary interest - he wrote an amazing 400 between the ages of 14 and 18. This collection of songs for Soprano voice includes settings of poetry by Theodore Ramsey a wordless Vocalise 'ThreeCalifornia Songs' and the substantial Windsong which gives this collection its name and also contains Viola (part included).

Three Songs by Philip Glass is a work for unaccompanied SATB Choir featuring three different settings of words by three different poets and songwriters. Featuring There Are SomeMen?by Leonard Cohen Quand Les Hommes Vivront D'Amour?by Raymond Lévesque and Pierre De Soleil?by Octavio Paz these wonderful lyrics are matched by Glass's brilliantly unmistakeablemusic ensuring that each of the?Thre…

Par NICKERSON ROSS. Banjo Songs for Beginners Book(PDF on CD)/DVD/CD set includes fourteen must know banjo classics demonstrated in split screen video at three speeds. The book has easy to read tablature with accent marks for melody notes and both right and left hand fingerings indications. Also included in the book are tips for learning each song, instruction on practicing and using the chords, m…

Roger Quilter (1877-1953) was a British composer best known for writing many gentle and beautiful songs. Along with Henry Balfour Gardiner and Percy Grainger he was a member of the Frankfurt Group a group of friends who studied composition together at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. Three Pastoral Songs (Op.22) is a collection of three songs based on countryside scenes: I will go with my fa…

Contemporary English composer singer and Vocal coach Betty Roe is best known for her church and Choral music revue songs music for schools and solo songs like these. This group of three songs sets poems of Langston Hughes concerning the feisty Alberta K Johnson who successfully sees off the census man the minister and Death himself when they come calling.Roe has set the three texts in bluesy …

These three poems were written by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) several years apart yet they seem to express similar emotions and concerns. The first was written in 1853 when she was twenty-three the second when she was in herlate thirties and the third written towards the end of her life may be the last poem she ever wrote.These Three Songs were completed in February 2003 and last a total of…

Jacques Offenbach (1819'80) ranks among the greatest composers of lighthearted operettas, and his famous songs continue to charm millions who know neither their names nor their composer. This volume features the sheet music for 38 popular songs from 14 operettas. All are reproduced from the original sheet music ' a few from the original piano-vocal scores, and some with lively pictorial covers. Co…

For Tenor Violin And Drone-Three Songs was expertly composed by Nico Muhly.There is a two-note drone that sounds throughout this piece’s 15-minute duration. In the first part of the songs the Tenor and the Violin exchange lyrical and declamatory statements.The second part is a song without words: a sort of dance for solo Violin. The third part has the Violin intoning a pair of notes while the …

These songs were written in 1965 to a commission from the University of California in Santa Barbara a rare accolade for a British composer. Berkeley has always been particularly sensitive in his choice of texts and in this set heselects two poems by one of his favourite poets Herrick the well-know Fair Daffodils and the equally charming but less familiar Kissing Usurie. The middle song sets Rob…

These three partsongs together represent some of the best of Schubert's output for groups of female voices including his well-known setting of the Der 23. Psalm Gott In Der Natur and Standchen.

The volume includes three partsongs to Elizabethan texts Diaphenia Corydin Arise! Shall we go Dance? and four partsongs to texts by Mary E. Coleridge When Mary thro’ the Garden Went The Blue Bird The Haven and Chillingham.

An attractive collection of American and British songs for the progressing singer. Includes a companion CD of piano accompaniments. Songs include Bright is the Ring of Words by Ralph Vaughn Williams Spring Sorrow by John Ireland Money O! by Michael Head and three songs by Benjamin Britten: The Ash Grove O Waly Waly and The Salley Gardens among others!