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Conversational Solfege Basic Package : 2 Books + 2 CD's

Alfred's Basic Piano Library: Theory Games Software 1A-2 (CD-Rom)

The Game Music Handbook : A Practical Guide to Crafting an Unforgettable Musical Soundscape

The Game Music Handbook is a practical book that provides all composers and musicians with the necessary tools to becoming excellent game music composers. Author and experienced game music composer Noah Kellman covers everythingfrom basic to advanced game scoring techniques, including many that are at the forefront of game music composition today.

Musical Composition

First takes the student through the basic elements - melody, harmony, counterpoint, and rhythm - before covering a variety of special subjects such as writing vocal and choral music, accompaniments, and film and TV music. Devotes many chapters to composing with advanced and recent techniques including free diatonicism, bitonality and polytonality, atonality and twelve-note mic, and serialism and indeterminancy. Uses over 200 music examples to illustrate points in the text, and includes exercises for each chapter.

Chain

Chain was composed between June and August 2000 as the test piece for the 2002 European Brass Band Championship. The composer’s idea was to compose a one-movement piece - a work that starts mysteriously and develops in various directions. As his basic material, he chose a figure that is the abbreviation of the European Brass Band Championship: EBBC. This figure is developed in a chain of figures which gradually lead to the climax of the piece.

Concordia

This unusual concert work, commissioned by the concert band ?Harmonie Concorde? from Sanem in Luxembourg, is built on two basic ideas: the evolution of the economic and social context of this Luxembourg city with its strong mining industry and the European concept, which is clearly present in this very small but prosperous country with its many European institutes. This is musically expressed in a few quotes from the European hymn Ode to Joy, the closing of Beethoven?s Ninth Symphony and from the Te Deum by Charpentier ? widely known as the signature tune for Eurovision broadcasts. A work of true unity.

Concordia

This unusual concert work, commissioned by the concert band ?Harmonie Concorde? from Sanem in Luxembourg, is built on two basic ideas: the evolution of the economic and social context of this Luxembourg city with its strong mining industry and the European concept, which is clearly present in this very small but prosperous country with its many European institutes. This is musically expressed in a few quotes from the European hymn Ode to Joy, the closing of Beethoven?s Ninth Symphony and from the Te Deum by Charpentier ? widely known as the signature tune for Eurovision broadcasts. A work of true unity.

Sound Patterns for Changing Voices : Sequential Sight-Reading in the Choral Classroom Teacher Edition

For Tenor and Baritone changing voices, Sound Patterns for Changing Voices teaches sight reading skills quickly while singing real music from day one. This step-by-step method includes age and range appropriate songs with lyrics,dynamics and accompaniment, along with preparatory exercises that are interesting, authentic and flexible. This resource may be used with changing voice beginners from approximately age 11 through 15 and for older singers withless singing experience. The sequential approach focuses on the keys C, G, and F, basic rhythms and simple intervals in the tonic, dominant and subdominant chords. Teacher Edition comes complete with teaching suggestions andonline digital access to student notation and audio files.

Jazz Improvisation Course (Book/5 CDs)

Not available to customers in France, Germany or The Netherlands. This absolutely unique and amazing self-learning course will give you all you need to master the art of Jazz Improvisation. Five compact discs filled with instruction and musical exercises, with a printed workbook for your musical dictation answers, as well as a complete reference and answers book. Serves as a companion to MMO’s Rutgers Music Dictation Course (MMOCD 7001), is a perfect prerequisite to this course. Requires a basic knowledge of scales and music notation. Includes five compact discs featuring verbal instruction, examples and dictation exercises, a pre-printed workbook and a separate reference and answers book.

The Best of Village People

Everything started when two Frenchmen, Jacques Morali and Henri Belolo, after having sold over ten records with their band, the Ritchie Family, decided to try out something new. The basic idea was to form a new group inspired by the American male myths of the seventies: cowboys, Indians, men in leather clothes, soldiers and policemen. This is how the Village People were born.Their secret was their energy, cheerfulness and tongue in cheek humour combined with strong disco beat and an arresting visual presence. Even now a Village People song is guaranteed to fill the dance floor in any club or disco. The Best of Village People is a medley including the following pieces: In theNavy,Y.M.C.A. and Macho Man.

Parnassus

Since most of the bands competing in the 4th Section of the Dutch National Championships have many young players, this piece is stylistically youthful— especially in the opening and closing sections. An arpeggio pattern appears numerous times in all registers and is the basic musical element of the main melody, alternating with a second theme that has a slightly different melodic character. The middle section is conceived like a chorale, introduced and developed stepwise: firstly with short patterns and gradually in increasingly long snippets, until it’s played in its glorious entirety at measure 216. No real solo passages are included but rather small chambercombinations, thus offering the opportunity to various players to display their technical and performance skills. The finale recaptures musical material from the first section of the piece and provides a majestic conclusion.

Arioso

Even the most basic understanding of Western music must include an intimate familiarity with the magnificent body of works by J.S.Bach. The charming beauty of the ARIOSO from BWV 156 must almost certainly appear on anyone?s personal list of the world's most beautiful melodies. What a wonderful vehicle for the study of artful phrasing and expression! Don't let the Grade 2 designation make you overlook this exquisite rendition for bands that normally play at grades 4, 5, and 6. Musicians at any level of ability will find great rewards here.As the perfect festival centerpiece or as a lovely introspective moment on any concert, Jacob de Haan's touching arrangement of Bach'sincomparable ARIOSO, speaking its own inherent and spiritual truth, is sure to find a permanent home in your concert band library.

Old MacDonald's Recorder Book Vol. 1 : The colourful new recorder method for primary schools

From the creator of the award-winning Learn As You Play tutor series, Peter Wastall, is this complete recorder teaching scheme for beginners. This colourful recorder method has been specially designed to help primary school teachers to integrate the teaching of the recorder with basic classroom music skills. Old MacDonald and his farmyard friends introduce the basics of recorder playing through games, activities, songs and pieces. It combines fun with successful teaching methods and has been thoroughly researched to meet the needs of today’s primary school teachers. Easy to use, this method has a clearly structured step-by-step approach ideal for both generalist andspecialist music teachers. Musical material is introduced in clear, progressive steps. The course can be used in the classroom or with extra curricular groups and group playing pieces for groups of all sizes offer plenty of opportunities for performance.

Bilbo the Hobbit : Pièce pour cor et orchestre d'harmonie

Originally written by the great English writer J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), The Lord of the Rings has encountered new-found popularity recently with the release of three ?huge-hit? motion pictures. With Bilbo the Hobbit we enter the lands of Middle-earth during the Third Age, some decades before The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Fascinated by the works of the masters of film music, Maxime Aulio structured this work in their way. When the end credits roll, Maxime?s music displays all the basic characters and passages of the novel. From the landscapes of the Shire to Middle-earth, the Great Dragons to Gandalf the Wizard, Bilbo Baggins tells us his story through light and virtuosoarabesques in the solo part. Bilbo the Hobbit is a wonderful addition to the french horn repertoire and one to be a sure-fire hit with horn players everywhere.

Bilbo the Hobbit : Pièce pour cor et orchestre d'harmonie

Originally written by the great English writer J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), The Lord of the Rings has encountered new-found popularity recently with the release of three ?huge-hit? motion pictures. With Bilbo the Hobbit we enter the lands of Middle-earth during the Third Age, some decades before The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Fascinated by the works of the masters of film music, Maxime Aulio structured this work in their way. When the end credits roll, Maxime?s music displays all the basic characters and passages of the novel. From the landscapes of the Shire to Middle-earth, the Great Dragons to Gandalf the Wizard, Bilbo Baggins tells us his story through light and virtuosoarabesques in the solo part. Bilbo the Hobbit is a wonderful addition to the french horn repertoire and one to be a sure-fire hit with horn players everywhere.

Elaine Gould: Behind Bars - The Definitive Guide To Music Notation

Behind Bars is the indispensable reference book for composers, arrangers, teachers and students of composition, editors, and music processors. In the most thorough and painstakingly researched book to be published since the 1980s, specialist music editor Elaine Gould provides a comprehensive grounding in notational principles. Behind Bars covers everything from basic rules, conventions and themes to complex instrumental techniques, empowering the reader to prepare music with total clarity and precision. With the advent of computer technology, it has never been more important for musicians to have ready access to principles of best practice in this dynamic field, and this book will support the endeavours of software users and devotees of hand-copying alike. The author's understanding of, and passion for, her subject has resulted in a book that is not only practical but also compellingly readable. This seminal and all-encompassing guide encourages new standards of excellence and accuracy and, at a weighty 704 pages, it is supported by 1,500 music examples of published scores from Bach to Xenakis.