I Saw a Peacock by Brian Elias is a set of six songs for baritone and piano, commissioned by Wigmore Hall and premiered by James Newby and Joseph Middleton. Of particular interest to the composer was the eponymous poem; though generally anthologised as a nursery rhyme, it contains apocalyptic and almost biblical imagery.
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C. Paul Herfurth's classic series of tutor books have now been completely revised and updated with a host of innovations to suit a new generation of musicians.
A New Tune A Day features the same logical, gentle paceandkeen attention to detail that made earlier editions so hugely popular and successful. Clear explanatory diagrams and photographs help guide you through the lessons and achieve the very best in tone, technique and posture.Theselection of music is fresh and exciting, including duets and rounds to inspire the student and ensure thatthose vital practice hours are never boring!
The book includes:•Advice on your instrument and theequipmentyou will need
•Instructions for effective technique and comfortable playing
•Explanatory pages on reading and understanding music
•Tests to check your own progress and comprehension
The accompanying audio CDfeaturesa virtuoso performance and backing track for each pieces, as well as recorded examples to support the lessons.
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List: 14.25
Commissioned by the National Flute Association for the 2024 Piccolo Artist Competition.
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The sea shanty “The Wellerman” became a hit overnight through Nathan Evans. Recorder player Sarah Jeffery takes it up and provides variations that are really fun to play. Two alternative versions, also in the audios (full version and playbacks) are tailored to both an intermediate and an advanced level of difficulty. Sarah Jeffery can of course also be heard on the recording and gives info, tips and tricks in the video. For treble recorder and piano, other accompaniment also possible due to included chord symbols.
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Rousing klezmer pieces newly composed! Inspired by old klezmer melodies, Joachim Johow has written 16 new tunes, reenacting scenes from life in a Jewish town, such as 'Am Morgen in der Gasse' [On the Street in the Morning], 'Auf dem Jahrmarkt' [At the Fair], 'Schlittenfahrt' [Sleigh Ride], 'Tanz der Grosseltern' [Dance of the Grandparents], 'Am Abend' [In the Evening]. Originally written for recorder, the pieces have now been arranged for the clarinet. With notated piano accompaniment and additional harmonic symbols as well as an additional bass part (for download) which allow for a variety of instrumentations. The audio MP3 pack contains both full and playback versions.
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The Easy Concert Pieces series for alto saxophone and piano provides easy to intermediate pieces from the Renaissance to the modern era for music lessons, concert performances or private music-making. The volumes with accompanying audio recording add to the not very extensive repertoire of performance pieces for saxophone. They were carefully selected according to technical and musical requirements and are arranged in three volumes according to their level of difficulty.
All pieces are included in the accompanying mp3 pack as demo and play-along versions (piano accompaniment). The piano part contained in the volume is very easy so that it can even be played by a pupil, e.g. at a music school concert.
Volume 1 (ED 22553) contains easy pieces which mainly range from d' to c''', occasionally even to d'''. The keys range from C to D major or the respective minor keys. This volume contains works by Charpentier, Vivaldi, Handel, Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Smetana, Pütz, Moser, and others.
Volume 2 (ED 22554) contains intermediate pieces ranging from c' to e''', with unusual metres and demisemiquavers appearing occasionally. Including works by Wolkenstein, Peuerl, Schein, Purcell, Telemann, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Gounod, Humperdinck, Elgar, and others.
Volume 3 (ED 22942) in preparation: Will contain pieces at even higher levels of difficulty and add further works to the repertoire.
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