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Piano Time Dance is a fantastic collection of pieces in a dazzling array of dance styles. Witness the development of dance through the ages as you discover courtly gavottes, graceful waltzes, jazzy foxtrots, and lively Latin American tangos and sambas...

String Time Starters is an exciting ensemble collection for beginner strings from the authors of the award-winning Fiddle Time series. A prequel to String Time Joggers, this collection provides inventive and enjoyable ensemble repertoire for groups of...

The legend of the Swan Knight who rescues a princess from the forces of pagan evil is one of the foundation myths of Christian Europe. Lohengrin's transformed Wagner into an international figure almost overnight, and it remained his most popular work...

Porgy & Bess Selections contains four favourites from Gershwin's 1934 'folk opera' Porgy and Bess, including the perennially popular Summertime, arranged for violin and piano.Book InformationISBN 9780571530854Author George GershwinFormat PaperbackPage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781974899777Author Carlo PiattiFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Allegro EditionsPublisher Allegro EditionsWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495056239Author Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationPage Count 85Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

for mixed choir (double choir for movement 3) with orchestra or chamber ensemble The Gift of Life is a six-movement choral celebration of the living earth and its creation. Setting a variety of sacred texts, including new words by the composer, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480352438Author Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationPage Count 24Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793559121Author Frederic ChopinPage Count 160Imprint G Schirmer, IncorporatedPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

This hauntingly beautiful piece is extracted from Rutter's large-scale work Visions. The expressive solo line features long phrases, double stopping in thirds and sixths, and a quasi-improvised section, making it an ideal concert work for advanced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956850409Author BreisFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Student of Life PublishingPublisher Student of Life Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956850409Author BreisFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Student of Life PublishingPublisher Student of Life Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783795797324Author Hermann GschwendtnerPage Count 76Imprint Schott Musik International GmbH & Co KGPublisher Schott Musik International GmbH & Co KG

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851622095Author Christopher NortonPage Count 64Imprint Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers LtdPublisher Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd

These Opera Guides are ideal com-panions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original. Italian opera expert William Ashbrook asks why this love story attracted...

for tenor solo and SATB unaccompanied David Bednall's unaccompanied setting of this Compline hymn contrasts sections of chant, for tenor soloist, with rich responses for full SATB choir. The introit has a gentle sense of ebb and flow, compounded by...

Der fliegende Hollander is the first of Wagner's operas that the author considered to be representative of his mature style. The Dutchman embodies one of the major themes that recur throughout Wagner's work: that of a central character seeking redemption...

What can explain Wagner's obsession with Tannhauser, an opera which he first conceived in 1845 and still considered unfinished at his death in 1883? The subject is the struggle of a man torn between erotic love and spiritual fulfilment, between worlds of...

"Bizet describes himself as 'pagan', and Carmen has a savage Mediterranean beauty quite unique in music. The essays included in this guide suggest some reasons for its legendary theatrical appeal. Martin Cooper describes the traditional mixture of spoken...

"It was a treat so truly intellectual that every ear and every breast, susceptible of harmony and of impression, was gratified to a degree beyond our power to describe." Thus reads one of the first London reviews of Cosi fan tutte. Its enigmatic mixture...

First published over seventy years ago, this imaginative series of studies is as useful and relevant now as it ever has been. Each volume has studies composed by well known and lesser known composers and is carefully graded to offer a variety of keys,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793554331Author Henry SchradieckPage Count 48Imprint G Schirmer, IncorporatedPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

With his last opera Mozart created a piece of theatre which defies categorization. In theory it is a Singspiel, a mixture of songs and dialogue, in which the spectacular effects and comedy fit naturally: they appeal today as much as they did when it...

Handel's Selected Keyboard Works have been published as part of ABRSM's 'Signature' Series - a series of authoritative performing editions of standard keyboard works, prepared from original sources by leading scholars. Includes informative introductions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540032720Author CarpentersPage Count 80Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Haydn's Selected Keyboard Sonatas have been published as part of ABRSM's 'Signature' Series - a series of authoritative performing editions of standard keyboard works, prepared from original sources by leading scholars. Includes informative introductions...

for SATB and orchestra This new vocal-score edition was published to mark the 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, in June 1953. First performed as the new Queen processed out of Westminster Abbey, Walton's Te Deum is at once regal,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480390652Author Frederic ChopinFormat PaperbackPage Count 67Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

These Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original. 'Puccini's motto could be: "The maximum effect with the simplest means",'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423458913Author Johann Sebastian BachPage Count 104Imprint G Schirmer, IncorporatedPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844170982Author Sarah WattsPage Count 42Imprint Kevin Mayhew LtdPublisher Kevin Mayhew Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783058648Author Terry RileyPage Count 111Imprint Chester MusicPublisher Chester Music

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495056338Author Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationPage Count 88Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783795767761Author Felix Mendelssohn BartholdyPage Count 118Imprint Ernst Eulenburg & CoPublisher Schott Musik International GmbH & Co KG

This album brings together three groups of pieces, all written in 1913 by the eccentric French composer, Erik Satie. They are ingeniously devised to make full and basic use of the five fingers of each hand and display the characteristic simplicity of...

A collection of the keyboard music of the period 1600-1750, offering a fairly representative selection of the forms, styles and composers of that period. Provides both scholarly performing editions and sources of enlightenment on performance conventions...

Four volumes of music selected from 60 years of ABRSM's Piano exams featuring music from the 20th century.Book InformationISBN 9781854721884Author ABRSMPage Count 32Imprint Associated Board of the Royal Schools of MusicPublisher Associated Board of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780901938961Author Walter Van HauwePage Count 72Imprint Schott & Co LtdPublisher Schott & Co Ltd

Jazz Technique Takes Off! is packed with 15 irresistible intermediate level jazz studies for solo violin and violin duet expertly written and arranged by Mary Cohen to extend players' technique. Approximately grade 4 to 6 level. Each piece concentrates...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495077722Author Bela BartokPage Count 88Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation