Jam with Eric Marienthal. These books are written to help improve improvising skills. They offer the opportunity to practice soloing with a band at your convenience with a collection of solos written over a series of different chord changes and styles such as straight-ahead jazz funk swing R and B Latin Blues and more. Giving more than just chord scales each book gives an actual idea to base your solos around. Each track on the CD has a short version to match the length of the transcribed solo and a long version (without the solo) to improvise over. In this way you can study Eric's solos and pick and choose the licks you prefer to help build your own solo. Thisapproach takes the recorded play-along concept one step further.

Lyndon Jones and Mick Loftus. Full length musical version of Mark Twain’s story featuring Henry VIII and a host of other historical characters. Twenty-five musical numbers with accompaniment scored for piano. Guitar chords are tobe found in the script/melody part. Drums and optional melody instruments fit in well.

Opera In Three Acts- Premiered in London in 1733 Handel's magic opera Orlando is based on a libretto by Carlo Sigismondo Capeci that derives indirectly from Ludovico Ariosto's epic poem Orlando furioso. This subject was very popular at the time and was frequently set to music e.g. by Jean-Baptiste Lully Agostino Steffani and Joseph Haydn. The title role of Orlando is the last one that Handel wrote for the celebrated castrato Senesino. Several stunning stage effects intended to illustrate Zoroastro's sorcery call for sophisticated baroque stage machinery. The vocal score has been adapted andcarefully amended in keeping with the revision of the complete edition volume. The engraving and presentation of the former vocal score (BA 4027-90) have also been meticulously revised in many details. However the pagination stays the same so that both vocal scores are compatible with each other. A new Foreword in two languages (Eng/Ger) is also included in the edition. - Urtext edition based on the Halle Handel Edition - Full score (BA4087-01) & vocal score (BA4087-90) available for sale and performance material (BA4027-72) available for hire

In 80 bars around the world – without any men?! Does that work? Yes it does – and it sounds superb. This Women´s Choirbook provides a rich fund of well-known tunes from different countries and in different styles ranging from swing soul and groovy tunes to melodious ballads. The new arrangements are modern and charming and can be used in various ways and contexts: Apart from the 3-4 female voices optional bass parts (instrumental or vocal) provide the opportunity to support the colourful harmony. Chord symbols facilitate simple accompaniment with instruments. Charming arrangements of well-known pop classics such as 'Eternal Flame' and Sting's 'Fields of Gold' enthral theaudience as do the evergreens 'Oh Happy Day' 'Jamaica Farewell' or 'Swanee River'.In addition to discreetly accompanied and pure a-cappella versions the CD contains many backing tracks for sing-along performances. In 80 bars around the world – without any men?! Does that work? Yes it does – and it sounds superb. This Women´s Choirbook provides a rich fund of well-known tunes from different countries and in different styles ranging from swing soul and groovy tunes to melodious ballads. The new arrangements are modern and charming and can be used in various ways and contexts: Apart from the 3-4 female voices optional bass parts (instrumental or vocal) provide the opportunity to support the colourful harmony. Chord symbols facilitate simple accompaniment with instruments. Charming arrangements of well-known pop classics such as 'Eternal Flame' and Sting's 'Fields of Gold' enthral theaudience as do the evergreens 'Oh Happy Day' 'Jamaica Farewell' or 'Swanee River'.In addition to discreetly accompanied and pure a-cappella versions the CD contains many backing tracks for sing-along performances.

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Having been considered as a 'fashionable' and 'cliché' composer of his day Hahn 's compositions are possibly not as well-known as they ought to be. Premières Valses for Piano however shatter these prejudices held representing the engaging diversity of the composer's music. Venezuelan-born Reynaldo Hahn (1875-1947) entered the Paris Conservatoire at 10 years old. He received a high standard of musical education from Decombes Lavignac Dubois and Massenet before becoming a prolific and versatile composer himself writing works for all genres. For Hahn music was a magical art and hiscompositions often contain expressions of his otherwise hidden emotions and moods. With each of the ten waltzes in Premières Valses containing a variety of different features Hahn 's compilation provides pleasant and evocative pieces for intermediate pianists.

Opera in tre atti- Antonio Salvi's Arminio is one of the best-loved operatic librettos of the Baroque period. Against the historical background of the so-called Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in 9 AD in which the Cherusci leader Arminius as Liberator of Germany (Tacitus) inflicted a devastating defeat on the Romans Handel's opera first performed in 1737 is about the disputes between the Chatti and the Cherusci. Arminius has married the daughter of his arch-enemy Segestes. When he is imprisoned Segestes who has conspired with the Romans sees his opportunity for revenge. - Urtextedition based on the Halle Handel Edition - Libretto in Italian with singable German translation - Comprehensive foreword (Ger/Eng) with important information on the history of the libretto as well as on the genesis and the performance history of the work. A detailed resume of the plot is also contained. - Extensive appendix with richly ornamented versions of two arias - Idiomatic piano reduction in the vocal score - Full score (BA4100) and vocal score (BA4100-90) available for sale - Performance material (BA4100-72) for hire

Eric Harding Thiman the organist and composer died in London on February 13; he was 74. His musical training was with private teachers; he gained his FRCO in 1921 and became MusD (London) in 1927. From 1930 he was professor of harmony at the RAM and from 1956 to 1962 was dean of the faculty of music at London University. He was conductor of the Elysian Concert Society and Purley Choral Society and had been organist and choirmaster at the City Temple since 1957. A keen advocate of congregational singing he contributed an article on his methods to W. T. Whiteley’s Congregational Hymn-singing in England and was chairman of the music committee of Congregational Praise. Hiscompositions include cantatas anthems and services.

based on the march from Henry Purcell's Music for the funeral of Queen Mary II-This composition is based on the march from Henry Purcell’s Music for the funeral of Queen Mary II a work written in 1694. In this fantasia various movements flow from one to the next following the main theme; these movements not onlyelaborate on the theme but also contrast with it. At times the thematic material diverges so much that the work acquires a character of its own; however the composer often refers back to fragments of the theme.

Grand Overture- Glorioso was commissioned by and is dedicated to the ‘Siena Wind Orchestra’. The work opens after a short aleatoric intro with an energetic and brassy ‘one tone fanfare’. The note F acts as an omnipresent note and is also used as a bridge into the second rather static movement. A noble sounding theme leads to an impressive climax shortly followed by the spectacular and virtuoso finale which is built on the musical elements that have been heard before. Stylistically this sparkling finale is clearly influenced by Dmitri Shostakovich hence the use of the famous signature used by the Russian Master: C – D – E flat – B (or C flat). A glorious finish to a special workthat highlights various facets of the modern concert band.

The material for Mozart ’s azione sacra is taken from the Old Testament book of Judith the story of the beautiful Israelite who steals into the enemy camp of the Assyrians and decapitates their sleeping commander Holofernes. Often called a stroke of genius by the fifteen-year-old Mozart Betulia Liberata brooks comparison with his early operas in every respect. But Mozart was evidently concerned to distinguish between an azione sacra and an azione teatrale in the music itself e.g. in the accompanied recitatives and the sacred aura of the final chorus. Performance material available for hire. First vocal scoreof Mozart ’s Betulia Liberata . Easy to play Piano reduction. Clear and uncluttered appearance on the page. Original Italian words underlaid with a new German translation. Bilingual preface in German and English.

The edition is part of the ABRSM syllabus (grade 2 3) This excellent album contains 25 pieces for descant recorder from the renaissance period with keyboard accompaniment. The works of Michael Praetorius Tylman Susato William Byrd and a number of anonymous composers are selected and edited by Steve Rosenberg.

Edited by Alan Brown from a Ms.in the hand for John Baldwin c.1591. CONTENTS Galliard; Galliard Jig; My Lady Nevell's Ground; Pavan: Canon 2 in 1; Pavan: Kinborough Good; Qui Passe: For My Lady Nevell; Ut re mi fa sol la; Voluntary: For my Lady Nevell; Woods so Wild

Concerto for four-part select (solo) choir two four-part ripieno choirs (ad lib) a three-part solo Violin ensemble a three-part solo Trombone ensemble and Basso continuo (cello or organ) My soul doth magnify the Lord and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. Schutz's impressive and musically colourful setting of the Magnifcat from 1665 shows the influence of Monteverdi following Schutz's studies in Italy. This full score contains a comprehensive preface (German English) outlining the sources and particular consideration for the use of instruments and chorus. The preface also includes a German and English translation of the Latin text. - Full score andperformance material available for sale (BA4334)

BWV 812-817-Bach's French Suites are 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 and performance notes. ABRSM edition of the six French Suites BWV 812-817 edited and annotated by Richard Jones. Set for the Harpsichord examinations grades 5 and 6.

for the Left Hand for Piano and Orchestra- In 1929 Paul Wittgenstein a pianist and war veteran who lost his right arm in the Great War commissioned Maurice Ravel to write a concerto for him to perform. The result was one of Ravel ’s most thrilling compositions and for Wittgenstein the most important of the many works he commissioned over the course of his career. This scholarly-critical edition of Ravel ’s Piano Concerto For The Left Hand is based on previously inaccessible and unknown sources. The editor Douglas Woodfull-Harris was able to consult manuscripts in the private library of the Paul Wittgenstein Estate which allowed him to retrace the work’s evolutionfrom Ravel ’s autograph working copy to the first printed edition. A source of key importance to our new edition is a handwritten French copy of Ravel ’s own Piano reduction (the autograph is inaccessible) that he gave to Wittgenstein to facilitate rehearsing the work. This copy is the sole source reflecting Wittgenstein’s own interpretation and containing his changes to the final cadenza. It also helps us to understand omissions in the first edition of the score as well as the Piano reduction and enabled the editor amongst other things to correct a great many notes which could be found in previous editions including the solo Piano part. The Piano reduction in our edition contains both Ravel ’s and Wittgenstein’s fingering. Also included is a solo part without fingering thereby giving pianists the opportunity to enter their own fingering after having studied those of Ravel and Wittgenstein. Score and orchestral parts in large format (25.5 x 32.5 cm) Includes source descriptions and a Critical Commentary with alternative readings (Eng) Informative Introduction on the work’s history and genesis (Ger/Eng/Fr) With facsimile pages Piano reduction with separate Urtext solo part enclosed Full score & parts (BA7881) and two-Piano reduction (BA7881-90) available for sale

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Mozarts fragment in the version completed by Joseph Eybler und Franz Xaver Süßmayr- Requiem K.626 The Requiem completed by Franz Xaver Sussmayr in its traditional form. Mozart's final work the Requiem K.626 was left incomplete and it is fraught with questions and emotions: the expressive depth of its music sorrow at the great composer's early death truth and legend fragments and attempts to complete the work. The completion of the fragmentary score by his assistant Franz Xaver Sussmayr who helped him with The Magic Flute has the character of a historical source with utmost closeness to Mozart's thoughts. - Urtext of the New Mozart Edition - Full score (BA4538-01) performance material (BA4538) vocal score (BA4538-90) and study score format 22.5 x 16.5cm (TP152) available for sale - Facsimile edition BVK2346

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The intermediate level tutor progressing on from Learn As You Play. Practice Sessions is a carefully structured course providing a wide range of repertoire and studies to promote technique and expressive playing. Includes a special emphasis on playing by ear and improvisation - providing useful parallels to GCSE and National Curriculum studies (UK grades 3 - 5 standard). The intermediate level tutor progressing on from Learn As You Play. Practice Sessions is a carefully structured course providing a wide range of repertoire and studies to promote technique and expressive playing. Includes a special emphasis on playing by ear and improvisation - providing useful parallels to GCSE and National Curriculum studies. UK grades 3 - 5 standard.