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Everyone has a birthday to celebrate—now there’s a special book of piano arrangements that you can use just for the occasion! This book provides unique arrangements of “Happy Birthday” in different styles including sing-along, waltz and jazzier renditions. The arrangements draw from the stylistic...

Sheets of "Renaissance": Two Pianos & Piano Solo Versions. Listen to https://michelenobler.bandcamp.com/album/renaissance Spartito di "Renaissance": versione per pianoforte solo e partitura per due pianoforti. Ascoltalo su https://michelenobler.bandcamp.com/album/renaissance

(Meredith Music Resource). With this superb text, Dr. Rapp gives the wind band community both a historical and musical insight into three of its most revered composers. His study of their band works' evolvement through traditional folk music will serve as a fascinating resource, giving both veteran and novice conductors an invaluable understanding of the band repertoire's formative stages.

Humor y parodia se dan la mano en este relato divino. El Té de Dios, el legendario Té con el que Dios festeja su cumpleaños y en el que solo acuden los monos, se ve irrumpido por la inesperada aparición de una intrusa, una partícula subatómica que revolucionará la fiesta. Reseña: «No...

Nicolas Slonimsky nos presenta aquí un delicioso recopilatorio de descarnadas, venenosas e ingeniosas críticas musicales al compositor Richard Wagner. «Esta música solo puede despertar los instintos más bajos. La música de Wagner invoca al cerdo más que al ángel. Y lo que es peor, ensordece...

From the dawn of the early modern period around 1400 until the eighteenth century, Latin was still the European language and its influence extended as far as Asia and the Americas. At the same time, the production of Latin writing exploded thanks to book printing and new literary and cultural dynamics....

In October 1945 at the age of 19, John Freely passed the southernmost tip of Crete on his way home from the war in China, just as Odysseus did on his homeward voyage from the battle of Troy. He has been bewitched by Homer and the lands of Homer's epics ever since. As the culmination of a life spent...

In this book, Maria Pretzler combines a thorough introduction to Pausanias with exciting new perspectives. She considers the process and influences that shaped the "Periegesis", and maps out its literary and cultural context. Pausanias' text records contemporary interpretations of monuments...

One of the all-time great film composers, James Horner's output was extensive and memorable, not to mention instantly-recognisable. His musical abilities meant he was able to lend his talent to any genre of film, as the 12 wonderful pieces included in this Ultimate Film Score Collection confirm. Each...

Relive all the best moments from Peter Jackson's epic adaptation of J.R.R Tolkien's The Hobbit with the music from the first of the trilogy An Unexpected Journey. This beautiful matching songbook encapsulates all the atmosphere and excitement of the film in 14 pieces from the score. Each is...

This matching folio for Una Mattina presents all the music from Ludovico Einaudi's autobiographical fourth album arranged for solo piano, including the pieces with solo Cello. ”If someone asked me about this album, I would say it is a collection of songs linked together by a story. But unlike...

The intent of any discography is comprehensiveness, aiming to include every recording within its chosen area, and to list all the important details of each. The discography, New York Philharmonic: The Authorized Recordings, 1917-2005 is no exception. Author James H. North has compiled more than 1500...

Composers in the Classroom is a bio-bibliographical dictionary, chronicling the careers and work of over 120 composers associated with conservatories, colleges, and universities in the United States and Puerto Rico. Scholars and students of music seeking critical information about composers who have...