Charles Gounod’s 19th-century opera Faust had one super hit, the Waltz from the second act, also known as Ainsi que la brise légère. Three players on one piano join forces in this brilliant arrangement, where each pianist gets a chance to shine.
These exciting supplemental products are the perfect complement to the Noona Comprehensive Piano Library. Each book features four-hand piano duets written with equal skills. These collections of appealing pieces are fully correlated with corresponding lesson books, reinforcing strong musical concepts and progressing technique with each delightful duet. Build ensemble playing, enhance recital repertoire, and delight students with these fun-to-play pieces — each featuring the Noona's creative compositional style.
Contents:
• My Best Friend And Me
• Mosey Along
• Funky Monkeys
• Hong Kong Hideway
• Jazz A Ma Tazz
• Green Machine
• Orchestra The
Put on scary costumes for this Halloween duet! Very rhythmic, with a bit of monstrous dissonance, it sounds hard, but is easy to play. Your students will want to play this duet all year round.
The Ensemble Books contain eight 4-part ensembles, carefully coordinated with material in the Lesson Books. Part 1 is a selected favorite from the Fun Book or the Recital Book. Parts 2, 3 and 4 use the same concepts and hand positions at the same level of difficulty. Includes suggested electronic sounds for those ensembles using electronic instruments.
“Come Fly,” “The Popcorn Man,” and “Rock Anywhere!” are Federation Festivals 2016-2020 selections.
Contents:
• Anywhere You Rock!
• Come Fly!
• If I Won Ten Million Dollars
• Lost My Partner!
• The Popcorn Man
• Rock Anywhere!
• Sailor Jack
• What Can I Share?
Attention, string quartet players: the long wait is over! Henle launches its series of late Beethoven quartets with op. 131 in c sharp minor and op. 132 in a minor, using the definitive urtext from the Beethoven Gesamtausgabe. It need hardly be added that great care was taken to find sensible page turns. The quartets will also appear simultaneously in miniature scores with exactly the same text and commentary. The editor, Emil Platen, has given each volume detailed critical comments consisting of a preface, explanatory footnotes, and an impressive section of editorial remarks. All of Beethoven's late string quartets are scheduled for subsequent publication in the Gesamtausgabe. Franz Beyer, the authority on string quartets, with regard to this new issue: “The most significant edition over the last twenty years worldwide!”
When Smetana composed his piano trio in the autumn of 1855, it was an act of catharsis to recover from the death of his four-year-old daughter Friederike. This highly emotional work was also his first large-scale piece of chamber music. Its first public performance in December 1855 was regrettably not a great success, and so Smetana embarked on a protracted process of reworking it. By the late 1850s, it had reached its current form. Smetana always liked to perform it, but only found a publisher for it in 1880, when one of his pupils invited the Hamburg publisher Hugo Pohle to a performance at short notice. Smetana specialist Milan PospÃsil has based this Henle Urtext edition on the first edition by Pohle, but has also drawn upon the earlier sources. This has enabled him to iron out numerous inconsistencies found in the first edition.
Vulcan's Forge – 7 Trios for Double Bass
Benedict Cruft, an accomplished violinist himself, has provided tuneful, classically-oriented music for string quartets. From a romantic arrangement of Last Rose of Summer to a jig, a minuet, a waltz and a gavotte, your quartet will enjoy these light and fun selections.
From String Quartet No. 1, this is sure to be a best-seller. This beautiful arrangement is quite accessible to advanced-intermediate students. Will require treble and tenor clef reading for upper parts.
Accessible to student ensembles (Cello 1 requires tenor clef and uses standard thumb position) and appropriate for any patriotic occasion. Contents: Star-Spangled Banner; National Hymn; America the Beautiful; Navy Hymn; Spirit of '76; Armed Forces Medley; America; Cohan Medley; and Sousa March Medley.
