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OrKidstra T-shirt (adult sizes: medium & large). Contribute to the OrKidstra program by buying an official OrKidstra t-shirt! For more information on this fantastic community-based program, visit www.leadingnotefoundation.org.

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First Book of Bassoon Solos for Bassoon and Piano. The First Book of Bassoon Solos has been prepared for the true beginner. The 28 pieces are arranged in an approximate order of difficulty to provide a wide range of music for study and performance. They should be practiced and performed with careful attention to intonation, rhythm, dynamics, tone quality, character, style and deportment.

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Wolff, Bernhard: Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician. NEW! Although we have heard the music of J. S. Bach in countless performances and recordings, the composer himself still comes across only as an enigmatic figure in a single familiar portrait. As we mark the 250th anniversary of Bach's death, author Christoph Wolff presents a new picture that brings to life this towering figure of the Baroque era. This engaging new biography portrays Bach as the living, breathing, and sometimes imperfect human being that he was, while bringing to bear all the advances of the last half-century of Bach scholarship. Wolff demonstrates the intimate connection between the composer's life and his music, showing how Bach's superb inventiveness pervaded his career as musician, composer, performer, scholar, and teacher. And throughout, we see Bach in the broader context of his time: its institutions, traditions, and influences.

With this highly readable book, Wolff sets a new standard for Bach biography. "A monumental work that must find its way into the library of every musician and every dedicated lover of music." - Isaac Stern. "It's unlikely that anyone will fashion a finer tribute to [Bach's] genius." - Los Angeles Times Book Review. "A magisterial biographical portrait...necessarily learned, but also user-friendly, helpful and entertainingly informative." - Chicago Tribune. "Likely to be the standard one-volume Bach biography for some time to come." - New York Review of Books. "A work of clarity worthy of its subject and his music." - Wall Street Journal. "Undoubtedly the most important Bach biography since Phillipp Spitta's life written over a century ago." - The New Republic. Finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Biography.

A landmark biography of Bach on the 250th anniversary of the composer's death, written by the leading Bach scholar of our age.

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Teen's Musical Theatre Collection, The: 33 Songs from Stage and Film for Voice and Piano (or Guitar), Young Women's Edition (w/CD). This collection from Hal Leonard is especially intended to match the vocal abilities of young singers. The repertoire includes selections from early stage musicals of Broadway, classic films from Hollywood, and newer selections from recent stage and film productions up to the 1990s. The book is available with or without an accompaniment CD which is useful for young singers who do not have ready access to an accompanist. Guitar chords are also provided. A similar collection for young men’s voices is also available.

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Piazzolla, Astor: Histoire du Tango for Flute and Guitar. Histoire Du Tango is an exciting and lively work, composed by Astor Piazzolla for Flute and Guitar. This piece will provide an enjoyable challenge for accomplished flautists and guitarists alike. The work is divided into four movements:

Bordel 1900: The tango was born in Buenos-Aires in 1882. It was first played on the guitar and the flute. The piano was added later, followed by the bandoneon. It is music full of charm and vivacity, that gives the impression of the good spirits and volubility of the French, Italian and Spanish women who lived in these brothels, enticing the policemen, thieves, sailors and hoodlums who visited them. The tango is cheerful.

Cafe 1930: This is a different era of the tango. People no longer danced to it, as in the 1900s and became satisfied by just listening, which allowed for a more musical and romantic evolution. This was a radical transformation. The tango became slower, more melancholic, and incorporated new harmonies. Tango orchestras were made up of two violins, two bandoneons, a piano and a double bass. Sometimes it was sung.

Night-Club 1960: A new evolution was witnessed during this period, in which international exchange increased considerably. Brazil and Argentina met in Buenos-Aires - bossa nova and the new tango were "same battle". The public flocked to the nightclubs to listen earnestly to the new tango - a revolution and profound disruption of certain forms of old tango.

Concert d'Aujourd'hui: Certain concepts join tango music with contemporary music, such as recollections by Bartok, Stravinsky and several others on a tango base. This is today's tango, the tango of the future...

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Pewter Frame - Sheet Music. This pewter keyboard picture frame is perfect for your favorite picture.