http://www.schott-international.com/cms/php/Proxy.php/en_UK/smi/press/press_releases/archive/index.html schott-music.com - Press News en-UK thomas.fischer@schott-music.com (Thomas Fischer) Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Tue, 21 May 2013 13:31:00 +0200 Schott Music - CMS http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.schott-international.com/cms/php/Proxy.php/en_UK/smi/press/press_releases/archive/show,8841.html?newsCategoryId=28 Internationally acclaimed jazz vocalist, pianist, and educator Nancy Marano offers a unique voice and piano method designed to develop the ear and basic skills of any singer who wishes to become a complete musician. Specific weekly lessons are assigned and advice is given on practising. Whilst vocalists play and sing each exercise, previous piano skills are not... Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.schott-international.com/cms/php/Proxy.php/en_UK/smi/press/press_releases/archive/show,8841.html?newsCategoryId=28 schott-music.com - Press News Press News http://www.schott-international.com/cms/php/Proxy.php/en_UK/smi/press/press_releases/archive/show,8842.html?newsCategoryId=28 Christopher Norton’s acclaimed Microjazz series has won worldwide popularity with teachers and students alike for its stimulating blend of contemporary genres and classical values. For the first time, this book now includes an audio CD containing both backing and full peformance tracks to enthuse and enhance practice and performance. Microjazz for... Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.schott-international.com/cms/php/Proxy.php/en_UK/smi/press/press_releases/archive/show,8842.html?newsCategoryId=28 schott-music.com - Press News Press News http://www.schott-international.com/cms/php/Proxy.php/en_UK/smi/press/press_releases/archive/show,8843.html?newsCategoryId=28 This newly revised edition is a setting of verses from Aquinas’s Pange lingua in modern English translation. The choral writing is appropriately hymn-like, with one a cappella passage. The organ part comprises a flowing two-part canonic texture over a very simple and sparse pedal part, accessible to experienced and 'reluctant' organists alike. Suitable... Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.schott-international.com/cms/php/Proxy.php/en_UK/smi/press/press_releases/archive/show,8843.html?newsCategoryId=28 schott-music.com - Press News Press News http://www.schott-international.com/cms/php/Proxy.php/en_UK/smi/press/press_releases/archive/show,8844.html?newsCategoryId=28 The Marriage of Figaro , Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute are three of the most loved and performed operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, set to libretti by Lorenzo da Ponte and Emanuel Schikaneder. Unavailable for many years, these three vocal scores with piano reductions are part of The Royal Edition of Operas series from Boosey & Hawkes. They each contain... Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.schott-international.com/cms/php/Proxy.php/en_UK/smi/press/press_releases/archive/show,8844.html?newsCategoryId=28 schott-music.com - Press News Press News http://www.schott-international.com/cms/php/Proxy.php/en_UK/smi/press/press_releases/archive/show,8845.html?newsCategoryId=28 The Mass in Bb was first performed in November 1915 by the choir of All Saints, Margaret Street, London. The Director of Music at the time, Dr Walter Vale, adapted movements from Rachmaninoff's "Liturgy of St John Chrysostom" to the words of the Ordinary of the Mass from the "Book of Common Prayer", in English with the exception of the Kyrie... Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.schott-international.com/cms/php/Proxy.php/en_UK/smi/press/press_releases/archive/show,8845.html?newsCategoryId=28 schott-music.com - Press News Press News http://www.schott-international.com/cms/php/Proxy.php/en_UK/smi/press/press_releases/archive/show,8846.html?newsCategoryId=28 The latest addition to the successful Schott Saxophone Lounge series is now available for both tenor and alto saxophone. Each of these much-loved Latin favourites have been arranged by Dirko Juchem into easy-to-play and professional pieces for sax. All of the pieces featured on the accompanying CD have been recorded by the author himself and... Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.schott-international.com/cms/php/Proxy.php/en_UK/smi/press/press_releases/archive/show,8846.html?newsCategoryId=28 schott-music.com - Press News Press News http://www.schott-international.com/cms/php/Proxy.php/en_UK/smi/press/press_releases/archive/show,8847.html?newsCategoryId=28 The Albéniz Collection is dedicated to the works by Isaac Albéniz, the virtuoso pianist, who can be regarded as one of the creators of the modern Spanish school. In these guitar arrangements of the original piano pieces, the harmonic and rhythmic qualities, timbre of colours of Spanish music are displayed far more clearly than in the piano version – the timbre of the... Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.schott-international.com/cms/php/Proxy.php/en_UK/smi/press/press_releases/archive/show,8847.html?newsCategoryId=28 schott-music.com - Press News Press News http://www.schott-international.com/cms/php/Proxy.php/en_UK/smi/press/press_releases/archive/show,8848.html?newsCategoryId=28 This publication is the latest edition from author Patrick Steinbach. It presents the most beautiful Irish dances, jig reels, hornpipes, Carolan tunes and folksongs which carry the reader away into the world of Irish music. These arrangements are completed by information on the individual pieces, on the styles and the cultural background. ... Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.schott-international.com/cms/php/Proxy.php/en_UK/smi/press/press_releases/archive/show,8848.html?newsCategoryId=28 schott-music.com - Press News Press News http://www.schott-international.com/cms/php/Proxy.php/en_UK/smi/press/press_releases/archive/show,8849.html?newsCategoryId=28 The latest addition to the Schott Piano Lounge series comes following the success of Best of Bar Piano. Like its predecessor, More Best of Bar Piano contains arrangements of 30 popular songs that are of intermediate difficulty and create an authentic piano bar atmosphere. The pieces highlighted in this collection span a diverse range of... Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.schott-international.com/cms/php/Proxy.php/en_UK/smi/press/press_releases/archive/show,8849.html?newsCategoryId=28 schott-music.com - Press News Press News http://www.schott-international.com/cms/php/Proxy.php/en_UK/smi/press/press_releases/archive/show,8850.html?newsCategoryId=28 This new publication presents Wagner’s much-loved opera in its entirety with a detailed preface by Egon Voss. The new Urtext Edition replaces the familiar edition by the conductor Felix Weingartner, published in 1897, and it was this version that which all later editions were based upon. Throughout its creation both during Wagner’s lifetime and thereafter, The... Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.schott-international.com/cms/php/Proxy.php/en_UK/smi/press/press_releases/archive/show,8850.html?newsCategoryId=28 schott-music.com - Press News Press News http://www.schott-international.com/cms/php/Proxy.php/en_UK/smi/press/press_releases/archive/show,8851.html?newsCategoryId=28 Arr. Siân Phillips. Welsh Fiddle Tunes is the latest addition to the best selling Schott World Music series, which also includes fiddle music from England, Ireland, Scotland, Eastern Europe, America, Argentina, India, China and Korea. Experienced folk fiddler Siân Phillips, provides notes on each of the pieces, whilst also explaining technical aspects... Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.schott-international.com/cms/php/Proxy.php/en_UK/smi/press/press_releases/archive/show,8851.html?newsCategoryId=28 schott-music.com - Press News Press News http://www.schott-international.com/cms/php/Proxy.php/en_UK/smi/press/press_releases/archive/show,8852.html?newsCategoryId=28 This new publication allows guitarists to play music from one of the world’s best composers – J. S. Bach. This collection includes pieces originally composed for a variety of different instruments and ensembles (including orchestral music, piano pieces, solo suites for violin, cello or lute and organ music), which may now be performed effectively on the guitar. ... Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.schott-international.com/cms/php/Proxy.php/en_UK/smi/press/press_releases/archive/show,8852.html?newsCategoryId=28 schott-music.com - Press News Press News http://www.schott-international.com/cms/php/Proxy.php/en_UK/smi/press/press_releases/archive/show,8719.html?newsCategoryId=28 2013 mark’s Brittens centenary making this year largely focused on his music. Deo Gracias (thanks be to God) was one of the carols drawn from texts in T he English Galaxy of Shorter Poems , which Britten set onboard the MS Axel Johnson during his voyage from the U.S to England. The piece was once a part of a set of 7 Christmas Carols which later became known as A Ceremony of Carols... Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.schott-international.com/cms/php/Proxy.php/en_UK/smi/press/press_releases/archive/show,8719.html?newsCategoryId=28 schott-music.com - Press News Press News http://www.schott-international.com/cms/php/Proxy.php/en_UK/smi/press/press_releases/archive/show,8720.html?newsCategoryId=28 This new four-language dictionary of music contains more than 4000 terms and is a great resource for musicians, teachers, students and amateurs who wish to understand and use specialist musical terms. The book is based on practical experience, derived from the research of directions given on a large number of orchestral scores, piano pieces and transcriptions,... Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.schott-international.com/cms/php/Proxy.php/en_UK/smi/press/press_releases/archive/show,8720.html?newsCategoryId=28 schott-music.com - Press News Press News http://www.schott-international.com/cms/php/Proxy.php/en_UK/smi/press/press_releases/archive/show,8721.html?newsCategoryId=28 2013 mark’s Brittens centenary making this year largely focused on his music. Festive settings of the “Te Deum” have often been composed for religious and secular celebrations, including military victories, coronations, consecrations of bishops, and papal elections. In keeping with this festal traditional, Britten's "Festival Te Deum"... Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.schott-international.com/cms/php/Proxy.php/en_UK/smi/press/press_releases/archive/show,8721.html?newsCategoryId=28 schott-music.com - Press News Press News