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By Dominique le Gendre

The 7th volume of the Urtext Primo series with easy-to-master pieces features female composers of three centuries, including Elisabetta Gambarini and Marianna von Martines (representing the 18th century), Louise Farrenc, Fanny Hensel, Clara Schumann, Francisca Gonzaga, and Marie Jaëll (19th cent.) as well as Mélanie Bonis and Lili Boulanger (20th cent.). In addition to the already published edition in German and English, this volume is now also available in French and Spanish, including practising and playing tips, short biographies of the composers and tabular information on the level of difficulty.

This volume is part of the revised and corrected new edition of all 15 symphonies by Dmitri Shostakovich published by Boosey & Hawkes and Sikorski as large format study scores for optimal legibility.

The most beautiful classical sonatinas by Muzio Clementi, Thomas Attwood, Ludwig van Beethoven, Daniel Gottlob Türk, Christian Louis Heinrich Köhler, Domenico Cimarosa, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Featuring numerous popular musicians and jampacked with a range of musical styles, you're sure to find something to play in Pianotainment Pop History! 

For flute and piano by Dominique le Gendre 

• For flute and piano 
• Intermediate to advanced
• Suite in three movements 

Songs and Dances of the Islands was commissioned by the clarinet and piano duo, Luca Ferrini & Jože Kotar.
The Suite is in three movements and each movement is either inspired by, or an arrangement of songs and 
dances from the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Trinidad and Tobago.

The first, Biguine is a typical Martiniquan dance built on a simple verse chorus structure and without
doubt, the result of the fusion of African and European cultures over centuries. The dance is historically
associated with the town of Saint - Pierre (birthplace of my own maternal grandfather) and the form has
evolved from the beginning of the 20th century to encompass satirical themes, politics, love, and the
carnival. The clarinet is the main instrument of the Biguine, a name whose origins are highly contested
although the most widespread belief is that it comes from the English verb, “to begin”.

The second movement is an arrangement of a quadrille song, You know one Joseph Keeba from a field
recording in the village of Toco, in Trinidad. In 1939 an American couple, Melville and Frances Herskovits,
both scholars, undertook a series of field study recordings in villages across Trinidad and Tobago as part
of their life-long study of West African and African American societies. The Herskovits’ were among the
first scholars to paint accurate accounts of African culture in North America, The Caribbean and South
America and thanks to their recordings, traditional songs that have long disappeared from practise can
still be found and serve as inspiration for generations to come. The words of the song make fun of the
cuckold husband.

The third movement, Time for Man Go Home is an arrangement of a work song from a collection of
Trinidad Folk songs by the eminent Trinidadian musicologist Edric Connor. In this song, built on a call
and response, I have combined the solo melody with the chorus response to give the sense of a long
working day coming to its end at dusk and the workers calling out that it is time for man go home. Mr.
Connor’s note in the collection remarks that this is the only song calling to stop work that he knows.

(Dominique Le Gendre)

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Mexican Fiddle Tunes contains 42 original melodies, divided in 'Son huasteco' and 'Son calentano'. All pieces are written for solo violin, including chord symbols.

By Jim Snidero  

• Intermediate to advanced 
• Written in a response to 09/11/2001
• Arranged for alto saxophone, string ensemble and rhythm section

The CD album Strings by Jim Snidero now includes the original scores of all recorded pieces in a version authorized by Snidero for the first time: Snidero's three-part River Suite reflects moods on the Hudson River. On Theme for Ernie and It’s the Talk of the Town the alto saxophonist puts his virtuosity at the service of two well-known jazz ballads. The three atmospheric original compositions Ventura, Slipping Away and Forever Gone illuminate further sonic facets of jazz with strings.

The highly acclaimed CD Strings by Jim Snidero was created under the impression of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Recorded in New York, the four compositions and two jazz standards for strings and rhythm section are entirely in the tradition of „Jazz with Strings“, which has its origins in the legendary sessions of Charlie Parker.

Forever Gone 

It's the Talk of the Town'

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Slipping Away

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A Theme for Ernie 

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Ventura 

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Written for the Pembroke College Chapel Choir in November 2022, Drop down, ye heavens is a setting of the refrain and final stanza of the Advent Prose, itself based on various portions of the Book of Isaiah.