Carl Stueber

Aimed at beginning and intermediate guitarists, this book is packed with songs, solos, and techniques that every guitar player should know. The material includes melodies, tablature, chords, and all t...

A collection of over 200 great Bluegrass, Old Time, Country and Gospel standards. Melodies are presented with standard notation and tablature along with lyrics and chords. Learn to play songs written...

The best way to learn a musical instrument is to play it as much as possible, and the most enjoyable way is with other musicians in a band setting. Trading songs, interacting with other instrumentalis...

This Mel Bay Qwikguide begins with basic music theory about scales and keys and teaches how to transpose several songs with and without the capo. Then we look at chords in keys and explore some typica...

A collection of over 200 great Bluegrass, Old Time, Country and Gospel standards. Melodies are presented with standard notation and tablature along with lyrics and chords. Learn to play songs written...

Trei II is based on an earlier piece for solo voice which dealt with the phenomena of the 'triplication', of a person ('Trei' means three in old French), and the psychological inability to express one...

A 'trace' is the visible sign that remains of an object now absent, but which was present. The 'écart' (gap) could be seen as the time difference between the first supposed experience of this object a...

I have always felt attracted to dance and often thought I would like to write music for a ballet. By that I mean music specially composed for dance, music that would be written, if possible, in collab...

In their diversity, the first three pieces on this programme, written between 1989 and 1996, display many similarities and qualities that can, moreover, be spotted in Michael Jarrell's work. The attra...

pour violoncelle et 4 groupes instrumentaux

Articulated in four sections, characterized by a long upbeat and a short downbeat for the first two, by an essay into the static, the memory of vestige of movement for the last two, this work recaptur...

In the earliest French poetry there is no rhyme, only assonance. There is assonance between two lines when the last stressed vowel is the same. It is immaterial whether the phenomenes or sounds immedi...

Rather than adopting the well-known practice in certain 16th-century polyphonic music of superimposing temporal planes, this work aims to superimpose or overprint various semantic planes to be found b...

[...] Michael Jarrell also skilfully uses the glittering timbres and harmonic entanglements in Eco II b (a variant of Eco II for voice and ensemble, itself derived from Eco for voice and piano. It elo...

Within Michael Jarrell's oeuvre, Cassandre represents the culmination and synthesis of an initial and extremely fruitful creative period, even if the selection of the work's text was 'dictated' to him...

Music for a While is a direct reference to the air by Henry Purcell, taken from his incidental music to the play 'Oedipus'. I was originally concerned with creating an ephemeral atmosphere which shoul...

The word 'rhizome' is a botanical term referring to the underground travelling stem. From one end grow new branches and new leaves, while the other end withers. As is demonstrated by its etymology, it...

The technique of Bebung (or 'vibrato' in English) was the basis for this piece. Bebung is a type of vibrato particular to the technique and construction of the clavichord. It is obtained by modifying...

Composed in 1995, the same year as Bebung (for clarinet, cello and instrumental ensemble), from which it is drawn, Aus Bebung is a long duo for clarinet and cello. It introduces, in different ways, th...

Taken from From the Leaves of Shadow (1991), a concerto for viola and orchestra in which the solo instrument must face, sometimes in direct opposition, a relatively imposing orchestral mass, ...more l...

Double bass, ensemble and electronic / Score

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