Metheny says, “'Orchestrionics' is the term that I am using to describe a method of developing ensemble-oriented music using acoustic and acoustoelectric musical instruments that are mechanically controlled in a variety of ways ... with the pieces on this particular recording leaning toward the compositional side of the spectrum. On top of these layers of acoustic sound, I add my conventional electric guitar playing as an improvised component.” Here are the original scores for five pieces: Entry Point • Expansion • Orchestrion • Soul Search • Spirit of the Air.
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Settings of five madrigals by Don Carlo Gesualdo for string quartet plus an original work reacting to Gesualdo's Moro lasso called More or Less. Commissioned by the Brentano String Quartet; performed Zankell Hall at Carnegie, Da Camera in Houston, and on tour throughout United States and Europe.
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Canciones Espanolas (1300-1800) para voce y piano. Periodo Gotico, Del Renacimiento y Barroco. MORE»
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This video captures the performance of six-time Modern Drummer Readers Poll Award-winning jazz drummer Peter Erskine with pianist John Taylor and bassist Palle Danielsson recorded live in Salzau, Germany. Billboard magazine called this brilliant trio “one of the most distinctive jazz (groups) working today,” and referred to their sound as “inimitable.” Included is a complete club session featuring 8 original, swing-inspired compositions and superb musicianship. 67 minutes.
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This very moving and expressive selection was adapted from the second movement of Camille Saint-Saens' “Symphony for Organ and Orchestra,” Opus No. 78.
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You can have fun square dancing and you'll learn how to dance the figures and even learn how to call a square dance with Margot Mayo's classic manual, The American Square Dance. Here is the basic book for square dancers containing all of the essentials for many hours of enjoyment. An illustrated glossary of square dance terms shows all of the basic square dance figures – promenade, allemand, left, do-si-do, etc. Complete instructions, calls and illustrated figures for 13 of the most popular American square dances appear, plus the music all ready for your pianist and fiddlers to play.
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