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In 1995, Hal Leonard began distributing Homespun Music Instruction instructional video and audio materials. In 1997, Hal Leonard and Music Sales Group founded SheetMusicDirect.com, [3] the world's first website for digital sheet music and guitar tablature. [citation needed] In 2004, Hal Leonard acquired Applause Theatre and Cinema Books. [4]
little book: A work containing the words to an opera, musical, or ballet Melodramma: melodrama: A style of opera Opera: work: A drama set to music for singers and instrumentalists Opera buffa: humorous opera: A comic opera Opera semiseria: semi-serious opera: A variety of opera Opera seria: serious opera: An opera with a serious, esp. classical ...
The Company added sacred music offerings with the acquisition of Harold Flammer, Inc., followed by launching GlorySound, an imprint targeted to the growing contemporary Christian market. Shawnee Press was founded in 1939 by famed bandleader/choirmaster from the Golden Age of radio and television, Fred Waring .
Meaning respectively "measured song" or "figured song". Originally used by medieval music theorists, it refers to polyphonic song with exactly measured notes and is used in contrast to cantus planus. [3] [4] capo 1. capo (short for capotasto: "nut") : A key-changing device for stringed instruments (e.g. guitars and banjos)
Some other music publishers also apply the term Real Book to their own publications. The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music publishes The AB Real Book. [7] Alfred Publishing Co. has several Real Books. [8] Sher Music Co. publishes The New Real Book, in 3 volumes. [9] The collection of tunes differs from that of the original Real Book.
Ten Preludes on Hymn Tunes (1950s, published by H.W. Gray in 1956, includes Deus tuorum militum, Sine nomine, St. Dunstan's, Capel, Song 46, St. Patrick, Were you there?, Land of rest, Charterhouse, and Ad perennis vitae fontem) [1] Sinfonia Brevis (1965) Passacaglia (1967)
Rubank was born out of a three-way partnership of Finder & Urbanek of Chicago, a large music publisher, jobber, and manufacturer of specialties for the saxophone.Finder & Urbanek incorporated and changed its name to Rubank, Inc. in 1927 when George Adam Finder (pronounced FEN der not FIND er; 1894–1962), one of the partners, sold his interest to the other partners, Harry Ruppel, Sr.
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