We're happy to offer Tony Mizen's Arthropoda. This book features seven new compositions for re-entrant ukulele inspired by creeply-crawlies.
An amazing, modern sounding collection that includes:
- Ants
- Butterflies
- Fleas
- Ladybirds
- Scorpions
- Spiders
- Wasps
Scores are presented in notation in tablature. The download includes mp3 recordings of all seven pieces by Mr Mizen himself.
“The pieces are brilliant in every way. The compositions are sophisticated, the performances are first rate and I can think of nothing else quite like them in the current ukulele repertoire. Like a great impressionist, Tony paints with sound to bring each creature delightfully and musically to life. Bravo!" —Jim Beloff
“Scores inspired by the animal kingdom have a long standing tradition filled with beautiful and diverse evocative pieces: some musical instruments have even their own ambassador in the bestiary of program music repertoire, such as the swan for the cello (Saint-Saëns) or the hummingbird for the guitar (Sagreras). In this context Tony Mizen makes an exquisite contribution with a little concert suite for solo ukulele that depicts a microcosm of creepy invertebrates. The result is a very successful micro-universe of sound images that runs - crawls and flies - pleasantly under your fingers and on the four strings, alternating colours and characters, and showing the ukulele's amazing expressive potential. A must-have in the collection of every performer!” —Giovanni Albini
“Each piece so accurately portrays the minibeast in the title that after half an hour with this book you might be feeling a little itchy! Very, very clever.” —Uke Magazine
Printable PDF file, 32 pages, A4 size; ZIP file with seven MP3 files.
ISMN 979-0-805446-68-4
Art by Hugh McElveen and Sadhbh McElveen.
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