Great cinema for the ears

An edition of sheet music with film music is no innovation. The booklet published by Rudolf Mauz at Schott in the "Schott Clarinet Lounge" series Movie Classics stands out from the competition because it really offers everything you could wish for in school literature. 14 stylistically varied, well-known titles by Oh Happy Day about Pink Panther up to Night Fever and Misirlou are collected in this edition. The majority of them are from the field of pop music and are not primarily known as film music. The edition includes a very well-made play-along CD, on which the titles are available both for listening with the melody and as play-along versions with accompaniment only. All titles are recorded with real instruments and sound very appealing. There is also a piano accompaniment for the pieces. The accompaniment chords are given in both the solo part and the piano accompaniment and the lyrics are also printed in the solo part. This opens up many possibilities in the classroom without great effort, from playing together in a band, using the text as a guide for rhythmically difficult passages, improvisation to purely chordal accompaniment. A nice extra from the publisher are the short introductory texts for each piece. They not only introduce the performers of the titles, but also the films in which the music has been used. This booklet really leaves nothing to be desired!

Rudolf Mauz, Movie Classics, 14 Famous Film Melodies, ED 22377, with CD, € 21.50, Schott, Mainz 2016