Superduets 1
Superduets for Cello provides a wonderful new repertoire of original and entertaining duets for beginner cellists. It can be started as soon as students have mastered basic playing technique. Encouraging rhythmic confidence and listening skills, and exploring a wide range of techniques, sound effects and movements, Mary Cohen's Superduets are tailor-made for players at the very earliest stages of learning. These delightful pieces serve as a unique introduction to the joys of social music-making and help pupils to develop the invaluable skills required for ensemble playing at an early stage. The cello books are also compatible with the violin books opening up possibilities for mixed ensemble playing.
Play Latin Trumpet
Heat, passion, sensuality and pulsating rhythm are the very life blood of Latin America, is an exotic world superbly contained in these amazing arrangements for intermediate-level trumpet with simple piano parts. You can swing to the frenzied rhythms of Tico Tico, wallow in nostalgia with The Girl from Ipanema, cry rivers with Adios. Play Latin will be loved by students and teachers alike.
Three 18th Century Sonatas
The first modern editions of three attractive eighteenth-century cello sonatas of moderate technical ability. Together, they offer an invaluable introduction to the literature of a period that saw a great flowering in the cello's development. These practical performing editions provide suggested ornamentation for cello, and keyboard realizations that have been kept deliberately simple. Titles: Chinzer: Sonata Op. 1 No. 6 in G minor * Breval: Sonata Op. 28, No. 4 in G major * Porta: Sonata in B-flat major
No Hunger in Paradise
Cool syncopation, funky riffs and smooth, stylish tunes---from dynamic to nostalgic, Pam Wedgwood's series has it all. Christmas Jazzin' About is a vibrant collection of original pieces in a range of contemporary styles. So celebrate the festive season in style with these jazzy arrangements of popular Christmas carols. Titles: Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town * Deck the Halls * Ding-Dong-Doodle * O Little Swinging Town of Bethlehem * Wassailing-By! * Christmas Jingle * Once in Royal David's City * The Christmas Song * Past Three o'Clock.
Superduets for Cello
Superduets for Cello, Book 2 provides a wonderful new repertoire of original and entertaining duets for beginner cellists. It is designed to build on techniques that have been learned in Supeduets for Cello, Book 1 and can be started as soon as players have mastered octave scale in D and G. Consolidating skills such as rhythmic confidence and aural perception, and exploring a wide range of techniques, sound effects and movements, Mary Cohen's Superduets are tailor-made for players at the very earliest stages of learning. These delightful pieces serve as a unique introduction to the joys of social music-making and help students to develop the invaluable skills required for ensemble playing at an early stage. The cello books are also compatible with the violin books opening up possibilities for mixed ensemble playing.
Gypsy Jazz
Gypsy Jazz is an invitation to explore new musical horizons and discover the fascinating world of folk culture - Russian and Greek dances to Bulgarian folk songs and Celtic lilts! With simple piano accompaniments, Gypsy Jazz is a delightful collection of fresh repertoire for the elementary violinist. Titles: Carolan's Farewell (Carolan, Turlough) * Chailean's Cows * Cuckoo * Elenke * Greek Song And Dance (Kraemer, Timothy) * Hassapikos * Kalamatianos * Lazy Time (Kraemer, Timothy) * Old Slovak Folk Tune * Through My Window * Through The Rainbow (Waterfield, Polly).
The Victorian Trombone
Melodrama, sentimentality, vulgarity, and sheer cockney cheek: the Victorian era was a period of extremes. With brass bands abounding in concert halls, bandstands and even street corners, the trombone flourished in this heady social and musical atmosphere. This varied collection of popular Victorian solos ranges from Home, Sweet Home! to Grand Variations on Father's a Drunkard and Mother Is Dead. With idiomatic arrangements for the intermediate trombonist why not wallow in nostalgia and recreate the spirit of a lost age?
Easy Jazzin' about -- Fun Pieces for Piano / Keyboard Duet
Easy Jazzin' About is perfect for those looking for some fun and relaxed pieces for performance or just for fun. With this duet book young pianists will have a groovy time playing the piano with a teacher, parent or friend. So it's time to take a break from the classics and get those toes a-tappin'. This great new collection of duos has something for everyone - even if you're just beginning. Now, are you ready? Then get jazzin' about. Titles: Still Waters * 'Le Shuttle' All Change * Hot Potato * Hoe-Down * The Hit Man * Straight Talking * Cutting Edge * Free and Easy * Road Hog * Canary Walk.
Really Easy Jazzin’ About
Cool syncopation, funky riffs and smooth, stylish tunes - from dynamic to nostalgic, Pam Wedgwood's series has it all. 'Really Easy Jazzin' About' is a vibrant collection of original pieces in a range of contemporary styles, tailor-made for the absolute beginner. So take a break from the classics and get into the groove as you cruise from blues, to rock, to jazz.
Mariachi Method For Guitar
(Guitar Educational). The Mariachi Method Book transforms the traditional verbal teaching of this time-honored genre into a written text. This book is especially designed to teach the beginning player the fundamentals of Mariachi guitar. It contains lessons that introduce the primary chords, followed by easy exercises, new rhythm patterns and great songs to put your new Mariachi knowledge to use. The two accompanying CDs provide a teaching soundtrack to guide you through the exercises, rhythms and songs.
Horn Concerto, Op. 28
The piano score and solo part to Oliver Knussen's Horn Concerto Op. 28. Piano reduction by Lionel Friend.
Pulses
Rampant antiphonal brass and percussion characterize Smalley's Pulses for 5x4 Players: a huge and gripping work which uses electronic treatment of sound to explore the spatial relationship between groups of performers.
Nocturne & Scherzo With Scherzo
Of all his early chamber works, the Nocturne is most clearly by the mature Vaughan Williams, almost anticipating the influence of Ravel which followed his lessons from the French composer in 1908. In the veiled beauty of its highly chromatic harmonies we hear already the tone-poet of the slow movement of A London Symphony, while in the fleet-footed Scherzo there is already a French influence in the way the folk-song is subtly woven into the texture, only brief snatches of the tune being heard until the penultimate page when it receives fuller treatment. The work plays for about 10 minutes. The 1904 Scherzo is a vigorous march with fugal episodes which lasts some 6 minutes and may effectively be performed by itself.
Piano Quintet in C Minor
The Piano Quintet in C is a substantial and superbly written work lasting some 30 minutes. The first movement, marked Allegro con fuoco, is expansive, loquacious and filled with late romantic passion, its harmonies Brahmsian for the most part but tinged with modality in the quieter passages. The expressive romantic melody of the Andante second movement is fully characteristic of the composer and resembles the song Silent Noon that he composed in the same year. The finale is a set of five well-differentiated variations, ending with a beautiful bell-like coda. This work was written in 1903.
Alhambra Fantasy
Full Score of Julian Anderson's composition for sixteen players.
The Winds of Power
Unlike Nigel Hess's other works for wind band, The Winds of Power is not a programmatic work. After a dark and menacing opening a solo trumpet introduces a theme which will eventually become the center of a piece and is soon heard tutti in a lyrical form. This is interrupted by a return to the opening mood, with only a brief respite in the form of a chorale for clarinet choir and harp. The theme tries to return once more in a rousing, somewhat cinematic version, but again the sense of foreboding overtakes it. An unsettling march-like section follows before the theme returns in its most lyrical and gentle guise, introduced by solos in the woodwind section. Eventually, a maestoso statement which erupts into a presto coda, ends the journey in a triumphant, more optimistic blaze of sound.
Student Instrumental Course, Tunes for Clarinet Technic, Level III
The Music Tree
Edition adapted for English and Australian students. The Music Tree" series continues the development of complete musicianship by providing the beginner with delightful and varied repertoire. The pupil learns a variety of idioms encompassing folk, jazz and pop. The creativity of the students is emphasized since they are given musical segments to rearrange, transpose, complete or to use as the basis for a new composition. Technical aspects are also addressed including greater facility, blocked intervals and chords, and more hands together playing. Guided training steps are used to encourage intelligent practice skills."
Thames Journey
A 10-minute work which follows the journey of London's River Thames, from its origins as a few drops of water in Wiltshire to the point where it meets the open sea. Along the way, Hess draws upon many musical links along the Thames, such as an old Wiltshire melody, morris dancing in Oxfordshire, boating songs from Berkshire. With such rich and diverse sources of music across several counties and centuries, this has quite understandably become one of Hess's most popular wind band works to date.
Faber Early Organ, Vol 4
The Faber Early Organ Series is among the most comprehensive anthologies of early organ music ever published. In 18 volumes it spans two centuries and six geographical regions, presenting a broad and balanced view of the main forms, styles and composers. Within each geographical region the pieces, most of which are for manuals only, are arranged by date of composition or publication. The presentation is both scholarly and practical; all of the music has been newly edited from the earliest surviving sources according to a systematic editorial method that preserves as many features of the original notation as possible while making it fully accessible to modern players. In every volume, an informative Introduction sets the music in historical context. There are also helpful sections on Ornamentation and Registration, and a Critical Commentary giving detailed information on the sources.
Organ-Stops and Their Artistic Registration
This 1921 classic by a renowned organ builder provides organists and all those interested in the instrument with a guide to its numerous stops, among them bassoon, bass tuba, cymbal, double trumpet, oboe, piccolo, viola da gamba, and xylophone. The text supplies various names of each stop in different languages, traces their origins, and describes their construction, tonal characteristics, and value in artistic combination and registration. A fascinating book about the "Monarch of all Instruments" for students, teachers, and professional musicians. A "must-have" for the organist's library. Introduction by Rollin Smith. 5 plates of illustrations.
It’s Christmas! (Dan Coates Piano Favorites for Advanced Piano)
Titles: Ave Maria (Franz Schubert) * Believe (from The Polar Express) * The Birthday of a King * Frosty the Snowman * Ges羅 Bambino * Grown-Up Christmas List * Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas * (There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays * It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year * Mary, Did You Know? * We Three Kings of Orient Are.
