Arrangement: Max. Par CARSE ADAM. Cello part and Piano part The seven pieces for cello in this collection are of a slightly more challenging level of difficulty than those of Fiddler's Nursery, which, like Fiddle Fancies, have been transposed and edited for young cellists by noted teacher Wendy Max. As ever, Carse fits the solo and accompaniment together to make a complete musical picture, testing…

Par STANDFORD PATRIC. (KS3/GCSE:A1/AL) Listening, composing and performing are the foundation of Projects, Patric Standford’s exciting new composition manual that meets the varied demands of ‘A-level’ and undergraduate courses. Former head of Composition at Bretton College of Higher Education, respected composer and tireless advocate of new music, Standford begins unashamedly with melody. Through …

Par JEBSON PETER / SKYRME PETER. Standard: Grades 1 to 5. Scale and Polish will enliven regular instrumental practice with its step-by-step guidance and newly composed piano accompaniments for all the scales and arpeggios required for clarinet grades 1 to 5. Students of all ages and abilities will gain confidence from these musical backings, available in one or two octaves with choices of slow and…

Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. The Donald Tovey edition with recent minor revisions./ Répertoire / Violoncelle et Piano

Par CARSE ADAM. A Quiet Tune; A Lively Tune; A Martial Tune./ Répertoire / Violoncelle et Piano

Par CELLIER / ERNEST FORD. Shedding light on a little-known aspect of late-Victorian theatre, MB99 offers full scores and librettos of two one-act operettas, produced at the Savoy Theatre and written to precede as curtain-raisers the main, full-length work of the evening. Richard D’Oyly Carte did much to cultivate the genre, initiated by Trial by Jury in 1875, and featured regularly at the Savoy T…

Par HOWELLS HERBERT. Before me, careless lying is a fine example of the contrapuntal art of Herbert Howells (1892–1983), inspired by the work of the great English composers of the Renaissance period, those of the madrigal school in particular, but in its passionate sensibility essentially twentieth century. The composer wrote this partsong on Christmas Day 1918, and dedicated it to his friend the …

Written in 1899 for the Cambridge Degree of Doctor of Music and prepared by Alan Tongue from the composer's manuscript, A Cambridge Mass is the largest work written by Ralph Vaughan Williams before A Sea Symphony of 1909, and amongst his most ambitious. The opening Credo is set for SATB soloists, double chorus and orchestra on the broadest and most dramatic scale. The Offertorium that follows is f…

Par CORELLI ARCANGELO. While the value of authenticity in the performance of Baroque music is now widely appreciated, many players still feel daunted by the task of realising the unadorned melodies and basses of Corelli’s Op. 5 Violin Sonatas in their original form. Fortunately, Gustav Jensen’s edition of these works provides an ideal solution to the problem. Carefully fingered and bowed, with the…

Par BRALEY BERNARD. Bernard Braley The first volume in a series telling in depth the life stories of some great hymnwriters. The stories can easily be turned into occasional performances of hymns with interspersed readings. There are numerous quotations helpful to this end. The volume covers Thomas Ken, Reginald Heber, John Ellerton and William Walsham How. The book is full of the unexpected and m…

Par BRALEY BERNARD. A memorial volume to celebrate the life of Fred Pratt Green Compiled by Bernard Braley over 60 photographs and illustrations, many in colour compiled from Fred Pratt Green's papers, photograph albums, scrapbooks and diaries memories contributed by those who still remember him from as early as 1924 Fred's poems and sonnets addressed to his friends and other previously unpublishe…

Book 2. Par PILKINGTON MICHAEL. The two books contain some 100 songs chosen from the definitive collections of The English Lutenists begun by Edmund Fellowes, revised by Thurston Dart and added to by later scholars. They include many favourites and many lesser-known songs by popular composers such as Dowland, Campion and Pilkington (no known ancestor of the compiler) as well as some unjustly forgo…

Grades 1 - 5. Par LCM. This is the first of two books covering the timpani grades for the popular London College of Music and Media percussion exams. Two pieces and a study are included for each grade, and there are examples of sight-reading tests and sample viva voce questions. The LCM requirements, unlike those for other examinations syllabuses, replace scales and rudiments with tuning tests, an…

Musica Britannica XIV. Par BULL JOHN. Edited by John Steele & Francis Cameron and revised Alan Brown. Bull's skill as a composer and performer was acknowledged throughout Europe. This volume, the first of two, contains fantasias, ostinati and plainsong settings, keyboard canons, preludes and a group of 'Dorian' pieces by this intriguing and ingenious master of the virginals. First published in 196…