Twelve pieces by John Bull, Giles and Richard Farnaby, Orlando Gibbons, Leonhard Woodson and others are here collected to make an attractive anthology of English keyboard music found in the precious Lynar A manuscripts, which also contain primary sources for the keyboard music of Sweelinck, Peter Philips and Tarquinio Merula. Edited by Pieter Dirksen. CONTENTS ANONYMOUS: (A toij; Courant; Courant;…

Michael Richard (Ed). Par MICHAEL RICHARD. Book and CD Created by two of the country's leading jazz educators, the book and CD is designed as a practical guide for teachers at all levels, with hundreds of musical examples. It provides practical guidance for GCSE, Standard Grade, a comprehensive view of jazz incorporating swing, Latin, rock and African music, written vamps for keyboard accompanimen…

Par BLOW JOHN. Selected from Musica Britannica Volume 69. Edited by Barry Cooper. This collection of sixteen pieces by John Blow (1649-1708), taken from the complete organ music published in Volume 69 of Musica Britannica, is an authoritative introduction to the work of the leading Restoration English composer of organ music. More organ music from this period is ascribed to Blow than to all his En…

Book 1. Par THUMER OTTO. The clarity of form and character found in these studies and their simple variations, opens a window to the fundamentals of interpretation without the complexity of more fully-developed art-forms. Young pianists are introduced to technical and musical challenges, learning to unite both elements intop a harmonious whole./ Etude / Piano

Par DOWLAND JOHN. Edited by Thurston Dart and Nigel Fortune 13 of the finest settings taken from John Dowland: Ayres for Four Voices, originally transcribed as Volume 6 of Musica Britannica by Edmund Fellowes. The Elizabethan and Jacobean lutesongs were often written with alternative versions for voices and lute. This volume is an introductory selection of these ‘airs’, with accompaniment which ma…

Par MACPHERSON STEWART. The three books are published separately, although the author firmly believed that melodic movement and harmonic progression should always be studied side by side. Book 2 teaches elementary harmonic progressions to use with your composed melodies. The books employ exercises in counterpoint, in figured-bass harmony and in the roman-numeral inversion analysis./ Livre / Livre

Par LIDDELL CLAIRE. This 96-page book has been prompted by the many people who have come to the author with the common wail I can play the piano - a bit of Mozart and even an easy Chopin waltz - but I can't harmonise anything by ear when my friends ask me, or even when I'm alone. But anyone can - YOU CAN. This practical guide to improvisation is aimed at all those who have a beginner's knowledge o…

Editeurs: Bush/Hurd. Par BUSH / HURD. Edited by Geoffrey Bush and Michael Hurd Seven glees and madrigals by Horsley, Mornington, Pearsall, Spofforth, Sullivan and T./ Recueil / SATB

Par SHEPPARD JOHN. Edited by David Chadd The music of John Sheppard, who was about ten years younger than Tallis, dates from the uncertain times of the Reformation and the reigns of Edward VI and Mary. Perhaps his most impressive work is to be found in his cantus firmus responds, which reflect the considerable musical importance that some choral foundations attached to Matins and Vespers on specia…

Par SWANN DONALD. SATB and piano A straightforward and highly effective arrangement of a traditional Russian melody and especially suitable for the Christmas vigil./ Feuillet / SATB et Piano

Par MAXIM CHRISTOPHER. There being no just cause or impediment to the contrary, Christopher Maxim makes a daring liaison between the music-hall ballad 'Daisy, Daisy' (on pedals) and the grand organ style of Vierne (on manuals) in his Toccata Nuptiale, written for the wedding of a friend whose passions include cycling. The result, which moves along way from the organ loft of Notre Dame, is a splend…

Par MACPHERSON STEWART. The three books are published separately, although the author firmly believed that melodic movement and harmonic progression should always be studied side by side. Book 3 describes more advanced harmony. The books employ exercises in counterpoint, in figured-bass harmony and in the roman-numeral inversion analysis./ Livre / Livre

Par CORP RONALD. Both as composer and conductor, Ronald Corp is steeped in the English choral tradition, and in A Spotless Rose he has traversed by his own path the hallowed ground of words immortalised by Herbert Howells. Corp’s own music, chordal yet contrapuntal, and likewise redolent in its modality of a distant past ‘of ancient seers’ foreshowing’, flows smoothly in flexible rhythm, each voic…

Par HALL ALEX. This stately and sonorous grace was written for a celebration held at Oundle School of the civil partnership of two friends of the composer, who points out that as one studied at Oxford and the other at Cambridge, he chose a text with no association to any particular college! Though appropriate in purpose to any occasion where a communal meal is shared with a sense of thankfulness, …