Par ELLIOTT CATHERINE. The award-winning \'Essential String Method\' offers an exciting advance in the teaching of stringed instruments, integrating musical awareness, creativity and technical development from the outset. Making their way through the series, pupils encounter an attrractive selection of new tunes and arrangements on which to build their repertoire. The material is presented as a lo…

Par FISHER CHRISTOPHER / KNERR HAGUE JULIE. Piece Cards provide motivation for students to learn and review their pieces. Students earn a card for each piece they complete in the equivalent Repertoire Books. There are four main ways students can use the Piece cards to practice or review pieces: Unit Map - When you assign a piece, the student tapes their piece card on the appropriate place on t…

Par ALONSO TONY. Created with the same care and vision as the best-selling The Lyric Psalter, The Lyric Gospel Acclamations is a two-volume collection containing lyric settings of every Gospel Acclamation verse from the Lectionary for Mass for Sundays, Solemnities, and Feasts. The all-around accessibility of this collection stands out as it draws on familiar melodies for the refrains (BESANÇON for…

The Grade By Grade series draws on the rich and varied Boosey and Hawkes catalogue of classical, contemporary and educational repertoire, highlighting composers including Serge Prokofieff, Dmitri Shostakovich, Karl Jenkins, Carol Barratt and Christopher Norton, alongside arrangements of traditional music from around the world by Peter Wastall, Vera Gray and others. Carefully selected by Janet Way,…

Debussy's Première Rhapsodie is one of two concertante works completed, premiered and published during his lifetime. He was commissioned to write it in 1909 for the final examination at the Paris Conservatoire in 1910. Debussy orchestrated it in the summer of 1911. While transferring the clarinet part from the already published version for clarinet and piano, he made a few subtle changes, particul…

Kantate Zum Reformationsfest (In Der Bearbeitung Von Wilhelm Friedemann Bach). Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. The present cantata draws on two of Bach’s earlier works. The original form was the cantata 'Alles, was von Gott geboren' [Weimar 1715, BWV 80a]. A second version [BWV 80b] was written between 1727 and 1731 in Leipzig. The instrumentation of movements 1 and 5 come from a later adaptation by Wi…

OPéRA COMIQUE IN FOUR ACTS INSTRUMENTATION : SOLOISTS, CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA VERSION : STUDY SCORE DESCRIPTION : Â??CARMENÂ?? IS ONE OF THE MOST FREQUENTLY PERFORMED OPERAS IN THE WORLD AND THE GENESIS OF THE WORK IS EXCEPTIONALLY WELL DOCUMENTED. IN SPITE OF THIS, NONE OF THE EDITIONS PUBLISHED AFTER THE COMPOSERÂ??S DEATH CORRESPOND TO HIS INTENTIONS. NOW DIDIONÂ??S EDITION, OF WHICH A PIANO RE…

Op. 84. Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. Beethoven?s incidental music op. 84 was written in 1809 for a performance of Goethe?s drama ?Egmont? at the Burgtheater in Vienna. Numerous composers of the day tried their hand at writing music for the dramatic material of Goethe?s tragedy, several in collaboration with the author himself. The overture reflects the themes of the play through its expressive music,…

The Grade By Grade series draws on the rich and varied Boosey and Hawkes catalogue of classical, contemporary and educational repertoire, highlighting composers including Serge Prokofieff, Dmitri Shostakovich, Karl Jenkins, Carol Barratt and Christopher Norton, alongside arrangements of traditional music from around the world by Peter Wastall, Vera Gray and others. Carefully selected by Janet Way,…

Par SATIE ERIK / RAE JAMES (Arr.). James Rae follows the success of his best-selling ?Debussy Clarinet Album? (UE 21'264) with this selection of arrangements of piano music by Erik Satie. It draws from the well-known ?Gymnopédies? and ?Gnossiennes? as well as other hits such as ?Jack in the Box? and ?Sonatina Bureaucratique?. The clarinet part is of moderate difficulty and the frequent sparseness …

Par SIBELIUS JEAN. The Piano runs through Jean Sibelius's oeuvre like a red thread. After some first student pieces, he composed the Sonata op. 12 (EB 8142) in 1893, and his first cycle of Piano pieces, the Six Impromptus op. 5. Here the Finnish composer self-assuredly takes up a great romantic genre significantly shaped by Schubert and Chopin. Sibelius draws inspiration from some of his own early…

Par BRUCKNER ANTON. Anton Bruckner's Te Deum - a high point in the composer's output and one of the most important works of the sacred choral repertoire in the 19th century - is now available in a modern, scholarly edition. The Carus edition draws on both the two sources regarded as important, the autograph score and the first printed edition, with careful consideration given to variant readings. …

Par CANWELL PETER. Ecce Beatam Lucem (Behold the blessed light) uses the same text as Alessandro Striggio's forty-part motet of the same name. Here, Jonathan Dove cretaes an awesome soundworld with shimmering choral writing and a lively organ part to accompany the broad sweeping vocal lines. This piece is an ideal anthem or concert work. Faber Choral Signature Series introduces a wealth of new or …

Par FREEMAN ALEX. Alex Freeman?s Under the arching heavens: A Requiem (2018) was commissioned by Nils Schweckendiek and the Helsinki Chamber Choir to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 1918 Finnish civil war. Structured around the Latin liturgy of the mass for the dead, the work has a duration of more than an hour and also incorporates poems in Finnish, Swedish and English, reflecting both t…