Leichte Vortragsstucke. To every pupil, the first concert is a special experience. The period of intensive preparation, the mixture of trepidation and joyful anticipation, the concentration during the performance, the applause of the audience and the pride after the successful performance. Such impressions will all stick in the pupil's mind and quite often influence his or her entire future develo…

Based on the well-known bible text 'Sing unto the Lord a new song? (Psalm 96:1-3), this upbeat composition with strong dynamics and flowing block chords alternating with fast-paced polyphony brings across this joyful message and enthuses singers. / Choeur TTBB

Par PART ARVO. Arvo Pärt came across a legend concerning the patriarch Agathon, from the 4th century, in a book containing stories of The Desert Fathers. They take us back to the cradle of Christian monasticism, in the Egyptian desert, the narrative telling of the meeting between the hermit Agathon and the leper. Agathon is tested several times by the leper. Not until after he has passed these tes…

Par ADELE. This Best Of Adele songbook features 21 of the British singer's biggest songs so far, arranged for Piano, Voice and Guitar with full lyrics, chord symbols and Guitar chord boxes. Including the greatest hits from all three of her albums, as well as the chart-topping Hello, plus a brief introduction to each album, this is the definitive Adele sheet music songbook. Since her humble beginn…

Par SPARKE PHILIP. The inspiration for this piece came from the address of the person who commissioned the work: Morse Street, Houston, Texas. It pays tribute to the immense skill of the engineers who succeeded in submerging a wire across the Atlantic to send messages in morse code from America to Europe. This technical ingenuity provided the perfect source of material for a transatlantic musical …

Here we have a typical minor blues in all 12 keys. Few chord progressions offer the freedom and variety of expression found in the minor blues progression. Great players have all approached this chord progression in a variety of ways from attacking each chord vertically in its pure form to playing horizontally ?across? the progression, usually with a blues or minor pentatonic scale, to taking all…

Par VINE CARL. Two piano rehearsal score Carl Vine’s Piano Concerto No. 1 (1997) is one of three large-scale works composed with pianist Michael Kieran Harvey in mind – the others being his first two piano sonatas.  Its composer describes it as ‘a conscious and continuous tribute to the Piano Concerto as a medium and historical entity’, a fact most apparent in the slow movement, with its long mel…

ABC
Across 110th Street
Adore
After The Love Has Gone
Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Ain't No Sunshine
Ain't Nobody
Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing
Ain't That A Bitch
Ain't That Peculiar
Ain't Too Proud To Beg
Always And Forever
Always Be My Baby
Another Sad Love Song

Catch the holiday spirit this season! Christmas Carols from Around the World brings you a total of 69 Christmas songs from their countries of origin across the globe. Titles include ?Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,? from Austria, ?The First Noel,? from England, ?Infant So Gentle,? from France, ?Buon Natale (Means Merry Christmas to You)? from Germany, and many, many more. Expand your horizons this s…

Arr. Philip Sparke. Par SOUSA JOHN PHILIP. This collection provides a practical edition that can be used for marching as well as in the concert hall for 15 Sousa classics: The Beau Ideal - The Black Horse Troop - El Capitan - The Fairest of the Fair - Hands Across the Sea - The High School Cadets - The Invincible Eagle - King Cotton - The Liberty Bell - Manhattan Beach - Nobles of the Mystic Shrin…

Three Sonatas and Three Partitas for Violin solo BWV 1001–1006 Based on the Urtext edition of the work in its original version for solo violin Includes idiomatic solutions to the technical problems arising from the transcription of the work for violaJohann Sebastian Bach’s cycle of Three Sonatas and Partitas BWV 1001–1006 for solo violin is one of the most famous string compositions of the 1…

Par PEARSON BRUCE. This is a comprehensive band method in 3 parts, which combines a strong performance-centred approach with music theory, music history, ear training, listening, composition, improvisation and interdisciplinary andmulticulturalstudies. With full colour drawings and colour-coding of important text the series helps to motivate and inform, across the full range of band instruments. /…

for Solo Violin. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN (TR.BRAHMS JOHANNES). Transcribed for solo violin by Stuart Carlson In this impressive transcription Carlson captures much of the sound and power of the organ and offers it to solo violin. This arrangement requires double stops, accents, jumping across strings, high left-hand work, and dramatic flourishes with the bow and with chromatic left-hand runs...T…

Par HAWES PATRICK. Ascension is a short string quartet which was written in celebration of Ascension Day and born out of the image of the flag of St. George flying high above the churches across the land. It aims not only to express the joy of The Ascension but also a feeling of being directed skywards on a bright, sunlit day. Written for The Raven Quartet it features on Patrick’s album Fair Albi…

Arr. Philip Sparke. Par SOUSA JOHN PHILIP. This collection provides a practical edition that can be used for marching as well as in the concert hall for 15 Sousa classics: The Beau Ideal - The Black Horse Troop - El Capitan - The Fairest of the Fair - Hands Across the Sea - The High School Cadets - The Invincible Eagle - King Cotton - The Liberty Bell - Manhattan Beach - Nobles of the Mystic Shrin…