Par WEDGWOOD PAM. 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 (grade 0-2). So take a break from the classics and get into the groove as you cruise from blues, to rock, to jazz. / Ni…

Par WEDGWOOD PAM. 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. This is the Trumpet volume featuring 9 fantastic songs for Tr…

Stevens Denis (Ed). Par STEVENS DENIS. Edited by Denis Stevens Choosing for their first volume of Musica Britannica a unique collection of 16th-century keyboard music, the original editors established the high standard of scholarship and presentation that have continued as the guiding principles for the entire series. This historic publication contains 120 compositions for organ or virginals. Firs…

You Raise Me Up , written by Secret Garden's Rolf Løvland and Irish novelist Brendan Graham, achieved its unique success mainly through being recorded by so many artists - around 150 of them to date. Originally intended as an instrumental entitled 'Silent Story' Løvland's melody only acquired lyrics after the Norwegian composer invited Graham - whose novels he knew - to turn it into a song for Sec…

Par CABEZA JUAN. Piano Train Trips is a collection of 18 piano etudes, plus a series of supplementary exercises. The etudes (stations) are designed to practise one specific musical aspect in each piece and are composed in styles that are appealing to students. Styles include: scales, intervals, pentascales, chords in inversion, and more and hellip - The exercises focus on the technical pattern emp…

Par LUCIA PACO DE. Paco de Lucía applied modern harmony to the flamenco guitar, exerting a huge influence on the flamenco world. He also advanced guitar technique and established the cajon, a boxlike Peruvian percussion instrument, as a mainstay in flamenco ensembles, further elaborating and solidifying the rhythmic foundation and influencing all facets of the flamenco art form, be it dance (baile…

Song Cycle. Par SCHUMANN ROBERT. 1840 was Schumann ’s famous “year of song” that brought forth over 100 lieder. They included Myrthen op. 25, which he dedicated “to his dear bride”, Clara Wieck-Schumann. Besides famous songs such as “Widmung”, “Lotosblume” and “Nussbaum” to texts by German poets, the collection also saw Schumann venture further afield, whether to the Scottish Highlands with settin…

The Rockschool Popular Music Theory Guidebook (Grades 6 – 8) is a music theory handbook for students taking Rockschool’s new Level 3 (Grades 6 – 8) theory exams. Use it along with the accompanying Popular Music Theory Workbooks (Grades 6 to 8) to ensure success in your exams. Rock and pop music is analysed in depth, making this essential reading for students of all contemporary music styles. Rocks…

Raising the curtain on Christopher Norton's Micromusicals - exciting and accessible musicals for schools based on popular classroom teaching topics from the creator of the internationally-acclaimed Microjazz series. Designed for children aged 6-12, each production lasts around 30 minutes and can be learned, rehearsed and performed in as little as 2 days.Stage a real class act with this comprehensi…

Par PART ARVO. 'I have developed a highly formalised compositional system, which I have been using to write my music for twenty years. Summa is the most strict and enigmatic work in this series', said Arvo Pärt in 1994. The neutral title itself embodies the essence of the content as the work is based on the text of the Latin Credo. The great simplicity of the piece masks its complexity. The underl…

Par ADAMS JOHN LUTHER. John Luther Adams' Everything That Rises for String Quartet. John Luther Adams' Everything That Rises for String Quartet. Composers note: I never imagined I would write a string quartet. Then I heard the JACK Quartet, and I understood how Imight be able to make the medium my own. The result was The Wind in High Places - a twenty-minute work composed entirely on natural harmo…