Par CURNOW JAMES. What an excellent way to lift your beginning band up to a higher level of musicianship! This outstanding new work for the beginning band is perfect for that first festival experience or for any concert venue. With accents, staccato, and lots of dynamic and stylistic contrasts there is much to teach in this piece, and yet it remains accessible to the last exciting note. Be sure to…

Par WIDOR CHARLES-MARIE. French organist, composer and teacher, Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937) is predominantly known for his Organ symphonies. However, his Introduction et Rondo for Clarinet and Piano also remains popular and is still regularly performed today. Widor became Director of Organ Studies at the Paris Conservatoire in 1890 and soon followed this by taking charge of the composition cla…

This easy-to-follow, fun course has been designed to teach children to play Drumset faster than ever before.Drums For Kids features popular songs that will keep students motivated, while the clear and simple page layouts ensure their attention remains focused on one concept at a time.This method can be used in combination with a Drum teacher or parent. Demonstration tracks are included online for …

Spectrum for Trumpet is a unique collection of contemporary works for trumpet and piano. The 16 pieces included have been specially commissioned from some of today's leading composers and reflect current compositional trends. They range in difficulty from Grades 1 to 8, so there's something here for players of all ages and abilities.Spectrum for Trumpet comes with a recording of the 16 pieces, per…

A fantastic work for solo Piano and Orchestra, Addinsell's Warsaw Concerto remains a favourite in the repertoire. Available here is a solo Piano arrangement of the original score, with both the solo piano and orchestral parts reduced for one piano, as arranged by Henry Geehl. Warsaw Concerto from the R.K.O. picture Dangerous Moonlight . / Piano

Par PURCELL HENRY / KING. Famous English composer, Henry Purcell (1659-1695) was a significant contributor to the Baroque music era. Perhaps his most famous and frequently performed work remains his Music For Queen Mary II. Arranged for Four-Part Brass Choir by Robert King, Purcell 's Music For Queen Mary II is made accessible and versatile. The work was originally composed for Orchestra and Choir…

Par DRAKE ERVIN. This upbeat swing standard remains one of the most popular tunes recorded by the Duke Ellington Orchestra. Here is a carefully arranged chart that sounds sophisticated, yet is easily attainable by young ensembles. Our Easy Jazz Ensemble series is written for full band, playable with four saxes, three trumpets, three trombones, and rhythm section. Each arrangement also includes op…

Monteverdi's opera 'L'Orfeo', based on the legend of Thracian singer Orpheus and his love of Eurydice, is a masterpiece of musical declamation and ornamentation. It was first performed during the 1607 carnevale in the 'Palazzo Ducale' in Mantua.When an edition remains true to its sources, this certainly does not mean that it is not also practical to use, as is demonstrated in this Bärenreiter edit…

In 1887 Antonin Dvorak revised several of the works he had composed in the 1860s and 1870s, most of which he then published for the first time. In this context he asked the music critic Ludevit Prochazka to return a manuscript copy of the Piano Quintet in A major op. 5 (B 28), composed 15 years earlier. But after thoroughly revising the work he declined to publish it - instead, he wrote a new pian…

Für Akkordeon. Par PENDERECKI KRZYSZTOF. The transcription of the Sinfonietta remains as closely to the original as possible while fully exploring the accordion’s possibilities of registration, tonal colouring and playing techniques. The rhapsodic first movement and the dance-like, virtuoso second movement, so contrasting in character and yet so consistent in their compositional devices, are perfe…

Béla Bartók's Mikrokosmos series contains 153 progressive piano pieces published across six volumes by Editio Musica Budapest. The series, which was written between 1926 and 1939, starts with very easy beginner etudes and progresses to difficult advanced technical displays, and remains an essential part of modern piano lessons and education. All six volumes are available exclusively from Faber Mus…

Par CURNOW JAMES. What an excellent way to lift your beginning band up to a higher level of musicianship! This outstanding new work for the beginning band is perfect for that first festival experience or for any concert venue. With accents, staccato, and lots of dynamic and stylistic contrasts there is much to teach in this piece, and yet it remains accessible to the last exciting note. Be sure to…

Par GIULIANI MAURO. Mauro Giuliani's publication of his Sonata op.15 within the first few years of his arrival in Vienna met the standards of the sophisticated Viennese public and, with one stroke, profiled the guitar as an instrument and himself as a composer. Thus was born the three movement Sonata in C. This new edition will be of great interest to guitarists as, to this day, it remains unique …

Atmospheric settings of poems in Scottish and in English by William Soutar (1898-1943), a central figure in the Scottish literary renaissance: 'Scots Song' (6 mins), 'Ballad' (4 mins) and 'The Children' (6 mins). In this edition the first two songs are transposed into keys higher than the original - the last song remains in the original key. The ensemble accompaniment to 'Scots Song' is available …

Singin' In The Rain was already a classic before it featured in the famous 1952 Gene Kelly film musical - Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown wrote it in the 1920s when many artists recorded it, but more notably Cliff Edwards enjoyed success from his recording in 1929. Now forever associated with Kelly's puddle-splashing routine and more recently reprised in stage adaptations, Singin' In The Rain re…