Ralph Vaughan Williams was an English composer. His works include operas ballets chamber music secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies written over nearly fifty years. Strongly …
Unison and keyboardWritten by a celebrated arranger and composer of popular classic Holy Moses this lively and inspiring cantata is a pageant of Christmas past and present - including 'An Elizabethan Christmas Present' 'Mysterio…
A memorial volume to celebrate the life of Fred Pratt GreenCompiled by Bernard Braleyover 60 photographs and illustrations many in colourcompiled from Fred Pratt Green's papers photograph albums scrapbooks and diaries memories …
Edited by Jeremy DibbleA key figure in the so-called English Musical Renaissance Parry was a considerable composer of chamber music. His three violin sonatas the first of which in d minor is here published for the first time …
Edited by Christopher Field and David PintoThe rich store of music in this volume includes the In Nomine 'Through All Parts' the 'Dovehouse Pavan' the four- and five-part hexachord compositions with their radical and exploratory…
The revised edition of Stewart Macpherson's exhaustive guide to Form in Music. With special reference to the designs of classical music and using a vast array of musical examples to illustrate his ideas he analyses the varied for…
John and Charles Wesley On Music and Musicians-Carlton R Young with Preface by Richard WatsonThe achievement of John and Charles Wesley in establishing the foundations of Methodist music has been largely unexplored - until now. Ca…
Proceeding from the basis of simple chromatically inflected tunes mastered in Book 1 An Introduction to Sight-Singing Book 2 extends the student's technique to encompass the performance of extensive modulating melodies. There i…
The John Wilbraham Method-ISBN 0 85249 860 8Probably the most important book on the subject to have appeared in recent years Sound the Trumpet encapsulates the musical philosophy of John Wilbraham one of the 20th-century???s mos…
This fascinating introduction to the world of Baroque style and technique is perfect for players both young and adult who are learning on the modern Cello. Play Baroque! contains Twenty-six masterpieces from the Baroque period a…
Written to inaugurate a series of lunchtime concerts at Manchester Town Hall one of Britain's finest examples of Victorian architecture and home of the magnificent Cavaille-Coll organ. English through and through New Era opens w…
As well as traditional genres Richard Bullen's music embraces several contemporary ones including video and electronics and shows a keen interest in location both in its formal possibilities and in its genius loci - its spirit o…
Ralph Vaughan Williams' work has been arranged for Solo Cor Anglais or E flat Saxophone and String Quartet by Robert Stanton for Solo Cor Anglais and String Quartet or String Orchestra. Includes Full score and parts for Cor Angla…
Musica Britannica Vol. 6-Edited by David GreerThis completely new edition of a popular MB volume presents Dowland's 65 ayres for SATB and lute in original note values and features the lute part both in tablature and staff notatio…
Summer Nights-Mezzo-soprano or Tenor and Piano. A completely revised edition of the original Augener publication based on the 1841 Paris version of the renowned song cycle later adapted by the composer to be sung with Orchestra. …
Full Music Edition-94 Songs for the 21st Century for children to share with everyoneEdited by Andrew Pratt.Sound Bytes is a major new initiative for adventurous worship in the third millennium intended for use by children aged e…
This is a rowdy and lusty setting of a favourite song from the Coventry Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors. The music has tremendous swing to its stride and a folksong quality to which by the use of judicious pauses the compos…
Part of the longer hymn 'Pange lingua' by Venantius Fortunatus (c.540-c.600) the Crux Fidelis features in the Adoration of the Cross during the solemn liturgical actions of Good Friday and at Lauds during Passiontide. The revere…
Music for SATB chorus occupies an important place in Rhian Samuel's catalogue of works from the early carols written in the USA 'Jolly Wat the Shepherd' of 1970 and 'So Long Ago' (1st Prize Greenwich Festival 1979) to her most…
This setting of Videntes Stellam aims to explore the extremes of emotion surrounding the revelation of Christ. The piece begins by depicting the vision of the star and the journey of the Kings utilising a bright harmonic language…
12 Famous Operatic Melodies-Deborah Calland composer of Top Brass has chosen twelve classic opera tunes and skilfully arranged them for Trumpet and Piano to make Onstage Brass. Styles and moods vary from the serenity of Gluck's …
And Other Songs and Poems-Songbook to accompany the Lord of the Dance CDCONTENTSPoem: My Believing Bones; Lord of the Dance; Present Tense; Poem: Doubting Tom; Pluck the Rose; Poem: What is Impossible; Poem: Run the Film Backwards…
There is a dearth of short romantic Trumpet pieces of intermediate grade that challenge and inspire players who already feel secure both in their technique and powers of interpretation. The reissue of Legend by R. Orlando Morgan …
Edited by Leslie GriffithsDrawing on his unique experience of the church's role overseas Leslie Griffiths has collected an invaluable anthology of international writings to inspire and stimulate all who seek a greater understand…
Peter BucknellThe skill of the designer the wide knowledge of the historian of drama and the practical experience of the director come together in this book in which the author draws the story of early dramatic presentation from…
One of the twentieth-century’s most outstanding organist-composers – ‘The English César Franck’. This is a warm and romantic work in three movements which can be programmed separately but together add up t…
Edited by Ian PayneA contemporary of Gibbons and a noted madrigalist Ward was also a prolific composer of consort music in the madrigalian style. This volume of extant instrumental works of five and six parts complements an MB ed…
With commentary by Bernard BraleyThis book published in 1982 contains the texts of 209 hymns and ballads of this well-loved Methodist hymnwriter who died in 2000 and tells many of the stories behind them. The book has proved use…
The Queens Service-SATB and organStanford's Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in F was written in 1872 while the composer was a choral and organ scholar at Queens' College Cambridge. Though early in date the work already shows his r…
In recent years Stanford's music has undergone a major reassessment and revival as a new generation of musicians has discovered its format strengths and attractive classical qualitites. These are precisely the virtues of the Fanta…