The Hal Leonard Classical Play-Along series will help you play great classical pieces. Listen to the full performance tracks to hear how the piece sounds with a professional orchestra, and then play along using the accompaniment tracks. The audio CD is playable on any CD player. For PC and Mac computer users, the CD is enhanced so you can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch.

An intermediate level three-movement piece by Rocherolle, a composer of pedagogical piano works widely used by students and teachers.

(E.B. Marks). First published in 1956 and long out of print, this staple of piano pedagogy connects intermediate piano students with the music of 20th century American composers: Milton Babbitt, Henry Cowell, Norman Dello Joio, Lou Harrison, Roger Sessions, and more.

Based on a well-known Chinese folk song, a common influence in Sheng's works. In this setting, the viola should evoke the timbre, and tone quality of a female folk singer.

Loaded with virtuoso music, this collection contains transcriptions of 21 solo pieces for classical guitar, edited and fingered by Parkening. Includes: Allegro * Allemande * Danza * Fugue * Galliard * I Stand at the Threshold * Prelude * Sevilla * Sonata in D * Suite in D Minor * Villanesca * and more.

Premiered in 2001 by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim, conductor, Yo-Yo Ma, cello. 18 minutes.

(BH Piano). New collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer. Contents: Three Gymnopedies (No. 1 My Goldberg; No. 2 My Re; No. 3 My Loss) * Gotham Glory (West Village Morning; Museum Piece; Missing Towers; Wollman Rink) * Ballad in Yellow * Ballad in Lavender * S/M Ballade * Aeolian Ballade. Also available: 48002533 Piano Album I................$29.95

(Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music). Concertos by Mozart, Mendelssohn and Bruch adapted and arranged for the intermediate violinist. Includes supplementary exercises to support technique.

(Boosey & Hawkes Concert Band). Tips and instruction on playing Pop/Rock, Funk, Show tunes, Blues, Jazz, Swing, Latin, and Reggae styles with appropriate exercises. Includes a CD with demonstration and backing tracks.

Violin, Viola, and 1 Percussion. Inspired by the multi-faceted music of Mozart, whose life, like a diamond, reflects and refracts many stories and myths. 9 minutes.

(Boosey & Hawkes Voice). A cycle of five songs composed on the poetry of John Hollander, current poet laureate of Connecticut.

Final Alice is the fifth of six large works for soprano and orchestra based on Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland books. 'Cello Acrostic is an arrangement of Acrostic Song, the lullaby-like concluding aria from Final Alice.

Premiered in 2001 by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim, conductor, Yo-Yo Ma, cello. 18 minutes.

Intermediate to advanced literature from the Romantic era to the 20th century. Special study paid to various state high school contest solo repertory lists. Contents: Third Movement from Gnarly Buttons (Adams) * First Movement from Capriccio for Clarinet and Orchestra (Argento) * Le tombeau de Ravel (Benjamin) * Second Movement from Sonata (Bernstein) * Leonardo's Vision (Bernstein/Odrich/Fallon) * Incantation (Cole) * Festival Solo (Collis) * Second Movement from Tom Sawyer Suite (Collis) * First Movement from Sonata (Copland) * Phantasy Suite (Dunhill) * Four Short Pieces (Ferguson) * Second Movement from Clarinet Concerto, Op. 31 (Finzi) * First Movement from Five Bagatelles, Op. 23 (Finzi) * Fifth Movement from Five Bagatelles, Op. 23 (Finzi) * Echo Valley (Head) * Fantasy-Sonata (Ireland) * Russian Rag (Kats-Chernin) * The Seven Brightnesses (Maxwell Davies) * Vocalise (Rachmaninoff)

The chalumeau was a 17th-century woodwind instrument which evolved into the modern day clarinet. The term "chalumeau" refers to the lowest range of the clarinet. Bolcom employs the use of harmonics, growls, sub tones and echo tones in this 10-minute work.

Inspired by the use of the bass viol in Bach cantatas as well as jazz groups. Includes two piano reductions: Concert Pitch and Solo Tuning in D. Co-commissioned by 15 orchestras and the International Society of Bassists.

(Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books). (2003) Fire and Blood is a concerto for violin and orchestra inspired by Diego Rivera's famous murals entitled Detroit Industry at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Rivera's murals, which were commissioned by Edsel Ford in 1932 to represent the automobile industry of Detroit, were painted in fresco on four large walls of an interior court of the museum. Rivera thought them to be the best work of his career, and himself predicted the possibility of turning his murals into music: "In my ears, I heard the wonderful symphony which came from his factories where metals were shaped into tools for men's service. It was a new music, waiting for the composer. . .to give it communicable form." Duration - ca. 25:00

(Boosey & Hawkes Voice). Songs by the great English Baroque composer Henry Purcell, realized by Britten, most suitable for student singers have been selected for this collection. Contents: Fairest Isle * Hark the ech'ing air * How blest are shepherds * I attempt from love's sickness to fly * I'll sail upon the Dog-star * If music be the food of love (1st version) * Man is for the woman made * Music for a while * On the brow of Richmond Hill * There's not a swain of the plain * Turn then thine eyes * We sing to him.

(Boosey & Hawkes Voice). The two sets of Old American Songs are beloved, standard vocal literature. This edition combines both sets in one publication, available for the first time with a CD of piano accompaniments.

Includes two new piano pieces. Intermittences explores the many meanings silences can express in musical discourse. Catenaires uses different spacings, accents, and colorings.

(Boosey & Hawkes Voice). The two sets of Old American Songs are beloved, standard vocal literature. This edition combines both sets in one publication, available for the first time with a CD of piano accompaniments.

Intermediate to advanced literature from the Romantic era to the 20th century. Special study paid to various state high school contest solo repertory lists. Contents: Gavotte and Musette from Divertimento (Alwyn) * Chants populaires tristes from Suite Paysanne Hongroise (Bartok) * Scherzo from Suite Paysanne Hongroise (Bartok) * Vielles danses No. 9 from Suite Paysanne Hongroise (Bartok) * Aubade (Butterworth) * First Movement from Duo for Flute and Piano (Copland) * Vocalise (Copland) * Acrostic Song from Final Alice (Del Tredici) * Piece No. 1 (Ferguson) * For You, Anne-Lill, Op. 58 (Gorecki) * Valentine Piece, Op. 70 (Gorecki) * In Ireland (Harty) * The Holy Boy (Ireland) * Pour que l'enfant qui va naitre soit un fils from Cinq Incantations (Jolivet) * Reflections (Lamb) * Duo for Two Flutes (Lees) * Soliloquy Music from King Lear (Lees) * Visions Fugitives, Op. 22 (Prokofiev) * Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43 (Rachmaninoff) * Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14 (Rachmaninoff) * Undine' Sonata, Op. 167 (Reinecke) * Fifth Movement from Flute Concerto (Rouse) * Valentine (Rouse)

New collection featuring works by the most prominent Boosey and Hawkes composers, including Bernstein, Copland, Lees, Schoeck, Strauss, and others. Special study was paid to state contest solo lists, making these ideal collections for advanced high school and college players.