Paul Harris's brilliant series of workbooks contains finger fitness exercises, scale and arpeggio studies, key pieces, simple improvisations and composition to help you play scales and arpeggios with real confidence. An invaluable resource for students, Improve your scales! Clarinet Grades 1-3 covers all the keys and ranges required for the Associated Board syllabus, helping you pick up valuable extra marks in exams. This new edition has been devised to support the revised criteria from the ABRSM from 2018.

(Artist Books). Flute solos from 18 Jethro Tull songs have been transcribed for this collection. Songs include: Bungle in the Jungle * Cross-Eyed Mary * Fire at Midnight * Look into the Sun * Nothing Is Easy * Thick as a Brick * The Witch's Promise * and more.

For the first time, C Paul Herfurth's original books have been completely rewritten with new music and the latest in instrumental technique for a new generation of musicians. The "A New Tune A Day" books have the same logical, gentle pace, and keen attention to detail, but with a host of innovations: the inclusion of an audio CD - with actual performances and backing tracks - will make practice even more fun and exciting, and the explanatory diagrams and photographs will help the student to achieve the perfect technique and tone. Each book contains: advice on the equipment you need; instructions for an effective technique and a comfortable posture; explanatory section on reading music; easy-to-follow lessons on clear, uncluttered pages; audio CD with a virtuoso performance, backing tracks and audio examples; great music including duets and rounds; and tests to check progress and comprehension. All books can be used in conjunction with each other.

Contents: Anchors Aweigh * Asleep in the Deep * Battle Hymn of the Republic * The Caissons Go Rolling Along * Carnival of Venice * Country Dance * Down in the Deep Cellar * Drinking Song * Funeral March of a Marionette * Gavotte * The Happy Farmer * Hornpipe * In the Hall of the Mountain King * La Villageoise * March * Marine's Hymn * Oxford Gavotte * Seven Duets * When Johnny Comes Marching Home * The Wild Horseman.

Rothwell shares his endless talent and experience in this third edition of Oboe Technique.

Music master to Frederick the Great, Quantz was one of the great flute virtuosos of all time. He was also a thorough musician, a fine teacher and an excellent writer. This classic book is ostensibly a flute method, but it goes far beyond that, presenting a complete and detailed picture of musical taste and performance practice in the 18th century. Of special significance is a table relating various tempos to the speed of the pulse, helping modern musicians to solve the difficult question of authentic performance tempos of Baroque music. This reissued edition includes all Quantz's music examples together with an introduction and explanatory notes by the translator, Edward R. Reilly.

Flute Meditations is a beautiful collection of pieces for flute with piano accompaniment and flute duet suitable for late elementary to intermediate players (Grades 3-5), all inspired by paintings of a meditative nature. By bestselling composer Pam Wedgwood, this book includes online piano accompaniment audio as recorded by Pam herself and is complemented by a stunning pull-out poster of images providing the visual inspiration for each piece.

Contents: Prelude et Scherzo (Henri Busser) * Concertino, Op. 107 (Cecile Chaminade) * Concertino, op 45 (Alphonse DuVernoy) * Cantabile et Presto (Georges Enesco) * Fantasie, Op. 79 (Faure) * Andante et Scherzo (Louis Ganne) * Fantasie, Nocturne at Allegro Scherzando (Philippe Gaubert) * Ballade (Perilhou) * Andante Pastoral et Scherzettino (Paul Taffanel).

The Belwin Student Instrumental Course is a course for individual instruction and class instruction of like instruments, at three levels, for all band instruments. Each book is complete in itself, but all books are correlated with each other. Although each book can be used separately, all supplementary books should be used as companion books with the method.

Humanity has blown horns and trumpets of various makes and models, lengths and diameters since prehistoric times. In Horns and Trumpets of the World, the eminent scholar Jeremy Montagu surveys the vast range in time and type of this instrument that has accompanied everything in human history from the war cry to the formal symphony, from the hunting call to the modern jazz performance. No work on this topic offers as much detail or so many illustrations-over 150, in fact-of this remarkable instrument. Montagu's examination starts with horns constructed from such unusual materials as seaweed, cane, and bamboo, and continues the journey of exploration through those of shell, wood, ivory, and metal. The chronological scope of Horns and Trumpets of the World is equally vast: it looks at instruments of the Bible and from the Bronze and Iron Ages respectively before diving headlong into those from the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical periods, and, following the Industrial Revolution, those that have appeared in the modern era. Drawing on the many instruments from the author's own extensive collection, Montagu offers details, including measurements, at levels rarely seen in other surveys of this world of instrumentation. Horns and Trumpet of the World should appeal to not only scholars and collectors, but professional brass players and manufacturers, as well as museums and institutions with a vested interest in our musical heritage.

This book will prove to be of inestimable value to the student, the teacher and the professional trumpet player. It not only traces the development of the trumpet from the earliest times to the present day, but gives clear and concise practical instruction for playing instruments of the trumpet family, with numerous musical examples. Both experienced and aspiring trumpeters will be guided from the basic elements to the rediscovery of forgotten skills of the past. These include not only conventional trumpet and cornet playing but also directions regarding the art of "Clarino" playing with further instructions for Baroque trumpet, Renaissance cornetto, cavalry trumpet, bugle, coach horn, Flatt-trumpet, slide trumpet, keyed-trumpet, keyed bugle, cornopean, mutes and many more - all with photographic illustration. The history and mechanisms of even the most obscure instruments are examined, and guidance is also offered upon attitudes to breathing, relaxation, posture, presentation and the important subject of choosing a mouthpiece.Exercises are suggested for extending range and stamina and guidance provided to solving the problems encountered by many players at some time in their careers.

(LKM Music). Daily studies for developing resonance and the embouchure.

Over 50 easy-to-play melody line arrangements for flute, complete with chord symbols in concert pitch. Music by Mozart, Beethoven, Elgar, Bach and Handel are included. Contents: Air from The Peasant Cantata (J.S. Bach) * Air in D (J.S. Bach) * Andante Cantabile (Tchaikovsky) * Ave Verum Corpus K618 (Mozart) * Badinerie (J.S. Bach) * Bouree (J.S. Bach) * But Who May Abide (Handel) * Dead March from Saul (Handel) * First Movement Theme from Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Mozart) * Finale from Symphony No. 9 (Dvorak) * First Movement Theme from Sonata in A (Mozart) * First Movement Theme from Symphony No. 6 "Pathetique" (Tchaikovsky) * First Movement Theme from Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral" (Beethoven) * Fourth Movement Theme from Symphony No. 1 in C Minor (Brahms) * German Dance (Beethoven) * Grand March from Aida (Verdi) * He Shall Feed His Flock (Handel) * Hornpipe from Water Music (Handel) * I Know That My Redeemer Liveth (Handel) * In Tears of Grief (J.S. Bach) * Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (J.S. Bach) * Largo from Xerxes (Handel) * Last Movement Theme from Sonata in C Minor K456 (Mozart) * Let the Bright Seraphim (Handel) * Lullaby (Mozart) * March from Scipio (Handel) * Military March (Schubert) * Minuet in G (J.S. Bach) * Ode to Joy (Beethoven) * Pomp and Circumstance (Elgar) * Radetzky March (Strauss) * Romance from Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Mozart) * Rondo Alla Turca from Sonata in A K331 (Mozart) * Say Goodbye Now to Pastime (Mozart) * Second Movement Theme from Sonata in C K545 (Mozart) * Second Movement Theme from Symphony No. 7 (Beethoven) * Second Movement Theme from Symphony No. 9 (Dvorak) * Second Movement Theme from Symphony No. 94 in G (Haydn) * See, The Conquering Hero Comes (Handel) * Sheep May Safely Graze (J.S. Bach) * Sleepers, Wake A Voice Is Calling (J.S. Bach) * Slow Movement from Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven) * Tell Me Fair Ladies (Mozart) * Tempo di Menuetto (Beethoven) * The Manly Heart That Claims Our Duty (Mozart) * Theme from Sonata in C Minor "Pathetique" (Beethoven) * Theme from Piano Concerto in C (Mozart) * Theme from Symphony in G Minor K550 (Mozart) * Third Movement Theme from Piano Concerto No. 1 in C (Beethoven) * Third Movement Theme from Symphony No. 3 in F (Brahms).

What do the world's most prominent oboists have to say about their musical ideas, performance techniques, and teaching strategies? Michele L. Fiala and Martin Schuring, themselves skilled oboists, undertook the project of asking twenty-six of them about their musicianship and pedagogy. The results are collected in Great Oboists on Music and Musicianship, which provides a unique window into how these virtuosi of wind instruments think about their craft. Each chapter paints an engaging portrait of a leading oboist that allows them to share-in their own words-their insights on the performance techniques, learning strategies, and career moves that propelled them to their current stature. The captivating prose chapters that Fiala and Schuring composed from the interviews allow each artist's personality to shine through as they convey their hard-won wisdom on topics such as musical interpretation, the relationship between vocal and instrumental music, being a good ensemble player, and warm-up routines. The diverse array of musicians portrayed in this book includes orchestral and solo performers from across North America, Europe, and Australia. Their practical advice will resonate not just with oboists but also with players and teachers of other instruments as they pursue their own musical journeys.

For professional and amateur flautists as well as students of the flute, this book offers a practical introduction to all aspects of playing the flute. Using an accessible A-Z format, Debost offers a logical and imaginative work on flute performance that places technique at the service of music on every page. In these concise essays, readers will find simple, sensible answers to all of the problems flautists regularly encounter. Debost covers the expected topics - such as breathing, articulation, and tone - and offers personal insights into such issues as "jawboning", "finger phrasing," and "the little devils". Offering concise, common-sense solutions for flautists of all levels, this book is an ideal reference guide on flute performance.

The best selling woodwind and brass tutor series. Learn As You Play provides everything you need from the first lesson up to grade three. A well structured course of exercises, studies and pieces ensures a good grounding in technique and musicianship.

(Boosey & Hawkes Concert Band). The Boosey Woodwind and Brass Method is designed to be used in lessons and when you play your instrument between lessons. The CD will help you between lessons it contains performances and backing tracks of most of the pieces in the book, as well as listening activities.