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This exciting collection of 10 hit tunes for alto saxophone has
been meticulously arranged by Ned Bennett for Grade 3 (Late
Elementary) level and is ideal for own-choice exam pieces. Take
centre stage as you play with downloadable live backings and demo
tracks recorded by professional musicians. Piano accompaniments for
each piece are also included and all the Grade 3 books in the
series work together. From pop to musicals, jazz and film, bring
your practice sessions to life as you perform with the band!
Brass Mix is an original series of graded pieces that can be played
by any brass instrument. Book 1 covers Grades 1-3 and contains 12
new arrangements of traditional tunes and works by a diverse range
of composers. The pieces have been selected and arranged by brass
specialists to align with ABRSM grade levels. Many are featured on
the ABRSM 2023 Brass syllabus and in addition, all are ideal
choices for Performance Grade exams. There are piano and brass duet
accompaniments for all pieces, providing useful flexibility for
students and teachers. Key features:-one piece at each grade and
list of the ABRSM 2023 Brass syllabus, for all instruments
-distinctive and engaging repertoire from which to build a
programme for a Practical or Performance Grade exam -accompaniments
for a pianist or a second brass player -a single student book that
can be used by treble- and bass-clef brass including Eb Tuba
-separate Bb, Eb and F piano accompaniment books -a downloadable
part for Bb Tuba. Contents: Les Matadors: from Minuets, Cotillons
and Country Dances [Ignatius Sancho] Xiao Baicai [Trad. Chinese]
Takeda Lullaby [Trad. Japanese] The Barnyard Rag [Billy Johnson /
Chris Smith] The March of the Women [Cicely Hamilton / Ethel Smyth]
Jinkli Nona [Trad. Malaysian] On a Southern Balcony: No. 4 from
Southland Sketches [Blanche Ray Alden] Wade in the Water
[African-American Spiritual] On Parade [Amanda Ira Aldridge] Oh,
the Summer [Samuel Coleridge-Taylor] The Deserted Garden [Florence
Price] A Canadian Boat Song [Maurice Arnold]
An authoritative account of the 500-year history of the bassoon,
with new research findings and dozens of rare illustrations This
welcome volume encompasses the entire history of the bassoon, from
its origins five centuries ago to its place in twenty-first-century
music. James Kopp draws on new archival research and many years'
experience playing the instrument to provide an up-to-date and
lively portrait of today's bassoon and its intriguing predecessors.
He discusses the bassoon's makers, its players, its repertory, its
myths, and its audiences, all in unprecedented detail. The bassoon
was invented in Italy in response to the need for a bass-register
double-reed woodwind suitable for processionals and marching.
Composers were quick to exploit its agility and unique timbre.
Later, during the reign of Louis XIV, the instrument underwent a
major redesign, giving voice to its tenor register. In the early
1800s new scientific precepts propelled a wave of invention and
design modifications. In the twentieth century, the multiplicity of
competing bassoon designs narrowed to a German (or Heckel) type and
a French type, the latter now nearly extinct. The author examines
the acoustical consequences of these various redesigns. He also
offers new coverage of the bassoon's social history, including its
roles in the military and church and its global use during the
European Colonial period. Separate historical chapters devoted to
contrabassoons and smaller bassoons complete the volume. Published
in association with the William Waterhouse Archive
It is the summer of 1976 and Salvo Ursari, a man of retirement age,
is walking on a taut wire strung between the Twin Towers of New
York's World Trade centre, almost fourteen hundred feet above the
city. Far below him in the gaping crowd stands his wife, Anna, to
whom he has made a solemn promise: This wire walk will end his
career. In this daring moment, Steven Galloway opens his riveting
novel about Salvo Ursari, whose life begins in 1919 amid a
Transylvanian boyhood inhabited by gypsy folklore and inspired by
the bravery of his persecuted people. Salvo's story moves
irresistibly from a tragic fire that envelops his family, to street
life in Budapest, where he learns the skills of a wire walker, to
the carnivals of Europe and the competitive world of the American
circus. Most fulfilled when living with paradox, Salvo feels safest
while performing startling feats of balance on a wire high above
the dangerous world and most endangered if performing above a net.
With compassion, warmth, and blazing originality, Ascension
combines jaw-dropping storytelling, and fantastical symbolism with
mesmerizing detail of Romany and circus culture, and an
unforgettable walk with the amazing Salvo Ursari.
This book contains nine pieces selected from ABRSM's 2018-2021
Grade 6 Flute syllabus. Key features: Nine pieces in a range of
styles, chosen from Lists A, B and C with piano accompaniment
Classic repertoire and newly commissioned pieces and arrangements
Footnotes with helpful information about the pieces Audio
performances of the nine pieces by expert musicians plus
accompaniment-only tracks for use when practising (download code
included in the book)
This book brings together - for the first time - selected exam
pieces, scales and arpeggios, sight-reading and audio downloads, to
support ABRSM's 2018-2021 Grade 5 Clarinet syllabus. Key features:
Nine pieces in a range of styles, chosen from Lists A, B and C with
piano accompaniment Classic repertoire and newly commissioned
pieces and arrangements Footnotes with helpful information about
the pieces All the new scales and arpeggios from 2018 Sample
sight-reading tests for the new requirements from 2018 Audio
performances of the nine pieces by expert musicians plus
accompaniment-only tracks for use when practising (download code
included in the book)
"Boland's clear, accessible text reflects years of professional
experience as a performer and teacher of the one-key flute. Her
book answers all the practical needs of beginners and offers
advanced flutists a wealth of useful information. Even players
wedded to the Boehm flute will gain fresh musical insights from
Boland's comprehensive method."--Laurence Libin, Department of
Musical Instruments, Metropolitan Museum of Art
"This is the best introduction to the one-key (baroque) flute
for Boehm system flute players available today. With her
comprehensive knowledge of the numerous historical treatises and
tutors and her extensive practical experience as a player and
teacher, Jan Boland has fashioned a guide that is at the same time
informative and enjoyable. I only wish it had been available when I
set out to learn the one-key flute. It would have saved me much
time and led me directly to the most important sources."--John
Thow, composer and Professor of Music at the University of
California, Berkeley
"An easy-to-read format, clear prose, attractive graphics, and
well chosen and very legible music make it an ideal beginner's
tutor."--Betty Bang Mather, Professor Emeritus, University of Iowa
School of Music
The Woodwinds: Perform, Understand, Teach provides comprehensive
coverage about the woodwind family of musical instruments for
prospective instrumental music teachers. What sets this book apart
is its focus on how to teach the instruments. Preparing students in
the how of teaching is the ultimate goal of the woodwind class and
the ultimate goal of this book, which organizes information by its
use in teaching beginning instrumentalists. In developing
performance and understanding, pre-service teachers are positioned
to learn to teach through performance-contrasted with an
"old-school" belief that one must first spend much time tediously
trying to understand how things work before playing the
instruments. The book is organized in three parts: Preliminaries,
Teaching the Instruments, and Foundations. Chapters in Teaching the
Instruments are organized by instrument (flute, clarinet,
saxophone, oboe, bassoon) and, within each instrument, according to
how an effective teacher might organize experiences for novice
learners. Basic embouchure and air stream are covered first,
followed by instrument assembly, then hands and holding. Embouchure
coverage returns in greater depth, then articulation, and finally
"the mechanism," which includes sections on the instruments of the
family, transposition, range, special fingerings, tuning and
intonation, and reeds. In Foundations, topics are situated in big
picture contexts, calling attention to the broad applicability of
information across instruments.
"...this work is likely to become a standard work very quickly and
is to be recommended to all schools where recorder studies are
undertaken" -Oliver James,Contact Magazine. A novel and
comprehensive approach to transferring from the C to F instrument.
430 music examples include folk and national songs (some in two
parts), country dance tunes and excerpts from the standard treble
repertoire of Bach, Barsanti, Corelli, Handel, Telemann, etc. An
outstanding feature of the book has proved to be Brian Bonsor's
brilliantly simple but highly effective practice circles and
recognition squares designed to give, in only a few minutes,
concentrated practice on the more usual leaps to and from each new
note and instant recognition of random notes. Quickly emulating the
outstanding success of the descant tutors, these books are very
popular even with those who normally use tutors other than the
Enjoy the Recorder series.
This handbook for flautists addresses all who wish to consider the issues raised when performing music of the past, and experiment with them on old or new instruments. Its aim is to provide an authoritative and practical guide with evidence drawn from a variety of primary sources directly and indirectly associated with the flute. The author provides sound advice on instruments and their care, historical techniques, stylistic issues and historically informed interpretation, with examples drawn from a wide range of case studies, including Bach, Handel, Mozart and Brahms.
This is the first comprehensive guide to the saxophone, its history, technical development and repertoire. Extensively researched and including much new information, the volume is written by some of the finest performers and experts on the instrument. The Cambridge Companion to the Saxophone incorporates detailed historical developments in the classical, jazz and rock fields, provides practical performance guides, and has a chapter on teaching the instrument.
This inspiring collection celebrating black composers has been
selected and edited by the renowned saxophonist, YolanDa Brown.
Suitable for intermediate-level clarinet with piano accompaniment,
plus commentary from YolanDa and downloadable backing tracks.
This book contains nine pieces selected from ABRSM's Grade 4
Saxophone syllabus from 2022. Key features: Nine pieces in a range
of styles, chosen from Lists A, B and C - ideal for both Practical
and Performance Grade exams. -Classic repertoire and newly
commissioned pieces and arrangements. -Piano accompaniments for
both E- and B- instruments included.-Audio performances of the nine
pieces on alto saxophone and piano by expert musicians, plus
accompaniment-only tracks for both E- and B- instruments for use
when practising (download code included in the book). Contents:
Valse sous le vent [Valerie Rousse / Joel Littorie] Allegro (fourth
movement from Sonata in F, HWV 369, Op. 1 No. 11) [George Frideric
Handel] A la Gavotte (No. 1 from Street Beats) [Karen Street]
Chanson de Matin [Edward Elgar] Bess, you is my woman now [George
Gershwin / Ira Gershwin] Pas de deux [Errollyn Wallen] Abracadabra
[Ruth Byrchmore] Tango (from All Styles) [Mark Fielding] Entry of
the Gladiators, Op. 68, arr. Ian Denley [Julius Fucik]
This inspiring collection celebrating black composers has been
selected and edited by the renowned saxophonist, YolanDa Brown.
Suitable for intermediate-level alto saxophone with piano
accompaniment, plus commentary from YolanDa and downloadable
backing tracks.
The Cambridge Companion to Brass Instruments provides an overview of the history of brass instruments, and their technical and musical development. Much of the volume is devoted to the way brass instruments have been used in classical music, but there are also important contributions on the ancient world, non-Western music, vernacular and popular traditions and the rise of jazz. The editors are two of the most respected names in the world of brass performance and scholarship, and the list of contributors includes the names of many of the world's most prestigious scholars and performers.
This book contains nine pieces selected from ABRSM's Grade 4
Clarinet syllabus from 2022. Key features: Nine pieces in a range
of styles, chosen from Lists A, B and C - ideal for both Practical
and Performance Grade exams. -Classic repertoire and newly
commissioned pieces and arrangements.-Audio performances of the
nine pieces by expert musicians, plus accompaniment-only tracks for
use when practising (download code included in the book). Contents:
Allegro (fifth movement from Sonata No. 2, Methodical Sonatas, Book
II, TWV 41:c3) [Georg Philipp Telemann] Basse Danse (from 'Capriol
Suite') [Peter Warlock] Minuet: No. 9 from 'Twenty Four Five'
[Lynne Williams] Romanze (from Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525,
second movement) [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] Heather Hill (No. 1 from
'Two Contrasts for Clarinet and Piano') [Freda Swain] Tonight (from
'West Side Story') [Leonard Bernstein / Stephen Sondheim] For Latin
Lovers [Brian Chapple] A Nakht in Gan Eydn [Trad. Klezmer] Bauhinia
Soft-Shoe [Raymond Yiu]
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