The fascinating story of a hugely popular instrument, detailing its rich and varied history from the Middle Ages to the present The recorder is perhaps best known today for its educational role. Although it is frequently regarded as a stepping-stone on the path toward higher musical pursuits, this role is just one recent facet of the recorder's fascinating history-which spans professional and amateur music-making since the Middle Ages. In this new addition to the Yale Musical Instrument Series, David Lasocki and Robert Ehrlich trace the evolution of the recorder. Emerging from a variety of flutes played by fourteenth-century soldiers, shepherds, and watchmen, the recorder swiftly became an artistic instrument for courtly and city minstrels. Featured in music by the greatest Baroque composers, including Bach and Handel, in the twentieth century it played a vital role in the Early Music Revival and achieved international popularity and notoriety in mass education. Overall, Lasocki and Ehrlich make a case for the recorder being surprisingly present, and significant, throughout Western music history.

In what is primarily an instructional book, Jack Brymer places the instrument in the broad context of its role in the orchestra and in chamber music, expressing stimulating and controversial views. Perhaps his most original and valuable contribution is to be found in the long section on acoustics, the down-to-earth section on the practical clarinettist, and the illuminating passages on artistic approach. Brymer writes for the teacher of the clarinet, as well as for beginners and advanced players, and the unique appendix on the clarinet repertoire is particularly comprehensive. Modern science has revealed facets of the clarinet's harmonic structure previously only dimly perceived, and the author points the way to a future full of promise.

Wind Talk for Brass provides instrumental music teachers, practitioners, and students with a handy, easy-to-use pedagogical resource for brass instruments found in school instrumental programs. With thorough coverage of the most common brass instruments - trumpet, horn, trombone, baritone/euphonium, and tuba/sousaphone - the book offers the most topical and information necessary for effective teaching. This includes terminology, topics, and concepts associated with each specific instrument, along with teaching suggestions that can be applied in the classroom. Be sure to look to the back of the book for a "Practical Tips" section, which discusses common technical faults and corrections, common problems with sound (as well as their causes and solutions to them), fingering charts, literature lists (study materials, method books, and solos), as well as a list of additional resources relevant to teaching brass instruments (articles, websites, audio recordings). Without question, Wind Talk for Brass stands alone as an invaluable resource for woodwinds!

(Trumpet Instruction). From Bix Beiderbecke and Louis Armstrong to Herb Alpert and Chuck Mangione, take a look at the genesis of pop trumpet. This book/CD package provides solo transcriptions in standard notation, lessons on how to play them, biographies, instrument information, photos, history, and more. The accompanying CD contains full-band demo tracks and accompaniment-only tracks for every trumpet solo in the book. For PC and MAC users, the CD is enhanced with Amazing Slow Downer software so you can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch Songs include: Cherokee (Indian Love Song) * Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White * Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? * Feels So Good * Hello, Dolly * Holding Back the Years * MacArthur Park * Misirlou * Penny Lane * Salt Peanuts * So What * Zanzibar * and more.

Brass Mix is an original series of graded pieces that can be played by any brass instrument. Book 2 covers Grades 4 & 5 and contains 8 new pieces for solo brass and piano, specially commissioned from some of today's most dynamic composers for brass. The pieces showcase a diverse range of styles and 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.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 - 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: Rapscallion [Andrea Price] Sunday at the Boulevard [Christopher Augustine] Horizon [Clare Elton] Cumbianita para Ti [Shanti Paul Jayasinha] Lethe [Callum Au] By the River [Shanti Paul Jayasinha] A Postcard from Wasdale [Florence Anna Maunders] Koli [Shri Sriram]

Brass Mix is an original series of graded pieces that can be played by any brass instrument. Book 2 covers Grades 4 & 5 and contains 8 new pieces for solo brass and piano, specially commissioned from some of today's most dynamic composers for brass. The pieces showcase a diverse range of styles and 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.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 - 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: Rapscallion [Andrea Price] Sunday at the Boulevard [Christopher Augustine] Horizon [Clare Elton] Cumbianita para Ti [Shanti Paul Jayasinha] Lethe [Callum Au] By the River [Shanti Paul Jayasinha] A Postcard from Wasdale [Florence Anna Maunders] Koli [Shri Sriram]

for unaccompanied flute (alternating with piccolo)
Two pieces, one for flute and the other for piccolo, that are suitable to the advanced-intermediate student and are a great study in articulation.

- Emphasis on hearing musical forms is pedagogically effective and unique among form textbooks - Offers a complete course package, with workbook pages included in the Textbook, while the accompanying Anthology makes full scores of pieces covered in the book easily available - Offers clear and accessible explanations that are up to date with current scholarship

(Instrumental Folio). This monstrous collection includes instrumental solos of more than 70 Disney classics: Beauty and the Beast * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Friend like Me * It's a Small World * Mickey Mouse March * A Pirate's Life * Reflection * The Siamese Cat Song * A Spoonful of Sugar * Trashin' the Camp * Under the Sea * We're All in This Together * Written in the Stars * You've Got a Friend in Me * Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah * and dozens more.

(Brass Solo). An ideal collection for a student performing in a contest or recital after 3-4 years of study. Contents: Sheep May Safely Graze (J.S. Bach) o The Daisies (Barber) o Polovetzian Dance from Prince Igor (Borodin) o Trumpet Voluntary (Clarke) o Orfeo's Lament from Orfeo ed Euridice (Gluck) o Minuet from L'Allegro, il penseroso ed il Moderato (Handel) o Minuet from Music for the Royal Fireworks (Handel) o Siciliana from L'Allegro, il penseroso ed il Moderato (Handel) o To a Wild Rose from Woodland Sketches, Op.51, No. 1 (MacDowell) o A Lover and His Lass (Morley) o Trumpet Tune (Purcell) o The Pirate King from The Pirates of Penzance (Sullivan).

Vaughan Williams fist encountered the old English folk song Dives and Lazarus when he was 21, and here presents five variants that are, in his own words, 'not exact replicas of traditional tunes but rather reminiscences of various versions in my own collection and those of others'. The work was premiered in Carnegie Hall as part of the 1939 New York World's Fair, and is a wonderful example of the sumptuous string textures and modal tonalities that have become the composer's trademarks.