Chester-Music - Clarinet

Grade 3 Clarinet Pieces allows you to learn a diverse range of popular solo works that have all been carefully chosen with the specifications of the major exam boards in mind. This particular book is perfect forGrade 3 clarinettists including some classic tunes and contemporary pop hits. The included download card also gives you instant online access to full backing tracks for every song. Thisfantastic songbook includes valuable supplementary repertoire for Grade 3 clarinettists of any age. These particular Clarinet Pieces will aid with your technique and theoretical skills whilealso allowing you to play some incredible tunes that will help to enhance your musicality. Including such contemporary pop classics as John Legend's All Of Me Ed Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud and Katy Perry'sRoar  these familiar tunes will be fun to play for any clarinettist. Not only this but a big collection of timeless pop tunes are included such as The Beatles' Hey Jude CatStevens's The First Cut Is The Deepest and ABBA's Dancing Queen such familiar favourites allowing everyone to enjoy Grade 3 Clarinet! Each of the tunes features song background notes andbrief performance guidance while at the beginning of the songbook is an introductory section featuring an invaluable fingering chart. With a fantastically diverse collection of old and new pop songs somebeautifully crisp engraving and helpful performance tips for each song this is the perfect songbook for Grade 3 clarinettists. It will help hone the techniques necessary for major exam boards while enabling youto develop a versatile repertoire and have fun playing some familiar songs.

Grade 2 Clarinet Pieces allows you to learn a diverse range of popular solo works that have all been carefully chosen with the specifications of the major exam boards in mind. This particular book is perfect forGrade 2 clarinettists including some classic tunes and contemporary pop hits. The included download card also gives you instant online access to full backing tracks for every song. Thisfantastic songbook includes valuable supplementary repertoire for Grade 2 clarinettists of any age. These particular Clarinet Pieces will aid with your technique and theoretical skills whilealso allowing you to play some incredible tunes that will help to enhance your musicality. Including such contemporary pop classics as Miley Cyrus' Wrecking Ball One Direction's What Makes You Beautiful and somefantastic film songs like Atlas from 'The Hunger Games' and 'Frozen's Let It Go  these familiar tunes will be fun to play for any clarinettist. Not only this but a big collectionof timeless pop tunes are included such as The Beatles' Yellow Submarine Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah and Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water such familiar favourites allowing everyone toenjoy Grade 2 Clarinet! Each of the tunes features song background notes and brief performance guidance while at the beginning of the songbook is an introductory section featuring an invaluable fingeringchart. With a fantastically diverse collection of old and new pop songs some beautifully crisp engraving and helpful performance tips for each song this is the perfect songbook for Grade 2clarinettists. It will help hone the techniques necessary for major exam boards while enabling you to develop a versatile repertoire and have fun playing some familiar songs.

Andre Laporte (b.1931) is a contemporary Belgian composer whose eclectic musical style draws on a wide range of neoclassical avant garde and postmodern techniques. His Reflections for Solo Clarinet wascomposed in 1970 for the Belgian conductor and Clarinet virtuoso Walter Boeykens (1938-2013). Subtitled Inner-space Music it was written shortly after the composer arrived at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels as alecturer in modern compositional techniques. It requires a delicate but precise treatment with microtonal slides and multiphonic chords. A challenging piece it is ideally suited to any advanced clarinettist looking to developtheir contemporary repertoire.

Grades 1-3-This book is for Clarinet players of all ages who wish to develop their sight-reading skills and contains a number of graded exercises which lead up to examples of tests of similar standard to those set by the major examinationboards.

Raymond Briggs' charming Christmas story about the adventures of a boy and the snowman that comes to life is a modern children's classic. The tales popularity has been further enhanced by frequent television broadcasts of theaward-winning cartoon film The Snowman.In this music booklet of the classic theme song Walking In The Air for Clarinet or Tenor Saxophone and Piano composer Howard Blake recreates the story in music basedon the scenes from the film.

Two pieces from El Amor Brujo written in 1915 by Manuel de Falla arranged for clarinet and piano by Charles Schiff.

Playing With Scales is a new resource designed to help motivate and encourage young musicians to practice their scales.Playing With Scales presents imaginative backing tracks in avariety of styles to transform scales and arpeggios from dry rudiments into an exciting musical experience. The accompaniments can be played by the teacher in lessons plus all of the tracks are included for studentpractice at home using the supplied Download Card.This volume contains accompaniments for scales and arpeggios required at the first level of playing and is compatible with the syllabus requirements of the majorexamination boards.Watch an introduction to Playing With Scales:

Beautifully designed on a gatefold laminated card including information about instrument care notation and a photo/diagram.

Kaija Saariaho's Duft was commissioned by the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung for the Internationaler Klarinettenwettbewerb Freiburg 2012.