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The latest volume in Hans-Günter Heumann's successful Best of Piano Classics series offers an attractive colourful mix of very easy to easy original piano pieces from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern periods. In addition to popular repertoire pieces, it also includes discoveries that enrich modern teaching and auditions. The 100 short original pieces provide pure variety and motivation for beginners and those returning to the piano. / Piano / Schott

This collection features a wide selection of original works from the Renaissance, Baroque and Modern eras arranged for two clarinets.Focusing on easy repertoire Duets for Fun will provide hours of enjoyment for aspiring musicians wishing to discover new material as well as develop their playing.This collection is ideal for use as teaching material, or for playing at home or in a concert with a friend.This title was previously published as 'Duo-Schatzkiste' (A Treasure Chest of Duos). / Clarinette / Schott

Alt-Wiener TanzweisenNo. 2 LiebesleidConcerto-Transcription / Choeur et ensemble vocal / Schott

The Cinema and its great stories and melodies have had a lasting impact on our life and culture over the past few decades. Reason enough for top author Hans-Günter Heumann to devote himself to the most popular and beautiful film melodies and movie songs in a special volume after the great success of his former PIANOTAINMENT editions.All arrangements are easily playable for every beginner on the piano. / Piano / Schott

Julian Rowlands presents a wide ranging collection of Klezmer tunes and Jewish melodies for piano. Highly flexible to use, the pieces may be performed by a solo pianist. Information on the history of Klezmer music, its scales, modes and forms is provided, as well as guidance on general style and adding your own ornamentation, embellishment and improvisations. The volume is accompanied by a Download with a recording of all tunes performed by Julian Rowlands. / Piano / Schott

Récompensé par le prestigieux Music Industries Association Award en 2006 pour la meilleure publication pop, Exploring Jazz Piano de Tim Richards était la suite tant attendue de son célèbre Improvising Blues Piano, également publié par Schott. Le niveau général est un peu plus élevé et conviendrait aux pianistes de niveau 4 et plus. Le livre se présente en deux volumes, comprenant pas moins de 56 pièces originales de l'auteur, ainsi que des arrangements spéciaux de 24 standards allant de Autumn Leaves et Summertime à Straight No Chaser et Coltrane's Impressions. / Piano / Schott

Separate bass part for performance e.g. with cello accompaniment.Schott Violin Library includes eleven contrasting Baroque sonatas for violin and continuo bass. Besides popular and well-known sonatas by Corelli, Vivaldi, Handel and Telemann there are also delightful less familiar compositions by Dall'Abaco, Pepusch and Finger, among others. All these pieces are at lower to intermediate level. Some of them can be played in first position throughout, while others require just a few position changes, but the sonatas by Dall'Abaco, Kirchhoff, Vivaldi and Handel require fluent use of the first three positions. The pieces brought together in this book are the best-loved works from the popular series Schott Violin Library (VLB) and other violin repertoire published by Schott. / Violon Et Basse Continue

This superb book provides all the resources needed for aural training at GCE Advanced Level in a single volume with 2 CD's included. It is packed with examples of dictation and discrimination exercises which are carefully graded in difficulty. This extenstive text provides a systematic approach to aural training melody and two-part dictation harmonic recognition identifying errors in performance frequent hints and tips All combine to enable the student to develop increasing skill and confidence in the tests. This book also provides a complete recorded anthology of thecompositional techniques with which students are expected to be familiar at Advanced level. A huge variety of extracts have been specially selected from British folk song world music pop jazz and the main periods of art music from the late Renaissance to modern times. A detailed commentary shows how to recognise periods styles structures instruments and techniques in this music with all these features copiously illustrated in the examples on disc. The complete work provides an invaluable resource not only for the A-Level syllabus but also for any study of style and analysis in the wide variety of music that is encountered today. David Bowman was for 20 years director of music at Ampleforth College and a chief examiner for the University of London Schools Examination Board (now Edexcel) from 1982 to 1998. His publications include Sound Matters (co-authored with Bruce Cole Schott 1989) Aural Matters (co-authored with Paul Terry Schott 1993) Aural Matters in Practice (co-authored with Paul Terry Schott 1994) Analysis Matters (Rhinegold Volume 1 1997 Volume 2 1998) and numerous articles for Music Teacher. He is a contributor to the Collins Classical Music Encyclopedia (2000) and author of the Rhinegold Dictionary of Music in Sound (2002).

8 Irish Melodies arranged for String Quartet-Carson Turner’s latest instalment to The Schott String Quartet Series is a wonderful collection of traditional Irish folk tunes. These intermediate-level arrangements make perfect performance material.The Schott String Quartet SeriesWith the first books in the series focusing on baroque classical and romantic styles The Schott String Quartet Series has expanded to cover music ranging from traditional pieces through to Eastern-influenced works. Aside from 'Indian Summer' which features original compositions each book contains original arrangements of well known themes which have often never been arranged for string quartet before. An important characteristic of thesearrangements is that they allow all four instruments to demand the attention throughout the music. The pieces are suitable for amateur musicians or school students and are ideal for public performance.

Avec cette collection de 30 compositions originales populaires et d'arrangements pour piano, Schott présente une sélection des ?uvres de Frédéric Chopin qui ravira tous les pianistes. Outre le Prélude de la goutte d'eau et des pièces d'enseignement populaires, le volume contient également des arrangements des deux célèbres concertos pour piano en mi mineur et en fa mineur, de la Krakowiak et bien d'autres. Tous les morceaux sont de difficulté moyenne et ont été complétés par des doigtés ainsi que des suggestions de métronome. Ce recueil, imprimé dans un style moderne et agréable à lire, est recommandé non seulement pour l'enseignement, mais aussi pour tous ceux qui jouent du piano en tant que hobby.Polonaise g-Moll BI 1Polonaise B-Dur BI 3Polonaise As-Dur BI 5Prelude e-Moll op. 28/4Prelude h-Moll op. 28/6Prelude Des-Dur op. 28/15Prelude A-Dur op. 28/7Walzer a-Moll op. 34/2Walzer a-Moll BI 150Walzer Des-Dur op. 64/1Walzer h-Moll op. 69/2Mazurka fis-Moll op. 6/1Mazurka B-Dur op. 7/1Mazurka a-Moll op. 7/2Mazurka F-Dur op. 68/3Nocturne B-Moll op. 9/1Nocturne Es-Dur op. 9/2Nocturne cis-Moll BI 49Trauermarsch aus der Sonate b-Moll op. 35Etüde E-Dur op. 10/3Etüde f-Moll op. 25/2Fantasie-Impromptu cis-Moll op. posth. 66Klavierkonzert Nr. 1 e-Moll op. 11Klavierkonzert Nr. 2 f-Moll op. 21Krakowiak F-Dur op. 14Introduktion und Polonaise brillante C-Dur op. 3Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise Es-Dur op. 224. Satz aus Klaviertrio g-Moll op. 83. Satz aus Sonate für Violoncello und Klavier g-Moll op. 65Der Wunsch op. 74/1Der Frühling op. 74/2Melancholie op. 74/13 / Piano / Schott