Spartan-Press

Excellent training material for string quartet using only 1st & 3rd Positions throughout.Including Handel's Overture from The Royal Fireworks and two matching movements from Bach's famous Suite in D (Air and Gavotte).

Carefully graded pieces to help pupils with reading and aural skills. Includes CD with backing tracks and chord symbols for a live Keyboard or Guitar accompaniment.Teacher's Notes: These carefully graded pieces have been designed to help your pupils with their reading skills from elementatry to grade 3 - 4. The scale melodies will help to develop a feeling for keys and tonality. The pieces have no performance markings and you and your pupils are encouraged to add these as part of the learning experience. The chord symbols throughout are in concert pitch and offer the opportunity to add a live keyboard or guitar accompaniment.These pieces are designed to be bothenjoyable performance material and a helpful teaching resource and the scale melodies will make preparation for examinations a more rewarding and musical experience.Student's Notes: Every piece has a full performance track and an accompaniment track on the companion CD. Listen to the performance tracks and try to copy what you hear - for example what do you notice about the quavers (eighth notes) in Pogo Stick and Swingin' - are they the same? Use your ears.Play along with the accompaniment tracks with as much style as you can and most importantly Have Fun!This book was originally published by Harlequin Music Cambridge in 2000.

Flexible Brass Ensemble-Five jazz pieces including potential for audience participation!Grade: 4 - 5

Highland Fling-The 1st & 3rd Position String Quartet series is excellent training material for String Quartet using only 1st & 3rd Positions throughout.1st And 3rd Position String Quartet: Traditional - Highland Fling features a stirring medley of half a dozen Highland reels.

This book features a great little selection of pieces for Horn in E Flat with Piano accompaniment which are all suitable for players of grades 3-5 standard.

24 short piano pieces each in one easy 10-finger position: Grade one plus... super idea to help in the training of beginners for sightreading confidence building and co-ordination. Innovative and daringly jazzy yet brilliantly simple.Grade: 1 +

Parts Included For Bb + C-The Entertainer Weeping Willow and Bethena with piano (or CD accompaniment). Optional parts for Bb or Lyons C clarinet.Grade: 3 - 5

Brass Treble Clef E Flat-As I sit myself down to write this brief foreword I ask myself can there be music more stirring than these old Cornish folk melodies? Though not Cornish myself (I confess to being born a little further up the road in Bristol) I feel I have spent sufficient time in these 'ere parts to resonate with the sturdy brass band tradition that continues to permeate this incomparably beautiful rugged county. One can almost detect a French 'accent' when listening to the piano music of Debussy and likewise speaking as a lapsed brass player there is undoubtedly something of the Cornish twang about Trelawny when played on a cornet or euphonium. Then again one gets a different yetentirely convincing effect upon hearing these melodies rendered on woodwind instruments; hence with a little gamesmanship on my part I am pleased to see my collection of these fifteen delectable ditties come to fruition in the form of arrangements for treble clef brass instruments (in B flat and E flat) trombone and tuba (bass clef) horn in F flute clarinet and bassoon.While many will find themselves humming the likes of Going up Camborne Hill Lamorna or The Helston Furry Dance even before they have turned to the first page - for these are indelibly intertwined with Cornish culture I wonder if I might draw your attention to The Cornish Squire The Pool of Pilate and Cold Blows the Wind Today Sweetheart which are quite simply sublime melodies perhaps needing that extra bit of help in bringing them to mind nowadays. In the best tradition of musical hand-me-downs Cornish folk music works equally sung or played and only by doing so on a regular basis can such traditions hope to continue forward with vigour and authority. A legitimate way of achieving this is to revitalise the harmonic scheme of these ancient tunes and bring them up to date for a modern audience; after all it was such an approach that fuelled the imagination of Benjamin Britten and Ralph Vaughan Williams in decades past while skilfully paying homage to the underlying charm

For Viola, Double Bass and Piano. Double Bass Part: Orchestral AND/OR Solo Tuning (includes parts for both). Shadows (3'20) 'Shadows' is a nostalgic, atmospheric waltz written in response to a poem by Ursula Vaughan Williams 'Ainsi le bon temps regrettons'. John Hawkins Studied with Master of the Queen's Music Malcolm Williamson and composer and teacher Elisabeth Lutyens. He has written many chamber, vocal and orchestral pieces (including a Sea Symphony, which was broadcast three times), a chamber opera for Covent Garden's 'Garden Venture' and much successful music for children. '… a distinguished musician who obviously has things to say and who knows how to say them in accessible, communicative terms likely to appeal to larger audiences without ever compromising or writing down to them . . .' - MusicWeb 'A name to remember' - Gramophone