French composer Eugène Cools published his Solo De Concours for Cornet and Piano in 1958. The work remains an important audition work particularly at the Paris Conservatoire. Cools' Solo De Concours addresses advanced features of the Cornet including semiquaver flourishes chromaticism and variations in performance directions amongst other aspects. For all aspiring Cornet performers Cools' Solo De Concours is an essential addition to the repertoire.

Guillaume Balay (1871-1943) served in the French military as a prolific Cornet player having won first place in the 1894 Cornet Award competition at the National Academy of Music in Paris. His compositions were popular in the Cornet and brass repertoire at the time including his Prélude Et Ballade adaptable to Cornet or Saxhorn with Piano accompaniment. This Balay work remains within the brass repertoire to this day and is suitable for intermediate to advanced level players. The Prélude is in 4/4 meter and exploits the full range of the instruments. There is also much use of flourishingsemiquaver passages. The Ballade is a much more measured than the first movement and is in 2/4 time. The texture is predominantly melody-dominated homophony with the occasional use of call-and-response between the melody instrument and Piano accompaniment. This quirky two-movement piece by Balay provides the intermediate to advanced Cornet or Saxhorn player with a fun alternative performance piece.

Pour cornet en Sib ou saxhorn Sib ou trompette en Ut our Sib et piano-Guillaume Balay (1871-1943) served in the French military as a prolific Cornet player having won first place in the 1894 Cornet Award competition at the National Academy of Music in Paris. His compositions were popular in the Cornet and brass repertoire at the time including his Andante and Allegro adaptable to Cornet Saxhorn or Trumpet with Piano accompaniment. This Balay work remains within the brass repertoire to this day and is suitable for intermediate level players. The Andante is in 12/8 meter and exploits the full range of the instruments. There is also much use of performance directions andarticulation. The Allegro is a much brisker tempo than the first movement and is in 2/4 time. The texture is predominantly melody-dominated homophony with the occassional use of call-and-response between the melody instrument and Piano accompaniment. This quirky two movement piece by Balay provides the intermediate Cornet Saxhorn or Trumpet player with a fun alternative performance piece.

Morceau De Concours (1903) is a work for Cornet and Piano by Augustin Savard. Composed for the Paris Conservatoire contest this piece lasts approximately seven minutes and can be played by upper-intermediate and above level players . Starting solemnly the first half of the piece is quite slow while the second half is more energetic and more cheerful. This piece would also be great to use in recitals. Augustin Savard (1861-1942) is a French composer who won the Prix de Rome who composed some oratories and some orchestral works.

Method for Trumpet-These exciting educational books contain songs puzzles and games to increase your understanding of music information about your instrument and lots of fun pieces to play with either the CD provided or with other students.

This is a beautiful and lyrical Cornet solo with band accompaniment. It conjures up a pastoral scene with distant bells ringing The piece is actually named after a pub in Lower Peover near Knutsford in Cheshire.

Hilda Sehested's Suite was expertly composed in 1905 for Cornet and Piano.Sehested studied the Organ with Ludvig Birkedal-Barfod and composition with Orla Rosenhoff and later went on to compose several instrumental pieces as well as being a dedicated church organist.

Student Instrumental Course-Studies And Melodious Etudes Part I is a supplementary technic book of the Belwin 'Student Instrumental Course'. Although planned as a companion and correlating book to the method book The Cornet Student it can also be used effectively with most elementary cornet instruction books. It provides for extended and additional treatment in technical areas which are limited in the basic method because of lack of space. Emphasis is on developing musicianship through scales warm-ups and technical drills musicianship studies and interesting melody-like etudes.

First published in 1915 this is a work that has stood the test of time by one of the Brass world's most important pedagogues Characteristic Studies for the Cornet should be part of any Trumpet student's library. Within its pages the student will gain valuable insight on tonguing and the 24 characteristic studies will help the student to gain absolute control of technique articulation slurring and endurance. This work will prove helpful and beneficial to the developing student.Herbert Lincoln Clarke was a well-known American Cornet player feature soloist bandmaster andcomposer. Clarke’s legacy includes composing a portion of the standard repertoire for the instrument many recordings as well as a seminal school of playing which emphasized not only technical aptitude but also increased warmth and lyricism of tone. He also produced several method books that are still used by Brass students to this day.