The Very Best Time of Year

The Very Best Time Of Year is one of Rutter's many well loved Christmas carols. This piece has been performed by The City of London Sinfonia and is intended for SATB and piano accompaniment. A delightful carol suitable for services concerts and carol singing.

Each songbook in the Big Book series provides musicians of all ability levels with a big list---usually 40 or more titles per book---of the very best songs from a favorite musical genre. The holidays are just around the corner, and there is no better way to celebrate than with these Big Book classic Christmas tunes. Titles include All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth * Christmases with You * Deck the Hall * The First Noel * God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen * Grown-Up Christmas List * I'll Be Home for Christmas * Joy to the World * Mary, Did You Know? * O Little Town of Bethlehem * Santa Baby * Silent Night * The Twelve Days of Christmas * What Child is This * Winter Wonderland * and many more. / Miscellaneous, Scores, Songbooks / Recueil / Piano, Voix, Guitare et Clavier

# Open string pieces and tunes using the finger pattern 0-1-34 # Quality original pieces from rock to calypso # Careful introduction of new notes and rhythms # Simple slurs and dynamics # Easy duets # Scales and arpeggios in the keys of G, D, and C major, one octave # CD with performances of all the pieces to play along to - jazz and rock numbers add drumkit # Book of straightforward piano accompaniments available 32 pages 25 July 2002 Kathy Blackwell and David Blackwell Kathy Blackwell is an experienced peripatetic string teacher, currently teaching privately after many years working for Oxfordshire County Council. She has a special interest in teaching the violin and viola to young children, both individually and in groups. Her determination to find the very best pieces - well written and accessible, tuneful and catchy - led directly to the creation of the Fiddle/Viola/Cello Time series. David Blackwell has worked in publishing for Oxford University Press and ABRSM. He has conducted both adult and children's choirs, and published several fine choral arrangements. He has contributed pieces to several instrumental tutor books as well as co-writing Fiddle/Viola/Cello Time.

The second volume of a thousand and one all-time hit songs ranging from essential standards to the latest pop hits - a must for all singers and musicians. / Chant Et Guitare

The Bumper Book Of Christmas Songs is a massive collection of the best traditional and popular seasonal songs arranged for Piano Vocal and Guitar including two useful CDs of accompaniments.   Featuring all of those amazingly festive tunes that warm everyone's hearts at this time of year it's the most wonderful book of the season. Keep it at home on the music shelf then take it out in the run up to Christmas and play all of those great favourites that everybody loves. Songs like Away In A Manger Silent Night and We Wish You A Merry Christmas are timeless classics that are the epitome of Christmas. Inthe same book the huge contemporary pop hits that get everyone dancing at those Christmas parties are included like Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town Another Rock And Roll Christmas and Fairytale Of New York.   The CDs that complement the book include backing tracks for the songs so if you aren't fortunate enough to have other musicians accompanying you you can still sound like you've got a full band behind you. This Bumper Book is ideal for either practising privately at your Piano or performing in front of a small audience. It's also big and diverse enough to get out every Christmas time when all your family and friends are together for a big singalong. The festive favourites will keep you playing and singing each and every year with the easy-to-use format and the full lyrics sheet music and chord boxes.    So to really get you in the spirit of Christmas this year why not check out The Bumper Book Of Christmas Songs sheet music and learn to play the best of the best of seasonal classics - and keep playing them year after year.  

Two beautiful pieces of Irish influence. Recorded by Gary Ryan on his CD 'Visions and Vistas'.The composer writes:'Out of Clonmel' - Over the past few years I have explored different tunings on the guitar. The instrument sounds fresh with a new tuning and harmonies or patterns that have become stale or are difficult to play with the traditional tuning can suddenly become reinvigorated idiomatic and resonant in different ways. You are also forced as a player to explore the fingerboard differently and the different tension of the strings produces a subtly different timbre.Out of Clonmel is tuned so that all of the open strings form a D major chord (D A D F# A D). This can be confusing at first but you get used to it pretty quickly and tablature helps when notating the score. Both of these pieces were originally commissioned by Rebecca Baulch a very fine player who I used to teach at the Royal College of Music. She was very good at reading tablature hence the idea to retune the guitar.Clonmel was the place my grandfather came from in Co. Tipperary Ireland and the piece has an energetic Irish flavour which reflects Irish folk music something I have always loved. The melody is decorated with ornaments which imitate those often played on the pipe or whistle. I dedicated this piece to my second daughter Caitlin so full of life who has of course in part come out of Clonmel.'Lough Caragh (Glenbeigh)' - Lough Caragh is influenced by the traditional Irish ballad and expresses for me something of the incredible beauty of the South West of Ireland. When my eldest daughter Jenny was only one year old in the summer of 2004 we stayed on the shores of Lough Caragh a beautifully tranquil lake west of Killarney visiting Glenbeigh where Jenny first played in the sea. I was trying to convey through the music the memory of those early magical childhood days which can never be recaptured. I had the melody going round in my head for a very long time before writing it down. When I compose I like to think that if what I have written is good I will remember it several weeks or months later in my head. My aural memory therefore acts as a filter retaining the best ideas before I put pen to paper. Lough Caragh uses a

This exclusive collection brings together 12 of Nico Muhly?s sacred works for mixed-voice choir. These vivacious fresh and dramatic pieces will make an impact whether in the church or in the concert hall and range from the intimate Lord keep us modest when we claim to the effervescent Bright Star Carol alongside service music such as Muhly?s Third Service. All are accessible to learn and offer choirs a new slant on contemporary choral music at its very best.  'Choral music has always been at the emotional core of my musical output. Even when I?m writing large-scale orchestral works (or indeed chamber music) I alwaysfind myself returning to techniques and textures I?ve greedily stolen from centuries of music from Tye to Howells early and recent. I try to design my own choral music primarily for use in worship where the measure of the success of the piece is if it helps guide the listeners? ears upwards and elsewhere as sacred architecture and the various rituals of the church themselves are meant to do. The specificity of music heard only in certain seasons is for me an important and thrilling element of the choral tradition: a Beethoven Symphony is welcome at any point in the year but an anthem for Candlemas works only then at a certain time of day and on a certain day of the year. With this functional spirit at the heart of the compositional process I hope that the music collected here makes equal sense in a concert setting. These works range from ordinaries of the mass to hymns to motets and represent a decade and a half of output.' - Nico Muhly

This year the entertainment world pays tribute to one of its very best honoring the 80th birthday of composer Charles Strouse. Some of the most memorable songs from stage and film are included in this musical montage skillfullyarranged for orchestra by Ted Ricketts. Includes: Put on a Happy Face (Bye Bye Birdie) Once Upon a Time (All American) Tomorrow (Annie) Applause and Theme from Golden Boy. Dur: 5:00

One of Mozarts most famous operas and one of his last works Die Zauberflöte (“The Magic Flute”) continues to be performed worldwide each year. From its iconic majestic opening three chords Mozartsoverture is a wonderfulcombination of the sentiment and spirit of the opera that follows. This adaption for strings is classical programming at its very best.

Recreate the magic of Abba in your own home with the music and lyrics to their pure gold hits collected in a single compact volume for the first time. Abba dominated the charts for ten years and their recordings continueto influence every new generation of pop stars. Today their exotic stage costumes recall memories of the sensational Seventies and their wonderful songs are timeless reminders of the greatest pop group since the Beatles.This collection is arranged for Piano and Voice complete with guitar chord boxes and lyrics.

This Fleet Foxes sheet music is the matching folio for the eponymous début album by Seattle band Fleet Foxes. This book includes every song from the album as well as their E.P. Sun Giant andincludes the full lyrics. This Fleet Foxes?sheet music songbook features every sublime song from their debtu album by far the most critically acclaimed band of 2008. The album featured inseveral of the most trusted 'best-of-year' polls such as Uncut Pitchfork Mojo Q Drowned In Sound and Rolling Stone. This esteem has translated into commercial success as despite being signed to indie labelBella Union the band have achieved Gold sales in the UK and become a popular live act across the European festivals.The band's sound is a unique blend of vocal harmonies and truly timeless songwriting craft echoing The BeachBoys and is described by the band as 'Baroque Harmonic Pop' and translates beautifully in this Piano Vocal and Guitar songbook. The book includes fan favourite songs like White Winter Hymnal as well as Sun It Risesand Quiet Houses. Not only this but our Fleet Foxes Piano Vocal and Guitar sheet music also features the songs from their EP Sun Giant letting you learn all the Fleet Foxes tunesyou could want.With a simply brilliant blend of folk lush vocal harmonies and traditional Guitar-based alternative rock the album is genuinely excellent with many critics labelling it an instant classic. FleetFoxes?is great to hear but take it from us it's even better to play. The vocals allow room for embellishments and improvisation while the harmonies created by the Piano and Guitar parts sound justdivine.?So for aspiring folk-bands or fans of great music this book of?Fleet Foxes sheet music is a real winner. To learn every song from indisputably the best album of 2008 pick up this folio