SKU: HH.HH031-SOL

ISBN 9790708024774.

Apostrophen is solo music of rare intensity and beauty.

SKU: AP.36-52730601

ISBN 9781633610064. UPC: 679360614938. English.

This volume continues the development of playing skills found in Book 1 and progresses to more complex rhythms, left-hand finger patterns and techniques, bowing techniques, and preparation for shifting. Book 2 introduces students to: long and controlled bow strokes, slurred legato and staccato bow strokes, string-crossing slurs, and producing dynamic contrasts; new rhythmic patterns including dotted notes, triplets, sixteenth notes, swinging eighth notes, and syncopated rhythms; new time signatures including 6/8 and 3/8, along with cut time for cello/bass; and major and minor left-hand string patterns, extended fingerings, and beginning octave harmonics and shifting. Online audio available.

These products are currently being prepared by a new publisher. While many items are ready and will ship on time, some others may see delays of several months.

SKU: FH.VC8

ISBN 978-1-55440-544-2.

This inaugural edition of the Cello Series offers a sound and progressive collection of Repertoire, Recordings, Etudes, Technique, and Orchestral Excerpts for the aspiring cellist. With an expansive representation of musical styles from all eras, this series addresses the need for a single collection of quality educational materials to foster musical development and instill appreciation of the richness and diversity of music written for cello. Supporting a balanced course of study, this series organizes repertoire into nine volumes from the Preparatory Level through Level 8. Each level offers music from a range of styles and compositional eras, including standard literature, new arrangements of familiar tunes, and music written for cellists, by cellists. These selections provide the flexibility to choose pedagogically appropriate material suited to each individual, and to motivate students to fully develop their musicianship and technique.
Preparatory Level:
Etude in C Major - Schroeder, Carl
Stroll Along - Anonymous arr. Samuel Applebaum
Etude in C Major - Romberg, Bernhard Heinrich
Climbing the Scale - Hewitt-Jones, Anita
Etude in C Major - Kummer, Friedrich August
My Pony - Slovenian folk song arr. Francis Grant
Level 1:
The Willow Tree - Grant, Francis
Etude in C Major - Hohmann, Christian-Heinrich
Travelling Along - Hewitt-Jones, Anita
The Train - Legg, Pat
Up and Down Again - Dancla, Charles arr. Samuel Applebaum
Etude in G Major - Dotzauer, Friedrich
Etude in C Major - Romberg, Bernhard Heinrich
Etude in G Major, op. 101, no. 9 - Lee, Sebastian
Level 2:
Etude in D Major - Kummer, Friedrich August
Etude in B flat Major, op. 70, no. 16 - Lee, Sebastian
Phrygian Frolic - Legg, Pat
Martele March - Hewitt-Jones, Anita
Pachyderm Parade - Mooney, Rick
Etude in G Minor - Romberg, Bernhard Heinrich
Etude in C Major - Werner, Josef
Level 3:
Etude in A Major - Dotzauer, Friedrich
Spiccato Race - Hewitt-Jones, Anita
Etude in G Major, op. 30, no. 6 - Brueckner, Oskar
Etude in C Major - Borschitzky, Johann Francis
Etude in B flat Major - Tabb, Richard Valentine
Etude in G Major - Kummer, Friedrich August
Etude in F Major - Matz, Rudolf
Fire Stations - Legg, Pat
Etude in F Major - Feuillard, Louis R.
Level 4:
Etude in G Minor, op. 70, no. 24 - Lee, Sebastian
Etude in C Major - Tabb, Richard Valentine
Etude in D Major - Matz, Rudolf
Calypso - Legg, Pat
I Was a Teenage Monster - Mooney, Rick
Suo-Gan (A Welsh Lullaby) - Welsh folk song Arr. Rick Mooney
Etude in D Minor - Werner, Joseph
Etude in G Major, op. 31, no. 12 - Schroeder, Carl
Etude in C Major - Feuillard, Louis R.
Spinner's Waltz - Hewitt-Jones, Anita.

SKU: HL.14028929

Written for Moray Welsh whilst still an undergraduate at York University. This piece was completed in mid-September. Inspired by Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf. A solo 'cello seemed an appropriate medium for music which might explore the character of Harry Haller, with his desire for bourgeois comfort and his strong misanthropic and suicidal tendencies. The opening theme attempts to express this - melancholy, nostalgic, a bit Biedermeyer (cf. Brahms Intermezzi). The basic theme of the book, at its simplest, is that every human personality consists of hundred of different personalities - within every man there lurks a wolf. Accordingly the tendency of my piece is for all its musical material to become distorted, either by thematic transformation or by changes of timbre. There are three movements played without a break. The first is a character portrait of the Steppenwolf. The second is concerned in the most general sort of way with the dance elements in the novel - Harry's being taught to dance and appreciate low 'popular' music - a tango is recapitulated in a waltz and 'Yearning', a popular song of the time (1927) is hinted at. The third movement concerns the Masked Ball and the Magic Theatre. Mozart is one of Hesse's great loves and he is repeatedly mentioned in the book. Inevitably some Mozart quotes have been worked in, the most significant being a reference to The Magic Flute 'fire and water' flute theme in the middle of the second movement. Long before I finished the piece, I was disenchanted with the work of Hesse. Much of Steppenwolf I now find rather embarrassing and the claims currently made for Hesse's greatness seem to me exaggerated. Since my piece is in no important sense programmatically specific, this change of heart doesn't really matter. ~ David Blake.

SKU: BT.MUSM570366453

English.

'Brice Catherin, a cellist and a composer exploring the notion of the one-man-band concept, commissioned this work; this composition was subsequently the result of our collaboration. My aim has been to create a work where the cellist produces sounds using his full body: his hands (employing a variety of extended techniques on the Cello and external objects), his feet, his mouth (singing and playing the harmonica and flexible tube) and even his face on one occasion to muffle the strings. There are two central themes in the work: virtuosity and theatre, both strong, frequent features of my compositional oeuvre. After several meetings and experimentation with Brice, I chose asetup that enhances the musical scope without visually cluttering the stage. I am also using a rather unusual scordatura that not only changes the timbre of the instrument itself, but also helps create unique soundscapes that blend together with the sounds from the spring drums, the human voice (whistling, groans and other effects), a singing bowl, a harmonica and a flexible tube among others. The work is entitled Emmelia and there are two reasons for this: Emmelia derives from the prefix en (in) and the noun melos (harmony), thus meaning in harmony. The composition is structured and developed in clearly defined sections (noisy, harmonious, distorted, etc.), based on information revealed by a spectral analysis of an F1 spectrum on the cello (tuned a fifth below low C), played and recorded using a variety of attacks and triggering objects and methods. Emmelia is also the name of my baby daughter, who has been my constant inspiration since she was born.' - Evis Sammoutis.

SKU: HL.48188171

UPC: 888680848200. 8.5x11.75 inches.

“Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013) was greatly influenced by his contemporaries, Ravel, Debussy and Roussel, yet implemented his own, unique style. His Cello Concerto, Tout un monde lointain, is considered to be one of the most important 20th century additions to the instrument's repertoire. This Dutilleux Concerto comprises five movements which run seamlessly in to one-another, each inspired by the poetry of Charles Baudelaire. The movements are: 1) Énigme (Enigma), 2) Regard (Gaze), 3) Houles (Surges), 4) Miroirs (Mirrors), and 5) Hymne (Hymn). Tout un monde lointain was first performed in July 1970 by Russian cellist, Mstislav Rostropovich with the Orchestre de Paris. The piece remains popular to this day, and including the entire orchestral score, this edition is essential to the advanced cellist's repertoire.&rdquo.

SKU: ST.CLD140

ISBN 9790708113409.

SKU: ST.CLD121

ISBN 9790708113218.