31 Traditional Pieces for Violin-The author of Argentinian Tango and Folk Tunes for Violin (ED 13379) Ros Stephen presents a wide-ranging collection of Russian tunes for Violin. Highly flexible to use the pieces may be performed by a solo violinist or as Violin duets. The music has been carefully edited to create authentic arrangements. Ornamentation bowing and fingering have been included to enable stylistic performances and there is also guidance on general style as well as note on all of the individual tunes. The volume is accompanied by a CD with a recording of all tunes performed by Ros Stephen.

In recent times there has been a surge of interest in the uniquely beautiful song forms of Roma (or 'gypsy?) music. Its variety, richness and influence have won international admiration, even as the Romani people themselves have so often been the victims of misunderstanding, prejudice and repression. The Romani people emerged in Eastern Europe almost a thousand years ago and can trace their origins to the Indian sub-continent. Their itinerant culture and wide global dispersal have led to a unique richness of musical style which, in part due to the rise in interest in World Music, is now being more widely appreciated. Whether performed in one of several Eastern European tongues or in the Romani's own language, the 21 songs featured here reflect the haunting, diverse voices of a unique ethnic culture. The songs are presented both in print-with melody lines, chord boxes and lyrics in their original language and English-and in classic recordings by the original artists on the accompanying CD. Donald Cohen, guitarist, folklorist and college history and music professor, has spent his life studying, researching and collecting music from Europe and the Americas. He is also the author of Fado Português, Songs from the Soul of Portugal and Tango Voices: Songs from the Soul of Buenos Aires and Beyond . / Mélodie/Accords/Paroles

12 Original Pieces-With piano accompaniment these duets include a Samba Tango Rock Rhumba Cha-cha and Blues. The recorder players only need to know ten notes to play them all! The two parts are each available separately once the main book has been purchased: please quote SP520P1 and/or SP520P2 (99p per extra part).

Chill-out pieces to enjoy between exams-Fun Club Clarinet Grades 1-2 provides 11 fun ‘chill-out’ tunes to relax with between exams written by Alan Haughton. The lively tunes consolidate what has been learnt and move the pupil on to the nextgrade. The funky FREE CDs contain a demonstration of each track as well as an accompaniment track. Tracks included: bracadabra Aria Danger zone Gold nugget boogie Home alone Missing you Partying Riffs Tango Argentine The snake charmer and The waltz.

Chill-out pieces to enjoy between exams-Fun Club provides chill-out pieces to relax with and enjoy between exams. The lively tunes consolidate what has been learnt and move the pupil on to the next grade. The funky FREE CDs contain a demonstration ofeach track as well as an accompaniment. For Grade 1-2 Cello.Includes 11 fun pieces: Abracadabra Aria Danger zone Gold nugget boogie Home alone Missing you Partying Riffs Tango Argentine The snake charmer and The waltz.

Jennifer and Michael Watts are a husband-and-wife team active in the music industry in Southern California. Jennifer is a classically trained jazz pianist and maintains a full piano studio. Mike is a multi-talented studio musician arranger composer and orchestrator working mainly in the motion picture and television industries. Some of the more recent films he has been involved with include Tangled Toy Story 3 and The Princess and the Frog. Blues Jazz Rock & Rags is comprised of original compositions Jennifer uses in her studio to keep piano students motivated. The original solos in Book 1 (HL00296849) are at the Late Elementary level. Titles are: The Baby Rhino •Blues News • The Broken Clock • Frog Hoppin' • Get Down • Lazy Daisy • Raggin' Around • Rockin' the Blues Away • Sneakin' Cake • The Tangled Tango • Whenever • and Wishing for Summertime.

The third volume of the Heifetz Collection is a treasure trove of material for violinists including many items that have never been published before. Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987) remains a landmark among violinists of the twentieth century a performer who virtually redefined the limits of the possible for his chosen instrument. These transcriptions and arrangements made to enrich his repertoire will be a great boon to young virtuosos looking for a challenge. Many of them were provided by the Heifetz family and are published here. Music by Albeniz (Sevilla) Castenuovo-Tedesco (Ritmo di Tango) Debussy ( La chevelure) Fauré (Aubade) Kodaly (Danube-Tisza) Prokofieff(Gavotta Op. 32) among others are included in this handsome collection which is a must purchase for players and lovers of fine violin music.

Trois Chansons by Kurt Weill is a set of three French songs for Voice and Piano. The lyrics have been written by Maurice Magre and Roger Fernay and the general level of difficulty is medium. The first piece Complainte de la Seine (Complains of the Seine) is three page long and its lyrics are about what lies at the bottom of the river. The second song Je ne t’aime pas (I don’t love you) is a man telling someone that he doesn’t love her that everything is fine and that he is fine if she is happy. The third piece Youkali is a highly rhythmic tango-habanera in fourpages which depicts the island of Youkali. Kurt Weill (1900-1950) is a German composer who developed operas and some works for the concert hall.

Famous classics for violin - piano accompaniment-Essential Melodies is a delightful collection of repertoire pieces by famous composers. These pieces have been skilfully adapted for the violin by a number of excellent arrangers with the emphasis on variety musical quality and melodic interest. Various dance forms are presented in this book including the rondeau waltz and tango. With a selection of styles to choose from you can be confident that concerts and school performances will be a success. Some of the pieces can be played entirely in the first position; others involve some position changing but none of them requires virtuoso technique.

Famous classics for violin-Essential Melodies is a delightful collection of repertoire pieces by famous composers. These pieces have been skilfully adapted for the violin by a number of excellent arrangers with the emphasis on variety musical quality and melodic interest. Various dance forms are presented in this book including the rondeau waltz and tango. With a selection of styles to choose from you can be confident that concerts and school performances will be a success. Some of the pieces can be played entirely in the first position; others involve some position changing but none of them requires virtuoso technique.

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 allits 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

The complete singing resource for primary schools-Key Stage 1 (ages 5 to 7) Following from the huge success of Singing Sherlock 1 and 2 this volume and its companion book Singing Sherlock 4 provide more exciting repertoire and ideas for primary singing. As with the other books this gives enjoyable and structured ways to teach music concepts and vocal skills with no prior musical knowledge or music-reading skills required! - it is aimed at the non-specialist music teacher as well as the specialist. Singing Sherlock 3 includes tried and tested songs which will inspire good singing in schools and youth choirs - and CDs of performance and backing tracks. Aligned to therequirements of Key Stage 1 (ages 5 to 7) it features 'Sherlock in Concert' - show-stopping concert pieces to round off a period of study.ContentsSINGING SHERLOCK INVESTIGATES02 Do your groundwork03 How you teach the song is really important!WARM UPS06 Jimbo Jambo07 Wesley Bear08 Sherlock’s A Real Cool ChapSECTION 1 VOICE GYM AND TUNE-UP!10 Sherlock’s clues to pulse and rhythm11 Circle Game: Toes a-Twinklin’12 Circle Game: First Couple Up13 Eat Me Song14 Everybody Sillybody Song15 The Little Pigs Jive16 The Nursery Rhyme Rap17 Kapulu Kane18 Traffic LightsSECTION 2 TUNE IN!20 Sherlock’s clues on how to find the singing voice21 Animals Live in the Forest22 Voice Stretch Song23 Did You Feed My Cow?24 The Noisy House25 Sherlock’s Sports Day26 Calico is a Charming Cat27 Callers28 The FairgroundSECTION 3 SING THE STORY30 Wannabe31 Brian32 Crop Eating Crows33 When I Was Small34 Make Friends Around the World35 My Birthday Party36 The Honey Bee37 Colours of My WorldSECTION 4 SHERLOCK IN CONCERT39 I’m a Giraffe40 Tiger Tango41 Dolphin Song43 Gepetto made a Puppet44 Pinocchio45 Down Down to the Bottom of the Sea