Par HARRIS PAUL. Now more than ever, the ability to sight-read fluently is an essential part of the training of musicians of any instrument. This workbook is designed to help young musicians overcome the nerves that often cause sight-reading problems, by giving them thorough technical grounding as well as confidence boosting strategies. This book is designed especially for bassoon players working for the Grades 1-5 examinations. Step by step it helps the player to build up a complete picture of each piece, first through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific problems, then by the study of a prepared piece with associated questions for the student to answer, then finally to the real, unprepared sight-reading test itself. / Niveau : Facile / Etude / Basson

New Edition. Par HARRIS PAUL. Firmly rooted in Paul Harris's Simultaneous Learning approach, this new edition of Improve your sight-reading! Bassoon Grades 1-5 is designed to help overcome all the stumbling blocks to successful sight-reading. Step by step you will build up acomplete picture of each piece, firstly through rhythmic, melodic and technical exercises, then by studying prepared pieces and finally 'going solo' with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces. This new edition of the best-sellingImprove your sight-reading! contains completely new material throughout and has been brought up to date to match the latest ABRSM sight-reading criteria. Firmly rooted in Paul Harris's Simultaneous Learning approach, this new edition of Improve your sight-reading! Bassoon Grades 1-5 is designed to help overcome all the stumbling blocks to successful sight-reading. Step by step you will build up a complete picture of each piece, firstly through rhythmic, melodic and technical exercises, then by studying prepared pieces and finally 'going solo' with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces. This new edition of the best-selling Improve your sight-reading! contains completely new material throughout and has been brought up to date to match the latest ABRSM sight-reading criteria. / Niveau : 1-5 / Etudes et exercices / Etude / Basson

Timeless Cornish Melodies Cooked Up For Hungry Brass Players-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 yet entirely 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 ideally sung and 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

One of the most widely used series of methods for individual or like-instrument class instruction. Using a very well-rounded approach including scales arpeggios technical studies studies for musicianship articulation studies solos duets and studies devoted to the special needs of each instrument this series provides a fantastic wealth of material for all student musicians.

Sunset Song op.42 for bassoon and piano was written and premiered in 1994 at the Los Angeles Museum of Art, Bing Theatre. It is the composer´s second large work featuring the bassoon as soloist (after Hexen) and like Hexen it is also dedicated to bassoonist Judith Farmer who premiered it with the composer at the piano.Sunset Song is technically a tour de force for both the bassoon and the piano. It is happy, sensuous, obsessive and at times mocking - often reflecting the time in which it was written and the events of a Mexico tour that followed the first performance during which the piece underwent revisions.The piece starts with an introduction played by the bassoon almost entirely. This introduction uses elements of 1950s pop music. A middle section follows where a static -almost Middle Eastern- ostinato rhythmic pattern beats with increasing tension. This pattern is then transformed to a Latin beat which finally returns the piece to the opening mood. The bassoon ends the piece in an irreverent tone, with a pitch written two octaves above the official limit of the instrument's register. The title Sunset Song was inspired by California's sunsets and the sun setting on the Pacific Ocean. / Basson Et Piano

Bassoon trios selected and arranged from the Renaissance Baroque Classical Romantic and Modern eras by Graham Sheen (principal bassoon B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra). Seven substantial new pieces comprising score parts and detailed notes which teachers will find provide a wide range of technical and musical challenges while bon viveurs will enjoy an amusing and not too taxing prelude to the easing of the corks. Above all great fun! '... Splendid stuff Spartan!' - Double Reed News.Grade: 5 - 8