Over 160 of the best-loved piano pieces together in one comprehensive volume! This is a celebration of easy and rewarding solos for the American pianist. Nowhere else will you find gathered together in one piano treasury so many of America's favorite folk songs, patriotic solos, ragtime gems, blues instrumentals, and jazz standards - along with the beloved classical masterpieces of Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Handel, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Strauss, and Tchaikovsky. / Niveau : Elémentaire / Rép International / Recueil / Piano

The Legendary Series: Clarinet is a beautifully presented, limited edition book containing 100 great pieces, specially arranged for Clarinet. Expertly bringing together Clarinet music ranging from Mozart and Berlioz through the 1940s big bands to Klezmer, traditional jazz and popular music, The Legendary Series: Clarinet is a lavish and permanent addition to the bookshelf of any clarinet lover. Alongside the luxuriously presented repertoire is a selection of illustrations and commentaries on the lives of many celebrated clarinettists and composers. It should be noted that the chord symbols above the stave are written for an accompanying concert pitch instrument, i.e. Piano or Guitar. This is to allow the accompanist to read from the same score as the soloist. / Clarinette

The Piano Bench Of Easy Classical Music is a tremendous piano collection containing 400 pages of great music literature, specially selected and edited for the developing pianist who loves classical music. Here you will find the world's favorite preludes, minuets, sonata movements, nocturnes, waltzes, gavottes, mazurkas, romantic short pieces, impressionistic works, and light classics- as well as themes from the great symphonies, chamber works, operas, and ballets by the master composers of the past four centuries. / Piano

Lower Intermediate to Intermediate. 103 arrangements of must-know classical standards by 41 composers at the lower intermediate to intermediate level. BACH: Air on the G String · Arioso · Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring · Sheep May Safely Graze · Sleepers, Awake BEETHOVEN: Theme from Symphony No. 5 · Theme from Symphony No. 6 · Theme from Symphony No. 7 · Ode to Joy from Symphony No. 9 BIZET: Themes from Carmen · Farandole from L'Arlésienne Suite No. 2 BOCCHERINI: Minuet from String Quintet BORODIN: Polovetsian Dances from Prince Igor BRAHMS: Hungarian Dance · Lullaby · Theme from Symphony No. 1 · Theme from Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn CLARKE: Trumpet Voluntary (The Prince of Denmark's March) DVORÁK: Themes from Symphony No. 9 ELGAR: Nimrod from Enigma Variations · Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 FAURE: Pavane · Pie Jesu · Sicilienne GOUNOD: Ave Maria adapted from Prelude in C Major by JS Bach GRIEG: Anitra's Dance from Peer Gynt Suite · Morning from Peer Gynt Suite · Solveig's Song from Peer Gynt Suite · Theme from Piano Concerto HANDEL: Harmonious Blacksmith · Bourrée from Music for the Royal Fireworks · Largo (Ombra mai fu) from Serse · Where'er You Walk from Semele · Hornpipe from Water Music HOLST: Jupiter Chorale from The Planets HUMPERDINCK: Evening Prayer from Hansel and Gretel MAHLER: Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 MASSENET: Meditation from Thaïs MENDELSSOHN: Nocturne from A Midsummer Night's Dream MOZART: Theme from Clarinet Concerto · Minuet from Don Giovanni · Allegro from Eine kleine Nachtmusik · Theme from Piano Concerto No. 20 · Theme from Piano Concerto No. 21 · Theme from Symphony No. 40 MUSSORGSKY: Promenade from Pictures at an Exhibition OFFENBACH: Can-Can from Orpheus in the Underworld · Barcarolle from The Tales of Hoffmann PACHELBEL: Canon in D PAGANINI: Caprice No. 24 from 24 Caprices PARRY: Jerusalem PONCHIELLI: The Dance of the Hours from La Gioconda PUCCINI: O mio babbino caro from Gianni Schicchi · Themes from Madama Butterfly PURCELL: Rondeau from Abdelazar ROSAS: Over the Waves ROSSINI: Themes from The Barber of Seville · Theme from William Tell SCHUBERT: Ave Maria · Serenade · Theme from Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished) · Theme from Symphony No. 9 · To Music · The Trout · SEMTANA: The Moldau from My Homeland SOUSA: The Liberty Bell · The Stars and Stripes Forever · The Washington Post STRAUSS I: Radetzky March STRAUSS II: Emperor Waltz · On the Beautiful Blue Danube · Tales from the Vienna Woods · Tritsch-Tratsch Polka · Viennese Blood · Wine, Women, and Song TCHAIKOVSKY: Themes from 1812 Overture · Marche slave · Dance of the Reed Flutes from The Nutcracker · Waltz of the Flowers from The Nutcracker · Theme from Piano Concerto No. 1 · Theme from Romeo and Juliet Theme from Swan Lake · Theme from Symphony No. 5 · Theme from Symphony No.6 VERDI: Grand March · La donn / Niveau : Facile / Classique / Recueil / Piano

The New Essential Companion. Henrik Wiese, the internationally renowned orchestral and solo flautist, has spent four years compiling what promises to be the definitive guide to audition repertoire for students preparing for a seat in a professional orchestra. He has worked with his own students in Salzburg as they engaged in auditions, as well as with other professional players and his teaching colleagues at the conservatorium. He sourced repertoire lists from job advertisements past and present and referred to other audition lists such as those of Baxtresser and Wye. Considerable research has gone into the differences between existing editions of the chosen pieces even, surprisingly, from twentieth century composers such as Prokofiev and Stravinsky. 'The Flute Audition” then looks at practical matters such as page turns and metronome markings. Wiese comments, for example, that Hindemith's own recording takes a passage from 'Symphonic Metamorphoses” markedly slower than in the score. The result of all this painstaking research is the most comprehensive collection of international audition pieces yet published in a single volume. 'This is an excellent collection of orchestral excerpts for the next generation of young musicians. You can use it to prepare for auditions anywhere in the world. Whether it's for an opera house, symphony or chamber orchestra, everything you need is here.'/ Recueil / Flûte Traversière

Early Piano Music. Par STRAUSS RICHARD. These previously unpublished piano pieces will appear in print for the first time in three volumes. Volume I contains fairly short individual pieces (1872-83) of widely varying difficulty. Volume II will contain four Sonatinas in several movements and a Fantasia (1874), which is about as demanding as the Sonatinas of Kuhlau and Clementi or early pieces by Mozart. Volume III contains two Sonatas (1877 and 1879) and a cycle of variations (1884) whose technical demands approach those of the Beethoven Sonatas. The tonal language of the young Richard Strauss was still firmly under the influence of nineteenth-Century traditions, with the figures of Schubert, Mendelssohn and Schumann dominating the musical landscape. The wealth of different forms and the varying levels of difficulty in Strauss’ early piano music make it well suited for teaching purposes; admirers and connoisseurs of Strauss’ music may also discover a few surprises here./ Recueil / Piano

Das Liederspiel. Par HUMPERDINCK ENGELBERT. When Engelbert Humperdinck’s fairy tale opera Hänsel und Gretel was premiered on 23 December 1893 in Weimar conducted by Richard Strauss, the work could look back on an extensive history of origin. Humperdinck’s younger sister Adelheid Wette (born in 1858) had displayed a great interest in literature in her youth and written a variety of poems for special occasions. In 1888, she wrote a fairy tale entitled Schneewittchen [Snow White] and her brother supplied some songs for this piece. Further fairy tale collaborations followed which were customarily performed within the family circle, and the first draft of the Hänsel und Gretel was begun in 1890. Adelheid’s husband would be celebrating his 34th birthday on 16 May of this year and his wife intended to surprise him with a performance of her version of this fairy tale. Her brother was allotted the task of composing the accompanying songs and, a month before the birthday, she wrote a letter to him in Mainz where Engelbert Humperdinck was among other activities working as an editor for the Schott publishing house, ordering a “very pretty folkloric” Tanzlied [Dance song], a Waldlied [Forest song] (or Echolied [Echo song]), a Schlummerlied [Lullaby] and a Kickericki-Lied [Cock-a-doodle-doo song] from her “dear sugar-sweet little brother... Engel-Bärtchen [angel beard]”. She enclosed the corresponding verses with the letter and “for fun” also provided her own invented melody for the Schlummerlied and rhythmic suggestions for the Tanzlied. Humperdinck went straight to work and, as related in an entry in his diary, was already able to play the songs to the director of the publishing house, Dr Ludwig Strecker, by 19 April. This was the history of origin of the four songs published for the first time edited in form of their original versions in this edition Brüderchen komm’ tanz’ mit mir, Wer ruft mir im Walde doch alles nach, In den Zweigen die Vögelein und Tirelireli! ‘s ist nicht mehr früh “for two children’s voices and piano accompaniment” (see manuscript1). In his reply letter to his sister in which the fair copy of the songs were enclosed, Humperdinck wrote: “As you see, the pitch of the melodies is not too high and I have incorporated your melodies. Let me know soon whether you like the little songs. By the way, the ‘cock-a-doodle-doo’ can also be sung on one note (E flat) instead of on the four notes of the chord.” The first performance of the song-play was held as planned within the family circle with Wettes’ two eldest daughters in the two principle roles. Spurred on by the success of the family performance, initial plans were forged to adapt the song-play into a singspiel with numerous musical numbers and rhymed dialogues; Hermann Wette participated in a draft of the text. The particell of this singspiel had been completed by Christmas 1890. Hugo Wolf and a few others however advised the composer to extend the singspiel into a through-composed fairy tale opera. Humperdinck followed this advice and worked on what he ironically termed as a “Kinderstubenweihfestspiel“ [sacred festive play for the nursery] during the next two summers in Bayreuth. Tanzliedchen [Dance song] and Morgenweckruf [Cock-a-doodle-doo song] were eventually included in the opera in a modified form. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Répertoire / 2 Voix et Piano

Eight Varied Pieces For Orchestra-Three new collections of varied pieces for orchestra for players from beginner to grade 3 standard.This collection of three books each containing eight varied pieces has been compiled to capture the imagination of young players and to introduce them to a wide range of musical styles.Special effects appropriate to each instrument provide additional learning points and great entertainment both in rehearsal and performance. There are glissandos for strings and trombone flutter tonguing for flute and trumpets (for those able to) and a range of vocal sounds for all!The scoring allows these pieces to be played by variouscombinations of instruments. Ideally your orchestra should have some instruments from each section but if not (for example no brass) then the supplementary piano part (available separately) can be used to fill the gaps. It can also be used to provide extra support in rehearsals.As well as the normal percussion parts some of the pieces make use of a drum kit. For orchestras without a drum kit player a drum kit and bass backing track is available to download free of charge either as MP3 or WAV files.OrchestrationDescant recorder Treble recorder Flute 1 Flute 2 or Oboe Clarinet 1 Clarinet 2 Alto Sax Bassoon Horn in F Horn in Eb Trumpet 1 Trumpet 2 Trombone (Bass clef) Trombone (Treble clef) Timpani Drum Kit Percussion 1 Percuission 2 Percussion 3.Strings (Violin 1 Violin 2 Violin 3 Viola Cello Bass)Orchanics 2 contains:-Marching through Mud (Richard Ling); When I was a lad (from HMS Pinafore); Ghost Ride (Richard Ling); Largo (Dvorak); Battle Zone (Richard Ling); Persian March (J Strauss II); Lazy Horse (Richard Ling); Good King Wenceslas.