James Weeks' Olympic Frieze for any number of pitched instruments (minimum 12).Composed and published 2014. Variable duration. First performed by participants at CoMA Summer School High Melton Doncaster on 21st August 2014. Olympic Frieze is conceived like an Ancient Greek frieze around the entablature of a temple: players should be placed along the walls of the performance space at regular intervals like figures in a bas-relief. Like visitors to a temple or museum the audience should be free to wander through the space and out again as desired and there should be no audible starting or stopping point - ideallythe music should be playing before the first audience member enters and continue after the last audience member leaves. Thus the piece functions as part of the decoration of the room and might be considered a descendant of Satie's musique d'ameublement; the difference being that Olympic Frieze is not intended as background music but to draw the listener's attention. It is also fundamentally audio-visual in nature. The piece explores the fundamental pleasure and beauty of physical exercise that underlie both ancient and modern manifestations of the Olympic games (as well as the Spartan gymnopaedia evoked in Satie's Piano pieces). The music consists of three elements: Exercises Actions and Disciplines. There are 84 short repeated Exercise motifs analogous to simple movements of the body or stretching exercises in performing which the players adopt stylised (musical) poses akin to those of Greek art. In between Exercises the players perform a number of silent physical Actions devised by themselves. Once stretched and loose each player is ready to attempt his or her own personal Discipline chosen from a list of 9 possibilities (running jumping javelin and trampoline).

Par CHAMBERLAIN LOUISE. Step It Up! is the fun way to move your playing onwards and upwards. Packed full of original jazzy pieces by Louise Chamberlain - with imaginative arrangements of well-known tunes, unaccompanied pieces and duets too - this carefully graded volume for clarinet also includes a CD of groovy backing tracks. So whether practising at home or performing to your friends, take your playing to another level with Step It Up! - and prepare to step up a grade at the same time! Pamela Wedgwood writes as Louise Chamberlain for the Step It Up! series. She is recognised around the world as one of the UK's most prolific and successful composers of popular repertoire for young instrumentalists.     / Exams, Instrumental Music, Schools / Etude / Clarinette et Piano

Anne Boyd's The Quiet Place for Oboe (doubling antique cymbals) Clarinet (doubling rin) Viola and Harp.The Quiet Place was commissioned by the Warwick andLeamington Festival for performance by Okeanos on their New Music Day on 14th July 2002.'The Quiet Place' is a meditation site in the University of York dedicated by Dame Janet Baker 'In honour of thespirituality which is in all people'. It was a place I visited frequently in the months I spent as visiting Professor at the University in late 2001. So soon after the attack on the New York Trade Centre the worldfelt a very unstable place especially to be so far from my Australian home. It was difficult to make much sense of existence in a world of fanatical fundamentalism - both Islamic and Christian. Perhaps for comfort I foundmyself thinking back a thousand years to the vital earth based spirituality of Hildegard of Bingen and uncovered an Antiphon she had composed 'Nunc Aperuit'. This chant became the basis of the work I have written forOkeanos in response to an invitation from Jinny Shaw whom I met in York last year. In English translation the words of the chant translate as 'Now the closed door has opened for us / What the serpent hassuffocated in woman./ Therefore shines forth in thedawn/ the flower from the Virgin Mary. ' The music of 'The Quiet Place' is a simple meditation which explores the moods of this text often retreating into a silencewhich is both breath and transcendence. - Anne Boyd

Arrangeur: Joseph Knaus. Par SUZUKI SHINICHI. Comprised of works from Volumes 1, 2, and 3 of the Suzuki Violin School, which have been arranged for string quartet by violinist/arranger Joseph Knaus. With lower string parts providing melodic and rhythmic counterpoint to set off the simple melodies (which match the Suzuki Method repertoire), these quartets are nevertheless simple enough for beginning level players ready for their first chamber music experience. String Quartets for Beginning Ensembles are sold in sets including full score and one part book per instrument. Volume 3 contents are: Gavotte (P. Martini) * Minuet, BWV Anh. II 114/Anh. III 183/Anh. II 115 (J. S. Bach) * Gavotte in G Minor, Gavotte en Rondeaufrom Suite in G Minor for Klavier, BWV 822 (J. S. Bach) * Humoresque, Op. 101, No. 7 for Piano (A. Dvorák) * Gavotte (J. Becker) * Gavotte from Orchestral Suite No. 3 from Overture in D Major, BWV 1068 (J. S. Bach) * Bourree, Bourrees I and II from Suite III in C Major for Violoncello, BWV 1009 (J. S. Bach). / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Recueil / Orchestre de Chambre

Performed by Mario Hossen violin Accompaniment: Plovdiv Chamber Orchestra Conductor: Nayden Todorov Mozart's third violin concerto KV216 sometimes called the 'Strassburg' for a 'Strassburger' tune in its Rondo is scored for a rather simple chamber-sized orchestra. The Adagio of this concerto must be the most sublime movement in any of his violin concerti and one of the most beautiful and quintessentially Mozartian in his entire oeuvre. Perhaps the most memorable of his five violin concerti it is quintessential Mozart and an indispensable addition to any serious violinist's repertoire. Includes a high-quality printed music score with informative liner notes and a compactdisc containing a complete stereo version with soloist then a second version in full stereo of the orchestral accompaniment minus the soloist.

Eugène Goossens (1893-1962) was an English composer whose work was initially held in the same high esteem as contemporaries such as Walton but who has since faded into obscurity. He worked across the UK US andAustralia and helped lobby for the Sydney Opera House to be built. He was knighted in 1955. His music helped incorporate French impressionism into English Romantic music. His Four Sketches (Op.5) werewritten in 1913 scored for either Flute Violin and Piano or 2 Violins and Piano. There are all simple and delicate but lively and enjoyable perfect for any recital. Book 1 contains the first two sketches:Legend and Serande.

?Across the Water? is a piano concerto based on familiar songs all with water themes. The result is effective music with a simple folk language yet with the drama and variety inherent to the concerto genre.

The popular Sing Say Dance Play series is all about connecting music with movement dance and speech in active participation while having a pile of fun! Here are MORE seasonal songs with games and activities from music specialists Cristi Miller and Kathlyn Reynolds that will motivate and challenge your young musicians throughout the school year. This tried-and-true collection features 12 songs written specifically for students in the lower grades and twelve songs for upper elementary along with helpful teaching suggestions and simple Orff or piano accompaniments. Keep music learning active as you sing say dance and play the year away! Available: song collection.Suggested for grades 1-6.

You're going to love this fresh Latin-flavored treatment of this classic Stevie Wonder pop hit of 1968. Starting with simple unison lines it develops texturally to a roaring finish!Available separately: SATB SAB SSA Instrumental Pak (Combo) and ShowTrax CD.

Score and Parts-A brilliantly moving and sorrowful piece from Giya Kancheli written for Piano Quartet. Although simple in its form this piece should not be mistaken for something indifferent but rather as a convention to explain in musicallanguage the sadness of Kancheli's life.

The Gig Guides series is designed to provide musicians with a blueprint for building bands. We select the songs put 'em in order and show you how to play 'em. The format is simple; there are no unwieldy note-for-note scores to sightread or complicated theory to understand. Here's the lead sheet here are the parts you really need to know and away you go! These book/CD packs are the ultimate do-it-yourself kit for gigging musicians and up-and-coming performers alike. Can be used by a full band or individual players. Early Rock Set features 12 songs with a CD of full-band demos of eachsong so you can hear what you should be sounding like. Songs include: Crying · Help Me Rhonda · Hound Dog · The Loco-Motion · Louie Louie · Rock Around the Clock · That'll Be the Day · and more.