Tuneful Tunes for Two

English Folk Tunes for Descant Recorder' is a collection of 62 arrangements for descant recorder, of traditional tunes including a range of styles such as Ballads, Hornpipes, Jigs and more. Experienced recorder player and co-author of the Baroque Recorder Anthology series, and Fun and Games with the Recorder series amongst others, Peter Bowman provides notes on all of the styles covered, as well as individual pieces. The volume is accompanied by a CD with a recording of all tunes performed by Kathryn Bennetts. German and French translations of all texts are available as pdf downloads from the Schott Music website as well as MP3 play-along tracks. Suitable for players of grades 3-8. / Flûte A Bec

Classical Guitar Tunes - English Folk Songs. This book presents 42 English folk songs arranged for the intermediate classic guitarist in standard notation with phrase and dynamic markings plus light fingering. The collection includes popular melodies like Sprig of Thyme, Seventeen Come Sunday, and Blow the Wind Southerly, but also lesser known but no less beautiful tunes like Cupid the Pretty Ploughboy, Dabbling in the Dew and Saucy Sailor. All the arrangements present the basic tune faithfully and simply before offering more elaborate and sophisticated variations suitable for concert performance. Without compromising their sophistication, these polyphonic arrangements are elegant and idiomatic to the guitar, all but devoid of excessive physical demands; even barré chords are kept to a minimum so the player can relax and focus on tone and interpretation. The primary objective of this collection is to draw attention to these deserving melodies, some of which are now rarely heard. Longtime fans of the genre will recognize a few songs once performed by folk-rock groups like Steeleye Span and The Fairport Convention, here presented anew for the solo classic guitar. ?It?s an excellent collection - good to play for pleasure, good for learning and consolidating rhythm, good for sight-reading. Just marvelous. It should meet a lot of needs. Gilbert Biberian. ?These are very accessible arrangements of 42 English folk tunes, some of which are familiar and many others which deserve to be better known. They are all tuneful and have interesting harmonies and rhythms in arrangements which will be well within the reach of intermediate guitarists. These fine settings would be useful pieces for a teacher looking for supplementary material and also for the performer looking for unhackneyed repertoire. They are thoughtfully presented with good fingering and phrasing, with idiomatic guitar writing and interesting harmonies. Congratulations to Peter Worley for presenting this compendium of gems from a lesser known tradition.? Gerald Garcia

Capricious Pieces for Beginner Violinists. Incorporating skills taught in many popular violin methods, these tuneful solo pieces offer a fresh alternative for teachers who would like a stimulating supplement to their usual method. These entertaining and whimsical compositions reinforce and develop violin skills through repetition disguised as lyrical musical phrases. They strengthen the left hand, exercise the fourth finger, and use rests in musically compelling ways that keep the student attentive. They also present mixed meter and double-stops, and offer a practical introduction to musical form and phrase structure. Slurs and dynamics are incorporated immediately, along with right-hand pizzicato on stopped strings and left-hand pizzicato on all open strings. These pieces are written specifically to encourage interpretive creativity, even at the most elementary levels. As twenty-first-century pieces for solo violin, they are meant to be performed as well as studied.

Pint-Sized Piano Pieces is the first in a series of three books featuring fun and enjoyably challenging Piano miniatures composed by South African pianist and composer Kevin Volans.   If you're tired of playing the same old exercises the same old études or boring studies this book of Pint-Sized Piano Pieces is for you. Whether you're after somethingchallenging something fun or even something funny you can be sure that you'll never have heard any pieces like this before. Composer Kevin Volans invites pianists 'of all ages and sizes' to play his innovative andinteresting take on the Piano miniature.   All of these pieces are lovely and tuneful all provide a challenge and all are exciting thrilling confusing and sometimes even baffling. Each volume istechnically progressive meaning the Pint-Sized Piano Pieces is best for the beginner to the intermediate player although the tunes vary in length and difficulty. Equally as important even though the piecesare a lot of fun they also each explore a different aspect of crucial Piano technique allowing you to enjoy learning to play and perfecting your abilities.   The inventive and imaginative miniaturesincluded in the sheet music collection Pint-Sized Piano Pieces are guaranteed to get you having fun while practising. They are a pleasure to hear and a pleasure to play so make sure you check out thesefun and practical pieces today.    

Uses: Advent Scripture: Haggai 2:7 Psalm 34:4 Romans 6:22 Luke 2:10 A tuneful gathering of Advent carols is skillfully presented in this very programmable octavo. Quickly learned it displays familiar tunes delightfully decorated with the classical song Tambourin by Franþois-Joseph Gossec. A festive flute part is included.

The Sightreading Folk series serves a dual purpose: a) Graded sightreading material initially and b) Lasting tuneful folk tunes to gradually acquaint the pupil with folk song repertoire.Grade: 1

Lela Hoover Ward. Rhythms and tunes for beginners. In this book of tuneful pieces rhythm is first introduced by clapping the hands and counting. The music is kept simple in order that basic time may be observed.

Quintet for Oboe and Strings was premiered at a festival in Venice in 1927 by Goossens and the Venetian Quartet. It is a lively tuneful work which exploits the various tone-colours of the oboe fully moving from a pastoral-style first movement through to the dance tunes of the final movement. The work has been recorded on numerous occasions - a testament to its lasting popularity.

17 pieces in lighter styles for piano-Following on from his highly successful first collection of catchy but very easy tunes Stephen Duro sets the fingers walking once more with More Finger Jogging Boogie. This second volume of tuneful pieces at a level of Grades 3 to 4 again explores a range of popular styles from beguine to ragtime and from jazz waltz to boogie. So whether you're looking for a lively stomp or something rather more reflective this finger jogging collection is an absolute must!