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Baroque Style Clarinet Feature with Concert Band-A major piece to feature your Clarinet section! James L. Hosay has used his considerable compositional skill beautifully in creating this exuberant new offering for your band. It’s a great showpiece for your reeds but it leaves no one behind when the fun begins.The Baroque and Classical underpinnings of this original composition open the door for a wonderful educational encounter for everyone while a critically important part of the band gets the special exposure it deserves.Effervescent!

for Bassoon (or Baritone Saxophone) and Piano. Par SPARKE PHILIP. Le solo de basson Wind in the Reeds est une commande de Deena Draycott à la mémoire de John Watson, un musicien de l’armée, professeur et joueur de basson ; cette pièce est donc un hommage concret et durable à John. Elle est en grande partie de nature pastorale, suggérant des images évoquées par le jeu de mots du titre (le mot reed signifiant à la fois « anche » et « roseau »), mais elle comprend une section centrale plus rapide qui exploite d’autres aspects du caractère du basson. Des transitions entre les diverses sections de la pièce sont créées par le biais d’une série de cadences pour le/la soliste. Cette œuvre convient également à un saxophone bariton (partie solo incluse). / Date parution : 2021-12-09/ Répertoire / Basson et Piano

for Bassoon (or Baritone Saxophone) and Concert Band-Wind in the Reeds est une commande de Deena Draycott en m?moire de John Watson musicien dans l?arm?e enseignant et bassoniste. L??uvre est ? la fois un hommage et une comm?moration ? la m?moire de John. Elle est principalement pastorale ?voquant des images en lien avec le jeu de mots du titre avec une partie centrale plus rapide mettant en lumi?re d?autres aspects du basson. Les transitions entre les diff?rentes sections se font par une succession de cadences accompagn?es pour le soliste.

A major piece to feature your Clarinet section! James L. Hosay has used his considerable compositional skill beautifully in creating this exuberant new offering for your band. It’s a great showpiece for your reeds but it leaves no one behind when the fun begins.The Baroque and Classical underpinnings of this original composition open the door for a wonderful educational encounter for everyone while a critically important part of the band gets the special exposure it deserves.Effervescent!

Imagine someone who has worked as an international saxophonist, an educator, a technician, a consultant, and as a designer, and you can imagine Peter Ponzol. For the first time, Peter offers details from his famous Saxophone Workshops. Learn about: ? Maintenance ? Reeds ? Mouthpieces ? Ligatures ? Sound ? Flexibility This exciting and informational pocket book will be a much needed addition to your musical library! Convenient pocket-sized book - 3.5 x 5.5 - perfect to toss in your gig bag! 64 pages. Peter has been around saxophones for decades, doing it all from manufacturing horns to reeds to mouthpieces. As well, he is a seasoned player. What he discusses in this book is coming from one of the sources-read carefully! - David Liebman, Sax artist/ author/ clinician. Read this review from Sax On The Web: The information in this book is right up SOTW?s alley, with answers regarding reeds, necks, mouthpieces, saxes, maintenance, and the like. I would assume that the number of redundant threads started could be reduced almost in half simply with a reading of this book and those owning it could refer back to it at their leisure, as needed. And there is enough info in this book which contradicts some of our SOTW urban legends to make an episode of MythBusters. If you catch the right posts at the right time, much of the info in this book is already posted here on SOTW. But you have to see it and if hunting for it, you have to find it. OTOH it?s all conveniently gathered and organized here in this primer - plus more. There are suggestions such as replacing the neck cork once or twice a year, which I would, if posting a response, say is not necessary. But here?s the difference. Many of us on the forum are experienced musicians but few have the experience and depth that Ponzol has. We can write with credibility - Ponzol writes with authority. And this is based on decades not only as a top-echelon player, but as a successful and innovative sax, neck and mpc designer. The book is a 61 page pocket reference booklet which, in addition to topics mentioned above, include thoughts on ligatures, sound and flexibility. It is based on items of interest asked by attendees at workshops he has given over the years, hence the title. He begins by pointing out that at these workshops one of the first things he does is look at the condition of attendees' equipment with the observation that at least 90% of them need some kind of work and adjustments. What follows in the book?s 61 pages are recommendations generated by this observation. Included are interesting comments such as: aging store-bought reeds by letting them sit for several years is fairly useless since the aging process stops once the bark has been cut away from the reed; not earth-shattering but interesting and certainly myth debunking. Again something that fits right in with many of the conversations on this forum. Interesting thoughts follow regarding the future of natural cane reeds, or how to select and get the most from your reeds - things I wouldn?t think of like sanding the heel of your reed. SOTWers might also get a kick out of, and relate to, the title of his section on mouthpieces, ?Now the Fun Begins?. There are also interesting side comments we don?t often hear like: in the 70s so many young players like Ponzol were trying to get Trane?s recorded sound by working on metal Links because that?s what they saw in photos and yet, Trane often recorded with hard rubber mpcs because, in Trane's opinion, it didn?t have as much spit in the sound for him. It?s interesting how some things come around back to you. There are two exercises I recommend to my students and have recommended on the forum regarding volume and embouchure control and flexibility. I?ve never heard anyone else recommend these exercises and yet here they are in Peter?s book. Then it hit me. The only other one I know who uses them is a former teacher of mine and I remembered that years ago he said he had had some lessons with Ponzol. So ?the circle is unbroken? LOL. I would highly recommend it for beginners and intermediates, as well as for more advanced players to recommend to their students. It has made me re-think even some of my most basic assumptions regarding equipment and maintenance, which has made the read well worth it. I wish every SOTW newbie would start out their Forum time with this booklet at their disposal.

Carl Nielsen is now widely celebrated as Denmark’s greatest composer particularly for his symphonies which range from late Romantic explorations to more audacious neo-classicism in the later years. In the tone poem Pan and Syrinx Nielsen began to express some of his more adventurous harmonies and timbres which he then expressed more fully and in more abstract form in his masterpiece Fifth Symphony. Nielsen had an obsession with ancient Greece and its myths and the inspiration for Pan and Syrinx is drawn from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The story concerns the chaste nymph Syrinx who is chased by Pan to the river’s edge where the river nymphs grant her request for assistance bytransforming her into water reeds. From the reeds Pan fashioned his original set of panpipes. Nielsen’s short work expresses the natural world the conflict between the male and female forces the anxiety of chase and transformation and the unsettled ending of the tale. Nielsen frequently chose it for performance when he created a program of his own works. The Orchestral colours are original and striking and display the composer’s restless inventiveness.

The American Songbook for Piano Voice and Guitar (PVG) Edition is modeled after one of our best-selling series for brass and reeds, Patriotic Melodies. This remarkable collection, published by Santorella Publications, contains the most requested Patriotic Songs ever assembled. Get America singing with the uplifting songs which helped to build this great nation. Whether you want to honor every branch of our military in song, sit by the fire strummin' some good ol' folk songs, or dance up a storm as if you're on Broadway by celebrating the life and times of the one and only George M. Cohan, the American Songbook has it all! This great new collection includes a 'one-of-a-kind? sing along CD that will make any gathering or event a memorable occasion. Celebrate our independence and freedom by singing these great songs of pride and triumph. / Piano/Vocal/Guitare (PVG)

An Essential Resource for Educators Conductors & Students-This book was designed for use in a one or two semester heterogeneous college woodwind methods class or as a quick reference manual for school band and orchestra directors. It provides concise descriptions including instrument similarities and differences breath support reed adjustment and transposition. Includes:• Instrument assembly embouchure hand position and articulation• Carefully detailed fingering charts with clearly detailed primary fingerings and explanation of selected alternate fingerings and trill fingerings• Progressive musical exercises/compositions often harmonized to allow students to learn new fingerings at aneven pace while enjoying the ensemble sound• Advanced concepts: alternate fingerings vibrato flicking and multiple articulation• Trouble shooting for mechanical or reed problems repair and maintenance• Recommendations for selecting: Reeds Mouthpieces & ligatures Instruments Method books and study literature Constructing a basic woodwind “toolbox”