A book of lip building and flexibility exercises . Includes advice on the essential physical aspects of brass technique, relating specifically to breathing, resistance and formation of the embouchure.
A bumper collection of pieces carefully selected and arranged for players of all ages to delve into and enjoy. The CD contains backing tracks for 28 of these solos as listed below. From popular film,...
How Trombonists Do It is an excellent reference book on Trombone legato, lip flexibilities, warm-ups, and studies, as written by Eric Crees and Peter Gane. The exercises and study notes provided in th...
Well known songs of the type used for improvisation by jazz musicians together with original pieces especially written for this folio.
A suite of three pieces for flute choir in six parts with an optional Alto Flute part. Flautissimo opens with Busy Bossa a slightly tongue-in-cheek bossa nova. Great fun to be had fitting this one tog...
Ten tuneful studies reflecting ten different moods.
These multi functional pieces serve the needs of Sax players who wish to come to terms with jazz and improvised musical language. Play the studies by themselves to discover some idiomatic phrasing, pl...
Another major key for two five-part choirs beginning with stately counter- point. The lower second choir takes on a more subdued role before a triple time section and a grand ending. Dur 2'45'
Despite having essentially a 'minor' feel this is one of most brilliant three choir canzonas. Dur 3'
Scored for two six-part choirs and with only one treble part in each, this piece achieves a richness and solemnity that even surpass the better known eight-part Sonata Pian e Forte.
This eight part canzona really sparkles ~ wonderful repartee between the two choirs. Dur 2'
... Issues explored include intervals, irregular metres and phrase lengths, contrasting articulations and dynamics, and the longer slide positions .... students could learn something from them; having...
This collection of progressive duets is designed to provide supplementary study and concert material to the tutor book, Scene 2 for the Brass Player. It has been ingeniously conceived to combine pleas...
These studies were written to provide a series of graded pieces that would be challenging, but interesting and musically satisfying to play.. The pieces were not written in any particular order, but w...
Playable by clarinet quartet or saxophone quartet or wind quartet (flute - oboe - clarinet - bassoon) or variables within these groups.
These arrangements are suitable for almost any combination of brass instruments. Parts are included also for woodwind instruments.
This collection of evergreen soul classics is suitable for almost any combination of brass and/or woodwind instruments.
Smooth Groove is, above all else, a FUN book. It embraces various styles of playing from pop and rock, through to jazz and Latin American rhythms and phrasing. It will be easy and enjoyable to relate...
The title Badinage suggests light-hearted banter and although these six contrasting pieces are moderately easy, they rely on the interaction of soloist and piano rather than simply melodies with accom...
Some of the greatest melodies of twentieth century popular music are Latin American either in origin or in inspiration. The subtle and evocative rhythms of such forms as the Samba, Bossa Nova, Tango a...
These arrangements incorporate various dance styles - from traditional ballroom dance - Foxtrot, Waltz, Quickstep, through to Latin-American, Cha-Cha and the more contemporary, ubiquitous 'Smooch'. 'S...
A classic of the baroque transcription genre, appearing here in a completely new and original arrangement as recorded by John Wallace and Simon Wright for EMI.
This piece, although 50 years old, is being published fore the first time and is a wonderful 'find' for the trumpet repertoire. A superb work written in a very 'English' style.
A collection of evergreen soul classics.
Solo for Flugel Horn Scored for 4 trumpets, 1 horn, 4 trombones, 1 tuba, percussion. This set includes additional parts for horn in Eb, trombones in treble clef and Eb bass.
scored for trumpet 1 in Bb (doubling piccolo), trumpet 1 in Eb, trumpet 2 in Bb, trumpet 3 in Bb, trumpet 4 in Bb (doubling flugelhorn), horn in F, trombone 1, trombone 2, trombone 3, bass trombone,...
Thirty-four studies sutable for all treble brass instruments including extra low register elements
scored for trumpet 1 in Bb (doubling piccolo trumpet), trumpet 2 in Bb, trumpet 3 in Bb, trumpet 4 in Bb (doubling flugel horn), horn in F, trombone 1, trombone 2, trombone 3, bass trombone, tuba, ta...
Explore jazz, rock and other contemporary styles with the help of your own backing band on a demonstration/play along CD. Chord symbols also included.
Explore jazz, rock and other contemporary styles. Chord symbols included.
Learn your scales with the help of 53 well known tunes.
The Music of Jim Parker is a series of folios containing themes written for various films or popular television programmes.
Derek Bourgeois wrote his Horn Trio during the spring of 1981. It was commissioned by the Deakin Horn Trio. It is an overtly romantic work in sharp contradistinction to the composer's 5th Symphony whi...
This quintet was composed in 1983 for the Syrinx Ensemble and is dedicated to Dame Ruth Railton, the founder of the National Youth Orchestra.
For Clarinet, Cello or Bassoon and Piano.
Compilation of twenty years' teaching experience and research by John Ridgeon into the physical aspects of brass playing. International survey of playing and teaching techniques.
The Concerto for Timpani and Orchestra was written for and dedicated to Alan Cumberland and the LPO. Since its conception more and more soloists have felt able to approach the considerable technical c...
Written for Joseph Ignaz Leutgeb in 1782. Transcribed for horn and piano by Richard Bissill, this offers a chance to appreciate Mozart's famous horn quintet without needing a string quartet!
Originally written for, and recorded by, James Watson and the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, this energetic, Latin-flavoured arrangement has long been popular with players and audiences around the world...
Scored for 5 trumpets (+flugelhorn) / 4 horns / 3 trombones / 3 tubas / timpani and percussion Including optional ladies choirs A brilliant brass arrangement of this flamboyantly exotic score by Denma...
Put George Gershwin's two 'rhythm' tunes together and you get Got a Little Rhythm scored for 3 trumpets in Bb, flugelhorn, horn in F, Euphonium or Trombone, 2 trombones, bass trombone, tuba, percussi...
scored for trumpet 1 in Bb, trumpet 2 in Bb, trumpet 3 in Bb, trumpet 4 in Bb, horn in F, trombone 1, trombone 2, trombone 3, bass trombone, tuba, kit (optional), percussion (optional) This set inclu...
These arrangements are suitable for almost any combination of brass and/or woodwind instruments.
A celebration of the wide range, dexterity and tone of the Euphonium.
Winners For All is suitable for almost any combination of brass and/or woodwind instruments. The inclusion of additional, very simple parts for most instruments opens up the opportunity for beginners...
This well-loved Beatles' song was originally released on the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. Gentle and evocative in manner, it can be played by four Bb clarinets and a bass clarinet, or,...
Harold East arranged this racy Beatles' number for Barbara McGregor and her pupils at St. Paul's Girls' School, London. As with the sister arrangement, 'She's LeavingHome', it has a flexible scoring f...
The U.S. soul music movement of the 1950s and 60s (and beyond!) produced some of the greatest popular songs of all time. The songs selected for 'I Feel Good' can be performed effectively with just pia...
This is John Iveson's official adaptation for brass band of his original 10-piece arrangement as performed by James Watson and the PJBE. A virtuoso vehicle for band and soloist alike.
For nearly 150 years Jean-Baptiste Arban's 14 studies have been an essential part of a brass player's practice routine. Arban's original parts contain many inaccuracies and inconsistencies. Whilst we...
A book of seven easy pieces for alto saxophone and piano accompaniment, a mixture of original compositions and arrangements, covering a wide range of popular styles and moods. Will appeal to anyone wh...
... Takin' It Easy - One Over The Eight - Moon River - You Are Too Beautiful - Fish Face - As Time Goes By - Wishbone
... Song For Guy - Day Dreamin' - Bertie's Blues - Take Five - Cakewalk - No Dice - Check-out - Maple Leaf Rag
... Somewhere - Yer Strut - On Broadway - For The Next Time - Catwalk - Maiden Voyage - Modality - House of the Rising Sun
Mambo Merengue provides an introduction to the world of jazz; it's rhythms, harmony and melodic shapes. The pieces demonstrate a variety of jazz styles; latin, blues, bebop, modal, swing and modern. '...
A series of books for solo brass/woodwind instrument and piano. Each colourful collection is different, and comprises an eclectic set of arrangements of well-known (and not so well-known) jazz standar...
Apart from Pomp and Circumstance, Nimrod from the Enigma Variations is Elgar's most famous tune. This arrangement, faithful to the original, maintains its air of dignity and solemnity, and will easily...
This ten part canzona is a classic ~ a calm opening precedes a short cross-rhythmic 3/4 section followed by an extraordinary common time section which combines ingenious counterpoint and crisp rhythms...
In florid and stunning counterpoint throughout, the one near rhythmic unison towards the middle comes as a real shock. A work showing extraordinary technique. Dur 2'45'
Exchanging the familiar antiphonal effects for skilful counterpoint, this canzona manages to successfully combine both grandeur and extreme virtuosity for the principal players of each of the two choi...
Following a grand opening tutti for the two equal choirs of five voices, Gabrieli crafts an ingenious work where every aspect of echo effect is explored.
A work which clearly looks towards the baroque concerto grosso with its repeated ritornello and its virtuoso writing for two soloists.
The predominant feature in this one-choir work is solemn counterpoint, largely in the soprano and alto register.
Characteristic rhythms and triple times for each four-part choir separately, followed by a glorious combination of all three choirs with some wonderfully incisive rhythmic passages. Dur 3'30'
Scored for three, four-part choirs this canzona is the most fanfare-like and brilliant of Gabrieli's entire output and all based on a simple arpeggio figure. Dur 2'15'
A grand majestic three choir piece firmly in the major key. Dur 3'30'
Scored for three four-part choirs this is an extraordinary work where each choir literally copies the first in succession for much of the time. With carefully distanced groups the effect can be stunni...
Found in the Kassel regional library in Germany, this piece divides the players into three unequal choirs of four, three and five. The three groups are completely integrated throughout, giving a rich...
This fourteen part sonata is not only one of Gabrieli's largest ensembles ~ including a 'coro grave' or low choir ~ but also the most harmonically daring of all his instrumental works. And yet after s...
Conceived for three large groups of five players apiece, this sonata combines grandeur and virtuosity for the three principal players of each choir.
A lavish instrumental work in the 1597 collection. Fifteen voices lying almost exclusively in the alto to bass registers.
This sonata scored for twenty two parts is the most lavish of all Gabrieli's instrumental works. Sonorous affect rather than musical argument is clearly the intention.
Simple yet characterful four-part canzonas found in Raverii's 1608 collection.
A fairly conservative work in five parts, but not without deft harmonic and rhythmic touches which point towards the imagination of later works.
A six part canzona which opens with one of Gabrieli's most characteristic rising themes and goes on to embrace attractive three-part writing, flourishes, scale passages and a brief triple-time section...
The opening theme of this six part work retains the canzona rhythm, but also uses the unusual intervals of diminished fourth and fifth. The overall effect is of a certain angularity and rusticity.