Chester Music

Christopher Brown (b. 1943) is a British composer who grew up in the Anglican choral tradition, first as a chorister at Westminster Abbey and then as a Choral Scholar at King's College, Cambridge, bef...

Edited by Eric Wetherell. As a big-band director you will be familiar with the names and music of Mike Gibbs, Dick Walter, Kenny Wheeler and Scott Stroman as composers and arrangers of some of the fin...

William Bell. Group music-making with a swing. Ten very easy pieces for classroom and orchestral instruments. They are all original and up-to-date in style, allowing large mixed ability groups to make...

Walk Softly is a light floating piece with a colourful 'modal' harmonic structure. The feel throughout is in a light, loose Latin style. Edited by Scott Stroman. Jazzamatazz is an exciting series of...

Verse 1' marks the beginning of a more ambitious and intense style of composition. The ideas are relatively simple and develop gradually in a cyclic fashion within a one movement, sectional design. Pr...

Geranos was commissioned by the Fires of London with funds made available by the Arts Council of Great Britain. It was completed in September 1985 and lasts approximately 18 minutes. It is dedicated t...

Great for helping children learn the musical alphabet and various symbols while having fun. The plastic wallet contains more than 60 durable cards with musical signs, notes on treble and bass clefs, t...

Easy music for string groups. Playstrings provides an enjoyable and varied repertoire for young string orchestras, carefully structured in two levels. The 'Easy' level does not normally exceed Grade 2...

Appealingly presented manuscript book with jumbo staves - ideal for young beginners. Space is given throughout for teacher's instructions.

Commissioned by the ECO.

Carol Barratt. Written specially for young musicians, this handy-sized reference book makes theory fun to learn! Contains all the musical terms, signs and information needed for Associated Board Grade...

Beyond Dark consists of one movement which is in three sections fast-slow-fast. Influences from the modern jazz harmony of Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea and also traditional Japanese instruments such...

commissioned by the Swedish National Concert Institute.

The fifth feature film that Peter Greenaway and Michael Nyman produced in 1991, Prosperos Book is a reworking of The Tempest. The score was written for the Michael Nyman Band and made into a suite for...

Gending is a Balinese word meaning simply 'instrumental composition', and this work takes as its starting point the colours, textures, rhythmic pattens and formal procedures of Balinese music. Gending...

Premiered by Yo Yo Ma. Quoting Tavener: It was while pondering these traditional dicta that I began to write the opening solo melody for the cello. It is in fact a palindrome because waking and dying...

The idea behind this work was to form a large collection of short individual pieces suitable for orchestras of various standards. The composer's intention with the project was to provide new music for...

This work was written by Michael Nyman towards the end of 1997, commissioned by the English Sinfonia to celebrate the orchestra's taking up residence in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. The first performance...

These three solo harpsichord pieces are a collection of recent compositions, each with an individual theme and idea. The first, The convertibility of Lute Strings, was first performed at the Purcell R...

Melodrama for Narrator, Children's Choir and Ten Instruments. Gualtierro Dazzi: The texts underlying these fragments are passages from a long poem by Armand Gatti entitled L'Enclos. Through memories,...

Ukulele From The Beginning is a great collection of favourite songs specially chosen for primary school-age children starting to learn the instrument! No previous knowledge of music is necessary for p...

Ukulele From The Beginning is a great collection of favourite songs specially chosen for primary school-age children starting to learn the instrument! No previous knowledge of music is necessary for p...