Faber Music

"… moodily evocative … featuring solo viola and stunning effects from the rest of the strings." The Citizen, 19 July 1993

The core of The Music Factory is a flexible Teacher Resource Book, containing 120 practical activities for classroom music-making. A series of interrelated instrumental workbooks, each containing 25 u...

This activity notebook is the perfect guide for young musicians it includes hints on good practice techniques and finds ways of making practice routines more fun. This book will take the beginner up t...

A tour de force of precocity. Unconventionality and tradition mingle and are rudely juxtaposed in a way that rivets attention. The Sunday Telegraph (Michael Kennedy), 4 July 1999 Instrumentation: fl(=...

These stringsets arrange seven classic melodies from 'The King and I' and 'South Pacific' for intermediate string ensemble. The arrangements are relatively straightforward, great fun to play and will...

Jonathan Dove Figures in the Garden For their 1991 Mozart bicentenary celebrations, Glyndebourne commissioned five composers to write wind serenades. Each serenade was to be musically connected in som...

This is echt, original Woolrich. Eleven tiny movements, each a perfectly realised cameo, each revealed, stated, and gone, perfectly expressing the beautiful lines of Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely, by w...

The title is the Russian for 'round dance'. The first performance was given by the London Sinfonietta, conducted by Markus Stenz, in the Barbican Hall, London, on 6 December 1994, Instrumrentation: 1(...

... a model of concision and concentration. San Francisco Examiner (Timothy Pfaff), September 1996, Instrumentation: 2(I=picc.II=picc+afl).1(=ca).2(I=Bb+A.II=Bb+bcl).bcl(=cbcl).1(=cbsn) - 2.1(=flhn+pt...

The first performance was given by the London Sinfonietta conducted by Oliver Knussen in the Barbican Hall, London, on 11 February 1994, Instrumentation: 1(=picc).1(=ca+sopranino recorder).1(=Ebcl+bcl...

This piece takes its title from a painting by Daniel Maclise (1806-1870) in the Manchester City Art Gallery. Its subject is the mock Celtic Legend of a water nymph who falls for a mortal and struggles...

Whitewater, as the name suggests, was inspired by the rushing water in creeks, rivers and streams around rocks and other obstacles. The work has been loosely structured around the progress of a river...

'Keeping your nerve! ' is the perfect pocket-sized prop for any performer hampered by stage fright, whether a keen amateur or student preparing for an exam. Full of comforting advise and entertaining...

Instrumentation: 1(=picc).0.2(II=bcl).1 - 2110 - perc(1): party siren/susp.cym/splash.cym/glsp/2 t.bells/ timp/BD/tgl/c.bell/tpl.bl/2 bongo/tom-t/crot/vib/talking drum/wdbl - pno - 2 vln.2 vlc

The perfect repertoire book, 'Sarah Walker's Monster Collection' is ideal for those at the finishing stages of 'Electronic Keyboard Basics 1' or for anyone in search of excellent general performance p...

Stephen Warbeck's Oscar-winning music from the hit film 'Shakespeare in Love' has been skillfully arranged by Tony Osbourne into a four-movement suite for intermediate string ensemble. The suite perfe...

Full of oddities – whirring ratchets, raucous off-stage clarinets, wonky waltzes –that brilliantly capture the humour and nostalgia of the Tom Phillips drawings that inspired them. The Dai...

The 'Unbeaten Tracks' series has made a profound mark on the music world with its volumes of specially commissioned pieces for intermediate-level players. This new volume for organ continues in the sa...

'Sound Beginnings' offers advice to all primary-level teachers who may not be specialists in the field of music. This book provides practical strategies for teaching children to perform, compose and a...

Instrumentation: 1(=picc+bfl).1(=sop.rec+ca).2(I=Ebl.II=bcl).ssax - hn - perc(3): vib/2 susp.cym/2 conga/bongo+djembe/BD/2 wdbl/2 tgl/tam-t/mar/cyms/mcas/tam-t/2 timp/glsp/crot/t.bells harp - pno - ce...

Instrumentation: picc.bcl.cbsn - tpt.trbn.tuba - perc(2): xyl/2 vib/crots/3 tom-t/SD/3 BD/mar - pno - 2 vln.vla.vlc.db

fl(=picc).ob.cl(=Eb+bcl).bsn - hn.tpt.trbn - perc(1): susp.cym/hi-hat/SD/BD/4 tom-t/mcas/police whistle/slide whistle/mar/vib/xyl/glsp - pno - harp - 2 vln.vla.vc.db

Instrumentation: 1(=picc).1(=ca).1.1 - 1000 - perc(1): 6 crot/3 timp/3 tuned gong/2 conga/tamb/shaker/tam-t - harp - strings

Celestial Pied Piper is the final work in Oort Cycle; 'Following Oort' and 'Fanfare to the Standing Dead' are the other works in the trilogy. With the visible presence of Halle Bop, the comet, in 1991...

Instrumentation: 1(=picc).1.1(=bcl).1(=cbsn) - 1110 - perc(2): SD/whip/sleigh bells/cyms/2 anvil/2 c.bell/4 congas/3 gong/2 tam-t/tabla/vib/cast/ch.cym/almglocken/TD/BD/metal dustbin/2 rin/t.bells - p...