Recorder and Piano - Intermediate

SKU: FP.FBM04

Composed by Martin Bussey. Sheet Music and Books. This fresh and appealing work lives up to its name. Particularly diverting is the finale, a hornpipe subtitled The Knotted Sailor, in which the nifty performers have to negotiate frequent and teasing changes of rhythm at speed. Classical. Collection. Forsyths Publications #FBM04. Published by Forsyths Publications (FP.FBM04).

ISBN 9790570504077.

The opening movement is a free fantasia, contrasting with the middle movement, a scherzetto, in homage to, and based on the letters of the name of, the composer Douglas Steele, an assistant to Sir Thomas Beecham and a founding father of Chethams School, and which quotes from Steele’s beautiful carol The Snow Falls.
Divertimento was first performed by John Turner and Janet Simpson at a concert in aid of the Peter Cunningham Memorial Fund at Mellor Church on 17th January 2005. It uses both treble and descant instruments. The second movement was originally composed for a concert in Manchester Cathedral in memory of Douglas Steele, one of the founding fathers of Chetham's School, and quotes (by kind permission of Forsyth Brothers Ltd.), from his well-known carol The Snow Falls. It has been separately recorded by John Turner and Stephen Hough on Autumn Sequence – the music of Douglas Steele and his Circle (Campion Cameo 2040/41).
Martin Bussey was born in London in 1958. He was a Choral Scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, during which time he studied composition with Robin Holloway. Following postgraduate singing study at the RNCM he settled in Manchester and held a number of posts, including Head of Academic Music and Director of Choirs at Chetham’s School of Music until 2013. He continues as Musical Director of the Chester Bach Singers, a Vocal Tutor at Manchester University, Chairman of the Finzi Friends and a Director of the Ludlow Song Weekend. Compositions include the highly successful monodrama about Mary I, Mary’s Hand, premiered in 2018; a significant collection of solo songs which includes settings of Housman, Hardy, and Walt Whitman, many recorded on the disc Through a glass; and much choral music, recorded by Sonoro under Neil Ferris in 2019.

by Gail Smith. For Piano. method. You Can Teach Yourself. Gospel-Old Time. Level: Intermediate. Book/CD Set. Size 8.75x11.75. 128 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc.

By John; Et Al Bell. For Voices: various. Iona; Coll Sacred. Level: easy. 56 pages. Published by GIA Publications.

By Gail Smith. For piano. Methods. You Can Teach Yourself. Gospel-Old Time. Level: Intermediate. Book. Size 8.75x11.75. 128 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc.

Choral (SSA Choir)

SKU: HL.337504

By Dean Lewis. By Dean Lewis, Edd Holloway, and Nick Atkinson. Arranged by Alan Billingsley. Pop Choral Series. Acoustic, Ballad, Choral, Pop. Octavo. 16 pages. Duration 185 seconds. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.337504).

UPC: 840126911664. 6.75x10.5x0.036 inches.

Australian singer-songwriter Dean Lewis composed this melancholy song in order to chronicle the feelings of ups and downs in his life. Readily appearing in numerous TV shows in the past few years, this song paints a perfect picture of swelling emotion suitable for describing any moment in your life.

Choral (ShowTrax CD)

SKU: HL.337506

By Dean Lewis. By Dean Lewis, Edd Holloway, and Nick Atkinson. Arranged by Alan Billingsley. Pop Choral Series. Acoustic, Ballad, Choral, Pop. CD. Duration 185 seconds. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.337506).

UPC: 840126911688. 5.0x5.0x0.116 inches.

Australian singer-songwriter Dean Lewis composed this melancholy song in order to chronicle the feelings of ups and downs in his life. Readily appearing in numerous TV shows in the past few years, this song paints a perfect picture of swelling emotion suitable for describing any moment in your life.

Viola

SKU: HL.48024561

Composed by Robin Holloway. Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music. Classical. Softcover. 18 pages. Duration 1440 seconds. Boosey & Hawkes #M060134159. Published by Boosey & Hawkes (HL.48024561).

ISBN 9781784543518. 0.078 inches.

This Sonata for Viola (unaccompanied) was written in 1999. The soloists C-string is tuned down a semitone for the entire piece, giving a duskier quality to the tone-colour, and setting up in the very first bar the characteristic melodic/harmonic shape that infiltrates all four movements. I - slowish and thoughtful - gradually expands this opening idea into cantilena and pattern, as prelude to II - Vivacissimo - played muted throughout, a tremolando tarantella, with contrasting section, chunky double-stops, alternating withsomething of a gigue. III - adagio - rhapsodic and quasi-improvisando, enclosing a simple self-contained melody, and linking into IV, where the gigue-like material from the scherzo provides the principal substance, expanding into an ardent cantabile, and calminginto the Coda not just the finale but, in its reminiscences of I, to the sonata as a whole.