By Various. For C Instruments. Fake Book. Softcover. 560 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

Over 400 Songs to Strum and Sing. Composed by Various. Ukulele. Folk, Standards. Softcover. 632 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

Orchestra String Orchestra - Grade 2.5

SKU: FJ.ST6496

Composed by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Arranged by Robert D McCashin. Series; String Orchestra. FJH Developing Strings. Masterwork Arrangement. Score and Part(s). Duration 6:30. The FJH Music Company Inc #98-ST6496. Published by The FJH Music Company Inc (FJ.ST6496).

UPC: 241444413760. English.

This spectacular arrangement features four movements from Tchaikovsky's famous Album for the Young. Opening with the endearing Morning Prayer, the piece then moves into the lighthearted waltz, The Hurdy-Gurdy Man. The beautiful Sweet Dream sets the stage for the delightful last movement, March of the Wooden Soldiers. Remarkably faithful to the original while also quite accessible to younger students! (6:30).

About FJH Developing Strings

Slightly more advanced than Beginning Strings, this series begins to involve more position work and a slightly more complex rhythmic figures. Rehearsal piano is often provided. Ideal for middle school and smaller high school programs. Grade 2 - 2.5

Chamber Music Flute, Piano, Viola

SKU: PR.11440719S

Composed by Nathan Currier. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. 44 pages. Duration 11 minutes, 30 seconds. Theodore Presser Company #114-40719S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.11440719S).

UPC: 680160011087. 8.5 x 11 inches.

Sambuca, which most people know today as a licorice-flavored liqueur, was the name the Greeks gave to a kind of sharp, shrill-sounding harp, of Eastern, possibly Jewish origin. The Greeks then gave this same name to a wooden flute made from the elder bush, and in the middle ages it was also associated with the viol, at least to the extent that the Hurdy-gurdy, an instrument shaped like a viol and played by means of a rotating wheel, was sometimes called a Sambuca rotata. Thus, the word Sambuca is tied up with the ancestors - in each case, ancestors of ow birth, as it were - of the modern harp, flute, and viola. Somehow, the present-day association with alcohol seems very meet, in that a certain objectionable quality seems to have gone with the name - in 1545 one George Ascham wrote, This I am sure... all maner of pypes, barbitons, sambukes... be condemned of Aristotle. The word Sambucistria - for a female Sambuca player - was used by Plutarch and others to evoke a feeling of foreign-inspired decadence [Grove's Dictionary of Musical Instruments, 1984]. Currier's work is truly a Sambuca sonata. Written for the three Sambuca instruments, Currier has first of all seemingly endeavoured to make the harp part particularly Sambuca-like (i.e., sharp and shrill) with its many nail and xylophonic effects, but more importantly, has used musical material that corresponds to the low-brow, somewhat Dionysian, indeed, today even Bacchanalian implication of the name - thus, rock music seems to inspire a great deal Currier's work [the Samba, an appropriately Bacchanalian Brazilian Carnival dance, in duple meter with syncopations, while apparently having no etymological connection to Sambuca, might seem to be musically involved, too]. The Sambuca which lies behind this rather drunken piece is probably the only musical instrument which became a model for an instrument of war; one Craxton wrote in 1489 that Sambuce is an engyn whiche is made in manere of a harpe able to perce a walle. But whether talking of the modern liqueur or the ancient instrument condemned of Aristotle and mentioned four times in the Book of Daniel, it is a shame that Debussy - inspired by the Dionysian side of classical culture (as in Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune) - seems to have remained ignorant Sambuca, a word which to some extent must lie behind all works for this wonderful instrumentation which he invented, and which I might seem to have striven unconsciously, equally ignorant, to make the sole basis of Currier's work - until, having completed this piece, written for harpist Marie-Pierre Langlamet, and rummaging around for a title, I chanced upon it in an old dictionary.

Contralto. Music Sales America. Classical. 56 pages. Music Sales #PAT00604. Published by Music Sales

Piano

SKU: HL.50488481

Piano Solo. Composed by Various. Piano Collection. Classical, Collection, Contemporary, French. Editions Salabert #EAS18799. Published by Editions Salabert (HL.50488481).

UPC: 073999884814. 9.5x12.5x0.062 inches.

Contents: Akimenko: Le muguet (The Lily of the Valley) * Poulenc: Polka, Petite ronde * Singery: Valsette, Petite marche * Francaix: Le coucou (The Cuckoo), En bercant Claude (Rocking Claude) * Woollett: Le joueur de vielle (The Hurdy-Gurdy Man) * Longas: Sieste Andalouse (Andalusian Siesta) * Bazelaire: Gentillesse (Gracefulness), Gaiete (Gaiety) * Lazare-Levy: Valse lente.

By Mike Davison. Edited by Pete Barenbregge. Jazz method book (trumpet). Published by Warner Brothers.

Performed by Donovan. For voice, piano and guitar chords. Format: piano/vocal/chords songbook. With vocal melody, piano accompaniment, lyrics, chord names and guitar chord diagrams. Psychedelic rock and britpop. 88 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Hal Leonard.

(2.2.2.2+1/4.2.3.1timp,hp,str)

SKU: TM.07399SET

Composed by Max Reger. Set Type: D. Set of parts. Lucks Music Library #A7773. Published by Lucks Music Library (TM.07399SET).

En Voiture, The Policeman, The Hurdy-Gurdy, The Lake, Dogs, Dreams.

Double Bass

SKU: BT.YE0007

Yorke Edition. Composed by F. Baines. Book Only. Yorke Edition #YE0007. Published by Yorke Edition (BT.YE0007).

Born in Oxford in 1917, Francis Baines was a well-known and much respected professional double bass player. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London with Claude Hobday, where he later taught. Something of an eccentric,he immersed himself in early music at a time when few people were taking it seriously. He owned a beautiful Amati bass that he had restored as a violone, which it probably was originally, and he was a regular fixture as aprincipal player in a number of orchestras and ensembles that dedicated themselves to period performing, including those directed by Denys Darlow, with whom he broadcast and recorded frequently.

Besides playing thedoublebass, Francis Baines was an exponent of the treble viol and led the Jaye Consort of Viols which he founded. He also played several kinds of bagpipe and the hurdy-gurdy. As a composer he dabbled in many styles, one of hisgreatest claims to fame being that of writing for the popular Hoffnung concerts in the 1960s.

He was the author of a number of papers about the history of the double bass, sometimes arriving at scholarly conclusionsthat were colourful, if not always entirely accurate. He discovered the Giovannino del Violone sonatas, subsequently published by Yorke Edition, although today it is thought that they were probably not written for a 16' pitchinstrument at all. His edition of the Capuzzi double bass concerto, published by Boosey & Hawkes, was for many years one of the few solo works available for the instrument. This, however, he largely re-composed because hethought it could be improved: towards the end of his life he confessed that with hindsight he probably should have treated it differently.

Grounds was written in 1969 as a sort of party piece and was given to YorkeEdition in support of a drive to enlarge the repertoire for the instrument in a wide variety of styles. It was set on the syllabus of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music for many years.

Francis Baines died.