The Trumpet enjoys a popularity today probably not exceeded in any other period of its long history as a solo instrument. During the 17th and 18th cenuries it was accorded special treatment by composers such as Purcell Handel and Bach. This book gathers together some of the most popular and some less well known pieces in celebration of the trumpet. Thirteen fabulous Solos for Trumpet with Piano or Organ accompaniment.

Guillaume Balay (1871-1943) served in the French military as a prolific Cornet player having won first place in the 1894 Cornet Award competition at the National Academy of Music in Paris. His compositions and studies were popular in the Cornet and brass repertoire at the time including his Fifteen Studies for Cornet. This Balay work remains within the Cornet study repertoire to this day and is suitable to advance level players. The Fifteen Studies address features including accidentals breath control intervals range ornamentation chromaticism complex rhythms dynamics performance directions andvariations in time and key signatures among other aspects. These quirky studies provide the advanced Cornet player with exciting exercises to ensure progress to a high level of technique.

Guillaume Balay (1871-1943) served in the French military as a prolific Cornet player having won first place in the 1894 Cornet Award competition at the National Academy of Music in Paris. His compositions were popular in the Cornet and brass repertoire at the time including his Pièce De Concours for Cornet with Piano accompaniment. This Balay work remains within the brass repertoire to this day and is suitable for advanced level players as an audition or competition piece as indicated by the title as well as a performance work. Pièce De Concours contains use ofcadenza passages variation in time signature semiquaver flourishes articulations complex rhythms and chromaticism amongst other aspects. This quirky piece by Balay provides the advanced Cornet player with a fun alternative work which will show off their technical ability.

New Edition-Trumpet Basics is a landmark method for individual and group learning by one of the leading figures in trumpet education John Miller. It starts at absolute beginner level and progresses to about Grade 2 level. There are 22 stages and each section includes a wonderful variety of concert pieces from the great composers traditional tunes and fun original exercises finger gyms and warm ups to help establish a sound technique factfiles and quizzes to teach notation and general musicianship helpful clear fingering charts and rhythm boxes and great illustration. This particular book has been written for B-flat Trumpet or Cornet.

Pour cornet en Sib ou saxhorn Sib ou trompette en Ut our Sib et piano-Guillaume Balay (1871-1943) served in the French military as a prolific Cornet player having won first place in the 1894 Cornet Award competition at the National Academy of Music in Paris. His compositions were popular in the Cornet and brass repertoire at the time including his Andante and Allegro adaptable to Cornet Saxhorn or Trumpet with Piano accompaniment. This Balay work remains within the brass repertoire to this day and is suitable for intermediate level players. The Andante is in 12/8 meter and exploits the full range of the instruments. There is also much use of performance directions andarticulation. The Allegro is a much brisker tempo than the first movement and is in 2/4 time. The texture is predominantly melody-dominated homophony with the occassional use of call-and-response between the melody instrument and Piano accompaniment. This quirky two movement piece by Balay provides the intermediate Cornet Saxhorn or Trumpet player with a fun alternative performance piece.

Team Brass is designed for everyone who wants to learn to play brass. This method: presents a flexible course which can be tailored to suit each student is ideal for individual group or class tuition contains plenty of carefully graded music in a wide variety of styles encourages ensemble playing with varied repertoire for mixed wind group and integrates with ensemble music in Team Strings Team Woodwind Team Recorder and Team Percussion provides imaginative piano accompaniments for selected pieces and chord symbols where appropriate develops instrument-related aural skills improvisationand composition offers helpful notes for the teacher together with clear ensemble scores.

This is a beautiful and lyrical Cornet solo with band accompaniment. It conjures up a pastoral scene with distant bells ringing The piece is actually named after a pub in Lower Peover near Knutsford in Cheshire.

Méthode complète de Cornet à Pistons for the Cornet Trumpet or Saxhorn composed by Guillaume Balay is a method for beginners in two volumes and one of the most complete for these instruments. This second volume follows the first introducing major and minor scales in the first chapter. The next two chapters develop what has been learned on liaisons and rhythm. Finally it brings up chromatic scales other rhythms and style studies. With this Méthode complète de Cornet à Pistons Volume 2 the method should be complete and the beginner should master the establishment ofthe notes and rhythms while obtaining a qualitative sonority. Guillaume Balay (1871-1943) is a French soloist and composer. As a member of the military he was the Head of Music for the Republican Guard and composed many chamber music and solo music pieces for Cornets and other Wind instruments. He was also a respected music teacher.

First published in 1915 this is a work that has stood the test of time by one of the Brass world's most important pedagogues Characteristic Studies for the Cornet should be part of any Trumpet student's library. Within its pages the student will gain valuable insight on tonguing and the 24 characteristic studies will help the student to gain absolute control of technique articulation slurring and endurance. This work will prove helpful and beneficial to the developing student.Herbert Lincoln Clarke was a well-known American Cornet player feature soloist bandmaster andcomposer. Clarke’s legacy includes composing a portion of the standard repertoire for the instrument many recordings as well as a seminal school of playing which emphasized not only technical aptitude but also increased warmth and lyricism of tone. He also produced several method books that are still used by Brass students to this day.

Hilda Sehested's Suite was expertly composed in 1905 for Cornet and Piano.Sehested studied the Organ with Ludvig Birkedal-Barfod and composition with Orla Rosenhoff and later went on to compose several instrumental pieces as well as being a dedicated church organist.

This First Book of Practical Studies is designed to develop chord consciousness and to provide additional experience in the fundamental rhythms, key signatures and articulations and to improve accuracy in reading through the use of interesting and mestudies. It may be used either to supplement or to follow any beginning method book.