by Christine Watts. For cello. Non-Series. All styles, method. Level: Beginning. Book. Method. Size 8.75x11.75. 96 pages. Published by Mel Bay Pub., Inc.

Clarinet, Flute, Violin, String Orchestra

SKU: HL.4491326

Cello. Arranged by Leonard Slatkin. Easy Music For Strings. Folk. Softcover. 12 pages. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.4491326).

ISBN 9781480366237. UPC: 884088962562. 9x12 inches.

World Songs for Solo Instruments and Strings is the newest in a series of publications by internationally acclaimed conductor Leonard Slatkin, long known for his commitment to music education. These easy to intermediate folk song settings for flexibie solo (violin, flute or clarinet*) with youth orchestra accompaniment are a wonderful set of pieces for your concert catalog - and with 25 minutes of concert programming they're also a great value! Add flair to your performance with the optional percussion parts. Includes:

• *When Johnny Comes Marching Home (features all three solo instruments)

• Volga Boatmen's Song

• Danny Boy

• Dance of the Cockroach

• Funiculì, Funiculà

• *Simple Grace (setting of Simple Gifts and Amazing Grace for solo piano with strings)

• O Waly, Waly (The Water Is Wide)

• Frère Jacques

• Ich hab die Nacht Geträumet (I Dreamed This Night)

• Home on the Range.

Cello

SKU: HL.14028929

Composed by David Blake. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Music Sales #NOV120425. Published by Music Sales (HL.14028929).

Written for Moray Welsh whilst still an undergraduate at York University. This piece was completed in mid-September. Inspired by Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf. A solo 'cello seemed an appropriate medium for music which might explore the character of Harry Haller, with his desire for bourgeois comfort and his strong misanthropic and suicidal tendencies. The opening theme attempts to express this - melancholy, nostalgic, a bit Biedermeyer (cf. Brahms Intermezzi). The basic theme of the book, at its simplest, is that every human personality consists of hundred of different personalities - within every man there lurks a wolf. Accordingly the tendency of my piece is for all its musical material to become distorted, either by thematic transformation or by changes of timbre. There are three movements played without a break. The first is a character portrait of the Steppenwolf. The second is concerned in the most general sort of way with the dance elements in the novel - Harry's being taught to dance and appreciate low 'popular' music - a tango is recapitulated in a waltz and 'Yearning', a popular song of the time (1927) is hinted at. The third movement concerns the Masked Ball and the Magic Theatre. Mozart is one of Hesse's great loves and he is repeatedly mentioned in the book. Inevitably some Mozart quotes have been worked in, the most significant being a reference to The Magic Flute 'fire and water' flute theme in the middle of the second movement. Long before I finished the piece, I was disenchanted with the work of Hesse. Much of Steppenwolf I now find rather embarrassing and the claims currently made for Hesse's greatness seem to me exaggerated. Since my piece is in no important sense programmatically specific, this change of heart doesn't really matter. ~ David Blake.

Performed by The Beatles. Chart. Softcover. Size 9x12 inches. 94 pages. Published by Hal Leonard Corporation.

(Cello)

SKU: HL.50564177

Composed by Maurice Ravel. Editions Durand. Classical. Book only. Editions Durand #DR0673904. Published by Editions Durand (HL.50564177).

UPC: 073999328134.

Inch....this work is likely to become a standart work very quickly and is to be recommended to all schools where recorder studies are undertaken inch. (Oliver James,Contact Magazine) A novel and comprehensive approach to transferring from the C to F instrument. 430 music examples include folk and national songs (some in two parts), country dance tunes and excerpts from the standard treble repertoire ofBach, Barsanti, Corelli, Handel, Telemann, etc. An outstanding feature of the book has proved to be Brian Bonsor's brilliantly simple but highly effective practice circles and recognition squares designed to give, in only a few minutes, concentrated practice on the more usual leaps to and from each new note and instant recognition of random notes. Quickly emulating the outstanding success of the descant tutors, these books are very popular even with those who normally use tutors other than the Enjoy the Recorder series.