SKU: KN.KEN10302

UPC: 822795103021.

Designed for a first contest or recital performance, this grade 1-2 collections contain 14 pieces that have been carefully edited by clarinet specialist Lawrence Sobol, and edited by Carl Strommen. The free downloadable piano accompaniment MP3s will be an invaluable tool for students. Piano accompaniment book sold separately (#10303). Available in SmartMusic.

Contents:
Jasmine Flower (traditional); Largo (Dvorak); Hunter's Chorus (Weber); Chester (Billings); La Cinquantaine (Marie); Nina (Pergolesi); Sicilian (Jones); Rondino (Ramea); Raisins And Almonds (traditional); Basse Danse No. 8 (Susato); Come Away (Dowland); Pavane And Galliarde De La Bataille (traditional); Cuckoo Galop (Sousa); Two Swedish Folk Songs (traditional).

SKU: IS.CP6054EM

ISBN 9790365060542.

Charles Camilleri (1931 - 2009) was a Maltese composer. As a teenager, he composed a number of works based on folk music and legends of his native Malta. He moved from his early influences by Maltese folk music to a musical form in which nothing is fixed and his compositions evolve from themselves with a sense of fluency and inevitability. He composed over 100 works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, voice and solo instruments. Camilleri's work has been performed throughout the world and his research of folk music and improvisation, the influences of the sounds of Africa and Asia, together with the academic study of European music, helped him create a universal style. Camilleri is recognized in Malta as one of the major composers of his generation. He died on 3 January 2009 at the age of 77. His funeral took place two days later at Naxxar, his long-time town of residence. Flags across Malta were flown at half-mast in tribute to him.

SKU: BT.EMBZ1919

English-German-Hungarian.

From 1906 on Béla Bartók was collecting folksongs on a regular basis. It was in 1907, during his first collecting trip to Transylvania, that he jotted down those three melodies in Gyergyóteker patak, Cs k, which he both provided with piano accompaniment (From Gyergyó) and arranged for solo piano (Three Hungarian Folksongs from Cs k) in the same year. The melodies were played by a ''sixty-year old man'' on a peasant flute. In 2015 we are launching a series entitled Bartók Transcriptions for Music Students to mark the 70th anniversary of the composer s death. This involves reissuing our tried publications, and publishing some further, new transcriptions that fulfill in every respectthe strict aesthetic demands of the earlier ones. We trust these publications will allow us to introduce still more music students to the realm of one of the great geniuses of 20th-century music.