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.

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.