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.

Morceau de Concert by J. G. Pennequin was composed in 1907. Initially written for Trumpet and Piano this arrangement for Cornet and Piano is very melodic and quite challenging for the Cornet part. Quite fast this very enjoyable work lasts 7 minutes and needs some advanced skills. The piece starting by the Piano shows a continuous exchange between the Cornet and the Piano. J. G. Pennequin (1864-1914) was a very famous Violin teacher in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century. He was also the first Violin of the Opera-Comique and an accompanist of the Salle Pleyel. Winning First Prize of the Paris Conservatory he wrote a complete method for Violin as well as an elementary method. A sonata for Violin by André Gedalge was dedicated to him.

Jean Baptiste Arban was amongst the first of the great soloists of the then newly invented cornet and his post as first soloist in the Paris Opera Orchestra gave great respectability to the instrument. The Amazing Mr Arbancelebrates his melodic gift by grouping together and integrating several of the best known studies. The piano arrangement is by Nicholas Hare.

This is the definitive collection of the writing of Dr Fred Kaan. As Fred himself describes it 'One man's 100 hymns give or ''take five''... for today and (! dare to hope) for some of our tomorrows'.Included in this volume is the text for Magnificat for a New Millenium a major cantata with music by Knut Nystedt commissioned for EXPO 2000 the World Exhibition in Hanover Germany.Many of the hymns in The Only Earth We Know have been revised in the light of insights gained into inclusive language. The volume also contains a rich diversity of familiar and specially-written settings by a range of composers including Peter Churchill MaggieHamilton Ron Klusmeir Doreen Potter Pamela Ward and Carlton R Young. ISBN 0 85249 852 7 For supply to the USA or Canada please contact Hope Publishing .

Concerto for Bb Cornet (or Bb Trumpet) and Piano. Par DELERUYELLE THIERRY. Crossing Worlds est un concerto pour cornet (ou trompette) commandé par la cornettiste suisse Kathleen Gaspoz, qui a marqué l?histoire des brass band en devenant la première femme à occuper le poste de cornet principal au célèbre Brighouse