SKU: FP.FBS03
ISBN 9790570500192.
Sarah Baker is Vocal Composer in Residence at Education Music Services, an ABRSM examiner and a well known composer of songs and musicals for primary schools and massed-choral events.All this experience has come together in the creation of this album of piano pieces, inspired by growing up in the Chiltern Hills. Suitable for players of around grade 4-5 standard, her evocative sound pieces describe a crash-landing hot air balloon, garden invading cows and a even a snake in a pond!Air Balloon!: One vivid memory I have as a child is of the day that a hot air balloon passed over our house and made an emergency landing on the road in front! The sound of the gas being blown into the balloon to try to keep it high enough to pass the house sounded so loud and intimidating, and then there was the bustle of the neighbours as we all went out into the street to watch. It was both terrifying and exhilarating to watch the balloon float past and then land so near by.Buzzards Circling: There is something so calming and restful about watching birds of prey circling in the thermal currents of a summer sky. Growing up in the Chilterns gave me plenty of opportunity to watch buzzards and red kites. This piano solo captures the beauty of their flight as they glide so effortlessly through the air.There’s A Cow In The Garden Eating The Flowers: Inspired by the memory of seeing an unexpected cow in the garden! This surreal image is captured in a quirky waltz, as I portray both the absurdity of the moment and the sense of wonder I felt as a child, looking out of the window and seeing the cow walking round and eating the flowers. The final phrase articulates my longing: ‘I wish it would come again’.Watching The World Go By: A short, reflective piece, remembering what it was like to have time to just sit and watch the world go by from my bedroom window.Autumn Skies: A miniature about the beauty of Autumn skies and the poignant sense of loss for a summer gone. Friends I was fortunate to have several children of my own age living close by. We seemed to be forever making dens, playing out in the street and generally enjoying each other’s company. This piece reflects that sense of well-being.Snake In The Pond: One hot summer I was astonished and scared to see a grass snake cooling off in our garden pond! I watched, both horrified and fascinated, as it rose up from the depths and then disappeared again. Here I portray the sense of the hazy summer afternoon as I peacefully watched the tiny movements of fish in the pond, contrasted with the fear and excitement of seeing the snake appear.Morning Commute: I recollect many mornings stuck in traffic as my Dad took me to school on his way to work. There is one main road out of the village where I grew up, and that got more and more congested the closer we got to the town. We may not have chatted a lot, but it was always good to be together with my Dad, lost in our own thoughts.The Witch’s Cottage: My siblings and I had a fascination with a small cottage nearby. It was set back from the road in a dark part of the woods and we called it 'the witch's cottage’. Every time we passed, I imagined I heard the distant cackle of the witch and wished I could catch a glimpse of her.These pieces are written to complement my other collection, Night Time Impressions, which also draw on childhood recollections, particularly of the woods behind the house where I grew up. - Sarah Baker 2023.
SKU: FP.FBS02
Sarah Baker is Vocal Composer in Residence at Education Music Services, an ABRSM examiner and a well known composer of songs and musicals for primary schools and massed-choral events.All this experience has come together in the creation of this first published album of piano pieces, inspired by the sounds heard at night from the woodland just beyond Sarah’s childhood home.Suitable for players of around grade 4-5 standard, her evocative sound pieces begin at the tranquillity of dusk and end with the exuberant dawn chorus.The composer writes:'I grew up with woods behind my house, and the nocturnal noises and images that I remember were the inspiration for these eight short sound pictures on the theme of night. The music moves first from the tranquility of dusk and evening mists, to the emerging starlight of twilight. As night falls it takes on on a darker quality with shadows and dreams disturbing peace and calm.The night birds and bats swoop and flit past as they seek their prey, but gradually dawn approaches and peaceful sleep is restored. The morning is heralded in the joyful exuberance of the dawn chorus.'.
SKU: JK.01976
UPC: 093285019768.
Introducing Path to Serenity, the advanced sacred instrumental series for C instruments. This series of C instrument solo books is the answer to many inquiries for advanced sacred solo repertoire from a variety of instrumentalists. These elegant arrangements were composed to enfold the souls of all listeners in the messages of hope and healing found in the hymns. This series will accommodate the oboe, flute, violin, cello, bassoon, and many other instruments. Appropriate settings include sacred occasions such as funerals, sacrament meetings, and firesides, as well as recitals and concerts.The series includes three books (SOLD SEPARATELY):Piano Accompaniment Book - #01976C Instrument - Treble Clef - #01977C Instrument - Bass Clef - #01978Arrangements found in this book:Be Still, My SoulCome, Thou Fount of Every Blessing (Treble/Bass Duet - use all three books)Where Can I Turn for Peace?If You Could Hie to KolobI Need Thee Every HourMore Holiness Give MeJesus, the Very Thought of TheeAmazing GraceOur Savior's LoveComposer: VariousArranger: Sarah Brough BlomquistDifficulty: Late-Intermediate/Advanced.
SKU: HL.14043437
ISBN 9781783052622.
20 solo piano arrangements from Sarah Class's score for the BBC Nature Series. Includes full-color photos from the documentary.
SKU: KV.3612127
210mm x 297mm inches.
Cool, jazz-based pieces that provide an ideal introduction to playing in a jazz style. Piano Pizzazz is packed with techniques and tips to help pianists learn to swing and improvise. The free CD includes recordings of each piece, supported by notes in the book of what to listen out for and how to play with good jazz phrasing, which encourages critical listening and musicality. Most importantly, the series develops jazzing skills in Sarah's acclaimed and effective style.
SKU: BT.WMP2315
ISBN 9789811105562. English.
The latest of this series comprises popular choice pieces and alternative works from the ABRSM Piano Examination syllabi. These pieces have been specially selected for examination purposes and general repertoire study. Meticulously fingered and edited by Josephine Koh, the Teachers' Choice Selected Piano Repertory & Studies, just like the past series, offers teaching points and performance directionsthat help to develop technical assurance and stylistic awareness in the students. All works in Teachers' Choice are beautifully scored for comfort of reading. Beyond examinations, the series is enjoyed by music teacherswhouse the studies presented in each grade, for the development of specific technical skills in their students.
SKU: KV.3611613
The fun and exciting way to learn the pianoThe latest in the Sarah Watts Razzamajazz series.Starting with just one note, a new note is introduced one at a time, making this the fun way to learn.Includes a free accompaniment CD.
SKU: KV.3612175
ISBN 9781844178094. 210mm x 297mm inches.
Band in a Book and Christmas Band in a Book can be used for any combination of instruments with accompaniment from duet to orchestra, and all the pieces and arrangements are in Sarah's immediately recognisable style.
SKU: KV.3612521
ISBN 9781848676831.
Sarah Watts paints a colourful palette of popular styles written specifically with young players in mind.Play it Cool provides the opportunity to progress on the piano while still playing 'cool', enjoyable and fun pieces.
SKU: KV.3612270
ISBN 9781848670846. 210mm x 297mm inches.
SKU: KV.3612522
ISBN 9781848676848.
SKU: KV.3612034
SKU: HL.234744
9.0x12.0x0.035 inches.
Composer's Note: The Lullaby from The Unicorns arose from an opera libretto I commissioned from John Heath-Stubbs (1918-2006) in the late 1960s. In his story two unicorns are discovered in a remote part of Africa. Both the East and West want to obtain them for research so they send out rival expeditions. The Western technique is to lure the unicorn with a young girl singing a lullaby. Both East and West capture unicorns but the mythical animals escape in the end. I never completed the opera but I made a six-movement suite from it called The Unicorns. There are three songs and three instrumental numbers and the first performance was given with Elisabeth Soderstrom and Solna Brass under Lars-Gunnar Bjorklund at Ekensbergskyrkan, Solna, Sweden on 31 October 1982. This version was recorded and my arrangement of the three songs for voice and piano was recorded by Marilyn Hill Smith. The career of the Lullaby continued with a version for clarinet and piano, which I premiered with Jack Brymer aboard the Sea Princess in the Mediterranean on 29 September 1986. The oboe version was for Sarah Francis, and Duke Dobing and I have recorded it for flute an piano. Lullaby can be played with a variety of solo instruments and is also available for piano left hand and piano solo.
SKU: HL.14041880
ISBN 9781847723659. 9.0x12.0x0.246 inches.
Step back in time and play these superb solo piano arrangements of forty memorable themes from 20 classic costume dramas. With evocative moods and romantic themes from popular films such as Dangerous Liaisons, Pride and Prejudice,Elizabeth and The Age of Innocence.
SKU: WF.WM318
The work consist of six short pieces for solo piano, each designed to focus on various early intermediate keyboard techniques. The pieces are titled Sunrise, Passepied, Wistful Moment, Minuet, Butterflies, and Syncopated Notions, and the collection was composed for and dedicated to Sarah Pelham.
SKU: FJ.PS1032
UPC: 241444434628. English.
A new edition of Mozart's famous theme and variations on the well-known tune, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. Entitled, Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman, or Ah, shall I tell you, Mama, with 13 variations, this edition is suited for Late Intermediate to Early Advanced students wishing to study a legendary tune that all piano students should know.
SKU: HL.1115752
ISBN 9781705180136. UPC: 196288106036.
Each work serves a specific purpose in the educational process of the student, while the music itself bursts with romantism, creativity, fun, and easy to grasp a little more advanced concepts (irregular time signatures, silently depressed notes, etc). ABRSM grades 3-5.
SKU: FJ.PS1034
UPC: 241444445136. English.
A new edited publication of Debussy's La cathédrale engloutie The Sunken Cathedral from Préludes Book 1, no.10. A must-have piece in any pianist's library.This new sheet is accessible for students wishing to add torecital repertoire, with spacious pages and recommendedfingering for easier reading.
SKU: ST.Y215
ISBN 9790220221309.
1st perf: Sarah Nicolls, The Warehouse, London, 12 December 2003 Lute Stop, inspired by the legendary playing of Glen Gould and Alexis Weissenberg, is the latest bravura solo from Morgan Hayes, an outstanding young British composer of piano music. The interpretative style of these performers, favouring a block-like rather than a nuanced approach to dynamics, is mirrored in the formal aspect of the piece and the extreme dynamic contrasts of its material. Sudden shifts in register, octave doublings and quiet left-hand punctuations also feature prominently in the textures, suggesting changes of registration on a harpsichord - hence the title.
SKU: BU.EBR-A096
ISBN 9790560150444. 8.58 x 12.48 inches.
La collection ANACROUSE offre aux pianistes novices et confirmés un large choix d’œuvres classiques, allant de la Renaissance à l’époque moderne.Proposer tout à la fois des « incontournables » du répertoire classique et des pièces de compositeurs parfois oubliés, toutes d’une valeur pédagogique indéniable, tels sont les objectifs que nous nous sommes fixés. Chaque pièce, vendue à l’unité, a fait l’objet d’un travail éditorial attentif, tant sur le plan de l’établissement du texte musical que de sa gravure, afin de garantir aux musiciens les conditions indispensables aux plaisirs tirés du commerce fréquent de ces œuvres.Les partitions sont proposées sous la forme d’ouvrages traditionnels (feuillets papier), et disponibles également par téléchargement.Version Révisée en 2010 par Sarah Fahy et Patrice Bourgès.Ce sont les oeuvres probablement les plus célèbres d’Erik Satie, composées en février et avril 1888.Leur titre évoque la Grèce antique : les Gymnopédies, « fêtes des enfants nus », étaient célébrées à Sparte, tous les ans, en l’honneur de soldats morts au combat. Fait-il référence au style volontairement dépouillé, à la nudité, de ces pièces ? A leur allure processionnelle ? A leur simplicité enfantine?Quoiqu’il en soit, ce sont trois valses lentes, de même facture, dans lesquelles un thème, à la main droite, se déploie sur un accompagnement obstiné, basse sur le premier temps, accord sur le deuxième.Les nuances, allant de pp à p (hormis quelques passages f ), les indications de tempo (lent et douloureux, lent et triste, lent et grave), les septièmes non résolues de l’harmonie, tout contribue au caractère mélancolique qui se dégage de ces trois pièces.
SKU: HH.HH516-SOL
ISBN 9790708185260.
Next in the series of C. D. Stegmann’s piano arrangements of Haydn symphonies is the celebrated ‘Drumroll’, whose successful orchestral premiere took place in London on 2 March 1795. As The Morning Chronicle reported: ‘Another new Overture [Symphony], by the fertile and enchanting HAYDN, was performed; which, as usual, had continual strokes of genius, both in air and harmony. The Introduction excited the deepest attention, the Allegro charmed, the Andante was encored, the Minuets, especially the Trio, were playful and sweet, and the last movement was equal, if not superior to the preceding.’.
SKU: HH.HH566-SOL
ISBN 9790708185819.
Mozart’s final three symphonies were composed, according to Mozart’s autograph Verzeichnüß, in the space of a few weeks, from late June to early August 1788. During that year the 11-year-old Hummel was a resident pupil of Mozart and would have been a daily witness to the creation of these foundational works of the Western musical canon. There is an almost total lack of documentary evidence concerning the circumstances of these works, however, which has led to considerable speculation as to their origins, early performances and reception. There are three plausible scenarios for the genesis of these symphonies: that they were written for a series of subscription concerts scheduled for autumn 1788; that Mozart wrote them with the (unfulfilled) intention of publication as an opus; that they may have been prepared in advance of Mozart’s projected visit to London with his British friends the Storace family, Thomas Attwood and Michael Kelly (again unfulfilled). A contemporaray review in The Harmonicum (1823) of Hummel’s piano arrangements of these works notes, approvingly, that they show his perfect knowledge of the instrument and his nice [= fastidious] discrimination in selecting the most effective parts from the score in those places where the whole could not be taken.
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