Sax Section Feature-Billy Joel's rollicking rag makes a super sax feature with this new arrangement by Michael Sweeney. Your saxophone players will love the clever licks and tricks and your audience will be grinning from the intro to the coda.

Flexible Woodwind Ensembl-This suite of folk songs is scored for woodwind quartet and a single unpitched drum. Although the nominal scoring is for flute two clarinets and bassoon the piece has considerable inbuilt flexibility of scoring. The options for instruments on each part are as follows: Part 1: Flute oboe or soprano saxophone Part 2: Bb Clarinet or alto saxophone Part 3: Bb clarinet alto saxophone or tenor saxophone Part 4: Bassoon bass clarinet or baritone saxophoneThe piece may be played by any combination of these instruments. Where necessary some passages have been transposed down an octave in the soprano alto and tenor saxophone parts.Where this occurs the lower pitch is also included in the score. There are also a few notes in the bass clarinet part of the March which have been taken up the octave through necessity; similarly this is indicated in the score.The drum should be unsnared and of medium low pitch. A bodhran tenor drum low tom-tom or floor tom are suggested although in the end it is up to the performer!The folk songs used in the piece are not particularly well known these days. 'Gan to the Kye' is an example of the rich culture of traditional music from Northumbria. The title means 'Go to the cows' and is a love song in which the herdsman asks his lover (in a gesture possibly lacking somewhat in romance) to accompany him whilst he tends his herd of cattle.The second movement is a setting of 'Rosemary Lane' a beautiful Somerset song. It tells of a serving girl ill-used by a sailor; as so often in traditional music the beauty of the tune is quite at odds with the unpleasant circumstances related.'Gently Johnny' is a good-humoured song in which the enthusiastic suitor is teased by the object of his affections: he is asked to cool his ardour whilst at the same time being left in no doubt that his attentions may be as bold as he wishes! The middle section uses another song this time from Middlesex called 'Jack Williams'.

Divertimenti for Wind Sextet-W. A. Mozart's Divertimenti For Wind Sextet. Mozart composed the five Divertimenti between the years 1775 and 1777 when he was living in Salzburg. The Italian title isreminiscent of simple ?light? music but the pieces? melodic ingenuity and colourful writing for Winds show it to be chamber music of the highest quality.This Henle Urtext edition is based on the autograph and bringstogether all five authentic sextets in one practical edition. An ensemble with the standard instrumentation (two Oboes two Horns and two Bassoons) will discover a true musical treasure. The two Horn parts are provided both in theoriginal transpositions (F/Bb/Eb) and also for Horn in F.

Mixed Bag No. 4-Mixed Bag. This highly acclaimed series provides a real opportunity for woodwind players of mixed ability to play together. It will work with as few or as many players as you like! Each arrangement will work with just three orfour main parts. Part 1 is quite demanding but Parts 2 & 3 are easier. These parts can be played by just one or several players - it’s up to you! Optional ‘filler’ parts are also included for beginners. These have very simplerhythms and notes (clarinet parts are all below the break) allowing young players to gain experience in ensemble playing. Mixed Bag gives you a score and double set of parts. Titles include arrangements of classical romantic modern and folk tunes. Mixed Bag - the answer for woodwind groups of mixed instrumentation mixed ability and mixed tastes.

?His present pieces must convince both connoisseurs and others alike of the unbiased opinion that Beethoven will in time become one of the greatest composers in Europe? thus wrote Joseph Haydn when informing the Electorin Bonn on the progress of his pupil in 1793. However the elector replied that he was already familiar with parts of the Parthia Op. 103 that had been sent as evidence of the composer?s progress.Beethoven had apparently only reworked an earlier composition. Nevertheless we must agree with Haydn: the Parthia and the Rondo WoO 25 that was originally intended as the final movement provide wonderful evidence ofBeethoven?s great skill. This Urtext edition also contains additional parts for Horns in F.