14 Middle-Grade Duets From The Last Four Centuries. With so many young flautists in the musical world today it is only natural to pair them up and give them some wonderful duets to play. It's amazing what 'big” music, these two small instruments can cope with - indeed, in the eighteenth century the flute duet was almost the gramophone record of the time as countless operatic arias were brought to the public in arrangements for this pairing. This book draws on some of those miniaturizations, from Mozart's and Weber's operas, coupled with earlier music from Telemann and Boismortier and rounded off with more modern pieces from Richard Rodney Bennett and a (specially written) piece by Holzeis-Augustin which introduces some contemporary music techniques. All these duets are great fun and well within the reach of intermediate players. Intermediate-level compositions and arrangements of music from Telemann and Mozart to Richard Rodney Bennett Includes a lively composition by Maria Holzeis-Augustin All duets are suitable as concert pieces and for competitions/ Recueil / 2 Flûtes Traversières

A progressive guide to sight reading-This book presents a progressive series of duets aimed at developing the skills necessary for fluent and accurate sight-reading. It will help saxophonists learn pieces more quickly and to participate in ensembles and orchestral music making with ease and confidence.

1 Piano 4 Hands-12 lower intermediate duets with performance notes and composer biographies. CONTENTS: Cradle Song and Ariette from Miniatures (Godowsky) Three Little Pieces (Bruckner) Cradle Song from Four Little Hands (Smith) Little Lullaby and On the Rocking Horse from The Children's Colorful World (Schlegel) ABC from The Morning (Volkmann) Pavane of the Sleeping Beauty in the Forest from Mother Goose (Ravel) Piano Duet from Twelve Progressive Pieces (André) Immortelle in G Major from Immortellen (Spindler).

Miniature was composed in 1985 and is a rhapsodic work of great character and ingenuity. A supportive and effective piano accompaniment contrasts a lyrical and cantabile solo double bass albeit in a mildly modern idiom and there are opportunities to demonstrate both musical and technical skills within a short timespan. This should appeal to anyone who enjoys the music of Teppo Hauta-aho and his personal soundworld and effective techniques. It utilses a wide range of the double bass offering a range of musical and technical challenges for the adventurous and enquiring bassist. The edition includes piano accompaniments for both solo and orchestraltunings.

Jauchzet Gott In Allen Landen - Praise Ye God Throughout Creation BWV 51.Cantata for the 15th Sunday after Trinity.The solo cantata ?Jauchzet Gott In Allen Landen? written around 1730 for the 15th Sunday after Trinity is one of Bach?s best-known cantatas.The scoring for solo Soprano Trumpet Strings and Continuo is unique amongst Bach?s cantatas and has parallels with Italian composers of the period.The enduring popularity of the work is due to the clear and succinct formal structure and not least to the virtuoso Trumpet part and Soprano arias in which the soloists can demonstrate their total mastery.The cantata ispublished in a Vocal score based on the ?New Bach Edition? with an idiomatic straightforward Piano reduction by Martin Focke.- Famous work with a festive instrumental sound.- Urtext based on the ?New Bach Edition?.- Clear straightforward Piano reduction.- Study score (TP1051) performance material (BA10051) & Vocal score (BA10051-90) available for sale.

Russian army officer Cesar Cui is best known for his avocational life in music – as a composer and music critic. Even though Cui composed in almost all genres of his time his status today in therepertoire is considerably small based (in the West) primarily on some of his Piano and chamber music – such as the (originally) Violin and Piano piece Orientale. Part of Kaleidoscope a collectionof 24 miniatures (most of which are now forgotten) Orientale has been a staple on violinists' and cellists' encore lists for more than a century now. The piece is a prime example of Cui’s strongesttalent the crystallization of mood at an instant in his instrumental miniatures. The 6/8 time Allegretto rides along on a tambourine rhythm set up by the soloist in the opening bars with the main tune offered by the Piano andlater taken up “with tenderness” by the Cello. As the name suggests this beautiful miniature carries oriental sounds and motives symbolising the mysterious atmosphere of the desert and with a performance time of under2 minutes is a perfect addition to any cellist’s repertoire.

Alec Rowley (1892-1958) was an English composer organist and teacher. As well as his frequent Piano recitals and broadcasts he gained renown through his large-scale works performed at the Promenade Concerts but most of his compositions are miniatures and small-scale works appropriate for amateur forces. Having studied at the Royal Academy of Music he later taught at Trinity College London for nearly forty years. Badinage is a work for Piano Duet. It takes its name from a French word meaning a humourous or jovial conversation. Rowley often performed duets with Edgar Moy and published severalvolumes in this genre.

Ces deux duos peu ont été créés pour l'usage domestique de Hindemiths propres et offre intéressante des harmonies et écrit de la partie. Hindemith fréquemment écrit rafraîchissant de petits morceaux comme ce qui prouve que même en tant que compositeur ' grand ' il savait comment appliquer son art 'en miniature'. / Basson Et Contrebasse

Malcolm Arnold wrote this little fantasy in the early 1960s as a present for his children Katherine and Robert to play together. Even as a miniature it has many of the hallmarks of the Arnold style such as the evocative melodic writing together with the occasional dark dissonance. It was written at a time when Arnold was deeply into film music. Perhaps this is why in the famous film Whistle Down the Wind the main theme is for flute/piccolo and turns out to be not entirely dissimilar to the theme found in this fantasy.

Camille Saint-Saens' Elephant is a delightful miniature from The Carnival Of The Animals and is one of the few works that are attractive to learners and accomplished players alike. Its many musical and technicalchallenges have earned it a permanent place in the teaching repertoire yet it offers soloists a welcome opportunity to demonstrate their prowess and espirit even in the low register.The ease with which a greatcomposer accurately and skilfully probes the idiosyncracies of this largest of string instruments for expressive purposes - a combination of features seldom encountered in the double bass repertoire - is truly impressive. All themore astonishing therefore that the Elephant although widely known is relatively rarely heard in the concert hall.This Urtext edition of the score has been edited with critical commentaries as well as fingeringand bowing of the double bass part by Tobias Glockler. The accompaniment is notated in E flat and F and so the double bass can perform using either solo tuning or orchestra tuning.