Arranged by Paul Sheftel. Collection for Piano. This comprehensive volume for beginning piano students offers the player 132 original masterpieces from Beethoven to Bartok and covers a wide range of styles. Selected by noted piano pedagogue Paul Sheftel, this collection will offer the beginning student challenging repertoire as well as hours of enjoyment. 157 pages. Published by Carl Fischer.

Developing Artist Original Keyboard Classics Intermediate Level. Edited by Joanne Smith, Nancy Faber, and Randall Faber. Faber Piano Adventures. Classical, Supplementary. Softcover Audio Online. 88 pages. Faber Piano Adventures #FF1056. Published by Faber Piano Adventures

2-Part and Piano. By Ellen Foncannon. (2 part). Pavane Choral. Sacred. Book only. Size 6.7x10.5 inches. 10 pages. Published by Pavane Publishing.

Piano Solo Mixed Folio (Intermediate to advanced piano arrangements with no lyrics). Size 9x12 inches. 296 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

String Quartet

SKU: HL.49047454

Score and Parts. Composed by Julian Anderson. String Ensemble. Chamber, Classical. Softcover. 148 pages. Duration 1380 seconds. Schott Music #ED13989. Published by Schott Music (HL.49047454).

UPC: 842819101086. 9.0x12.0x0.358 inches.

My 3rd String Quartet is in six contrasted movements. Certain musical figures recur across the work, but there are few themes as such. The main emphasis is on contrast of mood, texture, harmony, pacing and timing. Unlike many of my works this quartet had no extra-musical inspiration, and in principle should have no subtitle. Certain features already present in my music became more prominent in this new work: modes (limited collections of pitches) have always helped me to focus musical character, but here a sense of key note for each mode became much more pronounced, as did the difference between modes for each section of the work. A sort of hybrid key-system emerged (even with equivalents of major and minor) which is not normal tonality, nor does it aim to imitate it. Unlike tonality this key-system includes noises, extended performance techniques and intervals outside Western tuning as available resources. What I hope it does is to focus the listening experience onto different musical areas, to encourage a sense of both modulation from one area to another and to give the music a sense of goal. No conscious knowledge of this is needed when listening: the music should communicate directly on its own. Here, then, is this collection of six musical colours, related and unrelated, different yet belonging together, variable yet in a set order. Hence the subtitle, chosen both for both its sound and its sense: 'hana no hanataba' meaning, in Japanese, 'bouquet of flowers'. A brief description: 1) Moderately fast. Short droplets of sounds gather increasing momentum. 2) Very fast. Canons and bells at different speeds. 3) Very slow - fast - very slow - very fast - very slow. The main slow movement and its main scherzo. An emphasis on non-tempered tunings and on inhaling and exhaling waves of sound. The slow sections feature florid melodic writing. In the exuberant scherzo competing duos and trios create imaginary folk music. 4) Extremely fast/extremely slow. Open strings and harmonics fuse into a single string instrument - like a sort of large resonating Medieval tromba marina. 5) Very fast. A variation on movement 2). Variation, Schoenberg told Cage, is just a sort of repetition 'with some things changed and others not.' 6) Slow - Very Fast - Fast - Slow. The opening calm harmonies and florid melodies evoke movement 3) in different music. The fast part features one overt theme: a fanfare-like call to attention which is subject to extensive development. There is much use of non-Western tuning. At its climax the music freezes into a frieze - a wall of sound standing in front of the audience with increasing obstinacy and certainty as the work grinds towards its cadence.

(Brass Quintet and Organ - Score Only). By James Curnow. For Organ, Brass Quintet. Curnow Solos and Ensembles. Grade 4-5. Curnow Music #105105070. Published by Curnow Music

Composed by Various. Instrumental Solo. Softcover. 88 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

By Charles Lloyd Barnhouse. Arranged by Joel Treybig. For Double Brass Quintet. Brass Ensemble - Quintet. Eighth Note Publications. Christmas; Winter. 40 pages. Published by Eighth Note Publications

Arranged by Sally K. Albrecht. For Choir. (2-Part). Choral Octavo. Choral Designs. Secular, Christmas. Choral Octavo. 12 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

Music and lyrics by Sally K. Albrecht. Octavo for 2-Part choir and piano accompaniment. Series: Alfred Choral Designs. Text language Latin. 12 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

Composed by Frederic Chopin (1810-1849). Edited by Joseph Banowetz. Book; Graded Standard Repertoire; Masterworks; Piano Collection. Alfred Masterwork Edition. Form: Scherzo. Masterwork; Romantic. 108 pages. Published by Alfred Music (AP.45324).