Recorder and Harpsichord (or Piano) - Intermediate

SKU: FP.FPJ01

Composed by Jim Parker. Sheet Music and Books. Take a South American Journey with Jim Parker, award-winning TV & Film composer, with this imaginative suite of pieces for recorder and piano. Classical. Collection. Forsyths Publications #FPJ01. Published by Forsyths Publications (FP.FPJ01).

ISBN 9790570504015.

Jim Parker's TV, film and theatre scores are much loved, with credits including Foyle’s War, House of Cards, Midsomer Murders and House of Elliott. He has won the British Academy Award for Best TV Music on no less than four occasions.

South American Journey shares Parker's genius for painting musical pictures and weaving memorable melodies. He'll even have you believing your recorder is a Peruvian pan-pipe! The piece was written as a tribute to the memory of his friend and near-neighbour Stephen Dodgson.

Tango Cinco and Pueblo Tranquilo were first performed in a concert celebrating the life and work of Stephen Dodgson in the Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, Manchester University, on April 5th 2014, by John Turner (recorder) and Pamela Nash (harpsichord), and the premiere of the complete suite was given by John Turner (recorder) and Harvey Davies (harpsichord) at St.Bartholomew's Church, Church Minshull, Cheshire, on May 17th 2014. It is available in recorded form on the album Travelling Light: Music of Jim Parker on the Divine Art label.

Composed by Jarvis. For standard jazz ensemble. Jazz Journey Series. Swing. Medium. Score and parts. Published by Kendor Music Inc

Jazz Ensemble Score - Grade 3

SKU: KN.61692S

Composed by Lars Halle. Jazz Journey. Kendor Music Inc #61692S. Published by Kendor Music Inc (KN.61692S).

UPC: 822795616927.

Here is something different for your jazz band program - a groovy second-line tune with a tinge of contemporary jazz. Alternating with a swinging bridge, this chart delivers energy to your set! Duration 5:45.

Jazz Ensemble - Grade 3

SKU: KN.61713S

Composed by Jeff Jarvis. Jazz Journey. Kendor Music Inc #61713S. Published by Kendor Music Inc (KN.61713S).

UPC: 822795617139.

Rich ensemble writing, a resonant swing melody, and written or ad lib solos for all earn this street-smart blues high marks for accessibility and programming appeal. Ideal for advancing groups, a guitar chord chart by Jim Greeson is included in each set. Duration 4:35. Available in SmartMusic.

Concert Band - Grade 2

SKU: AP.29464S

Composed by Vince Gassi. Concert Band; MakeMusic Cloud; Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles. Young Symphonic. Score. 20 pages. Alfred Music #00-29464S. Published by Alfred Music (AP.29464S).

ISBN 9781470658274. UPC: 038081318295. English.

Follow Crow on his epic journey southward and back as he attempts to bring daylight to the people of the far north. Inspired by the Inuit myth Crow Brings the Daylight, this colorful piece, filled with haunting harmonies and energetic rhythms, was written for and dedicated to the Inuksuk High School Band in Iqaluit, Canada. (2:45) This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.

SKU: GI.G-10054

Imagining the Good Life through Music. Composed by Clint Randles. Music Education. 328 pages. GIA Publications #10054. Published by GIA Publications (GI.G-10054).

ISBN 9781622774548.

We all need creativity in our lives. It is key to our happiness. Music, according to author Clint Randles, is one of the best ways to feed our longing for self-growth through engagement in creative processes. And music brings us together for the purpose of making beauty with sound. It provides us with a pathway to the good life. In To Create, Randles answers the critical question: What can I do with my time that will give me the best chance at achieving daily happiness? This amazing book unpacks what it means to engage in creative processes. Since story is the best way of feeding our imagination, the book unfolds by way of life stories that express the author’s unique perspective of the hero’s journey. Along the way, Randles inspires us to think about creativity and music as a pursuit that is not only truly worthy, but accessible. He addresses rules for creative performance, what we can learn from exceptional musicians and teachers, the link between spirituality and creativity, understanding our own stories in light of the meta-story, and the art of trust and starting small. To Create is a book that is unlike anything written on the topic—entertaining, wise, inspiring, and layered. It is for anyone who is interested in pursuing creativity through music but can’t quite figure out how or where to start. States Randles: “It is my hope that you will be able to imagine the good life through music, that you will be inspired To Create!” Clint Randles, PhD, is Associate Professor of Music Education at the University of South Florida, husband, father, multi-instrumentalist, and passionate lover of music.   Full of resonating stories, To Create is a profoundly pedagogical book about potential pathways into life’s learnings through and in music. To Create seeks and embraces the value embodied in the multiple, individual, and sociocultural authoring of diverse creativities. By analogising the good life (‘eidaimonia’), with lived-through experiences by which our desire (and drive) to create, to grow, to navigate, and to achieve extraordinary things in life is inextricably linked, Clint Randles stories his own journey of being awakened ‘To Create,’ by creating and living ‘the good life’ in and through the symbiotic domains of music and music education. —Pamela Burnard, Professor of Arts, Creativities and Educations     University of Cambridge, UK To Create is the rare achievement that seamlessly blends how-to curriculum with why-so philosophy, making the case that creative activity is an essential right that all children deserve from an education in music. Randles’ vivid illustrations prod us to think differently about teaching when well-being—when the good life—is both destination and design. —Randall Everett Allsup, Professor of Music Education     Teachers College Columbia University Randles takes readers on a real and figurative road trip during which he demonstrates how to live life to its fullest by embracing creativity and repeating a mantra of possibility. He shows us how the good life is achievable, walking readers through deeply personal accounts of creativity in everyday situations over a lifetime. This book binds the individual and cultural, imaginative and practical, tangible and intangible, light and dark, yin and yang. It’s all about the power of three, weaving through everything the vital, intangible element of spirituality, energy, chi to achieve eudaimonia. Through the lens of his experiences as a musician and teacher, the author celebrates relentlessness and hard work, providing a window into what it means to engage in the good life. Open that window to hear life’s call to adventure! —Gareth Dylan Smith, Assistant Professor of Music Education     Boston University Professor Randles’ stimulating book prompts memory of the seminal work of Joseph Schumpeter who suggested the importance of creative deconstruction in a democracy. Both authors focus on attaining the good life through a fuller understanding of the logic of the process of change—change that is driven by knowledgeable and innovative entrepreneurs. The immediate application of Randles’ suggested dynamic creativity processes applies to both teacher education and professional development, although both he and Schumpeter advance general ideas in creativity designed to achieve the highest level of human growth. —Richard Colwell, Professor Emeritus of Music Education     University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign In recent years, Aristotle’s concept of ‘Eudaimonia’—meaning Happiness in the robust sense of full human flourishing (a life of joy, fellowship, self-growth, meaningfulness, ethical ‘good work,’ and more)—has entered and transformed the philosophy and practice of music education. To Create: Imagining the Good Life through Music is a highly original, emotional, practical, and exciting journey through the natures and values of creativity in/for music education and life itself. —David J. Elliott, Professor of Music and Music Education     New York University.

Piano

SKU: FG.55011-532-3

Around the world in 30 pit-stops. Composed by Sami Juntunen. Book. Fennica Gehrman #55011-532-3. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-532-3).

ISBN 9790550115323.

Around the World in 30 Pit Stops is a collection of practice pieces designed to cast you into a whirlpool of world music. The rhythms, harmonies and melodies of different cultural and geographical regions pose multiple challenges. The pieces are fresh, fun and suitable for both elementary and more advanced pupils. They range from easy to difficult, and therefore also serve professionals wanting to improve their handling of rhythm and comping style. The book supplements those in use at music schools, providing new material for use in piano teaching.

The pieces are grouped according to geographical region - Asia, Africa, South and Central America, the Nordic Countries, other parts of Europe, and North America - from four to six in each. Among the themes are On The Great Wall of China (Asia), Savannah (Africa), The Road to Havana (South and Central America), Pasta Bolognese (Europe), A View of Swing (North America) and Shoes Made of Birchbark (Nordic Countries). Some are in the older, traditional styles, while others represent trends emerging over the past few decades.

Jump on board for a journey round the world and expand your repertoire with these ethno etudes!

Global Variations by Nigel Hess (1953-). Concert Band. For Wind Band. Masterworks; Part(s); Score; Wind Band. Faber Edition: Faber Wind Band Series. 20th Century; Masterwork. Published by Faber Music

By Richard Matteson, Jr. For Fretted. Tune book. Bluegrass. Level: Beginning. Book. Size 8.75x11.75. 248 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc.

Concert Band/Harmonie - Grade 5

SKU: BT.GOB-000901-010

Composed by Jan Bosveld. Set (Score & Parts). Gobelin Music Publications #GOB 000901-010. Published by Gobelin Music Publications (BT.GOB-000901-010).

In 2006 Brabant will be celebrating it’s 900th anniversary. On May 13th 1106 the count Van Leuven was appointed duke of Brabant. This was the birth of the duchy of Brabant. For centuries this duchy, situated in the heart of the Netherlands, was the primary of the seventeen provinces in the Lowlands. Brabant formed with it’s capital cities Brussels, Leuven, Antwerp and ‘s-Hertogenbosch the focal point for politics, culture and economy. The revolution against Spain (1566-1648) caused a fracture between the North and South. The old duchy was divided into a Dutch and Belgian part. Even though each had their own historical background, the bond forged in the past was partially keptalive. To this day we still have a duke of Brabant. Brabantia Aeterna takes you on a musical journey through 900 years of Brabant history. A fascinating journey portraying war and peace, love and grief, prosperity and adversity, development and deterioration. Listen to how monks chanted, bells tolled and churches were built. Or take the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries with their bustling markets, builders of cities or the bleating of countless sheep across the heather. The plague, tribulations, soldiers and political bickering in the following centuries. Hear how the industrialisation of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries provided prosperity for the region and how to this day the following saying still applies: ‘the road to Brabant leads to a warmer world’ Brabantia Aeterna was commissioned by the Brabantse Bond van Muziekverenigingen (Brabant Music Society) in honour of its fifth anniversary.

In 2006 bestaat Brabant 900 jaar. Op 13 mei 1106 kreeg de graaf van Leuven de titel van hertog van Brabant. Hiermee was het hertogdom Brabant geboren. Eeuwenlang was dit hertogdom, gelegen in het hart van de Nederlanden, het eerstein rang van de zeventien gewesten van de Lage Landen. Brabant vormde met zijn hoofdsteden Brussel, Leuven, Antwerpen en 's-Hertogenbosch het brandpunt van bestuur, cultuur en economie. De Opstand tegen Spanje (1566-1648) brachtechter een scheuring tussen Noord en Zuid teweeg. Het oude hertogdom viel uiteen in een Nederlands en een Belgisch deel. Hoewel ieder zijn eigen weg in de geschiedenis ging, zou de band die in het verleden was gesmeed gedeeltelijkblijven bestaan. Vandaag de dag hebben we nog steeds een hertog van Brabant. Brabantia Aeterna neemt u mee op een muzikale reis door 900 jaar Brabant. Het is een boeiende tocht langs oorlog en vrede, lief en leed, voorspoed entegenslag, bloei en verval. Luister hoe vroeger de monikken zongen, de klokken luidden en kerken werden gebouwd. Of neem de dertiende en veertiende eeuw met zijn drukke marktgeluiden, de bouwers van steden of het geblaat van tallozeschapen op de heide. De pest, rampen, soldaten en politiek gekrakeel in de daarop volgende eeuwen. Hoor hoe de industrialisatie in de negentiende en twintigste eeuw zorgde voor nieuwe welvaart in de regio en hoe vandaag de dagnog steeds geldt: 'Op weg naar Brabant wordt de wereld warmer.' Brabantia Aeterna is geschreven in opdracht van de Brabantse Bond van Muziekverenigingen ter gelegenheid van haar vijfjarig bestaan.

By Various. Piano/Vocal/Chords Songbook (Arrangements for piano and voice with guitar chords). Size 9x12 inches. 312 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.