Par GRIFFIN MICHAEL. This clear and well organised text is suitable for students of arranging and composition, and for classically trained musicians wishing to further grasp the simple logic of jazz harmony. Essential understandings: - Triad structures and inversions - How to select chords - chord symbols - Simple but effective voicing formulae - The circle of 4th progressions, - Extensions to the 9ths and dominant 13ths, and altered 5ths and 9ths. Included in the 107 pages are comprehensive explanations, examples, exercises and solutions. For school students, the course can be started in year 9 and worked through to year 13. 'This book certainly delivers. Mr. Griffin does a superb job giving clear and concise steps that students should take when approaching the task of harmonizing a melody. The book is laid out in a clean, easy-to-understand format. Mr. Griffin is obviously a gifted teacher, and has developed a book that would be a great resource for any music teacher or student interested in understanding and implementing more complex theory/harmony concepts.' - Natalie Wickham, Music Matters, USA. 'Particularly good for A Level pupils composing in a pop and jazz style. The material gradually increases in difficulty and there are a lot of useful exercises to be completed by students”- Music teacher, UK. 'Excellent resource which will save teachers hours of preparatory work. Useful for a general understanding of options when harmonising in composition. An essential part of KS5 harmony work which goes beyond the common chords and progressions. Very professionally set out.”- ZigZag Education, UK./ Méthode / Tout Instrument

Based on God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen-A mix of original material and an old English song let you explore the musical tradition of “wassailing” with your band. Stephen Bulla's amazing knack for harmony and subtly unpredictable scoring always makes for aninteresting ride. Your winter concert deserves something to contrast the usual fare and you'll find just that in this fine example of young band arranging. Innovative!

182 of the best European jazz tunes make The European Real Book a must have for any jazz player. This volume contains pieces by Michel Petrucciani, Florian Ross, George Shearing, Nguyen Le, Toots Thielemans, Philip Catherine, Bill Bruford, Tommy Smith, Enrico Rava, Django Reinhardt and almost 100 others. As with all Sher Real books this book features: 100% accurate composer-approved charts easy-to-read manuscript A great selection of tunes Many extra features like sample Bass lines, chord voicing, Rhythm section hits, harmony parts and an extensive Drum appendix. An exclusive and exciting feature of The European Real Book is that streaming MP3 files of over 100 tunes in the book are available free of charge from Sher Music.

'A fragment of the main theme came to me one day during a visit to Switzerland in August 2004. I filed it away in my memory and developed it into a piece when I got home. The 'bluesy' harmony in the fourth bar of the theme suggested that the piece should be called Valse Bleue.' Angela Morley was born in Leeds Yorkshire England in 1924. She was a professional woodwind player in her teens and twenties and at twenty-six after studying harmony counterpoint and composition with Matyas Seiber and conducting with Walter Goehr gave up playing and embarked on a career as an arranger and composer.

Music of the Spheres was commissioned by the Yorkshire Building Society Band and first performed by them at the European Brass Band Championships in Glasgow May 2004.The piece reflects the composers fascination with the origins of the universe and deep space in general. The title comes from a theory formulated by Pythagoras that the cosmos was ruled by the same laws he had discovered that govern the ratios of note frequencies of the musical scale. (‘Harmonia’ in Ancient Greek which means scale or tuning rather than harmony - Greek music was monophonic). He also believed that these ratios corresponded to the distances of the sixknown planets from the sun and thatthe planets each produced a musical note which combined to weave a continuous heavenly melody (which unfortunately we humans cannot hear). In this work these six notes form the basis of the sections Music of the Spheres and Harmonia.The pieces opens with a horn solo called t = 0 a name given by some scientists to the moment of the Big Bangwhen time and space were created and this is followed by a depiction of the Big Bangitself as the entire universe bursts out from a single point. A slower section follows called The Lonely Planet which is a meditation on the incredible and unlikely set of circumstances which led to the creation of the Earth as a planet that can support life and the constant search for other civilizations elsewhere in the universe. Asteroids and Shooting Stars depicts both the benign and dangerous objects that are flying through space and which constantly threaten our planet and the piece ends with The Unknown leaving in question whether our continually expanding exploration of the universe will eventually lead to enlightenment or destruction.

From our series 'Hymns for a Changing World'. Optional harmony part in the chorus. This hymn is dedicated to Sister Fidelis McAnespie RSJ and The Choir of Mary Help of Christians Sawtell NSW Australia. You can hear the choir singing the hymn (first audio file).Schools can if they wish order Mary Help of Christians by using an official school purchase order/requisition.The order should be made out to our distributors:Spartan Press Strathmashie House Laggan Bridge Inverness-shire PH20 1BU quoting the catalogue number (RCM119) and publisher (Rose-Conlon Music). For further advice re: ordering please ring Dave (Sales)atSpartan Press on 01528544770