By Soon Hee Newbold. For orchestra. FJH Developing Strings. Score only. Full set (score and parts) also available: ST6199. Halloween. Grade 2.5. Score. Composed 2009. Published by The FJH Music Company Inc

(The Musicals of Rodgers and Hammerstein II). By Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rodgers. Arranged by John Moss. Score and Parts. Hal Leonard Concert Band Series. Grade 4. Published by Hal Leonard

Cello

SKU: BT.9781408114629

Composed by Maja Passchier. Abracadabra. Exam Material. Book with CD. 64 pages. Collins Music Publishing #9781408114629. Published by Collins Music Publishing (BT.9781408114629).

ISBN 9781408114629. English.

Now in a third edition, Abracadabra Cello has a fresh, contemporary new look and is the perfect book for pupil and teachers.

This title offers an identical selection of repertoire to the other booksin the Abracadabra Strings series, so they can be used in any combination for group or whole class lessons and mixed ensemble performances. Used alone, they remain ideal for individual tuition.

With tunes you know andwant to play, carefully graded in 20 learning steps, this new edition of the popular tutor also includes duets, trios and teacher's parts. Clear fingering and bowing diagrams and concise theory explanations help to teachthefundamentals of the instrument, and each new technical aspect is reinforced by several pieces using that particular technique.

Abracadabra Cello now also includes two CDs of performance and backing tracks, featuringselected orchestral backings.

Over 400 Songs to Strum and Sing. By Various. Ukulele. Pop. Softcover. 632 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

String Orchestra String Orchestra - Grade 1.5

SKU: XC.HSO2301FS

Composed by Erica Donahoe. Harmony. Score. Excelcia Music Publishing #HSO2301FS. Published by Excelcia Music Publishing (XC.HSO2301FS).

9 x 12 inches.

This delightful waltz gives your performers and audience the feeling of a lovely ride on an old-time carousel. As you circle around, the carousel horse gently moves up and down to the soothing music. The piece then moves to a melancholy theme as the ride is coming to an end. A stunning new piece for developing string orchestras.

Chamber Music Violin

SKU: PR.114418750

Composed by Michael Hersch. Sws. Performance Score. 8 pages. Duration 11 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41875. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114418750).

ISBN 9781491129524. UPC: 680160655489. 9 x 12 inches.

The seven-movement in the snowy margins might be considered a sort of atomic suite, as each movement is succinct, yet a microcosmic powerhouse inspired by “The Comet,” by Polish writer and Holocaust victim Bruno Schulz. Hersch’s intensity is expressed through dramatically captivating violin gestures, pushing the boundaries of texture, technique, and emotion.
Michael Hersch’s in the snowy margins was written in 2010. Like much of his work, it is grounded in literature and art. The title is drawn from a short story, The Comet by Polish writer, poet, and artist, Bruno Schulz (1892-1942). This forms the last of his collection The Street of Crocodiles, published in 1934. Schulz was shot by a Nazi officer in 1942.Both the title of Hersch’s work, and the ‘motto’ found on the composer’s manuscript (‘Thus far and no further. But what has become of the end of the world…’) are to be found in The Comet. It’s interesting that in in the snowy margins, unlike his earlier Fourteen Pieces which were inspired by the poetry of Primo Levi, Hersch chose to not title each individual movement with a quote. However his choices of text are applied, there is a clear quality of distillation. In every case, the texts which the composer has chosen to eschew lie beneath the music, akin to the greater mass of an iceberg, submerged, but imminent.Hersch also has very particular taste in visual art, and there seems to be common ground between the intensely expressionist drawing of Schulz, and those of Michael Mazur, which inspired his string quartet Images from a Closed Ward. The parallels between these artists reflect common traits shared between these two pieces, which provide a window on how the music should be approached, expressively and technically. I would argue, that from a violinist’s point of view, this pertains directly to how bow and left hand should approach the string: the febrile vibrancy of both Mazur and Schulz’s pencil and charcoal strokes, perhaps what T.S. Eliot called the ‘circulation of the lymph’, in every gesture, speaks to the intense experience, physically and emotionally, of playing (and hearing) this music. There is an intense sense of ‘truth to materials’ at every moment, the sense that every note sings on the edge of, or even beyond, total collapse.— Peter Sheppard-Skaerved.

Chamber Music Cajón, Crotales, Glockenspiel, Hi-hat Cymbal, Kalimba, Kick Drum, Marimba, Shaker, Sizzle Cymbal, Suspended Cymbal, Temple Block, Toy Piano, Vibraphone 1, Vibraphone 2

SKU: PR.114424640

Composed by Robert Maggio. Sws. Score and parts. Theodore Presser Company #114-42464. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114424640).

UPC: 680160693641. 18 x 12 inches.

Everything I Thought I Wanted was composed Fall 2022 through Spring 2023, when I was musing (perhaps more than usual) about my childhood wishes and dreams and trying to translate some of those musings into music. Full disclosure: this is an assignment I typically give my composition students; maybe I thought I’d try my own assignment. Sonically, this influenced the choice of instrumentation, and led to the inclusion of the toy piano, kalimba, glockenspiel, and crotales into the ensemble. Individual movements initially had specific impressionistic titles, though I removed them after they were completed, hoping to inspire more open-minded listening and personal imagery. I am deeply grateful to Doug Perkins, who organized the wonderful consortium of percussion studio teachers around the US to co-commission the work.

by Mel Bay. For all guitars. Modern Guitar Method. All styles, solos & duets. Level: Multiple Levels. Book. Method. Size 8.75x11.75. 320 pages. Published by Mel Bay Pub., Inc.

Composed by Rodgers & Hammerstein. Songbook for voice, piano and guitar chords. 384 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.