Arranged by Bob Phillips. Arr. Bob Phillips. For String Orchestra. String Orchestra. String Explorer. Level: 2 (grade 2). Conductor Score

By Various. Arranged by Laszlo Czidra. EMB. Size 9x12 inches. 82 pages. Published by Editio Musica Budapest.

(Songbook). By The King's Singers. Arranged by The King's Singers. For choir (one, two, or three-part voices) (Songbook). King's Singer's Choral. Pop Vocal, Traditional Folk, Baroque and Classical Period. Difficulty: easy-medium. Vocal score (one, two and three part rounds). Vocal melody, harmony part and leadsheet notation. 80 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

Trombone Duet - Advanced

SKU: CY.CC3147

Composed by Georg Friderick Handel. Arranged by Russ Schultz. Classical. Score and Parts. Cherry Classics #CC3147. Published by Cherry Classics (CY.CC3147).

ISBN 9790530111154. 8.5 x 11 in inches.

Russ Schultz has arranged eight lovely duets of Baroque dances by Handel for intermediate to moderately advanced level trombonists. Each movement has a different style and is a delight to perform. These can be played on two tenors or tenor and bass trombone.

Piano

SKU: BO.B.3662

Composed by Joan Comellas. Published by Editorial de Musica Boileau (BO.B.3662).

The Sonatas de Paris are divided into two books. Comellas began the series in early 1952 and they were finished in 1955. As with most of his works, he composed without having a plan to premier them or a commission. So upon having them completed, he filed them away. On many occasions, his close friend Jordi Giro would read thrue the pieces or Anna Ricci would sing his songs, but very little of his music was performed during his life time.

The two books entitled Sonatas de Paris are really to books with totally different character. The first book is made up of short piano pieces in a neo baroque style. More than following strict forms of the baroque suite, the pieces are more a evoking of the baroque style. Book one loosely follows the idea of a suite or ordre, where as book two is much freer in structure being made up of various pieces, a few in memory of his favored composers (Albeniz, Debussy, and Granados) ending with a group of four dances, Las indias danzantes [Dances of the Indian girls], that refer to an Indian dance. This group of dances is not really playable by one pianist and seems to be really meant to be performed piano 4 hands, but since there is no note about this in the score it is hard to say. A few of these pieces were performed by Rosa Sabater in Paris in 1980.

The present edition is based on manuscripts that are in the Joan Comellas deposit in the National Catalonian Library in Barcelona.

Piano

SKU: BR.EB-8033

Piano Lessons by Jean-Philippe Rameau. Composed by Jean-Philippe Rameau. Edited by Heinz Walter. Solo instruments; stapled. Edition Breitkopf. Suite; Dances/marches; Baroque. Score. 20 pages. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB 8033. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.EB-8033).

ISBN 9790004174364. 9 x 12 inches.

This series of easy piano music for teaching purposes presents pupils in the lower and lower middle grades with a carefully chosen selection of well-known and lesser-known compositions by important masters. The volumes are deliberately kept small in extant, since it is more stimulating for children to change the teaching material frequently. Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) is the second great keyboard master of the Baroque Age next to Couperin. His works are as unknown to pianists, with few exceptions, as they are famous among harpsichord players. The virtuosity and imaginativeness of his works lend themselves especially well to the sound of harpsichord, which is why the piano interpretation of works by Couperin, Rameau, Scarlatti and other composers of that time has been categorically rejected. But, after all, the works of Bach and Handel were written for the harpsichord and clavichord, and no one would dare question their interpretation on the pianoforte. In order to introduce these Impressionists of the Baroque Era to piano instructions, the editor has added to this series a folio of both Couperin's (EB 8029) and Rameau's music. The selection of the pieces is based on two criteria: 1. relatively modest demands made on technique, 2. various musical forms of expression. Baroque dance forms and graceful character pieces (LaJoyeuse, L'Indifferente) are typical ofRameau's work. Simplifications to a small extent of the harpsichord setting and also of the omamentation in the original version were required, based on the teaching experience of the editor. The indications for phrasing and articulation are those of the editor. The Minuet on page 6 has been precisely elaborated on in this respect to serve as a model, whereas the remaining pieces contain only suggestions. As in other folios of this series: what is here to be stressed, is the importance of working out independently the phrasing and the dynamics. Directions for this are given by the espective footnotes; these directions, however, are not obligatory. Indications pertaining to dynamics and tempo have been omitted completely; the clearly recognizable character of the individual pieces should be direction enough. The tonal possibilities of the piano should in any case by used subtly. The very precise fingerings have been adapted to the suggested phrasings and to the corresponding realisation of trills (according to the table). Heinz Walter, Salzburg, Spring 1980.