Timeless Cornish Melodies Cooked Up For Hungry Brass Players-As I sit myself down to write this brief foreword I ask myself can there be music more stirring than these old Cornish folk melodies? Though not Cornish myself (I confess to being born a little further up the road in Bristol) I feel I have spent sufficient time in these 'ere parts to resonate with the sturdy brass band tradition that continues to permeate this incomparably beautiful rugged county. One can almost detect a French 'accent' when listening to the piano music of Debussy and likewise speaking as a lapsed brass player there is undoubtedly something of the Cornish twang about Trelawny when played on a cornet or euphonium. Then again one gets a different yet entirely convincing effect upon hearing these melodies rendered on woodwind instruments; hence with a little gamesmanship on my part I am pleased to see my collection of these fifteen delectable ditties come to fruition in the form of arrangements for treble clef brass instruments (in B flat and E flat) trombone and tuba (bass clef) horn in F flute clarinet and bassoon.While many will find themselves humming the likes of Going up Camborne Hill Lamorna or The Helston Furry Dance even before they have turned to the first page - for these are indelibly intertwined with Cornish culture - I wonder if I might draw your attention to The Cornish Squire The Pool of Pilate and Cold Blows the Wind Today Sweetheart which are quite simply sublime melodies perhaps needing that extra bit of help in bringing them to mind nowadays. In the best tradition of musical hand-me-downs Cornish folk music works equally ideally sung and played and only by doing so on a regular basis can such traditions hope to continue forward with vigour and authority. A legitimate way of achieving this is to revitalise the harmonic scheme of these ancient tunes and bring them up to date for a modern audience; after all it was such an approach that fuelled the imagination of Benjamin Britten and Ralph Vaughan Williams in decades past while skilfully paying homage to the

The Music Teachers Association Nationale a commandé cette composition collaborative pour leur congrès 2012. En quatre mouvements, chaque mouvement représente une saison de l'année. Chaque mouvement possède aussi un style musical différent qui correspond à la saison. Ecrit pour piano, flûte et basson, la musique est accessible pour les artistes de l'école secondaire. Il ya aussi autre instrumentation pour piano, violon et violoncelle. Dans les deux instruments, une partie de percussion option est incluse pour le quatrième mouvement. / Flûte, Basson Et Piano

Team Woodwind is designed for everyone who wants to learn to play woodwind. This method:presents a flexible course which can be tailored to suit each studentis ideal for individual group or class tuitioncontains plenty of carefully graded music in a wide variety of stylesencourages ensemble playing with varied repertoire for mixed wind group and integrates with ensemble music in Team Brassoffers more than 40 pieces which can be played in unison between flute and clarinetcontains over 50 well-known titles selected fromthe worlds of pop jazz and the shows as well as traditional and folk materialprovides imaginative piano accompaniments for selected pieces and chord symbols where appropriatedevelops instrument-related aural skills improvisation and compositionoffers helpful notes for the teacher together with clear ensemble scores.