For Piano Four Hands. Composed by Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) and Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994). PWM. Softcover. 56 pages. Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne #11714010. Published by Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne

Yamaha ClaviSoft CueTime Software. Cue Time. Floppy disk. Size 8.5x11 inches. 24 pages. Published by Yamaha.

(Later Elementary to Early Intermediate Level - 1 Piano, 4 Hands). Composed by Various. Arranged by Carolyn Miller, Eric Baumgartner, and Glenda Austin. For Piano/Keyboard. Willis. Late Elementary to Early Inter. Softcover Audio Online. 32 pages. Published by Willis Music

Chamber Music Cornet

SKU: CF.O88X

Composed by Narcisse Bousquet. Edited by Joey Tartell Edwin Franko Goldman. SWS. Softcover. With Standard notation. 44 pages. Carl Fischer Music #O88X. Published by Carl Fischer Music (CF.O88X).

ISBN 9781491153406. UPC: 680160910908. 9 X 12 inches.

These studies are a staple of the advanced trumpet method repertoire. Each etude is an exploration of a wide variety of registers, articulations and tonalities. While going through these 36 etudes the trumpeter will develop an even sound in all registers while tackling the musical and melodic challenges that lie within.
IntroductionTi ps on Musical PracticeStarting a new study can be overwhelming. Using Etude No. 1, here’s an example of how to approach working on these etudes with both musicality and technique in mind.Bousquet’s first study can be broken down into three large musical sections:Section 1: from the beginning to the downbeat of m. 26.Section 2: from the upbeat of 2 in m. 26 to the downbeat of m. 51.Section 3: from the downbeat of m. 51 to the end.Each one of those sections can be broken down into two smaller sections:Section 1a: from the beginning to the downbeat of m. 16.Section 1b: from the downbeat of m. 16 to the downbeat of m. 26.Section 2a: from the upbeat of 2 in m. 26 to the end of m. 35.Section 2b: from m. 36 to the downbeat of m. 51.Section 3a: from the downbeat of m. 51 to the downbeat of m. 59.Section 3b: from the downbeat of m. 59 to the end.To get started playing, choose a slow tempo that allows you to play Section 1 all the way through without stopping. If that is problematic, just play through 1a.Remember to focus on the music. Section 1a is light, moving in four-measure phrases to the ninth measure, where it cadences in G. From there, retain the lightness through the arpeggiation that concludes with the trill that brings an arrival point at Section 1b. Here the style changes completely, alternating two measures of fluid, connected sixteenth notes with two measures of scalar staccato sixteenths before finally cadencing on the downbeat of m. 26.Section 2 begins with a melodic line of eighth notes, punctuated by sixteenths in the third full measure before returning to the original line for only a measure before driving forward with a flourish to finish Section 2a. Section 2b starts back in C with four-measure phrases in which the line moves up for two measures, then down for two measures, ending in G. The last seven measures of Section 2 stay light as they work their way back to C.Section 3 is very exciting, starting with a fiery cornet solo-like passage in 3a. 3b brings the piece to a dramatic conclusion outlining C major for the first four measures before arpeggiating C major and G dominant for two measures, finally finishing with the C-major scale.The next step is to isolate any of the parts that proved troublesome. Examples could include missed notes or figuring out where to breathe. Once you have practiced the troublesome sections in isolation, play the section all the way through without stopping again. Even if there are still problems, you are now practicing in a way that is preparing you to perform musically.The next day, play through Section 1 again, at a tempo that allows you to do this without stopping. Now go on to Section 2, and follow the same three steps:Play all the way through, at a tempo that allows you to do so without stopping,Isolate and practice the troublesome passages, thenPlay all the way through, at a tempo that allows you to do so without stopping.Now play from the beginning to the end of Section 2.The next day, play Section 1. Now play Section 2. Then play Section 3 and apply the same three steps outlined above.Now play the whole study. At this point you have spent time on each section, making musical decisions and correcting mistakes. Increase the tempo as you gain confidence and control of the material. As you work towards performing the entire study as a piece of music, record yourself playing the entire study as a performance each day. Review the recordings to reveal what still needs work. Be honest with yourself! When you are happy with the recording of your performance, it’s time to move on to the next study.About the Goldman PrefaceThese studies will be an excellent practice, especially for the lower register of the Cornet, which is somewhat neglected in other instruction books. It is recommended that the pupil should practice one of this series of Studies now and then to repose his lips, and acquire facility in difficult fingering.— Edwin Franko GoldmanIn his original preface, Edwin Franko Goldman is absolutely correct that these studies are excellent practice and will help with the dexterity demanded of today’s player. Although the low register is certainly explored throughout the book, it does not appear to be the focus of these studies. There are many books available now that concentrate on the low register. The suggested fingerings have been removed. Using alternate fingerings was more common to cornet players to aid in the fluidity of a passage. This practice is not nearly as common today, especially with trumpet players, as the difference in timbre caused by the alternate fingerings is disruptive to the musical line. Published for cornet, as it was the solo instrument of choice in the 1920s, these etudes are just as useful to today’s trumpet player. When playing these studies on trumpet, the performer should strive for a fluid line while maintaining a full and clear sound. Because of the musicianship and technique demanded, this book remains as useful today as it has ever been.— Joey TartellAbout Narcisse Bousquet and the 36 EtudesNarcisse Bousquet (c. 1800–1869) was French by birth, active as a composer, editor and arranger in both France and England in the early nineteenth century. Bousquet was respected as an accomplished performer of the French flageolet, a high-pitched woodwind instrument much like a recorder, although later outfitted with the Boehm key system like the modern flute. Although obsolete in modern times, the instrument once enjoyed great popularity with a variety of composers and performers, both amateur and professional. Purcell and Handel composed for the instrument, and Berlioz was purportedly an accomplished amateur performer of the flageolet. The Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, likewise, was a proficient performer of the instrument and composed a number of pieces for it.Little is known today of Bousquet’s life. He composed a large variety of music, including works specifically for the flageolet, which were widely appreciated in their day. The 36 Etudes for flageolet are undoubtedly the most well known of his works. Published in 1851, the Etudes explore a variety of techniques, such as scales, arpeggios, ornamentation, breath control and expressive playing, and their technically demanding writing confirms Bousquet’s prowess as a flageolet performer. However, the date of the arrangement of the etudes for cornet and their arranger remain speculative. Edwin Franko Goldman is credited as the arranger of the 1890 publication by Carl Fischer, although Goldman would have been only twelve years old at the time; his work on these pieces surely came at a later time. Bousquet himself may have arranged these pieces for cornet at the request of an accomplished cornet player at some point after their publication.

By Kevin Olson. For Piano. The FJH Piano Ensemble Series. Level: Early Intermediate. Duet Sheet. Published by The FJH Music Company Inc.

By Pepper Choplin. For SATB choir, Soprano and alto solo with piano accompaniment (or orchestration). Advent, Christmas. Octavo. Published by Music Sales.

Arranged for 1 Piano, 4 Hands by Maurice Ravel. Composed by Claude Debussy (1862-1918). Edited by Denis Herlin. Arranged by Maurice Ravel. Henle Music Folios. Softcover. 26 pages. G. Henle #HN1259. Published by G. Henle (HL.51481259).

Piano

SKU: BT.EMBZ8377

Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag. Educational Tool. Book Only. Composed 1979. 88 pages. Editio Musica Budapest #EMBZ8377. Published by Editio Musica Budapest (BT.EMBZ8377).

English-German-Hungari an.

The idea of composing 'Games' was suggested by children playing spontaneously, children for whom the piano still means a toy. They experiment with it, caress it, attack it and run their fingers over it. They pile up seemingly disconnected sounds, and if this happens to arouse their musical instinct they look consciously for some of the harmonies found by chance and keep repeating them. Thus this series does not provide a tutor, nor does it simply stand as a collection of pieces. It is a possibility for experimenting and not for learning to play the piano.Pleasure in playing, the joy of movement - daring and if need be fast movement over the entire keyboard right from the firstlessons instead of clumsy groping for keys and the counting of rhythms - all these rather vague ideas lay at the outset of the creation of this collection. Playing - is just playing. It requires a great deal of freedom and initiative from the performer. On no account should the written image be taken seriously but the written image must be taken extremely seriously as regards the musical process, the quality of sound and silence. We should trust the picture of the printed notes and let is exert its influence upon us. The graphic picture conveys an idea about the arrangement in time of even the most free pieces. We should make use of all that we know and remember of free declamation, folk-music parlando-rubato, of Gregorian chant and of all that improvisational musical practice has ever brought forth.Let us tackle bravely even the most difficult task without being afraid of making mistakes: we should try to create valid proportions, unity and continuity out of the long and short values - just for our own pleasure! (BMC CD 139).

By Nicolas Horvath. By Robert Orledge and Claude Debussy (1862-1918). Rediscoverd Debussy. Christmas. Score. Musik Fabrik #MFCD017A. Published by Musik Fabrik

(Volumes 1-5, Complete) Written by Kenneth Baker. For piano. Format: instructional book. With standard notation, chord names, lyrics, instructional text, illustrations, fingerings and pull-out keyboard chart. Learn to play. 240 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Music Sales.

Composed by Timothy Brown. For 1 piano, 4-hands. FJH Piano Ensemble Series. Early intermediate. Single. 15 pages. Published by The FJH Music Company Inc

Orchestra Bass Clarinet, Bass Drum, Bassoon 1, Bassoon 2, Celesta, Chimes, Clarinet, Clarinet 1, Clarinet 2, Claves, Contrabass, Contrabassoon, Cowbell, Crotales, English Horn, Glockenspiel, Harp, Horn 1, Horn 2, Horn 3, Horn 4, Maracas, Marimba, Oboe 1 and more.

SKU: PR.11641737S

Composed by Steven Stucky. Study Score. 68 pages. Duration 9 minutes. Merion Music #116-41737S. Published by Merion Music (PR.11641737S).

ISBN 9781491136133. UPC: 680160688432.

Son et lumière (“sound and light,” a kind of show staged for tourists at historic sites or famous buildings) is an orchestral entertainment whose subject is the play of colors, bright surfaces, and shimmery textures. I have tried in this music to recapture the élan and immediacy that regular meters and repetitive rhythms make possible—something forbidden during the modernist regime but recently restored in the post-modern work of composers like John Adams, Steve Reich, and others. Throughout its brief nine-minute span, then, the piece is built almost exclusively of short, busy ostinato figures—my attempt, I suppose, to achieve the rhythmic vitality of minimalism, but without giving in to the over-simple harmonic language that usually comes with it.Surprisingly, the musical materials seemed determined to shape themselves into an approximation of nineteenth-century sonata form. We hear an introduction, a first theme (based on triadic broken chords), a second theme (beginning with the flute solo), and a closing theme (led by two piccolos). In a sort of development section, these materials are recombined in new ways; in a recapitulation, both the first and second themes are recalled more or less intact (part of the second is actually repeated quite literally).Then, in the coda, a second surprise: as if another, different music has been lurking all the while behind the shiny surface, the strings now unexpectedly split off from the rest of the orchestra to assert a new, more passionate, more “serious” voice, transcending the external show of sound and light.Son et lumière, commissioned by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, was composed between June and December 1988 in Ithaca (N.Y.), in Los Angeles, and at the artists’ colony Yaddo, in Saratoga Springs (N.Y.). David Zinman conducted the first performance in Baltimore on 18 May 1989; André Previn gave the West Coast premiere with the Los Angeles Philharmonic on 18 January, 1990.
Son et lumière (“sound and light,” a kind of show staged for tourists at historic sites or famous buildings) is an orchestral entertainment whose subject is the play of colors, bright surfaces, and shimmery textures. I have tried in this music to recapture the élan and immediacy that regular meters and repetitive rhythms make possible—something forbidden during the modernist regime but recently restored in the post-modern work of composers like John Adams, Steve Reich, and others. Throughout its brief nine-minute span, then, the piece is built almost exclusively of short, busy ostinato figures—my attempt, I suppose, to achieve the rhythmic vitality of minimalism, but without giving in to the over-simple harmonic language that usually comes with it.Surprisingly, the musical materials seemed determined to shape themselves into an approximation of nineteenth-century sonata form. We hear an introduction, a first theme (based on triadic broken chords), a second theme (beginning with the flute solo), and a closing theme (led by two piccolos). In a sort of development section, these materials are recombined in new ways; in a recapitulation, both the first and second themes are recalled more or less intact (part of the second is actually repeated quite literally).Then, in the coda, a second surprise: as if another, different music has been lurking all the while behind the shiny surface, the strings now unexpectedly split off from the rest of the orchestra to assert a new, more passionate, more “serious” voice, transcending the external show of sound and light.Son et lumière, commissioned by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, was composed between June and December 1988 in Ithaca (N.Y.), in Los Angeles, and at the artists’ colony Yaddo, in Saratoga Springs (N.Y.). David Zinman conducted the first performance in Baltimore on 18 May 1989; André Previn gave the West Coast premiere with the Los Angeles Philharmonic on 18 January, 1990.

By Traditional. Arranged by Jason Sifford. For 1 Piano, 4 hands. The FJH Piano Ensemble Series. Intermediate. Single Sheet Music. 7 pages. Published by The FJH Music Company Inc

Piano

SKU: BT.MUSAM39645

The Complete Piano Player. Tuition. Book Only. Composed 1992. 232 pages. Music Sales #MUSAM39645. Published by Music Sales (BT.MUSAM39645).

ISBN 9780711906723. English.

All five books of The Complete Piano Player series are published in this single volume at a substantial savings over the price of the five individual books. Complete with keyboard chart.

By Eric Taylor. ABRSM Music Theory in Practice Answers is a brand new resource to accompany the fully- revised Grades 1 to 5 of the Music Theory in Practice series. Each volume provides model answers for every exercise covered in the corresponding Music Theory in Practic. Education. Grade 4

By Eric Taylor. ABRSM Music Theory in Practice Answers is a brand new resource to accompany the fully- revised Grades 1 to 5 of the Music Theory in Practice series. Each volume provides model answers for every exercise covered in the corresponding Music Theory in Practic. Education. Grade 3

By Eric Taylor. ABRSM Music Theory in Practice Answers is a brand new resource to accompany the fully- revised Grades 1 to 5 of the Music Theory in Practice series. Each volume provides model answers for every exercise covered in the corresponding Music Theory in Practic. Education. Grade 5

By Janice Kapp Perry. Text: John V. Pearson / Rodney Turner / Janice Kapp Perry / Neal A. Maxwell / Orrin G. Hatch / David B. Larsen / Olga S. Whitaker / Ruth S. Kapp. For SATB Choir. Level: Medium. Published by Jackman Music Corporation.

By Eric Taylor. Music Theory in Practice Grade 1 (Revised Edition - 2008). Education. Level: Grade 1. Published by ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music).

By Soon Hee Newbold. Arranged by Soon Hee Newbold. Beginning String Orchestra. FJH Beginning Strings. Simple imitation enhances the overall sound and helps students learn to play independently of each other without having to learn a new part. Violin 2 doubles the viola to provide flexible performing options. Exquisite writing for beginning orchestras from one of the country's most respected string composers! Score for this title: ST6068S. Extra part for this title: ST6068P. String Orchestra. Level: 1. Score and Set of Parts. Published by The FJH Music Company Inc.

By Mike Springer. For Piano. Duet or Duo; Piano Duet (1 Piano, 4 Hands); Sheet. Signature Series. Late Elementary. 8 pages. Published by Alfred Music

For Piano, 4-hands. By Antonin Dvorak. Edited by Doege. For piano duet (1 piano, 4-hands). This edition: HN822. Piano, 4-hands, Piano Duets. Henle Music Folios. Urtext edition (Paper-bound). 72 pages. Published by Henle Urtext Edition.