String Quartet (2vl,va,vc)

SKU: BR.EB-32032

Urtext. Composed by Robert Schumann. Edited by Nick Pfefferkorn. Chamber music; Folder. Edition Breitkopf. Romantic period. Set of parts. 140 pages. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB 32032. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.EB-32032).

ISBN 9790004186343. 9 x 12 inches.

Invaluable Glimpses Schumann's close collaboration with the David quartet, together with the valuable advice of his friend Mendelssohn Bartholdy, led the composer to make extensive changes to the Streichquartette op. 41 before publication in December 1842. The present edition is hence to be thought of as a critical Urtext edition; it offers in fact to those interested, an invaluable glimpse into Schumann's creative process and his striving for the final form of his string quartets. All the deletions, changes, and the original phrasing were carefully worked out in detail, restored, and editorially identified in the music text. A detailed preface giving the geneses of the works, as well as pages of the autograph score in facsimile, complement the edition. The parts are of course so configured in the reliable Breitkopf quality that the quartets can also be performed today in the traditional form. The present edition was also used for the Leipzig String Quartet's 2010 CD recording.

SKU: GI.G-1110

Carols for Solo Piano. Composed by Chris De Silva. Sacred. GIA Publications #1110. Published by GIA Publications (GI.G-1110).

Composer Chris de Silva emerges from the quiet solitude of quarantine with a beautifully expressive collection of carols for solo piano. This third edition in the Colours series is filled with pieces that fully capture the range of emotions that fill the Christmas season–from moments of joy and goodness to those of emptiness and loss. Whether playing them yourself or listening to the gorgeous recording, these carol arrangements will become seasonal favorites.   CONTENTS: Angels We Have Heard on High • Away in a Manger • Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella • The Coventry Carol • The First Nowell • The Holly and the Ivy • Infant Holy, Infant Lowly • O Come, All Ye Faithful • Silent Night, Holy Night • ‘Twas in the Moon of Wintertime • We Three Kings of Orient Are • What Child Is This?  .

By Edward Huws Jones. For Violin. Book; Method/Instruction; String - Violin Studies or Collection. Faber Edition. Published by Faber Music

Concert Band - Grade 2

SKU: AP.46619

Composed by Michael Story. Concert Band; Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles. Belwin Young Band. Patriotic. Score and Part(s). 192 pages. Duration 3:30. Belwin Music #00-46619. Published by Belwin Music (AP.46619).

UPC: 038081534190. English.

This emotional original work celebrates the entire United States space program and specifically the July 20th anniversary of the first lunar landing of Apollo 11 in 1969. The piece opens with a majestic and punctuated theme followed immediately by an inquisitive melody. This is interrupted to pay tribute to those lost in Apollo 1 then resumes and develops towards a glorious and soaring conclusion. A compelling choice! (3:30).

By Greg Gilpin. For SATB choir and piano. Secular Christmas. Octavo. Published by Heritage Music Press. (15/2282H)

Brass Band - Grade 2

SKU: BT.GOB-001142-130

Composed by Wilco Moerman. Score Only. Gobelin Music Publications #GOB 001142-130. Published by Gobelin Music Publications (BT.GOB-001142-130).

In Theme Park Fun! your orchestra pays a visit to an amusement park. During your visit, you will experience some spectacular rides and attractions this theme park offers. The uniqueness of Theme Park Fun! is the interplay between music and(moving) images. Animations and illustrations support the visual composition (downloadable after ordering a set, on www.gobelinmusic.com).

Part 1: The Entrance & Parade [with animation]
The opening of the park is a fact. A day fullof fun and pleasure awaits! You and the other visitors will be confronted with all the rides, attractions and adventures the theme park has to offer. Which ride shall we do first?! There is so much to do and experience on this day in the park! Aparade of colorful floats and park figures is passing by.
Let the fun begin!

Part 2: The Haunted House [with animation]
The only ride in the park that is not related to fun, is the Haunted House. Here visitors will be challengedto visit a house full of ghosts, creepy figures and other ominous things. The clock strikes twelve, there is no turning back. Ghosts are whispering, yelling, screaming... Fortunately it is almost one oclock, so we can leave this creepy placequickly.

P art 3: The Swinging Galleon [with illustrations]
Wha t a huge pirate ship! Each time you swing back and forth, you will feel that weird feeling in your stomach. When you are thrown completely into the top you will have afantastic view over the park, but you can not enjoy it for long. Before you know the ship swings back the other way.

Part 4: The Fairy Tale Ride [with illustrations]
Aft er all those exciting and spectacular rides and attractions,it is time for a peaceful tour in The Fairy Tale Ride. Surrounded by a fairytale setting, you will discover fable figures, talking animals and colorful designs. Such a beauty and tranquility. Having had this experience, we are ready again for thebig rides in the park!

Part 5: The Bumper Cars [with illustrations]
Now its time to crawl behind the wheel of the Bumper Cars! Shall we all chase the conductor?! Before you know you are hit by another visitor or you will bumpagainst someone else. In this tough ride you can prove yourself as a real driver, or perhaps as a really bad one.

Part 6: The Roller Coaster [with illustrations]
The largest, fastest and scariest ride in the park ... we shoulddefinitely do the Roller Coaster! All together in the train, the over-the-shoulder restraints are lowering... be ready to ride. The train leaves the station and is heading for the big lift hill. It will be very scary when the train reaches the topand the train will be plunged down the first drop! Loops, corkscrews and other spectacular coaster elements will follow... Before you know it, the ride of your life is over. Shall we ride it again?!

Part 7: Leaving the Park [withanimation]
Un fortunately everything comes to an end. This day in the theme park is over, but we have a lot new experiences to talk about! The memories of all the funny and spectacular rides will come up when we walk through the park to theexit. Just one look over the shoulder, the amusement park figures are waving at us. Hopefully we will come back again soon!



In 'Theme Park Fun!' bezoek je met de hele muziekvereniging een pretpark. Tijdens het bezoek word je op muzikale wijze geconfronteerd met een aantal spectaculaire attracties die het pretpark rijk is. Het unieke van 'Theme Park Fun!'is het samenspel tussen muziek en beeld. De animatiefilmpjes en illustraties zijn, na aankoop van de set, te downloaden op www.gobelinmusic.com.

Deel 1: 'The Entrance & Parade' [met animatiefilm]
De opening vanhet pretpark is een feit. De dag vol plezier kan beginnen en de bezoekers worden hier geconfronteerd met alle attracties en avonturen die ze in het pretpark staan te wachten. In welke attractie zullen we als eerst stappen?! Eris zoveel te doen en te beleven deze dag in het pretpark! Een parade met parkfiguren en kleurrijke praalwagens komt voorbij, de pret kan beginnen!

Deel 2: 'The Haunted House' [met animatiefilm]
De enige attractiein het pretpark die geen 'pret' uitstraalt, is het spookhuis. Hier worden de bezoekers uitgedaagd om zich te begeven in een huis vol spoken, geesten en andere onheilspellende dingen. De klok slaat 12 keer, er is geen weg meer terug.Gefluister..., geschreeuw... Gelukkig slaat de klok bijna 1 uur en kunnen we deze ongure plek snel verlaten.

Deel 3: 'The Swinging Galleon' [met illustraties]
Wat een groot piratenschip! Elke keer wanneer je heenen weer schommelt, voel je dat rare gevoel in je buik. Wanneer je helemaal in de top geslingerd bent heb je een fantastisch uitzicht over het pretpark, maar je kunt er niet lang van genieten. Voor je het weet zwaait het schip weerde andere kant op.

Deel 4: 'The Fairy Tale Ride' [met illustraties]
Na al die spannende en spectaculaire attracties is het tijd voor een rustig ritje in 'The Fairy Tale Ride'. Omgeven door een sprookjesachtige.

Composed by Susan H. Day. Part(s); Score; String Orchestra. Highland/Etling String Orchestra. 62 pages. Published by Highland/Etling (AP.44833).

Composed by Jacques Delecluse. Leduc. Classical. Softcover. 28 pages. Alphonse Leduc #AL24256. Published by Alphonse Leduc

Keyboard

SKU: GI.G-003385

Sacred. GIA Publications #003385. Published by GIA Publications (GI.G-003385).

This collection contains through-composed verses for the common/seasonal psalms of the Lectionary for Mass. Ideal for the more experienced cantor. Refrains are compatible with those found for the Common/Seasonal Psalm in WLP Worship Resources and the other volumes of Lectionary Psalms and Gospel Acclamations. 8. x 11. Spiral-bound.

A Phonetic Approach Suitable for non-Irish Speakers. Composed by Mary McLaughlin. Perfect binding. Book and online audio. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.98549M).

SKU: CL.070-1976-99

Composed by Lawn. Jazz Instruction. Extra CD. C.L. Barnhouse #070-1976-99. Published by C.L. Barnhouse (CL.070-1976-99).

Completely revised in 1995. Now includes the most up-to-date information available for jazz educators. New charts, lists and bibliographies have been included as well as a complete chapter on Computers, Technology and Jazz Education. This text is a must for the director with little experience with jazz ensembles or for those wanting to update their skills in areas necessary to create a comprehensive jazz program in your school system. The Jazz Ensemble Director’s Manual has been the text of choice in many college jazz classrooms and the new revisions will enhance its continued use. This book is literally loaded with charts, drawings, forms, photographs, tables and music examples and will be a source of information for years to come. It includes a compact disc recording that allows you and your students the opportunity to hear as well as see the musical examples in the Phrasing and Articulation chapter. Every practical aspect of establishing a solid jazz program is covered, ranging from the basics of starting an ensemble to effective rehearsal techniques that get the most from your students. From a musical perspective, this text will give you an in-depth understanding of jazz chord notation, phrasing and articulations. It includes a chapter on the jazz combo which presents information on the setting up of a combo in addition to suggested repertoire considered standard for combo training. The publisher index has been revised to reflect recent changes in publishing areas and the extensive bibliography of selected materials for jazz improvisation has been updated to include recent publications. This text had it all...now with a revised edition available, it has even more! Contains Chapters On: Starting a Jazz Ensemble Program, Jazz Ensemble Instrumentation, The Jazz Combo, Selecting the Music, Ensemble Set- Up, The Jazz Ensemble Conductor, Rehearsal Psychology and Techniques, Phrasing and Articulation, Contest and Concert Preparation, Sound Reinforcement, Understanding Chord Notation, The Rhythm Section, Teaching Basic Jazz Improvisation, Computer Technology and Jazz Education.

Soli SATB, SATB Choir, 2 Violins, Viola, 2 Cello obligato, Basso continuo

SKU: CA.3116313

Cantata for the 23rd Sunday after Trinity. Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Edited by Uwe Wolf. Arranged by Thomas Riegler. This edition: urtext. Stuttgart Urtext Edition: Bach vocal. Viola. Sacred vocal music, End of the church year. Single Part, Viola. Composed 1715. BWV 163. 2 pages. Duration 18 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 31.163/13. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.3116313).

ISBN 9790007208974. Language: German/English. Text: Franck, Salomo. Text: Salomo Franck.

The cantata Nur jedem das Seine (Do justice to all men) BWV 163, for the last Sunday of the Church Year 1714/15, belongs among to those chamber music works which Bach composed for the Weimar Schlosskirche. The instruments are limited to strings, although two obbligato violoncellos are included which together with the solo bass singer and the continuo form a bass quartet unique in Bach's works. The final chorale of the cantata is handed down only as a fragment and was newly reconstructed for our edition by Thomas Riegler. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3116300.

Concert band - Grade 5

SKU: CL.RWS-1501-75

Composed by Robert W. Smith. RWS Symphony Band Series. Oversized spiral-bound score. Composed 2015. Duration 7 minutes, 30 seconds. Published by RWS Music Company (CL.RWS-1501-75).

Composed for the United States Air Force Academy, Aces pays tribute to those that soar the skies. Beginning with a brilliant and majestic fanfare, the piece quickly develops through bold musical material wrought with tension and energy. Following the return of the opening theme in a beautiful and lyrical setting, Aces culminates in a flurry of excitement as our jets soar into the distance. A spectacular new work by Robert W. Smith for the accomplished concert band!

(Mixed Choir)

SKU: HL.14066128

Composed by A. Duckworth. Choral. General Merchandise. Duration 240 seconds. Music Sales #JC80906. Published by Music Sales (HL.14066128).

Guitar - Easy

SKU: JK.01952

Composed by Various. Arranged by Brent Jorgensen. Instrumental Guitar, Seasonal Music Easter. Christian, Inspirational. Jackman Music Corporation #01952. Published by Jackman Music Corporation (JK.01952).

UPC: 093285019522.

Hymn- Alongs makes playing hymns and primary songs a blast! It is available for almost any instrument and is designed to be simple enough for developing musicians and fun for those advancing in music.
The Accompaniment Book features beautiful, yet simple arrangments for piano, guitar, and voice. Instrumental books are sold separately and can be played together in any combination. All instrument books include a melody part; treble instruments also have a duet part, and bass instruments also include a bass part.
*The guitar book includes tabs for melody, chord symbols, chord diagrams, and lyrics to the music.
See all Hymn-Alongs Vol. 1 products
Songs included in this Hymn-Alongs Vol. 1:
Come, Follow Me
I Love to See the Temple
Choose the Right
I Am a Child of God
Count Your Blessings
Called to Serve
Joseph Smith's First Prayer
Beautiful Savior
We Thank Thee O God for a Prophet
I'm Trying to Be Like Jesus
Families Can Be Together Forever
He Sent His Son
My Heavenly Father Loves Me
Composer: Various
Arranger: Brent Jorgensen
Difficulty: Easy.

From Trios Gymnopedies. By Erik Satie. Edited by Donald Peck. For Flute, Piano. Carl Fischer Solo Series. Classical. Score and Audio CD. 3 pages. Published by Carl Fischer.
Level: beginning.

Flute (flute-A),Clar.(Clar.-B), V,cello,Piano (Flute (Alto flute), Clarinet (Bass clarinet), Violin, Violoncello, Piano)

SKU: BA.BA09388-22

Music for flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello and piano. Composed by Philipp Maintz. In a folder. Set of parts. Composed 2010/2013. 6/7/7/9/11 pages. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA09388_22. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BA09388-22).

ISBN 9790006566983. 41.8 x 29.2 cm inches.

Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) is best known as a composer of songs, the Requiem, several pieces of chamber of music and the Pavane. The OEuvres completes de Gabriel Faure, published by Barenreiter since 2010, has taken on the task of displaying his music in all its variety to a new listening public. Now the eighth volume has appeared in print: Jean-Michel Nectoux' thematic catalogue.

With 201 entries in chronological order, the catalogue lists every known work by this French composer. The entries, each with its new 'N' number, provide information on opus numbers (those assigned during Faure's lifetime), scoring, key, musical incipit, text incipit, text source, manuscript sources, date of origin, dedicatees, date of first performance, relationships to publishers, printed editions, authorial and non-authorial arrangements (if any), commentary and bibliographic references. No fewer than six indices make the volume easy to search.

The thematic catalogue (Catalogue Nectoux) will soon prove to be an indispensable reference work for anyone interested in Faure and the music of his era. It is a distillation of Nectoux' scholarly efforts of the past 50 years, the result of his journeys to every library where Faure's manuscripts are preserved - and a milestone of French musical scholarship.

Chamber Music String Quartet

SKU: PR.14440455S

Composed by Sydney F. Hodkinson. Large Score. With Standard notation. 53 pages. Duration 22 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #144-40455S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.14440455S).

UPC: 680160030873.

After finishing a serious woodwind quintet in the fall of 2001 [Tela Lacerata], I found, in the ensuing months, that its cinders/ashes were still impregnating my eardrums. Therefore, when I set out to write the present string piece, I realized that the musical veins of the quartet, like related cousins, were sharing the same blood as the earlier wind composition. The resultant Fifth Quartet evolved into two large, extended movements, each one containing seven parts that are played without pause. As the list of the various sub-sections clearly indicates, the formal structure of the movements appear to be identical: each with three main parts enveloped by interludes, plus an introduction and coda. However, the principal segments of the first (slow) movement gradually decrease in length, while those of the second (fast) movement increase. In addition, there is a goodly amount of sonic material stolen from the first movement which reappears -- stitched together in a new guise -- into the world of the second. for example, the bulk of Parts B and C of Movement II are lifted bodily, although elaborately modified, from their first appearances in the Introduction and Part A of the fist movement. This offers, I suppose at least a hint of a traditional recapitulation. As was true in the earlier woodwind piece -- both harmonically and melodically -- the embryonic growth of the musical fabric (primarily the tritone and perfect fifth) is omnipresent, almost obsessively, throughout the course of the whole work. These two intervals, not unlike plasticine, habitually transform themselves into the scales, chords, and melodic lines that pervade the texture of the quartet. Owing to the largely unrelieved dramatic flow, the shifting speed, and the often fervent intensity, the quartet places considerable demands on the dexterity, virtuosity, and stamina of the four performers. String Quartet No. 5 is approximately 22 minutes in duration and affectionately dedicated to my violinist wife Elizabeth, as a gift for our 47 years together. It was commissioned by the Corigliano String Quartet, New York, NY. -- Sydney Hodkinson.

Piano (Piano)

SKU: HL.50563062

Piano Solo. Composed by Angèle Ravizé. Editions Durand. Classical. Book only. Published by Editions Durand (HL.50563062).

Inch....this work is likely to become a standart work very quickly and is to be recommended to all schools where recorder studies are undertaken inch. (Oliver James,Contact Magazine) A novel and comprehensive approach to transferring from the C to F instrument. 430 music examples include folk and national songs (some in two parts), country dance tunes and excerpts from the standard treble repertoire ofBach, Barsanti, Corelli, Handel, Telemann, etc. An outstanding feature of the book has proved to be Brian Bonsor's brilliantly simple but highly effective practice circles and recognition squares designed to give, in only a few minutes, concentrated practice on the more usual leaps to and from each new note and instant recognition of random notes. Quickly emulating the outstanding success of the descant tutors, these books are very popular even with those who normally use tutors other than the Enjoy the Recorder series.

With Pedagogical Commentary and Video Piano Lessons. Composed by Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990). Edited by Michael Mizrahi. BH Piano. Contemporary, Classical. Softcover Video Online. 48 pages. Boosey and Hawkes #M051246939. Published by Boosey and Hawkes

By Charles Strouse. Piano/Vocal/Chords Composer Collection (Arrangements for piano and voice with guitar chords). Published by Hal Leonard.

Piano

SKU: BT.EMBZ14506A

Suppl. 11 - First versions. EMB New Listz Edition. March. Book Hardcover. Composed 2008. 228 pages. Editio Musica Budapest #EMBZ14506A. Published by Editio Musica Budapest (BT.EMBZ14506A).

English-German-Hungari an.

Volume 11 of in the series of Supplements represents an important step towards completion of the series for solo piano included in the NLE, as a complete critical edition. By publishing all the early versions it makes the piano versions of these symphonies by Beethoven available for study by performers and those engaged in music research.Similarly to the other NLE volumes already published, this volume comes cloth-bound (Z. 14506a) or hard-paper-bound (Z. 14506), the former as part of the Complete Edition, the latter as part of the series containing solo piano works. The preface to the series, the prefaces to the works contained in this volume (in German, English and Hungarian)and the facsimiles with which it is illustrated are to be found in both versions, the critical notes in English are included only in the cloth-bound version.

Mit dem 11. Band der Supplementbände der Neuen Liszt Ausgabe (NLE) wird wieder ein grosser Schritt zur Vervollständigung der Soloklavier-Serien in der Gesamtausgabe unternommen: Durch ihn wird das Studium der Klavierversionen der Symphonien Beethovens (inkl. alle früheren Versionen) für die Musiker und deren Forschung für Musikwissenschaftler ermöglicht. Die Ausgabe ist ähnlich den bisherigen Bänden der Neuen Liszt Ausgabe, sie ist sowohl in einem Leineneinband (Z. 14506A) wie auch kartoniert (Z. 14506) erhältlich, erstere als Teil der Gesamtausgabe, letztere als Teil der Soloklawierwerke-Serie. Das Serien-Vorwort, die Vorworte der Stücke im Band (auf Deutsch, Englisch undUngarisch) und die den Band illustrierenden Facsimile-Seiten sind in beiden Ausgaben anzutreffen, die kritischen Bemerkungen in Englisch werden nur in der Leineneinband-Ausgabe veröffentlicht.

Piano, Vocal and Guitar

SKU: BT.MUSAM971531

Book Only. Wise Publications #MUSAM971531. Published by Wise Publications (BT.MUSAM971531).

ISBN 9780711989900.

E verybody's favourite Christmas carols and songs in one wonderfully practical and convenient edition creates The Best Christmas Songbook Ever (A5 Format), featuring 49 songs arranged for Piano, VoiceandGuitar. 

Every member of the family is catered for, young and old, with a selection of favourites covering the traditional classics that make the season special like Away In A Manger, We Three Kings OfOrientAre and O Come, All Ye Faithful. Not only this, but more recent pop tunes are represented such as I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day, Last Christmas and Santa ClausIsComing To Town. The generous selection of songs from old carols to new tunes makes this the perfect book for you this Christmas, so you can begin Christmas Eve with the classic carols and bring in Christmas Day with thefuncontemporary pop. 

The accessible arrangements of lyrics, melody, Piano and Guitar chords mean that you don't have to spend too much time practising before family and friends can gather around the Piano for aChristmassing-along. Because this songbook has everything, you can keep it as part of your music collection and dig it out every year for those times when the family can gather around and sing the songs that get you into thespirit of theseason. 

For the best and most varied collection of Christmas songs ever compiled, from old to new, classic to contemporary, pick up The Best Christmas Songbook Ever, and put a Yuletidesmile on theface of everyone with these universally loved tunes.

You can also purchase this book in its larger, standardsize for abumper-sized Yuletide.

For voice and piano. Format: piano/vocal/chords songbook. With vocal melody, piano accompaniment, lyrics and chord names. Gospel. 112 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Hal Leonard

(Chorale cantata). Composed by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn (1809-1847). Edited by Thomas Christian Schmidt. For soprano voice solo, SATB choir, 2 violins, viola, cello/contrabass. Stuttgart Urtext Edition. German title: Wer nur den lieben Gott lasst. Cantatas. Level 3. Complete orchestral parts. Language: German/English. Composed 1829. A 7. Duration 12 minutes. Published by Carus Verlag

9 Well-Known Original Pieces in Progressive Order. Composed by Claude Debussy (1862-1918). Edited by Sylvia Hewig-Trösch er. At the Piano. Softcover. 56 pages. G. Henle #HN1815. Published by G. Henle

Chamber Music harp

SKU: CF.H84

Composed by Marcel Tournier. Edited by Carl Swanson. Collection - Score. Carl Fischer Music #H84. Published by Carl Fischer Music (CF.H84).

ISBN 9781491165539. UPC: 680160924530.

Marce l Tournier (1879–1951) was one of the most important harpist/composers in the history of the harp. Over his long career, he added a significant catalogue of very beautiful works to the harp repertoire. Many of his solo works, almost one hundred, have been consistently in print since they were first published. But in recent years harpist Carl Swanson has discovered a treasure trove of pieces by Tournier heretofore unknown and unpublished. These include the Déchiffrages in this edition, as well as songs set for voice, harp, and string quartet, and ensemble arrangements of some of his most beloved works.All of the works that Carl Swanson found were in manuscript only. With the help of the great harpist Catherine Michel, he has put these pieces into playable form, and they are being published for the very first time. He and Catherine often had to re-notate passages to show clearly how they could be played, adding fingerings and musical nuances, tempos, pedals, and pedal diagrams.Tournier wrote these pieces when he was in his 20s, and before he became the impressionistic composer those familiar with his work know so well. They are written in the late nineteenth-century romantic style that was being taught at that time at the Paris Conservatory. They are beautiful short, intermediate level pieces by a first rate composer, and add much needed repertoire to that level of playing.
Marcel Tournier (1879–1951) was one of the most important harpist/composers in the history of the harp. He graduated from the Paris Conservatory with a first prize in harp in 1899. He also studied composition there and won a second prize in the prestigious Prix de Rome competition, as well as a first prize in the Rossini competition, another major composition competition of the day. From 1912 to 1948 he taught the harp class at the Paris Conservatory. But composition, and almost entirely, composition for the harp, was the main focus of his life. His published works, including many works for solo harp, a few for harp and other instruments, and several songs, number around one hundred pieces.In 2019, while researching Tournier for my edition MARCEL TOURNIER: 10 Pieces for Solo Harp, I discovered that there was a significant list of pieces by this composer that had never been published and were not included on any inventory of his music. Principal on this list were his déchiffrages (pronounced day-she-frahge, like the second syllable in the word garage).The word déchiffrage means sight-reading exercise, and that was their original purpose. Tournier numbered and dated these pieces, with dates ranging from 1900 to 1910, indicating that they were in all likelihood written for Alphonse Hasselmans’ class at the Paris Conservatory. Tournier was probably told how long to make each one, and how difficult. They range in length from two to four pages, with only one in the whole series extending to five, and from thirty to fifty-five measures, with only one extending to eight-five. The level of difficulty for the whole series is intermediate, with some at the easier end, and others at the middle or upper end.We don’t know if they were intended to test students trying to enter the harp class, or if they were used to test students in the class as they played their exams. The fact that they were never published means that students had to not only sight read them, but sight read them in manuscript form!I worked from digital images of the original manuscripts, which are in the private music library of a harpist in France. She had twenty-seven of these pieces, and this edition is the second in a series of three that will publish, for the first time, all of the ones that I have found thus far. The manuscripts themselves consist of little more than notes on the page: no pedals written in, no fingerings, few if any musical nuances and tempo markings, and no clear indication as to which hand plays which notes. These would have been difficult to sight read indeed! My collaborator Catherine Michel and I added musical nuances, fingerings, pedals and pedal diagrams, and tempo indications to put them into their current condition.At the time these were written, Tournier would have been in his twenties, having just graduated from the harp class himself (1899), and might still have been in the composition class. These are the earliest known pieces that he wrote, and they were written at the very beginning of a cultural revolution and upheaval in Paris that was to completely and profoundly alter musical composition. Tournier himself would eventually be caught up in this new way of composing. But not yet.All of the déchiffrages are written in the late romantic style that was being taught at that time at the Paris Conservatory. Each one is built on a clear musical idea, and the variety over the whole series makes them wonderful to listen to as well as to learn. They are also great technical lessons for intermediate level players.The obvious question is: Why didn’t Tournier publish these pieces, and why didn’t he list them on his own inventory of his music? Actually, four of them were published, with small changes, as his collection Four Preludes, Op. 16. These came from the ones that will be in volume three of this series from Carl Fischer. His first large piece, Theme and Variations, was published in 1908, and his two best known and frequently played pieces, Féerie and Au Matin, followed in 1912 and 1913 respectively. We can only speculate because there is so much still unknown about Tournier and about these unpublished pieces. He may have looked at them, fresh out of school as he was, as simply a way to make some quick money. The first several pieces that he did publish are much longer than any of the déchiffrages. So it could be that, because of their shorter length, as well as the earlier musical style that he was moving away from, he chose not to publish any more of them. We may never know the full story. But all these years later, more than a century after they were composed, we can listen to them for their own merits, and not measured against whatever else was going on at the time. The numbers on these pieces are the ones that Tournier assigned to them, and the gaps between some of the numbers suggest that there are perhaps thirty or more of these pieces still to be found, if they still exist. They will, in all likelihood, be found, as these were, in private collections of harp music, not in institutional libraries. We can only hope that more of them will be located in years to come.—Carl SwansonGlossary of French Musical TermsTournier was very precise about how he wanted his pieces played, and carefully communicated this with many musical indications. He used standard Italian words, but also used French words and phrases, and occasionally mixed both together. It is extremely important to observe and understand everything that he put on the page.Here is a list of the French words and phrases found in the pieces in this edition, with their translation.bien chanté well sung, melodiousdécidé firm, resolutediminu peu à peu becoming softer little by littleen diminuant becoming softeren riten. slowing downen se perdant dying awayGaiement gayly, lightlygracieusement gracefully, elegantlyLéger light, quickLent slowmarquez le chant emphasize the melodyModéré at a moderate tempopeu à peu animé more lively, little by littleplus lent slowerRetenu held backsans lenteur without slownesssans retinir without slowing downsec drily, abruptlysoutenu sustained, heldtrès arpegé very arpeggiatedTrès Modéré Very moderate tempoTrès peu retenu slightly held backTrès soutenu very sustainedun peu retenu slightly held back.