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Piano (Piano) - Grade 3

SKU: HL.14015562

Composed by Herbert Howells. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. 36 pages. Thames Publishing #TH978626. Published by Thames Publishing (HL.14015562).

ISBN 9781846097225. 8.25x11.75x0.182 inches. English.

The music Herbert Howells has tended to be unjustly neglected but his post-war output of orchestral and chamber works is currently enjoying a period of re-eveluation. This Herbert Howells society edition of six pieces brings to light yet another aspect of his work, namely his Piano music. Even though he was an accomplished pianist himself, music for Piano did not figure highly in his output. This volume contains some charming character pieces in the form of six Sarum Sketches, two slow dances based on tunes from John Playford's The Dancing Master, an extrovert piece based on a folk tune, a minuet composed as a birthday present for John Ireland, a brief vignette and an exquisite miniature. Of the six pieces in this volume, three appear in print for the first time.

Piano - Grade 4

SKU: BT.MUSTH978745

Composed by Herbert Howells. Classical. Book Only. 48 pages. Thames Publishing #MUSTH978745. Published by Thames Publishing (BT.MUSTH978745).

ISBN 9781846097232. English.

The pieces contained in this volume were composed in the decade between 1918 and 1928, the perios in which Howells established himself as a composer of instrumental music. Although he wrote no major work for the Piano, hecontributed some finely crafted and charming miniatures to the repertoire of character pieces popular in the early part of this century.

This is fine music, idiomatically written for the Piano, which fully justifies itsreturn to circulation in this reprint.

Piano - Grade 3

SKU: BT.MUSTH978753

Volume 2. By Peter Jacobs. Stringalong. Sacred. Book Only. 44 pages. Thames Publishing #MUSTH978753. Published by Thames Publishing (BT.MUSTH978753).

English.

A superb collection that brings together the finest British Piano music of the twentieth-century and features some of the greatest British composers of all time. These are all beautiful pieces that require little or no virtuositybut which demonstrate the rich treasure trove of this pastoral repertory. With comprehensive background notes to each of the ten pieces here, this is a fine book of fantastic and enjoyable pieces which any intermediate pianistwill enjoy.