New Publications,
New Sheet Music Titles - July 25th 2023
Piano, Keyboard, & Organ
The Expanding the Repertoire series aims to bring previously unsung piano literature to students and teachers for memorable discoveries. This elementary to upper elementary level volume features the music of Black composers in progressive order and includes pedagogical notes by Leah Claiborne, an expert in the field.
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Leonid Desyatnikov was born in 1955 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Songs of Bukovina is based on folk songs from the region of Bukovina, an area that lies in the Carpathian mountains, partly in Ukraine and partly in Romania.
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Part of The Horowitz Edition, Carmen Paraphrases is for piano solo based on motifs by Georges Bizet.
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This virtuosic transcription will make a thrilling voluntary or recital piece. After a characteristic opening fanfare, a broad Elgarian theme takes centre-stage; the central section is a bustling fugue with whose material that theme is in the end climactically combined. The very skilful arrangement offers a brilliant distillation of Walton's scintillating orchestral textures.
March for A History of the English-Speaking Peoples is also available
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A short critical edition of Gustav Holst’s own arrangement for organ duet of the mystical movement from The Planets. This is the first edition of this remarkable and effective work that requires experimental techniques both in registration and keyboard effects. Holst’s original choice of the organ duet is unusual for its time, as is his use of the organ, which relies on subtle and continual changes of registration and keyboards.
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Will Forster’s Virginal Book is one of the more substantial books in the Lyrebird catalogue. Prefatory material looks at the manuscript, music and how the notation affects performance. This new publication marks the 400th Anniversary of Byrd’s death.
Also available as a hardback edition
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Vocal & Choral
To celebrate the centenary of the Oxford University Press Music Department, this volume of fifty new carols complements the five previous volumes, bringing new names and styles to the series while providing a complete resource for choirs from Advent to Epiphany.
Available in paperback or as a spiral-bound edition
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Combining a text by Charles Anthony Silvestri with syllables inspired by the song tradition (joik) of the Sami people in Scandinavia, Sing the earth is a tribute to our common home, the earth, as well as to music and the different musical traditions and cultures around the world.
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The piece is part of the ballet Wild Swans, choreographed by Meryl Tankard at the Sydney Opera House in 2002, based on the fairy tale The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen. Originally scored for soprano and orchestra.
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Instrumental Solos
Thomas Adès’s Violin Concerto Concentric Paths, written in 2005, is one of the most important additions to the violin concerto repertoire. Cast in three contrasting movements – each linked by a preoccupation with circling musical figures – the concerto now occupies a place in standard repertoire.
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Violin Junior is a fun and creative violin method for children from the age of 5 years upwards. The repertoire covers a wide range of styles from classical music to folk, world and popular music. Join Fiocco the Frog in this new approach and find out just how much fun playing the violin can be!
Violin Junior Lesson Book and Theory Book are also available
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The study of Johann Sebastian Bach’s compositions on the harp has a long history. The idea of collecting in a volume some of the simplest compositions contained in the Notebook was born mainly from the desire to introduce even the youngest students to Bach’s music, in an easy and progressive way, so as to start as soon as possible to make them familiar with polyphonic writing and the use of embellishments, which are introduced here in a simplified version.
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Ensemble, Chamber, & Orchestral
Folk Songs for Violin & Cello Duet is designed for violinists and cellists familiar with first position and comfortable reading basic rhythms. In each two-page arrangement, violin and cello each take a turn playing the melody, for a fun and challenging ensemble experience. It features thirty well-known favourites.
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The String Quartet in G minor, Op. 8 dates from the time when Joseph Haas studied with Max Reger. While reflecting the clear influence of his teacher as to form, it also shows the young composer as an artist with an independent personality as well as a true master of his craft.
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Ellena Taylor - Sheet Music and Books Manager
