Learn all your favorite Christmas songs now on the easy and fun-to-play recorder! Musicians young and old alike will enjoy mastering these well-known Christmas tunes. The book features big, easy-to-read notes, a beginner's guide to playing the recorder, and a clear, simple introduction to reading music. Nine of your favorite Christmas carols and melodies are included. Titles: Good King Wencesla…

Par BROWN CHRISTINE. Score and Parts Standard: Elementary Christine Brown is a highly respected teacher and composer for young people, and in her Chandos Suite for violin, cello and piano she marries her wealth of practical experience in coaching elementary players in the art of chamber music with her distinctively tuneful way of writing for the three instruments. A wistful Prelude precedes a myst…

Par CABEZA JUAN. Diversions is a collection of 42 patterned etudes for piano. They are divided into two books with each volume including 21 progressive pieces. Each Etude focuses on a single technical pattern that students may encounter in the early stages of piano study, including scales, arpeggios, chords, repeating notes, intervals, and other common patterns. Most of the etudes are transposable…

Symphonische Dichtung. Par MAHLER GUSTAV. Gustav Mahler’s “Funeral Rites“ (literally translated: “Celebration of the Dead“) was initially conceived as the first movement of a symphony in C minor and completed in 1888. After certain alterations, – mainly cuts and extensions regarding the instrumentation – the piece became the First Movement of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 (study scores available with th…

Die Entführung aus dem Serail. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. “Wonderful! But, aren’t there too many notes?” asked the emperor Joseph II. “No, all notes are necessary. This is new music, ” replied Mozart. This is a famous anecdote about the premiere of the opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), which took place on July 16, 1782 at the Burgtheater Wien (Vienna). It ill…

Cantata for the Second Day of Christmas. Par TELEMANN GEORG PHILIPP. Telemann composed ; Gelobet Seist Du, Jesu Christ (TvWV 1:612) for his cantata cycle of 1710& 11. Although scored without Brass Instruments or Timpani, the brilliant, festive mood of the second day of Christmas prevails. The opening chorale and the final chorus form a frame for the four solo arias of the main section (ATB). Here,…

Par HARRIS PAUL / DAVIES L.. A resource for all teachers and leaders involved in Wider Opportunities and group music-making. Written by two of the UK's leading music educationalists: Paul Harris and Leonora Davies MBE. Provides practical strategies and advice to enable class teachers, instrumental teachers and music services to deliver a holistic primary music curriculum at Key Stage 2 and into Ke…