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The Girl From Ipanema contains the song itself together with the stirring Banana Boat Song and the breathtaking finale to the collection, the Argentinian tango La Cumparsita. These fun arrangements will delight young choirs time and again. The Faber Young Voices series is arranged for upper voices, with an optional low alto or baritone part (for newly changed or unstable voices) and with manageable piano accompaniments. The series is designed for young or newly formed choirs looking for rewarding repertoire.

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Up-Grade! Flute Grades 1-2 is perfect for those looking for something to bridge the gap between grades 1 and 2. Pam Wedgwood's inimitable style is guaranteed to breathe new life into your playing! The varied pieces in this lively collection range from toe-tapping jazzy numbers to more classical styles, all designed to ease you gently on towards the next grade. There are several spin-offs to the Up-Grade! Series including jazz, pop and Christmas.

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Thumb Position Repertoire reinforces thumb position technique through real pieces, arranged for grade 5+ cellists, helping the developing player establish complete confidence with this technique. The book builds on the foundation laid in Thumb Position for Beginners, presenting rich varied repertoire by composers such as Handel, Tartini, Mozart, Schubert and MacDowell, along with tailor-made original pieces. Simple piano parts have been included throughout.

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The Jazz Piano Master is a fantastic collection of repertoire pieces and studies embracing the playing techniques encountered by the developing jazz pianist. Close voicing, cross rhythms, off-beat rhythms, blues variations and the sequence of sevenths are tackled on tandem with an enticing repertoire of all-time favourites: Elton John's Your Song, Stevie Wonder's Isn't she lovely, Cole Porter's Every time we say goodbye - to name a few - are joined by more of Kember's inspired compositions. Brilliantly put together and enjoyable to work through, The Jazz Piano Master is the cool way to polish up your jazz piano technique. Designed as a follow on to Progressive Jazz Studies or as self-contained repertoire study book for players of ABRSM Grade 6 ability and above.

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Great Unaccompanied Motets include the well known Gradual Motets Christus Factus est and Locus iste , which are central to this collection, featuring Anton Bruckner's stunning choral output . Set for SATB choir(some divisi), these pieces are among the most enduring choral masterworks of the 19th century. Simon Halsey's performing edition includes an informative introduction, keyboard reductions for rehearsal only and English translations of the Latin texts for reference. The Choral Programme Series is now a well-established programming tool for many choirs as it offers a wealth of fresh material from many eras and in many styles. Also offering great value for money as each volume in the series provides up to forty minutes of music.

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Know your scales! Trumpet Grades 1-3 is the bright, fresh way to learn scales and arpeggios - a scale book without scales! Using 'finger fitness' exercises, scale and arpeggio study pieces, and simple improvisations, Paul Harris's brilliant approach teaches students to know the notes and thus to play scales and arpeggios with real confidence. As well as prompting a solid basis for the learning repertoire and sight-reading techniques, this invaluable resource for students covers all the keys and ranges required for the ABRSM examination syllabus, helping you pick up those valuable extra marks.

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The Baroque Trumpet presents a colourful selection of melodies from a period whose sonorous, majestic and expressive brass music has rarely been surpassed. Pieces are ordered progressively, with the range and difficulty of the music increasing as the developing embouchure gets stronger. From Purcell, Clarke and Telemann to Fantini, Banchieri and Delalande, this fresh and rewarding selection of repertoire is ideal for concerts and weddings. A simple keyboard accompaniment is provided.

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This is a straight forward arrangement, for clarinet and piano, of the popular theme tune from 'Pride and Prejudice' written by Carl Davis. The tune has been made famous by the BBC's film of the novel by Jane Austen. The piece is perfect for the end of term concert and students will love to play it as much as audiences love to hear it.

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Progressive Jazz Studies 2 (Saxophone) includes over 40 original studies for the developing jazz saxophonist. In the first section the book shows players how to take a tune and 'jazz it up', they learn to craft a simple, rhythmic jazz solo from any well-known tune. Section two teaches about various jazz tonalities helping to develop confidence with whole-tune, diminished and blues scales, modes and the II-V-I chord sequence. James Rae's brilliant method gives you the confidence to play jazz with real style! Suitable for Eb or Bb saxophone.

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Green Jazzin’ About Piano (Grades 4 to 5) is a collection of 10 original, eco-themed pieces arranged for solo piano by Pam Wedgwood. Help save our planet while you groove through the ozone with this vibrant range of environmentally-friendly musicality.

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Variety is the spice of musical life and the essence of First Repertoire for Cello. This is the first of three books containing carefully-graded repertoire that skillfully explores the cello's unique sonorities and provides a superb introductory literature for the young player.

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Gospel Rock contains three spirituals, Walk in jerusalem just like John/ By an' By, Just a closer walk with Thee and Daniel was a Prayin' Man. The Faber Young Voices series is arranged for upper voices, with an optional low alto or baritone part (for newly changed or unstable voices) and with manageable piano accompaniments. The series is designed for young or newly formed choirs looking for rewarding repertoire.

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The Glamourous world of the musical has a unique and irresistible appeal. Play Showtime Book 2 (Trumpet) comprises 10 great hits from Broadway and London's West End, including songs from Me and My girl, Half a Sixpence, Oklahoma!, Fiddler on the Roof, Evita and A little Night Music. These famous songs by the world's finest show writers are arranged here with piano accompaniment by Fred Glover and Roy Stratford.

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These nine jazzy pieces in Got Those Position Blues? have been specially written to help students work through technical difficulties with position changes in an fun and exciting way. With piano accompaniment and a violin only part pull-out, this book brings a fresh approach to third (and second and fourth) position, with a series of progressive pieces in a lively jazz idiom. Not only are they an excellent way to learn, they are perfect for end of term concerts too. English with German translation.

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Three Caribbean Calypsos contains the songs Ophelia letter blow'way, Linstead Market and the catchy Brown Gal in de ring. The Faber Young Voices series is arranged for upper voices, with an optional low alto or baritone part (for newly changed or unstable voices) and with manageable piano accompaniments. The series is designed for young or newly formed choirs looking for rewarding repertoire. **Trinity College London selected piece (Singing 2010-2012): Ophelia letter blow ‘way (arr. Gritton)

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Behind Bars is the indispensable reference book for composers, arrangers, teachers and students of composition, editors, and music processors. In the most thorough and painstakingly researched book to be published since the 1980s, specialist music editor Elaine Gould provides a comprehensive grounding in notational principles. Behind Bars covers everything from basic rules, conventions and themes to complex instrumental techniques, empowering the reader to prepare music with total clarity and precision. With the advent of computer technology, it has never been more important for musicians to have ready access to principles of best practice in this dynamic field, and this book will support the endeavours of software users and devotees of hand-copying alike. The author's understanding of, and passion for, her subject has resulted in a book that is not only practical but also compellingly readable. This seminal and all-encompassing guide encourages new standards of excellence and accuracy and, at a weighty 704 pages, it is supported by 1,500 music examples of published scores from Bach to Xenakis. This is a hardback book, with dust jacket.

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Superstudies Cello Book 2 is a collection of 15 original, imaginative studies for solo cello and has been specially designed for young players from Grades 3-5 level. Throughout the book, progressive technical points go hand-in-hand with musical development. The studies cover a variety of keys' modes, rhythmic patterns and styles (including jazz), while also encouraging self-expression. The descriptive titles are intended to help the cellist play in style appropriate to each study. Teachers and pupils will find this invaluable yet light-hearted collection both enjoyable and stimulating.

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Going Solo (Trumpet) is a lively collection designed to bridge the gap between music for beginners and more intermediate trumpet solos, enabling the young player to face a conductor or an audience with complete confidence. This book offers a host of fresh challenges, and spans a wide range of repertoire of original material to imaginative arrangements, with piano accompaniment, carefully selected, written and arranged by John Miller and Leslie Pearson. If you are preparing to face an audience for the first time - whether at home, at school, or on the concert platform - then you are ready for Going Solo. **Trinity College London selected pieces (Trumpet, Cornet, Flugel Horn 2010): All in a Garden Green or British Grenadiers (Trad.) Fairest Isle (Purcell) Tongue in Cheek (Pearson) **Trinity College London selected pieces (Euphonium, Baritone 2010): British Grenadiers (Trad.) Fairest Isle (Purcell) Tongue in Cheek (Pearson)

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Through the well-known first theme of its opening 'Prelude', Charpentier's spectacular Te Deum has become the best-known of all French baroque grands motets. Prepared by the distinguished French baroque scholar Lional Sawkins from the composer's original manuscript, this is the first authoritative performing edition of the work. See below link to the Vocal Score. Parts available on hire, contact: hire@fabermusic.com

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Folksongs from the Caribbean

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