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Paul Harris's brilliant series of workbooks contains finger fitness exercises, scale and arpeggio studies, key pieces, simple improvisations and composition to help you play scales and arpeggios with real confidence. An invaluable resource for students, Improve your scales! Clarinet Grades 1-3 covers all the keys and ranges required for the Associated Board syllabus, helping you pick up valuable extra marks in exams. This new edition has been devised to support the revised criteria from the ABRSM from 2018.

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An invaluable resource for students, Improve your scales! Violin Grade 3 covers all the keys and ranges required for the Associated Board syllabus, helping you pick up valuable extra marks in exams. Paul Harris’s brilliant series of workbooks contains not only the complete scales and arpeggios for the ABRSM Grade 3 but also uses finger fitness exercises, scale and arpeggio studies, key pieces and simple improvisations to help you play scales and arpeggios with real confidence.

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Fingerprints is a collection of fourteen pieces for the Grade 1-4 cellist, each piece is written by a living composer all of whom eat breakfast, feel tired, get irritable, laugh at jokes and has favourite things. The pieces that they have contributed to this volume are designed to capture the essence of who they are and go together to provide an exciting volume of new original music for you to play. **ABRSM selected piece (Cello 2010-2015): Ten Toads (Milne) Zig zag (Hindson) NYPD TV (Byrchmore) Danny's Dance (Matthews)

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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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Paul Harris’s brilliant Improve your scales! Piano Grade 3 workbook contains the complete scales, arpeggios and broken chords for the current ABRSM, Trinity, LCM and MTB Grade 3. It also uses finger fitness exercises, key pieces, sight-reading and simple improvisations to help you play scales, arpeggios and broken chords with real confidence. An invaluable resource for students, the Improve your scales! Piano series covers all the keys and ranges required for each syllabus, helping you pick up valuable extra marks in exams. New edition, revised to support all major exam syllabuses from 2020.

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The Graded Piano Player: Grade 3-5 is the the third book in this series offers popular repertoire for pianists at Grades 3-5, and is filled with classic tunes and songs from Disney, TV and film, jazz, pop and musical theatre. Each piece has been rigorously researched, edited and fingered by top educationalists and meticulously arranged to progress in line with the ABRSM and Trinity graded piano examinations. Ideal for anyone seeking well-crafted arrangements of tunes they love – for leisure, exams and to use as fun and technical repertoire between grades.

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Unbeaten Tracks for cello is the latest in this instrumental repertoire series. The eight pieces in this volume are written in an array of musical styles by some of today's most talented composers and are undoubtedly destined to become standard repertoire for players of intermediate level upwards. Handy 'Biopics' collect small details about various composers giving an insight into the inspiration and mood of the music. **ABRSM Grade 6 selected pieces (Cello 2010-2015): Hip Hip Bourée (Jacobson) Frogs Dancing on Water Lilies (Mustonen)

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Paul Harris’s brilliant series of workbooks contains finger fitness exercises, scale and arpeggio studies, key pieces, simple improvisations and composition to help you play scales and arpeggios with real confidence. An invaluable resource for students, Improve your scales! Flute Grades 4-5 covers all the keys and ranges required for the Associated Board syllabus, helping you pick up valuable extra marks in exams. This new edition has been devised to support the revised criteria from the ABRSM from 2018.

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Paul Harris's brilliant series of workbooks contains finger fitness exercises, scale and arpeggio studies, key pieces, simple improvisations and composition to help you play scales and arpeggios with real confidence. An invaluable resource for students, Improve your scales! Flute Grades 1-3 covers all the keys and ranges required for the Associated Board syllabus, helping you pick up valuable extra marks in exams. This new edition has been devised to support the revised criteria from the ABRSM from 2018.

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This stimulating guide will help students and their teachers to achieve stylish performances of music of the Baroque period. Individual chapters from leading experts focus on historical background, notation and interpretation, and sources and editions, presenting the latest thinking on performance in a clear, helpful and practical way. There are also dedicated chapters of specialist advice for keyboard, string and wind players, and singers, plus a recommended playlist of illustrative, authoritative recordings. Fully illustrated throughout with many music examples, facsimiles and pictures, this is a valuable resource for students of the Baroque period which will also add to the knowledge and understanding of amateur and professional musicians.

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First Repertoire For Flute combines imaginative arrangements with original pieces, all of which have been carefully selected and written for players of elementary to intermediate (Grade 1-4) standard. Sally Adams and Nigel Morley have pooled their wealth of experience and put together a varied and challenging collection which includes classic theme tunes from the Vicar of Dibley and The Snowman, as well as original compositions from Sally Adams, Sarah Watts and Pam Wedgwood. There is something here for every occasion! **ABRSM selected piece (Flute 2008-2013): Tell Them Martha Sent You (Watts)

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The Music Theory in Practice series has helped more than one million musicians worldwide to learn about the notation and theory of music. Now fully revised, this workbook remains the best way to prepare for ABRSM's Grade 2 Theory of Music Exam. Features a clear explanation of music notation, many worked examples and practice exercises, definitions of important words and concepts, specimen exam questions and helpful tips for students. As well as supporting the ABRSM Theory syllabus, this workbook also provides an excellent resource for anyone wishing to develop general music literacy skills.

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The Music Theory in Practice series has helped more than one million musicians worldwide to learn about the notation and theory of music. Now fully revised, this workbook remains the best way to prepare for ABRSM's Grade 1 Theory of Music Exam. Features a clear explanation of music notation, many worked examples and practice exercises, definitions of important words and concepts, specimen exam questions and helpful tips for students. As well as supporting the ABRSM Theory syllabus, this workbook also provides an excellent resource for anyone wishing to develop general music literacy skills.

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The Piano Prep Test is an ideal introduction to the ABRSM exam experience: it gives students a goal to work towards and a certificate on the day - something to be really proud of. The test covers many elements that beginner pianists will be working on, including pitch, time, tone and performance. Our Piano Prep Test book has exciting new pieces, easy to follow instructions, listening games and entertaining illustrations. For the first time it includes duets as well as solo pieces. Preparing for your Piano Prep Test has never been more fun!

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Paul Harris’s brilliant Improve your scales! Piano Grade 4 workbook contains the complete scales and arpeggios for the current ABRSM, Trinity, LCM and MTB Grade 4. It also uses finger fitness exercises, key pieces, sight-reading and simple improvisations to help you play scales and arpeggios with real confidence. An invaluable resource for students, the Improve your scales! Piano series covers all the keys and ranges required for each syllabus, helping you pick up valuable extra marks in exams. New edition, revised to support all major exam syllabuses from 2020.

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Graded Keyboard Musicianship provides graded and integrated exercises for developing five core skills at the keyboard: figured bass, score-reading, transposition, harmonization, and improvisation. Organized into two books, it develops these skills from an elementary level, providing support for practical and theoretical music exams, and for teaching harmony. Book 1 assumes keyboard ability of Grade 1 ABRSM standard and covers up to Grade 5, while Book 2 covers Grades 6 to 8. The bite-size approach, catering for pianists and organists, uses practical worksheets of exercises alongside supplementary text.

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Firmly rooted in Paul Harris's Simultaneous Learning approach, this new edition of Improve your sight-reading! Saxophone Grades 1-5 is designed to help overcome all the stumbling blocks to successful sight reading. Step by step you will build up a complete picture of each piece, firstly through rhythmic, melodic and technical exercises, then by studying prepared pieces and finally `going solo' with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces. This new edition of the best-selling Improve your sight-reading! contains completely new material throughout and has been brought up to date to match the latest ABRSM sight-reading criteria.

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The stylistic transition from the late Baroque to the Classical period was almost something of a Bach affair. While Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) defined and summed up the Baroque musical language, his sons Willhelm Friedemann, Carl Philipp Emanuel, Johann Christoph Friedrich and Johann Christian, infused with the spirit of innovation, struck new musical paths that opened the way to the Classical and Romantic eras. This piano book celebrates the work of these four sons of Bach with a fascinating and varied collection of pieces for the grade 2-5 player. **ABRSM selected piece (Piano 2019-2020): Allegro in A

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The Second Book of Trumpet Solos is for the player who already has a firm grasp of basic technique and range and is keen to develop his/her own playing skills further. This book covers music equivalent to ABRSM Grades 5-7 level and will prepare young players for the sonata and concerto repertoire they will encounter in the later grades. The pieces are arranged in order of increasing technical difficulty and have been chosen from as wide a range of composers and styles as possible. Notes on performance and technique are included for each piece at the back of the book.

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Easy Jazzin' About (Recorder) is a collection of original pieces that have been tailor-made for the beginner recorder player (Grade 1-3) and features a piano accompaniment. This edition to the Jazzin' About series features more of Pam Wedgwood's inimitable jazzy melodies. So take a break from the classics as you cruise through blues, rock and jazz. **ABRSM selected piece (Recorder from 2008): Cat Walk (Wedgwood) **Trinity College London selected pieces (Recorder 2012-2014): Dragonfly or Riding out West (Wedgwood) Let's Get Real (Wedgwood)

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Firmly rooted in Paul Harris's Simultaneous Learning approach, Improve your sight-reading! Flute Grades 6-8 is designed to help overcome all the stumbling blocks to successful sight-reading. Step by step you will build up a complete picture of each piece, firstly through rhythmic, melodic and technical exercises, then by studying prepared pieces and finally going solo with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces. This edition of the best-selling Improve your sight-reading! matches the latest ABRSM sight-reading criteria.

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Gypsy Jazz for the intermediate violinist sets off on an exotic tour of folk culture, concentrating on Eastern Europe. Adventurous violinists will travel as far afield as Hungary, Turkey, Russia, and Romania, and bring back a mixed bag of musical souvenirs. For the developing violinist, this music opens up a world of contrast in colour, shade and style. With accessible piano accompaniments, the seven contrasting pieces in Gypsy Jazz (Intermediate) are a must-have for all violinists. **ABRSM selected piece (Violin 2012-2015): Verbunk and Friss: Invitation to the Dance (Trad. Hungarian)

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The Music Theory in Practice series has helped more than one million musicians worldwide to learn about the notation and theory of music. Now fully revised, this workbook remains the best way to prepare for ABRSM's Grade 4 Theory of Music Exam. Features a clear explanation of music notation, many worked examples and practice exercises, definitions of important words and concepts, specimen exam questions and helpful tips for students. As well as supporting the ABRSM Theory syllabus, this workbook also provides an excellent resource for anyone wishing to develop general music literacy skills.

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Firmly rooted in Paul Harris’s Simultaneous Learning approach, this new edition of Improve your sight-reading! Oboe Grades 1-5 is designed to help overcome all the stumbling blocks to successful sight-reading. Step by step you will build up a complete picture of each piece, firstly through rhythmic, melodic and technical exercises, then by studying prepared pieces and finally ‘going solo’ with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces. This new edition of the best-selling Improve your sight-reading! contains completely new material throughout and has been brought up to date to match the latest ABRSM sight-reading criteria.

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Nikki Iles & Friends Easy to Intermediate is a collection of 22 original compositions and new arrangements for piano written by Nikki Iles and her friends from the world of jazz. Expertly curated and commissioned by Nikki herself, this book contains piano pieces at Initial Grade to Grade 3 level written by some of the best-known figures on the jazz scene. Also including audio downloads of every piece,this book provides a wealth of new and original jazz piano music for those seeking to explore accessible jazz and world music repertoire, build a recital or a programme for ABRSM Performance Grades, or simply play for pleasure. Award-winning jazz pianist and composer, Nikki Iles has worked and performed with a plethora of notable jazz musicians throughout her career. With over 30 CDs, she has been described as the 'heroine of British jazz'. She has received composition commissions from the London Sinfonietta, National Youth Jazz Orchestra (featured at the BBC Proms) and UMO Jazz Orchestra in Helsinki, Finland, among others. Nikki has been awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) for services to music, and has also won the Ivor Composer Award for jazz composition. She is professor of jazz piano at the Royal Academy of Music and Guildhall School, London and also gives masterclasses around the world. She has worked closely with ABRSM over a number of years, both as a composer and arranger, and in syllabus development.

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Paul Harris’s brilliant Improve your scales! Piano Grade 5 workbook contains the complete scales and arpeggios for the current ABRSM, Trinity, LCM and MTB Grade 5. It also uses finger fitness exercises, top tips and key pieces to help you play scales and arpeggios with real confidence. An invaluable resource for students, the Improve your scales! Piano series covers all the keys and ranges required for each syllabus, helping you pick up valuable extra marks in exams. New edition, revised to support all major exam syllabuses from 2020.

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If you can play just a few notes on the alto saxophone, then you're ready for this book. Here are 14 imaginative little pieces specially composed for the absolute beginner, all of them with attractive piano accompaniments. The pieces are arranged progressively, so you can hear the step-by-step improvement in your playing as well as simply enjoying the music. **ABRSM selected pieces (Saxophone 2006-2013): Come to the Ball (Monckton) Walking in the Air (Blake) **Trinity College London selected pieces (Saxophone 2012-2014): The Hippopotamus (Swann) Walking in the Air (Blake)

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The Music Theory in Practice series has helped more than one million musicians worldwide to learn about the notation and theory of music. Now fully revised, this workbook remains the best way to prepare for ABRSM's Grade 3 Theory of Music Exam. Features a clear explanation of music notation, many worked examples and practice exercises, definitions of important words and concepts, specimen exam questions and helpful tips for students. As well as supporting the ABRSM Theory syllabus, this workbook also provides an excellent resource for anyone wishing to develop general music literacy skills.

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The Music Theory in Practice series has helped more than one million musicians worldwide to learn about the notation and theory of music. Now fully revised, this workbook remains the best way to prepare for ABRSM's Grade 5 Theory of Music Exam. Features a clear explanation of music notation, many worked examples and practice exercises, definitions of important words and concepts, specimen exam questions and helpful tips for students. As well as supporting the ABRSM Theory syllabus, this workbook also provides an excellent resource for anyone wishing to develop general music literacy skills.

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Argentinean tango is the focus for this addition to the popular Fiddler series. Appealing arrangements of sophisticated numbers by tango legends Piazzolla, Villoldo, Arolas, Gardel and others. The music is arranged for flexible strings, so can be played as solos, duets or trios, with optional piano or guitar. Available in two formats: violin edition (with optional easy violin part and guitar chords) and complete edition (includes additional keyboard and violin accompaniments). Suitable for players of all ages, including beginners and mixed ability groups. Includes notes on the musical style, performance tips and evocative illustrations.The edition is part of the ABRSM syllabus (grade 3).Instrumentation:violin (2 violins) and piano, guitar ad libitum

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An exact contemporary of Bach, Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750) was one of the greatest lutenists of all time. He was also a prolific and brilliant composer. This collection of arrangements for solo guitar is an ideal introduction to Weiss's music. The ten varied pieces were carefully chosen for their musical character and technical suitability. Placed in order of difficulty, they reflect the range of skills required for Baroque repertoire, at intermediate and advanced levels. Includes stylish and idiomatic adaptations, preserving the original ornamentation and left-hand slurs. Core repertoire for Grades 6-8, with pieces on the ABRSM guitar syllabus. Carefully considered fingering, both clear and consistent.

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ABRSM's Music Theory in Practice workbooks have helped more than one million musicians worldwide to learn about the theory of music. The new Music Theory in Practice Model Answers series is a practical tool to use alongside the fully-revised workbooks for Music Theory in Practice, Grades 1 to 5, providing specimen answers for each exercise covered. Each book includes correct answers to every question with accepted options, where there can be more than one answer, and model answers for composition-style questions. This answer book will help you to prepare in the best possible way for the ABRSM Grade 2 Theory of Music exam.

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This is a celebration of music from the time the pioneers explored the vast reaches of North America. A presentation of eleven imaginative and idiomatic arrangements for elementary viola (Grade 1-3) with piano. Helpful background notes help players to understand the style and spirit of the music. The book is also compatible with the 'cello and violin editions, giving an opportunity for young players to experience ensemble playing at quite an early stage. **ABRSM selected pieces (Viola 2008-2015): Simple Gifts (Trad. North American) The Railroad Corral (Trad. North American) **Trinity College London selected pieces (Viola 2010-2012): All The Pretty Little Horses (Trad. arr. Waterfield & Beach)

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ABRSM's Music Theory in Practice workbooks have helped more than one million musicians worldwide to learn about the theory of music. The new Music Theory in Practice Model Answers series is a practical tool to use alongside the fully-revised workbooks for Music Theory in Practice, Grades 1 to 5, providing specimen answers for each exercise covered. Each book includes correct answers to every question; accepted options, where there can be more than one answer; and model answers for composition-style questions. This answer book will help you to prepare in the best possible way for the ABRSM Grade 1 Theory of Music exam.

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First Repertoire For Viola Book 3 brings a selection of repertoire for viola pupils, from Haydn to Humperdinck, show tunes to spirituals. Over the 3 books in this series, over 60 carefully graded elementary pieces skilfully explore the viola's unique sonorities and provide a superb introductory literature for the young player. **ABRSM selected pieces (Violia 2008-2015): Gavotte (Telemann) Where You There? (Anon. Spiritual) Big Foot Lou. (Gearen) Poco adagio from the Emperor Quartet (Haydn) **Trinity College London selected pieces (Viola 2010-2012): Prelude (Goedicke) Poco adagio from the Emperor Quartet (Haydn) March (CPE Bach) Bouree (Boyce)

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The ABRSM's popular and well-established Manual of Scales, Arpeggios and Broken Chords is now published in a new modern edition. Still containing all the standard scale and arpeggio patterns, it has been enlarged to include whole-tone scales, augmented arpeggios and additional broken chord patterns. Ruth Gerald, formerly Head of Keyboard Studies at the Royal College of Music and a senior ABRSM consultant and examiner, has written an informative introduction, which includes some technical guidance and practice suggestions. This new edition with its clear page layout and accessible structure is an excellent resource for all pianists.

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Firmly rooted in Paul Harris's Simultaneous Learning approach, this new edition of Improve your sight-reading! Flute Grades 4-5 is designed to help overcome all the stumbling blocks to successful sight-reading. Step by step you will build up a complete picture of each piece, firstly through rhythmic, melodic and technical exercises, then by studying prepared pieces and finally `going solo' with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces. This new edition of the best-selling Improve your sight-reading! contains completely new material throughout and has been brought up to date to match the latest ABRSM sight-reading criteria.

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Guitar Basics Sight-reading offers bite-sized exercises and specimen pieces to help young players improve their sight-reading and general musicianship skills in a fun and unintimidating manner. Carefully devised by established authors Nick Walker and James Longworth, this step-by-step approach will get players cruising through their sightreading before they know what’s happened! • Short and approachable exercises, ideal for use in individual and group lessons when time is of the essence • Unintimidating approach develops players’ skills gradually over time • Bespoke advice and practical tips that will help prepare students for the Grade 1 sight-reading tests (ABRSM and Trinity)

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Nikki Iles & Friends Book 1 is a collection of 16 original compositions and new arrangements for piano written by Nikki Iles and her friends from the world of jazz. Expertly curated and commissioned by Nikki Iles, this book contains piano pieces at the levels of Grades 4 to 6 written by some of the best-known figures on the jazz scene. Also including recordings of every piece, this book provides a wealth of new and original jazz piano music for those seeking to explore accessible jazz repertoire, building a recital or a programme for ABRSM Performance Grades, or simply playing for pleasure.

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Haydn to Humperdinck, show tunes to spirituals - variety is the spice of musical life and the essence of First Repertoire for Viola. These three books combine over 60 carefully graded elementary pieces which skilfully explore the viola's unique sonorities and provide a superb introductory literature for the young player. **ABRSM selected piece (Viola 2008-2015): Now is the month of Maying (Morley) Evening Hymn (Bruckner) March (Baklanova) **Trinity College London selected pieces (Viola 2010-2012): Country Gardens (Trad.) Now is the month of Maying (Morley) Lament (Trad. Hungarian) Aria: Love Leads to Battle (Bononcini) Rigaudon (Rameau) Papageno’s Song (Mozart)

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Firmly rooted in Paul Harris's Simultaneous Learning approach, this new edition of Improve your sight-reading! Clarinet Grades 1-3 is designed to help overcome all the stumbling blocks to successful sight-reading. Step by step you will build up a complete picture of each piece, firstly through rhythmic, melodic and technical exercises, then by studying prepared pieces and finally `going solo' with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces. This new edition of the best-selling Improve your sight-reading! contains completely new material throughout and has been brought up to date to match the latest ABRSM sight-reading criteria.

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Firmly rooted in Paul Harris's Simultaneous Learning approach, this new edition of Improve your sight-reading! Clarinet Grades 6-8 is designed to help overcome all the stumbling blocks to successful sight-reading. Step by step you will build up a complete picture of each piece, firstly through rhythmic, melodic and technical exercises, then by studying prepared pieces and finally `going solo' with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces. This new edition of the best-selling Improve your sight-reading! contains completely new material throughout and has been brought up to date to match the latest ABRSM sight-reading criteria on the 2018-2021 syllabus.

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Sample the spirit of the British Music Hall with this superb collection of music hall songs arranged for piano and vocal with guitar chord symbols. Features no less than one hundred of the best known songs dating from the 1860s to the 1930s, arranged for piano, voice and guitar. **ABRSM selected pieces (Singing from 2009): The boy I love is up in the gallery (Ware) Nobody loves a fairy when she’s forty (Le Clerg) What I want is a proper cup o’ coffee (Lee & Weston) Waiting at the church (Leigh & Pether) Why am I always the bridesmaid? (Collins & Leigh) I want to sing in opera (David & Arthurs)

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Firmly rooted in Paul Harris's Simultaneous Learning approach, this new edition of Improve your sight-reading! Clarinet Grades 4-5 is designed to help overcome all the stumbling blocks to successful sight-reading. Step by step you will build up a complete picture of each piece, firstly through rhythmic, melodic and technical exercises, then by studying prepared pieces and finally `going solo' with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces. This new edition of the best-selling Improve your sight-reading! contains completely new material throughout and has been brought up to date to match the latest ABRSM sight-reading criteria on the 2018-2021 syllabus.

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Piano Star is an exciting series for young pianists, offering a rich selection of new repertoire to help players build confidence and musical skills. Piano Star 2 is at ABRSM Prep Test level and provides alternative repertoire for that assessment and includes compositions by David Blackwell, Edmund Jolliffe, Mike Cornick, Aisling Greally, Christopher Norton, Mark Tanner, Sarah Watts, Alasdair Spratt, Andrew Eales, Heather Hammond, Karen Marshall, Nicholas Scott-Burt, Nancy Litten, Paul Harris, Alan Bullard, and Peter Gritton. Key features of the series: - Solo pieces, plus a number of duets - A rich mix of musical styles, with techniques introduced progressively - Fun extension activities - Beautifully illustrated

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ABRSM's Music Theory in Practice workbooks have helped more than one million musicians worldwide to learn about the theory of music. The new Music Theory in Practice Model Answers series is a practical tool to use alongside the fully-revised workbooks for Music Theory in Practice, Grades 1 to 5, providing specimen answers for each exercise covered. Each book includes correct answers to every question with accepted options, where there can be more than one answer, and model answers for composition-style questions. This answer book will help you to prepare in the best possible way for the ABRSM Grade 5 Theory of Music exam.

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Jazz Trumpet Studies brings together 78 of James Rae’s pieces from his successful method Progressive Jazz Studies into a single great-value book, suitable for Grade 1 to 5. •Part 1 introduces the beginner to jazz rhythms including swing quavers, syncopation and anticipation •Part 2 contains fully graded melodic jazz studies •Part 3 develops confidence within common jazz tonalities: whole-tone, diminished and blues scales, modes and the II-V-I chord sequence. **ABRSM selected pieces (Trumpet, Cornet & Flugelhorn from 2009): Study No. 31 or No. 33 (Rae) Study No. 37 or No. 43 (Rae) Study No. 44 or No. 48 (Rae) Study No. 61 (Rae)

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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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