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The Sedlon Accordion Method embraces all the essentials necessary to gain the greatest measure of accordionic achievement and is a thorough and inspirational tutor that guarantees rapid results. Book 1A, which can be used for any size of instrument, from 12 to 120 bass, takes the student rapidly though the fundamentals in a manner to establish self-confidence from the first lesson and presents a correct programme for mastering finger technique, and includes and easy course in keyboard harmony to enable students to adapt and harmonise melodies from piano and violin music.

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Snow Patrol’s second album Eyes Open is a sprawling epic rock masterpiece. Packed full of gargantuan choruses, clever pop hooks, and gentle and affecting widescreen classics, it met a resounding success and reached number 1 in the UK albums chart. This book features all the songs arranged for piano, voice and guitar.

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Go down, Moses: Three spirituals are popular American spirituals (Go Down, Moses; Oh Mary Don’t You Weep; He’s Got The Whole World), arranged for accompanied SSA choir by Gwyn Arch. 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.

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Team Woodwind is firmly established as a leading series of woodwind tutors. It presents a flexible course which can be tailored to suit each student, ideal for individual, group and class tuition - including the ABRSM music medals. The books in the series contain plenty of carefully graded music in a wide range of styles, from Baroque and Classical eras to film, folk, jazz and Latin American. The series encourages ensemble playing with varied repertoire and develops instrument-related aural skills, improvisation and composition. Included are scales and arpeggios and downloadable online audio of over 70 backing tracks to make every student feel like a star performer. Team Woodwind is available for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Alto Saxophone and Tenor Saxophone all of which are compatible. There is also a separate book of Piano Accompaniments/Score. All of the books in the series are fully integrated allowing students using Team Woodwind to play in ensembles with students using Team Brass and Team Strings.

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Matching the 1953 production, this vocal score of Calamity Jane comes complete with all the lyrics and a straightforward yet effective piano accompaniment. Featuring classics such as Adelaide and A Woman's Touch, this score will put you straight in the spotlight. Deadwood, Dakota Territory, is largely the abode of men, where Indian scout Calamity Jane is as hard-riding, boastful, and handy with a gun as any! But the army lieutenant she favours doesn't really appreciate her finer qualities. One of Jane's boasts brings her to Chicago to recruit an actress for the Golden Garter stage. Katie, the beautiful young actress, takes the eye of Wild Bill Hickok, Jane's friendly enemy.

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Freedom Fields takes its name from a skirmish which took place on 3rd December 1643. The album contains a compelling array of songs inspired by the West Country and explores the turmoil of conflict, war and freedom. Several songs are about the area’s naval traditions, Lady Of The Sea, while King & Country along with the title track further examines the factions created by the English Civil War. Arranged for Guitar Tab and Vocals.

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Snow Patrol were catapulted to the dizzying heights of the charts in 2004 with breakthrough single Run, taken from their album Final Straw, which went on to sell in excess of two million copies. Following world conquering touring schedules and the recruitment of a new bassist and keyboardist, Snow Patrol returned in 2006 with Eyes Open, a sprawling and epic rock masterpiece. The album is packed full of gargantuan choruses, clever pop hooks, and gentle and affecting classics and now you can learn to play them with this songbook arranged in guitar tablature format with full lyrics and chords.

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Indispensable to amateur enthusiasts and those with professional aspirations alike, The Singer’s Handbook is packed full of practical information, technical advice and exclusive tips to provide guidance for every stage of a singer’s development – from finding your first teacher to dealing with the pressures of a professional career. Unique, informative and engaging, The Singer’s Handbook is a must have for all aspiring singers! Drawn from their extensive experience in the professional arena, Mary King and Anthony Legge shine a light onto the fascinating world of singing and the music business, enabling any singer to discover tools to develop their own talents.

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Gilbert & Sullivan’s second most successful comic opera of its day, and now the most performed Savoy opera by amateur societies.

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Michael Jackson Smash Hits! Vol 1 presents three of the King of Pop's best loved hits arranged for soprano and alto voices with a straightforward piano accompaniment. The arrangement is from the Choral Basics series, which has been carefully designed to provide rewarding, varied repertoire for beginner choirs.

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Michael Jackson Smash Hits! Vol 1 features three of the King of Pop's best loved hits arranged for soprano and alto, and combined men's voices with a straightforward piano accompaniment. The Choral Basics series has been carefully designed to provide rewarding, varied repertoire for beginner choirs. Perfect for singers of all ages, the series offers attractive, idiomatic arrangements for SA and SAMen choirs, with carefully considered vocal ranges and straightforward piano accompaniments that support the singers. Embracing world music, spirituals, folk song, pop classics, hit shows and original pieces, this series offers everything a budding choir could wish for.

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Eva Cassidy: Autumn Leaves comprises three songs, taken from the posthumously released anthology album Songbird by Eva Cassidy. Each one is arranged for soprano and alto voices with a straightforward piano accompaniment. The arrangement is part of the Choral Basics Series - ideal if you are looking for straightforward and rewarding repertoire for your beginner choir.

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You'll Never Walk Alone & Other Sporting Anthems, part of the Choral Basics series, has been arranged for soprano and alto voices with a straightforward piano accompaniment. The three well known songs in this collection - Swing Low, Sweet Chariot; Jerusalem; and You'll Never Walk Alone - are arranged to be ideal for beginner choirs.

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Summertime In B Minor is an arrangement of George Gershwin's piece Summertime for piano and voice with guitar chords, in the original key. Gershwin began composing Summertime in December 1933, attempting to create his own spiritual in the style of the African American folk music of the period. Summertime is sung multiple times throughout his opera, Porgy and Bess, and like The Beatles' Yesterday, is one of the most often covered songs in popular music, with almost 3,000 different versions recorded.

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Cole Porter was one of the greatest songwriters of the twentieth century. This book includes twenty of his classic songs in easy-to-play piano arrangements. These are complete with songs with lyrics, chord symbols and suggested piano fingering.

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Among successful songwriting teams a very special niche will always be reserved for the Gershwin brothers. In 1924 a fabulous series of hit shows began for George and Ira working together (and occasionally separately) including Lady Be Good, Oh, Kay!, Funny Face, Girl Crazy and Strike Up The Band to name a few. This collection brings together 10 songs arranged as piano solos by George Gershwin.

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ABBA Smash Hits! Volume 2 includes some of ABBA's greatest hits arranged for soprano, alto and a combined male-voice part, with a straightforward piano accompaniment. Songs included in this volume are Thank you for the Music, Fernando and Waterloo. The arrangement is part of the Choral Basics Series - ideal for beginner choirs and for choirs in which the male singers are few or at the stage when their voices are changing and has been carefully designed to provide rewarding, varied repertoire.

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Talented duo Joanna Forbes L'Estrange (ex-Swingle Singers MD) and Alexander L'Estrange (jazz musician and composer/arranger) have devised this series of jazz warm-ups designed to help choirs swing and sing light music styles more authentically and effectively. Getting into the groove has never been such fun! These warm ups are arranged for SATB with a straightforward (optional) piano accompaniment and form part of their hugely popular choral workshops of the same name. The piece is part of the Choral Basics series, ideal for beginner choirs.

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This collection of Music for Special Occasions brings together ten sacred choral works to enhance any occasion whether joyful, reflective or commemorative. Some best-loved pieces as well as new compositions carefully selected and arranged by acclaimed choral composers/conductors Ben Parry and Alexander L'Estrange. Includes Zadok The Priest (abridged), Amazing Grace, Psalm 23 (Goodall) and many more. These are practical and flexible arrangements for accompanied soprano and alto with an optional third part for limited range baritone, or low alto making it suitable for schools, community and church choirs.

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26 of The Charlatan’s best-loved songs, spanning their whole 15-year, 8-album career, from their first hit single The Only One I Know to Up At the Lake. The songs here are carefully transcribed in guitar tab, complete with guitar chord boxes and full lyrics.

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Superstart is a break-through for beginner cellists, full of exciting music and fun activities from the very first lesson to inspire and stimulate pupils and teachers. Mary Cohen is one of Britain’s leading string teachers and this new edition is a distillation of her many years of teaching and research - a core method now in one book. This book of piano accompaniments and cello duet lines is an excellent resource for lesson times or performance enabling teachers or friends and family to accompany students. Playing with accompaniment encourages good ensemble skills and really brings the pieces to life.

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Superstart Viola Accompaniments is a break-through for beginner violists, full of exciting music and fun activities from the very first lesson to inspire and stimulate pupils and teachers. Mary Cohen is one of Britain’s leading string teachers and this new edition is a distillation of her many years of teaching and research - a core method now in one book. This book of piano accompaniments and violin duet lines is an excellent resource for lesson times or performance enabling teachers or friends and family to accompany students. Playing with accompaniment encourages good ensemble skills and really brings the pieces to life.

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Score to Claude Debussy's Hommage à S. Pickwick Esq. P.P.M.P.C. (Prelude 6), orchestrated by Colin Matthews. During his time as the Hallé Orchestra’s Composer in Association between 2001 and 2010, Colin Matthews spent five years making orchestral versions of all 24 of Debussy’s Preludes. He has been heralded for the success with which he has taken the inspiration of the piano masterpieces and skilfully created orchestral works of great variety, beauty and drama. Indeed, following their critical reception these works are being taken up and performed by orchestras across the world.

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Score to Claude Debussy's Minstrels (Prelude 8), orchestrated by Colin Matthews. During his time as the Hallé Orchestra’s Composer in Association between 2001 and 2010, Colin Matthews spent five years making orchestral versions of all 24 of Debussy’s Preludes. He has been heralded for the success with which he has taken the inspiration of the piano masterpieces and skilfully created orchestral works of great variety, beauty and drama. Indeed, following their critical reception these works are being taken up and performed by orchestras across the world.

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Daniel Rouwkema's setting of A Celtic Prayer was written for SSATB chorus and organ, for the Choir Of Chester Cathedral. Faber New Choral Works introduces a wealth of new or recently written choral music to choirs in search of fresh repertoire. The series draws in a rich diversity of living composers and includes both lighter and more challenging contemporary works, offering a thrilling array of varied styles.

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The Lord is My Shepherd is best known as the theme tune to the award-winning BBC TV series The Vicar of Dibley which starred Dawn French. Goodall's setting of Psalm 23 is warm and melodious and has been, and will continue to be, popular with choirs everywhere. This arrangement is for male voices with piano accompaniment.

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Jazz Piano Plus One is a great new collection of fourteen original jazz pieces for piano with a difference! Each piece within the book works well as a solo, but there is also an optional bass or top part for a teacher or friend which adds an extra dimension. With a wide range of styles including swing, rock, latin, ballad and blues, each piece introduces ‘rootless’ chords and a variety of ‘comping styles’. See also Jazz Piano Studies by John Kember.

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Step It Up! is the fun way to move your piano playing onwards and upwards. Packed full of original jazzy pieces by Louise Chamberlain - with imaginative arrangements of well-known tunes, and duets too - this carefully graded volume is guaranteed to liven up your practice no end. So whether practising at home or performing to your friends, take you playing to another with Step It Up! - and prepare to step up a grade at the same time! Pamela Wedgwood writes as Louise Chamberlain for the Step It Up! series. She is recognised around the world as one of the UK's most prolific and successful composers of popular repertoire for young instrumentalists.

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O Waly Waly & Other Classic English Melodies contains three well-known English folk melodies are arranged for soprano and alto singers with a straightforward piano accompaniment. Featured are: Dashing away with the smoothing iron, Early one morning and O waly waly; the latter tune also features in L’Estrange’s hit cantata Ahoy! Sing for the Mary Rose, entitled The water is wide. The arrangements form part of the Choral Basics series, which has been carefully designed to provide rewarding repertoire for beginner choirs, ranging from world music to pop classics and original pieces. Perfect for singers of all ages, the series also offers attractive, idiomatic arrangements for SAMen choirs, with carefully considered vocal ranges and straightforward piano accompaniments that support the singers.

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ABBA Smash Hits Volume 1 for upper voices contains three of ABBA's greatest hits: Mamma Mia!, Super-Trouper and Money, Money, Money, arranged for soprano and alto voices with a straightforward piano accompaniment by Lin Marsh. The arrangements are part of the Choral Basics Series, ideal for beginner choirs and for choirs in which the male singers are few or at the stage when their voices are changing.

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With a variety of original pieces and arrangements of classic carols from Europe and North America, After Hours Christmas, arranged by Pam Wedgewood, contains styles to suit any mood: Away In A Manger as a laid-back jazz waltz, The Angel Gabriel and In Dulci Jubilo as wistful ballads, and a bossa nova version of Ding! Dong! Merrily On High. The compilation also contains a mix of piano solos and duets for you to enjoy on your own or with friends and family, arranged for the grade 3-5 pianist. So conjure up the magical atmosphere of Christmas and relax with these lush harmonies and well-loved melodies.

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Auld Lang Syne & Other Classic Scottish Melodies brings together three popular Scottish folksongs arranged for soprano, alto and a combined men's voice part with a straightforward piano accompaniment. This arrangement is ideal for choirs in which the male singers are few or at the stage when their voices are changing. Auld lang syne (meaning ‘old long since’), is a popular New Year’s Eve song in many parts of the world and is included here along with the beautiful Afton Water and the well-known Skye Boat Song. The arrangements are part of the Choral Basics Series, which has been carefully designed to provide rewarding, varied repertoire for beginner choirs. Perfect for singers of all ages, the series offers attractive, idiomatic arrangements for SA and SAMen choirs, with carefully considered vocal ranges and straightforward piano accompaniments that support the singers. Embracing world music, spirituals, folk song, pop classics, hit shows and original pieces, this series offers everything a budding choir could wish for.

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The Language of Song: Elementary (High Voice)is part of the successful series by Heidi Pegler and Nicola-Jane Kemp. The ability to sing in foreign languages is a much-needed skill for singers, but few vocal training resources tackle this aspect comprehensively in one book. With this in mind, ABRSM examiners and professional singers Heidi and Nicola-Janehave written a graded series of songbooks that provide classic song repertoire, carefully selected to develop the vital skills required to sing in a foreign language An invaluable resource for all singing students and teachers, each song gives both a literal and poetic translation of each text, a detailed pronunciation guide using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) guide and background information on the songs as well as technical and musical teaching points. The accompanying CD provides the text for each song spoken by a native speaker - expert language consultants who specialise in coaching singers

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Classical Real Repertoire introduces players to a wealth of original works for piano by the great composers. Each piece has been carefully selected for the intermediate player (grades 5-7), by Christine Brown, and contain timeless masterworks to encourage and to inspire.

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Keynotes is a series of essential piano repertoire from across the ages which has been carefully selected and edited by John Lenehan, one of Britain's most experienced, versarile and sought-after pianists. Keynotes contains unusual and imaginative repertoire from over three centuries. Not only is there ample opportunity to improvise, but each book contains valuable practical footnotes. Book 2, grades 2-3, contains music by Anderson, JS Bach, Bartok, Cimarosa, Clarke, Harris, Haydn, Luklova, Mozart, Ornstein, Satie, Telemann and Zamecnik. Also available in this series is Keynotes Grades 1-2 (0-571-52320-X), Keynotes Grades 3-4 (0-571-52322-6) and Keynotes Grades 4-5 (0-571-52323-4). **Trinity College London selected pieces (Piano 2012-2014): A Joke from Mikrokosmos (Bartok) Andante no.37 (Mozart)

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Jazz Sessions Clarinet comprises a mixed compilation of 10 standards and original pieces spanning a host of jazz variations including blues, swing, Latin and gospel. This contemporary mix includes Fly Me To The Moon, Stompin’ at the Savoy and C Jam Blues, and includes a second, extended version of each piece for improvisation. Online audio of professional, accoustic backing tracks to help create a truly atmospheric performance. Jazz Sessions Series is a collaboration between Alexander L’Estrange, a composer, arranger, jazz double bass player, and jazz examiner for the ABRSM, and composer, jazz pianist and teacher, Tom Pilling. The book is carefully tailored for players of Intermediate level (Grades 4-5), and ideal preparation for ABRSM jazz exams, or simply for fun!

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English sacred music is a collection of English-texted sacred music that celebrates the genius of Thomas Tallis, which is selected and edited by Jeremy Summerly to provide an invaluable source of introits and anthems for choirs. For SATB mixed voices choir with optional accompaniment. The sixteenth century was a time of religious upheaval in England. From Henry VIII’s protestant reformation through Queen Mary’s staunch but short-lived Catholic revival to the return of Anglicanism in Elizabethan times, it would have required careful diplomacy for a Roman Catholic like Thomas Tallis simply to stay alive. In fact he became the most respected composer of his generation and is now recognised as one of the country’s greatest composers. 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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Pam Wedgwood's After Hours For Trumpet And Piano presents eight atmospheric, original pieces for the intermediate trumpet player with piano accompaniment. They are ideal for teacher or pupil and provide a perfect follow-on for those that have used and enjoyed Pam’s highly acclaimed Jazzin’ About Series. The book contains piano accompaniments, but for extra sophistication downloadable online audio of backing tracks is also available. Each piece within the collection has two different backing tracks: the first (full performance) includes the backing track along with the instrumental melody; the second (backing only) presents the backing track alone. The full performance track is provided to help the player to the learn the melody and its interaction with the accompaniment; the melody is played on a marimba to avoid dominating the acoustic ‘live’ instrument for those players who choose to play along with this version of the backing.

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This new series from Paul Harris builds on his previous series' Improve your Scales and Improve your Sightreading. Improve your Practice Grade 4 begins by encouraging students to plan their practice sessions. starting with warm-ups and then giving tips on how to 'explore a piece'. This book will encourage children to think about different aspects of their music as they play giving them a better musical understanding of their pieces and also encourages independent thought and exploration.

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