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Up-Grade! Flute Grades 2-3 is perfect for those looking for something to bridge the gap between grades 2 and 3. Pam Wedgwood's inimitable style is guaranteed to breathe new life into your playing! The varied pieces in this lively collection are accompanied by online audio backing tracks and 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. **ABRSM selected piece (Flute 2018-2021): Symphony No. 40: 1st movement. **ABRSM selected piece (Flute 2018-2021): Scale-Learning Blues!

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Yesterday and other Classic Pop Ballads is an absolute winner! Robert Latham's deft, skilful arrangements of some of the best-loved pop ballads of all time form an immensely rewarding collection for choirs in search of fresh 'a capella' material. Arranged for accompanied upper voices, this excellent edition includes: Yesterday; Streets of London; The Windmills of Your Mind; The Sound of Silence; Killing Me Softly. 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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Immortalised on the football terraces, You'll Never Walk Alone is an exquisite, moving song in its original form and a highlight of the show Carousel. It is presented here with other all-time greats from Carousel and South Pacific (Happy Talk, A cock-eyed optimist and June is bustin' out all over). 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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Progressive Jazz Studies 2 (Flute) includes over 40 original studies for the developing jazz flute player. 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!

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Suite From The Nutcracker

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Chausson's Piece Op.39, the composer's only work for solo cello, was written during his final years and belongs with the intensity lyrical Poeme for violin and orchestra (1896) and the two quartets (1897 and 1899). Like these more 'classical' late works, 'Piece' derives potency from its restrained lyricism, but is rhythmically unusual with 5/4 and 7/4 the predominant time signatures.Neil Heyde's new edition, the first authoritative one of the work, is based on the composer's autograph manuscript and will be welcomed by cellists seeking fresh, first-rate repertoire by major French composers.The edition includes an informative introduction and critical commentary.

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Variety is the spice of musical life and the essence of First Repertoire for Cello. This is the last 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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Get on Board! contains the gospel favourites Good News/Ride in the Chariot, Goin' Up and This Train/ Gospel Train all on the theme 'travelling to freedom'. 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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Play Showtime Book 1 presents hits from some of the greatest shows of all time, arranged for solo violin with piano accompaniment. Contents include Memory from Cats, Maria from West Side Story and On My Own from Les Miserables.

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This is another volume of lively and entertaining duets, originally composed for 'cello. They are designed to encourage the development of good technique. In idioms ranging from the energetic folk music of Eastern Europe to ballads and rhapsodies, More Polytekniks presents a variety of more advanced technical challenges, from vibrato, spiccato, extended position work and tenor clef to double-stopping and metrical changes. More Polytekniks may be enjoyed by a teacher and pupil duo, or by two friends of varying ability.

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Godspell And Children Of Eden is a selection of 5 accessible arrangements from two of Stephen Schwartz's most popular musicals, Godspell (Prepare Ye The Way/Bless the Lord, Day By Day, We Beseech Thee), and Children of Eden (Children of Eden and Ain't it Good). This volume is part of the Choral Programme Series, and are sure to be a hit with choirs and audiences alike. They provide around twenty minutes of fun and interesting repertoire for accompanied SATB choir. 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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Welcome to Polytekniks - a lively and original approach to aspects of cello technique. These versatile and entertaining duets present a variety of musical and technical challenges for the young player, from string-crossings, fourth and thumb positions and easy chords coping with unusual or tricky rhythms. Polytekniks may be used either by a teacher and pupil, or by two students at different stages of development.

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Two by Two brings you a variety of mixed ability duets for clarinet and alto saxophone arranged and composed by Paul Harris. The collection includes music of various genres and styles such as Hungarian Folk Song, Fiesta, and Tango as well as pieces by Mozart and Purcell.

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Easy repertoire in 2nd, 3rd and 4th positions Achieving security of fingering, tone and intonation in positions other than first is one of the major technical challenges that every young violinist has to tackle. This book offers a carefully selected and edited sequence of short attractive repertoire pieces, suitable for examination or concert use, each focussing on a particular position or mixture of positions. The material is drawn from a wide range of styles, from baroque to popular tunes, and will appeal to all young players. Expertly arranged piano parts are simple enough for most teachers to tackle with ease. An invaluable addition to the string teaching repertoire.

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Bali Moods No.1 takes as its starting point traditional Balinese gamelan music and is written throughout in an equally-tempered version of the pelog scale, one of the two predominant scale systems associated with Indonesian music. The 'moods' of the title is also meant to imply 'modes'. Bali Moods No.1 is the first of a series of three works for flute and piano to explore the varied characteristics of Balinese moods and modes.

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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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Franz Haydn's delightful Missa Brevis in F Major was both one of his earliest and latest works: he originally scored it for soloists, choir and strings, and returned to it at the end of his life to add wind parts. This authoritative edition, prepared by the Haydn scholar Denis McCaldin, is arranged for two soprano soloists and SATB chorus with a keyboard reduction.

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Two by Two is an album of pieces for two bassonists of different ability. The pieces cover a variety of styles, ranging from Mozart to Scott Joplin there are also some newly-composed pieces. Teachers will find this collection invaluable for use with their pupils, and students will enjoy playing together with their colleagues.

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