Within Three-Part Harmony. Par HAAGE JOHANNES. This book focuses on the intersection of melody and harmony. While valuable for all instrumental and choral composers and arrangers, it specifically explores ways to move melodic voices independently within three-part harmony on the guitar. All you need to benefit from this book is the ability to read standard notation on the guitar. Working through t…

Par VAN DER ROOST JAN. Jan Van der Roost was commissioned to write this hymn by the “International Association for Human Rights” in Frankfurt. The commission specified that the instrumentation of this simple hymn should be so, that it can be performed by a variety of combinations of players. The piece starts with an “intrada” for brass ensemble based on the first bars of the hymn, but is “ad libit…

Par VAN DER ROOST JAN. Jan Van der Roost was commissioned to write this hymn by the “International Association for Human Rights” in Frankfurt. The commission specified that the instrumentation of this simple hymn should be so, that it can be performed by a variety of combinations of players. The piece starts with an “intrada” for brass ensemble based on the first bars of the hymn, but is “ad libit…

Par DEL BORGO ELLIOT. Interesting counterpoint brings the minor key 'Ballad of John Riley' to your band with style. Allowing for some good melodic playing from the tenor instruments (Trombone, F Horn, Tenor Saxophone) and later including the Bass Instruments in the melody, each section is important in this treatment of the somber folk tune. Great vehicle for studying phrasing and controlled perfor…

Par RICKER RAMON. Contemporary straight-eighth 'Maiden Voyage' feel. This chart takes up where 'Suspended Animation' left off. Uses same two suspended chords and adds a bridge. There is space for anyone in the band to solo. To help the beginning improviser, the composer has included some brief 'Notes on the Improvised Sections'. In addition this chart is correlated with material found in Vol. 1 of…

as performed by John Miles. Par MILES JOHN. C’est avec le titre Music, son plus grand succès et véritable ode à la musique, que John Miles conquit les hit-parades anglais en mars 1976. Expressive et aérienne, puissante et dynamique, sachant allier à merveille le son des cordes avec le timbre des instruments à vent, cette chanson demeure indémodable. L’arrangement pour ensemble à instrumentation va…

27 pieces of Grade 7 standard edited for the ABRSM by Lionel Salter. Includes works by Schumann Ravel Granados and Smetana.

Twenty-two pieces from the Baroque to the late Romantic period edited by Howard Ferguson for the ABRSM. Includes works by Purcell Haydn Schumann and Tchaikovsky.