A Young Persons' Guide to the Brass Band. Par DE HAAN JACOB. Subtitled “A Young Person’s Guide to the Brass Band”, Go for Brass ! is a musical introduction to the sound, instrumental groups and the individual instruments of the brass band. Your players will love this work as they stand to highlight their particular section with snippets of the sparkling up-tempo dance style theme. An extremely ent…

Arr. Klaas Van Der Woude. Par VAN HEUSEN / SAMMY CAHN. Frank Sinatra had a massive hit with his interpretation of this classic song, singing directly to the hearts of the audience, so ensuring its popularity with listeners of all ages. In a similar way this arrangement will appeal to audiences young and old alike. Bring the sparkle of ‘Old Blue Eyes’ to any concert with this classic song. Frank Si…

Believe me if all those endearing young charms. Henk Hogestein has created a calm, yet uplifting arrangement of the famous Irish song Believe Me, if all these Endearing Young Charms. The melody displays the very best of Irish tradition with the words coming from a poem by Thomas Moore about love that goes above and beyond physical beauty. Irish Charms will make a wonderful inspirational interlude …

Young composers often make their living with incidental music. Such was the case of Leonid Desyatnikov (*1955) who wrote in his early years a lot of music for puppet shows and dramatic performances. Later the author collected some pieces together forming the suite 'Reminiscences of the Theatre?, the title being of course a reminiscence of Robert Schumann's famous 'Album für die Jugend? (No 25). De…

Par MILNE ELISSA. 'Little Peppers' is the third book in a series of five. Each book is filled with fun jazz pieces that can be used both as pedagogical studies and as repertoire pieces. 'Little Peppers' is around Grade 3 standard and each of the pieces has been written with the young pianist in mind, avoiding leaps that are difficult for small hands and incorporating relatively short, lighthearted…

These two collections (BA 9668, BA 9669) give young students and teachers a rich selection of recital pieces, either to complement the Sassmannshaus 'Early Start on the Violin? method or to play independently from it. As all the pieces are written entirely in first position, they can be used after just a few months of lessons.The piano part may be played by the teacher or an advanced student. As a…

Arr. Timothy Johnson. Par HAYDN FRANZ JOSEF. “He alone has the secret of making me smile, and touching me to the bottom of my soul, ” said Mozart about “Papa” Haydn and his music. The “Surprise” Symphony (No. 94), incidentally written during the final year of Mozart’s short life, has become one of Haydn’s most memorable works. Since this symphony was written during the zenith of the Classical peri…

Par BROWN CHRISTINE. Score and Parts Standard: Elementary Christine Brown is a highly respected teacher and composer for young people, and in her Chandos Suite for violin, cello and piano she marries her wealth of practical experience in coaching elementary players in the art of chamber music with her distinctively tuneful way of writing for the three instruments. A wistful Prelude precedes a myst…

Par O'NEILL SUSAN. This activity notebook is the perfect guide to theory for young musicians! It contains a huge variety of hints on good practice techniques and finds ways of making practice routines more fun. Theory Games, Puzzles, Quizzes as well as useful and mind-blowing facts! This book for all young musicians, will take the beginner up to around Grade 1 standard. / Niveau : Débutant / Répe…

Par RUSSELL-SMITH GEOFFREY. Young players of today are exposed to a variety of contemporary styles and this new series of jazzy and relaxing pieces for Recorder attempts to provide players with experience of the syncopated patterns of Jazz, Rock and Pop music, whilst keeping within technical bounds which will have been achieved at various grades. The Piano accompaniments are deliberately simple in…