Good Times Past comprises a series of nine short and contrasting piano pieces in a light yet essentially modern idiom. Glancing affectionately back in time to an era of traditional pastimes and board games these pieces where published on the occasion of Spartan's 25th birthday and are musically related to a set of flute duets written in 1982 which became 'Tricks and Games' - Spartan's first …

The 16 Most Beautiful Jazz Songs
In the latest volume of the Schott Piano Lounge series, Carsten Gerlitz presents the most popular jazz standards and bridges the gap between traditional and modern classics of jazz music, adding the one special note or other and improvisation to the famous melodies - all in the unmistakable Piano Lounge style.

Book Nine in this fabulous series presenting the best of Peter Warlock’s Choral Music. He was a champion of unknown composers before the term early music was coined. To him music was soemthing to study perform and enjoy wether it dates from Henry VIII (or earlier!) Elizabeth the Stuarts or more modern times. Seven fantastic English songs all beautifully transcribed by Warlock here for SATB …

In the latest volume of the Schott Piano Lounge series, Carsten Gerlitz presents the most popular jazz standards and bridges the gap between traditional and modern classics of jazz music, adding the one special note or other and improvisation to the famous melodies - all in the unmistakable Piano Lounge style. / Partition CD /

Novello New Choral Series-Why O Lord do you stand far off? was written in memory of the victims of the London bombings on 7 July 2005 questions the presence of God in times of human disaster particularly when committed by man upon his fellow man. The piece's focus lies in the two rhetorical questions first sung by the female voices at the beginning. This opening three note motif returns freque…

The Dover Opera Libretto Series-Complete Italian libretto with English translation by Ellen H. Beiler.This volume contains everything the operagoer needs to derive full satisfaction from La Boheme except the musical score itself. Most important it provides the complete text of the Italian libretto just as it is actually sung; that is when a singer repeats a phrase several times each of the rep…

Few baroque composers were ever able to create work as sunny as joyous as Vivaldi did in this beloved Gloria. The contrast of mood throughout the work as it moves through the drama of the Mass to its satisfying double final movement shows the composer at the height of his powers.Vivaldi composed this work in Venice in about 1715 during his fruitful time at the Ospedale della Piet . In his lifet…

NATIONAL EDITION SERIES A VOLUME 7 Jan Ekier. Par CHOPIN FREDERIC. The Preludes of Op. 28 include all 24 major and minor tonalities arranged in a circle of fifths, with each major key being followed by its relative minor. Contrary to custom of using this type of piece as didactic material, Chopin's cycle was intended as concert music. The Preludes are a diverse variety of mood, tempo, articulation…

John Thompson's Students Series/Mid-Elementary Level-A musette is a small bagpipe that was used in nearly all the European countries in times past. Like the modern bagpipe it contained a leather bag full of wind which supplied a drone bass against whatever melody was being played on the pipes of the instrument. This simple transcription of a Musette by Bach (transposed to E Major) uses open fifths…