A breakthrough in making music theory come to life! An ideal teaching supplement brings theory to life by explaining a musical principle then showing it at work in an actual song. Using everything from folksongs to Gilbert & Sullivan favourites and pop hits abstract music theory becomes easy to understand with this unique combination of explanation and demonstration. Ideal for private tuition school lessons or anyone whowants to understand more about music theory into practice on the National Curriculum to create a truly fun method of learning. Includes a host of theoretical examples such as Ground Bass Syncopation and 12 Bar BluesRiffs.

Written for solo flute. Also known as Trzy Diagramy.

The Featured Pianist is a splendid collection of fourteen classical favourites for the intermediate to advancing pianist providing a superb enrichment to their repertoire. Suitable for Grades 5-6 the book alsocomes with a CD and additional downloadable content. The book itself contains fourteen fantastic pieces that everybody is sure to know and love by the cream of classical composers. With Debussy's masterpieces Clair deLune and Arabesque No. 1 the latter of which is a beautiful score merely to look at let alone play. A couple of classic Beethoven pieces Adagio Cantabile and Adagio Sostenuto are included aswell as timeless compositions by Chopin Schubert and Bach that are essential learning for any pianist worth their salt. The accompanying CD contains professional performances of each piece and includes freehints and tips which are downloadable to your computer. Either play along to the CD or simply unwind and relax to this unbeatable compilation of inspirational performances. Other pieces include Solfeggietto by C. P. E.Bach and Sweet Remembrance by Mendelssohn among many others that will undeniably delight any listeners within earshot. The pieces arranged in this book are between Grades 5 and 6 in standard making themperfect for those who want to expand their repertoire and musical knowledge with some of the finest compositions of all time. The Featured Pianist with its brilliant engravings accompanying CD and downloadablecontent is everything you'll need to learn these great pieces of music.

Composed in 2004 this concise and compelling work is part of Saariaho's Tempest Songs and is written for Soprano and Baritone soloists with chamber ensemble. Also included in the Tempest Songs cycle are: Ariel's Hall (Soprano) Caliban's Dream (Baritone) Miranda's Lament (Soprano) Prospero's Vision (Baritone) Works may be performed in any order and a full song cycle.

The first part of Gorecki's remarkable cycle Genesis is a gritty and unforgiving exploration of pure sound and sonority. The strings are treated to a huge variety of effects and techniques including tremolandi glissandi bridge bowing and de-tuning. This approach creates an ever changing and fluctuating timbral journey that has more in common with the Fluxus school Gerard Grisey or even Edgard Varese than with the seminal Symphony of SorrowfulSongs . Music of the very elements themselves.

For SATB chorus with Organ accompaniment (with optional congregation Brass and Timpani available separately)

City Solstice was commissioned by The City of London Corporation for The City of London Festival 2009 and is dedicated with thanks to Ian Ritchie. Instrumentations - Choir Organ (available separatly) Soprano Saxophone Duration - 18 minutes First performance - 22nd June 2009 at Southwark Cathedral. Performed by The Choir of King's College Cambridge conducted by StephenCleobury with John Harle (Soprano Saxophone). Programme Note City Solstice celebrates the 800th anniversary of the construction of variousbridges on the site of the current London Bridge. The difficulty of erecting sturdy constructions on this bend in the Thames where the currents are particularly strong has led to a rich seam of stories aboutthe bridges passed on through history myth and folklore. What are thought to be the original words of 'London Bridge is falling down' carry much of the references to materials used in building the original bridges- wood and stone gravel and stone and then later iron and steel. The lines my fair lady dance over my lady lea (or lee ) and with a gay lady are thought to refer to Matilda of Scotland (c.1080- 1118) consort of Henry I and who was responsible for building the series of bridges that carried the London toColchester road across the River Lea. King (Saint) Olaf II of Norway figures prominently in the destruction of the bridge after its occupation by the Danes around 1013. Coming to the assistance of Aethelred Olaf isthought to have pulled the bridge down into the Thames along with its occupying Danes rather than fight on the bridge itself. There is a line in the Norse saga The

The matching folio to Aled Jones' stunning 2006 'Best of' album. This is a diverse selection that includes a superb mix of classical and contemporary songs such as his wonderful reprise of Walking in the Air and hisfantastic rendition of Silent Night . All 18 terrific songs from the album are arranged here for Piano Vocal and Guitar.

Written for saxophone quartet this work was first performed by Saxofourte in 2004.

Optional trumpet part.

This work was commissioned by the Naxos Recording Company and is the eighth in a series of ten quartets. It was first performed on 10th March 2006 by the Maggini Quartet at St. Gregory’s Centre Canterbury Christ ChurchUniversity Canterbury as part of the Sounds New Festival. Naxos Quartet No. 8 is dedicated to Her Majesty the Queen on her 80th birthday.

Commissioned by Theatre Cryptic for Optical Identity a presentation co-commissioned by Theatre Cryptic and Singapore Arts Festival. First performance given by the T'ang Quartet on 31 May 2007 in Singapore.

Commissioned by King’s College Cambridge with generous funding from Donald Stewart in memory of his wife Beryl. First performed at the Advent Procession Service on Sunday 26th November 2006 given by the choir of King’s CollegeCambridge conducted by Stephen Cleobury.

The Stolen Child was a joint commission by the National Youth Choir of Great Britain and The King's Singers to celebrate their 25th and 40th anniversaries respectively. They asked me to write a piece that they could performtogether and I thought Yeats' exquisite poem (written when he was only twenty) would create a perfect dramatic counterpoint between the two groups. The National Youth Choir would represent the voice of the 'human child innocentand naive; and The King's Singers would represent the highland faeries of the 'water and the wild' seducing the children away from a world full of troubles with the promise of endless revelry and eternal youth. Scored for 2Countertenors Tenor 2 Baritones and Bass with SATB Chorus.

Written for saxophone quartet.

Annelies was conceived by James Whitbourn as a concert-length choral work with the libretto based on the diary of Anne Franke a Jewish girl who lived at the time of the holocaust. This version is arranged for Soprano soloist SATB chorus Clarinetin B flat Violin Violoncello and Piano. Annelies was conceived by James Whitbourn as a concert-length choral work with the libretto based on the diary of Anne Franke a Jewish girl who lived at the time of the holocaust. This version is arranged forSoprano soloist SATB chorus Clarinet in B flat Violin Violoncello and Piano.

All the songs in The Voice of Desire are conversations between humans and birds. In each case the birds seem to have a more sophisticated viewpoint that their human hearers. One of the highlights is Written OnTerrestrial Things set in a dead landscape at the dead of winter. Suddenly a joyus thrush melody breaks out it's ecstatic expression is completely at odds with human perceptions of such a dismal evening has nature somethingto remind us if only we'd listen. The song cycle was commissioned by the BBC for Alice Coote and first performed by her and Julius Drake (piano) in a BBC Proms Chamber Music concert in London on 11 August 2003.

For violin and piano. Commissioned by the 1994 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. One of the composer's last works dating from the same year as his 4th Symphony.

Svyati - 'O Holy One' for choir and solo cello. Text in church Slavonic. Quoting Tavener: 'I began to write Svyati in early 1995: while sketching it I learned that John Williams father of Jane my dear friend andpublisher was dying. I could not refrain from dedicating it to Jane and to the memory of her father. The text is in Church Slavonic and it is used at almost every Russian Orthodox service perhaps most poignantly afterthe congregation have kissed the body in an open coffin at an Orthodox funeral. The choir sings as the coffin is closed and borne out of the church followed by the mourners with lighted candles. The cello represents the Priest orIkon of Christ and should play at a distance from the choir perhaps at the opposite end of the building. As is Greek drama choir and priest are in dialogue with each other. Since the cello represents the Ikon of Christ it mustbe played without any sentiment of a Western character but should derive from the chanting of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

This singing tableau for voices instruments and children is based on the story of the Dormition of the mother of God as recounted in the Apocryphal Gospel of St. John. The work uses an adult choir and instrumental group andchildren who enact the story in highly stylised mime sequences. Vocal Score with piano reduction of the orchestra score. Duration c. 60mins.