Edited in five volumes by Wm. A. Little. Six Sonatas Opus 65

Written for unaccompanied SATB choir.

A setting of the Evening Canticles for men's voices with Organ accompaniment.

A great selection of Piano music from the ever eccentric Erik Satie. All of the pieces in this volume have been edited and freshly presented from the original printed copies. Works include the celebrated Gymnopedies and Airs A Faire Fuir . Edited by Desmond Ratcliffe.

Arranged by George Rathbone for SS choir and piano.

A striking dramatic work from one of the most original contemporary composers working in the UK today.

Hail Smiling Morn for SATB Chorus with Piano accompaniment by English composer Reginald Spofforth as arranged by Henry Leslie.

Richard Rodney Bennett’s Excursions for piano solo was commissioned by Frederick Kempf with assistance from South East Arts. Composed in 1993 for Sandra and Bill Charlap the work is in 3 movements entitled Vivo Andante Lento and Allegro. The timing is 27 minutes.

A musical drama based on the story of Judas Iscariot for church production. Scored for two Tenor soli five speakers SATB Chorus and orchestra.

Cello Time is a sequel to Colin Evans' Take a Cello and Basic Bass. Cellists who have moved on from the open string writing can now take up the challenge of these seven new pieces written for the first position.

Trevor Webb and Nicholas Drewe. A series of books giving practical projects for use in preparation of the GCSE examinations in music. All the books are grounded on the three major principles of the GCSE syllabuses: listening composing and performing. They may be used either as a complete series or independently. In the early stages the emphasis is on active participation the subject matter is diverse allowing scope for the teacher to introduce a broad range of musical topics. The listening and composing elements gain a greater importance within the series as it progresses although there is always integration between them. Books 1 And 2 contain a variety of projects onrhythm scales tunes chords writing a pop song composing with electronic and conventional instruments and composing with voices amongst many other ideas. Books 3 And 4 offer 22 different listening exercises which are based on the works of a wide range of composers including Bach Handel Elgar Britten Joplin McCartney and Lloyd Webber. Each piece is presented in the form of a skeleton score and questions are set to develop the pupil’s aural perception and musical literacy. The music cassette which accompanies these two books includes recordings of many of the works.

Mendelssohn produced an early work for Organ in 1837 but it was a London music publishing firm who commissioned the first of his mature Organ works. The second half of the commissioned pieces are published in this volume. Mendelssohn himself saved all his manuscripts and they have survived in libraries in Berlin and Krakow providing the subtitle of this book.Eleven movements are included here all written in 1844 and 1845. What were originally commissioned as ‘Voluntaries’ were changed at the composer’s request to ‘Sonatas’. Whether one considers these movements as drafts and sketches or as distinct musical entities in their own right the works are not identical tothe final printed versions. For those who appreciate or study the Mendelssohn Organ oeuvre this volume is of immense interest.While the Organ never completely fell from grace as the instrument of church and religious music it is the editor’s belief that in the century dividing JS Bach from these works of Mendelssohn fashion and church practice had greatly diminished its importance and few works of real note were produced. Mendelssohn was introduced to the Organ early in his prodigious career and found a warm audience for his Organ performances in Engand to which he returned nine times over nearly twenty years.

Piano duet score. 1st performance Ellesmere College January 1986 by Richard Markham and David Nettle. Duration c.24 minutes. The work is in three movements and the musical thought is symphonic. The first movement (based entirely on the opening motive) goes through a series of paragraphs which eventually culminate in an extended melodic line played entirely by the treble player. The middle movement is a playful Scherzo with a rather sardonic waltz for its Trio. The slow movement (which comes last) is much more relaxed and concentrates on a D major motive with sharpened fourths but the more intense moods of the first movement return in a suddenly impassioned middle section.

Howells String Quartet No.3 (In Gloucestershire). This edition includes Parts only. A separate study score is also available for sale. Howells String Quartet No.3 (In Gloucestershire). This edition includes Parts only. A separate study score is also available for sale.

Quartet For Piano And Strings was written by Gordon Jacob in 1969. It was first performed in 1970 by the Bernard Richards Quartet with Bernard Roberts playing the Piano. Gordon Jacob (1895-1984) was a British composer and arranger and one of the last proponents of the great Edwardian musical tradition. He studied at the Royal College of Music under Stanford Parry Vaughan Williams and Howells and later taught there for over forty years. He was a prolific composer creating over seven hundred works but he was particularly celebrated for his books on music pedagogy. He is probably best remembered for Music for aFestival written for the Festival of Britain and his arrangement of the National Anthem for the Coronation in 1953.

Ralph Vaughan Williams The Female Highwayman scored for unison voice with piano accompaniment.

Thiman 'Eternal Ruler Of The Ceaseless Round' arranged for Unison voices and Organ.

John Joubert 's The Choir Invisible . Vocal score.

Work for SATB Choir A Cappella. Written for Philip Brunelle for the 35th anniversary of Vocalessence. Text: Jone Donne (from Sermon LXXIII).

From Henry Purcell To John Stanley-An anthology from four centuries in ten volumes. Edited by Robin Langley.