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The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music
From Grammy-winning musical icon and legendary bassist Victor L. Wooten comes an inspiring parable of music, life, and the difference between playing all the right notes…and feeling them.The Music Lesson is the story of a struggling young musician who wanted music to be his life, and who wanted his life to be great. Then, from nowhere it seemed, a teacher arrived. Part musical genius, part philosopher, part eccentric wise man, the teacher would guide the young musician on a spiritual journey, and teach him that the gifts we get from music mirror those from life, and every movement, phrase, and chord has its own meaning…All you have to do is find the song inside.
“The best book on music (and its connection to the mystic laws of life) that I’ve ever read. I learned so much on every level.”―Multiple Grammy Award–winning saxophonist Michael Brecker
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The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films: A Comprehensive Account of Howard Shore’s Scores (Book & Rarities CD): 1
Howard Shore’s Academy Award-winning score for The Lord of the Rings has been hailed as among the greatest film music ever written. Sweeping in scope, it is an interpretation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth as music — an operatic tapestry of cultures, histories, languages, and principles. The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films takes the reader on an unprecedented journey into the heart of this history-making opus with extensive music examples, original manuscript scores, a rarities CD, and fascinating glimpses into the creative process from the composer himself. Includes: Foreword by Howard Shore Introduction by Fran Walsh Sketches by John Howe and Alan Lee Includes Exclusive Rarities CD of unreleased LOTR music Color stills from the filmsRead more
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The Musician’s AI Handbook: Enhance And Promote Your Music With Artificial Intelligence
The Musician’s Ai Handbook is a comprehensive look at how musicians, artists, songwriters, producers, and anyone in the music business can use artificial intelligence as a highly creative tool to generate new ideas and help to promote their music. It’s packed with useful how-to’s to help you get the most out of just about any Ai platform, while showing you skills and fundamentals that won’t become outdated.
Part 1 of the book explains Ai’s buzzwords in a way that anyone can understand, then takes a look at the many gray areas of Ai copyright that users must be concerned with.
Part 2 looks at using Ai composition and production platforms to develop new song and lyric ideas, and how the many Ai audio tools and plugins, and the Ai mixing and mastering platforms, can lift your songs to a pro level.
Finally, Part 3 covers the latest in Ai graphics and video generation, as well as the best ways to use Ai chatbots for music business and promotion.
Topics include:
- How Ai music generation really works so you’ll know what it can and can’t do
- Why looking closely at Ai copyright can save you from legal problems down the road
- How a well-crafted megaprompt can generate the best Ai results
- How to use Ai audio tools for compression, EQ, limiting, reverb, noise reduction, track separation, and song analysis to make your mixes sound more professional
- Everything you wanted to know about virtual singers and voice cloning to take your song’s vocals to another level
- Tips for using Ai composition platforms to generate new song and lyric ideas that you never would have thought of
- Getting the most from Ai music video-generation platforms
- How to use Ai image generation to create pro-level graphics and branding
- Why using a chatbot to design music marketing and release plans can save you money
- And much more.
If you’re worried that Ai will sap your creativity or move too fast for you to keep up, then The Musician’s Ai Handbook will put your mind at ease as it proves that artificial intelligence is just an extremely helpful tool. Follow renowned author, teacher, producer and engineer Bobby Owsinski as he takes you through everything you need to know to make Ai the best music friend you’ve ever had.
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The Official Charts – The Sixties
The Official Charts: The Sixties is an essential gathering together of all the UK’s Official charts, week-by-week, as the full published chart, chronicling the shifting fashions and trends of that most memorable of decades. That means more than 500 weeks of both singles and album charts. These are the charts recognised by the music industry as their official rundowns (as curated today by the Official Charts Company – and made available at OfficialCharts.com). This means the charts broadcast by BBC Radio 1 and Top Of The Pops, and published by music industry magazine Music Week. This is the first time the full charts have been gathered together in the same place in a printed volume and is the latest in a series of books which, over the coming months, will make up a collection of volumes spanning every week of the UK’s Official singles and albums charts from 1952 to the present day. Also included are the accompanying EP Charts, which were published between March 1960 and December 1967. Published at the same time as this title is the companion volume, The Official Sixties Hits Book. The additional volumes on the rest of the UK’s great chart decades are coming your way very soon.Read more
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The Official Christmas No. 1 Singles Book
‘A Christmas cracker’ – Record CollectorSo here it is…
The perfect gift for music lovers of all ages, The Official Christmas No. 1 Singles Book is jam-packed with facts, figures and photos to get your toes tapping along to the sounds of seven decades of festive chart-toppers.
Have you ever wondered how many Christmas number ones actually have the word ‘Christmas’ in their title? Or how many TV talent-show winners have claimed the festive top spot?
Do you know which artist has racked up the most Christmas number ones? Or which single is the biggest-selling seasonal chart-topper of all time?
Can you name the only song to have topped the Christmas chart twice by two different artists? Or the only artist to have been Christmas number one twice with the same song?
The answers to all these questions – plus many more – can be found in this exclusive festive companion, published in conjunction with the Official Charts Company.
With a fully illustrated double-page spread for every year since the UK singles chart began in 1952, Michael Mulligan’s fun and authoritative journey through the Christmas archives will delight curious browsers and dedicated pop nerds alike. Featuring top-ten countdowns, fascinating trivia about the highest-charting Christmas singles and plenty of entertaining infographics, this is the ideal family stocking-filler, celebrating all that is wonderful, whimsical and unpredictable about the festive season’s most hotly contested musical event.
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The Official Eighties Hits Book
This book is a companion volume to The Official Albums and Singles Chart books of the 1980s that were recently published on behalf of the Official Chart Company. Those books replicate the weekly charts throughout the eighties, while this book takes the data and produces artist by artist listings of hit singles and albums. Each artist entry contains brief biographical information, including individual dates of birth and place of birth (where known), together with details of awards and honours – BRIT Awards, Grammy Awards, MTV Europe awards and Birthday and New Years Honours List awards. Singles and albums that have attained silver, gold, platinum and multi-platinum status are also identified, together with RIAA Diamond Awards. This is the ultimate chart trivia book for the 1980s!Read more
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The Official Singles Chart – The Seventies
The Official Singles Charts: The Seventies is an essential gathering together of all the UK’s Official charts, week-by-week, as full Top 75s, chronicling the shifting fashions and trends of that most memorable of decades. That means more than 500 weeks of singles charts. These are the charts recognised by the music industry as their official rundowns (as curated today by the Official Charts Company – and made available at OfficialCharts.com). This means the charts broadcast by BBC Radio 1 and Top Of The Pops, and published by music industry magazine Music Week. This is the first time these Top 75s have been gathered together in the same place in a printed volume and is the first in a series of books which, over the coming months, will make up a collection of volumes spanning every week of the UK’s Official singles and albums charts from 1952 to the present day.Published at the same time as this title is the companion volume, The Official Albums Charts: The Seventies. The additional volumes on the rest of the UK’s great chart decades are coming your way very soon.Read more
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The Opera Lover’s Companion
Every opera lover enjoys a performance more when accompanied by a knowledgeable friend. In this indispensable guide, well-known opera critic Charles Osborne provides exactly that. Osborne fills in the details on 175 of the world’s most frequently performed operas, including facts about the composer and the music, a plot outline, accounts of famous performers, and much more. “This book is exactly what the title claims: an opera lover’s companion. Reading it is like going to the opera with a knowledgeable friend who tells you enough to make you want to see the piece but not so much you’re drowned in superfluous detail.”-Richard Fawkes, Opera Now “What this invaluable book contains is the ideal rundown on 175 operas from Auber’s Fra Diavolo to Zimmerman’s Die Soldaten, in each case putting the work in context within the composer’s development, with a list of characters, a short synopsis and pointers towards the most imortant arias, duets and ensembles, all in a personal congenial tone, like unto an operatically wise and loving uncle.”-Denby Richards, Musical Opinion “An erudite, instructive and unpretentious guide.”-Michael Kennedy, The Sunday Telegraph “It’s hard to imagine any other book on the subject more informative and helpful to the average enthusiast. . . . This book is one you’ll cherish.”-Books in CanadaRead more
£17.10The Opera Lover’s Companion
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The Penguin Concise Guide to Opera (Penguin reference books)
This concise edition of the critically-acclaimed New Penguin Opera Guide focusses on the composers and works most frequently performed today – ranging from Britten to Massenet, and from Mozart to Wagner. Composer biographies are accompanied by informed articles on individual operas, offering plot synopses, musical analysis and general commentary.Read more
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The Pianist’s Palette: Piano Classics: Classical Repertoire for Piano Volume 1
Welcome to the enchanting world of classical piano repertoire. As you explore these pages, may you discover the profound beauty, depth, and emotion woven into the notes and staves. Let the music within these covers be your guide on a journey through the rich tapestry of human expression. Whether you’re a seasoned performer or a curious listener, may this book kindle your passion and transport you to the sublime realms of classical piano music.
With each stroke of the keys, you embark on a unique odyssey, a journey through the ages of musical history. May the compositions of the great masters be your companions on this magnificent voyage, as you find joy, solace, and inspiration in their timeless creations.
So, let your fingers dance upon the ivory keys, and your heart be moved by the eloquence of these musical treasures. Here’s to a lifelong love affair with classical piano music.
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- Sonata in B minor, K. 27, L. 449 – Domenico Scarlatti
- Suite in G minor HWV 432, Passacaglia – George Frideric Handel
- Prélude No. 2 in C Minor – Johann Sebastian Bach
- Moonlight Sonata, 1st Movement – Ludwig Van Beethoven
- Waltz Opus 64 No. 2 – Frédéric Chopin
- Waltz Opus 69 No. 1 – Frédéric Chopin
- Waltz Opus 69 No. 2 – Frédéric Chopin
- Nocturne Op.9 No.2 – Frédéric Chopin
- Nocturne No. 20 in C♯ Minor – Frédéric Chopin
- Impromptu in G♭ Major – Franz Schubert
- Consolations S. 172 No. 3 – Franz Liszt
- Standchen D. 957 No.7 – Franz Schubert Transcribed by Franz Liszt
- Liebestraum S. 541 No. 3 – Franz Liszt
- Intermezzo Op. 118 No. 2 – Johannes Brahms
- October, Autumn Song from The Seasons – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Valse Sentimentale – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Romance sans paroles Op. 17 No. 3 – Gabriel Fauré
- The Girl with the Flaxen Hair – Claude Debussy
- Clair de Lune – Claude Debussy
- Nocturne in Eb Major – Mikhail Glinka
- The Sapin – Jean Sibelius
- Etude Op. 76 No. 2 – Jean Sibelius
- Prelude Op. 23 No. 4 – Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Liebeslied – Fritz Kreisler Transcribed by Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Montagues and Capulets – Sergei Prokofiev
- Improvisation No. 15 in C Minor – Francis Poulenc
- Czardas – Vittorio Monti
- Odeon – Esnesto Nazareth
- Intermezzo – Manuel M. Ponce
- Graceful Ghost Rag – William Bolcom
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The Piano Teacher’s Survival Guide: Inspiring Teaching Strategies, In-Depth Technical Advice, and Imaginative Ideas for Piano Teachers and Pianists (Faber Edition)
From preparing for the very first lesson to mastering fiendish fingering and performance anxiety, this inspirational guide helps teachers nurture and support students at every level and develop a love of the piano. With musical communication at its heart, The Piano Teacher’s Survival Guide tackles universal issues and common frustrations faced by all pianists as well as improving and developing teaching skills and piano technique.
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The Politics of Authenticating: Revisiting New Orleans Jazz (Experiments/On the Political)
This book is part jazz historiography, part autoethnography and part memoir. It sets forth a grounded theory of ‘authenticating’ as a basic socio-political process, with reference to Richard Ekins’ participation in the social worlds of New Orleans jazz, and his life as a social constructionist social scientist and cultural theorist.
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The Rare Record Price Guide 2024
This is the most up-to-date version of the now world-renowned Rare Record Price Guide. It is the undisputed key text detailing pricings for a huge array and range of vinyl, from familiar classics to lost, underground albums of yesteryear.Read more
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The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century [Paperback] Ross, AlexRead more
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The Rolling Stones All the Songs Expanded Edition: The Story Behind Every Track
An updated edition of the most comprehensive account of the Rolling Stones’ work yet published, with the full story of every recording session, every album, and every single released during their nearly 60 year career.
The Rolling Stones have been recording and touring since 1963, selling more than 200 million records worldwide. While much is known about this iconic group, few books provide a comprehensive history of their time in the studio. In The Rolling Stones All the Songs, authors Margotin and Guesdon describe the origin of every song the band has released, details from the recording studio, what instruments were used, and behind-the-scenes stories of the great artists who contributed to their tracks.
Organized chronologically by album, this massive, 760-page hardcover begins with their 1963 eponymous debut album recorded over five days at the Regent Studio in London; through their collaboration with legendary producer Jimmy Miller in the ground-breaking albums from 1968 to 1973; to their later work with Don Was, who has produced every album since Voodoo Lounge. Packed with more than 500 photos, All the Songs is also filled with stories fans treasure, such as how the mobile studio the group pioneered was featured in Deep Purple’s classic song “Smoke on the Water” or how Keith Richards used a cassette recording of an acoustic guitar to get the unique riff on “Street Fighting Man.”
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The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology (Routledge Music Companions)
The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology brings together academics, artist-researchers, and practitioners to provide readers with an extensive and authoritative overview of applied musicology.
Once a field that addressed music’s socio-political or performative contexts, applied musicology today encompasses study and practice in areas as diverse as psychology, ecomusicology, organology, forensic musicology, music therapy, health and well-being, and other public-oriented musicologies. These rapid advances have created a fast-changing field whose scholarship and activities tend to take place in isolation from each other. This volume addresses that shortcoming, bringing together a wide-ranging survey of current approaches.
Featuring 39 authors, The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology falls into five parts—Defining and Theorising Applied Musicology; Public Engagement; New Approaches and Research Methods; Representation and Inclusion; and Musicology in/for Performance—that chronicle the subject’s rich history and consider the connections that will characterise its future. The book offers an essential resource for anyone exploring applied musicology.
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The Second Summer of Love: How Dance Music Took Over the World
‘The definitive look at dance music and club culture – a must read’ – Paul Oakenfold‘Brilliantly woven collection of aural histories … a damn fine read’ – DJ MAG
In 1987, four friends from London, Paul Oakenfold, Danny Rampling, Nicky Holloway and Johnny Walker, took a week-long holiday to Ibiza. What they saw there, and brought back home, would give rise to a new global music and counterculture movement.
As the eighties drew to their close, with Thatcherism holding the nation tight in its grip, something funny was happening right across the jungle of Britain’s nightlife scene. People were dressing down, not up, to go to clubs. And they were dancing right through the night armed seemingly with only bottles of water. Ecstasy and acid house music had arrived on British shores, and a tribal battle between for the moral future of the nation, between the youth and the establishment, had begun.
In The Second Summer of Love, author and dance music promoter Alon Shulman uses exclusive contributions from the world’s biggest DJs, including Paul Oakenfold, Carl Cox, Fatboy Slim, Moby, Faithless, Mr C, Farley & Heller, Danny Rampling and many others to faithfully recreate the story of the summers of 1988 and 1989, and chart the birth and rise of Acid House, dance music and club culture right through to the modern day where dance music has become a culturally dominant global industry.
Complete with stunning unseen photographs, this is the first authentic account of what really happened in that glorious period – from the politics and the people to the music, the drugs, the fashion and the culture – told by people who were there, as they bring to life the creation of an underground scene which inadvertently altered the course of modern global youth culture forever.
‘It’s as if house music and rave culture tapped into this ancient predilection of humans to stay up all night dancing and staring into the fire, and just supercharged it with electricity and MDMA’ – Moby
‘What I was experiencing was right in front of my eyes, it was happening right now and I loved it’ -Carl Cox
‘It opened my eyes and ears to a different spirit in music’ – Fatboy Slim
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The Six Nations Rugby Song Book
A must for all rugby fans! Anthems, hymns and folksongs for the ideal rugby sing-song. Includes ‘Sosban Fach’, ‘Fields of Athenry’, ‘Scotland the Brave’ and much more …Read more
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The Songs He Was Singing Vol. 5 2010-1019
Paul McCartney: The Songs He Was Singing vol. 5 traces the ups-and-downs of a remarkable career. Using facts, figures and anecdotes, it reveals the influences and stories behind every song written by Paul McCartney from 2010 to 2019, who played on them, where and when. Taking an in-depth look at McCartney’s recording sessions, Paul McCartney: The Songs He Was Singing unravels the stimuli of contemporary events, the musical influences that have shaped his life and the studio experimentation that helped fashion his music. Paul McCartney: The Songs He Was Singing is a fascinating guide to Paul McCartney and his music that maps his journey from ex-Beatle to twenty-first century renaissance man. Fully illustrated with hundreds of examples of rare album artwork and record labels, this is the ultimate exploration of the ex-Beatle’s solo recording career.
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The Songwriters Handbook: Songwriting For Songwriters
Are you a songwriter? Have you always wanted to write a song?Whether you’re a professional songwriter, an artist with a dream, a multi million-selling act, a hobbyist, or even if you’ve never written a song before this book was written for YOU.
Maybe you just love writing songs or perhaps you are writing a new album or you are writing for or with artists and you need ideas to spark new songs into being, possibly you’re stuck in a bit of an artistic rut and you’re looking for fresh ideas to write about or perhaps you’ve always felt there is a songwriter inside of you but don’t know where to begin.
This book will become your best friend. It will help you and inspire you to write a new songs, sharpen your voice as a songwriter or help you to find the spark to start writing a new song.
On each page is an idea, something to think about, something to provoke your creativity, something to shift your perspective, challenge or inspire you to write a song. You could start from the beginning of this book, or close your eyes and pick a page at random and see what arises within your mind. There are 52 ideas, one a week, so you could use this song as a year long songwriting exercise.
Author Elijah’s songs have been championed on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 6 and in MOJO Magazine and he hosts a weekly Songwriting Podcast with songwriters of note and distinction as well as a weekly songwriting challenge on YouTube and Spotify.
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The Story of Northern Soul: A Definitive History of the Dance Scene that Refuses to Die
Packed with memorabilia and anecdotes from the Twisted Wheel in Manchester to the mighty Wigan Casino, The Story of Northern Soul is the definitive history of the Northern Soul scene.
What began as an underground 60s Mod scene in unlicensed, no-frills clubs in the North West of England became a youth craze that has long surpassed all others. The Northern Soul scene has confounded its critics by surviving and growing into an adult dance phenomenon whose followers share a passion for the music of Black America unrivalled anywhere else in the world. The Story of Northern Soul takes the first ever in-depth look at the culture, the music, the artists and the people frequenting the all-night venues which are synonymous with the British Soul Scene. Packed with memorabilia and anecdotes from the Twisted Wheel in Manchester to the mighty Wigan Casino, The Story of Northern Soul is the definitive history of a dance scene that refuses to die.
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The Strawberry Bricks Guide to Progressive Rock: Third Edition
“The Book to discover the Music of the Seventies” Back in print for 2020! The definitive record guide to the progressive era of rock music, Strawberry Bricks presents a comprehensive discography with reviews of 500+ albums, with band histories, musical synopses, key tracks and critical commentary, all presented in the historical context of a timeline. Beginning in 1967 and continuing through 1982, a generation of musicians took rock music in directions unforeseen as they charted what would become known as progressive rock. From art rock to krautrock, from England to Germany to Italy and all across Europe, Strawberry Bricks offers a candid reappraisal of rock’s most cerebral genre.Read more
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The Ukulele Songbook: Shanties & Songs of the Sea
Thomas Balinger
The Ukulele Songbook
Shanties & Songs of the SeaFar-away oceans, perilous storms, bold explorers, bloodthirsty pirates and treasures hidden on mysterious islands – but likewise the hopes and the fears of friends, lovers and families left back home on dry land – have made for fascinating and evocative stories since the day men caught a glimpse of the deep blue sea.
But there’s more to the ocean’s fascination than just stories and myths. It also spawned its very own kind of music: the Shanties – songs of the wind and the waves, of hard work on the seven seas, of romantic buccaneers and brutal skippers harrying their crews to the marrow.In this book you’ll find a collection of shanties known and loved all over the world, arranged for easy Ukulele in standard C tuning (G-C-E-A). Of course, there’s „classics“ like Banks of Sacramento, Blow the man down or What shall we do with the drunken sailor, but you’ll also encounter some songs not as common and maybe some you might never have heard before.
All songs in musical notation with chord symbols plus melody TAB – you don’t have to read music to start playing right away!
Whether you want to pick the melody, strum the chords or just need the complete lyrics: you’ll find everything you need on these pages. And if you don’t know how to play a particular chord, don’t worry: each song features easy-to-read chord diagrams, too.
For reference, there’s a handy appendix listing all the chords used in this book plus a selection of easy strumming patterns you can use to accompany songs.Songs
1. A drop of Nelson’s blood
2. All for me grog
3. A sailor and his true love
4. Banks of Sacramento
5. Banks of the Ohio
6. Blow the man down
7. Blow the wind southerly
8. Boney was a warrior
9. Boston harbor
10. (Bound for) South Australia
11. Bound for the Rio Grande
12. Bully in the alley
13. Cape Cod girls
14. Dundee whalers (Balena)
15. Essequibo river
16. Eternal Father, Strong to Save
17. Goodbye, fare thee well
18. Good night, ladies
19. Handsome Molly
20. Harbour Grace
21. Haul away, boys
22. Jack the Sailor (Jackie Monroe)
23. John Kanaka
24. Lowlands away
25. Maggie May
26. Miss Lucy Long
27. Molly Malone
28. My Bonnie lies over the ocean
29. New York girls
30. On board of the Kangaroo
31. Paddy lay back
32. Roll, Alabama, roll
33. Rowler Bowler
34. Rule, Britannia
35. Sailor on the deep blue sea
36. Santiana (Across the plains of Mexico)
37. Shenandoah
38. Spanish ladies
39. The bottle-o
40. The coast of High Barbaree
41. The dead horse
42. The flying dutchman
43. The Forsaken Mermaid
44. The Glendy Burk
45. The John B. sails
46. The mermaid
47. The Shanty Boy on the Big Eau Claire
48. What shall we do with the drunken sailor
49. Whip Jamboree
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The Ultimate Musicals Crossword Collection: The complete Musicals crossword puzzle book for adults and clever kids
Celebrating all of the great Musicals!
This book contains over 35 themed Crossword puzzles on your favorite musicals.
Can you name the characters in Les Miserables?
How about the actors that played them in the movie version?
Do you know the most popular songs in Chess?This book makes an ideal gift for:
Mom, Dad, Grandma, Grandpa, Cousins, Brother, Sister, Aunt, Uncle, Niece, Nephew and Teacher
Thank you gift
Christmas stocking filler
Travel book to occupy some time for long trips
Teacher giftsCover: Softcover Glossy
Layout: 97 White Pages including 37 puzzles and solutions
Size: 6 X 9 inches
Also available by the same author:
The Ultimate Musicals Codeword Collection
The Ultimate Musicals Codeword Collection: The Song List Edition
The Ultimate Modern Movie Greats Codeword Collection
The Ultimate Royal Family Codeword Collection
The Ultimate Royal Family Activity CollectionRead more
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The Ultimate Rock Music Trivia Crossword Collection: Volume 1: The complete rock music themed crossword puzzle book for adults (The Ultimate Music Trivia Crossword Collection)
Rock Music Trivia Crossword Collection
Celebrating all that is great about Rock Music!
This book contains 40 crosswords and over 1200 clues of rock music from the 1950’s to the present day from Folk Rock, Soft Rock, Pop Rock all the way to Hard Rock. Are you up to the challenge of solving these tough crosswords?
Can you complete the song titles and album names?
Do you know the original members of your favorite band?
How about who played a role in a music movie?Complete the puzzles using your skills, judgement and knowledge of rock music.
This book makes an ideal gift for:
Any music super fan, Mum, Dad, Grandma, Grandpa, Cousins, Brother, Sister, Aunt, Uncle, Niece, Nephew and Teacher
Thank you gift
Christmas stocking filler
Travel book to occupy some time for long trips
Teacher giftsCover: Softcover Glossy
Layout: 98 White Pages including 40 puzzles and solutions
Size: 6 X 9 inches
Rock On!
A wide variety of books are available by the same author including:
The Ultimate Music Trivia Crossword Collection
The Ultimate 1950s Music Trivia Crossword Collection
The Ultimate 1960s Music Trivia Crossword Collection
Plus many more. Check out Kyle Becker’s author page and select your next puzzle challenge!Read more
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The Virgin Book of British Hit Singles: Volume 2
The second in this new series, The Virgin Book of Hit Singles is the most-up-to-date and comprehensive record of the music charts available today and a perfect, collectable complement to The Virgin Book of Hit Albums and The Virgin Book of Top 75 Charts.
Now improved and fine-tuned, and drawn from the Official Charts Company Data since 1952, The Virgin Book of Hit Singles features the most comprehensive, easy to read and accessible music chart data and information. It’s all here — expanded artist biographies, side notes of interest, label and catalogue numbers, peak positions, number of weeks on chart and weeks at number one. Also includes EP charts.
The Virgin Book of Hit Singles is essential reading, and reference, for any music lover.Read more
£27.10£33.30The Virgin Book of British Hit Singles: Volume 2
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The Well Tempered Clavier: Books 1 and 2 Complete: Books I and II, Complete (Dover Classical Piano Music)
“His art was of an encyclopedic nature, drawing together and surmounting the techniques, the styles, and the general achievements of his own and earlier generations and leading to a new perspective.” — Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
This informed assessment of the genius of Bach’s works can be applied with greatest accuracy to The Well-Tempered Clavier. This highly influential work is monumental in the history of Western music. It represents not only the culmination of Bach’s own maturation process, but also the galvanization of the emerging style and structure of modern keyboard music.
The grace and fecundity of The Well-Tempered Clavier have thrilled audiences, musicians, and composers for centuries. Mozart, when rapidly advancing to the height of his mastery, had but to read a manuscript copy of The Well-Tempered Clavier and his style developed a new polyphonic richness and depth of harmony. Beethoven studied all the accessible works of Bach profoundly (including The Well-Tempered Clavier) and frequently quoted them in his sketchbooks, often with direct bearing on his own works. Chopin is nowhere more characteristic than when he shows his love of The Well-Tempered Clavier in his Etudes and Preludes. It was Schumann who, in a series of maxims for young musicians, said “Make The Well-Tempered Clavier your daily bread.”
This remarkable volume contains all 48 preludes and fugues, from Books I and II, in all major keys, reproduced directly from the authoritative Bach-Gesellschaft edition. The fine engraving is beautiful, clear, and easy to read. These elegant pieces, which vary in difficulty, are available complete in one low-cost, convenient Dover edition.Read more
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The Wonder of Jazz: Music That Changed The World
Praise for this book“This new book by Sammy Stein is a highly individual take on jazz past, present, and future that fizzes with enthusiasm and optimism. She has taken the trouble to seek ideas and insights from hundreds of musicians. ” Jazz Halo
“In each paragraph of each chapter, a lot of care is taken to provide content that the reader can trust and use. The Wonder of Jazz already has a place among the reference books on the genre and it will certainly be cited in future academic and journalistic works.” Geisa Fernandes, journalist
“Whether you are a complete novice or jazz aficionado this book takes a fresh and very current look at the wonderful world of jazz, improvisation and its practitioners.” Andy Quin, conductor, composer, musician
This book shares the history, influences, and impact of jazz music. The Wonder of Jazz is like being in a room with some of jazz’s coolest people and spending a couple of hours soaking up their passion and knowledge.
Starting with the origins of jazz, this award-winning author, columnist and reviewer shares her knowledge generously and with an authority that makes this new publication a defining work on the subject.With input from over 100 musicians the book discusses what exactly is jazz, and how do you know you are listening to it? Do we truly know when and how jazz first originated? Who was the first jazz musician? How does jazz link to other genres? What about women in jazz? And writers and journalists? Do reviews make any difference?
This book is a deep dive into jazz’s history, impact, and future. It discusses the social, cultural, and political influence of jazz and reveals areas where jazz has had an impact we may not even realise. Its influences on hip hop, the connection to third stream, classical, and other art forms are all discussed as well as the future, the impact of young people and how they are changing established canons from within.
The journey this book takes the reader on is one of discovery and revelation.
Some of the information comes from research by the author but much comes from those in the music, those who teach, witness the reactions of an audience, and understand how relevant jazz is right now.
The book looks at jazz’s game changers – the people after whom the music was never the same, civil rights, gender, jazz dynasties, and how jazz musicians have lent their power to deliver political messages in subtle and not so subtle ways.
A book about jazz music’s vitality, energy, dynamism and its people, the ordinary people making extraordinary music.
Jazzwise magazine said of Sammy’s work, “It’s all here, beautifully written, eloquently argued, clear-eyed in its intentions and open in its invitation” and Jazz Matters said, “The sheer volume and status of the people who have given up their time to help Sammy, both women, and men, is a testament to the respect Sammy has earned across the industry and the trust people have in her to relay their stories faithfully.”About the author
Sammy Stein is a reviewer, columnist, and author. She writes for Jazz Views, Something Else Reviews, Free Jazz Collective, and is the jazz correspondent for Platinum Mind. She has curated and hosted radio shows, and her books have won praise, including a Jazz Times Distaff Award and a place on their Gearhead list. Her ‘Women In Jazz’ book (8th House) won Phace Magazine’s Music Book of The Year award. She is International Editor for the Jazz Journalists Association and has had work commissioned into the Library of Congress in America, a huge honour for a non-US writer.
Passionate about jazz music, Sammy curated and organised the London Jazz Platform festival, which showcased acts from the UK, Europe, and America. She has hosted radio series, including Ladies of Jazz, The Freer Side of Jazz, and curates the Jazz Treasure Trove for Jazz Bites Radio.Read more
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The Work: The lyrics of Scott Hutchison
The Work is a book of lyrics and illustrations by the late Scott Hutchison, lyricist, vocalist and songwriter of Frightened Rabbit. This paperback follows the sold-out limited hardback edition and presents the band’s complete lyrics (including B-sides and rarities) with handwritten excerpts by Scott, alongside his illustrations. The book is meant both as a celebration of and tribute to Scott’s unbridled creativity. It aims to fulfil his wishes by being the book that he wanted to create and had spoken of creating before his death.
Readers are advised that The Work includes content about topics that some may find upsetting, including references to suicide.
“Seeing this book come to life has been something of a bittersweet experience. Reading the lyrics without music really brings home the stark reality of what Scott was going through and at the same time highlights the talent of someone who I consider to be one of the best songwriters in the world. This would’ve been a different release had Scott been involved but we all felt it was important that his lyrics be celebrated and given the spotlight they deserve. As Scott has said, these words were always meant to be accompanied by music, but the impact of digesting them without is no less great. Pick up this book of words, hold it, share it and immerse yourself in the world Scott created by opening not only his heart but his whole soul to the world.” Grant Hutchison (Scott’s brother and drummer of Frightened Rabbit)
Contents:
The Greys
Music Now
Yawns
Be Less Rude
Go-Go Girls
Behave!
Square 9
Snake
It’s Christmas So We’ll Stop
The Modern Leper
I Feel Better
Good Arms vs Bad Arms
Fast Blood
Old, Old Fashioned
The Twist
Head Rolls Off
My Backwards Walk
Keep Yourself Warm
Poke
Floating In the Forth
Who’d You Kill Now?
Don’t
Soon Go
Things
Swim Until You Can’t See Land
The Loneliness and The Scream
The Wrestle
Skip The Youth
Nothing Like You
Footshooter
Not Miserable
Living In Colour
Yes, I Would
Fun Stuff
Learned Your Name
Scottish Winds
Fuck This Place
The Work
State Hospital
Boxing Night
Home From War
Off
Wedding Gloves
Acts of Man
Backyard Skulls
Holy
The Woodpile
Late March, Death March
December’s Traditions
Housing (In)
Dead Now
Nitrous Gas
Housing (Out)
The Oil Slick
If You Were Me
Snow Still Melting
Escape Route
Today’s Cross
Architect
Default Blues
Radio Silence
Candlelit
Death Dream
Get Out
I Wish I Was Sober
Woke Up Hurting
Little Drum
Still Want to Be Here
An Otherwise Disappointing Life
Break
Blood Under the Bridge
400 Bones
Lump Street
Die Like a Rich Boy
The Wreck
Wait ‘Til the Morning
A Lick of Paint
Roadless
How It Gets In
Rained On
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Thompson’s Easiest Piano Course (Part 1): Revised Edition
This course is designed to present the easiest possible approach to piano playing, complete with an amusing family of characters and illustrations to help emphasise the information being taught. Part one is devoted to developing fluency in reading by note, the biggest hurdle for most young children. The range is purposely limited. Only five notes up and five notes down from middle C are presented and time values do not go beyond crotchets. Each book of the course contains its own writing exercises, sightreading drills, review work and later, technical studies. Accompaniments for teacher or parent are supplied with most of the examples.Read more
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Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2023
‘Profoundly moving.’ EDMUND DE WAAL
‘A work of searching scholarship, acute critical observation, philosophical heft, and deep feeling.’ ALEX ROSS
‘A rare book: extraordinarily powerful – magisterial, meticulously rich and unexpected, deeply affecting and human.’ PHILIPPE SANDSA remarkable and stirring account of how music acts as a witness to history and a medium of cultural memory in the post-Holocaust world.
When it comes to how societies commemorate their own distant dreams and catastrophes, we often think of books, archives, or memorials carved from stone. But in Time’s Echo, Jeremy Eichler makes a revelatory case for the power of music as culture’s memory, an art form uniquely capable of carrying forward meaning from the past.
Eichler shows how four towering composers – Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, Benjamin Britten and Dmitri Shostakovich – lived through the era of the Second World War and the Holocaust and later transformed their experiences into deeply moving works of music, scores that carry forward the echoes of lost time. A lyrical narrative full of insight and compassion, this book deepens how we think about the legacies of war, the presence of the past, and the profound possibilities of art in our lives today.
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Tom Gates: The Music Book
Pass your level 1 music test with Tom Gates!
From DogZombies to Dude3, music is a HUGE part of the Tom Gates world.
Learn how to play all your favourite songs from the series with REAL notation for:
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- Ukulele
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- Piano
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And with notation for drums and tips and tricks for vocals!
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Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism and the Soundtrack of a Generation
#2 UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023
In 1979, 2 Tone exploded into the national consciousness as records by The Specials, The Selecter, Madness, The Beat, and The Bodysnatchers burst onto the charts and a youth movement was born.
2 Tone was black and white: a multi-racial force of British and Caribbean island musicians singing about social issues, racism, class and gender struggles. It spoke of injustices in society and took fight against right wing extremism.
The music of 2 Tone was exuberant: white youth learning to dance to the infectious rhythm of ska and reggae; and crossed with a punk attitude to create an original hybrid. The idea of 2 Tone was born in Coventry, masterminded by a middle-class art student raised in the church. Jerry Dammers had a vision of an English Motown. Borrowing £700, the label’s first record featured ‘Gangsters’ by The Specials’ backed by an instrumental track by the, as yet, unformed, Selecter. Within two months the single was at number six in the national charts. Dammers signed Madness, The Beat and The Bodysnatchers as a glut of successive hits propelled 2 Tone onto Top of the Pops and into the hearts and minds of a generation. However, soon infighting amongst the bands and the pressures of running a label caused 2 Tone to bow to an inevitable weight of expectation and recrimination.
Still under the auspices of Jerry Dammers, 2 Tone entered in a new phase. Perhaps not as commercially successful as its 1979-1981 incarnation the label nevertheless continued to thrive for a further four years releasing a string of fresh signings and a stunning end-piece finale in ‘(Free) Nelson Mandela’.
Told in three parts, Too Much Too Young is the definitive story of a label that for a brief, bright burning moment, shaped British culture.
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Triad Pairs for Jazz: Practice and Application for the Jazz Improvison
Recording artist, saxophonist, educator, and author Gary Campbell presents an effective strategy for constructing fresh-sounding melodic lines. He progresses step by step through the concept, the practice exercises, and the practical application of Triad Pairs for Jazz. Concepts include: deriving triad pairs from the most used chord-scales, determining the best pairs for various chords and progressions, practice patterns for mastery, and exploring linear possibilities. Recommended for intermediate to advanced players as an expansion of the chord-scale approach.Read more
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Trinity College London Acoustic Guitar Exam Pieces From 2020: Grades 3-5 (Notation & Guitar Tab): Fingerstyle & Plectrum Pieces for Trinity College London Exams 2020–2023
Trinity’s new Acoustic Guitar syllabus reinvents the popular Plectrum Guitar syllabus, keeping it vital and relevant to today’s guitarist by giving teachers and learners the flexibility to develop fingerstyle and plectrum playing. A selection of the best-loved pieces from the previous syllabus has been retained at every grade for continuity.
This book contains all the exam pieces for Grades 3 to 5, covering a wide range of styles at each grade folk, acoustic, rock and pop styles, jazz, blues, country allowing candidates to follow distinct stylistic pathways as they progress. All pieces are printed in both tablature and standard notation so are accessible for any learner.
Note: As of April 2023, Trinity’s Acoustic Guitar 2020-2023 Syllabus will no longer operate with an end date. Therefore, Trinity’s Acoustic Guitar Exam Pieces 2020-2023 books will be valid indefinitely (subject to copyright) and any planned updates will be announced at least 12 months in advance. Trinity will be gradually amending the covers on these books upon reprint to ‘from 2020’, however there are books in circulation with the previous date range. In those cases, the change to syllabus arrangements overrides the dates printed on the cover of the book.
Contents:
Annie’s Song (Denver, arr. Walker)
Bayou Blue (Walker)
Hotel California (Felder, Henley & Frey, arr. Walker)
Joyride in a Pink Cadillac (Morandell)
Setting Sail (Pells)
Tomorrow Will Be Better (Powlesland)
Tuesday Bluesday (Powlesland)
Turn to Dust (Powlesland)
Chillout (Powlesland)
In the Know (Walker)
Love Yourself (Sheeran, Bianco & Bieber)
Mean Street (Powlesland)
Pinky Plays the Blues (Morandell)
Sepia Toned (Walker)
Sun Song (Lester)
Your Song (Elton John, arr. Rose)
Bonnie’s Bounce (Walker)
Ho Hey (Fraites & Schultz, arr. Rose)
Marry You (Mars, Lawrence & Levine, arr. Morandell)
One More Time (Chilton)
Rewrite the Stars (Pasek & Paul, arr. Walker)
Rockroach (Powlesland)
Song for Dorothy (Crosland)
Stairway to Heaven (Page & Plant)
That’s the Way It Is (Morandell)
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Trinity College London Acoustic Guitar Exam Pieces From 2020: Grades 6-8 (Notation & Guitar Tab): Fingerstyle & Plectrum Pieces for Trinity College London Exams 2020–2023
Trinity’s new Acoustic Guitar syllabus reinvents the popular Plectrum Guitar syllabus, keeping it vital and relevant to today’s guitarist by giving teachers and learners the flexibility to develop fingerstyle and plectrum playing. A selection of the best-loved pieces from the previous syllabus has been retained at every grade for continuity.
This book contains all the exam pieces for Grades 6-8, covering a wide range of styles at each grade folk, acoustic, rock and pop styles, jazz, blues, country allowing candidates to follow distinct stylistic pathways as they progress. All pieces are printed in both tablature and standard notation so are accessible for any learner.
Note: As of April 2023, Trinity’s Acoustic Guitar 2020-2023 Syllabus will no longer operate with an end date. Therefore, Trinity’s Acoustic Guitar Exam Pieces 2020-2023 books will be valid indefinitely (subject to copyright) and any planned updates will be announced at least 12 months in advance. Trinity will be gradually amending the covers on these books upon reprint to ‘from 2020’, however there are books in circulation with the previous date range. In those cases, the change to syllabus arrangements overrides the dates printed on the cover of the book.
Contents:
Country Pickin’ (Chilton)
Here, There and Everywhere (Lennon & McCartney, arr. Adie)
How Do I Live (Warren, arr. Walker)
Minor Swing (Reinhardt & Grappelli, arr. Walker)
Never So Close (Chilton)
Over the Hills and Far Away (Page & Plant)
Ruby Blue (Walker)
Swing Thing (Powlesland)
You’ve Got a Friend (King, arr. Morandell)
Alien Waffle House (Dawes)
Anji (Graham, arr. Carroll)
Ballad (Chilton)
Be Deedle De Do (Kessel)
Classical Gas (Williams)
Fly Me to the Moon (Howard, arr. Jones)
Hole Hearted (Bettencourt & Cherone)
(Somewhere) Over the Rainbow (Arlen & Harburg )
Soul Agent (Chilton)
Blue Boy (Barney)
Deep River Blues (Trad., arr. Watson)
For My Father (McKee)
Mister Punch (Chilton)
Mister Sandman (Ballard)
Night and Day (Porter, arr. Leduc)
Overlap (Chilton)
Solo no. 2 (Elden)
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Trinity College London Acoustic Guitar Exam Pieces From 2020: Initial Grade 2 (Notation & Guitar Tab): Initial to Grade 2
Trinity’s new Acoustic Guitar syllabus reinvents the popular Plectrum Guitar syllabus, keeping it vital and relevant to today’s guitarist by giving teachers and learners the flexibility to develop fingerstyle and plectrum playing. A selection of the best-loved pieces from the previous syllabus has been retained at every grade for continuity.
This book contains all the exam pieces for Initial to Grade 2, covering a wide range of styles at each grade folk, acoustic, rock and pop styles, jazz, blues, country allowing candidates to follow distinct stylistic pathways as they progress. All pieces are printed in both tablature and standard notation so are accessible for any learner.
Note: As of April 2023, Trinity’s Acoustic Guitar 2020-2023 Syllabus will no longer operate with an end date. Therefore, Trinity’s Acoustic Guitar Exam Pieces 2020-2023 books will be valid indefinitely (subject to copyright) and any planned updates will be announced at least 12 months in advance. Trinity will be gradually amending the covers on these books upon reprint to ‘from 2020’, however there are books in circulation with the previous date range. In those cases, the change to syllabus arrangements overrides the dates printed on the cover of the book.Contents
INITIAL:
Ain’t No Sunshine (Withers, arr. Rye)
Amazing Grace (Newton, arr. Walker)
Oh When the Saints (Trad., arr. Walker)
Redemption Song (Marley, arr. Walker)
Rockin’ the Country (Duncan)
Stegosaurus Strut (Powlesland)
Summer Rain (Walker)
Surfin’ Safari (Wilson & Love )
White Windmill (Walker)
GRADE 1:
Cuba Kick! (Pells)
A Fistful of Pesos (Powlesland)
The Hungry Ghost (Searle)
Perfect Sky (Walker)
Photograph (McDaid, Sheeran, Leonard & Harrington, arr. Rye)
Sailor’s Hornpipe (Trad., arr. Burden)
A Tale of the Green Isle (Morandell)
Tango Memories (Pells)
Waterloo Sunset (Davies, arr. Walker)
GRADE 2:
Bad Jack (Powlesland)
Blue Rag (Morandell)
House of the Rising Sun (Trad., arr. Pells)
Jamaica (Powlesland)
New Memory Lane (Pells)
Rockodile Reggae (Morandell)
Sail Away (Walker)
Malaguena (Burden)
What a Wonderful World (Weiss, arr. Walker)
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Trinity College London Clarinet Exam Pieces from 2023: Grade 1
Graded books for Clarinet exams from 2023. Each book contains a selection of 12 accompanied and unaccompanied pieces for the grade, covering a range of styles and periods, with duets up to Grade 3. Performance notes for all pieces in the book give valuable insights, tips and suggestions.
Downloadable demo and backing audio is included.
Contents
Serenade (Barratt)
Bluesey (Hilliard)
Gavotte (Loeillet de Gant, arr. Challinger)
The Minty Toothbrush (Mainwaring)
Under the Iroko Tree (Sadoh)
Andante (Schubert, arr. Mauz)
English Country Gardens (Trad., arr. DeHolt)
Two for Tea! (duet) (Rae)
Pomposo (Demnitz)
Easy P.C. (Street)
Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen (Trad., arr. Goddard)
Pattern in G (Yates)
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Trinity College London Clarinet Exam Pieces from 2023: Grade 2
Graded books for Clarinet exams from 2023. Each book contains a selection of 12 accompanied and unaccompanied pieces for the grade, covering a range of styles and periods, with duets up to Grade 3. Performance notes for all pieces in the book give valuable insights, tips and suggestions.
Downloadable demo and backing audio is included.
Contents
New Day, New Town (Hall)
Rapido (Hilliard)
Summer Solstice (Li)
Lagos Festival Dance (Sadoh)
Waltz (from Jazz Suite no. 1) (Shostakovich, arr. Lawrance)
Theme (from Oberon) (Weber, arr. Mauz)
Purple Panther (Wilkinson)
I’ve Got the Last Word (duet) (Degg)
Movimento di valser (Gariboldi)
Mouse Drop-in (Gumbley)
Cat & Mouse (Radford)
Little Jazz Waltz (Yates)
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Trinity College London Clarinet Exam Pieces from 2023: Grade 5
Graded books for Clarinet exams from 2023. Each book contains a selection of 12 accompanied and unaccompanied pieces for the grade, covering a range of styles and periods, with duets up to Grade 3. Performance notes for all pieces in the book give valuable insights, tips and suggestions.
Downloadable demo and backing audio is included.
Contents
In One Spot (Bartók, arr. Davies)
The Grasshoppers’ Dance (Bucalossi, arr. Lane)
La Fiesta (Corea, arr. Ramskill)
Plym Valley (Jenkins)
Allegro moderato (1st movt from Sonata no. 1 from Méthode de clarinette) (Lefèvre, ed. Mauz)
Hornpipe (McDowall)
Odessa Bulgarish (Trad., arr. Ostermeier)
Basque Folk Song (White)
Allegretto (Berr)
Valse (Crasborn-Mooren)
Gently (no. 2 from Three Smiles for Tracey) (Hailstork)
Study: Allegro non troppo (Langey)
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