New Sheet Music this week 17 May 2013

You do have to wonder why it has taken so long to publish Welsh Fiddle Tunes, we've had pretty much every other kind of fiddle tune in this series!  Anyway, it's out now, 97 tunes with CD, £12.99.

The first volume in a new series by Schott, Baroque Violin Anthology, is also now available, with CD, £11.99.

Moving to guitar, the third volume in the Baroque Guitar Anthology is newly published, with CD, suitable for players around grade 5-6 standard, £10.99.

A bumper collection of 27 works transcribed for guitar, Bach for Guitar, includes a few pieces from Anna Magdalena's Notebook, £11.50.

Another collection of guitar music with CD, English Folk Tunes, is also available now, following on from Scottish Folk Tunes.

Moving to piano, quite a number of new books here:

• Microjazz for Beginners has been given an upgrade, new edition with CD now out, £9.99.
• The Classical Piano Method Finger Fitness 1 and The Classical Piano Method Finger Fitness 2, exercises to go with the tutor books.
• A new edition of Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, A Little Night Music
• 28 classical piano works, a collection of pieces by well-known composers for more advanced pianists
• the Trinity edition of Improve your Sight Reading Grade 5
• Les Miserables Movie Selections for Intermediate Piano and Easy Piano, these books contain the new material performed in the film

For other instruments, 15 Easy Classical Solos for trombone treble clef, Dupre Angelus Op 34 No 2 for organ, and for bands we have a flexible 5 part version of Chariots of Fire, and Baby Elephant Walk in a flex-band arrangement.

Finally, I have a new rosewood viola mute in stock, beautifully finished and attractively priced at £1.80!

New Sheet Music this week, 10 May 2013

It's not often a new accordion tutor is published, so when it happens it deserves top billing! This is Accordion Basics from Voggenreiter, with CD like many tutors these days. It covers all the basics from holding the tentacled beast, to reading notation.  £9.99
  
Another unusual publication is an arrangement of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concertos no 2 and 3 for two pianos.  This is taking the piano duet a little bit  further, if you're a keen pianist and have a like-minded friend.

Sticking with the piano theme, but this time for traditional piano duet, we have Brian Chapple's Home and Dry.

For acoustic guitarists, we have Beginning Jazz Guitar and Beginning Rock Guitar, both of which come with CD and are published by Alfred. Another Jazz Guitar tutor is newly revised, Jazz Guitar Volume 1 by Jamey Aebersold and comes with CD.

A new series from Schott contains well known classical tunes arranged for various instruments with piano.  Newly published are the arrangements for cello, clarinet, flute, and violin.

Another new series from Schott is Easy Concert Pieces.  The first is Easy Concert Pieces for Violin Volume 1, a large collection of simple music, with CD.  Likewise we have the first volume of Easy Concert Pieces for Guitar, also with CD.  Both are £12.99.

Barenreiter also has a new series of Concert Pieces for strings.  Vivaldi's violin concerto in G Op 3/3 for violin, and Rieding's Concerto in B Minor Op 35, transposed to E minor for viola, and transposed to D minor for cello, to make it easier to play. 

That's the week's highlights, there are more new items on the website, with music added every day as usual.

New Sheet Music This Week 2nd May 2013

What a week!   Intermittent but serious problems with my broadband meant I was reduced to cramming all my internet based work into small patches of internet connectivity at various times of the day!  Then I got a puncture in one of my brand new car tyres, happily fixable and not requiring another £100 for a new tyre but stressful and more time lost getting it fixed.  But yesterday the phone line was fixed, my car is fine and I'm breathing more easily.

So to celebrate my first reliable internet day in a week, here is a round up of some new sheet music.  There should have been a bit more, but I have a backlog of new stuff to add to the website now!

I'm going to start with brass this week, first we have Gade's Jealousy, arranged for brass band by John Iveson.

Next from an increasingly prolific composer, Keiron Anderson, we have two pieces: Riffilicious (almost impossible to spell for a web search engine, why do they choose these names?) and Stray Cat, both for brass tentet (with some variations in parts possible).

New music for alto or tenor sax with playalong CD - World Tour, which has 22 tunes inspired by music and rhythms from around the world, arranged by the very popular saxophone writer Jeffery Wilson.

A new addition to the Trinity version of Improve your Sight Reading for piano, this time the grade 4 book, is now available.

A brand new tutor for recorder by the irrepressible Sara Watts, Ready Steady Recorder with CD is now out and in stock.

Also from Sara Watts, Jazz Stix, jazz and blues tunes for early grade pianists.

A new bumper collection of 60 wedding tunes for organ from Kevin Mayhew, entitled Something Old Something New, sure to give you something to play!

That's all for this week, more to come next week.

New Sheet Music this week, 5th April 2013

So, a number of new publications over the last week or so, despite the Easter holidays.

ABRSM has published a new book for piano diploma candidates, Piano Specimen Quick Studies, available to order now.

Sticking with ABRSM, they have also brought out a new reference book called Beethoven - An Extraordinary Life.

Ricordi has published a set of books, all entitled 20th Century Italian Composers, for guitar, piano,  cello (volume 1), Violin Volume 1 and Violin Volume 2.  Frustratingly the publicity information for these books is incomplete, so not all of them have a contents list attached as yet.

Moving to Concert Band, a new CD called Extreme Beethoven covers a number of pieces for Concert Band (including Extreme Beethoven), with soloist David Childs.

In terms of sheet music for concert band, we have Oswald's Fantasy on a Hebrew Folk Song, Satoshi Yagasawa's Hunting Scenes (based on traditional Taiwanese songs),   and The Best of Chicago.

Faber's new Graded Rock & Pop Series Songbooks have added grades 2-3 for bass, guitar, drums, keyboards and vocals.

Improve your Sight Reading for piano grade 3 in the new Trinity edition is also out this week.

A revised edition of Bernstein's Clarinet Sonata is also newly published.

And finally, a collection of piano works by Liszt: Album Leaves and Short Piano Pieces.

New Sheet Music 28th March 2013

It's been a difficult week, with equipment breaking down and gremlins running around the computers, but I'm crossing fingers that things are now on the up!

Here's an update of newly published sheet music over the last few weeks:

Skyfall for Brass Band

Yagisawa's Intermezzo for Clarinet and Concert Band

Yagisawa's Kyo-Wa for Concert Band

Dancing Zoo for Concert Band

Ukulele Playlist Kids Songs

Electronic Keyboard Pieces and Technical Work for Grade 6, Grade 7 and Grade 8

Trinity theory papers from 2012 (about half way down this page)

Improve your Sight Reading for Piano, Trinity Edition, so far for Initial, Grade 1 and Grade 2

The Facebook Song for choir, there are a few versions of this song

Walking in a Garden by Stephen Cleobury (for choir)

The Farmer's Boy for double choir, also by Stephen Cleobury

The Angel Rolled the Stone Away for choir

Have a great Easter weekend!

New Sheet Music this Week, 15th Feb 2013

It's been a while since I posted  list of newly published music, so I have a lot to get through!  In no particular order, then:

For piano:
Really Easy Piano: Motown Hits
Reicha: 36 fugues for piano (new Barenreiter edition)
Dance Music from Paris
Nightscapes by Mark Tanner

For Accordion:
Tango Album
Italian Songs for Accordion with CD

For Tuba and Eb Bass:
Creatures of the Deep in Bass Clef and Treble Clef

For French Horn:
Valse Noire

For Organ:
The Oxford Book of Lent and Easter organ music
Two Festive Carillons
Vierne Complete Organ Works Volume 1 (Barenreiter Urtext)

For Choir:
Art Thou Troubled? by Handel

For Concert Band:
Brasserie, for brass quintet and concert band by Otto Schwartz
Broken Sword
Delicia
It Don't Mean a Thing
Louis Armstrong Medley

For Brass Band:
Simon Dobson's Torsion
Gavin Higgins' Freaks!

For Recorder or Flute:
The Music of an Irish Harper

For Solo Voice:
Schubert's Schwanengesang, in versions for high, medium and low voices.
Britten Six Early Songs for Medium Voice

And Finally:
The New Faber Graded Rock Series: first books published for initial to grade 1 standard - bass, guitar, keyboard and drums.

New Sheet Music This Week 30th Jan 2013

There has been a good number of new publications over the last two weeks, here are the highlights.

For piano:
Howard Goodall's Inspired, a collection of his most popular tunes and TV themes for solo piano.
15 Classical Piano Works, famous pieces for intermediate piano
21 Classical Piano Works, easier pieces for pianists
Chopin's Studies Op 10 and 25 in one volume


For choir, Howard Goodall's Oratorio Every Purpose Under Heaven
A bumper collection of 50 Hymns for choir

For Voice:
Red Hot Song Library - Folk Songs
36 Arias in Antique Style for high or low voice
Schumann's Liederkreis (Song Cycle) Op 24
The Language of Folk - two volumes covering easy to more advanced songs

For violin we have two new editions of Vivaldi Sonatas:
Sonata RV810 and Sonatas RV815 and 816

For Concert Band we have lots of new music:
A Verdi Salute, his most popular opera tunes in this anniversary year.
Caribbean Cocktail, easy caribbean tunes for young concert band
Cyclone by Michael Oare
Ferris Wheel Rock by Van Calster
Gangnam Style for young concert band
La Bamba for concert band
Jan de Haan's Psaltrada
Bert Appermont's Return of the Vikings
Eric Whitacre's Sleep my Child
Andre Weignein's Stepping Stone
Tallis' Canon arranged for easy concert band
The Ultimate 80s Party Hits for concert band

For brass band, try the Red Dwarf theme.

For the factoid geeks, we have the Pocket Dictionary of Composers and Lyricists

And finally, The Pink Panther arranged for string quartet!