The Grade by Grade series draws on the rich and varied Boosey & Hawkes catalogue of classical, contemporary and educational repertoire, highlighting composers including Serge Prokofieff, Dmitri Shostakovich, Karl Jenkins, Carol Barratt and Christopher Norton, alongside arrangements of traditional music from around the world by Peter Wastall, Edward Huws Jones and others.
Carefully selected by Liz Partridge, this practical anthology provides the complete repertoire resource for the aspiring Grade 1 violist and creates the perfect package for teaching, exam preparation and performance.
Each volume contains:
-a diverse collection of pieces, each complemented by a useful practice and performance tip
-grade-appropriate scales and arpeggios linked to the repertoire through bespoke text and exercises
-brand new sight-reading, music-theory and improvisation activities
-newly-commissioned aural awareness tasks
-a piano accompaniment booklet
Full performance demonstrations, piano accompaniment tracks and grade-appropriate aural awareness resources available online.
Liz Partridge is an experienced performer and teacher. She began her career as a quartet player and with ensembles at the BBC and the English National Pera before taking up the position of Sub-Principal First Violin at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. As a freelance player she has performed in concert halls, theatres and recording studios around the world. She currently performs freelance with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. As a teacher, Liz regularly coaches and mentors individuals and ensembles of all ages andabilities. Her teaching experience informed her work as an examiner for Trinity College London and now as a festival adjudicator.
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George Frideric Handel's (1685-1759)) last oratorio, JEPHTHA is based on the Biblical story from Judges of Jephtha's rash promise to God to sacrifice the first creature he meets on returning from victory in battle, only to meet his beloved daughter Iphis. In Act 2, Iphis leads a procession of the Chorus of Virgins to greet her father and returning soldiers as they sing “Welcome as the Cheerful Light,” unaware of the horror felt by Jephtha as he realizes Iphis is the first living thing he has seen on his return. This is edition has been edited and arranged by Don Malin (with the addition of an alto part to the chorus that only originally had two voices) and may be performed with chamber orchestra or with piano accompaniment. The choral score is available separately for sale from the publisher.
Instrumentation: SSA Chorus: opt. Soprano soloist: 0.2(sub. 2Cl).0.0: 0.0.0.0: Cont: Str
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From the collection of 2 Lieder, op. 53 (ED 24000), probably written in the early 1920s and compiled later, the composer selected a title that was presumably particularly close to her heart: Die Nachtigall (The Nightingale). She arranged the solo Lied as a chamber music version and added a flute part by dividing the right hand part of the piano and assigning part of it to the wind instrument. The witty style of this gem with its onomatopoeic effects is sure to have an impact on the audience.
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Variations for Brass and Percussion by Donald MacInnis (1964) is scored for 2 trumpets, 2 horns, 2 tenor trombones, bass trombone, tuba, xylophone, timpani, and gongs. Score and parts are available through rental or retail from the publisher. Duration ca. 3 1/2'
Instrumentation: 0.0.0.0: 2.2.3.1: Perc(3 players: Timp.Xylo.Gongs)
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The Grade by Grade series draws on the rich and varied Boosey & Hawkes catalogue of classical, contemporary and educational repertoire, highlighting composers including Serge Prokofieff, Dmitri Shostakovich, Karl Jenkins, Carol Barratt and Christopher Norton, alongside arrangements of traditional music from around the world by Peter Wastall, Edward Huws Jones and others.
Carefully selected by Liz Partridge, this practical anthology provides the complete repertoire resource for the aspiring Grade 1 violist and creates the perfect package for teaching, exam preparation and performance.
Each volume contains:
-a diverse collection of pieces, each complemented by a useful practice and performance tip
-grade-appropriate scales and arpeggios linked to the repertoire through bespoke text and exercises
-brand new sight-reading, music-theory and improvisation activities
-newly-commissioned aural awareness tasks
-a piano accompaniment booklet
Full performance demonstrations, piano accompaniment tracks and grade-appropriate aural awareness resources available online.
Liz Partridge is an experienced performer and teacher. She began her career as a quartet player and with ensembles at the BBC and the English National Pera before taking up the position of Sub-Principal First Violin at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. As a freelance player she has performed in concert halls, theatres and recording studios around the world. She currently performs freelance with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. As a teacher, Liz regularly coaches and mentors individuals and ensembles of all ages andabilities. Her teaching experience informed her work as an examiner for Trinity College London and now as a festival adjudicator.
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This new revised and corrected performing edition of the complete four-act ballet Romeo and Juliet is based on the full score published in Moscow in 1961 in the series of Collected Works of Serge Prokofieff. This edition captures many corrections gathered over the years from conductors and music librarians and includes newly-engraved orchestral parts available for hire. We are most grateful to Vladimir Jurowski for reviewing the full score before publication.
This volume is part of the revised and corrected new edition of the works of Serge Prokofieff published by Boosey & Hawkes and Sikorski as large format study scores for optimal legibility. All scores and the related orchestral parts have been newly computer typeset.
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Movements: 1. Introduction, 2. Prayer to my lady Paphos, 3. It's no use, 4. Awed by her splendor, 5. We drink your health, 6. Epilog. Piano score, vocal score, and parts.
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The Brazilian classic was popular in the United States during the 1940s with artists such as Ethel Smith, the Andrews Sisters and Carmen Miranda. More recently, it was performed at the closing ceremonies of the 2016 Olympics in Brazil. James Kazik's masterful arrangement for string orchestra (with optional piano and percussion) captures all the fun and energy of the original in a format that will be easily performable by your students and the audience dancing in the aisles!
This hybrid edition includes a printed score and access to digital parts.
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Direct transcriptions on Renaissance madrigals has been part of the SAKURA cello quintet's (for whom this work was commissioned) core repertoire every since they were created. “Carving an Alphabet” was composed with the expressivity, virtuosity and hyper-extended range for which SAKURA is known. The emotional landscape (lovelorn, passionate, miserable, nature-loving, awestruck, etc.) of the late-16th/ early-17th century madrigal composers and their favorite poets is also reflected here. The composer adapted fragments of poetry from two of his favorite poets, Michael Ondaatje and Czeslaw Milsz, which is used as titles and scenarios for this collection of madrigals-without-voices. Songs: I. Carving an Alphabet, II. A Flute from the Throat of a Loon, III. Somersualts (in Protospace), IV. The Night and its Forces, V. Bells of the Sea, VI. Country of Warm Rains, VII. Solitude Is Not an Absolute, VIII. Painting the Variegated World, IX. By Sunrise or the Rising of the Moon, X. The Honey Gatherers, XI. Arcs of the Heart, and XII. Carving an Alphabet II. “Carving an Alphabet” is designed to be performed as a complete book of madrigals in the order presented above; or, selections in any order can be chosen to fit the needs of a given concert program.
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Get the party started with this hopping arrangement of the hit song from Chappell Roan. Simple rhythms and close scoring make this a piece that will be fun to prepare and even more fun to perform. Piano and drum set parts included.
This hybrid edition includes a printed score and access to digital parts.
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A transcription for band of the SINFONIA FOR ORCHESTRA, commissioned in 1961 by the Cleveland Heights High School as a result of the composer's residence there in 1959-1960 under the Contemporary Music Project. This positive and happy work in a contrapuntal style is in three movements.
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George Frideric Handel's (1685-1759)) last oratorio, JEPHTHA is based on the Biblical story from Judges of Jephtha's rash promise to God to sacrifice the first creature he meets on returning from victory in battle, only to meet his beloved daughter Iphis. In Act 3, as Jephtha is about to sacrifice Iphis with a knife, an angel appears to declare that the sacrifice is not pleasing to God, whish results in the chorus “Theme sublime of endless praise.” This edition has been revised by Don Malin and may be performed with chamber orchestra or with piano (or organ) accompaniment. The choral score is available separately for sale from the publisher.
Instrumentation: SATB Chorus: 0.2(sub. 2Cl).0.0: 0.0.0.0: Cont: Str
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Robert Di Domenica (March 4, 1927, New York City-May 20, 2013, Needham, Massachusetts) received a degree in music education from New York University in 1951 and continued private study in composition with Wallingford Riegger and Josef Schmid. He studied the flute under Harold Bennett. His Sextet for Woodwind Quintet and Piano was written in 1957. Duration ca. 12'
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The String Quartet in G minor Op. 8 dates from the time when Joseph Haas studied with Max Reger (1905). While reflecting the clear influence of his teacher as to form, it also shows the young composer as an artist with an independent personality as well as a truemaster of his craft.
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