Hello All,
Firstly, in these strange times, we hope you are keeping well and have, over the last few months, found time to play your instrument or, if you are a teacher, managed to conquer the technology and keep your students going. We have been using our lockdown to create new music books, which we hope you’ll find fun and interesting to play. We are very excited about these:
Rags to Riches:
Our most recent book, Rags to Riches for Solo Bassoon, is packed full of wonderful ragtime music arranged for Intermediate to Advanced bassoonists of around Grade 5 and up. We love our bassoons here! A piano accompaniment book, suitable for Intermediate to Advanced pianists, is available separately. We plan to arrange the book for other instruments in the coming months. Watch out on Facebook and Twitter for news.
Teachers' Tricks:
On our website, you’ll find a new section called Teachers' Tricks with lots of woodwind Scale Sheets for Grades 1-3 (ABRSM and Trinity) which are completely free to download. We hope you find them useful.
60 Easy Classics:
50+ Greatest Intermediate Classics
50+ Greatest Intermediate Classics is a collection of classical themes arranged as solos for the Intermediate and Advanced player. With plenty of challenge, this book provides lots of fun for advancing players, also great for sight reading practice. We have arranged the pieces for all woodwind instruments, including descant and treble recorder, and also for trumpet.
Learn Recorder through Famous Classics:
Learn Recorder through Famous Classics was released just before lockdown and has proved incredibly popular. It comes in two versions, UK musical terms and US musical terms and is a tutor book designed for adult beginners and refreshers. The idea being that every tune and exercise in the book is a 'famous' classical theme.
Other News
We were very excited to be approached by ABRSM, requesting a huge range of our books for consideration for the new woodwind syllabus. This involved sending great parcels of books to the woodwind selectors who finally picked an extraordinary 29 of our books to go through to moderation. We are thrilled that they liked them. Let’s hope the moderators pick some.
More fantastic news, is that our books are now for sale in the brilliant June Emerson Wind Music shop. Massive thanks to wonderful Rachel Emerson - it must have been a mammoth task getting all our books online. We are very grateful.
If you are planning your music for Halloween and Christmas, take a look at out blog posts below or click the link to our website for more information and downloads.
That’s all for now. We wish you happy music-making. Stay well and keep in touch!
All the best,
Amanda and Jemima
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