New Publications,
New Sheet Music Titles - March 19th
Welcome to our selection of new sheet music publications, which this month includes pop music for piano, a collection of music for weddings, piano music by Prokofiev, Grieg and Bach, James Macmillan's Mass of St Edward the Confessor, Méditation by Martinů, Chin's Cello Concerto, Tarrega's transciption of Albeniz's Cadiz, early music gems for fingerstyle guitar, pieces for flute by Ibert and Bonis, and Claude Bolling's Le Papillon.
Piano, Keyboard, & Organ
Since the 1950s, pop music has reinvented itself time and again in unpredictable ways. Enjoy Hans-Günter Heumann’s personal selection of the most popular and beautiful pop songs from the last seventy years. These easy-to-play arrangements are suitable for any developing pianist.
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Wedding Music for Piano is a beautiful collection of twenty-two of the most requested and cherished classical piano pieces for wedding ceremonies. From the timeless elegance of Pachelbel's Canon in D to the majestic triumph of Wagner's Bridal March, this book is a must-have for any pianist looking to add a touch of sophistication to their wedding repertoire.
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Sergei Prokofiev composed the twelve character pieces of the Musiques d’enfants in the summer of 1935. The pieces are an ideal introduction to the world of great piano literature. Clever fingerings and imaginative tips for rehearsing guarantee success when practicing.
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Prokofiev’s longest and most important ballet. In terms of its fame, the Dance of the Knights stands out as one of Prokofiev’s best-known works. The composer considered the music viable enough to arrange this ten-movement suite of the best-known parts for piano.
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Grieg: A Piano Treasury is the perfect introduction to Grieg’s piano repertoire. This beautiful collection features easy to intermediate level original piano pieces as well as arrangements of some of Grieg’s best-known melodies.
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These arrangements have been made from the best surviving manuscript and printed sources, and full advantage has been taken of the possibilities of dialogue between two instruments.
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Vocal & Choral
MacMillan's fourth mass setting for exclusively choral forces. Mass of St Edward the Confessor was first performed on St Peter's Day 2022, thus honouring both the patron and the founder of Westminster Abbey. Lasting 15 minutes, the work explores a wide range of moods and choral textures in response to the text and is suited to liturgical and concert performance alike.
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Bowed Strings & Guitar
Méditation is the second movement of the Suite concertante for violin and orchestra by Martinů. In this instrumental, standalone "aria" Martinů depicts a wide range of emotions.
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The composer states that her Cello Concerto is antithetical to her other concertos: “here it’s all about the competitive tension between the soloist and the orchestra. The ‘aura’ of the cello was the initial nucleus and forms the basis of the music, so the whole structure of the piece is thus ‘carried’ by the cello." A study score of this work is also available.
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Thanks to Stefano Grondona, this transcription by Tárrega of Albéniz’ Cádiz has just been identified in a manuscript copied by Miguel Llobet. This version has never been published, and is available for the first time in a new scholarly edition prepared from Llobet’s meticulously accurate manuscript, a copy of which is reproduced in the edition.
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This collection of thirty-five arrangements of early music from Medieval and Renaissance Europe presents familiar pieces as well as pieces that you have probably heard but never knew their origins. The arrangements are in standard or dropped-D tuning and are suitable for both steel and nylon-string guitar performance.
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Wind & Brass
Anti-dogmatic and open to modernity in all its forms, in the course of his career, Jacques Ibert embraced every genre, from chamber music to symphonic and choreographic works, also composing many film scores. In 1935, his Pièce for solo flute was recorded, in its first version, by the famous flautist Marcel Moyse, who also performed it live for the first time in Prague in 1936.
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This piece, written around 1900, emphasizes the purity and great sensitivity of Bonis’ work. It can be interpreted as a reflection of a difficult life spent trying to establish herself first as a student at the Paris Conservatoire, then as a housewife – through an arranged marriage – and finally as a composer. Introduction in French and English by Bruno Jouard.
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For alto saxophone & piano, Claude Bolling's Le Papillon, from the album Enchanting Versailles - Strictly Classical.
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Ellena Taylor - Sheet Music and Books Manager
