Announcement,
Sheet Music Downloads from Oxford University Press now available!
We are pleased to announce that Presto Music now offers digital downloads from Oxford University Press. Dating back to 1478, Oxford University Press is the world's largest university press with the widest global presence. Currently publishing more than 6,000 titles a year worldwide, with over 2,500 digital sheet music publications, they publish a variety of books, printed music, higher education textbooks, and schoolbooks.
Recommended Digital Downloads
The John Rutter Christmas Piano Album brings together eight of the composer's best-loved seasonal choral pieces as piano transcriptions, made by John Rutter himself, for performance use or enjoyment at home..
Available Format: Download
A welcome collection of piano transcriptions, made by the composer, of eight of his best-loved choral pieces, from early classics such as The Lord bless you and keep you to recent gems like A flower remembered.
Available Format: Download
Piano Sketches 1 is a fabulous new collection of easy pieces for younger pianists around the level of Grades 2-3. The pieces include a broad range of appealing and accessible styles and will delight student and listener alike, as well as helping to reinforce technical skills.
Available Format: Download
This volume is an eclectic mix of short works composed over a number of years. Butler's idiomatic writing for the piano is instantly appealing and captures a wide variety of moods. His musical language is at times playful, humorous, and parodic, with characterful melodic gestures and jaunty rhythms; at others it is serene and lyrical.
Available Format: Download
This virtuosic transcription will make a thrilling voluntary or recital piece. After a characteristic opening fanfare, a broad Elgarian theme takes centre-stage; the central section is a bustling fugue with whose material that theme is in the end climactically combined.
Available Format: Download
This is the first of two books of preludes and fugues for solo organ by Howard Skempton. Each book comprises twenty-five pairs of preludes and fugues based around the major and minor keys with an additional entry in each book employing the notes B-A-C-H and the initials of the composer as the thematic material.
Available Format: Download
For soprano solo, upper voices, SSATB, piano, and optional percussion. An evocative cantata that explores the complexities of the human condition. McDowall's impressive range of musical styles, effective antiphonal writing, and artful juxtaposition of textures work together to create a meaningful experience for the listener.
Available Format: Download
Highly original and effective concert setting of the Latin Missa brevis in which the various movements embrace a variety of jazz styles. The characterful piano accompaniment can be played as written or serve as a guide, and bass and drums can join in ad lib.
Available Format: Download
The three-movement Music of the Stars offers an enlightening commentary on music's power to console and uplift in challenging times. Characterful string writing accompanies engaging vocal lines, with McDowall artfully employing percussion to sprinkle celestial sparkle throughout the score.
Available Format: Download
In this beautiful setting of words by the composer, based on a quote by Brian Palmer, singers are encouraged to listen to the sounds and people around them in order to learn and grow: 'one act of love, I know, for sure, is to listen.'
Available Format: Download
For SATB or equal/unison voices with piano and percussion or strings and percussion.
Available Format: Download
This is one of the finest of the six great Haydn masses in an edition prepared from Haydn's autograph which fully integrates both the original Eisenstadt and expanded Viennese orchestrations. The specially prepared piano reduction provides a full and practical representation of the instrumental textures.
Available Format: Download
McDowall's moving and poignant setting of this three-movement work is both an exposition on the horrors of war and a celebration of healers. Inspired by renowned nurse Clara Barton, the text is drawn from Barton's own words, the poetry of Séan Street, and the African American spiritual There is a balm in Gilead.
Available Format: Download
For soprano solo, SATB, piano, bass, drums and optional alto saxophone. This piece is a dynamic, uplifting, and highly popular jazz setting of the Latin mass, featuring driving grooves and blues harmonies, with provision for short piano solos (notated or improvised) and great moments of musical interplay between soprano soloist and choir.
Available Format: Download
For SSATB soloists, SSATB choir, 2 trumpets, strings and continuo. Written for St Cecilia's Day 1694, Purcell's Te Deum and Jubilate in D was the first work of its kind to be scored for orchestra, and it became the model for future settings of the text by Blow, Croft, and Handel.
Available Format: Download
This serene romance is one of Vaughan Williams's most enduring popular works. Taking its title from a poem by George Meredith, the music perfectly evokes the lark's 'chirrup, whistle, slur, and shake'. This beautifully presented edition of the violin and piano score includes a preface by Michael Kennedy.
Available Format: Download
This collection contains all the extant shorter pieces by Rebecca Clarke for cello and piano, both original compositions and arrangements. Clarke's transcriptions make up around half of her works for cello. They are always carefully crafted, and are therefore often significantly different from the orginals.
Available Format: Download
This little suite of five miniatures is based on folk songs of the Americas, and is a souvenir of the visit to America of the eminent conductor, Sir John Barbirolli, and his wife, Lady Evelyn Barbirolli.
Available Format: Download
Ellena Taylor - Sheet Music and Books Manager
