J. D. Souther

World on a String exposes your string students to music from around the world, providing insights about rich cultures and heritages from other countries. With over 30 pieces available for performance...

Dodge City is an exuberant piece designed to take you back to the time of the old west. As the title implies, this is a work that will bring to mind stagecoaches and sagebrush, cowboys and cactus, she...

Composer/arranger Jeff Smallman has reharmonized this Christmas standard. The organ plays a wandering accompaniment and break strains between the verses of the melody. The tune is found in several dif...

A pavane was a slow dance form the 16th and 17th century. The talented composer Jeff Smallman has taken this Baroque form and created a very colourful piece that features high, mid and low voices allo...

In the old movies, a character who was down on his luck could be found walking alone the harbourfront reflecting on his circumstances. This mood has been captured in the piece with lush, rich harmonie...

This original work by talented composer Jeff Smallman brings the style of an adapted Baroque suite to the modern brass quintet. Several short movements, typical of the Baroque suite, include an invent...

This work is approachable by players in the first year or two of playing. The range is limited and the technical requirements are not too great. This is a fun piece that younger players will be sure t...

Originally written as a work for solo organ, the composer has expanded this piece to make it suitable for brass. Fanfares at the opening of the work provide an interesting contrast to the stately, the...

The Air is a lovely slow movement that came from Baroquial Suite, a suite in the Baroque style for brass quintet. Reminiscent of the famous Air from J.S. Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D, Mr. Smallm...

Jeff Smallman's Rondo was originally composed for string quartet. He decided to rescore this work for a woodwind ensemble made up of flute, 2 clarinets and bassoon. The rhythmic drive combined with dy...

Caprice is a spectacular new work for woodwind quintet. Written in 7/8 and 6/8, it is full of melodic and rhythmic interest. Each instrument is featured throughout the piece, exploring the different s...

This fun and original collection includes a variety of popular styles ranging from Latin-American and a jazz waltz to a Russian dance and an American hoe down. The collection is aimed at the budding g...

This publication - edited by renowned pedagogues Vilmos Bántai, Imre Kovács, and Béla Vavrinecz - offers a great selection of pieces for flutists in the lower grades of music schools. It includes comp...

Beside the Waters is a transcription, by the composer, of an original solo vocal work. The text for this piece describes water flowing in a stream, clouds floating past, time standing still, and human...

This work is based on the French poem Il Pleure Dans Mon Coeur (It Rains in My Heart). As expected from the title, this work has a dark feeling to it. Slow and brooding, the piano sets the feel with t...

This new work by Jeff Smallman is for unaccompanied trumpet. Set in 6 short movements of various moods, this piece demonstrates the colours at the disposal of a trumpet player. Accessible to high scho...

Zahlreiche Philosophen, Pädagogen und Unterrichtspraktiker haben im Laufe der Geschichte den Stellenwert der Musik im Rahmen von Erziehung und Pädagogik begründet und hervorgehoben. Dieses Buch stellt...

The Spirit of Adventure is a brilliant band work by Jeff Smallman. It is set in the style of the old Westerns with several typical themes. A very animated and colourful work at the Grade 3 band level,...