Chester Music

Easy music for string groups. Playstrings provides an enjoyable and varied repertoire for young string orchestras, carefully structured in two levels. The 'Easy' level does not normally exceed Grade 2...

Appealingly presented manuscript book with jumbo staves - ideal for young beginners. Space is given throughout for teacher's instructions.

Commissioned by the ECO.

Carol Barratt. Written specially for young musicians, this handy-sized reference book makes theory fun to learn! Contains all the musical terms, signs and information needed for Associated Board Grade...

Beyond Dark consists of one movement which is in three sections fast-slow-fast. Influences from the modern jazz harmony of Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea and also traditional Japanese instruments such...

commissioned by the Swedish National Concert Institute.

And Do They Do was comissioned by Siobhan Davies and the London Contemporary Dance Theatre. It was composed during the summer of 1986 and first performed at Sadler's Wells Theatre on 25 November in th...

The fifth feature film that Peter Greenaway and Michael Nyman produced in 1991, Prosperos Book is a reworking of The Tempest. The score was written for the Michael Nyman Band and made into a suite for...

Gending is a Balinese word meaning simply 'instrumental composition', and this work takes as its starting point the colours, textures, rhythmic pattens and formal procedures of Balinese music. Gending...

Premiered by Yo Yo Ma. Quoting Tavener: It was while pondering these traditional dicta that I began to write the opening solo melody for the cello. It is in fact a palindrome because waking and dying...

The idea behind this work was to form a large collection of short individual pieces suitable for orchestras of various standards. The composer's intention with the project was to provide new music for...

This work was written by Michael Nyman towards the end of 1997, commissioned by the English Sinfonia to celebrate the orchestra's taking up residence in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. The first performance...

These three solo harpsichord pieces are a collection of recent compositions, each with an individual theme and idea. The first, The convertibility of Lute Strings, was first performed at the Purcell R...

Melodrama for Narrator, Children's Choir and Ten Instruments. Gualtierro Dazzi: The texts underlying these fragments are passages from a long poem by Armand Gatti entitled L'Enclos. Through memories,...

Two works for the organ that are both composed around plainsong textures and melodies, together as a unified pair of performance pieces. Reliqui Domum Meum was first performed in Orkney, 1996 by Heath...

For solo harpsichord.

Ukulele From The Beginning is a great collection of favourite songs specially chosen for primary school-age children starting to learn the instrument! No previous knowledge of music is necessary for p...

Ukulele From The Beginning is a great collection of favourite songs specially chosen for primary school-age children starting to learn the instrument! No previous knowledge of music is necessary for p...

Theory has never been so easy! Chester's Easy-Peasy Theory, by Carol Barratt, gives young children a real sense of enjoyment as they begin to learn the language of music. The worksheets are carefully...

Theory has never been so easy! Chester's Easy-Peasy Theory Set 2 follows on from Set 1 and gives young children a real sense of enjoyment as they begin to learn the language of music. The worksheetsa...

Each week has a double page spread with space on the left to detail what needs to be done, and a table on the right to record progress. In addition, a panel for jottings and staves for notation make t...

This work was written for Endymion's 'Sound Census' project, in celebration of their 30th Birthday. The first performance was given by Endymion on 6th June 2009, at Kings Place, London, as part of the...