Chester Music

An invaluable book covering from subdivision and the more basic polyrhythms (3 against 2 and 4 against 3) through to juxtaposed quintuplets and septuplets. Exercises and examples provided.

Many people will know something about the life of Lutoslawski, but few know anything about Lutoslawski the man. In this record of a unique series of conversations which took place in March 1973, Balin...

Ronald Crichton (1913-2005) Was A Highly Respected Music Critic And Writer, Working For The Financial Times From 1962 Until His Retirement In 1978. Having Read French At Oxford, He Worked For The Brit...

Work dating from 1929.

Paul Cooper's Variants For Organ.

Chapple's Praeludiana is an extended 'celebration' of Chopin's well-known prelude in C minor. First, a fast, flashing sequence of chords moves from manual to manual: next a Stravinskyan barrage of bra...

This chromatic work for organ, invoking the atmosphere of a French Cathedral, was written while Honegger was still a pupil of Widor.

Composition for Organ dating from 1977.

Toccata for Organ was commissioned by the Three Choirs Festival, and first performed in Gloucester Cathedral on 1st August 1977 by Andrew Millington. Rory Boyle (b. 1951) is a Scottishcomposerand edu...

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...

This essentially contemplative work in four movements is based on a plainsong fragment from the Lamentations of Jeremiah, traditionally sung on Maundy Thursday in the ceremonies spiralling down to the...

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...

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...

These variations are based on some of the musical material which Geoffrey Burgon composed for the Granada Television adaption of Evelyn Waugh's 'Brideshead Revisited. '

Christopher Brown (b. 1943) is a British composer who grew up in the Anglican choral tradition, first as a chorister at Westminster Abbey and then as a Choral Scholar at King's College, Cambridge, bef...

Edited by Eric Wetherell. As a big-band director you will be familiar with the names and music of Mike Gibbs, Dick Walter, Kenny Wheeler and Scott Stroman as composers and arrangers of some of the fin...

William Bell. Group music-making with a swing. Ten very easy pieces for classroom and orchestral instruments. They are all original and up-to-date in style, allowing large mixed ability groups to make...

Walk Softly is a light floating piece with a colourful 'modal' harmonic structure. The feel throughout is in a light, loose Latin style. Edited by Scott Stroman. Jazzamatazz is an exciting series of...

Each illustrated set of puzzles contains ten question papers, information for teacher and parents and a certificate of achievement for the pupil. These puzzles take into account limited reading and wr...

Each illustrated set of puzzles contains ten question papers, information for teacher and parents and a certificate of achievement for the pupil. These puzzles take into account limited reading and wr...

Each illustrated set of puzzles contains ten question papers, information for teacher and parents and a certificate of achievement for the pupil. These puzzles take into account limited reading and wr...