An outstandingly simple and practical introduction to music theory. Recently modernised, this ever popular series remains the ideal companion to teaching in classes or instrumental lessons. Book 1 and...
Alongside his famous albums of piano pieces, brilliant childrens composer Walter Carroll - the Beatrix Potter of learner piano music - also composed two books of studies and exercises. These 12 studie...
The feats of Robin Hood are reconted in the album of pieces full of technical purpose and musical charm. Suggested grade 1-2
Six descriptive pieces for piano evoking days on the coast in Guernsey. Suggested grade 2-3 Track Listing The Cave Venus Pool The Little Donkey with Red Saddles Wind in the South West The Cradle Rock...
A popular set of contrasting pieces, a Fantasia, Toccata and Bolero. Features on the ABRSM Grade 6 syllabus. Track Listing Fantasia in E Minor Toccata Bolero
Cuthbert Harriss albums are loved by teachers and pupils alike for both their playability and the progressive way they challenge and develop the technique of the improving player. This volume provides...
Forest Fantasies was inspired by the reading of Edmund Spencers poems of elfin lore and is of one of the most famous works by brilliant childrens composer Walter Carroll, the Beatrix Potter of learner...
Recently republished in a smart new edition, River and Rainbow is a volume of ten short, descriptive pieces for the player of grade 3-4 standard by brilliant childrens composer Walter Carroll, the Bea...
This ever popular album consistes of Eighteen pieces and two duets describing the famous story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Suggested grade 0-1 Track Listing The Palace Window Snow White The Be...
A great resource of piano duets featuring twelve traditional airs for piano. Suggested grade 2
A great resource of piano duets featuring ten traditional airs for piano. Suggested grade 2 Track Listing The Jolly Miller The Fox Jumped Over The Parsons Gate The Lass of Richmond Hill Wi a Hundred P...
Three lovely duets for the improving player. Suggested grade 3
Colin Hood was a master of simple but imaginative pieces for learners. This album features ten pieces inspired by the animals of the jungle. Suggested grade 2-3 Track Listing Jungle Shadows At The Dri...
The albums in Forsyths Silhouette Series are widely acknowledged to provide as some of the finest piano arrangements of the works of the great composers available to the player of intermediate ability...
This is the first book in this classic and ever-popular three-part guide to the basics of sight reading at the piano.
Dieuparts Suites, which were copied by J.S. Bach, are well-known to recorder players. These sonatas, taken from a copy in the Rowe Music Library, Kings College, Cambridge, are here published for the f...
Cuthbert Harriss albums of first pieces are loved by teachers and pupils alike for both their playability and the progressive way they challenge and develop the technique of the improving beginner Sug...
A former professor at the Royal College of Music, Percy Whiteheads albums are gems of rhythmic balance, melodic vitality and always lively subject matter. This ever popular album features 18 short pie...
A former professor at the Royal College of Music, Percy Whiteheads albums are gems of rhythmic balance, melodic vitality and always lively subject matter. Here he offers the player the chance to let t...
A former professor at the Royal College of Music, Percy Whiteheads albums are gems of rhythmic balance, melodic vitality and always lively subject matter. Here he ventures into the world of birds with...
This album is a set of variations on an old French theme, and reflects the grandeur of the French Court. Suggested grade 3
Four Country Dances is the follow up to Scenes at a Farm and The Countryside by brilliant childrens composer Walter Carroll, the Beatrix Potter of learner piano music, whose use of music, poetry and a...
In Southern Seas has had a resurgence in popularity thanks to its listing on the ABRSM Grade 4 syllabus. There are even numerous performances of The Reef on You Tube, uploaded by keen young players. T...
Alongside his famous albums of piano pieces, brilliant childrens composer Walter Carroll - the Beatrix Potter of learner piano music - also composed two books of studies and exercises. These 23 studie...
Brilliant childrens composer Walter Carroll was the master of writing pieces for the beginner that are superbly musical in spite of their simplicity. This classic album, the first in the Carroll serie...
Sea Idylls is of one of the most famous works by brilliant childrens composer Walter Carroll, the Beatrix Potter of learner piano music, whose use of music, poetry and art in his now classic albums ha...
Walter Carroll was the Beatrix Potter of learner piano music and his use of music, poetry and art in his now classic albums have appealed to successive generations of children. As a result they are st...
For many years a professor at the Royal Academy of Music, Joan Last was widely admired for her skill and vast experience in the teaching of young beginners and adults alike. This album features 15 enj...
For many years a professor at the Royal Academy of Music, Joan Last was widely admired for her skill and vast experience in the teaching of young beginners and adults alike. There is an 'old world' ti...
For many years a professor at the Royal Academy of Music, Joan Last was widely admired for her skill and vast experience in the teaching of young beginners and adults alike. This album is inspired by...
For many years a professor at the Royal Academy of Music, Joan Last was widely admired for her skill and vast experience in the teaching of young beginners and adults alike. This album features seven...
A lovely album of instrumental arrangements of some famous French melodies. Suggested grade 2-3
Nine pieces for piano inspired by the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. Suggested grade 4
Eight descriptive piano pieces from the river bank. Suggested grade 3
Ten easy pieces describing every day life at a windmill. Suggested grade 1-2
An excellent well-devised course of first piano lessons with questions and answers.
Birds and Beasts is an attractive pre-grades album of 13 simple pieces and four duets for the learner who has mastered the first elements of notation and time. Suggested grade 0-1. Track Listing The R...
The Hallé Orchestra nearly died, after 140 years of existence, when hit by a financial crisis in 1998. What led to that fateful day, not far short of the centenary of the organisation responsible for...
Based on the novel Treasure Island. Suggested grade 3
Points on Pedalling concentrates on the more advance use of the sustaining pedal as an integral factor in good pianoforte technique. It is an invaluable aid to the piano student wishing to acquire a b...
All students studying for pianoforte teaching diplomas will find this book useful. The various aspects of touch are covered in depth with illustrations and clear instructions. The book concludes with...
Passacaglia - Cain, Peter
This pamphlet by famous childrens composer Walter Carroll is an interesting historical document containing advice on musical theory for pupils preparing for exams.
These pieces offer attractive recital pieces for the beginner organ player.
Mime Ballet, with music, story and staging notes.
Vernon Park, Stockport's oldest park, was created on land donated by Lord Vernon (George John Warren). It was built by poor mill workers who called it pinch-belly park and opened on 20th September 185...
String orchestra version of the string quartet.
A stirring collection of tunes by Robert Burns with words and guitar chords. It includes Auld Lang Syne, My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose, and Ye Banks and Braes. Suggested grade 2-3
Six descriptive pieces for piano. Suggested grade 2-3
A wonderful resource of twelve piano duets for the improving beginner. Suggested grade 1
Solo piano piece with a suggested grading of 2-3
Solo piano piece for the not so accomplished adult player, suggested grading 2-3
Twelve descriptive miniatures for beginners, suitable for solo or class use.
Extra parts for The Music Builders.
Henry Balfour Gardiner was a noted British composer of the late Victorian, early 20th Century era and was a member of the Frankfurt Group of composers. This album is a superb example of his musical st...
Solo piano piece Gavotte No.V from Five Pieces. Suggested grade 4-5. Henry Balfour Gardiner was a noted British composer of the late Victorian, early 20th Century era and was a member of the Frankfurt...
Solo piano piece. Suggested grade 6. Henry Balfour Gardiner was a noted British composer of the late Victorian, early 20th Century era and was a member of the Frankfurt Group of composers.
A Joplinesque Ragtime and Latin-American Bossa Nova, both for descant, frame a lazy Blues on the treble. All 3 movements require an assured technique but are rewarding for both performers. The recorde...
A pleasing, melodic introduction to ensemble playing for Violin, Cello and Piano.
This classic edition contains eight short pieces for piano based on the famous book by Anne Sewell. Suggested grade 1-2 Track Listing The First Place That I Can Well Remember The Hunt The Horse Fair L...
One hundred easy questions with answers and a series of test paers. Intended for very young pupils.
All the necessary ground is covered in this work giving the explanations in the simplest possible way.
Thirteen pieces and two duets based on the novel. Suggested grade 2-3
Sir Charles Hallé lived the life of a quintissential Victorian hero, the self-made man of humble origins who transcended his immigrant status and transformed British music making with the foundation o...
Eight action songs from Mabel Hardy, of the BBC's Children's Hour fame.
A Lancashire Lullaby with words by Edwin Waugh, music by Robert Jackson.
Twenty-five delightful finger pieces for the beginner. Suggested grade 0-1
Designed to give the student a greater understanding of the music he or she is playing or singing.
A skilfully transcribed and technically demanding arrangement of Liszts famous piece for solo piano
A skilfully transcribed and arrangement that allows the moderately accomplished pianist to play this well-known organ work by J.S.Bach.
Fourteen pieces in modern idiom evoking a lovely Spring afternoon. Suggested grade 1
Polka, Mazurka and Waltz. Suggested grade 3-4 Track Listing Polka Mazurka Waltz
Song cycle.
Five bright and catchy settings of tunes from John Playfords 'Dancing Master'. Three are for treble - The Old Mole, The Irish Lamentation and Spring Garden. The other two, for descant, are Prince Rupe...
A British composer often compared to Vaughan Williams, Milford was skillful in his use of diatonic melodies, often harmonised with gentle discords. This wonderful album features selected works for pia...
Seven simple pieces for the beginner pianist. Inspired by the composers work both classical and contemporary jazz. Track Listing Waltz Groovin Albert Elegy Both Hands Free Lullaby Dance Dance Busy Lad...
Eight traditional airs with words included. Suggested grade 2-3
Six solo piano pieces. Suggested grade 2-3
Music and suggested actions for each game.
A collection of warm and melodious songs by a much-loved composer of music for young people includes a deft and coy setting of 'Jenny Kissed Me' for voice, descant recorder and piano. Published in sco...
A superb introduction to one of the the work of one of the unheralded talents of twentieth century British music. Proctor-Gregg was the founder of the Music Department at the University of Manchester...
A musical 'house-that-jack-built' for young beginners. Introduces notes and musical symbols.
Six well-assorted piano pieces. Suggested grade 2-3. Thomas Pitfield had the gift for memorable tunes, often couched in somewhat French-sounding harmonic and decorative idiom. He admired Vaughan Willi...
Thomas Pitfield had the gift for memorable tunes, often couched in somewhat French-sounding harmonic and decorative idiom. He admired Vaughan Williams, Grainger and Delius and their influence can be f...
Six miniatures for piano. Suggested grade 2-3
Seven short pieces for piano. Suggested grade 2-3
Nicholas Marshall's music is well represented in the Forsyth recorder series and this CD presents his vocal and instrumental works covering a period of nearly 40 years, and almost all his works for re...
Recordings celebrating Walter and Ida Carroll's major influence on music making in Manchester and around the world for over 100 years, including four pieces for recorder and piano, composed by Ida Car...
A remarkable collection of piano and organ pieces by Douglas Steele, Thomas Beechams talented assistant.
Speaker, solo voices, chorus, flute or piccolo or recorder, tubular bells, handbells, organ pedal and piano Steeles superb song-cycle Autumn Sequence was written for the pupils of Stockport Grammar Sc...
Ten national dances for piano. Suggested grade 2-3
Ten descriptive pieces for piano. Suggested grade 2-3
A set of pieces and exercises for very young pupils (some almost babies), perfect for children who love to 'strum' the piano before they are old enough to learn music seriously.
Ten miniatures for piano in modern idiom. Suggested grade 3-4.
Descriptive pieces for piano. Suggested grade 2-3
Forsyths Modern Wind Music is a series of volumes containing exciting and challenging, but not unduly difficult, works by talented English composers of current or recent vintage for recital, study or...
