Faber Music

Instrumentation: fl(=picc+afl).ob(=ca).cl.bcl.hn.bsn(=cbsn) 'The iron cockerel sings' is a short, fast, brightly-coloured collage of inventions written for the same instrumentation as Janacek's 'Mladi...

The rules of A Musical Dice Game – first published in 1793 and ascribed to Mozart as K. 516f (with more than a little likelihood of authenticity) – allow for the throw of the dice to determine the ord...

These three short interludes progress in difficulty and may be played either separately as exam/study pieces, or together as a short concert suite.

First Repertoire for Alto Saxophone is a combination of original pieces and imaginative arrangements carefully selected and written for the Grade 1-4 saxophonist. Paul Harris and Beverley Calland have...

This collection of fourteen contemporary pieces for saxophone is ideal for players of Grade 1-4 standard.Each of the pieces are written by real live composers with normal lives who carry out their bus...

There are two ideas contained within the title of the piece - "ignition" refers to an image of colorful sparking lights that set varying processes (such as mechanical movement) in motion, and "positiv...

I took the title for this dark capriccio from an aichemical inscription carved on the tomb of a sixteenth century bishop in Worcester Cathedral: 'while I blow, I hope'. 'Dum Spiro, Spero' was commissi...

The Fantasy Op.127 for Descant Recorder was commissioned by Wingfield Arts & Music with funds from Eastern Arts Association, and first performed by Michala Petri at St. Michael's Church, Beccles, as p...

Haydn to Humperdinck, show tunes to spirituals - variety is the spice of musical life and the essence of First Repertoire for Viola. Here, in three books, are over 60 carefully graded elementary piece...

Chant in English implies a liturgical or ritualistic incantation. This two-minute piece is based on a drone and has a ceremonial character. It was originally written for viola and was then rewritten f...

This work began life as a short song, with words by Heine, written in 1947 when I was a student in Melbourne. In this arrangement for viola and piano, I made some minor revisions to the verses of the...

Tailitnama Song (‘Tai’ pronounced ‘tie’) is based upon The Song of Tailitnama, for soprano, six cellos and percussion, a work that I wrote in 1974. The text of the original work consists of four verse...

A Day In The Life Of An Octopus, written by Mary Cohen. Arranged for viola in digital sheet music format.

The 21 little performance pieces in The Really Easy Cello Book have been written and selected with beginners in mind. Despite the technical limitations this imposes, there is plenty of scope for music...