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A capricious, lyrical, and nostalgic work, it is often considered to be Vaughan Williams's most successful work in this form. The first movement is pastoral in feeling. The second movement begins with...

For oboe and piano

For 14 solo voices (4 sopranos, 3 contraltos, 4 tenors, 3 basses, hand percussion (played by the male singers), and piano. Finnegan's Floras is inspired by James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Material is av...

For saxophone quartet. This work is based on the traditional modes/scales of Armenia. 'Duduk' is the name of the Armenian oboe that is normally accompanied by drones. Erkoreka cleverly creates the ill...

Sarah Quartel's Veni Sancte Spiritus is a tranquil setting of passages from a 13th-century sacred Latin text and its English translation. The voices are underpinned by a supportive accompaniment that...

The music is composed to create layers of tonality which overlap in space, especially in a vast space with a long acoustic decay.

Spectrum for Trumpet is a unique collection of contemporary works for trumpet and piano. The 16 pieces included have been specially commissioned from some of today's leading composers and reflect curr...

This excellent addition to the tuba repertoire allows this oft-neglected instrument to demonstrate its more versatile side. Concert Piece explores a 3-octave range, allowing the tuba to combine fast-p...

Contains sheet music for two pieces in both treble and bass clef. Piano accompaniment included.

In an arrangement for violin, this celebrated movement concludes both parts of Bach's Cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben ('Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life'), composed for the revised version of...

Featuring elegant melodies, the Rondeau from Mozart's Piano Sonata K309 is arranged for violin here by Kathy and David Blackwell, who are the award-winning authors of OUP's educational string series....

This energetic spiritual has a jazzy feel and is full of memorable melodies, arranged and carefully tailored for the needs of the beginner violinist. Originally published in Solo Time for Violin Book...

From the collection Solo Time for Violin Book 2, this arrangement of the Andante from Mozart's masterful piano sonata caputures the essence of the classical style.

Taken from the collection Solo Time for Violin Book 2, this arrangement captures the traditional Klezmer style while featuring the fast dance in 4/4 called the Bulgar.

This lively setting of a traditional 19th-century English text (interspersed with a Latin refrain) recaptures the spirit of Bullard's earlier Angel Alleluias. With its straightforward harmony, snappy,...

From the collection Solo Time for Violin Book 2, this arrangement beautifully preserves the style of Czech folk music found in Dvo?ák's original, and the contrast of major and minor sections.

On Christmas Night is a sequence of eight carols with a variety of performance options. Chilcott uses several familiar carol melodies within his own settings, which employ a wide range of styles and m...

An arrangement of Scenes 5 and 12 from a projected stage-work on the life of Tchaikovsky. They are identical in structure and draw on the set of Russian folk songs that Tchaikovsky arranged for piano-...

This hauntingly beautiful piece is extracted from Rutter's large-scale work Visions. The expressive solo line features long phrases, double stopping in thirds and sixths, and a quasi-improvised sectio...

This enchanting setting brings a fresh take on a familiar fifteenth-century text. The dialogue between Mary and the infant Jesus is woven to a beguiling folk-like melody through each of the voice part...

Victoria opens this motet with a dramatic homophonic account of Judas's betrayal of Jesus, similar to the opening of another of his responsory settings, Jesum tradidit impius, before a contrasting sec...