Summer Thoughts

Summer Thoughts is an enchanting 4-minute single movement work from the composer of Lost Landscapes and April Lines. The lyrical violin line is complemented by a rhapsodic piano part. Suitable for intermediate to advanced performers.

Summer in the Park : Sound Foundations QMB 538

A light, playful piece depicting a summer picnic. (2:50)

Indian Summer

This setting of an Emily Dickinson text explores the bittersweet quality of those few summer-like days in what should be fall, comparing them to the bread and wine of the communion service. The music explores the full palette of choral expression, with dramatic contrasts in dynamic range and vocal textures.

Summer Stomp

From the Boosey & Hawkes catalog comes this rock-solid work for beginning string groups with just enough blue notes to give it a contemporary sound for younger players.

Summer Night

Margery Agrell's poem recalls “faint light” and “soft winds” and provides a reflective and soothing view of nature in this SATB piece for a cappella mixed voices. The close harmonies produce a lush yet evanescent veil of shimmering sonorities in keeping with the hushed and dream-like “spells of sweet silence.”

Summer Sketches

The edition is part of the Trinity syllabus 2007 (grade 2)

End of Summer

Rorem is as well known for his candid diaries as for his musical endeavors. This work is a blend of intense and powerful violin solos with lyrical and meditative sections. This is the full score and parts. For Violin, Clarinet andPiano.

Gone Gone Again Is Summer

Voice, Piano. Bliss, A

That Summer: A Fantasia On Family

The Four Seasons : Dog Days (Summer)

Dog Days reflect the composer's discomfort with the high humidity and high tempertures often encountered in July and August; air so heavy and heat so oppressive that one can barely move. The composition reflects this climate in a slow, harmonically static language interrupted by whispered commentaries by the choir. The Trois Gymnopedies of Eric Satie served as a musical model.

Early Songs (4)

Contents: Night · A Summer Vacation · My Heart is in the East · Alone.

Summer Sketches : Eight attractive pieces for developing players

Before and After Summer op. 16 : 10 Lieder

Ten songs for Baritone Voice and Piano, with music by Gerald Finzi and words by Thomas Hardy. This collections is a wonderful combination, featuring texts by one of the most typically English poets, set to music by one ofcharacteristically English composers from the first half of the 20th century.

Oboe Music To Enjoy : 18 pieces for young oboeists

The edition is part of the ABRSM Summer 2006 syllabus and Trinity syllabus 2007 (grades 1,2,3)

Difficult Passages For Oboe : 105 Orchesterstudien aus den Werken Johann Sebastian Bachs

The edition is part of the ABRSM Summer 2006 syllabus and Trinity syllabus 2007 (grades 6,7,8).

Leonard Bernstein For Trumpet

The edition is part of the ABRSM Summer 2006 syllabus and Trinity syllabus 2007 (grades 5,6)

Capriccio : Rossini in Paris

This Cappricio is the result of a visit to Pesaro, Rossini's birthplace, during the summer of 1984.

Bravo Trumpet

The edition is part of the ABRSM Summer 2006 syllabus and Trinity syllabus 2007 (grades 1 & 2)

Oboe Concerto No.1 In B Flat

The edition is part of the ABRSM Summer syllabus 2006 (grades 4,6) and the Trinity syllabus 2007 (grade 6).

Child Alice Part I : In Memory of a Summer Day

For Soprano and Orchestra From the composer's notes: Child Alice was conceived as a single continuity ... the various extracts may be performed separately. Options include: Part I of Child Alice may be played without Part II ·Part II of Child Alice may be played without Part I · Quaint Events (No. 1) and Happy Voices (No. 2) may be played as a unit · Quainty Events may be played separately · Happy Voices may be played separately · All in the GoldenAfternoon may by played separately.

On the Idle Hill of Summer : from A Shropshire Lad

Tuba Suite

The edition is part of the ABRSM Summer 2006 syllabus (grades 5-7) and the Trinity syllabus 2007 (grades 5,6,8).

Fice Bagatelles, Op.

The edition is part of the Trinity syllabus 2007 (grades 3,5,6,8) and of the ABRSM Summer 2006 syllabus (grades 3, 6-8).

Mikrokosmos : 20 Intermediate Solos and Ensembles

The edition is part of the Trinity syllabus 2007 (grade 3)The edition is part of the ABRSM Summer 2006 (grades 2,3,4)

Magic Saxophone

The edition is part of the Trinity syllabus 2007 (grades 1,2,3)The edition is part of the ABRSM Summer 2006 syllabus (grades1,2)