Chester Music

American composer Philip Glass is widely known as one of the most celebrated, influential and prolific of the modern composers. He is frequently referred to as a minimalist, though he prefers to call...

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...

Violin And Cello Parts

Cyril Ornadel and Kelvin Reynolds. A new ecological musical in two acts set 30 years into the future. The rivers and land are polluted and the children of the village have never seen a flower, bee or...

The fifth feature film that Peter Greenaway and Michael Nyman produced in 1991, Prosperos Book is a reworking of The Tempest. The score was written for the Michael Nyman Band and made into a suite for...

The idea behind this work was to form a large collection of short individual pieces suitable for orchestras of various standards. The composer's intention with the project was to provide new music for...

Instrumentation: Solo Violin, Solo Viola, 2 Flutes, Oboe, Cor Anglais, 2 B Flat Clarinets, 2 Bassoons, 2 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in C, Bass Trombone, Piano, Strings (8. 6. 4. 4. 2).

Melodrama for Narrator, Children's Choir and Ten Instruments. Gualtierro Dazzi: The texts underlying these fragments are passages from a long poem by Armand Gatti entitled L'Enclos. Through memories,...