150 rudimental solos that have been used by countless drummers over the years.
Exercises and solos for stick technique and control for the advanced drummer.
A classic collection of rudimental snare solos, by one of the legendary names in rudimental drumming. Also contains an introduction on performance techniques of each of the standard 26 rudiments. Esse...
Another classic snare method for the rudimental drummer. This has long been a staple of the Ludwig catalog and continues to find new fans every day.
New Era was composed for the United States Air Force Academy Band (Colorado Springs, CO) and refers to the mixture of software, hardware, technology, and tradition in present day life - the 'new era.'...
This transcription for piano trio of the well-known Irish melody (also known as Londonderry Air or Oh Danny Boy) was completed by the famed early 20th century violinist, Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) and...
The most well-known of the Elgar's six marches, March No. 1 in D, was completed in July 1901. Its central melody hails from before these dates, and as Elgar told a friend, 'I've got a tune that will k...
Written for eleven winds when Mendelssohn was fifteen years old, it has been set for contemporary wind band (the saxophone parts are optional, staying with a desire for historical accuracy to the exte...
Gabriel Pierne wrote a collection of 15 solo piano works creating his Op. 3 in 1883. Each work is in a different style and dedicated to different composers. Movements: 1. Romance sans Paroles, 2. Chan...
Amy Beach (1867-1944) wrote these Four Sketches for piano in 1892. Movements: 1. In Autumn, 2. Phantoms, 3. Dreaming, 4. Fire-flies.
The first "Children's Piano Album" (Op. 123) was written in 1906, with the second series (Op. 126) written the year after. Each contains 12 songs that are harmonically interesting written for children...
Couperin, François/ Handel, George Frideric/ Bach, Johann Sebastian/ Schumann, Robert/ Frost, Robert S.
Dedicated to Theophile LaForge, first professor of viola at the Paris Conservatory. Although intended for Viola and Piano, a Violin part is included with this set.
Adler, Samuel. Published by Ludwig Music, Cleveland,. Copyright 1994. A rare piece for solo piccolo, this work may be performed straight, or the player may make dramatic entrances and theatrical gestu...
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Master-Singers of Nuremberg) is a music drama/opera in three acts by Richard Wagner (1813-1883). Taking nearly four and a half hours to perform in its entirety, thi...
Edited by the famed Soviet-era teacher and violinist, Konstantin Aleksandrovich Fortunatov, this collection of nine works works for violin and piano and three works for two violins and piano have been...
Efrem Zimbalist (1889-1985) was a Russian - American composer and violinist. His inspiration of other great composers can be seen throughout his works. Zimbalist's Concert Phantasy was inspired by the...
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), like many French composer of the time, tried his hand at writing the habanera in 1907, a Cuban dance which was very popular in Spain at the end of the 19th century. Original...
Of all four marches that came after the overwhelmingly successful No. 1, March No. 4 seems to many people to be most closely related in general effect to the first. Just why this should be so is diffi...
The third volume moves students toward more advanced playing techniques and literature. This text continues to develop playing skills found in Book 2 and advances the student through more rigorous and...
See also Band arrangement LU10160511
Collection of solo material for the exhibition and contest drummer
Volume 1 begins with open strings and basic notation, rhythms, and bowing skills. New notes, notation, and bowing skills are added in logical progression, reinforcing both right- and left-hand techniq...
This volume continues the development of playing skills found in Book 1 and progresses to more complex rhythms, left-hand finger patterns and techniques, bowing techniques, and preparation for shiftin...
Fortitude by Ronald C. Knoener is as much a processional march as it is a fanfare. The theme is of a bold, fanfare nature but it is followed by a secondary theme of a melodic style that will please th...
Chicken Cha Cha for string orchestra delightfully expresses a day in the life of a chicken, including the creative musical description of running in the coop via dissonant eighth notes. All instrument...
Cello Methods, Studies from Schroeder, Dotzauer, Kummer, Werner, Popper, Lee; accompanies and complements 10300121 and 10300208.
A collection of etudes that complement the terrific Frances Grant series for cello. It includes works from Schroeder, Dotzauer, Kummer, Werner, Duport, Nolck, Grant, and Lee. Accompanies 10300102.
The spoken word is an excellent tool for teaching rhythm. Combined with an easily mastered musical vocabulary, it can lead a group to an excellent performance now and in the future. Alligator Stomp by...
This arrangement of the Hawaiian folk song Kahuli Aku will evoke the imagery and vibrancy of the "singing snails" (kahuli) depicted in the song lyric. Young musicians and their audience will sense a d...
Les Matadors represents an English country dance from Ignatius Sancho's "Minuets Cotillons & Country Dances for the Violin, Mandolin, German Flute, & Harpsichord", published in 1775. Sancho's original...
This collection of twelve songs by the brilliant 19th century composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886) include the original language (German or Italian for each) with English translations by Theodore Baker an...
Johannes Brahms was not a religious man in the usual sense of the term, so it should be of no surprise that when he wrote the German Requiem; it did not follow the prescribed five movement form of the...
This famous melody of St. Anthony Chorale has been attributed to Haydn, but there is doubt as to whether or not he was the composer or simply quoted an older theme taken from an unknown source. Whatev...
A superb upper level showpiece for horn or euphonium. Transcribed and orchestrated by Donald Miller. Band M; Horn MA.
While the original piano version of PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION remained unpublished at the time of Mussorgsky's death, the work was orchestrated by his friend Rimsky-Korsakov and published in 1886, alt...
Seldom do young students get to perform music by the master composers. Hymn of Freedom from Brahms' first symphony is an exception. Of sublime beauty, the theme has been arranged by Robert Longfield i...
Respighi's first published work is a set of six solo piano pieces composed between 1903 and 1905. These independent salon pieces draw upon different musical styles, forms, and composers. They are not...
Max Bruch (1838-1920) was a German composer and contemporary of Johannes Brahms, with a style very much in the same Romantic classicism camp as that of his better known friend. Best known for his viol...
Robert Nathaniel Dett was a Canadian-American Black composer, organist, pianist, choral director, and music professor. Born and raised in Canada until the age of 11, he moved to the United States with...
This two-volume edition of J.S. Bach's WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER, regarded as one of the most important works in the history of classical music, has been edited by Hans Bischoff, with Bischoff's notes tra...
Though best known for his television and film scores (ten Emmys, plus an Oscar nomination for Silverado and a Grammy nomination for Young Sherlock Holmes) Bruce Broughton has also composed a distingui...
