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William Byrd (1543-1623) was one of the leading composers of the late renaissance. He was known for his polyphonic songs, consort music, virginal pieces, and music for both the Roman Catholic and Angl...

Nancy Telfer's Birdflight won First Place in the Composition Competition in 1985 of the Festival of Music from Around the World. This delightfully pictorial Canadian composition makes striking use of...

Antonio Vivaldi (c. 1678-1741) remains one of the most-loved and oft-performed of the baroque composers. In 1703, he was appointed to the position of music master at the Ospedale della Pieta in Venice...

The beautiful orchestral work from which this arrangement comes is the Trittico Botticelliano by Ottorino Respighi, a set of three musical pieces based on three paintings by Sandro Botticelli -Spring,...

Divertimento is an original trio by Arthur Frackenpohl that was written at the request of a trio for a senior flute recital at the Crane School of Music. The first movement, Introduction, is in sonata...

Flautista is a suite of Latin dances composed by John W.N. Palmer, with interpretations of some of the more popular rhythm pattern and styles. Very entertaining and fun to play! Movements consists of:...

These four pieces by Ernesto Nazareth were originally written for piano. Transcribed here for piccolo, these works show off both sides of the piccolo's possibilities, the brilliant and the plaintive....

The four preludes included in this collection are each based upon a tune associated with a particular time of the church calendar. The Lenten prelude, Meditation upon 'Forty Days and Forty Nights', li...

One of the simplest and most popular secular carols is 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas.' Conjuring up images of ancient English waits and crisp, cold nights of festive revelry, this music seems to be t...