Sheet Music for String Instruments

The series Eighteenth Century Italian Music includes compositions of special historical and musical significance. Each edition is based on the original sources to off er performers works that satisfy...

The Romanza for cello and piano by Pier Adolfo Tirindelli (1858-1937), who was particularly noted for his vocal compositions, is a cantabile, expressive piece that is typical of the salon romanza. Thi...

The artistic production of the Neapolitan composer Mario Pilati (Naples, 1903-1938) has recently been undergoing a reappraisal. Having died at a young age, he never had the opportunity to gain the rec...

Franco Alfano's vocal chamber music constitutes a significant part of the Neapolitan composer's output. The five transcriptions for cello and piano presented here are not only an opportunity for celli...

Guitare/violoncelle - Guitare Et Violoncelle/violoncelle Et Guitare

For solo cello. Written the year before the Six Figures, Arioso is a study in scalic and chordal figures, retaining Skempton's signature simplicity and repetitiveness throughout. Grail Transformation...

A suite in six movements for unaccompanied cello, inspired by the composer's travels in Spain, Portugal, and Morocco. It incorporates fragments of traditional melodies and the composer chose the cello...

A short work for solo cello, Siward's River Song is drawn from the music associated with a character in Butler's opera A Better Place. Siward is the ghost of a drowned lighterman, trapped in the past....

Dipolo is an exploration of opposites, applying the duality of positive and negative charges to extremes of such aspects as dynamics and register in music. The effect is a work exploring the dramatic...

For soprano saxophone (or oboe) and percussion (1 player). Kulamen Dilan is evocative of Khurdish love songs, exploring the 'methodology' of folk music, creating a mosaic from tiny motifs of pitch and...

For solo cello. This eventful cello piece derives from material taken from Harper's opera, The Spire. Although a short piece, it encompasses a wide range of dramatic gestures, from love to violence to...

For unaccompanied cello. This suite of nine short movements describes a cycle of sleep and the moods of its dreams. It ends with the morning bells and the bright E major daylight of the Epilogue.

Six miniatures. 'Progressively laying out aspects of cello technique - double stopping, pizzicato, glacial harmonies - and then combining them, the work builds to a substantial fourth movement and the...

Graded cello sightreading exercises, including tips on improving sightreading technique. Book 1 includes 50 short melodies and covers grades 1 to 5.