Unaccompanied Seven Recorders

Tango from España Op. 165

Albéniz arr. Helen-Jean Talbott

ATTBBGbCb - This would make a good encore piece as it is not too difficult, is a well known and liked melody and is not too long. The melody flits from one instrument to another.

Price: £6.50

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Ref: P641

Pie Jesu

Faure, Gabriel arr. Ann Marshall

7 SAATBGbCb. This is the famous Pie Jesu from Fauré's Requiem. It sounds great on recorders, although the tuning of some of Fauré's gorgeous chords may need some attention! The great bass and contrabass are essential.

Price: £5.50

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Ref: MHE60812

Suite for Two Choirs

Marshall, Ann

7 SATTBGbCb. Allegro - Andante - Vivo. Most music in two choirs is quite serious, at least moderately difficult, and composed some hundreds of years ago. Ann hopes that her suite will fill a gap, in that it is cheerful, it is quite straightforward to play, and it was written in 2014! IShe wrote the suite for the Orchestra on the Hill, on the occasion of their fifth birthday. Total playing time is about six minutes.

Price: £10.50

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Ref: MHE10314

Three Trinkets

Marshall, Ann

7 SAATTBGbCb. Ann says: 'These trinkets are like three different frames of mind. The first is quite happy-go-lucky and has a Caribbean feel, the second is calm and reflective, and the third is energetic in a country dance sort of way. Something else I was trying to do in each piece in this eight-minute suite was to use a lot of imitation, so you will hear little thoughts bouncing backwards and forwards throughout the band. And not least in the first trinket, which features an eight-part canon.'

Price: £11.00

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Ref: MHE20713

Lancashire Concerto

Marshall, Ann

1 S + SATBGbCb. Ann Marshall wrote this concertino for Margaret Shearing. Margaret lives some miles north of Rochdale - an area in which Ann lived thirty years ago. It’s an interesting area, with a great deal of folk tradition and a rich industrial heritage, and with the moorlands always just on the doorstep. The moors can be bleak, but have a real grandeur about them. The movements of this concertino reflect, very indirectly, memories of this corner of England – memories of working mills, moorland walks and folk dancing respectively. The solo part is quite difficult, but the orchestral parts of this ten minute piece are quite straightforward, and a wide variety of ensembles will be able to play them.

Price: £16.00

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Ref: MHE11011

Recorder Septet No. 1

Marshall, Ann

SnoSATBGbCb. Ann says: 'My first recorder septet is in four movements. All movements start with musical material that is the same, apart from key and tempo, but then each movement develops along very different lines. The septet, which is of no more than moderate difficulty, works equally well played one-to-a-part, or by a several-to-a-part recorder orchestra. Total playing time is about eight minutes.'

Price: £14.50

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Ref: MHE30718

Recorder Septet No 2

Marshall, Ann

7 Sno.SATBGbCb. Ann says: 'I was encouraged to write a second recorder septet by the success of the first. I think that reasons for its success included that there are still very few recorder septets in existence, and even fewer of only moderate difficulty. This piece is in five, very contrasting movements. It uses the same instrumentation as the first septet – sopranino down to contrabass – and it is equally suited to one-to-a-part playing or several-to-a-part orchestral playing. Total playing time is about nine minutes.'

Price: £15.50

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Ref: MHE21118

Seven Monmouth Miniatures

Marshall, Ann

SAATBGbCb. Ann says: 'I wrote these miniatures to celebrate the 30th birthday of the U3A group based at Monmouth. I am the musical director of the recorder ensemble within Monmouth U3A, and the instrumentation reflects the recorders we regularly use. We are a large ensemble, including great bass and contrabass recorders, and those recorders are essential in these miniatures. The seven miniatures explore a variety of moods and, in a reference to the birthday, they are all exactly thirty bars long. The pieces are of no more than moderate difficulty, and work equally well played one-to-a-part, or by a several-to-a-part recorder orchestra. Total playing time is about nine minutes.'

Price: £14.00

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Ref: MHE40718

Recorder Septet No 3

Marshall, Ann

7 SoSATBGbCb. Ann says:My third recorder septet has the same instrumentation as the first two. It is equally suited to one-to-a-part playing or several-to-a-part orchestral playing. I was encouraged to write another recorder septet because of the shortage of septets and (with all due modesty) by the success of the others. Total playing time is about ten minutes.

Price: £15.50

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Ref: MHE30120

Recorder Concerto 1

Marshall, Steve

7 S+ATBBGbCb. This mildly jazzy concerto was composed in 2001, originally using a treble recorder soloist. It has now been revised extensively - the solo instrument is now a descant, and the orchestra is a rather dark TrTBBGtBCtB. A one-to-a-part orchestra would work well, but the balance will still be fine with several-to-a-part. The ensemble parts are never more than moderately hard, although unsurprisingly the solo part needs a very good player.

Price: £20.00

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Ref: MHE70303a

Five Spirituals

Marshall, Steve

7 SATTBGbCb. This is a collection of five spirituals which are available in other May Hill Edition titles with various instrumentations. They are here rearranged for seven recorders and sound good whether one-to-a-part or in a larger ensemble. The arrangements are easy, but interesting, and they are particularly suited to an 'easy recorder orchestra' group.

Price: £13.50

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Ref: MHE40509

Calm Is The Morn Without A Sound

Marshall, Steve

7 SATTBGb/BCb. This fairly easy setting of the poem by Alfred Tennyson is dedicated to Ann Lyall.

Price: £7.50

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Ref: MHE10906A

Concertino Omnibus

Marshall, Steve

1 A +SATBGbCb. Chanson d'Amour - Waltz - Dance. This piece is a version with recorder orchestra accompaniment of Concertino Omnibus (MHE 10415). There is also a version (MHE10415b) for treble recorder and piano.

Price: £11.50

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Ref: MHE10415a

Three Chorales and Improvisations

Marshall, Steve

Solo sno.SATBGbCb. More for 'Easy Recorder Orchestra'. The chorales are particularly easy - the 'twist' is that each piece includes a line for a solo sopranino. These solo parts are not virtuosic, but they are high, need dexterity, and require some degree of courage because they are frighteningly prominent!

Price: £9.00

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Ref: MHE21120

Four Canzonettas

Morley, Thomas arr. Marshall

7 SATTBGbGb. Springtime Mantleth Every Bough - Good Morrow, Fair Ladies of the May - Lady, Those Eyes - Blow Shepherds, Blow your Pipes. Ann says: 'TSpringtime Mantleth Every Bough - Good Morrow, Fair Ladies of the May - Lady, Those Eyes - Blow Shepherds, Blow your Pipes. Ann says: 'This version gives a robust and sonorous view of these little gems.'

Price: £12.00

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Ref: MHE50812a

QuintEssentials

Moses, David

7 SAATTBGb. A stimulating, challenging and rewarding exploration of some different ways in which quintuple metre is used in Balkan music. The variety is surprising, ranging from wild and frenetic through sedate and folksy to graceful and stately.

Price: £12.00

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Ref: TBRG0004

Report on Carla

Schabel, Dietrich/Marshall, Steve

7 SoSATBGbCb. Steve says: 'In 2005 Dietrich Schnabel composed a set of short pieces entitled 'Die MŠdels'. One of the pieces, 'Carla', is particularly simple and beautiful, consisting almost entirely of crotchets, spelling out a hypnotic and attractive chord sequence. I liked 'Carla' immediately, and many ways of developing it suggested themselves to me. At the risk of gilding the lily, and with Dietrich's permission, I have therefore written this 'report' on his piece, a report in this sense being an archaic term for a piece written in response to another. Playing time is about five minutes.'

Price: £8.00

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Ref: MHE41110

Sonata à 7

Schmelzer arr Ann Marshall

AABBGbGbCb SCb(opt). This piece, by Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (?1623-1688) is well-known in the recorder world, so much so that it is often referred to as ‘the Schmelzer’. Ann Marshall rearranged the sonata for an eight-foot orchestra, included in the Autumn Recorder Orchestra Weekend, which took place in October 2015. The instrumentation became two each of tenors, basses and great basses and a contrabass. She also added a part for subcontrabasses which, although optional, adds a great deal to the music. Total playing time is about seven minutes.

Price: £9.50

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Ref: MHE21215

Le Train des Pignes

Stansfield, Graham, arr. Jane Minns

7 parts : SAATTB,GB. This original composition depicts the engine of the “Chemin de Fer”, a narrow gauge railway which puffs its way four times a day along the Var Valley between Nice and Digne-les-Bains

Price: £6.00

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Ref: P623

A Policeman's Lot

Sullivan, Arthur arr. Jane Minns

7 parts : SATTBB and Policeman. From the comic opera ‘The Pirates of Penzance’, this is a fun piece to use as an Encore.

Price: £5.00

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Ref: P529

Jack’s the Lad, traditional hornpipe

Trad. arr. Jane Minns

7 SoSA/TTBBGB, with some divisi in Bass instrument parts only. Annually performed at The Last Night of The Proms, finishing as fast as possible. :-)

Price: £5.50

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Ref: P861

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