Carl Fischer Music
WF119 - $16.95
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Master flutist Amy Porter has reworked the famous etudes of Cyrille Rose for flute, allowing students of the instrument to reap the rewards of pieces that have benefited clarinetists for generations. As these etudes were written for the range of the clarinet and based on the range of Ferling’s oboe etudes, Porter has raised the octave placement in some exercises to make them more suited for all the octaves of the modern flute. This edition also includes a data CD containing piano accompaniments written and performed by John Walker in both MP3 and printable PDF format. In this form, the Rose etudes will become as essential to flute students as they are to clarinetists, as both practice and recital pieces.

Carl Fischer Music
WF89 • $19.95

I Used to Play is a new series for adults looking to get back into playing their instruments of yesteryear, and will help jumpstart their memory and comfort with music. Its no. 1 goal is to get people re-acquainted with their instrument(s) by providing them with types of music they want to play, like pop, jazz, and classic tunes, rather than etudes. Each book contains a CD with audio MP3 files of complete performances of most songs, plus accompaniment-only versions. The CD also contains printable PDFs of piano parts for practice or performance opportunities. It’s just the push former players need to fall back in love with their instruments again!

Carl Fischer Music
DVD26 • $19.95

Carl Fischer Music’s new The ABCs of Flute features world-renowned flutist and pedagogue Amy Porter. This DVD is a comprehensive beginning study guide to playing the flute with information about breathing, embouchure, hand position, air direction and caring for your instrument. It also features tunes with up to six notes, and ventures briefly into the upper and lower octaves. Amy Porter performs the featured tunes with piano accompaniments arranged by Larry Clark. The DVD also includes a 16-page instructional booklet. For beginning players. Duration: 65’

Carl Fischer Music
WF84 • $9.95

Carl Fischer Music presents a new spin on a classic teaching method with this edition of Joachim Andersen’s 24 Progressive Studies for the Flute, Op. 33. While all of the original etudes are included, flute pedagogue Professor Charles DeLaney has expanded them to include notes in the upper range of the instrument, updating this book for the flute’s modern incarnation. DeLaney also lends his sharp wit to this edition, having cleverly named the etudes and also has provided helpful and humorous practice notes for each. As a special bonus, this book also features “DeLaney’s Daily Dozen,” a set of practice exercises guaranteed to improve technique and musicality. Essentially a complete method built on a proven collection of etudes, Delaney’s edition of 24 Progressive Studies for the Flute, Op. 33 is absolutely essential for serious flute students. For intermediate to advanced players.

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Carl Fischer Music
W2651 — $29.95
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Written for master flutist Robert Dick, Pan Penseroso includes a number of procedures explored in his pioneering book The Other Flute: A Performance Manual of Contemporary Techniques. Originally written for one flute, Bresnick created a two-flute version in order to make the piece accessible to a greater variety of players. This work is presented in three movements, each of which takes its title from John Milton’s poem Il Penseroso (The Contemplative Man). The music aligns itself with this response to the poets earlier L’Allegro (The Cheerful Man). Orchestra version available on rental. Dur.: 24’

Carl Fischer Music
W2562 — Score and Part — $19.95
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In his Variations on “Time and Time Again,” Currier upends the typical theme-and-variations genre, with melodic and harmonic cells or fragments appearing during the course of the four interconnected variations. For most of the piece, the theme seems almost like a mirage, just imagined or hinted; re-interpreted before the fact, as it were. The theme finally appears near the end of the work, and turns out to be a languid, richly-harmonized bluesy ballad Currier has called “Time and Time Again.” For advanced players.

Carl Fischer Music
W2644 – Score and Solo Part - $11.95

From the celebrated American composer David Carlson, Carl Fischer Music publishes an introspective, graceful Vocalise for flute with piano accompaniment. For advanced players.
Also available for cello and piano (B3442).

Carl Fischer Music
CY3159F — Score — $56.95
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An eery, airy solo with spatial accompaniment - the quartet plays in rectangular formation around the audience. Listen to a snippet as recorded by Patti Monson here. For advanced performers.

Carl Fischer Music
Set of Parts - MXE20M • $51.00  
Full Score, Sound Diffusionist, Engineer - MXE20F • $71.00  

16’s title refers to the sixteen words that the composer felt should have been excised from George Bush's January 2003 State of the Union address: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." Eckardt wrote this piece as a response, concerning his “faith in art's ability to contribute to -- if not transform -- society.” 16 was commissioned by the Auros Group for New Music with support from the Brannen-Cooper Fund and is dedicated to Susan Gall.

Carl Fischer Music
Two Performance Scores - CY3470 - $44.25

Written for Boston flutist Fenwick Smith, Lee Hyla’s Warble was premiered on September 14, 2008 at Jordan Hall, Boston with Fenwick Smith on flute and Judith Gordon on piano. It was commissioned by the wind section of the Boston Symphony on the occasion of Fenwick Smith’s retirement from the orchestra.

Carl Fischer Music
WF56 • $19.95

This updated edition of Franz Wilhelm Ferling’s 48 Studies for Oboe, Op. 31 features:
•   Detailed edits from Nancy Clauter, Professor of Oboe at the University of Kentucky. Clauter has provided
       updated fingerings and notes that reflect the modernization of the instrument since this book’s original publication.
•   Also includes piano accompaniments with CD, composed by pianist John Walker and available on CD for the first time.
•   Accompaniments can be printed from PDF files also found on the CD, making this book a perfect choice for
       recital or contest use.

For the advanced player.

Carl Fischer Music
WF111 • $12.95
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Carl Fischer Music
MXE36 – Score and Parts - $24.99
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Martin Bresnick began playing the oboe at the age of eleven and performed seriously throughout graduate school, and was delighted to be invited to write an oboe quartet for the group Double Entendre. It became an unexpected journey into his family’s past. From the composer: “Delighted to receive a commission to write an oboe quartet for Double Entendre, I was pleased at the thought I would find myself ‘Going Home’ (with a glancing reference to the great English horn melody of Dvorák); I intended to take a gentle musical journey back to my youthful studies and beloved instrument. Instead, without willing it, I was taken back to childhood memories of my mother and my grandparents; to their songs and stories of ‘Vysoke Litovsk,’ the small Russian-Polish (now Belarussian) town where they and my ancestors had lived for many generations. I was taken back to memories of my own visit to Vysoke in 1995. Just as my mother and grandparents remembered, I found the dense birch and pine forests, the small railway station and the Potocki estate. The Catholic Church, just being restored, stood not far from the brilliant blue and gold-onion domes of the Orthodox Church. And, as they remembered, the Pulwa river (a tributary of the Bug river) ran beside the lunke or meadow. Goats and horses were grazing there, tethered to the green grass. The ruined synagogue, at the edge of the meadow, was just a short distance down an unpaved dirt road that led to a small wooden house, once the home of my family.” For advanced players.

Carl Fischer Music
WF115 • Clarinet • $19.95
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I Used to Play is a new series for adults looking to get back into playing their instruments of yesteryear, and will help jumpstart their memory and comfort with music. Its #1 goal is to get people re-acquainted with their instrument(s) by not only reviewing theory and technique with etudes, but also providing them with types of music they want to play, like pop, jazz, and classical tunes. Each book contains a CD with audio MP3 files of complete performances of most songs, plus accompaniment-only play-along versions. The CD also contains printable PDFs of piano parts for practice or performance opportunities. It’s just the push former players need to fall back in love with their instruments again!

Carl Fischer Music
WF91 • $14.95

From the world-renowned clarinet pedagogue, Kalmen Opperman, Carl Fischer Music publishes a book of studies meant to deconstruct and rebuild finger and hand technique for players at the intermediate level. The book is broken into three sections: Studies for the Left Hand, Studies for the Right Hand, and Studies for Both Hands. According to Opperman, “this book consists of specific studies, which, if applied as directed, should greatly enhance the strength, flexibility, independence and accuracy of the fingers and hands.”

Carl Fischer Music
WF85 • $12.95

Carl Fischer Music’s best-selling 32 Rose Etudes for Clarinet has been given a fresh new look and added value with a gorgeous new cover and CD containing not only MP3 piano accompaniment tracks composed and recorded by John Walker, but also printable PDFs for all 32 piano accompaniments. This edition of the best-selling 32 Rose Etudes for clarinet students is a repackaging of the 2002 revised/corrected edition with the accompaniment CD, previously sold separately.

Meticulously revised and edited by clarinetist Melvin Warner, this edition contains valuable insight into both the original author Cyrille Rose and Franz Wilhelm Ferling, on whose music the Rose studies were based. Parker’s accompaniments further enhance the musical quality of these etudes while making practice and performance more meaningful. Many of these beautiful, melodic etudes are perfect for recital use as well. With this new edition, a classic and trusted method becomes all the more indispensable.

Carl Fischer Music
WF112 • $12.95
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Pembroke Music Company
W2645 • $9.95

Mythic Birds of Saugerties was written for clarinetist Tim Smith’s debut recital in New York City. It is a tribute to the birds of upstate New York and contains references to the pileated woodpecker, mourning dove, and other more imaginary species. Mythic Birds of Saugerties is also dedicated to the nearly extinct and very beautiful ivory-billed woodpecker. For advanced players.

Carl Fischer Music
MXE19 – Set of Parts - $24.95

Winner of the 2009 MTNA Composition Competition, promising young composer Joshua Green gives us a striking new work for clarinet, cello and piano, borne of an unlikely muse. According to the composer:

"For the better part of three months I fought an exasperating battle. While trying to compose a piece for clarinet, cello, and piano, a plethora of distractions had consumed my mind. This frustration seemed to amplify with the amount of time that passed. It was then that the following quotation came to my attention: ‘Life does not consist mainly, or even largely of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one’s head.’ —Mark Twain. And so The Muse of Distraction was born. Rather than trying to fight the 'storm of thoughts,' I allowed myself to compose a piece that embraced the frustration and irritation of those previous three months. Eventually these distractions were no longer my adversary. They became my muse.”

For advanced players.

Carl Fischer Music
Full Score – CY3128F - $101.00  
Clarinet Part - CY3128P - $19.50  
Set of score and parts available on rental

The full score and solo parts for David Maslanka’s Desert Roads for clarinet and wind ensemble are now available on custom print. Maslanka on this work: “The title Desert Roads suggests an interior journey, a time of inner searching, of not knowing, of creative incubation. I have chosen to call these four movements ‘songs’ for clarinet and wind ensemble. This connects them directly to the romantic idea of ‘songs without words’…because of my longtime and persistent use of chorale melodies, it has been suggested that I am somehow proselytizing for the Christian faith. This is not the case. My attraction to these melodies is that they are the product of countless generations of human seeking, and have about them an aura of depth and power. The word ‘book’ gives the feeling of a larger collection of material, something extensive and varied, and something that may have a story to tell.”

Carl Fischer Music
Study Score - O4450 - $42.75  
Set of Parts – O4450A - $274.00  
CD of Clarinet and Cello Parts – O4450CD - $19.95  

Lukas Foss’ 1963 experimental work Echoi received the prestigious New York Music Critics Award in 1964 and remains a magnificent musical statement of the 1960s. It is Foss' major work to grow out of his earlier experiments with the Improvisation Chamber Ensemble in Los Angeles.

Carl Fischer Music
Score and Parts – CY3178 - $111.75  
Full Score – CY3178F - $25.25  

Bresnick explores the darker side of the story of fairytale character Pinocchio with this daring multimedia work, now available on custom print.

Carl Fischer Music
Full Score - MXE22F • $39.75  
Set of Parts - MXE22M • $55.00  

Carl Fischer Music
CY2073M • $49.95  
Full score also available for order - PCB130  

Carl Fischer Music
CY1959 • Score and Parts • $95.25  

I Used to Play Tenor Saxophone
An Innovative Method for Adults Returning to Play
By Larry Clark

Carl Fischer Music
WF139 – Book & CD – $19.99
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I Used to Play is a popular new series for adults looking to get back into playing their instruments of yesteryear, and will help jumpstart their memory and comfort with music. Its number one goal is to get people re-acquainted with their instrument(s) by providing them with types of music they want to play, like pop, jazz, and classic tunes, rather than etudes. Each book contains a CD with audio MP3 files of complete performances of most songs, plus accompaniment-only versions. The CD also contains printable PDFs of piano parts for practice or performance opportunities.

It’s just the push former players need to fall back in love with their instruments again! See the complete series here.

Carl Fischer Music
W2652 - Solo part with piano reduction - $29.99
Y3321 - Parts (rental only)

David Maslanka’s concerto for alto saxophone and wind ensemble in five movements was premiered in March of 2000 by the University of Arizona Symphonic Wind Ensemble, conducted by Gregg Hanson, conductor and featuring Joseph Lulloff, solo saxophone. From the composer: “This concerto turned out to be a good deal larger than I would reasonably want. As I got into the composing, the ideas became insistent: none of them would be left out! The format of ‘Songs and Interludes’ arises from my other recent works for saxophones (‘Mountain Roads’ for saxophone quartet and ‘Song Book’ for alto saxophone and marimba) and suggests a music that is more intimate than symphonic. There is a strong spiritual overtone with quotes from Bach chorales, and from my own works ‘Hell’s Gate’ and ‘Mass.’ A story is hinted at which has the Crucifixion right smack in the middle – the climax of the third movement quotes the ‘Crucifixus’ from the ‘Mass.’ I don’t know what the story is, only that it wants to be music, and not words.”

Carl Fischer Music
WF87 — $24.95
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The Vandoren Company and Carl Fischer Music have teamed up with ten of the finest saxophonists in the world to create a one-of-a-kind etude and exercise book. Each of these saxophone masters share their inner secrets of saxophone playing. This eclectic collection covers a wide range of challenges to mastering the saxophone, containing etudes to develop tone, technique, lyricism, and overall musicianship. No serious student or teacher should be without the innovative wisdom of this collection, which also includes a complete quarter-tone fingering chart as well as Arabic rhythmic and melodic exercises. Featuring contributions from Serge Bertocchi, Paul Bro, James Bunte, Claude Delangle, Susan Fancher, Steven Mauk, Otis Murphy, Nicolas Prost, Neal Ramsay, and Matthew Sintchak.

Carl Fischer Music
WF116 • Alto Saxophone • $19.95
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I Used to Play is a new series for adults looking to get back into playing their instruments of yesteryear, and will help jumpstart their memory and comfort with music. Its #1 goal is to get people re-acquainted with their instrument(s) by not only reviewing theory and technique with etudes, but also providing them with types of music they want to play, like pop, jazz, and classical tunes. Each book contains a CD with audio MP3 files of complete performances of most songs, plus accompaniment-only play-along versions. The CD also contains printable PDFs of piano parts for practice or performance opportunities. It’s just the push former players need to fall back in love with their instruments again!

See also:
I Used to Play Flute
I Used to Play Clarinet

Carl Fischer
WF80 • $14.95

Available for the first time, alto saxophone students can now play the Ferling etudes with accompaniment. This book/CD set provides the tried-and-true education of these 48 fantastic exercises supplemented with audio piano accompaniment, enhancing the practice experience.

Carl Fischer Music
WF86 • $19.95

We’ve added two new volumes to the Protocol: A Guide to the Collegiate Audition Process series, for Alto Saxophone and for Trombone. Providing useful reference and audition material for college-bound saxophone and trombone players, these books were created by college/university music educators and include the most frequently requested audition requirements from many universities. Students will go into their auditions completely prepared with help from these books! Also available for Clarinet (WF59 – $19.95), Flute (WF58 – $19.95), and Trumpet (WF60 – $19.95).

Carl Fischer Music
WF113 • $12.95
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Carl Fischer Music
WE9 (Score and Parts) • $24.95  
WE9F (Score) • $9.95  

Carl Fischer Music is proud to announce the publication of a new work by prolific and versatile New York City-based composer Martin Bresnick. Every Thing Must Go was written for the oft-underserved instrumentation of saxophone quartet, and is based on a short poem by the composer in three movements. This piece was commissioned by New Sounds Music, Inc., the nonprofit organization of the New York City PRISM saxophone quartet, and also received support from the New York State Music Fund. For advanced players.

Paradigm Lost
By Lee Hyla
Saxophone Quartet

Pembroke Music
WE15 - Score and Parts - $24.99  

Paradigm Lost is in one continuous movement and explores the contrast between quiet, delicate, recessive music, and more aggressive takes on what, down deep, is similar material. The attempts to resolve these different takes, or the failure to resolve them, are at the heart of the piece. As the music progresses, the quartet divides into various duo and solo/trio combinations in which the recurring thematic materials are heard in changing contexts. Paradigm Lost is dedicated with enthusiasm and respect to the Prism Quartet. Dur.: 12’

Carl Fischer Music
CY3472 • $38.75  
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Jason Eckardt’s Tangled Loops for soprano saxophone and piano was commissioned by Taimur Sullivan of the PRISM quartet. It received its premiere in 1997 at the ThreeTwo Festival in New York City, and was performed by Sullivan along with renowned pianist Marilyn Nonken. See the program notes and sample pages of the score here (PDF, 1.4MB). For advanced players.

Balquhidder Music
BQ86a - Score and Parts - $75.00
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Many requests have been made to have Kevin’s enormously popular work for brass quintet arranged for wind ensemble. This is going to be your favorite concert opener, and the band will love it, too. A stirring and poignant piece has been expertly crafted by Paul Bhasin to be a winning band showcase. Escape was originally written for the University of Maryland graduate brass quintet, and was premiered at the conclusion of McKee’s Masters Degree recital. It is an exciting and invigorating piece, sure to bring the house down. A contrasting middle section adds poignant relief before the flight resumes in epic, cinematic style. For advanced ensembles.

Carl Fischer Music
WE8 – Score and Parts $24.95  
WE8F – Full Score $9.95  

Carl Fischer Music Editor-in-Chief and veteran composer Larry Clark has penned a beautiful quintet for winds, commissioned by the Ars Nova Quintet at James Madison University in 1991, where it was premiered. Quartal and quintal harmonies are the driving force behind this piece in three movements; each exploring a different style. “Frolic” is inspired by Stravinsky’s use of stacked fifths, “Song” is melancholy and thoughtful, and “Rondo” goes out with a bang, loosely following the rondo format and ending soundly in F major. For advanced players.

Carl Fischer Music
Full Score - CY3321F - $150.25  
Alto Saxophone with Piano Reduction – CY3321PR - $44.50  
Set of score and parts available on rental

Maslanka’s work for alto saxophone with wind ensemble relies on his Mass for solo voices and orchestra as its central idea, particularly in its third movement, echoing the melodies. Full score and solo part are now available on custom print. Set of score and parts available on rental.

Carl Fischer Music
Score – CY2355F - $104.75  
Saxophone Quartet Parts – CY2355S - $44.75  

Michael Colgrass’ tribute to New York City living was commissioned by Gary Green and the University of Miami Wind Ensemble through its Abraham Frost Commission Series.

Carl Fischer Music
Full Score • CY3250F • $30.50  
Bassoon and Horn in F Parts • CY3250M • $58.75  

Newly available on custom print, Daniel Godfrey’s short piece Pomp and Revelry uses direct musical language to maintain its simple focus.

Carl Fischer Music
Full Score – CY3420F - $35.95  
Set of Parts – CY3420M - $53.00  

Commissioned by the Da Capo Chamber Players, Paul Lansky’s quirky, accidental-ridden Odd Moments is now available on custom print.

Flux
By Jason Eckardt
Alto Flute and Violoncello

Carl Fischer Music
MXE28F - Score - $23.95  
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The composer's website offers a good deal of information about his works. From program notes ("As the title suggests, Flux is in a perpetual state of transformation. Although there are passing moments of relative stability, the music never finds lasting repose.") to audio samples, Flux is revealed as an homage to Elliott Carter, using the full range and textures of the instruments. For advanced performers. Dur.: 6'

Carl Fischer Music
MXE21M - Set of Parts - $167.00     MXE21F - Full Score - $58.75  
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"Mr. Eckardt's language is at once sophisticated and simple." (Paul Griffiths, The New York Times) "...Exploded like spontaneous combustion, pushing the instrument to its extremes with pungent dissonances, improvisatory rhythms remarkably cued with the ensemble and an often spread-eagled virtuosic technique." (Jane Vranish, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) "...Alternating tough angular lyricism... with an exploration of extreme register as chunky and funky as mid 70s Ligeti" (Dan Warburton, Paris Transatlantic) "...It is all music which grabs and holds attention, and makes you want to play the pieces again to get closer to the composer's mind and procedures." (Peter Grahame Woolf, Musical Pointers) Critics love music of complexity and thought, and Eckardt's is a favorite. His A Glimpse Retraced appears on the Mode Records album Jason Eckardt: Out of Chaos, with the marvelous pianist Marilyn Nonken and Ensemble 21. For advanced performers. Dur.: c. 14'