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	Piper Publications Home Pa Ordering music from Piper Publications Retail orders within the UK. Please note that there is a p & p charge of £1.50 for all UK orders under £60. Orders over £60 are post free. If you are an individual wishing to order music use the "order music" link on the page to e-mail your request with any enquiry you may have. We will e-mail our reply telling you the cost of the music and how to pay for it. The options are all major credit/debit cards or cheque. If you are ordering music for a UK school or other similar organization and wish to be invoiced, rather than pay by credit/debit card or personal cheque, the delivery address must be that of your organization with your name and job title. Orders from outside the UK are payable in £sterling with carriage at cost. You will therefore need to use the blue "order music" e-mail link so that we can tell you the amount you need to pay. You will then have the option to telephone your credit/debit card details or send a sterling bank draft. If you click on order this music on any page of the catalogue, an e-mail to orders@piperpublications.co.uk will open and you can order the music you want and/or send us a query. Trade orders If you are a trade account you can order by e-mail, telephone (+44 (0) 1465 821377) or send a written order to Piper Publications (Trade orders), Dochroyle Farm, Barrhill, Girvan, Ayrshire, KA26 0QG Scotland UK. Unfortunately we do not have a fax as we are in an area which is regularly struck by lightning and gave up on fax machines after we lost several in one year! NEW PUBLICATIONS We are publishing five works for woodwind by John R. Williamson, a pupil of Thomas Pitfield, from August 2004. The first is his Sonatina for Flute & Piano, an entertaining piece of about 10 minutes duration for players of about grade 7 + which is now available. Sonata for Bassoon & Piano will follow - a work for advanced players. Woodwind Quartet for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet & Bassoon for players of about grade 7+ Sonata for Flute and Piano - a larger scale work than the Sonatina for advanced players. Suite for Clarinet (Bb) and Piano for players of about grade 7+ 2005 NEW NOW AVAILABLE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST a setting of this lovely Scottish song for 2 flutes & Clarinet in B flat by GORDON DALE OP. 49/3 SONGS OF THE FOREST by GORDON DALE OPUS 49/2 4 of the 5 movements of THE ORIGINAL orchestral suite arranged by the composer for brass quartet S102 Now available Big Maggot & the Butterflies Music & songs by Lin Marsh from a story by Caroline Astell-Burt with CD performance & backing tracks. For Key Stage 1. Now available Gordon Dale: MIRROR IMAGES for unaccompanied violin also for unaccompanied viola coming soon LATE 2005 GORDON DALE STRING QUARTET OPUS 34 which was performed by THE AMICI QUARTET
	New Publications NEW VIDEO NOW AVAILABLE A GUIDE TO THE FAST TRACKING FIDDLE VV007 £16.99 INCLUDING P & P order video now Mary teaches beginner violinists some of the techniques and exercises used in her method. Included are extracts from the VERY FIRST LESSON OF MADELEINE (age 5) and BRIAN (age nearly 50) in which they bow and pluck all the open strings. Madeleine's progress is followed over 13 months during which she develops a sound basic technique using full first position on all four strings and enjoys playing lots of tunes. HAE-YUN (age 8) is taught some more advanced techniques including vibrato, changing position and spiccato bowing. She was also filmed having her VERY FIRST VIOLA LESSON FAST TRACKING FIDDLE BY MARY GOODMAN V007/1/2 £7.50 each order music now FAST TRACKING VIOLA BY MARY GOODMAN Va007/1/2 £7.50 each order music now
	Complete flute music of James Hook Volume 4a Six Sonatas for 2 flutes with cello &/or keyboard is now available. Volume 4b is NOW AVAILABLE order now? We have been made aware of another Hook work - a set of variations for flute & harp - and will publish this as soon as possible. Volumes 6a & 6b for 2 flutes with alto or voice flute are now available Hook Vocal Music Volume 2 is now available Volume 3 isis now available
	GORDON DALE 1935 - 2001 A MEMORIAL CONCERT TOOK PLACE IN HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, WHITECROSS ST. HEREFORD ON SATURDAY JULY 13th at 7. 30 p.m. A wide variety of Gordon's music and that of his favourite composers was performed by his colleagues and friends. Members of the HEREFORD STRING ORCHESTRA, Leader STEPHEN BROWN, Conductor JULIE HOLLINGWORTH with PAMELA WHITE - Soprano delighted the audience with their sensitive performance of "Songs of Summer' and the last movement from Hymn Symphony plus Mozart and Elgar. PETER WARNER, Clarinet played Gordon's delightful ''Carol for Caroline' and Paul Reade's 'Suite for the Victorian Kitchen Garden'with CHRISTINE WILLIAMS, Piano. Christine also played 'My First Sonata' and Monpou's Pajaro Triste, reflecting on the latter part of Gordon's life when his disability imprisoned him like the caged bird. SUSAN HUMPHREY, Viola with Julie Hollingworth, Piano played Gordon's setting of Tom Bowling. JOHN LOCK, Organ,closed the first half with a magnificent performance of Gordon's Prelude and Fugue which was written for him and will shortly be published by Piper. BRONWEN WILKENS, a talented 11 year old harpist represented the young musicians for whom Gordon wrote so much of his music played Handel and Mussorgsky. SOPHIE ALLEN, another talented young player, impressed everyone with her stylish performance of Gordon's Bassoon Sonata with Pamela White, piano. SUZANNE CASEY, Violin, delighted the audience with her performance of'Mirror Images' for unaccompanied violin which Gordon wrote for her and concluded the concert with Elgar's 'Chanson de Matin and Chanson de Nuit. An exhibition of memorabilia, scores etc. was displayed at the back of the church and people who knew Gordon were invited to take away forms on which to contribut a memory of Gordon which they would like to share. IF YOU HAVE A MEMORY OF GORDON DALE WHICH YOU WOULD LIKE TO SHARE, WE WILL BE DELIGHTED TO RECEIVE IT by e-mail or snail mail. We will include as many as possible on Gordon's page of this site. Send us a memory of Gordon Dale.
	IAN MILNES Two of Ian's pieces for organ, ELEGY & MEDITATION ON A NUNC DIMITIS have been recorded by Ronald Frost on the organ of St. Ann's Church, St. Ann St. Manchester. This is Volume 2 in a series Music For Organ and also includes music by Ronald Frost, M. Camidge, J. S. Bach, A. Guilmant, D. Steele & Franz Liszt. Available as CD DRD0170 Music For Organ Volume 2 (£10.95 incl. p & p) or Cassette DRC0170 (£9.30 incl. p & p) from Dunelm Records, 2, Park Close, Glossop SK13 7RQ e-mail info@dunelm-records.co.uk
	John Turner performed Thomas Pitfield's Three Nautical Sketches with the Northern Chamber Orchestra in Macclesfield 28th October 2000 and in Bowdon Church (29th). These were the first public performances of the orchestral version. John Turner has recorded the Three Nautical Sketches and the Concerto for recorder, strings & percussion and works by Philip Lane, Edward Gregson, David Lyon, Ian Parrot & Alan Bullard with the Royal Ballet Sinfonia on the Qlympia label OCD 667.