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March 2010 * New out this month: * SM70 - Duets for bass recorders, Vol. 2 is now available. This contains 9 pieces by Lassus, Anon, Gibbons and Morley and is for intermediate and advanced bass recorder players. The Gibbons and Morley pieces in this one are quite challenging. $24 ($26.40). * There's a new entry or two in the Teachers Directory. |
* It seems a lot of emails to me in January may have got caught in the ISP's spam filter. This has been sorted out, so if you didn't hear from me then, please resend. * The first strings ordered from Universale here and some prices are on the page. * Saraband Music has now produced 130 publications including three books. * All of the catalogues have been reposted with Fuzeau and Cheap Trills completely repriced, and various other amendments and additions. Work in progress. |
February 2010 * New out this month: SM68 - Angelo Maria Scaccia: Two sonatas for violin and continuo, edited by Heath Landers. An urtext, first edition from a MS in Cambridge University Library. Score and parts $30 ($33) FC2 - William Byrd: Haec Dies. That wonderful Easter motet for 6 voices. Now nominally arranged for viols TrTrTTBB or TrTRTBBB, but with text included so voices can sing along. Alternative clefs available too. |
* Strings are almost here. I've placed a small order with Universale. Mostly gut 1st and 2nd strings, and a few wound strings. It will take some time for stock to build up. See the new page under Strings on the menu at left. * Saraband Music is distributing two fabulous new music facsimiles from DIAMM at Oxford Uni. The Eton Choirbook and the Dow MS are in pre-publication offers till 14 March (only through Saraband). Click here for more and download the pdf flyer from that page. * Saraband will be able to order viol and chamber music from Oriana Music in Austria. |
January 2010 * Happy New Year to all customers. * As a new year present, there are four new pieces for bass recorder (or cello/bass viol/bassoon) available now on my Free downloads page. * SM66, The Bass Recorder Book Vol. 3 is available now. It contains 27 pieces of Mediaeval music. The first 2 volumes are proving very popular, with positive comments coming in. Get yours now! Also suitable for bass viol/bassoon/cello. Lots of easy music, and some more challenging pieces in Vol 2. Sample pages for all three are here. * AND ... SM67 is about to go to the printers. The Bass Recorder Book Vol. 4 contains 43 easy pieces by Henry Purcell. All arranged from keyboard repertoire, and there are some very hummable tunes coming your way. *There's a very handy SEARCH button below the menu at left which will do a keyword search on this whole site, including the pdf catalogues. * A new Easter motet for the Festive Collection is ready this week. William Byrd's gorgeous 6 part motet Haec Dies presented in its original key of F major, with score and parts, including alternative clefs for the middle part. Text included. * A new article by Prof. John Griffiths from Melbourne is up on my Student Resources pages. It deals with Juan Bermudo, and his treatise on vihuela technique. |
* I've begun to update my other publisher catalogues which are pdfs on the Other Publisher page. Corda, PRB Productions and Barenreiter have been repriced, but there is a lot more work to do, so please continue to use it as a guide, not an absolute! There are also a couple of publisher removals, and an addition. * Orders for many Barenreiter and other items will now be quicker, as Saraband Music can order from another wholesaler with a very speedy turnaround. Prices may differ a little from the catalogues (well they change all the time anyway ...) and in some cases will be cheaper. * The latest Salut! CD and their previous releases are available now. Click here for details. Stock is at Saraband now. * The Lyrichord page has been extensively updated with the early music series of CDs. * The Elizabethan Playalong page now has a list of all the standard CDs available. * Many of you know that I was one of the prizewinners of the 9th Leo Traynor Competition for New Viol Music in 2009. My winning piece is available from the Viola da Gamba Society of America, and you can order the piece by clicking here. Do a search for my name, or scroll down to near the bottom of the page. * Music greeting cards by Janina Evangelou of Tasmania are now on the cards menu.
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December 2009 * The first two books of the series The Bass Recorder Book are out now. Vol. 1 contains 36 pieces of folk and traditional music from England, Ireland, Scotland and Australia. Some songs are included, with texts. Standard is generally fairly easy. |
* A selection of Lyrichord CDs are now in stock at A$20 ($22 inc. GST). There is also a small selection of Naxos CDs. Everything in stock is early music (including some Mozart), but I'm able to order anything from their catalogues, so please ask. * Saraband Music is also the agent in Australasia for Elizabethan Play Along CDs. This is the Music Minus One concept, but taken to a new level for viol players. More details will be on the CDs section of this website as soon as I am able to get to it. *Yes folks, we've finally started building again. The Workers' Cottage on my property is underway, and we hope to move down there (including Saraband!) by mid-year. |
September 2009 * Finally ... the new Byrd edition is out. SM63 is Three pieces by William Byrd, arranged from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book. Sellinger's Round, Fortune and O Mystris Myne are arranged for TrTrTB viols. Score and parts. A$20 ($22 with GST). Available right now. |
These are reasonably challenging pieces, but there are simpler sections, and groups could omit the more difficult sections if they can't play them. Lovely pieces, and great workshop as well as performance material. |
August 2009 * I was recently announced as one of the winners of the 9th Leo M. Traynor Competition for New Viol Music, which was hosted by the Viola da Gamba Society of America. |
The winning pieces were played at a concert at the VdGSA Conclave in Chicago on 28th July. It was lovely to be there. My piece is entitled In Nomine "Five", and is written for TrTrTBB viols. |
July 2009 * Announcing THE SARABAND SIMPSON, a newly produced facsimile of both The Division Violist (1659) and The Division Viol (1665/7) by Christopher Simpson. To save space, the first edition is reduced in size. This substantial book costs $50 ($55 inc GST), and is available now. Being wire-bound, it will open completely flat on your music stand, which I think will be a very popular innovation. I'm very excited with the way it has turned out, and hope you will be too. In addition to the two facsimile editions, there is a new introduction, plus twelve pieces and divisions by Simpson's contemporaries, newly edited by me. A critical commentary is included. Basically I've created my ideal edition of Simpson, and I hope you love it. |
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