Books published by Faber Music Ltd

Ukulele Quest is an ideal first ukulele book that teaches many musical styles, including rock, reggae, and the blues. This colorful tutor provides a great introduction to chord charts, how to read music and musical concepts such as dynamics, pitch and tempo. Accompanying audio at every stage brings the music to life. Come on a quest into the world of music and learn how to play the ukulele! Travel through time, meet dragons, pirates and robots, and make new friends along the way.

This set of inventive and hugely contrasting Etudes for solo violin were written between 2010 and 2014, the last two as commissions from the London Sinfonietta. The final piece in this 8-minute collection is the most unusual: serene and meditative, it utilises a novel technique by which the player sustains hushed three-note chords.

Bassoon Basics offers helpful fingering diagrams and rhythm boxes, activities, duets, and a wide range of repertoire, including original pieces and well-loved favourites from every genre. Starting at absolute beginner level the tutor progresses to about Grade 2 level.

Lang Lang Piano Academy: Daily Technical Exercises is a collection of scale-based warm-ups, work-outs, and routines that no aspiring pianist should be without, providing a perfect follow-up to the Lang Lang Piano Academy: Mastering the Piano series. Ideal for mastering keys and developing essential technique, this book provides flexible and progressive routines ideal for intermediate-level players upwards. Elements include a comprehensive warm-up section, advice and tips from Lang Lang himself, and an extension section with ideas for further practice. Intermediate routines concisely cover each key center in musical exercises, and advanced routines cover Russian scale patterns, giving a full workout for each key center.

Christmas Flute Basics is a collection of fun and festive flute repertoire. Leap through the twelve days of Christmas in twelve stages. Each stage wraps together musical and technical elements to help focus your festive playing. Contents include: t Came Upon A Midnight Clear; We Wish You A Merry Christmas; The Twelve Days Of Christmas.

Selected by piano teachers for piano teachers, EPTA Teachers' Choice Piano Collection 1 is a collection of the most popular pieces for Grade 1-4 level students, as voted for by members of the European Piano Teacher's Association (EPTA). Each piece is introduced with a comment from a teacher, providing first-hand insights, tips and technical advice.

These three exquisite miniatures---composed in 2009 and lasting a total of five minutes---are responses to the poetry of George Bruce. In the first, soloist and piano are fused together as a single instrument, as if singing from a great distance. Suckling describes the following movements as inside a beam of light and a never-ending lullaby. Three Venus Haiku exist in versions for a number of different solo instruments with piano, and this edition is intended for either flute or violin.

The movie musical that starred Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen that featured the songs of Irving Berlin. A successful song-and-dance pair become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont Inn of their former commanding general.

20 Ella Fitzgerald classics arranged for piano, vocal and chors. Manhattan * With a Song in My Heart * Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye * The Man I Love * A Fine Romance * Blue Moon * Mack the Knife * Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) * Love for Sale * It's All Right with Me * What Is This Thing Called Love? * But Not for Me * My Funny Valentine * 'S Wonderful * I Could Write a Book * Let's Fall in Love * The Lady Is a Tramp * Bewitched * There's a Small Hotel * Love Is Here to Stay.

Battles was written for the restoration of the epic 1927 silent film The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands, and was commissioned by the British Film Institute (BFI) in 2013. There it has been edited for symphonic wind orchestra with percussion and harp.

King Arthur was the first of 28 scores Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) composed for radio between 1937 and 1947. It was an ambitious dramatisation of King Arthur's life and times - part pageant, part play, part cantata - written by D.G. Bridson.