Books published by Faber Music Ltd

Hank Marvin's unique guitar style has been an inspiration to several generations of guitarists worldwide, with instantly recognisable recordings such as "Apache", "FBI" and "Wonderful Land". This guitar workshop offers a learning tool that helps to extend the stockpile of licks and fills and develop improvisational skills.

Celtic Woman is the angelic female Irish vocal ensemble. The biggest thing to come out of Ireland since 'Riverdance', their signature sound has captured the hearts of audiences around the world with a series of chart-topping albums. This songbook features twenty-eight of the greatest songs and instrumentals performed by Celtic Woman, from contemporary hits, classical favourites and Irish standards arranged for piano, voice and guitar.

Selected and edited by Paul Harris and Sally Adams and covering a broad selection of 19th century study repertory, including Baermann, Berr, Demnitz and many others. This book contains exercises 55 to 76, with the earlier pieces to be found in Book 1. The pieces are selected from the historical repertoire to present playing challenges and new techniques in a specific musical context, arranged in progressive order of difficulty.

Teaching beginners is a huge responsibility and a challenge, but also reaps enormous rewards. This handbook for various instrumental and singing teachers offers a comprehensive advice and practical strategies on how to teach beginners. It also offers solutions to the challenges faced in music education. It discusses practice ideas for beginners.

The very first authorised biography of one of the most invigorating, inventive and independent bands the UK has ever produced. Written by Enter Shikari expert, Luke Morton, Standing Like Statues tells the Enter Shikari story through a series of comprehensive interviews with all members of the band and the team that surrounds them. This hardback edition is printed in full colour with a huge selection of unseen photographs. 

Dedicated to the memory of Oliver Knussen, George Benjamin's 2021 Concerto for Orchestra premiered at the BBC proms by the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Benjamin said that the piece attempts "to conjure a trace of the energy, humour, and spirit" of Knussen. It is varied and dynamic across its unbroken 17-minute span - skittish lines play against still, suspended ones - and full of star turns for its various instrumental protagonists. Available here as a full score. Parts available to hire from September 2022."A terrific 17-minute tour de force, clearly inspired by the virtuosity of the Mahler CO players, but far from being merely a glittering showcase."The Times (Richard Morrison), August 2021"As with everything Benjamin writes, the concerto gleams, all the sonic ingredients individuated, clarity and intricate detail turning every player into a soloist. In this composer's music it's as if every bar, every idea, is an essence of the whole: an atom, more like the smallest in a set of Russian dolls."The Observer (Fiona Maddocks), September 2021

This edition in the Steinway Library of Piano Music offers professional-sounding interpretations of 15 beautiful and best-loved standards expertly arranged for intermediate-level pianists with a warm improvisational quality and exciting chord substitutions. As with all books in this series, it includes a unique lay-flat binding to help keep the music open on the music stand.

A Lick and a Promise is the debut poetry collection of one of Irelands most famed female musicians, Imelda May. Following the release of her first poetry EP Slip Of The Tongue in 2020, this collection contains 100 poems, including two each from both her father and young daughter. Using the themes of Breast, Below, Blood, Eyes, Tongue and Temple, the poems are written in Mays absorbing, visceral style and encapsulate heartbreak, sex, nature and womanhood. Included in the collection is You Dont Get to be Racist and Irish, the powerful poem which was written in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and was recently used by Rethink Ireland

The ultimate companion to clarinet playing. Paul Harris The Clarinet is a practical and dynamic guide to all aspects of clarinet playing, ideal for students from Grade 5 intermediate level upwards and professionals alike. The authors seminal book on the instrument, this is a complete companion to playing, from practice through to performance.Bursting with excerpts from the clarinet canon in addition to many concise exercises to help master specific techniques, ideas are beautifully illustrated with diagrams and photos throughout. This comprehensive guide extends to historical timelines and references to recordings as well as repertoire