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Issue: # 36
768 subscribers worldwide 
 March/2009
Free Sheet Music to Download
  

Dear                     free

 Here's your JB Linear Monthly.
 
This month the free music downloads are trio versions of Sailor's Song from Grieg's 6 Lyric Pieces. It is set for 3 flutes, 3 clarinets, 2 clarinets plus bass clarinet, 2 oboes plus english horn, flute-oboe-bassoon, and flute-clarinet-bassoon. +++You can download any or all of the versions. Just click on the "Freebie Download" link to the left.+++
 
Now you can access the freebies of the past in the JB Linear Music Archive. Click on "Freebie Archives" at the left.
 
New Music at JB Linear
 
Announcing music of Marten King - beginning with the Andante from Mozart's quartet k 421 in a setting by Marten King for clarinet quartet. Marten has an extensive number of pieces for clarinet solo and clarinet ensembles that will be added to JB Linear for distribution in the future.
 
You may view a sample score and hear an audio sample. Use your credit card to make a secure purchase, too.
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Introducing the flute and clarinet duet transcriptions of Joe Armstrong and Liz Leehey
   
Here is the current list of works from Joe and Liz being distributed by JB Linear Music:
  1. Adagio Cantabile from Piano Trio Op 1 #1 by Beethoven
  2. Casta Diva by Bellini
  3. Una Furtiva Lagrima by Donizetti
  4. Quando le sere al placido by Verdi
  5. Siciliana ("O Lola") by Mascagni
  6. Mattinata by Leoncavallo
  7. Ebben, n'andro lontano by Catalani
  8. Catari! Catari! By Cardillo
  9. Lento from Quartet No. 6 (American) by Dvorak
  10. Je crois entendre encore by Bizet
  11. Terzettino from Cosi Fan Tutti by Mozart
     

You may view score samples, hear audio samples, and make a secure purchase of their pieces at JB Linear Music.

 
Other news of JB Linear Music
 
  • JB Linear exhibited its clarinet sheet music at the Portland National Clarinet Symposium on February 4th at the University of Portland (Oregon).  The symposium was attended by over 150 people and I enjoyed meeting clarinetists from the Pacific Northwest.
  • On April 4th, JB Linear will be exhibiting sheet music at the Flute Fair in Portland, Oregon
  • At a February 21 concert, the Oregon Chamber Players not only played the 11 wind version of Brahms' Serenade #2 published by JB Linear, but also JB Linear composer Timoteus Racz's Rondo Grandioso. You can see more of Mr. Racz's music ...click here.
  • Another JB Linear music composer, Matt Doran, will have his Symphony #5 premiered by the Clark College Orchestra on March 11, 2009 at the Royal Durst Theatre in Vancouver, Washington. JB Linear does not publish his orchestral works, but we have several of his fine chamber works and we do his music typesetting.
  • Do you have music typesetting needs? JB Linear provides professional work at reasonable rates. Contact through email at info@music4woodwinds.com

 
Next month's Freebie Download: duet versions of Louis Gottschalk"s Manchega (Seville 1853 - 1860)
 
Player's hint of the month:  "The concept of the ideal performance gives us something for which to aim, and that is good; but shooting for an objective ideal also tends to block us off from a certain kind of spontaneity that can give vitality and projection to a performance." Stewart Gordon, "Etudes for Piano Teachers  
 
Have fun playing! 
 
Sincerely,
 

John Gibson
JB Linear Music