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Issue: # 40
862 subscribers worldwide 
July/2009
Free Sheet Music to Download
  

Dear                     free

 Here's your JB Linear Monthly.
 



This month the free music download is a group of
duet versions of "Prelude" from "Suite of Six Short Pieces" by Ralph Vaughan Williams. It is set for 2 flutes, flute and clarinet, flute and bassoon, 2 clarinets, clarinet and bassoon, and two saxophones. The saxophone version may be played with two oboes, although the range in the 1st part is a bit high.+++You can download any or all of the versions. Just click on the "Freebie Download" link to the left.+++


 
 
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
Did you know that the Christmas season is a great sheet music buying time? Do you have a Christmas-season related piece for woodwinds you would like to have distributed by JB Linear Music? Email me and I will talk a look!
 
In process for Christmas right now are my settings of "Weichnauchtsbaum" (Christmas Tree) by Franz Liszt. Christmas starts early with music publishers!
 
Marten King has added two clarinet quartets: Grieg's Peasant's Song and Schumann's Spring Song. Both would be fine for your clarinet quartet.
 

Be sure to visit the JB Linear Music website links for more information and music samples.

Other news of JB Linear Music
Audio Samples -  I am putting audio samples on all sheet music on the JB Linear website. So far, it is woodwind quintets and duets that are complete. Audio and pdf samples have been available for music added the last two years, but most people expect these now and I am completing the process for the older music.
 
Free music at free-scores site. There is a lot of  free sheet music at this site, including some of the JB Linear freebies you get every month.
 
Have you bought music from JB Linear? If so, please consider giving your rating and review about the music. You do so at the bottom of the page for each separate piece on the music4woodwinds site. Two new ones have been received for Anamaria Campbell's Fum Fum Fum and Romanian Dance. Thanks!
 
 
When it says, "worldwide subscribers" , it is true. The newest subscribers to this newsletter are from the United Kingdom, Singapore, Belgium, Taiwan, Poland, Canada, and the United States.
    James Galway Scales Video   Music Video of the Month 
 Have you seen this? 
The YouTube music video of the month is from a master class by James Galway. His topic: good use of scales and talking to your instrument. Click on the picture for the YouTube link.
 
Do you have a favorite YouTube video to share? Email the link and the best will be placed in this column. If you don't share your favorites, I keep getting to pick mine!
Next month's Freebie Download: trio versions of "Pantalon" by Amy Marcy Beach. A Pantalon is a type of hammered dulcimer.
 
    Do you have sheet music you would like to offer as a freebie in this newsletter? Email and let me know.
 
Player's hint of the month:  
Scales can be fun and musical and help you to get to know your instrument.

Have fun playing! 
 
Sincerely,
 

John Gibson
JB Linear Music