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Issue: # 43
 
915 subscribers worldwide 		 October/2009
Free Sheet Music to Download
  

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 Here's your JB Linear Monthly.
 

 
This month the free music download is "The Infinite Shining Heavens" by Ralph Vaughan Williams for solo flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, or alto saxophone with piano accompaniment. If you have ever played his "6 Studies in English Folk Song", you will hear a similarity with this piece. You may 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
New for your holiday season playing is a set of 6 pieces written by Franz Liszt, "Christmas Tree Suite". Although several are Christmas Carols , they are more character pieces about holiday activities. An especially pleasing set of pieces for the holidays. There are settings for
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JB Linear Music is carrying the flute version of Fernand Gillet's "Exercices sur les Gammes, les Intervalles et le Staccato pour la Flute". (Exercises for Scales, Intervals and Staccato for Flute) Fernand Gillet was the principal oboe of the Boston Symphony for 21 years and originally wrote this book for oboe and later made this version for flute. This is a huge book with huge implications for those who undertake its study.  A complete description is available from Joe Armstrong, who write the "flutist's forward to the book.
Other news of JB Linear Music
  • Getting printed music in the mail - not everyone wants to download sheet music and print it themselves, so now there is a way to get JB Linear's music printed, bound, and mailed to you. Just go to the special area where additional funds will be added to your order to cover the printing and shipping costs.  
  • What happened to the promised jazzy version of Pakington's Pound for this month's freebie? Some arrangements just do not seem to work and this was one of them. Oh well.......
Poll and Survey Results
 Current Poll at JB Linear
The poll question now is, "What instrument do you play?" The poll can be found on the home page of JB Linear Music.
Next month's Freebie Download: "Song of the Wise Men" (a traditional Christmas song from Puerto Rico) for some sort of woodwind combination. 
 
Player's hint of the month:   About Julius Baker (flute)
 
"He always came to class in running shoes. One day someone played the last movement of the Ibert Concerto (I hope memory serves me...). When the student finished the last note, a high A, Mr. Baker accidentally squeaked his sneaker on the tile floor and discovered it was a high F, like an F4. He picked up his flute, nodded to Martha Rearick at the piano and played the ending himself. With perfect intonation and dead-on timing, he substituted the last note of the piece with an F4 from the floor. Now that's one up on all my other teachers!" Don Bailey, Julius Baker Tribute (2004)
 

Have fun playing! 
 
Sincerely,
 

John Gibson
JB Linear Music