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Issue: # 55      
 
 1,120 subscribers worldwide 
 
 
October/2010
Free Sheet Music to Download
  

Dear                     free

 Here's your JB Linear Monthly Freebie.
 
 
This month the freebie download is "Two Bach Chorales" for flute quartet, clarinet quartet, and saxophone quartet. 
 
 
 
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 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 a new JB Linear Music e-composer:
Joe Procopio
 
Joe Procopio is an ASCAP artist, composer, conductor, and has played lead alto sax for many of the nation's top recording artists. He received a full scholarship to study at the Conservatory of Milan, Italy, and studied composition with Aaron Copland and Gunther Schuller. There are two new pieces from Mr. Procopio:"Barbie", a beautiful piece for solo flute designed to make any flutist shine; and "Theme and Three Variations for Saxophone Alone" which was selected for the opening of the World Congress of Saxophones and was premiered by the internationally known saxophone artist, Dr. James Stoltie.
 
 
Christmas Music! 
 
Top Ten Christmas Carols - This year my Christmas music settings are the top 10 Christmas carols selected by the BBC Music Magazine.  The series is complete with woodwind quintets, quartets, trios, and duets. Here is the list of the top ten:
 
  • #10 Sussex Carol (version by Vaughan Williams
  • #9 O Magnum Mysterium (version by Gabrieli)
  • #8 Of the Father's Heart Begotten
  • #7 O Come All Ye Faithful (version by F. Liszt)
  • #6 There is No Rose
  • #5 Tomorrow Shall Be MY Dancing Day
  • #4 Coventry Carol (in the style of William Byrd)
  • #3 A Spotless Rose (version by Herbert Howells)
  • #2 In Dulci Jubilo (version by J S Bach)
  • #1 In the Bleak Midwinter (Drake)
 
If you click on the links you can find score and audio samples to review.
Poll and Survey Results
 Current Poll at JB Linear
The poll question now is, "What is your favorite piece of Christmas Music?" The poll can be found on the home page of JB Linear Music.
 
Here is the list so far:
 
Tomorrow Shall be my Dancing Day
I Wonder as I Wander
Carol of the Bells (4)
O Holy Night (4)
12 Days of Christmas (Canadian Brass)
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
We Three Kings
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (2)
Jingle Bells
Coventry Carol
Mary Did You Know
Bach's Christmas Cantata
 
This is the Day 
 
 
REVIEWS OF JB LINEAR

++September issue of "The Clarinet"++

Three of JB Linear's publications sold at www.music4woodwinds.com were reviewed in "The Clarinet", the magazine of the International Clarinet Association. Up for reviews were the flute and clarinet duets of Liz Leehey and Joe Armstrong, my arrangement of Amy Beach's"From Grandmother's Garden", and my edition of CPE Bach's Duo for Two Clarinets.
 
 
Next month's Freebie Download:  
Duets of "Sussex Carol" by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
 
Player's quinte* of the month:
 
The Grinch: "Blast this Christmas music! It's joyful and triumphant."  Dr. Seuss
 
 
Have fun playing! 
 
Sincerely,
 

John Gibson
JB Linear Music
 
 
*quinte: sometimes it is a quote, sometimes it is a hint