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Issue: # 60       
 1,240 subscribers worldwide 

March/2011
Free Sheet Music to Download
  

Celebrating Five Years of the Free Sheet Music Newsletter!
 
Dear                     free

 Here's your JB Linear Monthly Freebie.
 
This month the freebie sheet music is "Jigg", the 3rd movement of Symphony #7 by William Boyce (1711 - 1779).  This is set by John Gibson for woodwind trios that can be played in various combinations. The download includes all the parts (flute, oboe and bassoon, with alternate Bb and bass clarinet parts for each.) You may mix and match the parts as needed. 
  
  

  
 You can access the freebies of the past in the JB Linear Music Archive. Click on "Freebie Archives" at the left.

Poll and Survey Results
 Current Poll at JB Linear
The poll question now is,  "Does the material from which a woodwind instrument is made matter in how it sounds? Mark your score 1-5 with 5 meaning materials matter a great deal." The poll can be found on the home page of JB Linear Music.

Here are the results so far:

 

  

New Music at JB Linear Music www.music4woodwinds.com

Introducing Lisa Ochoco's music for flute

 

Lisa Ochoco is active in the Greater Portland Flute Society where she is a board member, a flutist in a flute quartet called Flutando, a flutist in the Lake Oswego Millennium Concert Band. She has been doing arrangements for flute ensembles for many years and they have been performed widely. Click here to see Lisa's music.
  

 

More music from Spike Maiden Mueller

 

Spike has added three versions of "The Navy Hymn" for flute quartet, clarinet quartet, and saxophone quartet.Click here to see Spike's music.

Best Sellers at

www.music4woodwinds.com

 

Oriental by Granados for flute, oboe, and bassoon

"It Isn't Easy Being a Cuckoo" for woodwind quartet

Clara Schumann Trio for clarinet, cello, and piano

Brahms Serenade #2 set for 11 winds

Advanced Clarinet Technique

25 Hymns and Spirituals for Woodwind Duets 

 

The last of the limited edition of Fernand Gillet's excellent book of scales and exercises is available for purchase at Amazon.com. These are the remaining 11 copies of the facsimile edition in Gillet's handwriting. The book is still being published at JB Linear Music, but only in the computerized version. Here is your chance to not only obtain an historical book, but also get one of the finest scale and interval books available.

 

Exercises for Scales, Intervals, and Staccato for Flute, Limited Edition (English, Spanish and French Edition)
by Fernand Gillet by Miller and Armstrong
Spiral-bound
List Price: $26.95
Our Price: $26.95
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Next month's Freebie Download:  

"Largo" from Handel's opera Xerxes for woodwind quartet.

 

 Player's quinte* of the month:

Always think of the long musical line, not individual notes.
  
Have fun playing! 

Sincerely,


John Gibson
JB Linear Music
 
*quinte: sometimes it is a quote, sometimes it is a hint
   
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In honor of 5 years of providing free sheet music and JB Linear Music news with this newsletter, here is your chance to save 25% off your order of $20 or more when made between March 1, 2011 and March 15, 2011. All music at www.music4woodwinds.com is on sale. When you check out, use the code: 5YEARS
  
Thank you!
Offer Expires: March 15, 2011