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Stuck for a gift for your musical loved ones or friends? Here is a small selection of publications from our catalogue which might just fit the bill...

Henly: Musical Crosswords
Larger image...		 Henly: Musical Crosswords Ref: B906

25 puzzles with a musical theme

Compiled by crossword connoisseur Randal Henly, this latest addition to Stainer & Bell's collection of musical brain-teasers offers hours of amusement to all musically-minded crossword lovers.

Intriguing, educational, and above all fun to do, this plethora of puzzles makes for a great gift for musical friends and family - and a guaranteed way to extend your musical knowledge with a maximum of enjoyment.

Price: £4.95


Musidoku: The Musical Sudoku. Opus 1
Larger image...		 Musidoku: The Musical Sudoku. Opus 1 Ref: B897

Composed by Antony Kearns

44 puzzles to tickle and tackle your musical brain cells.

Musidoku® is a musical variation on the hugely popular Sudoku number-place puzzle. So, if you're a musician who loves Sudoku, then Musidoku will definitely be your forte.

This book makes a great gift for all your musical friends and the puzzles are also a really fun way for pupils to practise drawing musical symbols.

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Price: £4.00


Musidoku: The Musical Sudoku. Opus 2
Larger image...		 Musidoku: The Musical Sudoku. Opus 2 Ref: B904

Composed by Antony Kearns

44 more puzzles to tickle and tackle your musical brain cells.

Musidoku® is a musical variation on the hugely popular Sudoku number-place puzzle. So, if you're a musician who loves Sudoku, then Musidoku will definitely be your forte.

Still using standard 9 x 9 grids, this second collection adds five further musical symbols to the mix, so the combinations change from puzzle to puzzle.

www.musidoku.com

Price: £4.00


Purcell, Henry: Complete Catches Purcell, Henry: Complete Catches Ref: D86

Edited by Michael Nyman

Matching skilfully contrived music with topical and often scabrous texts, Purcell’s catches offer vivid glimpses of 17th-century life which also appeal to a more modern sense of humour. Reissued to celebrate the tercentenary of the composer’s death, this complete collection is edited by Michael Nyman, who provides an extensive preface that tells the history of the genre.

Price: £7.75


Mordish, Louis: So I Think I'll Become a Musician Mordish, Louis: So I Think I'll Become a Musician Ref: B808

An Autobiography in Nine Movements
This is the life story of an outstanding performer of the golden age of cinema organ, who was a much-loved musician and a member of the prestigious Claridge's Orchestra. Louis, who died in 1996, did practically all there was to do in showbiz since joining the profession as a pianist for the silent screen. There's a special emphasis on the mighty Wultitzers and other instruments that he played to perfection. Eight pages of photographs set the scene for an experience of pure entertainment from cover to cover.

Price: £7.95


Sydney Carter's Lord of the Dance Sydney Carter's Lord of the Dance Ref: CD0087

Sydney Carter's Lord of the Dance CD is a brilliant new compilation that matches the finest work of this much-loved songwriter with some of the leading lights in contemporary music.

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Price: £8.70 (Excluding VAT at 15%)


Carter, Sydney: THE TWO-WAY CLOCK Carter, Sydney: THE TWO-WAY CLOCK Ref: B287

Reprinted in 2000 this collection contains Sydney's poetry collections Nothing Fixed or Final; Love More or Less previously published separately together with The Feel of Wood as well as a previously unpublished poem. 107 poems by this prolific writer. Some will recognise the Housman influence in them. All can enjoy their language.
ISBN 0 85249 287 1

Price: £6.75


Green, Fred Pratt: THE LAST LAP Green, Fred Pratt: THE LAST LAP Ref: B807

With his move to a Methodist Home for the Aged, Fred believed his writing days to be over. 'I knew that old age does nothing for the inspiration'. However, he was wrong, and this modest 'sequence in verse on the theme of old age' brings smiles and tears as Fred takes us into his new home and shares his, and the community's, hopes and fears, joys and sorrows in 53 'verses'; on themes as diverse as 'Sex in Old Age', Bonnets and Perms', and 'Going to Church in a Mini-bus'. All royalties from the sale of this book are being donated to the Methodist Home for the Aged.
ISBN 0 85249 807 1

For supply to the USA or Canada, please contact Hope Publishing.

Price: £5.25


Green, Fred Pratt: SERVING GOD AND GOD'S CREATURES Green, Fred Pratt: SERVING GOD AND GOD'S CREATURES Ref: B865

A memorial volume to celebrate the life of Fred Pratt Green
Compiled by Bernard Braley

  • over 60 photographs and illustrations, many in colour

  • compiled from Fred Pratt Green's papers, photograph albums, scrapbooks and diaries

  • memories contributed by those who still remember him from as early as 1924

  • Fred's poems and sonnets addressed to his friends and other previously unpublished writing and many other sources

  • commissioned by The Pratt Green Trust


    • ISBN 0 85249 865 9

    Price: £12.50


    Music of the Heart: John and Charles Wesley on Music and Musicians Music of the Heart: John and Charles Wesley on Music and Musicians Ref: B826

    Carlton R Young with Preface by Richard Watson
    ISBN 0 85249 826 8

    The achievement of John and Charles Wesley in establishing the foundations of Methodist music has been largely unexplored - until now. Carlton R Young, one of the leading scholars in the field, explains the theological background to the vast hymnic repertoire the brothers created, and the history behind such classic 18th century tune books as the Foundery Collection of 1742 and Sacred Harmony of 1780.

    For supply to the USA or Canada, please contact Hope Publishing.

    Price: £11.00


    Simeon, Margaret: The History of Lace Simeon, Margaret: The History of Lace Ref: B445


    Okay, so this isn't musical, but it does make a wonderful gift!

    Mechlin, Chantilly, Valenciennes and Lille - these are not clues in some obscure crossword puzzle, but styles of lace-making brought to life in Margaret Simeon's history of the subject based on her own collection built up over four decades. The range of this study is astonishing. But no less remarkable is the detail with which the author records the fine variants of lace manufacture through the centuries and its wider social and economic context. A meticulous art is revealed - an art that has proved central to the long history of European fabrics, textiles and fashion.
    ISBN 978-0-85249-445-5

    Price: £15.50


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