Novello's Music Primers

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History

This British series started about 1880.

Arrangers and Editors

• Berthold Tours (1838—1897)
• Arnold Dolmetsch (1858—1940)

Publishers

• London Novello & Co.

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Contents

• 16. The Violin (Tours, Berthold).
• 17. The Viola (Tours, Berthold)
• 28. The cornet : with adaptations for other instruments, scales, exercises, and solos, and transposing table and scales / by Harry Brett.
• 47. Organ Pedal Technique (Horner, Burnham W.)
• 50. Choral society vocalisation : instructions and exercises in voice-training to be used at ordinary rehearsals / by J. Stainer
• 111. A commentary on book I of the Forty-eight preludes and fugues (Das wohltemperirte Klavier) of Johann Sebastian Bach / by Stewart Macpherson.
• 116. Playing the piano: a book for beginners. 2 bks.
• 396 Two-Part Exercises for Choirs and Schools (Greenwood, James)
• The organ / by John Stainer edited by John E. West.
• Plain-Song (Helmore, Thomas)
• Key to a manual of harmony for schools / by Francis Edward Gladstone.
• A primer of pedal scales & arpeggios for the organ : with an appendix including some exercises for acquiring greater facility in pedalling / by Herbert F. Ellingford.
• The organ : a study of its principles and practice. Part I / by Herbert F. Ellingford.
• Twelve Trios ... Edited and arranged for the organ, with pedal obbligato, by Arthur W. Marchant. / [By Albrechtsberger, Johann Georg 1736-1809.]
• The organ / edited by John E.West.
• Extemporisation. [Piano].
• The double-bass / edited and revised in accordance with modern practice by F.A. Echlin
• Twenty-four Studies in Sight-singing and Interpretation for mixed voices ... being Supplement No. 1 to A Handbook for Choralists. / [By Grace, Harvey 1874-1944.]
• A primer of pedal scales & arpeggios for the organ : with an appendix including some exercises for acquiring greater facility in pedalling / by Herbert F. Ellingford.
• Double scales systematically fingered : a supplement to all existing pianoforte schools / by Franklin Taylor.
• Sonata form / by W.H. Hadow.
• A collection of two-part solfeggi in the principal major keys : designed for the practice of choristers and vocal classes generally / selected from Durante, Handel, Leo, Scarlatti, Steffani, Nares, Webbe, etc., by James Higgs.

Series

• The Violoncello.
• Key to a manual of harmony for schools / by Francis Edward Gladstone.
• Singing. / [By Randegger, Alberto 1832-1911.]
• The double bass. / [By White, A.C.]
• The exercises in the "Choral society vocalisation" primer by J. Stainer. Adapted and arranged for the use of choirs and classes of female voices by A.W. Marchant.
• Breathing for voice production / by H. H. Hulbert.

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