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The story of E1

It was 1972 and I had been supplying music to young wind players and their teachers for about a year. Teaching wind instruments in schools was still a fairly new thing, and there was very little music written that was suitable for young beginners. I paid a visit to the British Music Information Centre and looked through random boxes of manuscripts, searching for a style that looked fairly easy. That was how I discovered the name Raymond Parfrey. He seemed to have written several pieces that were tuneful and uncomplicated, so I got in touch with him. He was very interested, but at that precise moment he was doing a commission for alto flute. How interesting! Not exactly suitable for young beginners, but there was very little published for alto flute. Why not take it on?

I had been listening to advice from established music publishers for a while, with the idea of doing some publishing myself. The first sensible thing to do of course would be to publish something that would be popular and sell well. Another suggestion was to number your publications with a numerical prefix of some sort, so that it looked as if you had been publishing a large quantity for years.

Anyone who knows me will tell you that I'm not very good at taking advice. This is why I began with E1 - Lyric Moment for alto flute.

Innocent and undaunted I took a copy into London and started calling in to some of the major music shops to see if they would buy one. On the whole they were encouraging and gentlemanly (yes, all the buyers were blokes then), patting me on the head and taking a copy. I was a music publisher, and over the moon!

Raymond Parfrey 1928 - 2008

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Emerson Edition Ltd - New Publications - October 2011

Unaccompanied Flute Jazzarhythms Paul Lewis E627 £5.50 Grade 6/7 Duration 8’40” Four new jazzy solos for flute: Teatime Jazz, Birthday Blues, Dotted Waltz and Midnight Rag. ISMN: M-57040-810-8

Flute & Piano Desert Winds Michael Regan E604 £6.50 Grade 7/8 Duration 4’00” An interesting and challenging suite of movements depicting three types of desert wind: Harmattan, Santa Ana and Brickfielder. ISMN: M-57040-811-5

Flute Quartet Sprites Geoffrey Walker E631 £9.50 Grade 7/8 Duration 2’30” A scherzo for flutes – a modern mystical echo of the magical worlds created by composers such as Mendelssohn and Weber. ISMN: M-57040-809-2 score & parts

Clarinet & Piano Brook Green Suite Gustav Holst, arr. Russell Denwood E602 £8.00 Grade 5 Duration c.10’00” Originally written for the string orchestra of St Paul’s School for Girls, this charming suite works brilliantly for clarinet & piano. ISMN: M-57040-783-5

Clarinet & Piano Serenade Frank Bridge, arr. Russell Denwood E624 £6.50 Grade 5/6 Duration 2’40” This is a gorgeous piece for clarinet and piano, adapted from the original for violin/cello, written in 1903. ISMN: M-57040-807-8

Bassoon & Piano Blue Fulvio Caldini E650 £6.00 Grade 8 Duration 4’30” A challenging, but brilliantly written bluesy showpiece for the more advanced bassoonist. ISMN: M-57040-813-9

Bassoon & Piano Autumn Day & Crunch Cat! Eve Barsham E626 £6.00 Grade 2/3 Duration 3’30” Two characterful and contrasting pieces for bassoon – good fun to play and enjoyable to listen to. ISMN: M-57040-805-4

Bassoon & Piano Walking Cimbrone David Dubery E639 £6.50 Grade 6/7 Duration 3’40” A characterful concert piece, written for Graham Salvage and inspired by a stray dog encountered whilst on holiday in Italy. ISMN:M-57040-814-6

Horn & Piano For Leah Arthur P. Barnes E637 £7.50 Grade 6/7 Duration 6’00” Written for his granddaughter’s senior year recital, this new piece by American composer, Arthur P. Barnes, makes an excellent addition to the horn-player’s repertoire. ISMN: M-57040-815-3

Trumpet & Piano An Excursion Gordon Carr E609 £9.50 Grade 8 Duration 10’00” An exciting new work for the more advanced trumpeter – recorded by Simon Cheney on his CD, ‘An English Trumpeter’. ISMN: M-57040-804-7

Clarinet, Bassoon & Piano Eight Pieces Op.83, Volumes 1 & 2 Max Bruch, arr. Russell Denwood Vol.1: E622 Vol.2: E623 £15.00 each Grade 8 Duration 15’30” & 17’30” An excellent arrangement of this wonderful set of Romantic chamber pieces. A new corrected edition of the original (for clarinet, viola & piano) is also published by Emerson Edition. Vol.1 ISMN: M-57040-800-9 score & parts Vol.2 ISMN: M-57040-801-6 score & parts

Wind Quintet Five Madrigals Henk Kox E632 £22.50 Grade 8 Duration 14’30” Not easy to play, but a witty and very effective piece in five movements: Leave the Cities, The White Cottage at the River, Tick-Tack Ticks Walk, Malparthus is Renard’s Home & Cinq Leffes Blondes S’il Vous Plait. ISMN: M-57040-803-0 score & parts

Wind Quintet Six Miniature Pastorals Frank Bridge, arr. Russell Denwood E618 £16.50 Grade 8 Duration 11’30” An arrangement of six of Frank Bridge’s Miniature Pastorals, originally written for piano. ISMN: M-57040-802-3 score & parts

Emerson Edition Ltd New Publications - January 2011

"Long may Emerson Edition prosper and flourish!
They are a leading light in wind music."

- Leslie Craven, Principal Clarinet, Welsh National Opera

Emerson Edition Titles are all available from June Emerson Wind Music

	Flute & Piano Rondo John Field, arr. Anthony Hedges E577 £6.50 Grade 7 Duration 5’00” An arrangement of a lively rondo movement from one of John Field’s very attractive piano pieces. ISMN: M-57040-764-4
	Flute & Piano Two Little Pieces Eve Barsham E576 £4.50 Grade 3/4 Duration 4’00” ‘Dotty’ and ‘Wishful Thinking’ are two contrasting pieces that are as characterful as their titles suggest! ISMN: M-57040-763-7
	Oboe & Piano Serenade Charles Gounod, arr. Lionel Salter E616 £4.50 Grades 4/5 Duration 2’30” A delightful little piece, perfect for the younger player. Originally published by OUP, this is a well-deserved return to print. ISMN: M-57040-795-8
	2 Oboes & Cor Anglais Hautboy Suite Marion Holland E594 £12.50 Grades 6/7 Duration 26’00” A charming and effective suite of movements for oboe trio: Passacaglia, Scherzo, Sarabande and Carnival. ISMN: M-57040-78606 score & parts
	Clarinet & Piano Trio Movement (from Op.114) Johannes Brahms, arr. Chris Allen E606 £5.50 Grade 7/8 Duration 5’00” A piano reduction of the Andante grazioso (3rd) movement of Brahms’s wonderful Trio for clarinet, cello and piano. ISMN: M-57040-789-7
	Clarinet Choir Four Dances (from Op.174) Cornelius Gurlitt, arr. Russell Denwood E508 £12.50 Grade 6/7 Duration 7’20” This is a set of four tuneful and jolly dances from Op.174, ideal for the progressing clarinet choir. ISMN: M-57040-665-4 score & parts
	Alto Saxophone & Piano Bagatelles Chris Noble E603 £8.00 Grade 8 Duration 7’00” A challenging and exciting set of 5 short movements in a variety of moods. ISMN: M-57040-790-3
	French Horn Horn Warm-Ups Bob Ashworth E635 £5.00 All grades A brilliant little A5 booklet of daily warm-up exercises, designed to consolidate techniques and achieve a focused sound. Road-tested by the Opera North horn section! ISMN: M-57040-812-2
	Horn & Piano Elegy Norman Warren E590 £4.50 Grade 5 Duration 5’00” A beautifully lyrical piece, perfectly suited to the instrument, from this very English composer. ISMN: M-57040-791-0
	Clarinet, Violin & Piano Celtic Twilight Christopher Ball E619 £7.50 Grade 8 Duration 8’30” “A pastoral miniature in the best tradition of the English landscapists…” Fanfare magazine, USA ISMN: M-57040-796-5 score & parts
	Clarinet, Viola & Piano Eight Pieces Op.83, Volumes 1 & 2 Max Bruch, ed. Russell Denwood Vol.1: E629 Vol.2: E630 £15.00 each Grade 8 Duration 15’30” & 17’30” A new corrected version of this wonderful set of Romantic chamber pieces. Editorial commentary also available on request. Vol.1 ISMN: M-57040-798-9 score & parts Vol.2 ISMN: M-57040-799-6 score & parts
	Wind Decet Overture for Whethoryon Op.80 Judith Bailey E605 £14.50 Grade 8 Duration 5’00” An evocative piece for wind ensemble. Cornish for ‘blowers of wind instruments’. ISMN: M-57040-793-4 score & parts