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Some of our best selling sheet music titles are the Hickman Editions, Robert King Editions, and other classic and rare titles. Much of what we carry is not on our website, so if you don't see what you are looking for, please contact us!

Arban's Complete Conservatory Method for Trumpet - Platinum Edition
$39.95
Carl Fischer is proud to present a new and special edition of this classic publication that has served as the method of choice for generations of trumpet players. The Authentic Edition of Arban's Complete Conservatory Method offers the student a comprehensive system of study for the trumpet, including scales, etudes, duets, solos, and extensive exercises designed to develop musicianship and technique. The new Platinum Edition features: Comb-binding for easier use; Piano accompaniment CD for the Fantasies included in the book; Handsome Platinum Edition cover.

Melodious Etudes for Trumpet - Bordogni
$13.95
Melodious Etudes for Trumpet by Giovanni Marco Bordogni (1789-1856). Arranged by Sean O'Loughlin Larry Clark. Marco Bordogni (1758-1856), a celebrated tenor of the early 19th Century, wrote these vocalises during his later career as a teacher of singing. Transcribed and adapted by Joannes Rochut in three books, they became a cornerstone of the trombone repertoire. Larry Clark and Sean O’Loughlin have chosen fifty-four of these tuneful and expressive studies that best fit the idiosyncrasies of trumpet and presented them in a logical pedagogical sequence from etudes in the easiest keys and simplest rhythms to the more challenging and elaborate studies that occur later in the sequence. Melodious Etudes for Trumpet is certain to become a standard supplemental collection for the teaching of musicianship to trumpet players.

Concone Complete Solfeggi for Trumpet
$24.95
New Edition, 2008, includes CD-ROM with printable piano accompaniments for all etudes, for both Bb and C trumpets. Also includes SmartMusic files for all etudes so that you can play along with your computer. All five groups by the famous master of vocal art in one volume! Thirty Daily Exercises, Fifty Lessons, Twenty-five Lessons, Fifteen Vocalises and Forty Lessons. Intermediate to Medium-Advanced. Excellent material for lyrical phrasing, breath control, endurance. With glossary of Italian terms and listing by keys. Good material for early transposition assignments in either the treble or bass clef versions.

Damrow -- Bel Canto for Brass

Frink / McNeil -- Flexus: Trumpet Calisthenics for the Modern Improviser
$34.50
Flexus: Trumpet Calisthenics for the Modern Improviser by Laurie Frink & John McNeil. The first book to deal with the unique physical demands of improvising on the trumpet! Preliminary studies (Flexibility · Basic flexibilities · Flexando · Advanced flexibilities · Interval studies · Études 1-3) Articulation (Slurring/tonguing · Étude 4 · Developed scale · arpeggios/direction changes · Étude 5) Pedal tones Quick register changes (Consistent intervals · Spiders · Étude 6 · Chromatic displacement · Target practice · Octave displacement · Études 7-10) Included with the book is a half-hour CD with the authors talking about and demonstrating exercises in the book.

Hickman -- 15 Advanced Embouchure Studies
$15.00
Fifteen progressive lip bend studies designed to strengthen the embouchure, as well as develop accuracy and control in all registers. These are the exercises used by Hickman with hundreds of students over the past 35 years. A 15 week (or less) course for good high school players and up. Simple instructions with each lesson help the player fine tune and develop the embouchure to maximize power, endurance, and tone quality. 40 pages; coil binding. We've tried this book here at Thompson Music and we've seen results!

Pinksterboer, Hugo -- Tipbook for Trumpet and Trombone: The Best Guide to your Instrument
$9.95
The Tipbook Series books are handy, accessible, thorough, and convenient guides for players who want to get the most out of their instrument. They are written in collaboration with and proofread by musicians, teachers, technicians and other experts for beginners, students and advanced players. Features include: • lessons • teachers • practicing • all jargon explained • basic background information • price indications • history and family of the instrument • more. The trumpet and trombone book covers topics such as selecting and play-testing trumpets, cornets, flugelhorns and trombones, buying mouthpieces and mutes, tuning, and a brass players' glossary. “A valuable source of information.” (International Trumpet Guild) “Thoughtfully produced with clear print and numerous diagrams and drawings bursting with easy to find information and comprehensive, yet concise guidance.” (Harold Nash, The Trombonist)

Tuneup: Basic Training Intonation System
With a timbre engineered to expose pitch discrepancy immediately, the Basic Training audio CD provides the player with three crucial exercises per Key. The player first sings, then plays against the CD, listening for the “beats of pitch discrepancy. As the player moves his or her pitch to correct the beats, perfect placement is found and held, establishing a “groove” where the perfect, pure interval is easily recognized in context.

The first exercise, the Tonic Track Exercise, is a drone using a complex timbre quick to expose the “beats” of pitch discrepancy. By following the provided studies, the player learns the location of each Major and minor interval per key, places the interval in both scales and arpeggios, and uses the exercise for excerpt, solo and etude development. However, Basic Training does not stop there!

The second exercise extends the intervals learned in the Tonic Track Exercises to full, perfectly tuned chords . The Interval Study provides the player with eight separate patterns that focus on the Root, Dominant and Third of the chord and on movement within the chord. Here the player learns to apply the intervals within the context of the chord.

Finally, the difficult skill of playing minor intervals is honed in the Minor Interval Study. Two patterns are provided to ease the player into mastering major and minor intervals.

The Basic Training Text lays an ample foundation for musical acoustics as it applies to intonation and also provides step by step guidance on developing the ear and using the audio CD. Included in the text is a Note Tendency Chart to track your instruments' tendencies and alternate tuning methods to compensate for them.

The Basic Training Workbook is available for instruments in C, Bb, Eb, F and Bass Clef.

Concert Studies for Trumpet
$17.95
A series of short studies written for Phillip Smith, who plays principal trumpet for the New York Philharmonic. Designed for the intermediate to advanced player, and conceived for the Bb trumpet or cornet, the full range of the instrument is explored from low F# to high D. Covers a wide range of technique skills, including double and triple tonguing, low register playing, challenging intervals, and key signatures that require intonation control of the instrument. The CD includes demonstrations of each study performed by Smith.

Back to Basics for Trumpeters: The Teaching of Vincent Cichowicz - Luis Loubriel
$24.95

This book is built around interviews that Luis E. Loubriel conducted with Vincent Cichowicz and his most successful disciples over thirteen years, woven together with Loubriel’s own analysis, and organized according to the central themes of Cichowicz’s methodology.

Although Cichowicz developed no rigid, one-size-fits-all system - indeed, his special talent was for custom tailoring his teaching to the needs of each student - certain fundamentals tenets informed all of his teaching. This book memorializes those tenets through the words of the master himself and some of his exemplary proteges. As such, it represents a significant contribution to contemporary understandings of trumpet pedagogy, and brass pedagogy in general.

Advanced Concert Studies for Trumpet
$19.95
This book/CD pack contains the same musical and technical challenges found in the original Concert Studies for Trumpet, only on a more advanced level. Lyricism is a large component of this book, with technical challenges of range, tonguing, intervals, and key signatures abounding. This collection contains music written specifically for Phillip Smith, principal trumpet from the New York Philharmonic, from such composers as James Curnow, Allen Vizzuti, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Joseph Turrin, Stepehn Bulla, and others. This book also includes a CD of Phillip Smith performing each of these studies

Panofka 24 Progressive Vocalises
$15.00
The first complete edition of the Panofka Vocalises for trumpet is here. We also publish the piano accompaniments for these fine studies. Panofka was a student of the great Bordogni. His music has been widely used by vocalists for more than a century. These songs are generally shorter than the Bordogni compositions. They are very musical and intelligently progressive. Young students will benefit from this introduction to the singing legato style. The range is not extreme, but both range and key signatures advance progressively throughout the volume. Advanced and professional-level musicians will find these studies an important addition to their library. By memorizing each etude and performing it with the piano accompaniment, new levels of artistic achievement may be reached.