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Four Winter Trios (S^nosolo DD ensembles) MHE 40903 £3.00
A Frosty Morning   
Birds In The Snow   
The Frozen Lake   
Bells Across The Meadow   
Very easy pieces for two groups of descants, with a slightly harder part for a sopranino. Written for schools, but interesting pieces for adults also (who might want to play them on S^noTT)

Five Shades Of Blue (DTB) MHE 10703 £6.50
Swing   
Fugato   
Ballad   
Funk   
The Twenties   
A suite of pieces in different blues styles - from the 1920s up to 1980s funk. Bristling with accidentals and jazzy rhythms, but perfectly playable for competent trios who like jazz.

Three Pieces For Gemshorns (DTrToptB) MHE 20606 £3.50
1
2
3
A tradition at the Northern Recorder Course is that the student concert includes a performance by a gemshorn trio, led by Janice Ormerod. Janice asked me to add something to the small repertoire for such a combination. I tried to write something which sounded somewhat mediaeval, while still being contemporary. The pieces work well on descant, treble and tenor recorders, and I have put them in such a key that bass recorders can also play by doubling the tenors at the octave.

Out Of The Wood Of Thoughts (narrator and TrTB) MHE 10404 £8.00   
This 15 minute piece is a sequence of eight poems by Edward Thomas, in and around which is woven music for recorder trio. The music is often quite slow, and the notes are not difficult, but the piece is nevertheless a challenge in terms of obtaining excellent tuning and a beautiful sound.

Recorder Trio No 1 (TrTT) MHE 40305 £4.50
Andante - Vivace
Larghetto
Presto
By turns exciting and really quite pretty. No more than moderately difficult.

Recorder Trio No 2 (TrTB) MHE 50305 £5.00
Intrada
Waltz
Canon
Finale
Somewhat darker in mood that the first trio. No more than moderately difficult.

Recorder Trio No 3 (TTB) MHE 11005 £6.00
I
II
III
IV
Exploits the rich sounds of this unusual group of instruments, while still featuring some crisp and incisive rhythms. Of similar difficulty to Trios 1&2.

Recorder Trio No 4 (DTrB) MHE 10107 £6.00
Prelude
Vivace/Moderato
Winter Solstice
Ostinato
Postlude
The most substantial trio so far. This 12 minute piece is a little tricky in places, both in terms of rhythms and breath control.

The Monmouth Trios (Ann Marshall) (DTrT) MHE 30907 £4.00
Drybridge House
Market Day
Strollin' Along The Monnow
Three easy and tuneful pieces, written by Ann for the Monmouth U3A recorder group.

Three Madrigals for Recorder Trio (Set 1) (DTrT) MHE 40906 £4.50
As Fair As Morn (John Wilbye)
O What Shall I Do? (John Wilbye)
Though Philomela Lost Her Love (Thomas Morley)
Little gems of three-part madrigal writing. These pieces may not be new to recorder players, but this is a new edition (by Steve & Ann Marshall), which tries to give as much help as possible to groups of limited experience who are unfamiliar with the conventions which often apply to music of this period. There are crotchet beats throughout, clear indications of what to do at changes of time signature, fully written-out repeats, and many other useful features.