With guides
1. Sly Old Fox
2. The Charmed Snake
3. A Polish Three-Step
4. Quicksilver
5. Reggae Rag
6. Fanfare at the Funfair
7. The Scared Scarecrow
8. Tadpoles
Without guides
9. The Damselfly
10. A Celtic Jamboree
11. Doo-Dit
12. Kiting
13. Metal Fatigue Waltz
14. Seven Bells
15. Bolero and Sarabanda
Notes/Diary
Mark Tanner’s music covers a wide variety of styles and instruments, and is popular with ABRSM, Trinity College and London College. Around 50 pieces have been selected for piano, brass and woodwind syllabuses. His five volume piano series entitled ‘Scapes’ was shortlisted for the Best Print Resource at the Music Teacher Awards, and Mark’s piano music has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM. Mark has perfomed extensively, having appeared on many occasions at London’s Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room and St John’s Smith Square. In excess of 300 recitals have been given at sea on all of the Cunard, Saga and P&O lines, many with flautist Gillian Poznansky, and his recordings, which have made an especial feature of new commissions and previously unrecorded works, have achieved consistently glowing reviews: “Magnificent playing”, Gramophone.
As well as having published over 70 volumes of compositions, transcriptions and arrangements with various publishing houses, Faber have published six books/repertoire volumes, including The Mindful Pianist (also published in Chinese) and The Piano in Black and White, the latter pitched at the independent adult learner. Mark has published around 50 feature-length ‘Masterclass’ articles for Pianist Magazine and has written hundreds of reviews and articles for a number of leading music publications. He has also published two books on mindfulness for Leaping Hare Press: Mindfulness in Music (also published in Spanish) and Mindfulness in Sound. Mark holds a PhD and Honorary degree from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
He is a member of Mensa, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and is a veteran adjudicator for B.I.F.F. For ABRSM Mark has examined grades and diplomas for 20 years, having undertaken nearly 50 international tours to all continents. He has also adjudicated the keyboard section of the BBC Young Musician.
Know The Score is a guide to quicker learning for advanced flautists. It was originally published in 2012 and designed with the DipABRSM Quick Study…
Know The Score is a guide to quicker learning for advanced flautists. It was originally published in 2012 and designed with the DipABRSM Quick Study in mind – a previously unseen extended piece of music for which 5 minutes preparation time was given prior to an assessed performance.
The music was at roughly grade 6 level, based on an assumption that a diploma standard player should be capable of tackling the test in this relatively short amount of time.
Following the recent withdrawal of the qualification, the continued aim of this newly edited series is to boost the more advanced player’s confidence at quick learning.
Two assumptions are made here – that you are a diploma level flautist, and that a reasonable level of sight-reading skill is in place. That said, if you’re less proficient at sight-reading, you should find much in the book that will help you to improve and feel more confident.
Alternatively, the book will be of interest to teachers seeking varied, approachable repertoire and theory content to support a keen grade 6 pupil’s longer-term learning. The book contains 15 original quick study pieces, 8 of which have guides.
Previously published by Spartan Press
Former catalogue number: SP1178
