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12 highly atmospheric, expressive, but technically undemanding pieces, somewhere between the composer's "21 Amazingly Easy Pieces" and her "Rendezvous with Midnight - 13 Nocturnes for Teens". The pieces are all descriptive - but WHAT do they describe? The pianist gets to name them - as well as getting to make decisions on major/minor, dynamics, and a little impro... very good music for teens and beyond.

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I love writing pieces where the rhythm is in the foreground. And I love
  the oboe, having played it myself in my teens. So here are some pieces in
  dance rhythms for the late elementary/intermediate oboist to have some fun
  with!

Dancing in the Breeze

Oboe Solo Collection

Alison Mathews &amp; Barbara Arens have been collaborating again: each
  has written two pieces for each of the four seasons. Woven into most of these
  16 pieces is a folk song - mainly English and German, but also Japanese,
  Chinese, Guatemalan and Maya! - bringing a further layer of atmosphere to the
  pieces. A variety of styles is used: contemporary lyric, jazzy, symphonic
  rock, afro-cuban dance rhythms. Two of the pieces are duets for one piano,
  four hands. Mostly early advanced/Gr.6-7.

Songs for all Seasons

14 expressive, lively, atmospheric pieces for Viola and Piano with bowing
  &amp; fingering suggestions by Viola teachers. Includes Scottish-inspired
  pieces: Dreaming of Clunie Water, Grey Skies over the Dee, Gathering of the
  Clans; pieces in dance rhythms: Rumbita, Waltz in a Gentle Breeze, Siciliano;
  fun pieces: Grumpy Gorilla, Pizzi-cool-Cat; imaginative medieval pieces: Duel
  with a Dragon, The Keys to Canterbury, the Sorceress...

Viola Collection I

Viola Solo Collection

There I was, writing a collection of piano pieces suitable for Halloween,
  when Count Dracula came along and hijacked the book! He has added his rather
  horrible comments everywhere and included all his personal favourites:
  "Just Me &amp; My Coffin","Vegan Vampire",
  ""Dance of the Werewolves", "Black Cape Blues",
  "Face so Pale, Teeth so Red", "Toccata Vampyrica"etc.
  Suitable for early intermediate piano students with a black sense of humour!

The Vampire Challenge

Barbara Arens, author of "21 Amazingly Easy Piano Pieces", "Small Hand Piano", "Rendezvous with Midnight" and other popular educational piano works, loves to travel in Scotland. Most of these intermediate pieces (Grade 3-5) are based on traditional folk melodies; others reflect her impressions of Standing Stones, Sunset over Loch Lomond, and the Isle of Inchmahome...

Scottish Collection

14 highly expressive, lively, atmospheric pieces for Viola and Piano with
  bowing &amp; fingering suggestions by Viola teachers. There is far too little
  jazz written for viola! So here are Just in Time, Ostinato in the Key of
  Jazz, and Blackfriars Boogie to have some fun with. A passionate Tango
  Habanera, Waltz at the Winter palace, Balkan Dance , and Fire Dance are
  highly rhythmic. Aire Triste (in two versions, low and high), Sing a Song,
  Lonely Lament are lyrical... Perfect Recital repertoire! Late Intermediate,
  Early Advanced / grade 4-7

Viola Collection II

Every piano teacher has students who just love letting off steam at the piano - the ones who really enjoy playing fortissimo and prestissimo! These pieces are for them! My teen students, especially, have had a great time playing these pieces for their own pleasure and in recitals.

Fast & Furioso

Recital audiences love not only impressively loud, impressively fast pieces, but exciting, unusual, and fun pieces. So here are 35 pieces that will wow your audience: favourites such as "L'Orage" and "Avalanche", but Tarantellas, Waltzes and characteristic pieces such as "The Dance of the Troll Grannies"!

WOW!

"...a wonderful addition to the bassoon repertoire- for those advanced beginners through intermediate- This is such a unique compilation of original pieces, I dont think anyone has published anything quite like it!" - Ann Kosanovic Brown, Principal Bassoon at Portland Chamber Orchestra
Artist Associate of Bassoon at Willamette University
Bassoon Faculty at Oregon State University

Dancing in the Wind

Bassoon Solo Collection with Piano

As a former very keen flute player (I loved playing in the Singapore Youth Symphony Orchestra, and studied flute for several years at the Mozarteum in Salzburg before concentrating on keyboard instruments) I enjoy writing for the Flute. This collection starts off with 8 pieces using titles of Rene Magritte's surrealist paintings. The titles, which I found really inspiring, were thought up by Magritte's friend, the surrealist poet Louis Scutenaire: La sens de la nuit; La clef des songes; Les signes du soir, etc. There are 3 pieces inspired by Shakespeare characters: Juliet; Hotspur; Beatrice &amp; Benedick; a few jazzy pieces : London Bridge Rag; We gotta Boogie; My favourite Time of day; and some VERY exciting encore pieces: Tango at 2 a.m., Folies d'Espagne, Rondo alla Tarantella...

Flute Collection III

Flute/Oboe/Piano Solo

The composer Barbara Arens has discovered how darkly expressive the
  English Horn is. She has put a collection together with dark, melancholy
  lyricism, sometimes harkening back to medieval times; but also contrasting
  pieces in a lighter mode including a Tango and a ChaCha!

Playing under Dark Clouds

English Horn Solo Collection

For those who love the darker, expressive depth of music in minor keys,
  here are lesser known works of Mozart, Beethoven, C.P.E.Bach &amp; Grieg
  along with wonderful discoveries by G,D,Wilson, T.Oesten, M.K.Oginski - not
  to mention a Fandango by Jose Melchior Baltasar Gaspar Nebra Blasco...These
  pieces are roughly Grade 3-5.   From
  the series "Off the Beaten Path - Lesser known Piano Pieces".

Minor Masterpieces I

Perfect for Halloween recitals! 31 pieces written between 1732-1922 - all spine-chilling, spooky, haunted, bewitched &amp; eerie...Works by Bertini, Schytte, Telemann, Kullack, Liszt, Lack, Oesten &amp; others. Includes: The Headless Horseman, The 3 Witches, Haunted Forest, The Ghost up the Chimney, Midnight Thoughts, Creepy Creeps, The Ghost of the Goblin Man.....

SPOOKY!

The composer Barbara Arens writes in her brief Foreword -
    
    
    
    Ive been told a great number of times that I have produced so much piano
  music that no one can keep track of it all! ;)
    
    
    
    So here Ive selected some of my favourite pieces from my independently
  published books  not from my books published by Breitkopf &amp; Hartel,
  Editions Musica Ferrum and Editions Stretta.
    
    
    
    These personal favourites have been put into 3 separate books sorted
  roughly by level of difficulty. All pieces can be heard on my Youtube
  channel.
    
    
    
    There are some fun &amp; flashy pieces : Rhapsody, Fountains of Rome by
  Night, Toccata for S.; very lyrical pieces: Souvenir de voyage, Juliet;
  pieces which explore the colours of the piano: Koi, Dreamcatcher...

Favourites III

Barbara Arens writes in her brief Foreword:
    
    I've been told a great number of times that I have produced so much piano
  music that no
    
    one can keep track of it all! ;)
    
    So here I have selected some of my favourite pieces from my independently
  published books
    
    - not from my books published by Breitkopf &amp; HArtel, Editions Musica
  Ferrum and Editions
    
    Stretta.
    
    These personal favourites have been put into 3 separate books sorted
  roughly by level of
    
    difficulty. All pieces can be heard on my Youtube channel.
    
    The pieces here are expressive intermediate solos - with one Duet at the
  end!

Favourites II

The composer Barbara Arens, herself a total fan of Shakespeare, has taken
  13 of her favourite characters from his plays including Ophelia, Hotspur,
  Juliet, Prince Hal, Shylock, and Richard III, interpreting their characters
  in very playable piano music. The pieces can be romantic, tragic, spooky,
  poetic...

All the World's a Stage

Piano Paintings is a collection of imaginative solos for the late intermediate pianist. Drawing on their love of art, Barbara and Alison have taken inspiration from 16 works of art that reflect the styles and moods they find engaging including 'La Danse' by Matisse, 'The Woman in Gold' by Klimt, 'Clouds over Hampstead Heath' by Constable, 'Evening at the Window' by Chagall, '3 Worlds' by M.C. Escher, 'Constellations' by Miro..

Piano Paintings

As a former wildly enthusiastic player of the flute, I really enjoy writing for an instrument I understand so well! This first collection of pieces for Flute + Piano starts with a handful of fun jazzy pieces; has three Scottish-inspired pieces; a number of dances: Tango, Rumba, Waltz, Samba, Boogie (duet!); and various expressive atmospheric pieces: Lonely Lament, Golden Reflections... I believe Flute students of all ages will find the music appealing.

Flute Collection I

Thinking of what I would have liked to have played (besides Telemann and Loeillet) as an Intermediate flute player, I've put a collection together beginning with some rather fun jazzy pieces ('A Cat totally ignoring You'; Baker Street Blues, etc); lots of gripping rhythmic pieces: two tangos, Cha-Cha-Charing-Cross Road, SevenEight; and lots of pieces with literary inspiration by Shakespeare, Malory, R.L.Stevenson, Tolkein, Christina Rosetti... expressive and dramatic. I believe these pieces will appeal to flute students of all ages.

Flute Collection II

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