Links
Should you wish to do your own music search, we have provided you with links to publishers in the Canada, the United States and Europe. Each publisher link includes a brief description of the type of music published. Once you have made your decision, email us and we will order it in for you.
Alfred Publishing
Alfred is a wonderful source of educational music for all musicians. They also have an extensive choral library, sacred and secular. Their site includes sample music pages, complete recordings of new chorals, author/composer bios, articles and tips to help you plan your teaching year. Some of their publications that we regularly carry are "Music for Little Mozarts" for beginning pianists, Martha Mier's "Jazz, Rags and Blues" for the intermediate pianist and the "Folk Songs for Solo Singers" series for voice students. We order all our Suzuki product through Alfred's .Our demand for their product is so high that we order from them once per week.
Alphonse Leduc
High quality French editions featuring the works of French composers for all instruments. We order a lot of contemporary saxophone works from them.
Artistry Alliance
Cobb Swanson Music is the exclusive Canadian retailer of Artistry at the Piano. This unique piano teaching method is suplemented by excellent pedagogy materials which guide the teacher in teaching "music ... not notes". Quoted from the Artistry Alliance website is this basic pedagogy principle: "Save time by spending time" ... the more we invest in making students aware of and involved in the musical language including how to study and "speak it," the more we can teach them instead of coaching or correcting them.
Brilee Music
Brilee Music specializes exclusively in quality choral music for schools and youth choirs.
Canadian Music Centre
The Canadian Music Centre is a wonderful resource for locating the music of Canadian composers. They act as both a lending library and a retailer of music sheets and CD's.
Carl Fischer
Carl Fischer is a respected source of instructional repertoire for strings, brass, woodwinds, piano and voice. We stock Carl Fischer's famous Carl Flesch "Scale System for Violin" and the Sigmund Hering Tumpet Course. Have you heard of the Elson's Pocket Dictionary? It is a top seller of Carl Fischer's.
C.F. Peters
This 200 year old European company publishes a huge catalogue of western classical music from J.S. Bach to John Cage. We special order from Peters about twice a month but also keep in stock the Schubert Lieder and the vast array of Chopin piano albums.
Frederick Harris
Frederick Harris is best known for the Royal Conservatory of Music publications for piano, voice, guitar and violin. They also publish theory and harmony books and great supplementary repertoire for piano teachers and their students. We always stock their publications of Canadian composers such as Linda Niamith, Anne Crosby (we highly recommend "Freddie the Frog" ) Lorna Paterson and Stephen Chatman. In addition we stock the popular-styled books "Connections" by Christopher Norton - a wonderful supplement to the Royal Conservatory graded repertoire. Learn to improvise? Akiko & Forrest Kinney have a great series of books entitled Pattern Play.
FJH Music Company
Piano educational material is the core of this publisher's catalogue. We stock the many Helen Marlais' publications entitled "In Recital ..." , the Student Assignment Book - great for organizing lessons!- and her brand new teaching series "Succeeding at the Piano".
Hal Leonard
This major company prints a huge selection of the latest in pop/rock/country sheet music. Classroom teachers - consult their catalogue for current choral titles. Do you want to learn to play the guitar? Consider Fasttrack Guitar and the ever popular Hal Leonard Guitar method. They also distribute classical repertoire from some of the world's greatest publishers such as Boosey & Hawkes, G. Henle, G.Schirmer, Ricordi, Salabert and Editions Durand. Not only do we stock a wide selection of their product, we order from them once per week to supply our customers' needs. Visit their website - you will be amazed at the amount of music they distribute!