ABOUT US    COMPOSERS    RECORDINGS    DEALERS   CONTACT US    CUSTOMER SERVICE   MECHANICAL LICENSE   Brass Jazz Music by Young People Piano & Organ Strings Woodwinds Piano Pedagogy Holiday Music NFMC List Seymour Bernstein                               Welcome    Welcome to Manduca Music Publications and Studios! Music Publications    We're delighted that you are visiting our web site and we hope to frequently serve your music needs. Our mission is to provide you with high quality, versatile, and artistically pleasing sheet music and scores at a reasonable cost. We offer chamber and solo music for brass, woodwinds, strings, piano and big band jazz. We produce pedagogical materials for teachers of all levels such as our Successful Studio Teaching manual, Orchestral Studies; and Dr. Tinka Knopf de Esteban's Piano Curriculum Guide and its accompanying materials. We have the exclusive distribution rights to the publications of noted piano composer and author Seymour Bernstein. We are fortunate to represent and be associated with some of the finest composers and arrangers. All catalog items have been described as fully as possible to help you get a sense of the material. Music Teaching    Manduca Music Studios provides private and group piano and brass lessons for all ages, levels and abilities by teachers with years of experience at all levels of education. Many studio students have won numerous competitions and awards. Our curriculums are based on the goals and needs of the individual student. We provide many varied student performance opportunities. Performance Groups    We can also provide musical groups for your events including the Portland Brass Quintet, the Portland Jazz Orchestra, Five Cylinder Jazz, smaller brass chamber groups and piano soloists and accompanists.                          What's New    Fireside Tango for Trombone and Piano, by Steven Winteregg evokes the sound of an Argentine tango by using characteristic rhythms, harmonies and melodic figures. This movement comes from a three movement work called Danzas for trombone, piano, double bass, and 2 percussionists. The work was written for Timothy Anderson, Assistant Professor of Trombone at the University of Cincinnati. This work would be appropriate for both classical recitals and popular concerts.    FIVE FOR FIVE, a new brass quintet by Richard Cioffari. Richard Cioffari, composer, pianist, double bassist, conductor and educator, holds degrees from The University of Michigan, and is Professor Emeritus at Bowling Green State University. Five for Five is a 12 minute work easily accessible to ensembles of intermediate ability as well as college/professionals. The "cyclical" part of the title refers to the five movements being linked by a motive commencing with a rising fourth whose transformation throughout the work is easily followed. The movements are titled as contrasting moods, except for the last one, A la Samba, an exuberant, toe-tapping dance.    Three Etudes for piano solo by Seymour Bernstein (National Federation List). A beautiful new work for solo piano, the first etude is called Interlocking Passages; the second is an excellent left hand study, and the third is an octave study.    Divertimento for Flute, Horn and Double Bass by Steven Winteregg. This 5 movement late intermediate work explores the various sounds between the 3 disparate instruments by utilizing alternative playing techniques.