This list brings together our top-selling violin collections in one place. If you are looking for recital pieces, exam repertoire, gigging music or material for weddings, this list has it all!

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The Leading Note is the perfect place to find gifts for the musicians in your life. We stock:

• Print Music for piano, strings, winds, brass, voice, choir, organ, guitar
• Books about composers, teaching, performance, theory, humour, and for children
• CDs from local artists and the Naxos catalogue
• Gifts and Accessories, including socks, ties, scarves, notebooks, folders and gig bags
• Gift Certificates for any value and redeemable for any product in our store!

Gift Certificates are a particularly good choice for your favourite musician if you are not sure which specific book will suit the musician’s taste. Gift certificates can be used to expand a musician’s repertoire library, to fund teaching supplies, to procure rare or special editions; or to encourage students to pursue their musical goals.

For the second year in a row, The Leading Note is pleased to offer a Holiday Special on our gift certificates:

You can find out more about Christmas music we currently have on display in our “Christmas Music Is Here” blog post. Our browsable catalogue is online so you can search for just the right book. Our friendly staff are also available in the shop to offer assistance and guidance!

Best wishes for a happy holiday season from all the staff at The Leading Note.

• Des partitions pour piano, instruments à cordes, voix, chorale, orgue et guitare,
• Des livres portant sur une variété de sujets musicaux (compositeurs, enseignement de la musique, performance, théorie musicale, humour et jeunesse),
• Des disques provenant d’artistes locaux et du catalogue de Naxos,
• Des cadeaux et accessoires variés, incluant des cartables de musique, des cahiers de notes, des bas, des cravates, des foulards et des sacs,
• Des certificats-cadeau à valeur indéterminée et échangeables pour n’importe quel de nos produits!

New at The Leading Note, The Easiest Technique Book … Ever! is a new graded series of books that correspond with the technical requirements for Conservatory Canada.

Compiled and published by Andrew Harbridge, a piano pedagogue in Peterborough, Ontario and recipient of Conservatory Canada’s Gold Medal of Excellence, the books contain the complete technical requirements for Conservatory Canada’s classical piano curriculum and the Contemporary Idioms addendum.

There are six books in the series corresponding with grades one through six.

The principal characteristic that sets these techniques books apart from others is the emphasis on visual learning. The books include visual diagrams showing finger patterns for scales and arpeggios.

Andrew Harbridge is also the composer of Mayfair Music’s Spectrum series. These books are approved for use in Conservatory Canada’s exams.

For the first time, the Royal Conservatory of Music has released graded repertoire series for viola and trumpet! Now students of these instruments can conveniently find all the material they need for examinations up to Level 8 in one place.

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‘Tis the season for jolly merry-making and the Leading Note has lots of Christmas music to bring plenty of joy to your holiday season! Stop by our shop to check out our vast selection. We have music for voice and piano, strings, winds, brass, and choir. Of course, we have lots of music for solo piano including elementary music for children and advanced collections. (Read more…)