The Frederick Harris Music Co., Limited (Frederick Harris Music) is a

music publishing A music publisher is a type of publisher that specializes in distributing music. Music publishers originally published sheet music. When copyright became legally protected, music publishers started to play a role in the management of the intellect ...

firm in

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, Canada, founded in 1904. The company claims to be the oldest music publishing company in

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, and has supported the work of composers including Boris Berlin, Sir

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, and

Healey Willan James Healey Willan (12 October 1880 – 16 February 1968) was an Anglo-Canadian organist and composer. He composed more than 800 works including operas, symphonies, chamber music, a concerto, and pieces for band, orchestra, organ, and ...

. In addition to repertoire for

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

, flute and

voice The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling. The human voice frequency is specifically a part of human sound production in ...

, the Frederick Harris Music catalogue also includes publications for

ear training Ear training or aural skills is a music theory study in which musicians learn to identify pitches, intervals, melody, chords, rhythms, solfeges, and other basic elements of music, solely by hearing. The application of this skill is analogous t ...

sight reading In music, sight-reading, also called ''a prima vista'' (Italian meaning "at first sight"), is the practice of reading and performing of a piece in a music notation that the performer has not seen or learned before. Sight-singing is used to descri ...

, technique,

theory A theory is a rational type of abstract thinking about a phenomenon, or the results of such thinking. The process of contemplative and rational thinking is often associated with such processes as observational study or research. Theories may be s ...

harmony In music, harmony is the process by which individual sounds are joined together or composed into whole units or compositions. Often, the term harmony refers to simultaneously occurring frequencies, pitches ( tones, notes), or chords. However ...

, and

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Frederick Harris

Frederick Harris (1866–1945) began his music publishing career in England working for a large music publishing firm. In 1904, he set up his own business in London and in 1910, established a Canadian office in Toronto. Harris' association with the

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resulted in an increased emphasis on publications for teaching and learning.

Publications

The

music examination Music examinations are a method of formally assessing the accomplishments of pupils learning musical instruments. These are called grades. Although there are music examinations available to school and university students alongside other regular q ...

system in Canada is supported by teaching materials published by the company. These include: * Celebration Series, Perspectives * Voice Series * Bridges: A Comprehensive Guitar Series * Violin Series * Overtones: A Comprehensive Flute Series Other notable publications include: * Four Star: Sight Reading and Ear Tests ''by Boris Berlin, series editor Scott McBride Smith'' * Celebrate Piano! ''by Cathy Albergo, J. Mitzi Kolar, and Mark Mrozinski'' * Sound Advice: Theory and Ear Training ''by Brenda Braaten and Crystal Wiksyk'' * Christopher Norton Connections for Piano ''by Christopher Norton'' * Composer Editions ''compiled by Reid Alexander, Samuel S. Holland, and Marc Widner, edited by Andrew Hisey''

References

External links

* {{official website, http://www.frederickharrismusic.com Sheet music publishing companies Publishing companies established in 1904 Music publishing companies of Canada