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Lightning Fingers: Billy Mayerl 1902-1959
A Symposium edited by Mike Harth
Paradise Press, London (1995)

(Out of Print) A .pdf version will be available shortly for Members

This book, amazingly the first ever, was produced to meet the demand for more information about the man and his works. As well as a short biography, it includes helpful notes on the music, a complete catalogue of his compositions, and a discography. Anyone with the least interest in this fascinating figure will find it an indispensable guide.

Marigold: The Music of Billy Mayerl
by Peter Dickinson
Oxford University Press (1999) : includes Free CD

(Out of Print)

Peter Dickinson, composer, pianist, and writer, is an Emeritus Professor of the Universities of Keele and London. He is currently Head of Music and a Board member of the Institute of United States Studies at London University. Born in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England, he went to Cambridge as Organ Scholar of Queens' College and then spent three formative years in New York, initially at the Juilliard School. From this time onwards Dickinson's music has been regularly commissioned, performed, broadcast, and recorded with some of the leading international performers. Peter Dickinson's writings, apart from many articles for the leading periodicals, include the first book on Sir Lennox Berkeley (1989) and this full study of the popular pianist, composer, educator and celebrity, Billy Mayerl.

A Collection of Billy's Best Known Compositions.
FM Distribution Limited (see below)
Price: £14.99

Titles: All-of-a Twist; April's Fool; Autumn Crocus; Bats in the Belfry;
Beetle in the Bottle; Eskimo Shivers; Evening Primrose; Four Aces Suite;
From a Spanish Lattice; The Harp of the Winds;Hollyhock; Honeysuckle;
Honky-Tonk; Hop-o'-my-Thumb; Jasmine; The Jazz Master; The Joker;
Look Lively; Loose Elbows; Marigold; Mignonette;
Nimble-Fingered Gentleman; Railroad Rhythm; Shallow Waters;
Song of the Fir Tree; Sweet William; Virginia Creeper; White Heather; Wistaria

Although Billy Mayerl is not listed on the Faber Music website, the Jazz Master album or any item from the list below can be ordered as copies via your local music shop or, in case of difficulties, by applying directly to: Sales Office, FM Distribution Limited, Burnt Mill, Elizabeth Way, Harlow, Essex CM20 2HX, tel: 01279 828 989

The sheet music is for solo piano unless stated otherwise. (Please quote the stock code when ordering). All MV items are 'print on demand' at £5.99 each irrespective of size.



MV00000011 Ace Of Spades  
MV00000012 Ace Of Spades (piano duet) 
MV00000057 All Of A Twist
MV00000066 All The Things You Are (transcription) 
MV00000120 Antiquary
MV00000146 April's Fool
MV00000147 Aquarium Suite 
MV00000176 At The Balalaika  (transcription) 
MV00000187 Autumn Crocus 
MV00000244 Bats In The Belfry 
MV00000274 Beetle In The Bottle  
MV00000278 Beguine Impromptu 
MV00000324 Big Top  
MV00000381 Body And Soul  (transcription) 
MV00000484 Canaries' Serenade 
MV00000508 Carminetta
MV00000536 Chasing Shadows (transcription) 
MV00000539 Cheek To Cheek (transcription)
MV00000559 Chopsticks (transcription)
MV00003878 Cobweb
MV00000736 Did You Ever See A Dream Walking (transcription) 
MV00000855 Egyptian Suite 
MV00000869 Errant Errand Boy
MV00000870 Eskimo Shivers 
MV00000874 Evening Primrose  
MV00000922 Fascinating Ditty  
MV00000937 Filigree  
MV00000944 Fireside Fusiliers 
MV00001155 Green Tulips  
MV00001206 Harp Of The Winds
MV00001316 Honky Tonk
MV00001372 I Breathe On Windows 
MV00001395 I Cover The Waterfront (transcription) 

MV00001422 I Feel Like A Feather In The Breeze (transcription) 
MV00001596 If You Knew Susie (transcription)  
MV00001612 I'll Build A Fence Around You  (transcription) 
MV00001700 In My Garden (Autumntime) 
MV00001701 In My Garden (Springtime) 
MV00001702 In My Garden (Summertime) 
MV00001703 In My Garden (Wintertime) 
MV00001842 Jack In The Box  
MV00001851 Jasmine  
MV00001853 Jazzaristix
0571532780   Jazz Master (piano album - see above)
MV00001855 Jazz Master (piano solo)
MV00001856 Jazz Mistress 
MV00001867 Jill All Alone 
MV00001877 Joker 
MV00001885 June In January (transcription) 
MV00001971 Legends Of King Arthur
MV00001972 Leprechaun's Leap
MV00002093 Look Lively 
MV00002100 Loose Elbows 
MV00002212 Marigold (piano duet) 
MV00002213 Marigold (piano solo) 
MV00002214 Marigold (violin & pno) 
MV00002269 Mignonette 
MV00002278 Minuet For Pamela 
MV00002290 Mistletoe  
MV00002341 Musical Moments  
MV00002448 Nimble Fingered Gentleman 
MV00002585 Orange Blossoms
MV00002588 Oriental  
MV00002616 Parade Of The Sandwich-Board Men  
MV00002628 Pastorale Exotique  
MV00002634 Peg O' My Heart (transcription)
		


MV00002638 Penny Whistle  
MV00002646 Phil The Fluter's Ball  (transcription) 
MV00002684 Poor Little Rich Girl  (transcription) 
MV00002689 Portsmouth Knock  
MV00002692 Praying Mantis 
MV00002697 Printer's Devil  
MV00002703 Puppet's Suite  
MV00002722 Railroad Rhythm  
MV00002761 Robots  
MV00002771 Romanesque 
MV00002838 Scallywag  
MV00002871 Shallow Waters 
MV00002916 Shy Ballerina  
MV00002917 Siberian Lament  
MV00002951 Six Studies In Syncopation Book 1 
MV00002952 Six Studies In Syncopation Book 2 
MV00002953 Six Studies In Syncopation Book 3 
MV00002962 Sleepy Piano  
MV00002975 Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (transcription) 
MV00003027 Song Of The Fir Tree 
MV00003141 Sweet And Lovely (transcription) 
MV00003149 Sweet William 
MV00003263 There's A Small Hotel (transcription) 
MV00003319 Three Contrasts  
MV00003320 Three Dances In Syncopation  
MV00003323 Three Japanese Pictures 
MV00003325 Three Miniatures In Syncopation  
MV00003327 Three Syncopated Rambles 
MV00003386 Transatlantic Lullaby (transcription) 
MV00003529 Wedding Of An Ant 
MV00003537 Weeping Willow 
MV00003653 White Heather  
MV00003697 Wistaria