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Hal Leonard Publishing Co.

Hal Leonard Publishing Co. publisher

In the late 1930s in Winona, Minnesota, the late Harold "Hal" Edstrom, his brother Everett "Leonard" Edstrom and their friend Roger Busdicker had formed a very popular dance band. Concerned that their conservative father wouldn't approve of using the family name for a band, Harold and Ev took parts of their names and called the band Hal Leonard. As leader of the Hal Leonard Band, Ev eventually became known as "Hal Leonard."

The company Hal Leonard was founded in 1947, after the Hal Leonard Band broke up. At the time, Ev started a music store using the Hal Leonard name while Roger and Harold were both directing award-winning high school bands in Winona. In those days, most school bands played serious literature, but Harold and Roger had the unique ability (because of their professional experience) to arrange "popular" music for school bands. Soon band directors across the US wanted their arrangements. They started to mimeograph copies and sell them. They realized that to successfully (and legally!) launch a new publishing company, they needed to license songs, so they ventured to New York's Tin Pan Alley in search of copyrights. What they got on their trip was an education in publishing and the rights to "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now," one of the most popular songs of the day. Eventually, many music publishers in New York were licensing Hal Leonard to do school band arrangements of their songs. Thus began their publishing business and an entirely new industry.

The company grew and soon choral arrangements and a wider variety of band arrangements were added to their catalog of publications. In the early 1950s, the home organ industry began to grow rapidly That is when Hal Leonard published The Pointer System for organ, which eventually became the best-selling organ instruction method ever created. That method soon led to the first organ "benchpack," which featured instruction books and songbooks packaged in the bench of an organ. In the late 1950s, The Pointer Systems for Guitar and Piano were produced, introducing millions of beginners to instant playing success.

In the mid-1960s, Hal Leonard began marketing band and choral music to educators by sending recordings of arrangements through the mail. This unique promotion is now used by virtually every print music publisher in the industry.

In 1970, Keith Mardak and associates started a new division of Hal Leonard called Learning Unlimited, to create the first book/audio music instructional products. This division soon outgrew the company, and Mardak became general manager for the entire company. Shortly afterward, the Hal Leonard Guitar Method was launched, becoming one of the first methods to incorporate popular music. Today, this method is the leading guitar method in the world, having taught millions how to play guitar.

Hal Leonard continued to grow throughout the 1970s, and in 1980 made the giant leap into popular music print publishing when it established a unique and very close relationship with Chappell Music, the world's largest music publisher. Shortly thereafter, Hal Leonard increased its presence in virtually every music print market around the world. As a result, facilities in both Milwaukee and Winona were expanded to accommodate corporate growth.

In 1985, Hal Leonard was purchased from the original founders by an internal management team led by Keith Mardak, who then became president. Since then, it has experienced consistent, dramatic growth due to creative, innovative and aggressive publishing and marketing.

Today, Hal Leonard Corporation is the world's largest educational music publisher, with the #1 methods for learning guitar (the Hal Leonard Guitar Method), piano (the Faber Piano Method), and school music instruments (Essential Elements for Band and Strings), plus publications for learning virtually every instrument imaginable.

Hal Leonard is also the leading publisher of songbooks; Real Books and fake books; sheet music; band, orchestra and choral arrangements for schools; music reference publications; children's music products; educational magazines; and more. Many new titles are enhanced with supplemental audio and video files online for download and streaming.

The company leads the way in technology, developing eBooks, digital sheet music, apps and more. Hal Leonard operates many popular websites including SheetMusicDirect with thousands of songs arranged for different instruments available for download, and GuitarInstructor.com for online guitar lessons and tab.

In 2014, Hal Leonard made a substantial investment in Noteflight, LLC, an innovative music technology company dedicated to reinventing the way people create, share and use digital sheet music. This online community allows users to edit, display, play back and share music notation in a cloud-based web browser, on any device. Noteflight has an active subscriber base of nearly 1.5 million music enthusiasts and educators.

In its catalog of more than 200,000 available titles, Hal Leonard represents many of the world's best known and most respected publishers, artists, songwriters, arrangers and musical instrument manufacturers. Its products are sold in more than 65 countries throughout the world through Hal Leonard offices and a large network of distributors. Domestically, the company markets to more than 7,500 music stores in the United States and Canada through a team of 50 in-house sales representatives.

Hal Leonard operates out of two main facilities — its corporate headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and a state-of-the-art administration, production and distribution facility in Winona, Minnesota. The company also has editorial offices in New Jersey and Boston, and offices abroad in Australia, Belgium, China, Germany, Holland, Italy, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

Chairman Keith Mardak, President Larry Morton, and the more than 500 talented Hal Leonard employees around the world remain dedicated to providing the very best in music products and services.

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36 Elementary & Progressive Studies, Op. 20 - Heinrich Ernst Kayser
Titel / Title: 36 Elementary & Progressive Studies, Op. 20 Herausgeber / Publisher: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Violine Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: String Method Sprache / Language: Format: 12 X 9 INCH Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 1986 Untertitel / Subtitel: Personality: Louis Svecenski Genre: Klassik ISMN: 9780793554348 ISBN: 9780793554348 EAN: UP ...
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Best of Antonio Carlos Jobim for Easy Guitar - Antonio Carlos Jobim
Titel / Title: Best of Antonio Carlos Jobim for Easy Guitar Herausgeber / Publisher: Hal Leonard Instrumentation: Gitarre Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: Easy Guitar Produkttyp / Product: Buch ISBN: 9781423434306 UPC: 884088216160 ||Hal Leonard|Guitar|Book Only|Easy Guitar||||||||884088216160|HL00702236|
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Fingerpicking Irish Songs Guitar Solo
Titel / Title: Fingerpicking Irish Songs Guitar Solo Herausgeber / Publisher: Hal Leonard Instrumentation: Gitarre Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: Guitar Solo Produkttyp / Product: Buch Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2012 ISBN: 9781617807251 UPC: 884088558796 ||Hal Leonard|Guitar|Book with CD|Guitar Solo|Folk British Isles|||||||884088558796|HL00701965|
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Hal Leonard Gitarrenmethode Buch 2 - Greg Koch
Titel / Title: Hal Leonard Gitarrenmethode Buch 2 - Zweite Ausgabe Herausgeber / Publisher: Hal Leonard Instrumentation: Gitarre Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: Hal Leonard Guitar Method Produkttyp / Product: Buch Sprache / Language: German ISBN: 9780634088858 Zweite Ausgabe||Hal Leonard|Guitar|Book Only|Guitar Method||Deutsch|||||||HL00697372|
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Advanced Slide Technique - Robert L. Marsteller

Advanced Slide Technique Robert L. Marsteller

Titel / Title: Advanced Slide Technique Herausgeber / Publisher: Southern Music Company Instrumentation: Posaune Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: Southern Music Produkttyp / Product: Buch UPC: 884088703462 ||Southern Music Company|Trombone|Book Only|Southern Music|||||B237|||884088703462|HL03770339|
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Joyful joyful from Sister
Titel / Title: Joyful, Joyful - from Sister Act 2 Herausgeber / Publisher: Walt Disney Instrumentation: SATB Produkttyp / Product: Chorpartitur Serie / Series: Choral Produkttyp / Product: Chorpartitur Sprache / Language: English UPC: 73999263176 Act 2 : for mixed chorus (satb) and piano, score CHORMUSIK GEMISCHTER CHOR MIT BEGLEITUNG GEISTLICH EINZELN Sister Act 2 Warren, Me ...
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Christmas on Broadway (Chor SAB) - John Higgins
Raise the curtain and cue the lights! Sure to get any audience into the holiday spirit, this 6 minute medley is a lively choral showcase from Broadway's greatest composers! Includes: God Bless Us Everyone, It's Beginning To Look Like Christmas, March Of The Toys, My Favorite Things, Pine Cones and Holly Berries, Toyland and We Need A Little Christmas. Performance Time: Approx. ...
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The Best of Steely Dan for Drums
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Scott Leonard - Christmas : for male chorus
Titel / Title: Scott Leonard Christmas - As Arranged for Rockappella Herausgeber / Publisher: Contemporary A Cappella Publishing Instrumentation: TTBB Div a Cappella Produkttyp / Product: Chorpartitur Serie / Series: Choral Collection Produkttyp / Product: Chorpartitur Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2005 ISBN: 9781423400509 UPC: 73999802962Leonard, Scott, arr. ...
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The Clarinet Collection
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Bossa Nova - 10 Latin Jazz Favorites - Antonio Carlos Jobim
Titel / Title: Bossa Nova - 10 Latin Jazz Favorites - Jazz Play-Along Volume 40 Herausgeber / Publisher: Hal Leonard Instrumentation: Flute, Violin, Guitar, Clarinet, Trumpet, Saxophone, Trombone, Chords Produkttyp / Product: Buch + CD Serie / Series: Jazz Play Along Sprache / Language: English Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2016 ISBN: 9780634083860 UPC: 739994 ...
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Dixieland
Titel / Title: Dixieland - Jazz Play-Along Volume 87 Herausgeber / Publisher: Hal Leonard Instrumentation: Flute, Violin, Guitar, Clarinet, Trumpet, Saxophone, Trombone, Chords Produkttyp / Product: Buch + CD Serie / Series: Jazz Play Along Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2012 ISBN: 9781423454724 UPC: 884088210038
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Classic Rock for Trombone
Thirteen classic rock hits expertly arranged for solo instrumentalists, with a great-sounding play-along CD! Contains: Africa Behind Blue Eyes Crazy Train Don't Stop Believin' Heard It in a Love Song Man in the Mirror More Than a Feeling Nights in White Satin Patience Summer Breeze Waiting for a Girl like You White Room A Whiter Shade of Pale.
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260 Drum Machine Patterns - Rene-Pierre Bardet

260 Drum Machine Patterns Rene-Pierre Bardet

Titel / Title: 260 Drum Machine Patterns Herausgeber / Publisher: Hal Leonard Instrumentation: Schlagzeug Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: Technical Sprache / Language: English Format: Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: Untertitel / Subtitel: Personality: Genre: Unterrichtsmaterial ISMN: 9780881888874 ISBN: 9780881888874 EAN: UPC: 73999573718
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Solo Blues Guitar - Dave Rubin

Solo Blues Guitar Dave Rubin

Titel / Title: Solo Blues Guitar Herausgeber / Publisher: Hal Leonard Instrumentation: Gitarre Produkttyp / Product: Buch + Online-Audio Serie / Series: Guitar Collection Produkttyp / Product: Buch + Online-Audio ISBN: 9780634061912 UPC: 73999496765 ||Hal Leonard|Guitar|Book with Audio-Online|Guitar Collection||||||||73999496765|HL00699719|
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A Glee-ful Christmas (Choral Medley) - Mark Brymer / Arr. Adam Anders

A Glee-ful Christmas (Choral Medley) Mark Brymer / Arr. Adam Anders

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