SKU: PR.114403900
UPC: 680160007219.
SKU: PR.11640110S
UPC: 680160682744.
The Essay for Strings was written in 1986 in memory of Glenn Hull, a colleague and the choir director at Norfolk State University during my early years there. His sudden passing was a shock, and I expressed my sadness in this work. It was premiered that year by the NSU orchestra at their Winter concert. In w000, after conductor-composer Coleridge Taylor Perkinson gave the work its second performance in Chicago (with the ensemble of the Center For Black Music Reasearch), I decided to add it to my catalog of orchestra works. The designation Essay refers to the fact that the piece is based on one idea (like a literary essay). In this case the musical idea (or motive) is made from the initials of my deceased friend, Glenn Hull (G and H in music are represented by the pitches G and B-natural). These two notes are sounded throughout the work in tribute to him.
SKU: PR.11640110L
UPC: 680160682751.
SKU: KJ.GO112C
Essay for Orchestra is a bold and dramatic work that makes use of solid contrapuntal lines and striking contemporary harmonies. The middle section features a cantabile melody accompanied by a background of dissonant pyramids. Essay for Orchestra is scored to take full advantage of the vibrant colors of the symphony orchestra.
SKU: GI.G-317067
UPC: 073999321234.
This outstanding contest solo makes extensive use of dynamics applied to rudimental rhythmic figures. Appearing on state solo lists, Essay has become a standard work for snare drum. Click here for a YouTube video on Essay for Snare Drum.
SKU: HL.1220484
ISBN 9781705195840. UPC: 196288142362.
Essay for Horn and String Orchestra is a short lyrical piece which endeavors to utilize the expressive qualities of the French Horn. The thematic material stated in the first four measures constantly recurs in varied form throughout.
SKU: AP.81-CB224477
ISBN 9781778930430. UPC: 685462030446. English.
With bold harmonies, driving rhythms, and contrasting styles, Essay on Adventure by Frank McKinney will definitely keep your players engaged. After an exuberant opening fanfare, the adventurous theme alternates with a contrasting woodwind phrase. A lovely, lyrical middle section will expand their range of ensemble playing before the piece returns to the original theme. This exciting overture will be an immediate favorite with both your students and the audience! (3:50).
SKU: HL.1220483
ISBN 9781705195833. UPC: 196288142355.
Essay for Horn and String Orchestra is a short lyrical piece which endeavors to utilize the expressive qualities of the French Horn. The thematic material stated in the first four measures constantly recurs in varied form throughout. Horn solo with organ reduction.
SKU: KN.KEN10353
UPC: 822795103533.
This exciting new collection contains 8 grade 3-4 pieces for instrumental solo with piano accompaniment. Free MP3 downloads of the piano accompaniment are available at kendormusic.com. Many of the titles have been published as single pieces and are listed on several state contest lists.Contents:Mozart Sonatina; Essay In Blue (Edmondson); Harlequinade (Niehaus); Seaside Images (Niehaus); Sonata No. 11 (Haydn); Notturno (Hofmann); Air For Alto (Frackenpohl); The Entertainer (Joplin).
SKU: HL.50600841
8.25x11.75x0.19 inches.
The Ensemble Zeitsprung performed the world premiere of the ensemble work “Symphonic Essayâ€, based on Schachtner's chamber symphony composed in 2007/2008, on 5 July 2016 at the Schwere Reiter in Munich. The composer dedicated his work to Peter Stangel.
SKU: AP.37833S
UPC: 038081430768. English.
Sure to become a staple of the concert band repertoire, Symphonic Essay is a dramatic work featuring brass fanfares, tonal pyramids, and startling polyharmonies. The mysterious undertones of the piece are interwoven with moments of lyricism, counterpoint, and a multiplicity of timbres and creative settings which culminate in a spectacular coda.
SKU: HL.291107
ISBN 9788322450703. 9.5x12.5 inches.
In 2017, PWM commemorated the bicentenary of the death of Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a great hero of Poland. To mark the occasion, PWM Edition presented this publication revealing a different side to Kosciuszko to that which is widely familiar. We usually hear and read about his military accomplishments, which certainly deserve to be remembered, yet Kosciuszko was a multi-faceted person who cannot be fully appreciated from just a single perspective. This leader of a national insurrection was a pupil of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris. He also played the piano and may possibly have composed and arranged music as well. The aim of this publication is to shoaw Kosciuszko both as a creative artist and also as a source of inspiration for composers of the early nineteenth century. Comprising three separate components, this hard-bound boxed set with three books is divided into two parts, dealing with art and music. Presented in the first part are drawings and watercolors that appear independently, as a selection of reproductions, or else as illustrations of Pawel Ignaczak's essay on Kosciuszko's works of art. In the second part, Adam Tomasz Kukla's article introduces readers to the world of music composed or arranged by Kosciuszko and music referring to him. Musically gifted readers are encouraged to play selected compositions from those discussed in the essay, thanks to the music accompanying the book. Text in Polish and English.
SKU: HL.49015074
ISBN 9780793595259. UPC: 884088585716. 9.0x12.0x0.115 inches.
Previously only available on rental, this new publication of Barber's First Essay (ca. 1930) is a welcome addition to the literature. Set in the original orchestral key, Joseph Levey's arrangement has been performed byseveral of the most prestigious concert bands. This deserves a serious look for mature groups.
Samuel Barber's First Essay, arranged by Joseph Levey for Concert Band. Score/parts.
Previously only available on rental, this new publication of Barber's FirstEssay (ca. 1930) is a welcome addition to the literature. This edition includes newly discovered historical information on Barber's personal edits and revisions - including adding original music - to thearrangement prior to his approval for publication.
Set in the original orchestral key, this arrangement by Joseph Levey has been performed by several of the most prestigious concert bands. This deserves a seriouslook for mature groups.
SKU: HL.49020804
ISBN 9783254001184. German.
Obwohl Charles Ives (1874-1954) eine grundliche musikalische Ausbildung an der Yale University genossen hatte, schlug er sehr bald eine erfolgreiche Laufbahn als Versicherungskaufmann ein und widmete sich seiner musikalischen Arbeit nur abends und an den Wochenenden. In fast volliger Isolation vom Musikgeschehen der Zeit schuf er ein umfangreiches OEuvre, dessen grosse Bedeutung erst in den 60er Jahren entdeckt wurde: Ives entpuppt sich darin als radikaler Neuerer, der sowohl mit der damals gangigen musikalischen Syntax als auch den auffuhrungspraktischen Bedingungen seiner Zeit weitgehend brach. Allerdings ware es verfehlt, ihn bloss zum musikalischen Enfant terrible abzustempeln, das sich dank seiner materiellen Unabhangigkeit uber die Grenzen des Musikbetriebes hinwegsetzen konnte. Dafur war Ives ein viel zu reflektierender, verantwortungsbewusster Mensch, der zudem fest in der denkerischen Tradition des neuenglischen Transzendentalismus verwurzelt war. So gesehen erstaunt es kaum, dass Ives sich ausser der Musik - und gewissermassen parallel dazu - noch eines andern Mediums, des literarisch-philosophischen Essays, bediente, um seinen Uberzeugungen Ausdruck zu verschaffen.Dies gilt insbesondere fur Ives' tiefsinnigsten und ausgereiftesten Text, die Essays before a Sonata (1920), der als Begleitschrift zur zweiten Klaviersonate (Concord, Mass., 1840-1860) des Komponisten konzipiert war. Allerdings sind die Essays keineswegs ein Werkkommentar im traditionellen Sinne: Sie gehen zwar von konkreten musikasthetischen Fragen (namlich der Problematik der Programmmusik) aus, weiten sich aber zu einer sehr subjektiv gefarbten Darstellung von vier hochbedeutenden amerikanischen Schriftstellern des 19. Jahrhunderts aus - die Rede ist von Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bronson Alcott und Henry David Thoreau. Die vier Hauptabschnitte der Essays, die den vier behandelten Autoren entsprechen, geben in ihrem innigen Konnex zu den vier Satzen der Concord-Sonata - er erstreckt sich von vagen inhaltlichen Vorstellungen und Bildern bis hin zu ganz konkreten syntaktischen und formalen Parallelen - Aufschluss uber die Kompositionsprinzipien nicht nur der Concord-Sonata, sondern der Musik Ives' ganz allgemein, so dass man die Essays before a Sonata als sehr gelungene und in ihrer Ausfuhrlichkeit wohl einmalige Paraphrase von Musik bezeichnen darf.Das Nachwort zu den 114 Liedern (1922) ist mit den Essays insofern verwandt, als es zwei langere Stellen aus ihnen zitiert. Diese Zitierpraxis - man begegnet ihr auch in Ives' Musik - ist bezeichnend fur Ives' Denkweise: Ives macht von seinem Stoff sehr flexiblen Gebrauch, er setzt ihn in der Art von Versatzstucken immer wieder neu zusammen und kommt so immer wieder zu einem neuen, anders gearteten Ganzen. So geht Ives im Nachwort weniger allgemein kunstphilosphischen Problemen als der ganz individuellen Frage nach, warum er die Musik nur als Nebenberuf ausuben wollte. Seine Antwort, die er mit seinem typischen Yankee-Humor vortragt, macht einerseits deutlich, wie sehr Ives von einem puritanischen Verantwortungsgefuhl gegenuber der Gesellschaft gepragt war, und zeigt andererseits Ives' tiefen Glauben an eine Musik, die fest im Alltagsleben verwurzelt und somit denkbar weit von der europaischen Tradition der art pour l'art entfernt war.Die Memos (ca. 1932-34) schliesslich sind ein Dokument ganz anderer Art: Weder sollten sie, wie die beiden andern hier vorgelegten Texte, ein bestimmtes musikalisches Werk begleiten, noch besitzen sie den hohen gedanklichen Ausspruch der Essays und des Nachworts. Es sind autobiographische Aufzeichnungen, die Ives ursprunglich diktierte, deren Manuskripte er aber danach mehrmals durchsah und korrigierte. Sie gliedern sich in drei lose aneinandergereihte Teile: Im Anlass betitelten Abschnitt nimmt Ives auf teils humoristische, teils sarkastische Weise zu den Anfeindungen Stellung, die ihm die damals sparlichen Auffuhrungen seiner Werke bescherten. Im Sammelalbum gibt er einen chronologischen Uberblick uber Entstehung und Gehalt seiner wichtigsten Werke. Und in den Erinnerungen verschafft Ives nochmals den Grundpositionen seiner idealistischen Musikasthetik, seiner Abneigung gegen jede Form von Kommerz und Routine und seiner Verachtung aller musikalischen Kleingeister Ausdruck. Uberdies sind die Memos - trotz ihrer defensiven Grundhaltung - so humorvoll, engagiert und bildreich verfasst, dass sie nicht nur die detaillierteste, sondern auch die wohl anregendste Primarquelle zum Leben und Werk dieses vielleicht eigenwilligsten Komponisten des fruhen 20. Jahrhunderts bilden.
SKU: HL.49015425
ISBN 9783795702410. German.
Die Kompositionen Gyorgy Ligetis haben mehr als einmal fur Uberraschung, ja Verbluffung gesorgt. In kritischer Auseinandersetzung mit den Spielarten zeitgenossischen Komponierens wie in der Aneignung unterschiedlichster musikalischer Traditionen ist ein Werk entstanden, das den Horer zu jener Freiheit der Assoziation, zu jener Entdeckerfreude und Offenheit animiert, wie sie sich der Komponist bis heute bewahrt hat.Die Essays dieses Buches widmen sich der Annaherung an Ligetis Musik, verfolgen aussere und innere Entstehungsanlasse, legen strukturelle und ideelle Verknupfungen frei, verweisen aber auch auf die vielfaltigen Anregungen durch Aussermusikalisches, die fur die Arbeit des Komponisten so wesentlich sind. Im Interview aussert sich Ligeti zu Lebensstationen, asthetischen Prinzipien und aktuellen Vorhaben.Ausgezeichnet mit dem Deutschen Musikeditionspreis 1994.
SKU: PR.11641600L
UPC: 680160686346. Text: Ryan Carson.
Among the most intriguing of this pioneering American composer’s works, Three Songs on poems of Carl Sandburg is scored for Contralto with Oboe, Percussion, and Piano, plus an optional orchestra. The study score includes an essay introducing Crawford’s unique work in historical contexts as she sought a new musical language accessible to the many, while remaining uncompromisingly avant-garde.
SKU: MB.31008M
ISBN 9781513467016. 8.75x11.75 inches.
Blind Lemon Jefferson was a trail blazer, both as a singer and guitarist, but also as a commercial phenomenon, for he was the first blues musician to establish the tremendous appeal that blues, as played and sung by rural African American folk, had for the record-buying public. It is no exaggeration to say that the sales of Lemon’s records paved the way for a host of other solo rural blues musicians to record in his wake and made the record companies more willing to give other musicians a chance, in the hopes of achieving similar success. Lemon’s record sales weren’t what made him a great musician, though - that could only be attributed to his startlingly virtuosic guitar - playing and soulful singing, developed over years of busking, building on his natural gifts with a great deal of practice and work. In the Guitar of Blind Lemon Jefferson author John Miller presents transcriptions, in standard notation and tablature, of 22 of Lemon’s greatest performances, with an additional essay examining Lemon’s senses of time and phrasing and his picking techniques. Also included is a download link to all the original recordings. To present a picture of Lemon the man, noted blues researchers Alan Governar and Kip Lornell have contributed an essay focusing on Lemon’s early life, the origins of his music, and his time spent in a musical partnership with Lead Belly. Links are provided to downloadable performances of the songs in the book from which the transcriptions were made, so that you can have Lemon’s sound in your head as you learn to play his songs.Blind Lemon Jefferson was remarkable, even in a style that abounded in great musicians, and some measure of his influence can be seen in the fact that musicians recorded in the 1960s, more than thirty years after his death, were still covering his songs and stealing guitar licks from him. The Guitar of Blind Lemon Jefferson gives you the resources needed to learn what was so special about Lemon’s music, and to experience his musical excellence from inside the music itself.Titles include: One Dime Blues, Got The Blues, Dry Southern Blues, Big Night Blues, Rabbit Foot Blues, Shuckin' Sugar Blues, Where Shall I Be, Wartime Blues, Black Horse Blues, Prison Cell Blues, Piney Woods Money Mama, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean, He Arose From The Dead, Beggin' Back, Broke And Hungry, Bad Luck Blues, Matchbox Blues, Lemon's Worried Blues, That Crawlin' Baby Blues, Easy Rider Blues, Stocking Feet Blues and Right of Way BluesLevel 2/3 • 160 pages • Direct download link to audio files.Â
SKU: PR.11641600S
ISBN 9781491134689. UPC: 680160685271. English. Text: Ryan Carson.