SKU: HL.14073284
SKU: HL.49044862
ISBN 9790001203364. UPC: 841886025189. 7.5x10.5 inches. English.
The Irish composer Frank Corcoran already won several first prizes, such as for his English-language choral composition 'Eight Haikus' at the International Foundation for Choral Music in 2013. The almost 10-minute work for 4- to 8-part mixed a-cappella choir is based on eight secular texts written by Corcoran himself in the style of the famous Japanese haiku poems. In this shortest lyrical form of world literature which consists of only three lines, the composer born in 1944 uses a large variety of labials, sibilants and plosives and addresses socially relevant topics by means of simple descriptions of nature and seasons in a content-wise and musically figurative and almost mystical language.
SKU: M2.MOS-81508
ISBN 9790203794080.
Haikus sind japanisches Kurzgedichte in drei Zeilen (z.B.: Alter, stiller Teich / Froschlein springt hinein / Platsch!). Angelegt in verschiedenen Techniken und stilistischen Spielarten verbergen sie ihren Esprit geheimnisvoll in tieferen Schichten. Zweiter Preis beim Kompositionswettbewerb des Deutschen Musikrates fur den 5. Deutschen Chorwettbewerb 1998 in Regensburg.
SKU: UM.17791A3
ISBN 9790224417791. A3 inches.
SKU: HL.14079146
SKU: HL.14078771
SKU: HL.48024680
ISBN 9783793142249. UPC: 888680952549.
As a firm avant-gardist, Ursula Mamlock primarily focused on instrumental music, mostly with typically reduced means and expression.Text-based pieces, vocal music, especially choral music are exceptions in her oeuvre, thereby arousing special interest. For example, Mamlok set several haikus to music (in English translation): The fragile precision of these suggestive Japanese poems was in line with her sense of aesthetics. Her work Mosaics consists of eight extremely short pieces. The mixed choir singing in a soloistic manner does not develop in a linear way but helps to create different colourful pictures that interact with each other, a kind of light, restless serenity. 'Even Webern did not dare write such short pieces, especially not for choir', judges Mamlok's biographer Habakuk Traber. 'In the literature for vocal ensembles, Mamlok's Mosaics stands out unique.'.
SKU: HL.48019452
7.25x10.25x0.054 inches.
Taken from Karl Jenkins' major choral work Requiem (setting the standard Latin texts alongside five Japanese haiku poems). Arranged for SSA voices with piano accompaniment.
SKU: TI.TR00628
SKU: HL.49016720
ISBN 9790001144209. UPC: 884088991258. 9.0x12.0x0.056 inches. German.
Football (resp. soccer) has been fascinating for many contemporary composers - maybe because of the unpredictable dramaturgy within a match, the complexity of different combinations, contrasts or complements between different strategies, the soloist-like position of extraordinary players - in short, there are numerous connections to musical ideas.Zeitlupen (Slow-motion replays) reflects football on different layers. The cycle consists of three interlocking parts: four poems from Gottfried Blumenstein's 11 Haikus vom Fussballfeld form the musical core, to which three pantomime-actions with piano accompaniment, showing characteristic situations, are added. (This idea is based on a kind of a slow-motion-soccer, using a balloon instead of a football, that I used to play with my brother in our room, when the weather not allowed to go outside for a match on the playground nearby. The similarity towards far-eastern meditational techniques of these pantomimes also forms a connection to the haiku form of the poems.) The piece is completed by two recitations recalling famous teams and the best and (maybe) worst from german football history: the world champions from 1954 and the team of the unbearable put-up game against Austria during the world championship of 1982. This part also refers to a well-known poem by Peter Handke, Die Aufstellung des 1. FC Nurnberg vom 27. 1. 1968.Behind that, playing with numbers has been important for the structure. The form of the haiku (5-7-5 syllables), a symmetric all-interval-series and many other elements are taken from the number of 12 (eleven players and their coach). Gesture and sound-colours of the piano part are economical but precise; towards the ending percussive sounds dominate it. Directly illustrative moments - like the rhythm of cheers call in Nr. IV - are rather exceptional. The altogether form follows the labyrinthical structure of Pierre Boulez' Le marteau sans maitre, written around the famous year of 1954...Benjamin Schweitzer.
SKU: UM.17791A4
A4 inches.
SKU: HL.14041026
French.
SKU: HL.50602279
ISBN 9781540081568. UPC: 888680990503.
SKU: CA.339320
ISBN 9790007313395. French. Text: Gabriels, Damien.
SKU: HL.50610142
