SKU: AP.36-52703614

ISBN 9781581069761. UPC: 654690687517. English.

This collection of folk songs from Latin America (Mexico, Costa Rica and Guatemala) are meant to expand young player's knowledge of music from other cultures or give them pride in the music of their own heritage. The music is mostly in 1st position with only Violin 1 and Violoncello wandering briefly into other positions. Players will use pizzicato and a variety of bowing styles.

Program Notes:

• Cielito Lindo (Lovely Sweet One) was popularized in 1882 by Mexican author Quirino Mendoza y Cortés. It is one of the most widely recognized tunes throughout the Spanish-speaking world as a symbol of Mexico.
• Naci en la Cumbre (I was Born on the Mountain) is a traditional Guatemalan folk song.
• Vuela, suspiro (Fly, My Sighs) is a traditional Costa Rican folk song.
• Ay! Tituy is a traditional folk song from Costa Rica.
• La Cucaracha (The Cockroach) is a traditional Spanish song, also trendy in Latin America. It is about a cockroach who can't walk. The song came to symbolize the Mexican Revolution (1910-20) and Pancho Villa.

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SKU: M7.VHR-3877

ISBN 9783864341205.

Diese Sammlung bietet ein abwechslungsreiches Repertoire an Spielstücken sowohl für junge Musiklernende als auch für erwachsene Amateurmusiker. Die Auswahl der Werke nimmt den Spieler mit auf eine Reise durch mehrere Jahrhunderte. Leicht spielbare Bearbeitungen berühmter Meisterwerke aus Barock, Klassik und Romantik sind ebenso vertreten wie Fiddle-Musik, Traditionals und beliebte Melodien aus der Unterhaltungsmusik. Alle Stücke sind in der 1. Lage spielbar und eine ideale Ergänzung zu jeder Celloschule. Das Einstudieren der Stücke wird durch die per Download zur Verfügung gestellten Audiodateien (Hör- und Mitspielversion) unterstützt. Für das gemeinsame Musizieren ist zusätzlich eine Ausgabe mit sämtlichen Klavierbegleitungen erhältlich (Best.-Nr. VHR 3913).

SKU: M7.VHR-3426

ISBN 9783864340123.

Die Ausgabe enthält Bearbeitungen aus den Bereichen Klassik, Musical und Film. Abgerundet wird die Sammlung durch Traditionals und Werke der Popmusik. Die Cellostimme ist als eigenständige Ausgabe erhältlich. Über der Klavierbegleitung ist die Cellostimme notiert.

SKU: PR.114406980

UPC: 680160010806.

Shulamit Ran’s second string quartet, subtitled “Vistas,” occupies a large canvas that is cast in a traditional fourmovement mold, where the outer movements present, explore, and later return to the work’s principal musical materials, surrounding a slow movement and scherzo-type third movement with a trio. In addition to tempo-based titles, the individual movements have subtitles that are evocative of each movement’s character, as follows: I. Concentric: from the inside out II. Stasis III. Flashes IV. Vistas.
My second string quartet, “Vistas”, is a work cast in a traditional four-movement formal mold, with the outer movements, presenting and later returning to the work’s principal musical materials, surrounding a slow movement and a scherzo-type third movement.While the four movements’ “proper” names -- Maestoso con forza, Lento, Scherzo impetuoso, and Introduzione; Maestoso e grande – give some indication of the general character of the individual movements, I have also subtitled, less formally, each movement as follows:  1) Concentric:  from the inside out  2)  Stasis  3) Flashes  4) Vista.  The images evoked by these titles tell one, I think, a bit more about the inner workings of the quartet.In the first movement, a prominently presented opening pitch (E) reveals itself, as the movement unfolds, to be a center of gravity from which ever-growing cycles of activity gradually evolve.  While various important themes come into being as the movement progresses, their impact on the listener has, I believe, a great deal to do with their juxtaposition and relationship to the initial central point of gravity.Stasis is, as the name implies, a movement where activity seems, at times, almost suspended.  Being also, as Webster’s Dictionary reminds us, “a state of static balance and equilibrium among opposing tendencies or forces,” it develops various materials, including ones from the first movement, without bringing them to points of resolution.Flashes is short and very fast, evoking in my mind the quick shimmer of fireflies, a “sudden burst of light”, but also a “brief time”.  Perhaps, even, a “smile”?Finally, the last movement, Vista, is not only “a view or outlook”, but also “a comprehensive mental view of a series of remembered or anticipated events.”  After a brief recall of the opening of the second movement, this movement brings back all the important themes of the first movement in their original order.  But just as going back can never really mean going back in time, the movement is much more than recapitulatory.  By cutting through previously transitory passages and presenting the main ideas in a fashion more direct yet more evolved, it also sheds new light on earlier events, offering a retrospective, synoptic view of the first movement as it brings to culmination the work as a whole. “Vistas” was commissioned by C. Geraldine Freund for the Taneyev String Quartet of what was then Leningrad.  It was the first commission given in this country to a Soviet chamber ensemble since the 1985 cultural exchange accord between the Soviet Union and the United States.