SKU: FH.VC8
ISBN 978-1-55440-544-2.
This inaugural edition of the Cello Series offers a sound and progressive collection of Repertoire, Recordings, Etudes, Technique, and Orchestral Excerpts for the aspiring cellist. With an expansive representation of musical styles from all eras, this series addresses the need for a single collection of quality educational materials to foster musical development and instill appreciation of the richness and diversity of music written for cello. Supporting a balanced course of study, this series organizes repertoire into nine volumes from the Preparatory Level through Level 8. Each level offers music from a range of styles and compositional eras, including standard literature, new arrangements of familiar tunes, and music written for cellists, by cellists. These selections provide the flexibility to choose pedagogically appropriate material suited to each individual, and to motivate students to fully develop their musicianship and technique.Preparatory Level:Etude in C Major - Schroeder, CarlStroll Along - Anonymous arr. Samuel ApplebaumEtude in C Major - Romberg, Bernhard HeinrichClimbing the Scale - Hewitt-Jones, AnitaEtude in C Major - Kummer, Friedrich AugustMy Pony - Slovenian folk song arr. Francis GrantLevel 1:The Willow Tree - Grant, FrancisEtude in C Major - Hohmann, Christian-HeinrichTravelling Along - Hewitt-Jones, AnitaThe Train - Legg, PatUp and Down Again - Dancla, Charles arr. Samuel ApplebaumEtude in G Major - Dotzauer, FriedrichEtude in C Major - Romberg, Bernhard HeinrichEtude in G Major, op. 101, no. 9 - Lee, SebastianLevel 2:Etude in D Major - Kummer, Friedrich AugustEtude in B flat Major, op. 70, no. 16 - Lee, SebastianPhrygian Frolic - Legg, PatMartele March - Hewitt-Jones, AnitaPachyderm Parade - Mooney, RickEtude in G Minor - Romberg, Bernhard HeinrichEtude in C Major - Werner, JosefLevel 3:Etude in A Major - Dotzauer, FriedrichSpiccato Race - Hewitt-Jones, AnitaEtude in G Major, op. 30, no. 6 - Brueckner, OskarEtude in C Major - Borschitzky, Johann FrancisEtude in B flat Major - Tabb, Richard ValentineEtude in G Major - Kummer, Friedrich AugustEtude in F Major - Matz, RudolfFire Stations - Legg, PatEtude in F Major - Feuillard, Louis R.Level 4:Etude in G Minor, op. 70, no. 24 - Lee, SebastianEtude in C Major - Tabb, Richard ValentineEtude in D Major - Matz, RudolfCalypso - Legg, PatI Was a Teenage Monster - Mooney, RickSuo-Gan (A Welsh Lullaby) - Welsh folk song Arr. Rick MooneyEtude in D Minor - Werner, JosephEtude in G Major, op. 31, no. 12 - Schroeder, CarlEtude in C Major - Feuillard, Louis R.Spinner's Waltz - Hewitt-Jones, Anita.
SKU: HL.48188810
Scheidt Per Cantare E Sonare Pj267 Benedicamus Domino Cello Part.
SKU: ST.Y184
ISBN 9790220220357.
Advanced.
SKU: PR.114414310
UPC: 680160594467. 9 x 12 inches.
Three diverse pieces by Samuel Adler are presented. Emunah (Faith) is a paean to his wife, Emily. L'olam Vaed dates back to 1978 and is printed in proportional notation, to better guide the musicians and to maximize the performers' expressive freedom. Tribute, the most recent of the three, was written to mark the reopening of Alice Tully Hall in 2009.
SKU: PR.11441123S
UPC: 680160016303. 8.5 x 11 inches.
The Quintet for Piano and String Quartet was written for the American String Quartet in the summer of 2000. It is in one movement but has two distinct parts. The first is a slow movement characterized by dotted rhythms. It is a fantasy with some long flowing lines interrupted by short fragments usually in the piano. After a rather agitated section in 6/8 time, this section comes to a quiet close on a G-sharp major chord. The second section of this thirteen-minute work is marked Fast and Energetic. It begins with chords that recur throughout the movement and after two measures a long main theme is introduced which is developed and altered during the rest of the fast portion of the work. One could call this second part a sort of rondo form since this long lyrical theme returns always after contrasts. When it does return, it is treated often by means of imitation, but at the climax returns played in unison by the strings while the piano renders an energetic sixteenth note background. The work ends on an E-flat major chord though the piece is certainly not in any one key, but rather features quick modulations. One might call this non-tonal music which nevertheless always feels like it has a tonal center. --Samuel Adler.
SKU: PR.11441626S
UPC: 680160620067. 9 x 12 inches.
The String Quartet No. 10 was written in 2013 for the 50th anniversary of the Bowdoin International Summer Music Festival and is dedicated to the Cassatt Quartet who premiered the work during the 50th anniversary celebration in July 2014.  The work was written with a generous grant from the Fromm Music Foundation.The 10th String Quartet is in one continuous movement but divided into four sections.  The first section is a slow introduction which presents the basic harmonic material of the entire work.  This is suddenly interrupted by a very agitated movement forming a great contrast to the calm of the beginning.  This rhythmic drive comes to a stop and is relieved by the third section which is a variation of the beginning, but is a bit longer and more developed.  This is followed by the final section which again captures the agitation of the second section and brings the work to a wild and most aggressive end.—Samuel Adler.
SKU: ST.Y279
ISBN 9790220223068.
Such is the character of the accordion that any work featuring its distinctive voice within an ensemble is likely to be a piece d'occasion. Written for the prizewinning young soloist Milos Milivojevic and performed with the Juritz String Quartet at the 2011 Machynlleth Festival in Wales, Rhian Samuel's Mist on the Hills is no exception. The composer has used the rare opportunity of writing for the instrument in combination with solo strings to exploit its illustrative powers and create a fourteen-minute score inspired by the changing weather over the hills around her Welsh home on the Dyfi Estuary. In particular, its three movements are suggestive of the appearance of mist in the landscape, 'settling', 'lingering' and 'swirling'. In the first movement, which is a gentle prelude, brief accordion motifs break through the timbre of strings like glints of sunshine through mist. The second movement, more song-like, presents three verses of a lament; in the first half of each verse the accordion sings as if from afar, while in the second half (led by the viola) the music intensifies greatly. In the dance-like and virtuosic last movement a short, constantly changing refrain alternates with two types of material: 'swirling' music and lighter, more rhythmical ideas. Finally, scale passages invade the texture, ceasing only as the accordion ascends to the top of its range in the closing bars.
SKU: PR.114416260
ISBN 9781491101070. UPC: 680160620043. 9 x 12 inches.
Adler's milestone String Quartet No. 10 was composed for the Cassatt String Quartet for performance at the Bowdoin International Music Festival's 50th Anniversary season in 2014. Built in a single movement of contrasting sections, Adler's 10th will continue to be featured in upcoming concerts by the Cassatt Quartet, including a performance in Beijing in July.The String Quartet No. 10 was written in 2013 for the 50th anniversary of the Bowdoin International Summer Music Festival and is dedicated to the Cassatt Quartet who premiered the work during the 50th anniversary celebration in July 2014.  The work was written with a generous grant from the Fromm Music Foundation.The 10th String Quartet is in one continuous movement but divided into four sections.  The first section is a slow introduction which presents the basic harmonic material of the entire work.  This is suddenly interrupted by a very agitated movement forming a great contrast to the calm of the beginning.  This rhythmic drive comes to a stop and is relieved by the third section which is a variation of the beginning, but is a bit longer and more developed.  This is followed by the final section which again captures the agitation of the second section and brings the work to a wild and most aggressive end.—Samuel Adler.
SKU: ST.Y296
ISBN 9790220223525.
Nature and landscape have been the dominant themes of much of Rhian Samuel's vocal music of the last ten years, projected chiefly through the poetry of Anne Stevenson, and in her most recent song-settings, the writings of the Pakistan-born Texas-based poet Zulfikar Ghose. His poem 'Conspiracy of the Clouds' describes how, the clouds having chosen to become invisible, 'Even the astronauts on the space shuttle / looked down on a cloudless America' as hurricanes ravage Louisiana and storms engulf Nebraska. An intriguing conceit in the tradition of magic realism, the text is presented as a scena lasting around 16 minutes, with interpolations from 'Haze' by the nineteenth-century New England transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. Thus modern fable and romantic nature-description are juxtaposed, and their interaction becomes the source of musical contrasts too. Thoreau's words are assigned predominantly to the vocalist's highest register, those of Ghose to her lower tessitura; and the suggestive and dramatic accompaniment builds tension steadily to the final ironic response of an incredulous American public: not one of awe and wonder, but the question 'Why weren't we told about it?
SKU: HL.49018988
ISBN 9790001171601.
The title 'called dusk' quotes the last line of the prose fragment 'Lessness' by Samuel Beckett: 'Figment dawn dispeller of figments and the other called dusk'. As regards the compositional structure, the three movements of the work written 'in memoriam Gyorgy Ligeti' are based on the tones of a Kaddish which, however, cannot literally be heard but, with the fingertips placed on the cello strings, generate artificial harmonics of totally different sequences of tones.
SKU: HL.14035889
ISBN 9788759859285. English-Danish.
I - Lento II - Imposante III - Andante Programme Note In my early television remembrance I recall a broadcast with Samuel Beckett, one of the fathers of the absurd play and drama. At one time Beckett looked the viewer (the camera) in the eye and said:'What! - is the Word'. I have not since been able to forget it, obviously, having borrowed this ambiguous sentence as title for this short cello sonata. The fact that it is conceived as a unity is obvious from the fact that the two outer movements are closely related. The long, immediately recognizable melodic line which dominates the first movement appears in the third movement aswell, first in an inverted version and then almost identical to its original appearance, only shorter. In contrast, the middle movement is a fast one, constantly and intensely on the move, with many changes of pulse and meters, as well as large melodic leaps. And while the outer movements each are composed as a single melodic line, the middle movement makes extensive use of the cello as a polyphonic instrument employing lots of chords, double stops and flageolet effects. Per Norgard (2010).