Orchestra 2 Bassoons, 2 Oboes, 3 Clarinets, 3 Flutes, 3 Trombones, 3 Trumpets, 4 Horns, Bass Drum, Contra-bassoon, Cymbal, English Horn, Percussion: Snare Drum, Strings, Timpani, Tuba

SKU: PR.466411770

Composed by Harl Mcdonald. This edition: Study Score. Contemporary. Full score. With Standard notation. 84 pages. Duration 15 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #466-41177. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.466411770).

UPC: 680160640850. 9 x 12 inches.

Mississippi I. Father of Waters: born of the Highlands and the Lakes; the Glaciers, the Mountains, and the Prairies. The picture of your birth is clounded in the ice and mists of ancient ages but your spirit remains our life stream. II. The Red Man knew your bountiful gifts and gave thanks to the Great Spirit on your banks. -- The Spanish and French Fathers brought the glory of Christianity to America on Mississippi. But all men, white and dark; -- Indian, Spaniard, and Negro; Bourbon and Yankee, combined to make Mississippi the heart of America. Saga of the Mississippi Harl McDonald Born near Boulder, Colorado, July 27, 1899 Now living in Philadelphia The original suggestion for a symphonic work on the subject of the Mississippi came indirectly from the late Booth Tarkington who saw in it color and movement and atmosphere translatable into the terms of music. In the course of time, by the mysterious processes of composers' chemistry, it took shape as a tone-poem of two sections, one representing the rise of the great stream from its primeval geologic sources, the other the human history of the river. Mr. McDonald devised the following verbal outline of the general scheme of his diptych: I. Father of Waters: born of the Highlands and the Lakes; the Glaciers, the Mountains, and the Prairies. The picture of your birth is clounded in the ice and mists of ancient ages but your spirit remains our life stream. II. The Red Man knew your bountiful gifts and gave thanks to the Great Spirit on your banks. -- The Spanish and French Fathers brought the glory of Christianity to America on Mississippi. But all men, white and dark; -- Indian, Spaniard, and Negro; Bourbon and Yankee, combined to make Mississippi the heart of America. The first of the two movements, beginning molto andante, is vaguel modal to hint at antiquity. It is built upon the conventional two themes, with an episode, poco piu mosso, misterioso, for prehistoric murk and muck. There are various changes of pace and mood. The second, Allegro ma vigorosamente, prefigures an Indian ceremony. A theme presented by flute, clarinet and bassoon is a Canadian Indian fishing call collected by the late J.B. Beck. A later passage of quasi-Gregorian chant identifies the French and Spanish priests who made the great river their highway. The fishing-call is altered in rhythm and harmony to represent Negro field hands and roustabous. A turbulent close brings all these elemts together in the muddy swirling currents of the Mississippi. The work was begun in the summer of 1945, and was revised and completed in the summer of 1947. Harl McDonald, who is the manager of The Philadelphia Orchestra, has concerned himself with music as an art, as a science and as a business in course of his career. He was born on a cattle ranch in the Rockies, but since his was a musical family, his up-bringing combined piano lessons with ranch life. Years of study and professional experience followed in Los Angeles and in Germany. In 1927 he was appointed lecuter in composition at the University of Pennsylvania and he has since then made is home in Philadelphia. In 1933 under a grant of the Rockefeller FOundation he collaborated with physicists in research dealing with the measurement of instrumental and vocal tone, new scale divisions and the resultant harmonies. In that same year he was named head of the University's music faculty and conductor of its choral organizations. In 1939, having been a member of the Board of Directors for five years, he was appointed manager of The Philadelphia Orchestra. He continus to write, but otherwise his entire attention is now devoted to managerial duties. Chief items in the catalogue of his compositions are four symphonies, three orchestra suites, a half-dozen tone-poems, three concertos and considerable quantity of choral music.

Vocal Score. By Gioachino Rossini. Arranged by Alberto Zedda. (score). Vocal Score. Size 8x10.75 inches. 488 pages. Published by Ricordi.

Harpsichord; Early Music

SKU: UT.DM-68

Composed by Enrico Baiano. Paperback (Soft Cover). Classical. Ut Orpheus #DM 68. Published by Ut Orpheus (UT.DM-68).

ISBN 9790215318816. 9 x 12 inches.

Il presente metodo intende analizzare ed affrontare i problemi fondamentali della tecnica clavicembalistica. Poiché lo studio del clavicembalo viene frequentemente affrontato dopo un periodo di formazione pianistica o organistica, lo studioso si trova di fronte a vari inconvenienti tecnici; la tecnica pianistico-organistica, infatti, non è adatta alla meccanica a corde pizzicate: il clavicembalo è uno strumento diverso ed autonomo, con sue proprie caratteristiche organologiche ed una sua tecnica specifica. Un approccio tecnico errato ha conseguenze fatali sulla qualità del suono e sulla possibilità di modellarlo ed asservirlo alle esigenze interpretative, e produce sgradevoli rumori meccanici. Nei casi peggiori crea problemi tecnici tali da rendere faticosa, se non impossibile, un’esecuzione perlomeno corretta, e la meccanica dello strumento può subire dei danni. È perciò di vitale importanza un lavoro di adeguamento o di ricostruzione della tecnica.
I principi esposti in questo Metodo sono applicabili, con pochissime modifiche, anche al clavicordo e al fortepiano. Lo studioso vi troverà, in ordine crescente di complessità: degli esercizi di tecnica ‘pura’, pensati per isolare chiaramente il movimento da apprendere; dei piccoli frammenti – évolutions le avrebbe chiamate François Couperin – nei quali il movimento in esame è inserito in un contesto più musicale; degli studi dal meccanismo più complesso. Si è rinunciato a cominciare dal livello elementare, già affrontato da altri metodi, in favore di un maggiore approfondimento di quello intermedio. Il materiale è tratto o adattato dal repertorio, e in alcuni casi composto dall'autore. Tranne che nel caso delle scale, si è coscientemente evitato riferimenti alla trattatistica: nelle fonti storiche le istruzioni tecniche sono piuttosto generiche, mentre scopo del presente lavoro è ‘prendere per mano’ lo studioso ed aiutarlo gradualmente a costruire (o a perfezionare) la gestualità di base indispensabile alla buona esecuzione clavicembalistica.
La sezione dedicata all’interpretazione è volutamente ridotta: un’analisi approfondita di tutti i problemi stilistici ed espressivi, posto che riuscisse ad essere esaustiva, richiederebbe un poderosissimo volume a parte. Lo scritto tende sempre a trasformarsi in dogma, in arida regola che non può prevedere tutte le infinite variabili che si danno nel fluire del discorso musicale: la musica si fa, e solo in parte si può spiegare. Si è preferito perciò limitarsi ad alcuni ‘consigli’, indicazioni generiche di partenza, che possono e devono essere superate, nella convinzione che l’esperienza personale e il lavoro diretto con l’insegnante siano di gran lunga più fecondi.