SKU: A3.9781860969478
ISBN 9781860969478. 9 x 12 inches.
This book contains practice material for Options - the musicianship tests that are part of Music Medals. Options cover a range of skills, from improvising to sight-reading, and are a means of developing musical understanding. The book introduces the four types of Options and demonstrates the standard required for each of the five Music Medals.
SKU: BA.BA09079-85
ISBN 9790006531431. 32.5 x 25.5 cm inches. Text: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
Latin text from the Vulgate (Psalm 113). German text by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy after Psalm 115 from the Lutheran Bible.
About Barenreiter Urtext Orchestral Parts
Why musicians love to play from Bärenreiter Urtext Orchestral Parts
- Urtext editions as close as possible to the composer’s intentions - With alternate versions in full score and parts - Orchestral parts in an enlarged format of 25.5cm x 32.5cm - With cues, rehearsal letters, and page turns where players need them - Clearly presented divisi passages so that players know exactly what they have to play - High-quality paper with a slight yellow tinge which does not glare under lights and is thick enough that reverse pages do not shine through
SKU: HL.14021087
8.25x12.0x0.059 inches.
John McCabe's Pueblo for solo Double Bass. Duration: approx. 7 minutes.
Pueblo is an off-shoot of a series of compositions inspired by desert country, and it was commissioned by Leon Bosch with the aid of funds provided by North West Arts. The piece is continous, falling into several sections, and is largeley based on the high circling motif heard at the start and referred to again in the harmonics at the close. It is prefaced by the following quotation from Scenes in American Deserta by Reyner Banham, published by Thames and Hudson:
'Clouds, high and flat, were now building up in thesky, the wind was settling to silent calm, the weather was very cold, and the stream through the center of the pueblo was almost frozen across, the Indians chipping out ice to melt down for water.'
The aim in writing the piece was to express in musical terms a response to the vivid picture of a scene relating to life in the American desert conveyed by Reyner Banham's text. Although not numbered among other Desert works, this belongs to this family of compositions, along with another Banham setting, written for the King's Singers, Scenes In America Deserta. - John McCabe
