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| Muldoon Songs Piano, Voice [Sheet music] Carl Fischer
Song Cycle for Voice and Piano. By Daron Aric Hagen. Text: Paul Muldoon. For Pia...(+)
Song Cycle for Voice and Piano. By Daron Aric Hagen. Text: Paul Muldoon. For Piano, High Voice. Premiered February 12, 1993 on a Friends and Enemies of Contemporary Music concert at the Greenwich Music Hous in New York City by Mr. Sperry, accompanied by the composer. Soft Cover. 16 pages. Published by Carl Fischer.
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| Songs from a Silent Land Concert band, Choral [Score and Parts] Hal Leonard
Soprano and Symphonic Winds. Composed by Michael Daugherty (1954-). Michael ...(+)
Soprano and Symphonic Winds.
Composed by Michael
Daugherty (1954-). Michael
Daugherty Music.
Contemporary. Softcover. 100
pages. Published by Hal
Leonard
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| Folgore's Months Concert band Alfred Publishing
(4 Songs for Soprano and Wind Ensemble: February / August / May / December). By ...(+)
(4 Songs for Soprano and Wind Ensemble: February / August / May / December). By David Liptak. Concert Band. Concert Band; Part(s); Score. Donald Hunsberger Wind Library. Contemporary. Grade 5. 312 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing
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| Introduzione and Allegro Yorke Edition
Good work for examinations and recitals by an important British composer. Durati...(+)
Good work for examinations and recitals by an important British composer. Duration c.6'. AMEB (Australian Syllabus) 2004. Programme notes as follows:
Lennox Berkeley was born in 1903 and died in 1989. After reading modern languages at Oxford he had no intention of becoming a composer until he met Ravel in 1926, who encouraged him to study in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. He stayed in Paris until 1932, developing his own musical language. In 1936, after the death of his mother, he went to Barcelona for the International Society for Contemporary Music festival where he met Benjamin Britten. The two lived together at Snape in Suffolk for a while until the outbreak ofwar, before Berkeley moved back to London to work for the BBC. Here he met his future wife Freda Bernstein. He taught at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1946 until 1968, where his pupils included Richard Rodney Bennett, Nicholas Maw and John Tavener, among others. He was knighted in 1974.
In early February 1971 I was playing in a concert at St. John's Smith Square, London, then only relatively recently restored as a superb venue for music. The programme, which I believe was being broadcast, included Berkeley's Serenade Op.12. It was a work I had always enjoyed playing and was standard string orchestra repertoire at the time. There was initially no platform at St. John's and so the audience sat virtually on top of the performers. So close were they on this occasion that I had to ask for a little more room in order to play. At the end of the piece the orchestra acknowledged the applause and the gentleman who I had all but practically decapitated with my over-enthusiastic playing, stood up and took a bow. I had been almost playing in Lennox Berkeley's lap! The opportunity was too good to miss and I wasted little time in introducing myself. Mr Berkeley said that he had been fascinated by my playing and asked me to write to him about a possible commission.
This I did on 6 February, mentioning that
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| Three Songs of Love Choral SATB SATB A Cappella Boosey and Hawkes
Choral (SATB a cappella) SKU: HL.48024222 SATB (divisi) a cappella Boo...(+)
Choral (SATB a cappella) SKU: HL.48024222 SATB (divisi) a cappella Boosey & Hawkes Contemporary Choral Series. Composed by David Bednall. Boosey & Hawkes Sacred Choral. Classical, General Worship, Sacred. Octavo. 28 pages. Duration 720 seconds. Boosey & Hawkes #M060133626. Published by Boosey & Hawkes (HL.48024222). 7.0x10.0x0.094 inches. These Three Songs of Love were commissioned by Exultate Singers and first performed on 14 February 2015 at St George's Bristol. The three texts (Clare, Yeats and McCrae) represent various moods of love, from the thrill of its first appearance and the mini death which this involves, through the devotion felt towards the beloved even if they are unaware of it, to the distant memories evoked by a return to an old haunt. The florid and expressive music is tied very closely to the words, with rich harmonies and clever counterpoint alongside homophonic passages. The songs will present a mild challenge to intermediate choirs, but they are sure to be pleasing to both singers and audiences and an excellent addition to the contemporary repertoire. Content: *First Love *Though you are in your shining days & The Cloths of Heaven *Then and Now. $6.50 - See more - Buy online | | |
| Hauschka: A Different Forest Piano solo Bosworth & Co.
Piano SKU: BT.BOE7935 Songbook. Composed by Hauschka. Contemporary...(+)
Piano SKU: BT.BOE7935 Songbook. Composed by Hauschka. Contemporary Music. Book Only. Composed 2019. 80 pages. Bosworth & Co. #BOE7935. Published by Bosworth & Co. (BT.BOE7935). ISBN 9783954562008. German. Known professionally as Hauschka, composer Volker Bertelmann has catapulted himself into the top tier of instrumental composers. This is proven, not least, by the Oscar nomination which he received for his soundtrack to the2016 film Lion. In his latest album A Different Forest, released on 8 February 2019 at Sony Classical, Hauschka takes the forest as a contrast to the urban life. The names of the pieces, such as 'Talking To My Father',testify equally that those natural experiences are metaphorical of the important things in life. For this album Hauschka renounces entirely his prepared Piano. The existential questions which he musically poses, however,donot lose their intensity, but rather, without the alienation by electronic elements, gain urgency. In addition to the 13 LP tracks, this songbook for Piano also contains three exclusive arrangements of previouslyunreleased songs: 'Collecting Stones', 'Loosing Directions' and 'Misty Day'. Volker Bertelmann aka Hauschka lanceerde zichzelf naar top van de instrumeantele componisten, niet in het minste door zijn oscar-nominatie die hij ontving voor zijn soundtrack bij de film Lion. In zijn laatste album A Different Forest - uitgebracht op 8 februari 2019 - gebruikt hij het bos als een contrast met het stadsleven. Titels zoals Talking To My Father tonen dat deze ervaringen in de natuur metaforen zijn voor belangrijke gebeurtenissen in het leven. Dit songbook voor piano bevat, naast de 13 nummers van de LP, eneneens 3 exclusieve bewerkingen van tot nu onuitgebrachte nummers: Collecting Stones, Losing Directions and Misty Day.
Volker Bertelmann alias Hauschka hat sich mittlerweile in die oberste Riege der Instrumentalkomponisten katapultiert. Dies beweist nicht zuletzt die Oscar-Nominierung, die er für seinen Soundtrack zum Film Lion“ erhielt. In seinem neusten Album A Different Forest“ am 08. Februar 2019 bei Sony Classical erschienen nimmt er sich dem Wald als Kontrastraum zum städtischen Leben an. Titelnamen wie Talking To My Father bezeugen gleichermaßen, dass jene Naturerfahrungen metaphorisch für die wichtigen Dinge des Lebens stehen. Für dieses Album verzichtet Hauschka gänzlich auf sein präpariertes Klavier. Die existentiellen Fragen, denen er sich musikalisch stellt, verlieren hierdurch aber nicht an Intensität, sondern gewinnen ohne die Verfremdung durch elektronische Elemente vielmehr an Dringlichkeit. Dieses Songbook für Klavier enthält neben den 13 Titeln der LP drei exklusive Arrangements bisher unveröffentlichter Songs: Collecting Stones, Losing Directions und Misty Day.
Volker Bertelmann, également connu sous le nom de Hauschka, s'est retrouvé au premier rang des compositieurs instrumentaux : ceci a été confirmé par sa nomination aux Oscars pour la bande-originale du film Lion. Dans son dernier album « A Different Forest », sorti le 8 février 2019, la forêt fait usage de contaste avec la vie urbaine. Des titres tels que Talking to My Father déclarent de la même façon que ces expériences au contact de la nature sont des métaphores de moments importants dans la vie. En plus des 13 pistes du vinyl 33 trous, ce recueil de chansons pour piano comprend en exclusivité trois arrangements de titres inédits : Collecting Stones, Losing Directions et Misty Day.
Volker Bertelmann aka Hauschka si è portato a un livello superiore dei compositori strumentali. Questo non è subito evidente nella colonna sonora del film Lion, per cui ha ricevuto una candidatura all' Oscar, ma nel suo ultimo album A Different Forest - uscito l'8 febbraio 2019 - in cui utilizza l'immagine della foresta come contrasto con la vita urbana. Titoli come Talking to My Father testimoniano allo stesso modo che tutte quelle esperienze della natura sono metafore di eventi importanti della vita. Questo canzoniere per pianoforte contiene, oltre ai 13 brani dell'LP, tre arrangiamenti esculisivi di canzoni inedite: Collecting Stones, Losing Directions e Misty Day. $31.95 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| The Dar Williams Songbook Guitar notes and tablatures Hal Leonard
By Dar Williams. For guitar and voice. Hal Leonard Guitar Recorded Versions. Alt...(+)
By Dar Williams. For guitar and voice. Hal Leonard Guitar Recorded Versions. Alternative Rock and Contemporary Folk. Difficulty: medium. Guitar tablature songbook. Standard guitar notation, guitar tablature, vocal melody, lyrics, chord names, guitar chord guitar tablature songbook Alternative Rock and Contemporary Folk
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| My Other Song Piano solo Schirmer
Piano SKU: HL.50600925 For Piano. Composed by Bright Sheng. Piano....(+)
Piano SKU: HL.50600925 For Piano. Composed by Bright Sheng. Piano. Classical. Softcover. 32 pages. G. Schirmer #ED4625. Published by G. Schirmer (HL.50600925). ISBN 9781495095320. UPC: 888680688592. 9x12 inches. Composer Note: In 1990, after eight years in the United States, I wrote my first work for solo piano, titled My Song, commissioned for Peter Serkin. At the time, my primary compositional concentration was to develop a melodic and harmonic style within the boundaries of Chinese folk music, which are mostly in pentatonic modes, and contemporary Western Classical music. As a result, all the four movements in My Song were either based on existing Chinese folk tunes or written in their style. I was asked recently by another virtuoso pianist friend, Yefim Bronfman, to write a work for solo piano. After the passing of 17 years, I wonder if there is any change in my writing. I therefore titled the new suite My Other Song.
There are four movements in the composition, the first three of which are brief and provide contrast in character. The theme of the last movement, the longest, is based on a Buddhist chant heard at the wake for my mother in February 2005.–Bright Sheng. $12.99 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 24 hours - In Stock | | |
| Songs II Theodore Presser Co.
(For Soprano, Violin, Clarinet, Cello, and Piano). By Ralph Shapey. Chamber ense...(+)
(For Soprano, Violin, Clarinet, Cello, and Piano). By Ralph Shapey. Chamber ensemble. For soprano, violin, clarinet, cello, piano. Contemporary. Score and parts. Standard notation. Composed FEBRUARY 17 1984. 32 + pages. Duration 19:00. Published by Theodore Presser Company
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| Rinaldo HWV 7a Barenreiter
Solo voices, orchestra (5 Soprano Voice Solo, Mezzo-Soprano Voice Solo, 2 Alto V...(+)
Solo voices, orchestra (5 Soprano Voice Solo, Mezzo-Soprano Voice Solo, 2 Alto Voice Solo, Tenor Voice Solo, Bass Voice Solo, Fl-Picc, 2 Fl, 2 Ob, 4Trp, timpani, harpisc., Str, Continuo) SKU: BA.BA04033 Opera in three acts. Composed by George Frideric Handel. Edited by David R. B. Kimbell. This edition: complete edition, urtext edition. Linen. Halle Handel Edition (HHA) Series II, Volume 4, No. 1. Version of 1711. Oper, Barock (Opera, Baroque). Complete edition, Score. HWV 7A. Duration 1 hour, 39 minutes, 59 seconds. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA04033_00. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BA04033). ISBN 9790006443406. 33.1 x 26 cm inches. Text Language: Italian. Giacomo Rossi. This was Handel’s first opera for London, first performed at the theatre in the Haymarket in February 1711. It was strong in both music (including recomposed versions of some movements that Handel had previously written for his operas in Italy) and staging: a contemporary described the opera as ‘filled with Thunder and Lightening, Illuminations and Fireworks’.
About Barenreiter Urtext What can I expect from a Barenreiter Urtext edition? MUSICOLOGICALLY SOUND - A reliable musical text based on all available sources - A description of the sources - Information on the genesis and history of the work - Valuable notes on performance practice - Includes an introduction with critical commentary explaining source discrepancies and editorial decisions ... AND PRACTICAL - Page-turns, fold-out pages, and cues where you need them - A well-presented layout and a user-friendly format - Excellent print quality - Superior paper and binding
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| Delight that Never Dies Hope Publishing Company
SKU: HP.8204 Composed by Alan Gaunt. Hymn Texts 1997-2003. Alan Gaunt Hym...(+)
SKU: HP.8204 Composed by Alan Gaunt. Hymn Texts 1997-2003. Alan Gaunt Hymn Collection. General Worship, Sacred. Book. 196 pages. Hope Publishing Company #8204. Published by Hope Publishing Company (HP.8204). ISBN 9780852498804. The third collection of hymns by Alan Gaunt, bringing together 97 new texts written between November 1996 and February 2003. In addition, there are 22 translations from the Danish of N F S Grundtvig (1783-1872), and nine other translations, including six from the Welsh of William Williams (Pantycelyn). The Forward, by Professor Richard Watson of Durham University, places Gaunt's recent oeuvre in the context of his wide reading of other poets and Christian thinkers, and of the major themes and challenges of contemporary hymnody. $21.95 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 4 to 6 business days | | |
| Sequences Chester
Score and Parts Baritone Saxophone; Bass Flute; Contrabassoon; Double Bassoon (S...(+)
Score and Parts Baritone Saxophone; Bass Flute; Contrabassoon; Double Bassoon (Score & Parts) SKU: HL.275459 Score and Parts Bass Flute, Baritone Saxophone and Contrabassoon. Composed by Anna Thorvaldsdottir. Music Sales America. Classical. Softcover. 12 pages. Duration 480 seconds. Chester Music #CH86801. Published by Chester Music (HL.275459). 9.0x12.0x0.087 inches. Score and Parts for Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Sequences. Written for bass flute, bass clarinet, baritone saxophone and contrabassoon. Composed for the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) for the ICEcommons Project and the New York Public Library. The first performance was given on 2 February 2013 at Kaldalon Hall, Harpa Centre, Reykjavik, Iceland. Duration: c. 8 minutes. $17.99 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| What Praise Can I Play on Sunday?, Book 1 Piano solo - Intermediate Alfred Publishing
(January and February Services (10 Easily Prepared Piano Arrangements)). Arrange...(+)
(January and February Services (10 Easily Prepared Piano Arrangements)). Arranged by Carol Tornquist. For Piano. Book; Piano Collection; Piano Supplemental. Sacred Performer Collections. Ash Wednesday; Contemporary Christian; Epiphany; Hymn; Lent; Sacred; Winter. Early Advanced; Late Intermediate. 40 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing
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| Sombre Chester
Score and Parts Mixed Ensemble (Score & Parts) SKU: HL.14043492 For Ba...(+)
Score and Parts Mixed Ensemble (Score & Parts) SKU: HL.14043492 For Bass Flute, Voice, Percussion, Harp and Double Bass. Composed by Kaija Saariaho. Music Sales America. Classical, Contemporary. Softcover. 52 pages. Chester Music #CH80806. Published by Chester Music (HL.14043492). ISBN 9781780389233. 9.25x12.0x0.474 inches. Kaija Saariaho 'S Sombre Was Commissioned Jointly By The Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation And Da Camera Of Houston. The World Premiere Took Place On 23 February 2012 At Rothko Chapel, Houston, Usa Given By The Da Camera Ensemble: Daniel Belcher, Baritone; Camilla Hoitenga, Bass Flute; Bridget Kibbey, Harp; Matthew Strauss, Percussion And Paul Ellison, Double Bass. Duration: 17-19 Minutes. $64.00 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Tour Eiffel Chester
Choral SKU: HL.14042471 SSA and Piano. Composed by Bryce Dessner. ...(+)
Choral SKU: HL.14042471 SSA and Piano. Composed by Bryce Dessner. Choral. Classical, Contemporary. Octavo. Composed 2013. 28 pages. Chester Music #CH81235. Published by Chester Music (HL.14042471). ISBN 9781783051786. 6.75x9.75x0.122 inches. Tour Eiffel by Bryce Dessner was co-commissioned by the Brooklyn Youth Chorus with St. Ann's Warehouse, Kauffman Center, Manhattan New Music Project, and the Ecstatic Music Festival. Premiered 10February, 2011 at St. Ann's Warehouse and 12 March, 2011 at Merkin Concert Hall, NYC. $5.50 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Folgore's Months (score only) Concert band - Advanced Alfred Publishing
Concert Band soprano voice solo and wind ensemble (concert band) - Grade 5 SK...(+)
Concert Band soprano voice solo and wind ensemble (concert band) - Grade 5 SKU: AP.32548S 4 Songs for Soprano and Wind Ensemble: February / August / May / December. Concert Band; Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles. Donald Hunsberger Wind Library. Contemporary. Score. 64 pages. Alfred Music #00-32548S. Published by Alfred Music (AP.32548S). UPC: 038081385518. English. Commissioned by a consortium of outstanding collegiate wind ensembles, Folgore's Months features a soprano voice soloist in a contemporary setting of four movements musically depicting February, August, May, and December. David Liptak, well known for his creative compositional style (his The Sacred Harp was one of the first wind works included in The Donald Hunsberger Wind Library), has written a four-movement composition for Soprano and Chamber Wind Ensemble based upon the writings of a 14th century poet. Folger's Months is a vital addition to the growing serious repertoire for vocal soloist and winds.
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| Music Puzzler Musical course - Solfege [Sheet music + CD] Alfred Publishing
(80 Reproducible Music Puzzles). By Sue Albrecht Johnson. Book; CD; Classroom/Pr...(+)
(80 Reproducible Music Puzzles). By Sue Albrecht Johnson. Book; CD; Classroom/Pre-School; General Music and Classroom Publications; Reproducible. 92 pages. Published by Alfred Music
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| Folgore's Months (piano reduction) Concert band [Piano/Vocal Reduction] - Intermediate/advanced Alfred Publishing
(4 Songs for Soprano and Wind Ensemble: February / August / May / December). By ...(+)
(4 Songs for Soprano and Wind Ensemble: February / August / May / December). By David Liptak. Concert Band. For soprano voice solo and piano reduction. Concert Band. Donald Hunsberger Wind Library. Contemporary. Grade 5. Piano/Vocal Reduction. 32 pages. P. Piano/Vocal Reduction. Contemporary.
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| Papillons Book I Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber ensemble Flute, Piccolo, alto Flute SKU: PR.14440537S A Serena...(+)
Chamber ensemble Flute, Piccolo, alto Flute SKU: PR.14440537S A Serenade of songs without words. Composed by Sydney F. Hodkinson. Papillons. World Premiere: Los Angeles, CA. Contemporary. Full score. With Standard notation. Composed February 28 1984. 48 pages. Duration 19 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #144-40537S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.14440537S). UPC: 680160586851. Subtitled A Serenade of songs without words, Hodkinson's first set of Papillons was, he says, intended as a companion piece to the famous Debussy Sonate for the same forces. Expect no comparisions of the two works, however, as this set of seven character-trio bagatelles is purely Hodkinson's own. Completed in 1984, Papillons, Book I went on to garner second prize in the 1984 international composition contest sponsored by The American Harp Society. For advanced performers. $65.00 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Papillons Book I Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Flute, Harp, Piccolo, Viola, alto Flute SKU: PR.144405370 <...(+)
Chamber Music Flute, Harp, Piccolo, Viola, alto Flute SKU: PR.144405370 A Serenade of songs without words. Composed by Sydney F. Hodkinson. Sws. Papillons. World Premiere: Los Angeles, CA. Contemporary. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. Composed February 28 1984. 48+12+16 pages. Duration 19 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #144-40537. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.144405370). UPC: 680160586844. 9.5x13 inches. Subtitled A Serenade of songs without words, Hodkinson's first set of Papillons was, he says, intended as a companion piece to the famous Debussy Sonate for the same forces. Expect no comparisions of the two works, however, as this set of seven character-trio bagatelles is purely Hodkinson's own. Completed in 1984, Papillons, Book I went on to garner second prize in the 1984 international composition contest sponsored by The American Harp Society. For advanced performers. $100.00 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Viola 1, Viola 2, Violin 1, Violin 2, Violoncello SKU: PR.11441...(+)
Chamber Music Viola 1, Viola 2, Violin 1, Violin 2, Violoncello SKU: PR.11441690S String Quartet No. 3. Composed by Shulamit Ran. Sws. Contemporary. Full score. With Standard notation. Composed March 9 2013. 32 pages. Duration 23 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41690S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.11441690S). UPC: 680160626021. 9 x 12 inches. Ran's third string quartet was written for the Pacifica Quartet, who are featuring it in numerous performances from May 2014 through February 2016, across the country and abroad. Their blog page dedicated to the work also features the composer's notes, for more indepth insight. ...impassioned solos emerge from ominous quiet, and high arpeggios in the violins quiver alongside the earthy cello. Ms. Ran skillfully deploys these extremes of color, volume and pitch, yet the overall somewhat chilly impression is one of poise. -- Zachary Woolfe, The New York Times. My third string quartet was composed at the invitation of the Pacifica Quartet, whose music-making I have come to know closely and admire hugely as resident artists at the University of Chicago. Already in our early conversations Pacifica proposed that this quartet might, in some manner, refer to the visual arts as a point of germination. Probing further, I found out that the quartet members had special interest in art created during the earlier part of the 20th century, perhaps between the two world wars. It was my good fortune to have met, a short while later, while in residence at the American Academy in Rome in the fall of 2011, art conservationist Albert Albano who steered me to the work of Felix Nussbaum (1904-1944), a German-Jewish painter who, like so many others, perished in the Holocaust at a young age, and who left some powerful, deeply moving art that spoke to the life that was unraveling around him. The title of my string quartet takes its inspiration from a major exhibit devoted to art by German artists of the period of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) titled “Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920sâ€, first shown at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2006-07. Nussbaum would have been a bit too young to be included in this exhibit. His most noteworthy art was created in the last very few years of his short life. The exhibit’s evocative title, however, suggested to me the idea of “Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory†as a way of framing a possible musical composition that would be an homage to his life and art, and to that of so many others like him during that era.  Knowing that their days were numbered, yet intent on leaving a mark, a legacy, a memory, their art is triumph of the human spirit over annihilation. Parallel to my wish to compose a string quartet that, typically for this genre, would exist as “pure musicâ€, independent of a narrative, was my desire to effect an awareness in my listener of matters which are, to me, of great human concern.  To my mind there is no contradiction between the two goals.  As in several other works composed since 1969, this is my way of saying ‘do not forget’, something that, I believe, can be done through music with special power and poignancy.   The individual titles of the quartet’s four movements give an indication of some of the emotional strands this work explores. 1) “That which happened†(das was geschah) – is how the poet Paul Celan referred to the Shoah – the Holocaust.  These simple words served for me, in the first movement, as a metaphor for the way in which an “ordinary†life, with its daily flow and its sense of sweet normalcy, was shockingly, inhumanely, inexplicably shattered. 2) “Menace†is a shorter movement, mimicking a Scherzo.  It is also machine-like, incessant, with an occasional, recurring, waltz-like little tune – perhaps the chilling grimace we recognize from the executioner’s guillotine mask.  Like the death machine it alludes to, it gathers momentum as it goes, and is unstoppable. 3) â€If I must perish - do not let my paintings dieâ€; these words are by Felix Nussbaum who, knowing what was ahead, nonetheless continued painting till his death in Auschwitz in 1944.  If the heart of the first movement is the shuddering interruption of life as we know it, the third movement tries to capture something of what I can only imagine to be the conflicting states of mind that would have made it possible, and essential, to continue to live and practice one’s art – bearing witness to the events.  Creating must have been, for Nussbaum and for so many others, a way of maintaining sanity, both a struggle and a catharsis – an act of defiance and salvation all at the same time. 4) “Shards, Memory†is a direct reference to my quartet’s title.  Only shards are left.  And memory.  The memory is of things large and small, of unspeakable tragedy, but also of the song and the dance, the smile, the hopes. All things human.  As we remember, in the face of death’s silence, we restore dignity to those who are gone.—Shulamit Ran . $29.99 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
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| Bright Sheng: My Other
Song: Piano: Instrumental
Work Piano solo [Sheet music] Schirmer
There are four movements in this composition the first three of which are brief...(+)
There are four movements in this composition the first three of which are brief and provide contrast in character. The theme of the last movement the longest is based on a Buddhist chant heard at the wake forSheng's mother in February 2005.Composer Note: In 1990 after eight years in the United States I wrote my first work for solo Piano titled My Song commissioned for Peter Serkin. At the time myprimary compositional concentration was to develop a melodic and harmonic style within the boundaries of Chinese folk music which are mostly in pentatonic modes and contemporary Western Classical music. As a result all the fourmovements in My Song were either based on existing Chinese folk tunes or written in their style. I was asked recently by another virtuoso pianist friend Yefim Bronfman to write a work for solo piano. After thepassing of 17 years I wonder if there is any change in my writing. I therefore titled the new suite My Other Song. – Bright Sheng
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| Piano Songbook
Contemporary Songs Volume
2 Piano, Vocal and Guitar [Sheet music] Faber Music Limited
Variétés Internationales / Partition /
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| Judith Weir: Atlantic
Drift - Three Pieces For
Two Violins: Violin Duet: 2 Violins (duet) [Sheet music] - Intermediate Chester
COMPOSER'S NOTESThe music of these violin duos has been influenced by the centur...(+)
COMPOSER'S NOTESThe music of these violin duos has been influenced by the centuries-long flow of traditional music from the British Isles to North America and back again. The compositions are dedicated toseveral people who are keeping that transatlantic musical flow in motion today.Sleep Sound Ida Mornin'Sleep Sound ida Mornin' is a very short duo for two violins based on a traditionaltune which I first heard in the Orkney Islands although played there on the banjo by a native of Kansas. My extended version with a slow introduction was first played in Boston on 29th January 1995 by Lesley Chen and NathanSchmidt members of the New England Conservatory's Preparatory Division during their annual weekend festival of contemporary music. This very remarkable and encouraging event was devised and organised by Rodney Lister to whomthis piece is dedicated.Duration c. 2 minutes.Atlantic DriftAn earlier even shorter version of Atlantic Drift written for violin and piano was first performed by PeterSheppard Skaerved and Aaron Schorr at the Royal Academy of Music London on 9th May 2006 in a concert to celebrate the 70th birthday of the American composer and transatlantic communicator Elliott Schwartz. The melody isoriginal though clearly influenced by the music and perpetual tides of the Hebrides. Duration c. 3 minutes.Rain and Mist are on the Mountain I'd Better Buy SomeShoesThis four-movement duo for two violins is based on a fragment of a Gaelic folk song from Barra in the Western Isles of Scotland. The title suggests that although the Gaels of yesteryear were rich inpoetic expression and the beauties of nature they were otherwise not very affluent. Rain and Mist was first performed at the Wigmore Hall London on 6th February 2005 by Corina Belcea and Laura Samuel.Duration c. 6
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| More Grade 3 Piano Solos:
Piano: Instrumental Album Piano solo [Sheet music] - Easy Chester
This collection contains More Grade 3 Piano Solos that will delight pianists at ...(+)
This collection contains More Grade 3 Piano Solos that will delight pianists at a Grade 3 standard. From classical and contemporary pieces to pop hits and songs from the musicals this book containssomething for everyone and each solo has been carefully selected with the specifications of the major exam board grades in mind. Together the 16 pieces form an enjoyable Piano songbook that offers valuable supplementaryrepertoire to Grade 3 pianists of any age. Pieces include Bills (Lunchmoney Lewis) Ave Maria (Franz Schubert) Hello (Adele) Nuvole Bianche (Ludovico Einaudi) Naughty (MatildaThe Musical) and more. 'Each volume contains a good selection of music which should motivate practice in most students: surely a cause for celebration'. Pianist Magazine February-March2018
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