SKU: HL.49027757
SKU: CA.1029519
ISBN 9790007139575. Language: German.
From Bach's music library; formerly attributed to Bach. The present edition is based on the score partly made by Bach himself, held by the Deutsche Staatsbibliothek Berlin. The chorales, originally noted only for voices and Basso continuo, have been instrumentated according to contemporary practice of that time. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.1029500.
SKU: CA.4054113
ISBN 9790007071851. Language: all languages.
SKU: CA.7004913
ISBN 9790007228071. Key: B flat major. Language: Latin.
Score available separately - see item CA.7004900.
SKU: CF.CPS154F
ISBN 9780825896477. UPC: 798408096472. 9 x 12 inches.
A beautiful ballad for band, At Twilight will help your ensemble address phrasing and melodic nuance, and is sure to bring about an expressive performance. Twilight is a subtle time of day, and composer Harbison has channeled this feeling expertly through this welcome addition to the Carl Fischer Music library.
SKU: PR.41641409L
UPC: 680160601530. 11 x 14 inches.
SKU: CF.YPS203F
ISBN 9781491152911. UPC: 680160910410.
Imagine Bach trying to compose in his studio while being pestered by a spider! Arachnophobia and Fugue exposes students to the Baroque style of music using dramatic contrasts, light articulation, chorale-style sections, and multiple references to Bach's works. The spider is represented by the xylophone and/or marimba supported by the flutes. As a humorous bonus, auxiliary percussion includes rolled-up newspapers to swat the pesky spider throughout the piece.Good music played well inspires the imagination. Imagine Bach trying to compose in his studio while being pestered by a spider! First and foremost this is educational music exposing kids to the Baroque style of music. Dramatic dynamic contrasts, light articulation, chorale-style, and multiple references to Bach’s works form the basis for the work. Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, Sleepers Wake, Little Fugue in G Minor, Sheep May Safely Graze, Dies Irae, and Come Sweet Death are the basis for this look into an imaginary situation with the Great Baroque Master. The spider is represented by either a solo xylophone or multiple xylophones and/or marimba (supported by the flutes.) As a humorous bonus auxiliary percussion use rolled up newspapers to swat the pesky spider throughout the piece in rhythm with the music.
SKU: MN.50-1005A
UPC: 688670003479.
Instrumental parts include: Flute Oboe/Violin Bassoon/Cello Choral score(50-1005) available separately.
SKU: CF.CPS169F
ISBN 9781491140833. UPC: 680160628896. 9 x 12 inches.
This Robert Allen holiday classic is given a swingin' big band type treatment by arranger Carl Strommen. It contains a variety of lush harmonic structures and clever changes in time signature to make this a unique and different arrangement of this popular Christmas tune. The use of a Jazz waltz in the middle of the piece is particularly interesting. This is sure to be a standard arrangement that you will use at many holiday concerts for years to come.
SKU: PR.11540187C
UPC: 680160020164.
SKU: CF.BPS153F
ISBN 9781491163887. UPC: 680160922673.
Valley of Shadows is a concert-band work for young band that depicts the adventure of walking through an eerie forest. The piece calls for musicians to scream and clap as moments leading to the thrilling end depict an encounter with a snake in the valley (represented by a ratchet).A hard-acrylic mallet is preferred for the glockenspiel in this work. Additionally, the sleighbells or tambourine may be used interchangeably.
SKU: KU.OCT-10263_HST
ISBN 9790206203015.
SKU: FG.55011-550-7
ISBN 9790550115507.
A pioneer of Finnish modern jazz, Heikki Sarmanto (1939-) is renowned for his renderings of jazz numbers. No wonder, therefore, that broken chords and familiar keys resonate and sit well under the hand in the piano part of this Northern Dreams suite. The solo passages for the piano are like stylised improvisations. In addition to jazz idioms, the suite features Chopin-style arpeggios. His music is melodic and communicative, painting feelings, situations and events. Northern Dreams was originally composed with the tenor sax of Juhani Aaltonen in mind, and the solo part is a transcription of his improvisation. The solo part is also available in arrangements for alto sax, flute, clarinet, bassoon and trumpet.
SKU: LM.JJ13495
ISBN 9790230813495.
SKU: CF.BPS149F
ISBN 9781491163856. UPC: 680160922642.
The word synergize means to combine or coordinate the activity of two or more agents to produce a joint effort that is greater than the sum of their individual effects. Synergize! was written to portray this idea. The beginning of the piece starts with a groove in the low brass and percussion. The main theme is later introduced by the upper winds. The two ideas are synergized together to create this fun piece for young players.
SKU: BT.AL-0323A
English.
SKU: PR.416414230
ISBN 9781598066630. UPC: 680160602087. 9x12 inches.
Colonnade is James Matheson’s intriguing response to the Albany Symphony’s commission to create a work inspired by the NY State Board of Education Building, designed by the renowned architect Rafael Guastavino. Matheson explains that “A colonnade acts as a metaphor for the tension between knowledge and perception. The columns are the same height and equidistant from each other; while the mind understands this fully, there exists no place from which one can perceive this – the columns always appear to be of uneven height and spacing. If one then adds motion to perspective, identical columns acquire elasticity, and begin to change kaleidoscopically – they shrink, grow, become closer, and then further apart.†This structural paradox is given musical life in the outer sections of Colonnade, while the long, arching middle section is inspired by the vaulted ceiling of one of the building’s largest rooms, enhancing the structure’s spacious openness and lightness.Colonnade is inspired by Albany’s majestic New York State Board of Education Building, and written on a commission from the Albany Symphony Orchestra. It was an intriguing task, in part because in order to accept the commission I had to agree to write a work “inspired by†a building I had not yet seen. Thisproblem was compounded by the fact that, for me, the very notion of extra-musical inspiration is a complex one, particularly with respect to literary or visual sources. I generally find ideas and abstracted notions more generative of musical ideas than specific ones (a poem, an experience, a painting). So when I went to seeand tour the building, I sought to identify fundamental formal aspects of the building which I could process into musical ideas, and would then be linked to the building through a sense of formal relationship. In theend, two characteristics of the building stood out as noteworthy and undiminished by time (compared with, for instance, the building’s rotunda, which contains a series of quaintly outdated allegorical paintings): theexterior colonnade and a beautiful interior vaulted ceiling, designed by Rafael Guastavino.For me, a colonnade acts as a metaphor for the tension between knowledge and perception. We all know, for instance, that the columns are of the same height and are equidistant from each other. Nevertheless, while the mind understands this fully, it is also the case that there exists no place – no standpoint or viewpoint – anywhere in the universe – from which one can perceive this; the columns always appear to be of uneven height and spacing. If one then adds motion to perspective – a walk along the colonnade, for instance – the fixed, even, rigidly identical columns acquire elasticity, and begin to change kaleidoscopically – they shrink, grow, become closer, and then further apart. Further, the detail of the building’s façade behind the colonnadeshifts into and out of visibility, with different portions obscured by the columns from each vantage point. These considerations underlie the outer sections of Colonnade, in which a continuously repeated, continuously varied rising figure – suggestive of a column – dominates. The iterations of this elastic, evolvingfigure are interspersed with other music – suggestive of the building’s façade. The second feature of the building that caught my attention was the vaulted ceiling, designed by Guastavino,of one of the building’s largest rooms. The ceiling enhances the spaciousness of the room, giving it an openness and lightness that is quite captivating. The middle section of Colonnade has this openness at its core, and is dominated by long, arching lines that, to me, suggest the refined beauty of this ceiling.World premiere March 8, 2003; Albany Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Alan Miller.
SKU: CF.YPS225
ISBN 9781491158401. UPC: 680160917006. 9 x 12 inches.
Music from Italy has been popular in America for generations. Here are three Italian melodies opening with a happy tune, Tiritomba. Santa Lucia is a moderately slow song in 3/4 time that is great for emphasis on phrasing. Finiculi, Finicula is a good piece to reinforce 6/8 time and is fun to play. Performance Time: 4:00.Music from Italy has been popular in America for generations. Here are three Italian melodies opening with a happy tune, Tiritomba. Santa Lucia is a moderately slow song in 3/4 time that is great for emphasis on phrasing. Finiculi, Finicula is a good piece to reinforce 6/8 time and is fun to play.Performance Time: 4:00.
