SKU: AP.36-52703034
ISBN 9781682962206. UPC: 654690579935. English.
Bach's organ works seem to work perfectly for string quartet, with everyone getting in on the thematic material. These three works are some of his best-known and are a nice addition to the concert and contest repertoire. Contents: Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537; Great Fugue in G minor, BWV 542; Fugue in D major, BWV 532.
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SKU: PR.14440574S
UPC: 680160611935. 9 x 12 inches.
SKU: CA.3117813
ISBN 9790007049935. Key: A minor. Language: German/English. Text: Jonas, Justus. Text: Justus Jonas.
Score available separately - see item CA.3117800.
SKU: HL.49045639
ISBN 9781540004796. UPC: 888680710774. 9.5x12.0x0.37 inches.
Chaconne (2016), for string quartet, was commissioned by the Daedalus Quartet to celebrate its 15th anniversary. The commission was supported by New Music USA, made possible by annual program support and/or endowment gifts from Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Helen F. Whitaker Fund, and Aaron Copland Fund for Music.My music has a substantial history with Daedalus. I composed the Third String Quartet (2008) for them, and subsequently they performed my three string quartets on several occasions and recorded them brilliantly on Bridge Records (Bridge 9352: Music of Fred Lerdahl, vol. 3). Chaconne is in one movement lasting 19 minutes. It is effectively my fourth string quartet. Quartets 1-3 form a unified cycle lasting 70 minutes. When I finished the cycle, I thought I would never write again for the medium; yet I could not resist the opportunity of working again with Daedalus. The issue was how to compose another string quartet unrelated to the earlier cycle. The solution came from my solo cello piece There and Back Again (2010), which was based on a four-bar variation pattern from a 17th-century chaconne. Unlike the asymmetrical phrases and expanding variations of much of my music, the chaconne form requires symmetrical phrases and strictly periodic variations. I wished to work again with these symmetries but on a larger scale. Chaconne also differs in character and expression from the three-quartet cycle. The cycle is inward and intense, a kind of psychological excavation. Chaconne is, for the most part, transparent and playful. Many of its textures emerge from little canons, not completely unlike the rounds that children sing. Any composer who writes in chaconne form (one thinks above all of the last movement of Bach's D minor violin partita and the finale of Brahms's Fourth Symphony) is confronted with the challenge of how to create a larger form out of a constantly repeating pattern.My Chaconne grows from paired antecedent-consequent phrases, each variation lasting eight bars. The 50 variations group into three large rotations, forming three arcs of tension and relaxation, with subtle parallel connections across the rotations. Notwithstanding my attraction to chaconne form, I purposefully disguised its symmetries and periodicities in order to build an overall dramatic shape. Fred Lerdahl.
SKU: AP.36-50255220
ISBN 9798892703499. UPC: 659359666902. English.
This piece was written to celebrate the Loudoun County Public Schools' orchestra's inaugural school year. Administration, staff, families, and students worked tirelessly to bring orchestral music to the schools. Kevin R. Berdine's Loudon Tango was chosen by the students as dance music had been their favorite music to play. Written in the string friendly key of D minor, this lively tango includes interesting parts for all sections and an idiomatic percussion ensemble accompaniment. (3:00).
SKU: TM.02631SET
Ed. by Sourek. Chorus sold as separate Soprano, Alto, Tenor, or Bass parts. Vocal score same as #07339 reprint of Simrock.
SKU: CA.4064403
ISBN 9790007293529. Key: D major. Latin.
The Missa Gratias agimus tibi by Jan Dismas Zelenka was composed in 1730, a little before the Missa Sancti Josephi (Carus 27.082), and is thus already close to Zelenka's late style. As a festive mass, it is scored with trumpets and timpani, which, in the spirit of courtly splendour, are not silent even in the Kyrie. 17 mostly shorter movements, each with a very different character, bear witness to Zelenka's inventiveness and make the 30-minute mass an exciting experience. Score available separately - see item CA.4064400.
SKU: CA.4096400
ISBN 9790007078935. Key: D major. Language: Latin.
This short, melodious piece with its charming instrumentation displays a typically Christmas colouring through the use of a pedal point and a Sicilian rhythmic figure.
SKU: HL.49006116
ISBN 9790001066365. UPC: 073999353327. 9.0x12.0x0.699 inches. German - English.
4 (auch 2 Picc. u. Altfl.) * 0 * 2 Engl. Hr. * Es-Klar. * 0 * Kb.-Klar. * 2 Alt-Sax. * 2 Bariton-Sax. * 3 * Kfg. - 6 * 4 (auch 1 Trp. in D) * 4 * 2 - P. S. (Trgl. * 2 Gongs * javanischer Gong * 2 Rohrengl. * 6 hg. Beck. * 2 Tamt. * Mil. Tr. * Reibtr. * gr. Tr. * Beck * 5 Holzbl. * Ratsche * Peitsche * Guiro * Messgl. * Kirchengl. * Sapo cubana * ca. 30 versch. Metallrohre ohne bestimmte Tonhohe * Sage * Flex.) - Hfe. * Klav. * Org. * Harm. * elektr. Bass-Git. - Str. (20 * 0 * 8 * 8 * 6).
SKU: CA.3117200
ISBN 9790007093525. Key: C major. Language: German/English.
SKU: TM.04007SET
Voice in score only.
SKU: HL.49040809
SKU: CA.2004609
ISBN 9790007193539. Key: D dorian. Language: German.
Score available separately - see item CA.2004600.
SKU: HL.49040806
SKU: AP.36-50255224
ISBN 9798892703536. UPC: 659359878398. English.
Performers and audiences alike will love this arrangement of Rock, Rock Merrily on High by Vanessa Fanning. In this delightful piece, each section delivers the melody or counter melody accompanied by the rocking bass part. Masterfully written, the piece modulates from the key of G to D, enabling the melody to be played in an opportune range on each instrument. Another familiar holiday melody serves as the transition between keys. Rock on! (2:00).
SKU: AP.36-A706201
ISBN 9798892704045. UPC: 659359855344. English.
Count d'Ogny commissioned Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) to write three symphonies for the Concert de la Loge Olympique, which was then recognized as one of the finest orchestras in Europe. He completed the second of these, the SYMPHONY No. 91 in E flat major, Hob. I/91, in 1788. It received its premiere the next year in the Tuileries Palace gardens, mere months before King Louis XVI and his royal family came to live there under custody of the French Revolution. It is his last symphony to exclude trumpets and timpani, but stuffed with delicacies that would have appealed to its Parisian audience. Its graceful, ebullient character offers no hints of the hard misfortune that would soon fall on the aristocratic listeners who first enjoyed this charming work. Instrumentation: 1.2.0.2: 2.0.0.0: Str (4-4-3-2+2Vc Obligato-3 in set).
SKU: CA.3116914
ISBN 9790007209353. Text language: German/English. Text: Birkmann, Christoph.
Bach's cantata My God alone this heart possesses BWV 169 is from his third annual cantata cycle in Leipzig; it was first performed on 20 October 1726 for the 18th Sunday after Trinity. As recent research has shown, the text was written by the Leipzig student, Christoph Birkmann. With the exception of the final chorale, this is a cantata for solo alto with, of course, a rich orchestral scoring consisting of three oboes, obbligato organ and strings. The first purely instrumental movement can be traced back to an instrumental concerto, which has been lost, after Bach had also composed the Keyboard Concerto in E major BWV 1053. The lyrical-vocal highpoint of the cantata is the fifth movement, which is also based on the concerto and it shows off Bach's arranging artistry to the highest degree. Among the movements are an aria-like recitative vocal movement, as well as another aria with an almost virtuoso organ accompaniment. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3116900.
SKU: CA.2004611
ISBN 9790007193546. Key: D dorian. Language: German.
SKU: AP.36-50250224
UPC: 659359794971. English.
SKU: HL.50510203
ISBN 9790080079935. UPC: 073999624915. 9.0x12.0x0.069 inches. Daniel Benko.
SKU: CA.1245400
ISBN 9790007292935. German. Text: Sommer, Michael.
