SKU: CL.012-3415-01
Not hard, but very impressive, this David Shaffer original is perfect concert or contest material for mid-level bands. It starts with a stately fanfare introduction which leads directly into the furious section. This section features a fast tempo where several playable yet independent melody lines are intertwined to create a very busy yet pleasing musical landscape. An adagio section follows before a reprise of the furious section leads to a big finish. A rewarding work that is a welcome addition to any performance!
About Heritage of the March
Full -sized concert band editions of the greatest marches of all time. Each has been faithfully re-scored to accommodate modern instrumentation and incorporate performance practices of classic march style
SKU: BR.KM-2468
World premiere: Stuttgart (Tage fur Neue Musik), February 2, 1997
ISBN 9790004502433. 10.5 x 14 inches.
Als eine Aussicht weit ... is a quote from a poem by Holderlin. The composer explains: Symbolically: Holderlin in his town, pacing the long corridor with forceful steps, lingering for hours before the never-changing landscape ...Wenn Aussenwelt manipulierbar, Realitat simulier- und ersetzbar wird, Krisen die Offentlichkeit verwusten, intensivieren sich die Werte des Privaten, mochte man Nahbereich und Innenwelten nicht der Antastbarkeit preisgeben. Das Ich bleibt gern im Ubersichtlichen, entfernt sich hochstens eine Aussicht weit. Symbolhaft: Holderlin im Turm, Durchmessen des langen Gangs mit gewaltigen Schritten, stundenlanges Verweilen vor der immer gleichen Landschaft, die doch ununterbrochen sich andert, Reinheit statt Schonheit. ..., die Felder stehn Als eine Aussicht weit..., und selten larmetDer Schall durchs offne Feld, Der ganze Sinn des hellen Bildes lebetAls wie ein Bild, (!),,Als eine Aussicht weit .. ist in der Musik materialisierbarer, viel komplexer und naher beobachtbar - - - der Sprengung offener! (Nicolaus A. Huber, 7. September 1996)World premiere: Stuttgart (Tage fur Neue Musik), February 2, 1997 Commissioned by the Sabeth Trio, Basel.
SKU: AP.48148
UPC: 038081554877. English.
Inspired by thoughts of the early American pioneers, this cinematic overture captures the essence of scores written for Westerns. It depicts travel to the western mountains, desert, and Great Plains and the sheer size of the landscape and vast openness. (4:30).
SKU: SU.29000095
Lyric Suite for Sextet is a seven-part composition for piano, vibraphone, and string quartet creating a landscape of thrilling to ethereal sounds of a jazz/classical hybrid. Total performance time is about 40 minutes. Hand copiedVibraphone, Piano & String Quartet Duration: 40’ Composed: 1982 Published by: Universal Music Corp. Also available: FULL SCORE (Cat. No. 29000090).
SKU: BT.SCHEE5332
SKU: HL.265677
Joye is a miniature or an orchestral fanfare, essentially bright throughout and aphoristically pithy. The title alludes to the ancient French word meaning bliss and Fortune, and my intention was to load the piece with all the elation and recklessness that flash through a person in a moment of intense happiness. The sombre, sturdy chord pillars at the beginning surge into a landscape in which first the clarinets, then the oboes and finally the trumpets lead the music to mighty ferment and a clarity that suffuses all. The work was commissioned by the Pori Sinfonietta, Finland. Premiere by Pori Sinfonietta and Janne Nisonen (cond.) on December 6, 2017, Promenade Hall, Pori, Finland.
SKU: CL.012-3872-01
Composer Robert W. Smith has enjoyed his sojourns in the great state of Texas each summer since 1985. In a recent visit to the southwest with his family, he was inspired to sketch three impressions of the Lone Star State. Desert Dawn opens the work with Native-American overtones depicting the warmth of the sunrise over a beautiful southwestern vista. Anyone ever visiting San Antonio will delight in the Paseo Del Rio depicting the light and lively Riverwalk of this great city. The energetic and powerful Longhorns concludes the work with a sense of joy while celebrating this uniquely American way of life. Suitable for concert and festival performance, Southwest Summer will be a valued addition to your next program.
SKU: HH.HH392-CON
ISBN 9790708146063.
As a work commissioned by Ensemble Reconsil taking South Africa as its theme, this composition conjures up a fantasy landscape by means of its symbolic musical language, its timbres and its quotations from the music of the country’s original, inhabitants as well as that of European newcomers. In the middle stands the ‘Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park’; the establishment of this park of peace has the aim of creating a harmonious, balanced relationship between humans, animals and nature.
SKU: MB.30964
ISBN 9781513469775. 8.75x11.75 inches.
This collection of 41 timeless melodies is tastefully arranged for soprano and tenor recorders with suggested breath marks and accompaniment chords. Selections include a variety of influences which provide a historical and aesthetic view of the American musical landscape. The works of both well-known, classically trained composers and unknown folk artists are featured in standard notation arrangements suitable for performance by intermediate players. The one thing these tunes have in common is their striking melodies, which in many cases have endured throughout the ages.
SKU: HL.132406
UPC: 884088972400.
SKU: DY.DO-1484
ISBN 9782897962647.
SKU: FL.FX073752
This piece is a tribute to a small island off the west coast of Finistere, in front Ouessant Island. The beginning of the piece depicts a landscape of Breton moor. It then presents typical dances from this region. - Jerome NAULAIS ; A piece that can be played from 3 years of instrument practice ; Instruments: 1 Bassoon 1 Piano; Difficuly Level: Grade 2.
SKU: HH.HH202-FSP
ISBN 9790708041900.
The present work features a kind of pentatonic music that is often associated with a far eastern landscape. However, it has no genuine compositional connection with Asian music. In this piece pentatonicism is conducive to frictionless intervals and transparency of sound; these are produced in an ideal manner on stringed instruments by means of natural harmonics. The contrasting central section brings dense textures and sharp dissonance, which sound with full intensity and combine with portamento to produce extreme emotional expression and narrative gestures.
SKU: FG.042-06842-7
ISBN 979-0-042-06842-7.
The one-movement fouth string quartet (1971) has a subtitle Quiet Songs (Hiljaisia lauluja). In contrast to the splintered plurality of the third quartet, the fourth is a homogenous minor-key landscape that never rises above mezzoforte. The subdued resignation, somehow recalling Shostakovich, is interrupted only by a few fleeting faster sections.
SKU: XC.RFO2001
UPC: 812598032406. 9 x 12 inches.
In the late summer months, the Scottish countryside is covered by the heather flower. Purple in color, it makes the otherwise harsh landscape a place of tranquil beauty. In this adaptation of the Scottish folk song Wild Mountain Thyme, composer Michael J. Miller’s Purple Mountain Heather captures the serenity of the Scottish moors in full bloom. Flowing melodies phrased with expressive shaping are passed throughout the ensemble, creating heartfelt drama for all to enjoy!
SKU: HL.232826
UPC: 888680679224. 6.75x10.5 inches.
Winner of the Edwin Fissinger Composition Competition, this illustrative work has also been selected for the Jo Ann Miller Choral Series. The text by Bliss Carman paints beautiful pictures of the seasons and expresses the joy of love in all. Nicholas Kelly provides a colorful accompaniment and flowing choral lines that surpass the seasons and lift up love. It is a romantic song with a large landscape and a fullfilling message. Good for advanced high school, community and college choirs. Medium difficulty.
SKU: PR.144407360
ISBN 9781491134658. UPC: 680160685240.
HUDSO N HEIGHTS is a portrait depicting one of the northernmost neighborhoods in Manhattan. Rife with syncopated rhythms floating above a pulsing undercurrent, this chamber work reflects the buoyancy and untiring nature of the city streets. Use of extended techniques for piano and percussion produces a wide breadth of sonorities, suggesting a vibrant landscape. An inspiring performance of HUDSON HEIGHTS is available through the composer’s YouTube channel.Hudson Heights is a portrait piece depicting one of the northernmost neighborhoods in Manhattan – a placewhere bustling city streets meet vast and beautiful parkland, where crowded apartment buildings overlookthe sparkling Hudson River just above the George Washington Bridge.
SKU: BT.D---84348200
SKU: ST.Y296
ISBN 9790220223525.
Natu re and landscape have been the dominant themes of much of Rhian Samuel's vocal music of the last ten years, projected chiefly through the poetry of Anne Stevenson, and in her most recent song-settings, the writings of the Pakistan-born Texas-based poet Zulfikar Ghose. His poem 'Conspiracy of the Clouds' describes how, the clouds having chosen to become invisible, 'Even the astronauts on the space shuttle / looked down on a cloudless America' as hurricanes ravage Louisiana and storms engulf Nebraska. An intriguing conceit in the tradition of magic realism, the text is presented as a scena lasting around 16 minutes, with interpolations from 'Haze' by the nineteenth-century New England transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. Thus modern fable and romantic nature-description are juxtaposed, and their interaction becomes the source of musical contrasts too. Thoreau's words are assigned predominantly to the vocalist's highest register, those of Ghose to her lower tessitura; and the suggestive and dramatic accompaniment builds tension steadily to the final ironic response of an incredulous American public: not one of awe and wonder, but the question 'Why weren't we told about it?
SKU: HL.4007788
ISBN 9781705174036. UPC: 196288093992.
The Hida High School is in a highland city called Takayama in Gifu Prefecture. Takayama City has some of the highest mountains in Japan, atmospheric rows of houses and streets, and a beautiful landscape. The magnificent views from these mountains can be described as a paradise above the clouds. When the composer visited there in the summer of 2001, the lovely flowers spreading through the valley and the refreshing air welcomed him. The flowers looked as if they were fashionably dressed and fully enjoying conversation and a short summer at a reunion party. The composer was inspired by this scenery to compose this piece. The musical party opens with happy greetings of a reunion andjoyful themes follow one after another. A light xylophone solo, a waltz and an adagio featuring alternate solos by alto saxophone, euphonium and trumpet lead to a brilliant finale featuring brass and percussion played in irregular time. A beautiful musical picture that your band will enjoy performing for many years.
