SKU: FJ.ST6504
UPC: 241444416358. English.
Lush and rich harmonies surround this inventive arrangement of Silent Night that offers a wonderful opportunity to focus on phrasing and balance. Each section is featured through interwoven melodies and changing time signatures in the contrasting calm and bright sections. A mature sounding work for intermediate players, and a sure way to enhance the quality of your winter program.
SKU: WD.080689274084
UPC: 080689274084.
This artfully-crafted piece speaks as a universal reminder that through His advent here, Jesus is the light of our lives. Because of the birth of our King and Savior, we no longer need to walk in darkness. Instead, Jesus lights our path and blesses us through His redeeming grace and steadfast love. With this knowledge, we are granted peace... all is calm, all is bright.
SKU: FJ.ST6504S
English.
SKU: WD.080689143335
UPC: 080689143335.
SKU: HL.35032173
UPC: 888680739584. 6.75x10.5 inches. Pamela Stewart/John Purifoy.
Music meets message with refined artistry in this serene and comforting anthem filled with word painting. The lyric speaks of the various layers of peace found through faith and moves from the intimate and personal to the spreading of peace in a more global sense. The music cradles the text with a gentle touch and watercolor harmonies that surround the listener with the spirit of calm. Supported with a sensitive piano foundation, this song is a timely yet timeless message for the heart.
SKU: HL.402077
ISBN 9781705160084. UPC: 196288056829. 9.0x12.0x0.276 inches.
The Right of Your Senses is a set of nine songs for children's voices, solo soprano, and orchestra written for the National Children's Chorus, American Youth Symphony and Los Angeles Philharmonic Association. The texts are primarily 17th-century, by Thomas Traherne and George Herbert, but two of them come from the 11th-century Enchiridion by Byrhtferth. The overarching theme is the story of creation, but not just the list of objects created: the texts deal with the emotional resonances of the sun, the sea, the air, and the moon with all their mysterious, bright, and dark potential. There is a recurring gesture in the strings, introduced at the very top: a simple descending pattern which binds many of the movements together, even when hidden in the more tumultuous sections. The first two movements are bright, whereas the middle three movements are violent and deal with the angrier natural elements. The seventh movement is the most abstract and playful, and here a direct nod to Benjamin Britten's A Ceremony of Carols, with a fast three-part canon depicting the behavior of the atom. The eighth movement, Night, is the slowest, and depicts the night sky. The final movement is calm, and encourages us: Be faithful in a little, and you shall be master over much. The piece ends with five strokes of high bells. x Nico Muhly.
SKU: HL.402076
ISBN 9781705160077. UPC: 196288056812. 9.0x12.0x0.167 inches.
SKU: FG.55011-372-5
ISBN 9790550113725.
Imag es of the sea figure prominently throughout my life and memories: from holidays on the Atlantic coast during my Canadian childhood to my current Baltic home, and the imagined, only later experienced Mediterranean of my ancestral heritage. As an immigrant (son of an immigrant) bound to two northern countries, the sea is emblematic of my twin homelands, from the expanses of water surrounding them to those separating them. A Mari usque ad Mare. The sea is also an enduring image of the unknown, of expanses unexplored, of the raw power of nature and, for too many currently, of terror holding a hope of refuge - or the pain of loss. Such disparate ideas were captured for me in the seascapes of the New York painter MaryBeth Thielhelm, whom I met in 2008 during a residency on the Gulf of Mexico. Her vast, abstract, nearly monochromatic depictions of imaginary seas in wildly varying moods were the catalyst for a concerto where the piano is frequently far from a hero battling a collective, but rather acts as a channel for elemental forces surging up from the orchestra, floating - sometimes barely so - on its constantly shifting surface. There are few themes to speak of, beyond a handful of iconic ideas that periodically cycle upward. Rather, the piano's material is largely an ornamentation of the more primal rhythmic and harmonic impulses from the orchestra below - a poetic interpretation, if you will, of the more immediate experience of facing the vastness of some unknown body of water. The title Nameless Seas is borrowed from one of Thielhelm's exhibitions, as are those of the four movements, which are bridged together into two halves of roughly equal weight - one rhapsodic and free, the other more single-minded and direct, separated only by a short breath. The opening movement, Nocturne, is predominantly calm, if brooding, darkness and light alternating throughout. Lyrical arabesques sparkle over gently lapping cross-currents in the strings and mirrored timpani, the piano's full power only rarely deployed. The waves gradually build, drawing in the full orchestra for a meeting of forces in Land and Sea, a brighter, more warmly lyrical scene that unfolds in series of dreamlike, sometimes even nostalgic visions, which for me carry strong memories of sitting on rocks above surging Atlantic waves. The third movement, Wake, is a fast, perpetual-motion texture of glinting, darting rhythms and sudden shafts of light, with a prominent part for the steel drums, limning the piano's quicksilver figurations. An ecstatic climax crashes into a solo cadenza that grows progressively calmer and more introspective rather than virtuosic. Much of the tension finally releases into Unclaimed Waters, a drifting, meditative seascape in which the piano is progressively engulfed by a series of ever-taller waves, ultimately dissolving into a tolling, rippling continuum of sound. It has been a great privilege to realize such a long-held dream as this piece, and to write it for not one, but two great pianists. Risto-Matti Marin and Angela Hewitt, both of whose friendship and support have been unfailing and humbling, share the dedication. Nameless Seas was commissioned by the PianoEspoo festival and Canada's National Arts Centre, with the premieres in Ottawa and Helsinki led by Hannu Lintu and Olari Elts. Thanks are due also to the Jenny and Antti Wihuri fund, whose generous grant provided me with much-needed time, and Escape to Create in Seaside, Florida, the source to which I returned to do a large part of the work.
SKU: HL.14033985
ISBN 9788759812044. International (more than one language).
Here are sixteen all-time favourite Danish songs, including several written by the great Hans Christian Anderson himself. With lyrics in Danish and English, as well as musical arrangements of for Voice and Guitar/Piano, this is a unique celebration of Denmark's musical traditions and love of communal singing. Each song is beautifully performed on the accompanying CD and this bi-centennial edition of this fabulous volume has been illustrated by British artist Paul Cox. From lyrical songs and anthems to folk themes and the popular I'm Hans Christian Anderson, this is a unique portrait of a nation with a time honoured love of singing.
SKU: HL.4008566
ISBN 9798350110678. UPC: 196288180036.
Otto M. Schwarz was asked by a friend to compose a chorale for the funeral of his child. Lux Aeterna (The Eternal Light) is actuallypart of the requiem mass, but in this composition, there is no reference to the original Latin text. People who recount near-death experiences often report a bright light. The music moves back and forth between passages that are sad, optimistic, and imploring in nature, posing questions that cannot be answered. The end of the piece comes, however, with a conciliatory major chord that reflectsthe calm and warmth of this light that promises redemption.
SKU: CL.024-4896-01
Celebrate the fabled Knights of the Round Table with Excelsior Fanfare, a bright and flashy concert opener! The noble main theme features staccato and accented lines from the upper woodwinds and brass, and the calm middle section showcases legato and soft playing from the lower voices. There are interesting parts for over ten percussionists, but it also works with as few as one or two. The perfect opener for your next concert or festival! Brilliant!
SKU: HL.35032548
ISBN 9781540041319. UPC: 888680899660. 6.75x10.5 inches.
Quoting Franz Gruber's “Silent Night,” this original work of lyric and music is a beautiful ballad that will fit nicely in any holiday or Christmas program. “On this silent peaceful night, you can feel the love inside. Hope is shining like a light, all is calm and bright...” A simple and contemporary lullaby for young and developing choirs.
SKU: OU.9780193388345
ISBN 9780193388345. 12 x 8 inches.
For SATB unaccompanied Bright, electric, and charged with energy, this setting of one of the seven Advent 'O' Antiphons features Jackson's characteristic flourishes of melodic ornamentation, tempered by moments of calm from the sustained lower voices and softly spoken phrases in the upper voices.
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