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Dream of Dunhuang - Ballet in 3 Acts, O,p.29 (1979 - 80) - Score Only
Dream of Dunhuang - Ballet in 3 Acts, O,p.29 (1979 - 80) - Score Only
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Full Orchestra - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1040096 Composed by An-lun Huang. 20th Century,Contemporary,Multicultural,Traditional,World. Score an...
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Full Orchestra - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1040096 Composed by An-lun Huang. 20th Century,Contemporary,Multicultural,Traditional,World. Score and parts. 424 pages. DoReMi Edition #644919. Published by DoReMi Edition (A0.1040096). One of the Masterpieces of Chinese Music of 20th Century The magnificent cave art at Dunhuang, in Western China sets the stage for the ballet, “Dream of Dunhuangâ€. In the middle of the vast wastes of Western China, lies the oasis of Dunhuang, situated in today‘s Gansu Province. Since the Western Han Dynasty(202BC-8AC), Dunhuang was an important trading and cultural center on the famous “Silk Road’, the ribbon of communication which fostered the historic ties between East and West. In the East was China, source of treasured trading articles such as silk; in the West, the â€road“ branched to Venice, and north to what is today‘s Russia. The mural led caves at Dunhuang, which were begun the Northern Wei dynasty(336AD), and developed over one thousand years into the Qing Dynasty, re presents one of the world‘s richest cultural treasures. Drawing on bothn Western(Indian and Persian) as well as Chinese tradition, the caves, of which 492 remain intact, were decorated as a mines of religious devotion, with the initiation of Buddhism into China. The subjects of the murals, such as devise, demons, apsaras and bodhisattvas, represent the entire pantheon of Buddhist mythology, yet are also significant in their representation of muti-racial and muti-cultural influences, standing as an important testament to the age old exchange between East and West. A fabricated fantasia, the story of the ballet was inspirited by the famous artist, maestro Chang Shu-hong, who dedicated his whole life to Dunhuang. One of the Huang An-lun‘s major compositions with the play written by Xu Qing-dong, the score of “Dream of Dunhuang†was completed in mid-1979. The ballet has been dedicated to the composer‘s closest friends, Canadian writers John Fraser and Elizabeth MacCallun. Up to the date this CD being released, the ballet has never got a chance to performed in mainland China. Nevertheless, its music has been wildly performed and warmly received around the world. The Singapore premiere of its suite No.1 was performed by the SSO, conducted by Maestro Lim Yao. It has been also chosen as one of the “Master Piece of Chinese Music in 20th Century†in 1993. The world premiere of the complete ballet was performed successfully by the Russian State Ballet of Moscow, directed by its artist director, Vyatcheslav Godeyev, in 1994. Choreographed by Chen Min, it was took place in Taiwan with the Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, conducted by maestro David C.H.Chen. In 2002, ROI of Hong Kong has released the CD of the whole ballet, performed by the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra of Moscow. This is also the audio file attached. Before this recording conducted by the composer himself, the entire score was also performed by the Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra of Moscow in1995. The YouTube video was the World Premiere in Taiwan by the Russia National Ballet with the Taiwan symphony Orchestra, conducted by David Chen in 1994. The ballet, “ Dream of Dunhuang†depicts two young artists seeking the ultimate experience in love and expression. This two lovers arrived at desert and with the guidance of the celestial maiden, they discover the miracles of Dunhuang. It‘s divided into three acts: Act I: Desert, Act II: Cave, and Act III: Mogao cave.
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Love Will Forgive You Everything
Love Will Forgive You Everything
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Full Orchestra - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1194600 By Hanka Ordonowna. By Henry Vars. Arranged by Marek Czekala. 20th Century,Film/TV. Score and...
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Full Orchestra - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1194600 By Hanka Ordonowna. By Henry Vars. Arranged by Marek Czekala. 20th Century,Film/TV. Score and parts. 29 pages. Marek Czekala #793907. Published by Marek Czekala (A0.1194600). Love will forgive you everything - the song was written in 1933, the music was composed by Henryk Wars, and the words were written by Julian Tuwim (under the pseudonym Oldlen). The song was a hit in interwar Poland and remains so to this day. The song was written especially for the film The Spy in the Mask, which enjoyed a record attendance in cinemas. It was sung by Hanka Ordonówna and soon the song became her artistic showcase. Later, Ordonówna often resembled a song in the MaÅ‚e Qui Pro Quo theater. The piece performed by Ordonówna was recorded on the Syrena-Electro label, which was very popular at the time. The publisher's circulation reached tens of thousands of copies, and the discs with this recording were pressed for almost six years due to the constant interest in the song.MiÅ‚ość ci wszystko wybaczy – piosenka powstaÅ‚a w 1933 roku, do której muzykÄ™ skomponowaÅ‚ Henryk Wars, a sÅ‚owa napisaÅ‚ Julian Tuwim (pod ps. „Oldlenâ€). Piosenka byÅ‚a przebojem w miÄ™dzywojennej Polsce i pozostaje nim do dziÅ›. Utwór zostaÅ‚ napisany specjalnie na potrzeby filmu Szpieg w masce, cieszÄ…cego siÄ™ rekordowÄ… frekwencjÄ… w kinach. ZaÅ›piewaÅ‚a go w nim Hanka Ordonówna i wkrótce piosenka staÅ‚a siÄ™ jej artystycznÄ… wizytówkÄ…. W późniejszym czasie Ordonówna czÄ™sto przypominaÅ‚a piosenkÄ™ w teatrzyku MaÅ‚e Qui Pro Quo. Utwór w wykonaniu Ordonówny nagrany zostaÅ‚ na pÅ‚ytach bardzo popularnej wówczas wytwórni Syrena-Electro. NakÅ‚ad wydawnictwa osiÄ…gnÄ…Å‚ kilkadziesiÄ…t tysiÄ™cy egzemplarzy, a pÅ‚yty z tym nagraniem tÅ‚oczono przez blisko sześć lat z uwagi na niezmienne zainteresowanie piosenkÄ….Wikipedia.
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Thérèse Brenet: Rondel for SATB chorus, orchestra and organ,chorus part
Thérèse Brenet: Rondel for SATB chorus, orchestra and organ,chorus part
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Full Orchestra - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.533845 Composed by Therese Brenet. Contemporary. Score and parts. 12 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publis...
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Full Orchestra - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.533845 Composed by Therese Brenet. Contemporary. Score and parts. 12 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #3053315. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.533845). A setting of a poem in French by Tristan Corbières (1845-1875) for SATB chorus, and orchestra. The instrumentation is: 2220/2000/timp/3perc/hp/organ/strings. The work may be performed alone or together with the composer's two other owrks for chorus and orchestra (Ciels and Le Bois Amical). This is the chorus part, which contains a piano reduction, only. The orchestral parts are on rental from the publisher. The score, is available for sale. Ronel Il fait noir, enfant, voleur d'étincelles ! Il n'est plus de nuits, il n'est plus de jours ; Dors... en attendant venir toutes celles Qui disaient : Jamais ! Qui disaient : Toujours ! Entends-tu leurs pas ?... Ils ne sont pas lourds : Oh ! les pieds légers ! – l'Amour a des ailes... Il fait noir, enfant, voleur d'étincelles ! Entends-tu leurs voix ?... Les caveaux sont sourds. Dors : Il pèse peu, ton faix d'immortelles : Ils ne viendront pas, tes amis les ours, Jeter leur pavé sur tes demoiselles... Il fait noir, enfant, voleur d'étincelles ! English translation It is Dark, child, thief of sparks! There are no longer nights, There are no longer days Sleep..waiting for those who say never, who say always, to arrive Do you hear their footsteps? They are not heavy. Oh, the light steps! Love has wings... It is Dark, child, thief of sparks! Do you hear their voices? The tombs are silent. Sleep, it weighs little, your weight of dried flowers They will not come, your friends the bears, to throw their cobblestone on your fireflies It is Dark, child, thief of sparks! Translation © 2008 by Paul Wehage
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Hello Friend - Orchestra Concert Score - Score Only
Hello Friend - Orchestra Concert Score - Score Only
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Full Orchestra - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1460432 By Zane Kuchera. By Music by Zane Kuchera and Words by Paul Norman Tapp. Arranged by Zane Kuc...
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Full Orchestra - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1460432 By Zane Kuchera. By Music by Zane Kuchera and Words by Paul Norman Tapp. Arranged by Zane Kuchera. Broadway,Film/TV,Jazz,Musical/Show,Pop,Singer/Songwriter. 9 pages. Zane Kuchera Music #1039364. Published by Zane Kuchera Music (A0.1460432). 6/12/24 Zane Kuchera Music released “Hello Friend” (Pop/Jazz) performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, a professional library. Lyrics inspired 50 years ago during the viewing of a PBS series about Chopin and George Sands. This song is one friend speaking directly to the other about life, love, illusion, entrapment, reinvention and aspiration. Words by Paul Norman Tapp, music & performance by Zane Kuchera.Reviews:“Remarkable... the angles of Miles Davis, the flow and soar of Gershwin. No wonder the lyric waited 50 years for music. Crazy good dynamics. Wonderful.” - P.N.T.“It sounds like something off of Harry Potter. It's very beautiful.” - A.I.M.“So beautiful Zane. The sweeping ocean and dance timed perfectly to the sweeping tide and movements of life. Thank you!” - B.M.“Beautiful imagery, majestic music, breathtakingly brilliant masterpiece.” - E.M.J.
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Spanish National Anthem for Symphony Orchestra (Kt Olympic Anthem Series)
Spanish National Anthem for Symphony Orchestra (Kt Olympic Anthem Series)
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Full Orchestra - Intermediate - Digital Download Composed by Manuel de Espinosa de los Monteros (1730-1810). Arranged by Keith Terrett. Classical Per...
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Full Orchestra - Intermediate - Digital Download Composed by Manuel de Espinosa de los Monteros (1730-1810). Arranged by Keith Terrett. Classical Period, European, Patriotic. 30 pages. Published by Music for all Occasions
The Spanish National Anthem arranged for full Symphony Orchestra, there is a short version in my store in case you need it! Just need a sporting event now such as an Olympics!
The Marcha Real (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmartʃa reˈal], "Royal March") is the national anthem of Spain. It is one of only three national anthems (along with that of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Kosovo) in the world to have no official lyrics.
One of the oldest in the world, the anthem was first printed in a document dated 1761 and entitled Libro de la Ordenanza de los Toques de Pífanos y Tambores que se tocan nuevamente en la Ynfant° Española (Book of the Ordenance of Newly Played Military Drum and Fife Calls by The Spanish Infantry ), by Manuel de Espinosa. Here it is entitled La Marcha Granadera ("March of the Grenadiers"). There is written its score on this book. According to this document, Manuel de Espinosa de los Monteros is the composer.
There is a false belief that Marcha Real’s author was Frederick II of Prussia, a great lover of music. This belief started in 1861 when it appears for the first time publied in La España militar (The Militar Spain). In 1864, the colonel Antonio Vallecillo publishes the history in the diary El Espíritu Público (The Public Spirit), making the supposed Prussian origin of Marcha Real popular. According to Vallecillo, the anthem was a gift from Frederick II to the soldier Juan Martín Álvarez de Sotomayor, who was serving in the Prussian Court to learn the military tactics developed by Frederick II’s army, under orders of King Charles III. In 1868 the history is published in Los Sucesos, changing the destinatary of the gift with Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea, Count of Aranda. The myth was picked up like this in different publications of 1884 and 1903, until being included in 1908 in the Enciclopedia Espasa.
According to the tradition in 1770, Charles III declared the Marcha de Granaderos as the official Honor March, and with that formalized the habit of playing it in public and solemn acts. It became the official anthem during Isabel II’s reign.
After the 1868 Revolution, General Prim convoked a national contest to create an official anthem, but it was declared deserted, advising the jury that Marcha de Granaderos was considered as such. By Alfonso XIII’s time, it was established by a Royal Circular Order (27 August 1908) that interpreted the harmonization of the march done by Bartolomé Pérez Casas, Major Music of the Royal Corps of Halberdier Guards. During the Second Republic, Himno de Riego was adopted as official anthem, although after the Spanish Civil War, Marcha Real returned to be used as anthem, sometimes sung with the verses written by the poet José María Pemán in 1928.
The actual symphonic version of the Marcha Real that replaces the Pérez Casas one, belongs to maestro Francisco Grau and is the official one after the Royal Decree of 10 October 1997, when the Kingdom of Spain bought the author rights of the Marcha Real, then belonging to Pérez Casas’ Heirs. According to the Royal Decree 1560/1997, the anthem should have a tone of B major and a tempo of 76 bpm (♩=76), with a form of AABB and a duration of 52 seconds.
Under the Trienio Liberal (1820-1823), the First Spanish Republic (1873–74) (when it enjoyed of a co-officiality) and the Second Spanish Republic (1931–1939), El Himno de Riego replaced La Marcha Real as the national anthem of Spain. At the conclusion of the Civil War, however, Francisco Franco restored La Marcha Real as the country’s national anthem, under its old title of La Marcha Granadera.
Interpretation and etiquette:
Military bands of the Spanish Armed Forces and the National Police Corps of Spain and civilian Marching bands and Concert bands play the B flat-major version of the anthem adapted for wind bands (as arranged by Francisco Grau), and playing the A Major version is optional.
The bugle call "To the Colors" in Spain is the version played by Bugle bands in Spanish churches in religious occasions and processions organized by civil groups and the parishes. Various versions adapted for the drum and the bugle are used, even though brass instruments play the anthem as well. But in some bugle bands, the A flat version of the anthem (the old official one, adapted for the bugle) is played. Only a bugle call is sounded when the B flat version is played.
Being the National Anthem, and in honor of the King and Queen of Spain, it’s a common practice for all to stand once it is played. Even though it is also played in church events, respect for the King and Queen (and the Royal Family as well) is required by everyone in attendance. As it happens civilians stand at attention while those in uniform salute when not in formation.
The current official version, as described in Royal Decree 1560/1997, is a sixteen-bar long phrase, divided in two sections, each one is made up of four repeated bars (AABB form). Tempo is set to ♩= 76 and key to B flat.
The long, complete version is the honors music for the King, while a shorter version without the repetitions is performed for the President of the Government of Spain, the Prince of Asturias, or during sporting events.
There are also three official arrangements: one for orchestra, another for military band, and a third for organ, written by Francisco Grau Vegara and requested by the Government of Spain. All in all, there are six different official adaptations, for each arrangement and length. They all were recorded by the Spanish National Orchestra and the Spanish Royal Guard Band as an official recording and released on compact disc for a limited period of time.
As the harmonization of the Marcha Real was written by Bartolomé Pérez Casas in the early 1900s, the copyright has not yet expired. The government bought it from Pérez Casas’ estate in 1997 for 130,000,000 pesetas (~ € 781,316) to avoid future legal problems. Until it expires, the copyright belongs to the Ministry of Culture and collecting societies charge copyright fees, which has led to criticism.
As a result, many different harmonisations have been devised by performers to avoid paying. Nonetheless, the rights to the 1997 Francisco Grau revision were transferred to the government at no charge, although they were not placed in the public domain.
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