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Iowa Route (B.C.R. & N. R'y) Quikstep
Iowa Route (B.C.R. & N. R'y) Quikstep
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Iowa Route
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Piano - Digital Download SKU: LV.19383 Composed by John C. Minton. Transportation, Railroads. Lester S. Levy Collection. 4 pages. Published by Johns Hopk...
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Piano - Digital Download SKU: LV.19383 Composed by John C. Minton. Transportation, Railroads. Lester S. Levy Collection. 4 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.19383). Iowa Route (B.C.R. & N. R'y) Quikstep. Composed by John C. Minton. Published 1882 by James A. Guest in Burlington, Iowa. Composition of sectional with piano instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Transportation, Railroads. About The Lester S. Levy CollectionThe Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. Donated to Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the collection's strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century American through popular music. This sheet music has been provided by Project Gado, a San Francisco Bay Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents. Language and concepts within reflect the opinions and values of the time and may be offensive to some.
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Drums & Trumpets, or, A Parade in Broadway of the 7th, 22d, & 71st Regiments of N.Y.S. Militia
Drums & Trumpets, or, A Parade in Broadway of the 7th, 22d, & 71st Regiments of N.Y.S. Militia
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Piano solo
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Drums & Trumpets, or, A Parade
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Piano - Digital Download SKU: LV.22595 Composed by F. B. Helmsmuller. Musical instruments, Military camps, Flags, Civil War--Union. Lester S. Levy Collec...
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Piano - Digital Download SKU: LV.22595 Composed by F. B. Helmsmuller. Musical instruments, Military camps, Flags, Civil War--Union. Lester S. Levy Collection. 6 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.22595). Drums & Trumpets, or, A Parade in Broadway of the 7th, 22d, & 71st Regiments of N.Y.S. Militia. Composed by F.B. Helmsmuller. Published 1862 by Firth, Pond & Co., 547 Broadway in New York. Composition of sectional with piano instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Musical instruments, Military camps, Flags, Civil War--Union. About The Lester S. Levy CollectionThe Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. Donated to Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the collection's strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century American through popular music. This sheet music has been provided by Project Gado, a San Francisco Bay Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents. Language and concepts within reflect the opinions and values of the time and may be offensive to some.
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Parade March of the 22d Regt. N.Y.S.M. Union-Grays
Parade March of the 22d Regt. N.Y.S.M. Union-Grays
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Piano solo
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Parade March of the 22d Regt.
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Piano - Digital Download SKU: LV.23288 Composed by F. B. Helmsmuller. Military officers, Military camps, Bayonets, Tents, Telescopes, Tree stumps, Civil ...
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Piano - Digital Download SKU: LV.23288 Composed by F. B. Helmsmuller. Military officers, Military camps, Bayonets, Tents, Telescopes, Tree stumps, Civil War--Union. Lester S. Levy Collection. 5 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.23288). Parade March of the 22d Regt. N.Y.S.M. Union-Grays. Composed by F.B. Helmsmuller. Published 1862 by O. Ditson & Co., 277 Washington St. in Boston. Composition of sectional with piano instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Military officers, Military camps, Bayonets, Tents, Telescopes, Tree stumps, Civil War--Union. About The Lester S. Levy CollectionThe Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. Donated to Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the collection's strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century American through popular music. This sheet music has been provided by Project Gado, a San Francisco Bay Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents. Language and concepts within reflect the opinions and values of the time and may be offensive to some.
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Santo y Hosanna for SATB chorus and piano
Santo y Hosanna for SATB chorus and piano
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Choral SATB
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Adrienne Inglis
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Santo y Hosanna for SATB choru
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Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.953633 Composed by Adrienne Inglis (ASCAP). Contemporary,Easter,Multicultural,Sacred,World. Octa...
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Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.953633 Composed by Adrienne Inglis (ASCAP). Contemporary,Easter,Multicultural,Sacred,World. Octavo. 40 pages. Adrienne Inglis (ASCAP) #6639479. Published by Adrienne Inglis (ASCAP) (A0.953633). Perfect for a multicultural celebration, Easter, Mass, World Communion Sunday, or other sacred occasion - Spanish language with a Venezuelan â… rhythm and virtuosic piano partSanto y Hosanna (2020) by Adrienne Inglis, commissioned by Inversion as part of its collaborative requiem project Be near me when my light is low, sets a modified version of the Spanish liturgical Sanctus Benedictus text for mixed choir and piano. Referenced in the startling narrative of Isaiah 6, this remarkable prayer to God reacts to the sacred call to Christians-apathetic, unclean, stingy-to go to the difficult, tough places in the world to offer compassion, peace, and mercy. The choral passages reveal amazement and gratitude while the piano both dazzles with divine glory and squirms with human reluctance. The interplay between the B Phrygian and C Lydian modes reflects struggle between apathy and compassion, stinginess and mercy, darkness and peace. The rhythm is loosely based on â… Venezuelan merengue style.The music you purchase and download here contains the full score, a piano score, and a vocal score with piano reduction.
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Mary Had A Little Lamb
Mary Had A Little Lamb
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Piano solo
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Project B
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Mary Had A Little Lamb
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Piano Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.1032646 Arranged by Project B.Y. Children,Dance,Pop,Rock,World. Score. 1 pages. Project B.Y #5194705. Published by ...
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Piano Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.1032646 Arranged by Project B.Y. Children,Dance,Pop,Rock,World. Score. 1 pages. Project B.Y #5194705. Published by Project B.Y (A0.1032646). Famous folk song arranged in a simple easy way to young students to play and enjoy accompanied by a backing track.
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AMÉ
AMÉ
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Ludovic SELMI
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AMÉ
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Marimba,Piano,Rainstick,Violin - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1415494 By Ludovic SELMI. By Ludovic SELMI. 21st Century,Contemporary. 61 pages. D-Pr...
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Marimba,Piano,Rainstick,Violin - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1415494 By Ludovic SELMI. By Ludovic SELMI. 21st Century,Contemporary. 61 pages. D-Project Co., Ltd. #997229. Published by D-Project Co., Ltd. (A0.1415494). I structured the beginning in a very expansive, linear way, with this rain reproduced by the rain stick. The piano creates a rotating bassline. Over this foundation, the marimba and violin come and go repetitively. There isn't really an ending; we move towards silence, in fact, it's very Zen. I wrote this piece so that the marimbist passes the rain stick to the violinist at a certain moment, a baton exchange like in a relay race. J'ai construit le début de manière très étalée, très linéaire, avec cette pluie reproduite par le bâton de pluie. Le piano qui fait tourner une basse. Par-dessus cette base, le marimba et le violon viennent et s’en vont de manière répétitive.Il n’y a pas de vraiment de fin, on va vers le silence en fait, c’est très Zen.J'ai écrit cette piece en permettant que le marimbiste transmette au violoniste le baton de pluie a un certain moment, un échange de baton comme dans un relais donc.
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I Wander in the Woods
I Wander in the Woods
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Piano, Voice
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I Wander in the Woods
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Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries
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Piano and voice - Digital Download SKU: LV.19683 Composed by E.W.B. Poets, Forests, Birds--symbols, Courtship & love, Distress. Lester S. Levy Collection...
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Piano and voice - Digital Download SKU: LV.19683 Composed by E.W.B. Poets, Forests, Birds--symbols, Courtship & love, Distress. Lester S. Levy Collection. 4 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.19683). Song of the Thrush. I Wander in the Woods. Words by Heinrich Heine. Translated C.G. Leland. Music by E.W.B. Published 1867 by Chas. W. Harris, 3 & 4 Wotkyns Block in Troy, N.Y. Composition of strophic with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Poets, Forests, Birds--symbols, Courtship & love, Distress. First line reads I wander in the woods and weep, The thrush sits on the spray.. About The Lester S. Levy CollectionThe Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. Donated to Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the collection's strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century American through popular music. This sheet music has been provided by Project Gado, a San Francisco Bay Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents. Language and concepts within reflect the opinions and values of the time and may be offensive to some.
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The Charter Oak polk
The Charter Oak polk
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Piano solo
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Delia B
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Delia B
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The Charter Oak polk
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Piano - Digital Download SKU: LV.16138 Composed by Delia B. Ward. Panoramic views, Bodies of water, Sailboats. Lester S. Levy Collection. 5 pages. Publis...
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Piano - Digital Download SKU: LV.16138 Composed by Delia B. Ward. Panoramic views, Bodies of water, Sailboats. Lester S. Levy Collection. 5 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.16138). The Charter Oak polk. By Delia B. War. Published 1866 by A.M. Ward in Utica, N.Y. Composition of polka; sectional with piano instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Panoramic views, Bodies of water, Sailboats Call number. About The Lester S. Levy CollectionThe Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. Donated to Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the collection's strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century American through popular music. This sheet music has been provided by Project Gado, a San Francisco Bay Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents. Language and concepts within reflect the opinions and values of the time and may be offensive to some.
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Suite Revelation for cello and piano
Suite Revelation for cello and piano
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Cello, Piano
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Robert M
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Suite Revelation for cello and
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Robert M. Greenberg
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Cello,Instrumental Solo,Piano - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.987858 Composed by Robert M. Greenberg. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score and individua...
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Cello,Instrumental Solo,Piano - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.987858 Composed by Robert M. Greenberg. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score and individual part. 32 pages. Robert M. Greenberg #115605. Published by Robert M. Greenberg (A0.987858). Preferred Contact Information: RMonteverdi@comcast.net Performing Rights Organization: BMI Website: robertgreenbergmusic.com Facebook Band Page: facebook.com/RobertGreenbergMusic Video: https://mail.google.com/mail/?tab=wm#inbox/14f3cea616cb0a88?projector=1 Duration: ca. 12 minutes Year of composition: 2014 Program Note: I. Overture II. Nigun no. 9 III. Molad’ti IV. Gilu Hagalilim V. Y’mey Hanoar VI. The Gigue Is Up My apologies upfront for all the first person pronouns in this program note! A few years back, Nina Flyer asked me to write for her a piece of music that would contain or make reference to Jewish/Yiddish/Hebrew dance music and/or folk songs. The more I thought about it, the more difficult I realized the challenge would be. As best as I could tell, I had three options. Option one: I could set said dance music/songs for cello and piano, with the result being a series of arrangements: nice, but artlessly unoriginal (meaning dull). Option two: I could weave the tunes into a single narrative and in doing so write another version of Schlomo (a self-proclaimed Hebraic work for cello and orchestra by Ernst Bloch). Option three: I could make up my own ethnic-sounding melodies and either arrange them for cello and piano or weave them into some sort of Hebraic narrative: options one and two all over again. So I came up with option four. I selected four folk tunes (movements II, III, IV, and V) and composed a counter-melody to each. The first half of movements II, III, IV, and V set that counter-melody without any reference to the original folk tune. The second half of those movements then combines the counter-melody with the original tune (and thus the revelation, as the original tune is revealed). The generally two-part shape described above (excepting movement IV, which is A-B-A in structure) suggested Baroque binary dance form, and so I turned the piece into a sort of Baroque dance suite. It begins with a French Overture based on the counter-melodies of movement III and V, and concludes with a gigue based on the counter melodies of movements II and IV. The historical references are supposed to be tongue-in-cheek and I can only hope they will be taken that way. A thousand-and-one thanks to Nina Flyer and Lori Lack for their patience, hard work, and musical brilliance. Suite Revelation is dedicated – with the greatest respect and affection – to Nina Flyer.
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