Ground IV

A rare work for the Lute-based Theorbo. Below is the programme note from the composer.In July 1998 I decided that I would use a theorbo in Havoc a piece I was writing for the 1999 Proms (premiere September 8th 1999). Since my knowledge of the instrument was negligible I contacted David (The Orbo) Miller and appealed for help since I knew he would be playing in the Proms piece. He kindly and with admirable patience showed me how the instrument worked and I began writing groundwork as a technical exercise - hence one meaning of the title. The other is that it is a set of variations over a ground bass.Since the theorbo possesses eight diapason bass strings - whichare plucked like those of a harp not stopped with the left and - it seemed sensible to use these for the ground bass which consists simply of a rising eight-note scale using all diapason strings in turn. This ground is stated at the beginning and developed through 16 variations. Nos 1 to 7 are straightforward except that some of them compress the ground into itself. Nos 8 to 16 are in stretto: they are gradually overlapped with each other the new ground beginning one note earlier each time. The climax of the piece comes at variations 10 to 11; variations 12 to 14 bring it gradually down to earth; no. 15 is quiet and puts the decorated ground in relaxed canon with itself (in octaves using the top and bottom strings of the instrument). Variation 16 strips the ground of decoration putting tight scrunchy chords over it and the piece ends with the lowest diapason string (G) a quiet raspberry ripple of the other seven diapason strings and a final harmonic G to tell us that our little journey is over. I hope you enjoy the scenery.Giles Swayne

Set of parts for Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen's No Ground Green for Mixed Choir (SATB) and String Quartet (2012). Score: WH31464 Programme note: New Ground – No Ground – Green In 1986 I wrote Ground for the Kronos Quartet. I used the principle of the baroque ground and created a series of chords – going up and going down symmetrically. The material formed the basis for the quartet. In my next collaboration with Kronos I wrote the darker Last Ground – at the time supposed to be my last composition of the kind. After some years this seemed a bit pathetic and I decided to write a new– lighter ground –New Ground. To disappoint my listeners as much as possible I based this piece on a very old and very well-known ground: Pachelbel’s Canon.  The piece is tonal and that suggested another –atonal – composition – No Ground (based on another string quartet – no. 7 Parted from 1984 first performed by Kronos). I am very fond of the elaborated constructivism of the medieval or early renaissance music so in my view the two new quartets needed to be connected and combined. The two quartets can be performed in combination with the four-part vocal piece Green. The text is from medieval England. The pieces are written for the Kronos Quartet and Theatre of Voices.

12 transcriptions from British guitar virtuoso and Blues Hall of Famer Matt Schofield including: Anything But Time - Betting Man - Don't Know What I'd Do - Dreaming of You - Ear to the Ground - Lay It Down - Live Wire - On My Way - Shipwrecked - Siftin' Through the Ashes - What I Wanna Hear - Where Do I Have to Stand. / Guitare

Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen's New Ground Green (2011) for Solo Voices (SATB) and String Quartet. The vocal part of New Groun Green may be performed separately a cappella entitled Green. The vocal part of New Ground Green also makes part of another work also for voices and string quartet entitled No Ground Green (WH31464 ). Parts available: WH31444A

Composer Ted Dicks and songwriter and lyricist Myles Rudge were the team behind this Top Ten hit for Bernard Cribbins along with its B-side Right Said Fred. The Hole In The Ground begins with a working man standing in the hole he’s digging and a ‘bloke in a bowler hat’ standing above him who’s offering criticism. By the end of the song their positions have somewhat changed.British actor Bernard Cribbins had a hit in 1962 with The Hole in the Ground produced by The Beatles’ own George Martin for Parlophone. It’s a jaunty tune with a cheeky lyric -- a crowd-pleaser all around.

30Th Anniversary Edition. Par WAYNE ERBSEN. On the 30th anniversary of the publication of the original book, Banjo for the Complete Ignoramus, Wayne Erbsen has completely rewritten this banjo classic, and now it's even better! Clear and humorous instruction. Includes: 'Cluck Old Hen,' 'Poor Wayfaring Stranger, 'Sugar Hill,' 'Shady Grove,' 'Little Birdie,' 'Darlin' Corey,' 'Will Bill Jones,' 'Rain and Snow,' 'Cotton-Eyed Joe,' 'Buffalo Gals,' Cripple Creek,' 'the Cuckoo,' 'Cumberland Gap,' 'Cumberland Mountain Deer Chase,' 'Down in the Willow Gardens,' 'East Virginia,' 'Groundhog,' 'Handsome Molly,' 'Little Sadie,' 'Lynchburg Town,' 'Muley's Daughter,' 'New River Train,' 'Old Blue,' 'Old Joe Clark,' 'Polly Put the Kettle On,' ''Red Rocking Chair,' 'Shortening Bread,' 'Swannanoa Tunnel,' 'Sweet Sunny South,' 'Wild Bill Jones.' Includes instructional CD with 85 selections! / Niveau : Débutant / Clawhammer/Frailing - Methods / Méthode / Banjo à 5 Cordes

One of the best of the new generation of singer-songwriters, Brandi Carlile plays a unique blend of alt-rock and country-folk music. This songbook features all 35 songs from her three studio albums, Brandi Carlile,The Story, and Give Up the Ghost. All songs in this must-have collection are arranged as Brandi recorded them. Titles: Again Today * Before It Breaks * Cannonball * Caroline * Closer to You * Downpour * Dreams * Dying Day * Fall Apart Again * Follow * Gone * Happy * Have You Ever * I Will * If There Was No You * In My Own Eyes * Josephine * Late Morning Lullaby * Looking Out * Losing Heart * My Song * Oh Dear * Pride and Joy * Shadow on the Wall * Sixty Years On * Someday Never Comes * The Story * That Year * Throw It All Away * Touching the Ground * Tragedy * Turpentine * Until I Die * Wasted * What Can I Say. / Miscellaneous, Scores, Songbooks / Recueil / Guitare