Nico Muhly: All Our Works. Sheet Music for SATB Choral

The sheet music for Nico Muhly's Doublespeak arranged for Chamber Ensemble and composed for the orchestral sextet 'eighth blackbird'. The piece is arranged for Flute (Soprano Recorder) Clarinet in B flat Percussion (Castanets Tenor Drum Pedal Bass Drum) Glockenspiel Piano Violin and Cello. It works for 2-6 players and this item includes the full score as well as the parts. Doublespeak had its debut at the Edlis Neeson Theatre in Chicago performed by the new musical six-piece 'eighth blackbird'. The piece is a slow and repetitive one punctuated bymoments of stark beauty. It is according to Muhly something of a tribute to the great Philip Glass the forefather of minimalist classical music. It takes implicit inspiration from his entire oeuvre but also explicitly incorporates portions of his most famous and valued works interweaving them inside a new composition that captures what 'eighth blackbird' do best.  The Doublespeak sheet music would be ideal for Chamber Ensembles looking to perform or practise minimalist music drawn from the 1960s and 1970s. If you love Philip Glass or Nico Muhly or both this composition is a real treat.

Muhly fell in love with Byrd’s setting of the Christmas words Senex Puerum Portabat as a chorister so much that the ‘fluidity of the lines the relentless lilting rhythm and the way Byrd both avoided and cradled the text’ that he was inspired to follow a life in music. Early in his career he set the same text in modern style. The first statement of the words is a capella with ecstatic brass entering in the restatement. The ancient Hodie Christus Natus Est follows on seamlessly in a new mood.Contemporary American composer Nico Muhly is a prolific writer and arranger who at 32 is the youngest composer ever to have been commissioned by the Metropolitan Operain New York. His oeuvre includes two operas and many solo pieces and works for small ensemble Orchestra and Chorus and he has collaborated widely.

Film Scores For Solo Piano is a wonderful collection of those most cinematic pieces of music from film and television all arranged so that solo pianists can bring these climactic and inspirational scores totheir own living room. The accompanying download card also provides exclusive online access to new audio tracks of all the works.   Featuring some of the finest soundtracks to the best films and televisionshows written by some of the most accomplished living composers Film Scores For Solo Piano is an undoubtedly essential addition to the music stand of any music or film fan. Featuring classics like Adagio ForStrings that have been used in a vast number of films to more definitive scores like Philip Glass's brilliant Koyaanisqatsi which are such key parts of the films they accompany that the two have becomeinseparable.   Other important works included in this collection are Einaudi's excellent Una Mattina from 'Intouchables' Nico Muhly's wonderfully fitting The Egg - CyclingHoliday from 'The Reader' and Jeff Beal's inimitable theme from the Netflix series 'House of Cards'. Featuring 32 different pieces of Film Score sheet music fans of the incomparable effect ofa score on film and television will finally be able to play their favourite pieces as well as discover new ones to play. Many of the world's greatest composers have been commissioned to create music that tells as much of a storyas the imagery on screen and with this collection of film score sheet music you'll be playing works by Max Richter Hauschka Dustin O'Halloran Alberto Iglesias and Philip Glass among many others.   A unique download card is also included which features demonstration tracks of every single Film Score in the book some of which (Koyaanisqatsi and House of Cards) are