Out of the Depths

SKU: GI.G-9889

SKU: HL.50600472

8.25x12.0x0.076 inches.

In the field of New Music, Sofia Gubaidulina's “De profundis” has already achieved the status of a classic. It is not only an attainment of the New Music that instruments are capable of approaching the human voice in their sound, or that they can imitate areas of expression found in language and linguistic articulation. But the avant-garde has surely expanded the spectrum to a considerable extent. The piece for solo bayan is an impressive example of this. The listener witnesses a slow and inexorable intensification from the “rattling” of the lowest accordion register up to the pure, tender tones of the highest register. It is “anascent from the lowest to the highest, from the breath and soul to the world's soul or wisdom”, as Gubaidulina's friend and colleague Viktor Suslin once expressed it. With the means of sound, Gubaidulina transfers a symbol of life onto the music: breathing. Breathing distinguishes the living from the dead. What other instrument, other than the winds, perhaps, could better lendexpression to this characteristic than the accordion? In contrast to the wind instruments, however, the accordion is not an instrument into which the player breathes and creates breathing sounds - instead, the instrument itself assumes this function. It breathes through the pulling apart and pressing together of the bellows. As the basis of her composition, Gubaidulina chose the lines of the Psalm 130 “From the depths, o Lord, I call to you” for the characterisation of her interlaced message. Shadowy chorale melodies are occasionally heard, but the fundamental idea of ascent remains decisive. Sharp insertions and expressive gestures, intrusive glissandi and nervous vibrati repeatedly disturb the direction of movement. And then we hear consciously the integrated breathing of the instrument - breathing slightly, hardly audible, opposing the powerful chord blocks. The musicologist Valentina Cholopova once said of this: “All these sounds confront solemn chords richly ornamented with figurations, but there is also a long, monodic melody running through the entire symbolic path of the work - from the depths all the way up to the brilliant heights.” The work is dedicated to Friedrich Lips!

SKU: GI.G-CD-661

Quiet Cities, the sophomore recording of GIA’s Disciple Artist Ryan Meyers, is a collection of heartfelt songs that clamor for awakening. Meyers bravely bares his feelings from the depths of a soul truly enlightened beyond its years. Songs like Running Out of Faith, Quiet Cities, and Boy are honest depictions of the soul-searching, growing pains of a young man of faith, while Middle America, Life as a Carnival, and Wherever Your Treasure Is all beg for an eye-opening awareness to the cynicism, dispassion, and injustice so prevalent in our world. This thought-provoking recording is sure to resonate within anyone who has ever questioned his or her beliefs or path in life, and yet Quiet Cities will leave you filled with hope.

SKU: FG.042-08465-6

ISBN 979-0-042-08465-6.

In Poseidon, commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington and Mstislav Rostropovich, Bergman turns to the Greek god of the sea and lord of the earthquake as a symbol for primaeval power and the wellspring of creativity. In the ocean depths - the subconscious - power stirs and rises to the threshold of consciousness. It projects itself into the second movement's eruption of energy, after which follows recovery and calm. Composed in 1992.

SKU: CA.4006414

ISBN 9790007060152. Key: D minor. Language: Latin/English.

The Bohemian composer Jan Dismas Zelenka was a double bass player and church music composer at the Saxon court of the Elector August the Strong and his son Friedrich August II. In the years after 1721 he composed an extensive repertoire of Catholic church music together with the Kapellmeister Johann David Heinichen. These works, together with the Dresden operas composed by Johann Adolf Hasse in quick succession from 1731 onwards, established the reputation of the Saxon court as one of the most important musical centers of the late Baroque period. Zelenka composed this psalm setting De profundis in D minor ZWV 97 in 1724 on the death of his father, including a concluding Requiem verse. This was later replaced by the lesser doxology so that the work can be performed in the office of Christmas week. Both endings are included in this new edition. Three trombones, used as an independent instrumental group, give the work a special tonal color. Score and part available separately - see item CA.4006400.

SKU: GI.G-5769

SKU: BR.EOS-28081-15

ISBN 9790004780268. 10 x 12.5 inches.

Notorious Broomstick One of program music's most important work: Its 32-year-old composer Paul Dukas called his best-known orchestral work Scherzo after a Ballade by Goethe. The colorful orchestration of the ten-minute piece draws the listener down into the depths of Goethe's ballade: A tale of obedience and disobedience, of attempts at concealment, of destruction, but also of benevolence, clemency, and wisdom. This new edition is based on the Eulenburg pocket-score edition edited by Jean-Paul C. Montagnier. Offered here for the first time is the orchestral material for this score, re-engraved, as a sales edition.

In cooperation with Edition Eulenburg.

SKU: BR.EOS-28081-30

ISBN 9790004780329. 10 x 12.5 inches.

Notorious Broomstick One of program music's most important work: Its 32-year-old composer Paul Dukas called his best-known orchestral work Scherzo after a Ballade by Goethe. The colorful orchestration of the ten-minute piece draws the listener down into the depths of Goethe's ballade: A tale of obedience and disobedience, of attempts at concealment, of destruction, but also of benevolence, clemency, and wisdom. This new edition is based on the Eulenburg pocket-score edition edited by Jean-Paul C. Montagnier. Offered here for the first time is the orchestral material for this score, re-engraved, as a sales edition.

In cooperation with Edition Eulenburg.

SKU: PR.511020130

UPC: 680160183821.

SKU: GI.G-7518G

English. Text Source: Psalm 130, adapt. PM.

SKU: HL.1275687

UPC: 810066353374. 3.75x4.75x4.0 inches.

Surface from the depths of your deepest slumbers with a little help from The Beatles. This Yellow Submarine Sea of Holes mug by ABYstyle is made of ceramic, holds 11 oz. of coffee, tea, or your beverage of choice, and features John, Paul, George, and Ringo in cartoon form peeking out from among a background of holes.

SKU: FJ.ST6240S

English.

Transpo rt your audience to a café in Venice with this unique, all-pizzicato arrangement of Enrico Toselli's Serenata Rimpianto. The string orchestra mimics a mandolin ensemble by strumming chords and using tremelos. They can even hold their instruments guitar style! Let your students experience a new way of playing while exploring the emotional depths of this sad, romantic, and beautiful expression of lost love.

About FJH Developing Strings

Sl ightly more advanced than Beginning Strings, this series begins to involve more position work and a slightly more complex rhythmic figures. Rehearsal piano is often provided. Ideal for middle school and smaller high school programs. Grade 2 - 2.5

SKU: SU.80102580

While the titles given to each of the movements within each Pentagram are most descriptive, the composer cautions that they were given in most cases after the work was completed, and imply no particular program. Rudhyar considers the pieces poems, using tone combinations, melodies, and chords as words. Each Pentagram contains five short movements with subititles such as The Call, Surging, Salutation to the Depths, Daughters of Men, and others. The Third Pentagram has been recorded on Orion 7285. 36 pages Published by: Columbia University Music Press First and Second Pentagrams -- available for sale separately in the Subito Store (#80102577).