Matériel : Octavo
SKU: HL.49019759
ISBN 9790001191692. UPC: 840126938760. 9.0x12.0x0.157 inches.
The anthology 'Klangspuren' by Barbara Heller contains 76 works for piano which have been written for the Barbara Heller Piano Competition. Each title has its own personal message: Music can show an image or remind of something, be a short story and put one in a special mood.Arranged in a progressive order, the pieces are divided into two volumes: Vol. 1 contains easy to intermediate pieces, Vol. 2 intermediate to difficult pieces.
SKU: ST.EM22
ISBN 9790220200861.
CONT ENTS Ah, Cupid, grant (SSATTB) All the day I waste (SSA(or T)A(or T)B) Camilla fair tripped o'er the plain (SSA(or T)T(or B)B) Come, Sorrow, help me to lament (SSATB) Cupid in a bed of roses (SSATTB) Cytherea smiling said (SSATTB) Down the hills Corinna trips (SSATB) Fond love is blind (SSATTB) Have I found her? (SST(or A)BB) Her hair the net of golden wire (SSATTB) I heard a noise (SSATB) If floods of tears (S(or T)Solo) If I seek to enjoy (SST) In depth of grief (SA(or T)TTB) Life of my life (SSATB) Live not, poor bloom (SSA(or T)B) Love is the fire (SAT) My mistress after service due (SAT) O what is she? (SSAB) One woman scarce of twenty (SST) Pleasure is a wanton thing (SST) Sadness, sit down (SSATB) See forth her eyes (SAA(or T)B(or T)) She with a cruel frown (SSTTBB) Sweet those trammels of your hair (SAT) The nightingale in silent night (SSAT) When to the gloomy woods (SATB) Why do I, dying, live? (SSA(or T)TB) Why dost thou fly? (SSA(or T)T(or A)B) With bitter sighs (SS(or A)A(or T)TB).
SKU: HL.50600082
ISBN 9781495008542. UPC: 888680041809. 6.75x10.5 inches.
This Dorothy Parker text reveals Mary's youth and courage through the memory of another then-young woman. The bright light and blinding star seen by the narrator nearly thirty years prior is remembered sensitively and with a quiet, unison final statement. ScorePlay - click to view score with recording.
SKU: ST.EM20
ISBN 9790220206337.
Reme mbered chiefly for his virginal music, this always fresh and charming composer - who was probably an instrument maker by trade - may well have penned these pieces simply for the enjoyment of his London friends living in the wards of Bishopsgate and Cripplegate. His experience as a keyboard player may have led him to some chromatic vocal writing, particularly in the admirable Construe my meaning, rivalling strangenesses in the work of his Italian contemporary, Gesualdo. CONTENTS Among the daffadillies (SSAB) Ay me, poor heart (SATB) Blind Love was shooting (SSAB) Carters, now cast down (SAT (or A) B) Construe my meaning (SATB) Daphne on the rainbow (SSA (or T) T (or B)) Lady, the silly flea (SATB) Lady, when I behold your passions (SSA (or T) B) Love shooting among many (SSAB) Love shooting at another (SSA (or T) B) My Lady's coloured cheeks (SAT (or A) B) Pearce did dance with Petronella (SAT (or A) B) Pearce did love fair Petronella (SAAB) Phillida bewailed (SAT (or A) B) Simkin said that Sis was fair (SSAB (or T)) Some time she would (SATB) Susanna fair (SSTB) The curtain drawn (SATB) The wavering planet (SSAB (or T)) Thrice blessed be the giver (SSAB (or T)) Witness, ye heavens (SSS (or A) AAT (or B) BB).
SKU: MB.31008M
ISBN 9781513467016. 8.75x11.75 inches.
Blind Lemon Jefferson was a trail blazer, both as a singer and guitarist, but also as a commercial phenomenon, for he was the first blues musician to establish the tremendous appeal that blues, as played and sung by rural African American folk, had for the record-buying public. It is no exaggeration to say that the sales of Lemon’s records paved the way for a host of other solo rural blues musicians to record in his wake and made the record companies more willing to give other musicians a chance, in the hopes of achieving similar success. Lemon ’s record sales weren’t what made him a great musician, though - that could only be attributed to his startlingly virtuosic guitar - playing and soulful singing, developed over years of busking, building on his natural gifts with a great deal of practice and work. In the Guitar of Blind Lemon Jefferson author John Miller presents transcriptions, in standard notation and tablature, of 22 of Lemon’s greatest performances, with an additional essay examining Lemon’s senses of time and phrasing and his picking techniques. Also included is a download link to all the original recordings. To present a picture of Lemon the man, noted blues researchers Alan Governar and Kip Lornell have contributed an essay focusing on Lemon’s early life, the origins of his music, and his time spent in a musical partnership with Lead Belly. Links are provided to downloadable performances of the songs in the book from which the transcriptions were made, so that you can have Lemon’s sound in your head as you learn to play his songs.Blind Lemon Jefferson was remarkable, even in a style that abounded in great musicians, and some measure of his influence can be seen in the fact that musicians recorded in the 1960s, more than thirty years after his death, were still covering his songs and stealing guitar licks from him. The Guitar of Blind Lemon Jefferson gives you the resources needed to learn what was so special about Lemon’s music, and to experience his musical excellence from inside the music itself.Titles include: One Dime Blues, Got The Blues, Dry Southern Blues, Big Night Blues, Rabbit Foot Blues, Shuckin' Sugar Blues, Where Shall I Be, Wartime Blues, Black Horse Blues, Prison Cell Blues, Piney Woods Money Mama, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean, He Arose From The Dead, Beggin' Back, Broke And Hungry, Bad Luck Blues, Matchbox Blues, Lemon's Worried Blues, That Crawlin' Baby Blues, Easy Rider Blues, Stocking Feet Blues and Right of Way BluesLevel 2/3 • 160 pages • Direct download link to audio files.Â
SKU: HL.49046988
ISBN 9781705174333. UPC: 842819115281. 8.25x11.75x0.695 inches.
SYNOPSIS Aribert Reimann's 'Trilogie lyrique' is based on three plays by Maurice Maeterlinck: In L'Intruse, a family is sitting at the table with their blind grandfather. They are waiting for the doctor to arrive and tend to his daughter who is lying ill in bed after having given birth: her new-born son has not yet made a single sound. The old man senses that something is wrong due to the uneasy atmosphere in the room. Who is sitting in our midst? he asks. He is the only one who cansee the presence of death. Interieur: Once again a family is gathered round the table in the evening, but this time we observe the action from outside, looking through the window with the grandfather and a stranger: no sound can be heard. Outside the house, the stranger reports that the eldest daughter has drowned and that he has pulled her out of the river. Although the corpse is already being carried through the village to the family, the grandfather cannot bring himself to destroy this idyll. La Mort de Tintagiles: The young Tintagiles is told a story about a mysterious castle and the aged queen who has all potential heirsto the throne murdered. His siblings sense that Tintagiles has been summoned to the castle to be murdered, but nobody openly expresses this fact. It is the sinister messengers of death from the interludes, now visible as the queens servants, who ful?l her demand and snatch the sleeping boy from his sisters'arms. Commentary 'In comparison with his Medea for example with its stormy outbreaks of emotion and violence, Reimann's score is worked in an impressive refinement of sound. It begins with rumbling, hesitating and expressive music in the first section, demanding highly ingenious sound effects from the lower strings including tapping and faltering glissandos in its noisy expression of mortal fear. Inthe second part, the woodwind formation plays at times almost in chamber music fashion and is then suddenly painfully shrill. The third part luxuriates and rages in its rich, full orchestration. The manner in which Reimann displays his mastery in textural shading, the invention of sounds welling up and fading away, the rhythmic and melodic capacity of suffering and the music's inner violence are all utterly compelling.'(Wolfgang Schreiber, Opernwelt, November 2017).
SKU: BT.DHP-1135395-140
9x12 inches. English-German-French-Dut ch.
Odilia is an up-tempo and joyful ode to Baume-les-Dames, a village in the department of Doubs in Franche-Comté, Eastern France.The title is derived from the legend of Odilia of Alsace (venerated as Saint Odilia, or Odile), the daughter of the Duke of Alsace. She was born blind, and literally saw the light at the age of twelve at the convent of Baume-les-Dames. From this miraculous occurrence, she was dubbed Odilia — child of light.Jacob de Haan was inspired by medieval dance music for the opening of this composition. In the slow movement that follows, a lyrical minor theme builds to a dramatic climax, which is followed by a calm passage featuring the repeatedlyrical theme. Finally, the medieval motif returns, this time presented in a festive gospel version. Odilia is een ode aan Baume-les-Dames, een dorp in het Franse departement Doubs (in de regio Franche-Comté). De titel verwijst naar de legende van Odilia, de dochter van de hertog van Elzas. Ze werd blind geboren, maar op twaalfjarige leeftijd zag ze in het nonnenklooster van Baume-les-Dames letterlijk het licht. Na dit mirakel werd ze Odilia, kind van het licht, genoemd. Middeleeuwse dansmuziek vormde de inspiratiebron voor Jacob de Haan. We horen het zowel aan het begin als het einde, terwijl in het langzame middendeel een lyrisch thema in mineur zich ontwikkelt tot een dramatisch hoogtepunt. Feestelijk en sfeervol!Odili a ist eine schnelle und fröhliche Ode an das französische Dorf Baume-les-Dames. Die Einleitung der Komposition ist mittelalterlicher Tanzmusik inspiriert. Der nachfolgende langsame Satz in lyrischem Moll steigert sich zu einem dramatischen Höhepunkt, gefolgt von einer ruhigen Passage, die das lyrische Thema wieder aufnimmt. Schließlich kehrt das mittelalterliche Motiv aus der Einleitung wieder, diesmal in einer festlichen Gospelversion. Odilia est une joyeuse et allègre ode Baume-les-Dames, un village situé dans le département du Doubs, dans l’est de la France. Jacob de Haan s’est inspiré de la musique de danse médiévale pour la première partie de cette composition. Dans le mouvement lent qui suit, un thème lyrique en mineur s’amplifie pour atteindre un passage en apogée, lui-même suivi d’un motif tranquille où réapparaît le thème lyrique. Enfin, la ligne médiévale revient, cette fois sous la forme d’un gospel festif.Odilia< /I> è una veloce e gioiosa ode a Baume-les-Dames, una cittadina francese che ha ispirato la musica medioevale danzante che il compositore propone nell’introduzione del brano. Il movimento che segue è caratterizzato da un modo minore lirico che si sviluppa in una drammatica apoteosi, seguita da un passaggio calmo che riprende il tema lirico. Il motivo medioevale è nuovamente proposto, questa volta in una festosa versione gospel.
SKU: BT.DHP-1135395-010
SKU: PR.16400272S
UPC: 680160588442. 8.5 x 11 inches.
My third quartet is laid out in a three-movement structure, with each movement based on an early, middle, and late work of the great American impressionist painter Mary Cassatt. Although the movements are separate, with full-stop endings, the music is connected by a common scale-form, derived from the name MARY CASSATT, and by a recurring theme that introduces all three movements. I see this theme as Mary's Theme, a personality that stays intact while undergoing gradual change. I The Bacchante (1876) [Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] The painting shows a young girl of Italian or Spanish origin, playing a small pair of cymbals. Since Cassatt was trying very hard to fit in at the French Academy at the time, she painted a lot of these subjects, which were considered typical and universal. The style of the painting doesn't yet show Cassatt's originality, except perhaps for certain details in the face. Accordingly the music for this movement is Spanish/Italian, in a similar period-style but using the musical signature described above. The music begins with Mary's Theme, ruminative and slow, then abruptly changes to an alla Spagnola-type fast 3/4 - 6/8 meter. It evokes the Spanish-influenced music of Ravel and Falla. Midway through, there's an accompanied recitative for the viola, which figures large in this particular movement, then back to a truncated recapitulation of the fast music. The overall feeling is of a well-made, rather conventional movement in a contemporary Spanish/Italian style. Cassatt's painting, too, is rather conventional. II At the Opera (1880) [Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts] This painting is one of Cassatt's most well known works, and it hangs in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The painting shows a woman alone in a box at the opera house, completely dressed (including gloves) and looking through opera glasses at someone or something that is NOT on the stage. Across the auditorium from her, but exactly at eye level, is a gentleman with opera glasses intently watching her - though it is not him that she's looking at. It's an intriguing picture. This movement is far less conventional than the first movement, as the painting is far less conventional. The music begins with a rapid, Shostakovich-type mini-overture lasting less than a minute, based on Mary's Theme. My conjecture is that the woman in the painting has arrived late to the opera, busily stumbling into her box. What happens next is a kind of collage, a kind of surrealistic overlaying of two different elements: the foreground music, at first is a direct quotation of Soldier's Chorus from Gounod's FAUST (an opera Cassatt would certainly have heard in the brand-new Paris Opera House at that time), played by Violin II, Viola, and Cello. This music is played sul ponticello in the melody and col legno in the marching accompaniment. On top of this, the first violin hovers at first on a high harmonic, then descends into a slow melody, completely separate from the Gounod. It's as if the woman in the painting is hearing the opera onstage but is not really interested in it. Then the cello joins the first violin in a kind of love-duet (just the two of them, at first). This music isn't at all Gounod-derived; it's entirely from the same scale patterns as the first movement and derives from Mary's Theme and its scale. The music stays in a kind of dichotomy feeling, usually three-against-one, until the end of the movement, when another Gounod melody, Valentin's aria Avant de quitter ce lieux reappears in a kind of coda for all four players. It ends atmospherically and emotionally disconnected, however. The overall feeling is a kind of schizophrenic, opera-inspired dream. III Young Woman in Green, Outdoors in the Sun (1909) [Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts] The painting, one of Cassatt's last, is very simple: just a figure, looking sideways out of the picture. The colors are pastel and yet bold - and the woman is likewise very self-assured and not in the least demure. It is eight minutes long, and is all about melody - three melodies, to be exact (Young Woman, Green, and Sunlight). No angst, no choppy rhythms, just ever-unfolding melody and lush harmonies. I quote one other French composer here, too: Debussy's song Green, from Ariettes Oubliees. 1909 would have been Debussy's heyday in Paris, and it makes perfect sense musically as well as visually to do this. Mary Cassatt lived her last several years in near-total blindness, and as she lost visual acuity, her work became less sharply defined - something akin to late water lilies of Monet, who suffered similar vision loss. My idea of making this movement entirely melodic was compounded by having each of the three melodies appear twice, once in a pure form, and the second time in a more diffuse setting. This makes an interesting two ways form: A-B-C-A1-B1-C1. String Quartet No.3 (Cassatt) is dedicated, with great affection and respect, to the Cassatt String Quartet, whose members have dedicated themselves in large measure to the furthering of the contemporary repertoire for quartet.
SKU: PR.164002720
UPC: 680160573042. 8.5 x 11 inches.