Word Wall

Par BOCOOK JAY. In ancient times, Hadrian\'s Wall was a Roman fortification running for 73 miles in nothern England and marking the boundary between Roman Britannia and Caledonia to the north. Jay\'s inventive work for band features a Roman flavor along with unique textures and effects, including a dramatic sword fight. Distinctive and exciting! Dur: 4:35 / Date parution : 2022-07-30/ Répertoire / Concert Band

from In Transit-A completely a cappella musical. No band in the pit. No band hanging on the back wall. No band at all. Every sound comes from the cast. And here is one of the great up beat positive songs from the show about living in the moment and loving your experiences as you work to Get there.

Scored for String Quartet and Live Electronics. Score only. This piece has no score in the traditional meaning of the word. The part material for the musicians consists mainly of 5 musical games with small fragments ofmusical material serving as playing cards and with a set of rules for each game. This allows the musicians a freedom of choice within clearly defined limits.

This beautifully illustrated and easy to use songbook is a unique volume which includes over a hundred folk songs from the British Isles, chosen specifically for the beauty of their words and music. Songs of longing, of love, of the Irish and Scottish rebelions, as well as lullabies, children's songs, and even a few composed songs which have become a part of the folk heritage can be found in this collection. More than half of the songs in this book are not available in any comparable volume. ' Easily played piano and guitar accompaniments are provided, and not only are the Welsh songs newly translated, but phonetic transcriptions of the lyrics are also included so that teh songs may be sung in their original language.

Make the silence talk'La Muette knew how to make the silence talk like no one', writes Djavann in his book (La Muette, © Flammarion 2008). Those words deeply touched me for they express one of the most beautiful metaphors in music. Through the lines of discourse, beyond words, I was listening to the silence of 'La Muette'. A rare and intense listening which joins the same internal listening I use when I'm writing my score. I was listening to La Muette, I decided to write a new piece to make the silent voice of La Muette told by Chahdortt Djavann sound through music. Choosing the extracts The text put in music is composed of short extracts from Djavann's story. I focused on this woman's portrait, who conquers her freedom through silence in which she forms a strong love relationship with her niece Fatemeh on the one hand, and the Uncle on the other hand. 'She had made her silence become her art of living, her freedom' writes Djavann. The extremely dramatic tension, the flow of the singing in Persian language, and the oppression in relation to the Iranian context are trying to underline the independent beauty of that woman who resists and exists without a voice. Story A young 15 years old Iranian girl named Fatemeh is in jail. Waiting for her death sentence, she writes the story of her aunt on a small notebook, 'so that someone remembers La Muette and myself'. The young teenager was raised by her aunt who becomes mute because she decided to stop talking on a dark day of her own childhood when she was interrogated, never to tell THE truth. An aunt whose silence makes even more fascinating, haughty, with an insolent look, cigarette at her lips, bare-footed and without any scarf on her head. 'La Muette' had made her silence become her art of living, her freedom. Around her, women start to talk, even considering her mad, for only a mad person could act this way. Fatemeh loves her mute aunt unconditionally, that is how she wants to become a woman, by being like her, fascinated by her silence and her excesses. La Muette embodies a figure of Freedom and makes us remember that in some countries, the woman who won't be submissive risks capital punishment. She will be hung. Following this beautiful text by Chahdortt Djavann, 'La Muette', a powerful text, stiff, tensed, without any lyricism nor compromises, which takes place in Iran under the Mollahs' regime. Persian: Phonological material / Compositional material Djavann's story is written in French. I asked Baharé Khadjé-Nouri to translate the text into Persian, and worked with her on pronunciation, accentuation, metric and the structure of the language, and I thank her again for that. I spent a long time having some people reading me the text in Persian and through listening I immersed myself in that sound universe. From this linguistic material, the beginning of the piece starts with the constitution of a tank of sound objects which will constitute parts of the compositional material. To compose the phonological tank, I worked on writing the pronunciation that lies at the origin of every possible vocal composition, writing the tone as well as the 'percussive - resounding' aspects of phonemes, multiple uses of fricative consonants or sibilants. Finally I used the vocal treatment of the phoneme through modes of play in relation to sprechsang: sing -inspire, or -expire, -blow, -chanting, -whispering, -spitting, -speaking. But a purely phonetic analysis of the vocal structures composing the sung part would reduce the word to its mere phonetic entity. The phonological material then constituted a compositional material by giving to the sung word its semantic entity. Form of the piece To strip the drama off every narrative element, at least of the discursive and linear character of the story, I first re-organized parts of the text extracted from the whole book in an order fitting the form I wanted to give to the piece (except for the beginning and ending which are kept in their linear forms). I imagined Fatemeh in jail, whose memories bounced between the four walls of her cell: recurring musical material, re-injected in an obsessive way, disjointed and contrasted, continuously modified each time, bouncing from one sequence to the next in another state. The piece is divided into 5 sequences, between each of them is an instrumental interlude with a voice-off, the voice of the present in the cell that contrasts with the singing voice of the sequence, evocation of memories of La Muette (sequence 1: preamble, sequence 2: portrait of La Muette, sequence 3: La Muette and Fatemeh, sequence 4: La Muette and the Uncle, sequence 5: epilogue). Electroacoustic setupFor this piece, I wrote the electroacoustic parts myself at the same time I was writing the instrumental parts. The electroacoustic setup is here considered as a whole instrument, an instrument added to the 12 others electroacoustic instruments and to Donatienne's voice. The electroacoustic sounds are divided into three types: - Samples from the singer's voice and instruments of the TM+ ensemble transformed - The narrator's voice Baharé Khadjé-Nouri in Persian, original version or transformed - Extra-musical sounds As for the synchronization between the acoustic and the electroacoustic scores, we will use for the first time an innovative application developed by Frédéric Bevilacqua and Bruno Zamborlin, not to follow the moves as we did it in StreicherKreis (my string quartet created in November 2008), but to follow the voice and orchestra. Thus, we will be using an 'audio-following', which constituted a first. This setup of recognition and following will allow the synchronization between instrumental and electroacoustic scores in a musical and precise way. Concerning the interactivity between performers and device, it will all be in real-time. Characteristics of the musicians' sound will 'interpret' what comes out of the speakers. The musicians will define the settings of the sound transformations, in terms of space, transposition, tone or length. This new piece expresses a message through the choice of subject that goes beyond strictly music. For me, it is important that both the composer and writer can invest their work into problematics which they're confronted to because they are immediate witnesses. / Soprano Et Percussions

Commissioned by the Dunedin Consort in 2006 Errollyn Wallen's Comfort Me with Apples is for soloists and instrumental ensemble and sets words from The Song of Songs. First performed by Susan Hamilton (soprano) Matthew Brook (bass) and the Dunedin Consort conducted by John Butt at the Queen's Hall Edinburgh on 22 September 2006.

Par RAKOWSKI DAVID. Poems by Louise Bogan, Wallace Stevens, Joseph Duemer, Tom Chandler Set of Parts - Score (EP67587) also available / Contemporain / Répertoire / Voix et Instruments Divers

The Complete Wedding Music Planner is a comprehensive guide to selecting and performing the music and choosing readings that will make your wedding day extra special. Planning your wedding is an enjoyable but challenging task. Just as important as the practical elements is choosing the music and readings that will be at the emotional heart of your big day. Selecting the perfect music in the best arrangements and choosing texts that create exactly the right atmosphere - these are personal decisions where good advice and practical help are crucial. With sheet music for over 40 pieces of suitable music spanning classical, pop and jazz, The Complete Wedding Music Planner offers more than advice - it is a complete practical resource for the bride, groom, musicians and readers. Coming complete with 3 audio CDs that contain backing and demo tracks as well as sample readings, The Complete Wedding Music Planner has absolutely everything you need to plan and organise the all-important words and music for your wedding. Contains over 280 pages of music, photographs, illustrations, Bible readings, poems, sample vows and practical advice. / Piano/Vocal/Guitare (PVG)

Of the four episodes of the 'Ring Cycle' 'Die Walkure' is most often performed separately and may be Wagner's best-loved work. The source of this affection is certainly the sensitive depictions of Siegmund and Sieglinde's loveand the father-daughter relationship of Wotan and Brünnhilde.Siegmund stumbles into an unfamiliar house Sieglinde's for shelter and the two fall for each other quickly. However Sieglinde's husband (from a forcedmarriage) Hunding is a kinsman of Siegmund's foes and challenges Siegmund to a duel. Sieglinde gives Hunding a sleeping potion and the two realise they are brother and sister. Siegmund claims Sieglinde as his bride. Watching Wotan and Fricka tell Brünnhilde that she must defend Hunding's marriage rights. Brünnhilde sets out to observe the lovers. When Sieglinde falls asleep Brünnhilde berates Siegmund but when he argues she decides to help him.Hunding and Siegmund battle when Siegmund is about to win however Wotan appears and shatters his sword; he is killed. Brünnhilde escapes with Sieglinde and the broken sword. Wotan fells Hunding with a wave of his handand leaves to punish Brünnhilde. Sieglinde realises she bears Siegmund's child so takes the pieces of the sword and rushes off into the forest to hide. Brünnhilde herself flees to the Valkyries' Rock to hide but Wotan fins herand sentences her to become a mortal woman: she must lie in sleep to be claimed by any man who finds her but behind a wall of fire that only the bravest hero can pierce. This is the Schirmer edition of the Libretto inthe original German with an nglish translation by Stewart Robb.

Angel View by Juliana Hodkinson scored for seven or more performers and electronics. 'Angel View is an assemblage of urban and musical debris somewhere between a wordless live radio play enacted film soundtrack and instrumental theatre. Chiseling cement falling debris scraping cutlery breaking glass criss-crossing cables squealing tram-wheels an upturned bicycle a grid of cables a travel souvenir a shop window a revolving carousel a brace of monkeys a wall under siege a dining table laid for an ancestral dinner – it is a sonic bazaar. Made up of over 20 parts each designed to overlap the work’s architecture is full of of non-sequiturs and arbitrary cross-relations between imagined streets intersecting and running parallel reflecting the surrealism of everyday life described in Walter Benjamin’s Einbahnstrasse and still present in the contemporary dilemmas and opportunities of Berlin today. All this is heard as if from an aerial perspective perhaps the Victory Column where angels sit in Wings of Desire from where Berlin below is observed as a series of tragedies.' Juliana Hodskinson