American Song Collection for Clarinet and Piano

SKU: HL.400317

ISBN 9781596152380. UPC: 884088188276. 9.0x12.0x0.122 inches.

A wide-ranging collection of pieces for the beginning clarinetist, suitable for first through third year of study. Includes a printed music score with online audio of professional recordings of piano accompaniments to each piece. Accompaniment: Harriet Wingreen, piano The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.

SKU: FH.WC1

ISBN 978-1-55440-577-0.

This new series offers a sequenced approach to the study of clarinet from the beginner to advanced levels. With a progressive collection of Repertoire, Etudes, Recordings, Orchestral Excerpts, and Technique, the Clarinet Series, 2014 Edition provides complete support for teachers and students at every level of study. Nine progressive volumes of Repertoire expose students to a wealth of music from the earliest works for clarinet to accompanied and unaccompanied contemporary compositions. Students will explore some of the most definitive solo pieces written for clarinet, along with popular folk tunes, Klezmer melodies, Classical solos, and contemporary compositions that incorporate traditional and extended techniques.
Technical Repertoire:
Branch Line - Colin Cowles
Space-age Sonatina - Paul Harris
Skip - Errollyn Wallen
Peacherine Rag - Scott Joplin, arr. Forrest Kinney
Hornpipe - Henry Purcell, arr. Christine Donkin
Gavotte, HWV 491 - George Frideric Handel, arr. Christine Donkin
Ghoulish - Paul Harris
Major-General's Song - Arthur Sullivan, arr. Martin van de Ven
Lyrical Repertoire:
All the Pretty Little Horses - American lullaby, arr. Jason Gray
Swanee River - Stephen Foster, arr. Christopher Norton
Che faro senza Euridice? (What Shall I Do Without Euridice?) from Orfeo ed Euridice - Christoph Willibald Gluck, arr. Jason Noble
Sentimental Serenade - Alan Bullard
Entr'acte, from Carmen - Georges Bizet, arr. Christine Donkin
The Wish - Mr. Tuke, arr. Paul Harris
Largo, from The Four Seasons - Antonio Vivaldi, arr. Jason Gray
Hava Nagila - Israeli folk song, arr. Martin van de Ven and Forrest Kinney
Minuet, BWV Anh. 132 - attr. Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. Jason Gray.

SKU: PR.16500092L

UPC: 680160039531. 11 x 17 inches.

Zion is the third and final installment of a series of works for Wind Ensemble inspired by national parks in the western United States, collectively called Three Places in the West. As in the other two works (The Yellowstone Fires and Arches), it is my intention to convey more an impression of the feelings I've had in Zion National Park in Utah than an attempt at pictorial description. Zion is a place with unrivalled natural grandeur, being a sort of huge box canyon in which the traveler is constantly overwhelmed by towering rock walls on every side of him -- but it is also a place with a human history, having been inhabited by several tribes of native Americans before the arrival of the Mormon settlers in the mid-19th century. By the time the Mormons reached Utah, they had been driven all the way from New York State through Ohio and, with tragic losses, through Missouri. They saw Utah in general as a place nobody wanted, but they were nonetheless determined to keep it to themselves. Although Zion Canyon was never a Mormon Stronghold, the people who reached it and claimed it (and gave it its present name) had been through extreme trials. It is the religious fervor of these persecuted people that I was able to draw upon in creating Zion as a piece of music. There are two quoted hymns in the work: Zion's Walls (which Aaron Copland adapted to his own purposes in both is Old American Songs and the opera The Tender Land) and Zion's Security, which I found in the same volume in which Copland found Zion's Walls -- that inexhaustible storehouse of 19th-century hymnody called The Sacred Harp. My work opens with a three-verse setting of Zion's Security, a stern tune in F-sharp minor which is full of resolve. (The words of this hymn are resolute and strong, rallying the faithful to be firm, and describing the city of our God they hope to establish). This melody alternates with a fanfare tune, whose origins will be revealed in later music, until the second half of the piece begins: a driving rhythmic ostinato based on a 3/4-4/4 alternating meter scheme. This pauses at its height to restate Zion's Security one more time, in a rather obscure setting surrounded by freely shifting patterns in the flutes, clarinets, and percussion -- until the sun warms the ground sufficiently for the second hymn to appear. Zion's Walls is set in 7/8, unlike Copland's 9/8-6/8 meters (the original is quite strange, and doesn't really fit any constant meter), and is introduced by a warm horn solo. The two hymns vie for attention from here to the end of the piece, with the glowingly optimistic Zion's Walls finally achieving prominence. The work ends with a sense of triumph and unbreakable spirit. Zion was commissioned in 1994 by the wind ensembles of the University of Texas at Arlington, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Oklahoma. It is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Copland.

SKU: SU.00220283

The complete Clarinet (including Eb and Bass Clarinet) parts [CD-ROM] for the 6 orchestral works and 4 operas included in The Orchestra Musician's CD-ROM Library™, Volume 11: Wagner, Part 1 (Orchestral Works & Early Operas). If these parts were purchased separately, this collection could cost $500.00 or more. Parts are easily viewable and printable on either PC or Mac using embedded Adobe® Reader technology. Contents: Orchestral Works & Early Operas Symphony in C Major A Faust Overture Rienzi Overture Wesendonck Songs [1. Der Engel (Mottl); 2. Stehe still (Mottl); 3. Im Treibhaus (Mottl); 4. Schmerzen (Mottl); 5. Träume (Wagner)] Siegfried Idyll American Centennial March (Grosser Festmarsch) Der Fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) Tannhaüser Lohengrin Tristan und Isolde Visit for more information

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