SKU: BR.EB-9255
World premiere: Paris (Festival ,,Presences), February 13, 2017 (Quatuor Diotima)Commissioned by Radio France
ISBN 9790004185551. 9 x 12 inches.
C'est apres un entretien avec le Professeur Yuji Ikegaya concernant ses recherches en neurologie que j'ai voulu travailler sur quelques particularites fonctionnelles du cerveau humain. Quatre de ces specificites ont retenu mon attention. La premiere est ce qui est de l'ordre de l'autonomie ou de l'independance. En effet, alors qu'aucune stimulation exterieure n'ait lieu, le cerveau humain montre des activites spontanees qui s'expriment sous forme de patterns fixes. La seconde est le principe d'<> des gestes ou des phrases avec le fonctionnement des neurones miroirs : l'homme apprend en imitant les gestes des autres, c'est la source d'emotions comme la compassion ou la sympathie. La troisieme est liee a l'apprentissage spontane et l'auto-renouvellement du cerveau, faculte qui le differencie singulierement de l'ordinateur. Enfin la conscience du <>, qui est ce qui le differencie du cerveau de l'animal. J'ai trouve dans la forme classique et austere du quatuor un terrain d'exploration ideal pour elaborer ce projet musical. Le quatuor est en effet compose des quatre cerveaux des musiciens, mais il est egalement une entite a part entiere, un centre nevralgique unitaire. L'ecriture musicale procede ainsi par imitation, sur une base de patterns qui varie constamment dans une quete identitaire et dans son rapport a l'autre et aux autres (musiciens). L'autre, c'est egalement l'autiste, celui qui n'arrive pas bien a imiter et a comprendre les expressions, emotions et gestes exterieurs. La question des rapports devient alors celle de la dependance, de l'independance et/ou de l'interdependance. Elle est au centre de mon processus compositionnel qui, par l'organisation et la sonification des comportements aux differentes voix du quatuor, est egalement un moyen de me questionner en tant que compositrice, sur mon identite et sur mon propre rapport au monde. (Misato Mochizuki)World premiere: Paris (Festival ,,Presences), February 13, 2017 (Quatuor Diotima) Commissioned by Radio France.
SKU: HL.233566
ISBN 9781495093678. UPC: 888680682866. 9.0x12.0x0.371 inches. Richard Adler & Jerry Ross.
Ross & Adler's 1955 Broadway production which won a Tony Award for Best Musical featured Gwen Verdon. Our vocal score includes 12 songs: The Game * Goodbye, Old Girl * Heart * A Little Brains, a Little Talent * A Man Doesn't Know * Near to You * Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, Mo. * Six Months Out of the Year * Those Were the Good Old Days! * Two Lost Souls * Whatever Lola Wants (Lola Gets) * Who's Got the Pain?
SKU: HL.50576367
ISBN 9783795705725. German.
The Sudoku fever has finally reached the world of music. 'Musik-Sudoku' is the first musical variant of the popular number-placement puzzle. Instead of numbers, the seven solfege syllables Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Si have to be entered in a certain order. The really special thing about it is that the notes in the marked boxes match the beginning of a famous melody - from 'Let it be' by the Beatles to Mozart's 'Kleine Nachtmusik' -, thus providing a musical clue to the solution.The puzzles of varying difficulty, from 'elementary' to 'virtuoso', can also be resolved by players without a special knowledge of music. What is most required is brains, power of deduction and a bit of patience. And for the experts among the puzzle freaks, there are also dodecaphonic sudokus and sudokus based on musical symbols.Coming from a family of musicians, the brothers David and Bernat Puertas jointly invented the musical sudokus. The appropriate software was developed by Bernat, the computer scientist, who currently works in a games company. The idea for the musical solutions was conceived by his brother David, who is both a musician and an author of books on music by composers such as Mozart and Stravinsky.
SKU: HL.50605317
ISBN 9781705177570. UPC: 196288102694. 9.0x12.0 inches.
Pieces of Light was commissioned by the Flautadors for their 20th Anniversary. When the group approached me about writing a piece, I had just finished reading Pieces of Light; The New Science of Memory by Charles Fernyhough, and it struck me that a work inspired by memories and how they are created in our brains would be very appropriate for a group of musicians celebrating such a wonderful milestone. A quote by Nabokov in particular provided ideas for both the rapid, rhythmic music that starts and ends the piece and the slow, 'light-filled' chords of the middle section: [In Nabokov's autobiography, Speak, Memory, he sees] 'the awakening of consciousness as a series of spaced flashes, with the intervals between them gradually diminishing until bright blocks of perception are formed, affording memory a slippery hold.' In addition, this work has really been shaped by the recorders themselves: before writing, I spent several hours with Ian Wilson (a member of the group) learning about the myriad different types of instrument I could write for. The renaissance instruments particularly appealed due to their fabulous timbre, despite the fact that, due to their open hole design, diatonic music works much better than anything chromatic. I became rather obsessed with the idea of writing chromatic music for diatonic instruments, and so in this piece I use recorders at both modern (A440) and baroque (A415, a semi-tone lower) pitch. This allowed me to write a piece that uses all twelve semitones of the scale throughout, whilst never writing a note for any individual recorder that falls outside its particular diatonic major scale: a compositional device that pleased me greatly!-Cheryl Frances-Hoad, 2019.
SKU: LO.75-1045H
ISBN 9780787758868.
Same time! These creative activities are specially designed for Kindergartners and preschoolers, and each one lists the appropriate standards from the National Association for Music Education and Common Core. The enclosed CD includes demonstration recordings of each song along with reproducible teaching aids you can use in your classroom.
SKU: M7.VHR-3642
ISBN 9783864340154.
Racking your brains, marking bricks and simply joining in is the name of the game with this set and its blank bricks. Beginners can dive straight in and experts will be amazed at how tricky the numerous puzzles and tasks are. But it's not just the theory you need to understand - you also need rhythmic and motor coordination faculties for body and percussion instruments. Target groups:- For use both at and away from home and for one-to-one and small group music lessons- For pupils learning an instrument and music theory- For beginners, those starting again and experts- No matter what the ageContents: - 18 blank building bricks- 1 instruction booklet with puzzles to solve and a percussion section for body percussion and Orff instruments- 1 non-permanent marker pen.
