SKU: CF.PO192F
ISBN 9781491157374. UPC: 680160915934.
Program note: Christmas Fugue, like the charming English folk tune on which it is based, is full of the spirit and fun that is Christmas. After a slow shimmering introduction which imparts an impression of Christmas morning, the fugue subject is abruptly introduced. The fugue subject: We Wish You a Merry Christmas. The work develops through a series of playful musical episodes which afford satisfying opportunities for the various sections of the orchestra. The fugue culminates in a combination of motifs which find the brass heralding the unmistakable arrival of Christmas. The Composer: Dr. Robert Bennett Brown has devoted much of his professional teaching career to musical compositions and arrangements for young orchestral enthusiasts. Christmas Fugue, like other of Dr. Drown's published works, was written in and for the actual teaching situation. At the present time, Robert Bennett Brown is District Supervisor of Music for the Levittown, N.Y. Public Schools. Previously, for some nineteen years, he taught in Bronxville, N.Y. where, as Chairman of Music, he brought about an extremely high level of school orchestral achievement. he was educated at New York University and Teachers College, Columbia University. He has served as a field supervisor of student teaching for New York University and as a general music consultant. For the past two years he has been a member of the New York State Music Regents Committee. To the Conductor: You will find this work to be the conductor's dream. Parts are easy but impressive sounding. The total effect will give your orchestra that typical classical sound so satisfying to performer and listener alike. Full or exact instrumentation is not a must; cross-cues will carry critical areas where a specified instrument may be lacking. Piano, tuba, and saxophone parts are written to accommodate those players where they exist. These parts are not essential to the instrumentation. Though Christmas Fugue is well suited to the interests of high school orchestra pursuits, its grade of difficulty is easily handled by any junior high school group of average ability.  .Program note:Christmas Fugue, like the charming English folk tune on which it is based, is full of the spirit and fun that is Christmas. After a slow shimmering introduction which imparts an impression of Christmas morning, the fugue subject is abruptly introduced. The fugue subject: We Wish You a Merry Christmas. The work develops through a series of playful musical episodes which afford satisfying opportunities for the various sections of the orchestra. The fugue culminates in a combination of motifs which find the brass heralding the unmistakable arrival of Christmas.The Composer:Dr. Robert Bennett Brown has devoted much of his professional teaching career to musical compositions and arrangements for young orchestral enthusiasts. Christmas Fugue, like other of Dr. Drown's published works, was written in and for the actual teaching situation.At the present time, Robert Bennett Brown is District Supervisor of Music for the Levittown, N.Y. Public Schools. Previously, for some nineteen years, he taught in Bronxville, N.Y. where, as Chairman of Music, he brought about an extremely high level of school orchestral achievement. he was educated at New York University and Teachers College, Columbia University. He has served as a field supervisor of student teaching for New York University and as a general music consultant. For the past two years he has been a member of the New York State Music Regents Committee.To the Conductor:You will find this work to be the conductor's dream. Parts are easy but impressive sounding. The total effect will give your orchestra that typical classical sound so satisfying to performer and listener alike. Full or exact instrumentation is not a must; cross-cues will carry critical areas where a specified instrument may be lacking. Piano, tuba, and saxophone parts are written to accommodate those players where they exist. These parts are not essential to the instrumentation. Though Christmas Fugue is well suited to the interests of high school orchestra pursuits, its grade of difficulty is easily handled by any junior high school group of average ability. .
SKU: CF.PO192S
ISBN 9781491157367. UPC: 680160915927.
SKU: CF.PO192
ISBN 9781491157350. UPC: 680160915910. Key: Bb major.
SKU: JK.80014
Luke 2.
Christmas anthem for a cappella mixed chorus (SATB), Behold the Lamb of God....Composer: Robert Lee Rowberry Lyricist: Robert Lee Rowberry Difficulty: mediumReference: Luke 2.
SKU: PR.510076960
1. Choral: An improbably superimposing of Beethoven and Brahms. At the end of the first performance of the latter's 1st Symphony, someone asked the composer: Don't you find that your main theme remin ds one of the Ode to Joy? To which he retorted: Even an idiot would have noticed it! 2. Fugue: in the last exposition, the subject of Fugue I from volume 1 of Bach's Well-Tempered Keyboard is super imposed on the theme from Mozart's so-called easy sonata. 3. Passion: In his Violin Concerto, Mendelssohn, to whom we owe the rediscovery of Bach's Passions, seems to have borrowed a theme from a lost Passion. 4. Recitativo: Tribute to Franck's tribute to Bach in his Sonata for violin and piano. 5. Invention: A private revenge, after a bitter failure. Debussy's Toccata was on the compulsory list for the Conservatory piano class entrance exam. 6. Arpeggione: In which the listener realizes the similarity in the introduction to Schubert's Unfinished Symphony and Arpeggione Sonata. 7. Sarabande: The most iconoclastic, for Bach's 5th Cello Suite is already suffused with harmony. There might be an evocatioin of a Brahms-like overarching structure, though... 8. Variation: The slowest variation ever written on Paganini's 24th Caprice. 9. Scene: Schumann's Reverie as a Prelude. 10. Finale: In order to capture the elusive harmony of the Finale of Chopin's Sonate Funebre. 11. Fugue on Au clair de la lune: Our greatest nursery rhymes, fugue fitted and choralized. 12. Fugue de Noel (Christmas fugue): Quite appropriate. 13. Fugue on J'ai du bon tabac: Prohibited counterpoint. 14. Fugue on La Marseillaise: Franco-German reconciliation. 15. Pedal - Exercitium: Realization and conclusion of Bach's organ pedal exercies.
SKU: SU.00220639
TRIPLE VOLUME! All on 1 USB Flash Drive 1. Bach: Complete works for Organ - This CD Sheet Music™ collection brings together all of Bach's major works for organ. Includes: Orgel-Büchlein(with alternate versions), Clavier-Übung, Chorale Preludes, German Organ Mass, The Art of the Fugue, The Musical Offering, and more. 2. Baroque Organ Works - This CD Sheet Music™ collection brings together several hundred works by 17th and 18th masters of the Baroque organ tradition. Composers include: Buxtehude (Preludes, Toccatas, Fuges, Chorale Preludes); Froberger (Canzonas, Capriccios, Fantasias, Ricercares, Toccatas); Handel (Concertos); Pachelbel (Preludes, Toccatas, Fantasies, Fugues, Ricercares, Chorale Preludes, Fugues on the Magnificat, Canon in D); Sweelinck (Chorale Preludes & Variations, Fantasias, Variations on Secular Songs & Dances, Toccatas); and more 3. French Romantic Organ Music - This CD Sheet Music™ collection brings together over 150 works comprising the great 19th century French organ repertoire. Dupré (Prelude & Fugue, Op 7, Les Vêpres de la Vierge); Franck (Grand Pièce Symphonique, Pièce Heroïque, Prélude, Fugue et Variation, L'Organiste: 59 Pieces for Harmonium); Gigout (Gregorian Album, Ten Pieces for Organ, Grand Choeur Dialogué); Guillmant (Sonatas Nos. 1-5, Christmas Carols, Op. 60, Organiste Liturgiste, Op. 65); Honegger (Fugue, Chorale); Ropartz (Rhapsodie sur Deux Noëls Populaires); Saint-Saëns (Trois Rhapsodies sur des Cantiques Bretons, Marche Religieuse, Sept Improvisations, Op. 150); Satie (Messe des Pauvres); Tournemire (Sortie, Pièce Symphonique, Variae Precis, Op. 21, Triple Choral, Op. 41); Vierne (Symphonie Nos. 1-4, Messe Basse, 24 Pieces in Free Style); Widor (Symphony Nos. 1-8, Symphonie Gothique, Symphonie Romane) Also includes biographies and relevant articles from the 1911 edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians 3800+ pages.
SKU: SU.00220559
This CD Sheet Music™ collection brings together over 150 works comprising the great 19th century French organ repertoire. Dupré (Prelude & Fugue, Op 7, Les Vêpres de la Vierge); Franck (Grand Pièce Symphonique, Pièce Heroïque, Prélude, Fugue et Variation, L'Organiste: 59 Pieces for Harmonium); Gigout (Gregorian Album, Ten Pieces for Organ, Grand Choeur Dialogué); Guillmant (Sonatas Nos. 1-5, Christmas Carols, Op. 60, Organiste Liturgiste, Op. 65); Honegger (Fugue, Chorale); Ropartz (Rhapsodie sur Deux Noëls Populaires); Saint-Saëns (Trois Rhapsodies sur des Cantiques Bretons, Marche Religieuse, Sept Improvisations, Op. 150); Satie (Messe des Pauvres); Tournemire (Sortie, Pièce Symphonique, Variae Precis, Op. 21, Triple Choral, Op. 41); Vierne (Symphonie Nos. 1-4, Messe Basse, 24 Pieces in Free Style); Widor (Symphony Nos. 1-8, Symphonie Gothique, Symphonie Romane) Also includes biographies and relevant articles from the 1911 edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians 1800+ pages
Please note, customers using Macintosh computers running macOS Catalina (version 10.5) have reported hardware compatibility issues with this product. If you encounter these issues, we recommend copying the entire contents of the disk to a contained folder on a thumb drive or other storage device for use on your Mac.
SKU: CA.3001549
ISBN 9790007204020. Key: G major. Language: German.
This motet for double choir, based on the well-known Christmas text of Isaiah 9, 5-6, is a sample from the motets by Johann Ludwig Bach, Kappellmeister of Meiningen, which are available from Carus as a complete edition. After a more homophonic first part with many dialogs, the second part follows with an alla breve fugue that expands to a double fugue to close out the work. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3001500.
SKU: CA.3321504
ISBN 9790007240929. Language: Latin.
C. P. E. Bach's nine-movement Magnificat (1749), the first great vocal work from his Berlin years, is among the most magnificent sounding, in which the solo vocal parts are also among the most ambitious settings of the Hymn to the Virgin Mary (Luke 1). The work fulfills all the criteria required for a larger sacred composition: grandeur, dignity, polyphonic and concertante choral movements, sensitive (empfindsam) and expressive arias, a long concluding double fugue. This richly scored Magnificat (with 3 trumpets and timp. ad. lib.), which is almost one hour in duration, would be well suited, for example, as the central work on every Christmas or pre-Christmas concert programme. Score available separately - see item CA.3321500.