SKU: HL.49033014
ISBN 9790001130370. UPC: 888680949358. 8.25x11.75 inches. English.
For almost three years, Partch composed the short pieces that he summarized in the collection Seventeen Poems by Li Po. Each of themdepicts the setting of a poem by the Chinese poet Li Bai (Li Po, 701-762) in the 1922 translation of Shigeyoshi Obata. Partch wrote this song collection for the voice and its newly constructed Adapted Viola. In his score, Partch originally divided the songs into Eleven Poems by Li Po and Six Poems by Li Po.2 Voice Parts, Adapted Viola and ChromelodeonFacsimile Edition Score.
SKU: M7.AST-48
ISBN 9790203800484.
SKU: M7.AST-47
ISBN 9790203800477.
SKU: SU.80102950
Settings for medium voice and piano of eleven poems of Tom McKeown. Premiered by soprano Rosalind Rees and pianist Paul Suits at Carnegie Recital Hall in 1970. 40 page Published by: Columbia University Music Press.
SKU: CF.WF228
ISBN 9781491153529. 9 x 12 inches.
Compiled and edited by Amy Porter, Treasures for Flute and Piano is acollection of Philippe Gaubert’s shorter works for flute and piano. Gaubertwas a multi-talented musician, a marvelous flutist as well as a composer,teacher, and master conductor. Over his lifetime, he became one of the mostimportant musical figures in France between the World Wars in the first halfof the 20th century. Trained in theory and harmony at the Paris Conservatory,Gaubert was also deeply influenced by other composers at the time, includingDebussy, Fauré, and Dukas. Editor Amy Porter is a distinguished Professorat The University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance, and hasbeen praised by critics for her exceptional musical talent and her passion forscholarship. This edition represents eleven of the sixteen works from AmyPorter and Dr. Penelope Fischer’s video study guide, “The Gaubert Cycle: TheComplete Works for Flute and Piano by Philippe Gaubertâ€.Philippe Gaubert (1879–1941) was a very important teacher and flutist in our classical flute playing lineage. In this edition we have gathered his beautiful, shorter compositions for flute and piano all in one place, to be cherished as “Gaubert’s Treasures.â€Philippe Gaubert personified the modern French school of flute playing as introduced by his teacher Paul Taffanel (1844–1908) at the Paris Conservatory. Gaubert was a multitalented musician, a marvelous flutist as well as a gifted composer, teacher and master conductor. Over his lifetime he became one of the most important musical figures in France between the World Wars in the first half of the twentieth century. Gaubert’s musical andpedagogical gifts to us are passed along through generations of students and continue to touch the hearts of many who listen to his fine, and refined, music.Philippe Gaubert studied composition at the Paris Conservatory with Raoul Pugno, Xavier Leroux, and then for a brief time with Charles Lenepvu. It was after this study that he won the famous Prix de Rome second prize in composition. Even with his schooling of theory and harmony in Paris, he was deeply influenced by other composers of the time, namely Debussy, Fauré and Dukas. Between the years of 1905–1914 Gaubert’s early workswere arrangements and short pieces written for the year-end final exam pieces at the Conservatory.Between 1914–1918 Gaubert served in the French Army during World War I, most notably in the battle of Verdun in 1916. This was considered one of the largest battles against the Germans in WWI. He was wounded but his creativity level was not dampened. He was rewarded for his service and awarded medals for his bravery. It was during this time that he found the energy to compose his Deux Esquisses or 2 Scenes, and sketched out his first flute sonata.Gaubert composed his remaining five flute and piano works after 1922 in Paris, and clearly his poetic soul was transformed from the earlier years. He took in new forms and styles of compositions such as a Suite, a Ballade and a Sonatine. He also completed his Second and Third Sonatas for Flute and Piano, all of them dramatic works in terms of compositional techniques and grandeur of tone.Gaubert composed music easily throughout his lifetime, especially during summer breaks when the orchestra and Paris Opera seasons were on hiatus and he was not conducting. He loved literature and poetry which inspired over thirty vocal works from 1903 through 1938.He also wrote twenty-six instrumental chamber works for other instruments: oboe, cornet, clarinet, trombone, violin, viola, cello, harp and combinations of these instruments with piano. Some of these were commissioned jury pieces, but many were for his musician friends.Six full-length stage works, both ballets and operas for the stage, several tone poems and symphonies were written throughout his lifetime.This edition represents eleven out of the sixteen works from our video study guide “The Gaubert Cycle: The Complete Works for Flute and Piano by Philippe Gaubert†with guest pianist Tim Carey. Omitted in this edition are Sonatas Nos. 1–3, Ballade, and Sonatine.
SKU: BA.BA11081
ISBN 9790006563678. 29.8 x 20.8 cm inches. Language: German. Text: Schlegel, Friedrich.
With their very accessible style and expressive interpretation of the words, these contemporary works continue in the tradition of classical and romantic song cycles and will form a form a welcome addition to every song recital. Abendröte is a cycle that brooks comparison with the songs Schubert wrote on the same set of Schlegel poems: Trojahn has composed the poems Schubert chose not to set.
SKU: BA.BA11091
ISBN 9790006565252. 29.8 x 21 cm inches. Language: German. Text: Schlegel, Friedrich.
SKU: HL.49016720
ISBN 9790001144209. UPC: 884088991258. 9.0x12.0x0.056 inches. German.
Football (resp. soccer) has been fascinating for many contemporary composers - maybe because of the unpredictable dramaturgy within a match, the complexity of different combinations, contrasts or complements between different strategies, the soloist-like position of extraordinary players - in short, there are numerous connections to musical ideas.Zeitlupen (Slow-motion replays) reflects football on different layers. The cycle consists of three interlocking parts: four poems from Gottfried Blumenstein's 11 Haikus vom Fussballfeld form the musical core, to which three pantomime-actions with piano accompaniment, showing characteristic situations, are added. (This idea is based on a kind of a slow-motion-soccer, using a balloon instead of a football, that I used to play with my brother in our room, when the weather not allowed to go outside for a match on the playground nearby. The similarity towards far-eastern meditational techniques of these pantomimes also forms a connection to the haiku form of the poems.) The piece is completed by two recitations recalling famous teams and the best and (maybe) worst from german football history: the world champions from 1954 and the team of the unbearable put-up game against Austria during the world championship of 1982. This part also refers to a well-known poem by Peter Handke, Die Aufstellung des 1. FC Nurnberg vom 27. 1. 1968.Behind that, playing with numbers has been important for the structure. The form of the haiku (5-7-5 syllables), a symmetric all-interval-series and many other elements are taken from the number of 12 (eleven players and their coach). Gesture and sound-colours of the piano part are economical but precise; towards the ending percussive sounds dominate it. Directly illustrative moments - like the rhythm of cheers call in Nr. IV - are rather exceptional. The altogether form follows the labyrinthical structure of Pierre Boulez' Le marteau sans maitre, written around the famous year of 1954...Benjamin Schweitzer.
SKU: BT.EMBZ14097
English-German-Hungarian.
While still in Weimar, he transcribed for piano Liszt's symphonic poems as well as the Dante and Faust symphonies. These manuscripts, left unfinished to a greater or lesser extent, have remained unpublished. As a matter of fact, three manuscripts of the eleven transcriptions of symphonic poems are missing. Of Tausig's transcriptions of Liszt's works the present volume makes Les préludes available to a wider public in a printed edition. Er übertrug während seines Weimarer Aufenthalts Liszts symphonische Dichtungen sowie die Dante und Faust Symphonien für Klavier. Diese mehr oder weniger ausgefeilten Manuskripte blieben unveröffentlicht, und von den elf Transkriptionen der symphonischen Dichtungen ist das Manuskript dreier Werke verschollen. Die hier vorgelegte Edition veröffentlicht in gedruckter Form die Übertragung von Les préludes zum ersten Mal und als erste der Transkriptionen Tausigs aus Liszts Werken.
SKU: HL.48025255
UPC: 196288142997.
Martin Christoph Redel conceived this sequence of songs as a lighter and humorous counterpoint to his composition Bekenntnissplitterscored for the same instruments. The eight Morgenstern poems set to music include classics such as the Twelve-Eleven, the doesies folding their little toesies in prayer, the song of praise to the seagull and the WastrelÂ’s Feast. If the onomatopoeia of the original poems already calls for a musical setting, the composer tried to “intensify or even exaggerate the inherent bizarreness through instrumental effects, characterising rhythms and significant motifsâ€.
SKU: HL.49045885
ISBN 9790220134852. UPC: 842819100690. 9.0x12.0x0.082 inches. German. Text: Hans Aschenwald and Alois Hotschnig.
Larchers original work for tenor and prepared piano is shaped closely around the text of short poems and fragments collected by thecomposer. Despite its fragmentary nature a continuum is created, each 'song' led seamlessly on to the next by a thread of sound. German.