Format : Study Score / Miniature
SKU: HL.49043937
ISBN 9790220134456. 8.5x12.0x0.16 inches. English.
Hesketh's work for 3-part children's choir and piano sets two texts about the start of spring by William Blake and an anonymous source. Written for conductor Simon Emery and the Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Choir, Enter, Spring mixes contrapuntal and homophonic textures in the choir, supported by a lively accompaniment.
SKU: SU.28180020
Meditative chant has a calming, focusing power in our fast-paced world. The 25 chants of WELLSPRING: Centering Chant for Uncertain Times bring refreshment, mindfulness, and centering. You may listen to the chants by going to the website kathywonsoneddy.com and clicking on CHANT. WELLSPRING booklets for sale through store@subitomusic.com make it possible for choirs, congregations, small groups, and individuals to sing these Taize-style chants in worship or in personal spiritual practice. The contemplative chants in WELLSPRING call us from the clamor and confusion of our time into our quieted heart, discovering the deep river of peace and grace already flowing there.Voices & Piano Composed: 2020 Published by: Kathy Wonson Eddy.
SKU: PR.110418480
ISBN 9781491136294. UPC: 680160688784.
Chen Yi’s beautiful and highly-textured tone poem was inspired by ancient Chinese poetry; its melodic ideas were developed from musical phrases characteristic of Chinese opera. Wang Ya’s original verse as translated by Chen Yi reads:“SONG OF SPRING OUTING”Ten thousand apricot trees by the riverside,Spring flowers bloom after the wind at night.Covered over the garden, colors dark and light,Mirrored in the green water ripples.SONG OF SPRING OUTING was commissioned by the Center for East Asian Studies and the Asian Classical Music Initiative at the University of Kansas in 2022 for Dr. Yi-Yang Chen to premiere in 2023.The work was inspired by an ancient Chinese poem with the same title:Song of Spring Outingby Wang Ya (Tang Dynasty)English translation by Chen YiTen thousand apricot trees by the riverside,Spring flowers bloom after the wind at night.Covered over the garden, colors dark and light,Mirrored in the green water ripples.This inspiring image is like taking a walk through a beautiful garden with layers of colorful trees and flowers, mirrored in the green water.The opening phrase of the music introduces the signature intervals, the leap of a seventh found in Beijing Opera fiddle’s language, followed by melodic material with a major 2nd and perfect 4th in pentatonic style as the thematic materials. [C-Bb-G in bars 1-2, followed by the top pitches A-B and Ab-E( in bars 2-3]. This statement is brought back (Rehearsal F) in a retrograded form of the introduction at the climatic end of the piece.The musical form is a combination of variations on thematic materials, and a rondo. After the introductory section, Rehearsal A introduces an improvisation-like mountain song melody (developed from the pentatonic material in the introduction).Rehearsal B brings in a lively texture in short groupings with staccato in both hands (using the seventh leap interval introduced in the opening of the piece).Rehearsals C and D develop the introduction’s pentatonic melody and the mountain tune (introduced in Rehearsal A) with more layers in the texture.Rehearsal E develops the material presented in Rehearsal B, with an extended range in both ends of the keyboard, increasing the freshness and excitement.
SKU: CL.011-4734-00
Flowers bloom and the world stirs with life renewed in Spring’s Awakening! The music begins with a driving ostinato in the clarinets, and staggered entrances that portray flowers opening for the first time. After the entire ensemble enters, two different melodic themes are passed throughout the ensemble, layered over driving 8th-note rhythms that propel the music forward. Spring’s Awakening is an engaging and beautiful work that makes a perfect fit for any spring or end of the year concert.
SKU: CL.011-4734-01
SKU: HL.282476
ISBN 9781540034335. UPC: 888680789206. 9.0x12.0x0.846 inches.
100 songs popularized in the World War II era of the 1940s are included in this collection arranged for easy piano with lyrics. Songs include: Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive * Besame Mucho (Kiss Me Much) * Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy * Chattanooga Choo Choo * Don't Get Around Much Anymore * A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes * How High the Moon * I Get a Kick Out of You * It Might As Well Be Spring * Java Jive * Laura * Moonlight in Vermont * A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square * On a Slow Boat to China * Perfidia * Route 66 * Sentimental Journey * Some Enchanted Evening * The Surrey with the Fringe on Top * Take the A Train * Time After Time * When You Wish upon a Star * You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To * Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah * and more.
SKU: M7.ELLI-50452
ISBN 9783932398018. German.
Contemporary and Traditional West African Griot music In West Africa, the Griot (or Jali), is not just a musician. The Griot is historian, entertainer, myth maker and more. For more than 1,500 years this expert musician class have been ''walking libraries,'' responsible for preserving the region's wisdom and ancient historic lore. Epic songs, family histories and one of the world's richest instrumental traditions are passed from generation to generation through arduous musical training, ensuring that the Jali Kunda (Griot Family) endures. Features tracks with Foday Musa Suso, Philip Glass and Pharoah Sanders; produced by Bill Laswell, introduction by Robert Palmer. ++++ ''...a cohesive and introspective exploration of the music of the griots by one of its sons...one of the first truly personal collections of this incredibly complex and rich musical culture.'' [CMJ New Music Report] ++++ ''There is a something rather touching about the music - a sense of eavesdropping on something both ordiary and special'' [Gramophone (UK)].
SKU: PR.114409380
UPC: 680160014101.
The work is rhapsodic in character, concerning itself with two principal layers of thematic and developmental activity. The initial motive occurs frequently throughout the work within differing contexts. The two layers are characterized by loud, passionate and faster moving material which proceeds in contrast to a layer of quieter, and more sustained lyrical material. As well, there is a recurring motto chord which constantly tries to interrupt the developmental flow. Eventually, as the work proceeds, the lyrical character prevails.
SKU: MN.56-0030
UPC: 688670220357. Latin. Matthew 5:3-11.
Written for the Enchanted Voices CD, this is one of many settings of texts either from the Beatitudes (or springing from them) available from this composer. For soloist, SS chorus (divisi), organ, cello, and handbells, the music has a light, ethereal feeling. A unison chant-line begins the piece unaccompanied. The organ enters with a drone as the chant continues. At the text “vocabuntur (called)†the voices split into three parts in a beautiful moment of radiance. There is a cello solo (13 measures) which restates the chant melody. The voice enter wordlessly as the cello continues. Finally, the chant melody reappears in the voices, in canon, as the music ends. Duration 5:58