Format : Reduction
SKU: HL.49046414
ISBN 9781540090522. UPC: 842819103974.
The American musical patrons Mildred and Robert Wood Bliss were considering which distinguished composer to commission to create a work in celebration of their 30th wedding anniversary in 1938. The couple had made the acquaintance of Igor Stravinsky in April the preceding year at the premiere of his ballet Jeu de Cartes in New York and had subsequently invited the composer to their country home 'Dumbarton Oaks' in Washington D.C. to talk about a new composition. Stravinsky only just managed to complete the work in time for the anniversary celebrations: its date of completion was also the date of its first performance. For his classically styled three-movement work, he selected the title Concerto in E flat, adding the subtitle Dumbarton Oaks as a dedication. The structure of the work references the concerto grosso: it features a soloist ensemble which unites in the tutti sequences but also plays in concertino groups during the solo episodes. Broken chordal structures characterise the central movement whereas the outer movements are distinguished through their use of fugato. Dumbarton Oaks went on to become one of Stravinskys mostsuccessful works, performed widely and delighting Mildred Bliss so much that she immediately issued another commission, for the Symphony in C. Its composer's very public commitment to American cultural life helped pave the way for Stravinskys emigration to the USA in 1945. As early as 1952 Leif Thybo created an arrangement for organ which Stravinsky probably did not know at the time of his life.
SKU: FH.FLE01
ISBN 978-1-55440-300-4.
Unparalleled in scope, Overtones offers all the music flutists want in one complete series! This progressive collection includes fundamental repertoire and supporting materials such as Studies, Compact Discs, Orchestral Excerpts, and Technique. The richness of music carefully selected for this compilation will resonate with teachers and students at every level of study.This compilation of standard orchestral passages for flute is an indispensable resource for the developing years and beyond. Teachers and students will find this unrivalled volume essential for examination or audition preparation.Slavonic Dances, op. 46, no. 1 Antonin Dvorak Symphony No. 100 in G Major (Military): II Franz Joseph Haydn Le carnaval des animaux: Aquarium Camille Saint-Saens HMS Pinafore: I'm Called Little Buttercup Arthur Sullivan La forza del destino: Overture Giuseppe Verdi Serse (Xerxes), HWV 40: Va godendo vezzoso e bello George Frideric Handel Symphony No. 100 in G Major (Military): III Franz Joseph Haydn Ma Vlast: II Bedrich Smetana HMS Pinafore: When I Was a Lad Arthur Sullivan Nutcracker Suite: Overture Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral): III Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, op. 95 (New World): I Antonin Dvorak Faust: Soldier's Chorus Charles Gounod Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, op. 46: I Edvard Grieg Symphony No. 102 in B flat Major: I Franz Joseph Haydn Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, BWV 1049: III Johann Sebastian Bach Carmen: La garde montante Georges Bizet Petite suite: Ballet IV Claude Debussy Symphony No. 100 in G Major (Military): IV Franz Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K 550: III Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 5: IV Ludwig van Beethoven Carmen: Act 1, Prelude Georges Bizet Faust Ballet Music: Danse antique Charles Gounod Symphony No. 102 in B flat Major: IV Franz Joseph Haydn Scheherazade, op. 35: IV Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral): I, II Ludwig van Beethoven Symphonie fantastique: V Hector Berlioz Die Zauberfloete: Wie stark ist nicht dein Zauberton Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Bolero Maurice Ravel Scheherazade, op. 35: I Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, BWV 1049: I Johann Sebastian Bach Symphonie fantastique: I Hector Berlioz Carmen: Entr'acte (Prelude) Georges Bizet Symphony No. 1 in C Minor: IV Johannes Brahms Die Zauberfloete: Overture Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 8 in G Major: IV Antonin Dvorak Leonore Overture No. 3, op. 72a Ludwig van BeethovenSymphony No. 4 in E Minor: IV Johannes BrahmsLa mer: I, II, III Claude DebussySymphony No. 4 (Italian): IV Felix Mendelssohn Symphony No. 1 (Classical): II Sergei Prokofiev Symphony No. 3 in E flat Major (Eroica): IV Ludwig van Beethoven Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune Claude Debussy Sinfonie Mathis der Maler: I, II Paul Hindemith Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night's Dream, op. 61: Scherzo Felix Mendelssohn Petroushka (1947 revision): Part 1 Igor Stravinsky Symphony No. 4 in F Minor: III Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky Capriccio espagnol, op. 34: IV Nicolai Rimsky-KorsakovSymphony No. 1 (Classical): IV Sergei Prokofiev Concerto for Orchestra: I, II, III, IV, V Bela Bartok Symphonic Metamorphosis after Themes by Carl Maria von Weber: II, III Paul Hindemith Das Lied von der Erde: VI Gustav Mahler Peter and the Wolf, op. 67 Sergei Prokofiev Le carnaval des animaux: 10. Voliere Camille Saint-Saens Daphnis et Chloe: Troisieme partie Maurice Ravel Guillaume Tell: Overture Gioachino Rossini Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks Richard Strauss Firebird Suite (1919 version) Igor Stravinsky Symphony No. 9: IV Ludwig van Beethoven Concerto for Orchestra: III Bela Bartok Scheherezade, op. 35: IV Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov Semiramide: Overture Gioachino Rossini Symphony No. 5, op. 47: I, II Dmitri Shostakovich.
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Unparalleled in scope, Overtones offers all the music flutists want in one complete series! This progressive collection includes fundamental Repertoire and supporting materials such as Etudes, Compact Discs, Orchestral Excerpts, and Technique. The richness of music carefully selected for this compilation will resonate with teachers and students at every level of study and is the official series for those using The Royal Conservatory Music Development program.
SKU: HL.49041045
ISBN 9783795794453. 10.25x13.25x1.07 inches.
Petr Iljitsch Tschaikowsky, whom Igor Stravinsky charakterized as being 'deeply national', represents the culmination of 'Russion Classical music' of the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Probably the most versatile of Russian composers, he made great and lasting contributions to all genres - operas, ballets, incidental music, symphonies and other orchestral works, chamber music, piano music, sacred and secural choral music, romances, Lieder and folk-song arrangements - establishing a special place for Russion music within the European tradition. Publications of the first complete edition of Tschaikowsky's works was started in the centenary year of his birth, 1940. Publication of a second edition will begin in 1993, the centenary of his death. There are important reason, both editorial and in terms of content, for a second edition to follow so soon. In the old edition, ideological considerations meant that some of the texts which Tschaikowsky set to music were arbitrarily altered. Similarly, quotations of the old Russian national anthem were replaced by other music. A number of works, or independent versions, werde completely overlooked. For example, the full score of the opera 'Vakula the Smith' (the first version of Cerevicki) and the unfinished Symphony in E flat major werde not standardized; in some cases no textual analysis was offered, and critical apparatures were simply dispensed with.The new complete edition will remedy these shortcomings. In addition to the composer's final versions, it will include alternative and earlier versions of works, as well as fragments and incomplete works, all reproduced faithfully from the sources. Documentation and discussion will be provided in Critical Commentaries. Piano reductions exist of the stage works, concertos and concertante pieces as well as of some of the cantatas and orchestral works, either written by Tschaikowsky himself, or revised or authorized by him. These are all to be included in the edition which, with its historico-critical approach, will address the need both of scholars and of practical musicians.The edition of musical works (Serie I-IX) is supplemented by a facsimile edition of all of Tschaikowsky's surviving sketches (Serie X), the texts of his diaries, writings and letters, including the three-volume Tschaikowsky-Mekk correspondence (Serie XI), a two-volume catalogue of works and a single-volume Tschaikowsky Encyclopaedia (Series XII).
