Sequences (5)

SKU: HL.275459

9.0x12.0x0.087 inches.

Score and Parts for Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Sequences. Written for bass flute, bass clarinet, baritone saxophone and contrabassoon. Composed for the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) for the ICEcommons Project and the New York Public Library. The first performance was given on 2 February 2013 at Kaldalon Hall, Harpa Centre, Reykjavik, Iceland. Duration: c. 8 minutes.

SKU: PR.414412280

ISBN 9781491136393. UPC: 680160688937.

Michael Sachs, Principal Trumpet of The Cleveland Orchestra since 1988, presents a compendium of practice sequences to woodshed and refine over 50 excerpts from the orchestral trumpet literature, from Bach through the modern masters.PRACTICE SEQUENCES shows each original excerpt, followed by a progressive series of work routines to isolate a variety of building-block elements including intervals, rhythm, articulation, intonation, range, and dynamics. These practice sequences lead the performer to accurate facility and performance, while providing practice strategies that are applicable to any other challenging music beyond the examples in the book — a perfect companion to Sachs’ book THE ORCHESTRAL TRUMPET.PRACTICE SEQUENCES for The Orchestral Trumpet:• Teaches how to practice essential details in 55 passages from 39 orchestral works that you’ll face in auditions and performance.• Teaches how to practice most effectively, providing a thorough set of strategies that you can apply to any other excerpt beyond the book.• Offers the perfect description of how to approach new repertoire challenges through sequential, step-by-step problem solving to build facility.• Is the ideal companion to THE ORCHESTRAL TRUMPET (Presser 414-41227). While the latter presents almost 200 excerpts, PRACTICE SEQUENCES is a detailed study on the process of learning 55 selected excerpts.• Provides a permanent compendium of master classes with Michael Sachs, principal trumpet of the Cleveland Orchestra since 1988.

SKU: CA.1630100

ISBN 9790007099688. Language: all languages.

SKU: UT.CH-157

ISBN 9790215320369. 9 x 12 inches.

Vals d'la Masca; Il racconto della Montagna; Sequenze sotterranee

The Alpinia Suite was commissioned and composed for the festival <> and is dedicated to my friend and colleague Elio Galvagno. It was performed for the first time on August 30, 2011, in the Church of San Giovanni in Saluzzo, by an ensemble of professional and student guitarists from all over Europe. This piece was written to commemorate the first ascent of mount Monviso, by William Mathews, Frederick Jacomb, Jean Baptiste Croz and Michel Croz, exactly 150 years before, on August 30, 1861.
The first movement is a small Waltz. I imagined a Masca (a sort of alpine pixie, a teasing sprite), dancing all around the house and playing tricks, mostly harmless and funny. The Masca is a legendary and very important character in the folklore of my valleys, and all rationally inexplicable events of everyday life are ascribed to her - such as objects that cannot be found anymore, holes in flour sacks, salt in sugar bowls...
The next two movements are a homage to the Mountains. The Tale is a sort of journal, a bright and peaceful chronicle of a hike uphill, in which the beauty of the place is highlighted by an easy harmony and a sweet melody. After this, Underground sequences evokes that same world in a darker and nocturnal way; the faster pace and the choice of repeated and varying patterns are meant to show the transformation of the former environment into something more complex and tormented. Here mountains are a metaphor of human life, warts and all: their sundrenched slopes and their green pasture grasslands, but also their icy and dangerous northern sides, which demand calm, training and caution.
(G. Signorile).

SKU: FP.FSD03

ISBN 9790570503827.

Steele's superb song-cycle Autumn Sequence was written for the pupils of Stockport Grammar School, and is scored for speaker, solo voices, chorus, flute or piccolo or recorder, tubular bells, handbells, organ pedal and piano, being the rather idiosyncratic resources then available at the school. It was first performed on October 3rd 1969 in the schools Hallam Hall, where the composer had been responsible for the specification of the recently installed organ. Douglas Steele himself played the piano part in his own inimitable style extending and improvising the cadenzas between the movements. A recording is available on Campion Cameo 2040/1 featuring Richard Baker narrating and choirs from Carlisle Cathedral, with John Turner on recorder.

Autumn Sequence can be heard on the album Autumn Sequence: The Music of Douglas Steele and his circle.

SKU: GI.G-6855

UPC: 785147685500. English. Text source: Sequence Ascr. Wipo of Burgundy, d. 1048; Translation: Peter Scagnelli.

Utilizing a recurring refrain for the assembly, this lively setting of the sequence will be immediately accessible at your Easter liturgies. The gospel acclamation draws on the same melodic material as the response to the sequence. Scored for organ and mostly unison choir singing in alternation, the setting includes a simple, but engaging, part for tambourine, combined with additional percussion instruments, the Renaissance-like qualities of the piece will come alive! Percussion part is for tambourine.