Format : CD
New Sounds for Concert Band Vol. 17. New Sounds For Concert Band Vol. 17 / Date parution : 1905-07-02/ Accessoire / Concert Band
SKU: PR.114417130
ISBN 9781491110409. UPC: 680160626687. 9x12 inches.
A recipient of the New Music USA 2013 Live Music For Dance Award commissioning grant, Not Alone is inspired by the ancient Chinese poet Li Bai's poem Drinking Alone under the Moon with the Shadow. The premiere was given on April 26, 2014 by the PRISM Quartet with the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, which commissioned the work to celebrate its 25th Anniversary NYC Season. From the Program Note by Matthew Levy (The PRISM Quartet), Not Alone (2014) is an interdisciplinary work...but it stands alone in a chamber music setting. The work spans a stunning range of textures, from introspective solos for each of the four saxophones to majestic hyper-active gestures. The PRISM Quartet recorded Not Alone for a 2017 release on XAS Records titled Paradigm Lost. But we're excited for a wider community of saxophonists to embrace the work, and share it with their own audiences. Not Alone is published together with Happy Birthday to PRISM, a brief miniature that Chen Yi wrote for the quartet's 20th anniversary celebration in 2004. For advanced performers._________________________Text from the scanned back cover:NOT ALONE for Saxophone QuartetHAPPY BIRTHDAY TO PRISM for Saxophone QuartetNot Alone is a 14-minute saxophone quartet and dance score inspired by the ancient Chinese poet Li Bai’s “Drinking Alone under the Moon with the Shadow.†The expansively-textured sax quartet matches the exploratory and dramatic movements and gestures in the dance. NOT ALONE was commissioned by the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company which premiered the work in collaboration with the PRISM Quartet. Also included in this publication is Chen Yi’s fascinating take on “Happy Birthday to You,†composed in celebration of Prism’s 25th anniversary season.A recipient of the New Music USA 2013 Live Music For Dance Award commissioning grant, Not Alone is inspiredby the ancient Chinese poet Li Bai’s poem “Drinking Alone under the Moon with the Shadow.†The premierewas given on April 26, 2014 by the PRISM Quartet with the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, which commissioned thework to celebrate its 25th Anniversary NYC Season. Program Note by composer Chen YiThe original inspiration for this work for both the choreographer and the composer came from the Tang Dynasty poem - Alone Under the Moon by Li Bai. The poem describes the poet being alone in a garden. The moon and his shadow became his companions that night. The choreographer brings this idea to modern life in an urban setting. She created a series of “mindscapes†which are the result of the exploration of the different mental and physical states of being alone.Through self-examination, the choreographer raises the question: are we ever really alone? Our physical being may be standing by itself, but what about our introspective self? When we are still, we let our thoughts pass by like flowing water. If we could engage with our shadows, what would it be like?Program Note by Matthew Levy, The PRISM QuartetThe PRISM Quartet has commissioned a great many composers since our founding days in 1984. Chen Yi is among ahandful of our very favorites, and one to whom we’ve returned time and time again. Her music is powerful, expansive,intimate, and draws connections between Eastern and Western, ancient and modern traditions in a voice all her own.Chen Yi has written or adapted four works for the PRISM Quartet. She penned a wonderful miniature called HappyBirth day to PRISM to celebrate the ensemble’s 20th anniversary back in 2004 (Dedication, Innova Recordings).We subsequently commissioned her to compose Septet (2008) for Erhu, Pipa, Percussion, and Saxophone Quartet(2008), premiered and recorded with the New York ensemble Music From China (Antiphony, Innova Recordings 2010).In 2015, the PRISM Quartet performed and recorded (XAS Records) a new version of her saxophone quartet concerto,BA YIN, with the University of Missouri-Kansas City Wind Ensemble under the baton of Steven Davis (originally writtenfor the Rascher Quartet and scored for saxophones and string orchestra.).Finally, Not Alone (2014) is an interdisciplinary work written for the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company with the PRISMQuartet, but it stands alone in a chamber music setting. The work spans a stunning range of textures, from introspectivesolos for each of the four saxophones to majestic hyper-active gestures. The PRISM Quartet recorded Not Alonefor a 2017 release on XAS Records titled Paradigm Lost. But we’re excited for a wider community of saxophonists toembrace the work, and share it with their own audiences.In his liner notes for the recording, WNYC’s John Schaefer writes: “As with much of her music, Chen employs percussiveeffects and glissandi; in Chinese music these are not considered “extended techniques†or special effects, but animportant part of the performer’s arsenal. Here, they help create the twilit mood of the opening moments. The piecesoon becomes more dramatic, suggesting the arrival of the drinker’s companions (real or imagined) and his or herincreasingly garrulous outbursts. Passages of consonance and discord can easily be heard as companionable singingand bouts of drunken argument. The piece bustles along on a kind of restless energy, until, finally, that restlessnesssubsides, giving way to a gently humorous ending where a short falling phrase signals the drinker falling asleep.â€.
SKU: BT.DHP-1115041-010
9x12 inches.
Joe Hisaishi is a highly sought-after film score composer in his home country of Japan. Among his numerous movie scores are several for anime fi lms. Anyone who watched the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics heard his work, whether they knew it or not, as he composed the music for the opening ceremony. Stand Alone is an emotional song written for a Japanese TV-series, recorded by none other than Sarah Brightman. (She even sung in Japanese!) Joe Hisaishi’s music can now be enjoyed by an even wider audience thanks to this arrangement by fellow countryman Jun Nagao.Joe Hisaichi is in zijn land een veelgevraagd filmmuziekcomponist. Hij voorzag al heel wat animatiefilms van muziek. Bij een groot internationaal publiek werd hij pas echt bekend met zijn openingsmuziek voor de Olympische Winterspelenvan 1998 in Nagano. Stand Alone is het gevoelige titellied van een Japanse televisieserie. Niemand minder dan Sarah Brightman zong het, in het Japans! Met deze bewerking van Hisaichis landgenoot Jun Nagao is dit werk nuook voor harmonieorkest verkrijgbaar.Joe Hisaishi ist in seiner Heimat ein sehr gefragter Filmmusikkomponist, der unter anderem schon zahlreiche Anime-Filme vertont hat. Einem internationaleren Publikum wurde er durch seine Musik zur Eröffnung der Olympischen Winterspiele in Nagano 1998 bekannt. Stand Alone ist das gefühlvolle Titellied einer japanischen Fernsehserie und wurde von keiner Geringeren als Sarah Brightman auf Japanisch gesungen und nun mit dieser Bearbeitung von Hisaishis Landsmann Jun Nagao der Blasmusikwelt zugänglich gemacht.Joe Hisaishi (1950) est aujourd'hui une figure incontournable du monde musical japonais et mondial. Ses inoubliables musiques de films telles que Laputa - Un ch teau dans le ciel, Kiki la petite sorcière, Princesse Mononoké, Le voyage de Chihiro, Le ch teau ambulant, ou encore Le petit Poucet, ont fait le tour du monde. Stand Alone est legénérique d’une série télévisée japonaise succès. La chanson fut interprétée en japonais par Sarah Brightman. Jun Nagao l’a arrangée pour Orchestre d’Harmonie.Joe Hisaishi è un compositore di musica da film molto richiesto nel suo paese. E’ però noto al pubblico internazionale da quando ha composto la musica per la cerimonia di apertura dei Giochi Olimpici Invernali a Nagano nel 1998. Stand Alone è il suggestivo titolo di una serie televisiva americana ed è stato interpretato dalla grande Sarah Brightman in giapponese. L’arrangiamento fi rmato Jun Nagao rende ora questo splendido brano accessibile al mondo della musica per banda.
SKU: BT.DHP-1115041-140
SKU: YM.GTW01085149
ISBN 9784636851496.
New Sounds in Concert Band Series (NSB). Stand Alone was from TV drama Saka no Ue no Kumo, which was based on Ryotaro Shiba's Clouds above the hill: A historical novel of the Russo-Japanese War. It has a beautiful melody sang by Sara Brightman Duration: approx4'45 Arranged by Atsushi NagaoStand Alone from TV drama Saka no Ue no Kumo The drama was based on Ryotaro Shiba's CLOUDS ABOVE THE HILL: A historical novel of the Russo-Japanese War. Joe Hisaishi composed the theme music of this drama.
SKU: MB.30667M
ISBN 9781513463971. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.
Johann Sebastian Bachâ??s arrangements of the â??69 Sacred Songsâ? from the Musical Hymnal by Georg Christian Schemelli (Leipzig, 1736) have long been part of the German language vocal concert repertoire and a mainstay in vocal pedagogy. Originally, only these 69 of the 954 hymns in the collection were published with a single bass line as the accompaniment. Bachâ??s contribution was to specify harmonies to be played over those same bass lines by adding figured bass numbers and symbols beneath each note.
A figured bass line can easily be turned into a relatively simple guitar accompaniment or a more elaborate setting, offering a range of possibilities that make working with this music both interesting and rewarding for the guitarist. While other period and modern editions of the â??69 Sacred Songsâ? offer accompaniments for keyboard instruments, this Mel Bay publication features intermediate to advanced transcriptions exclusively for the guitar.
Best suited to college-level players or advanced aficionados, this special Mel Bay Publications edition includes the vocal line with German lyrics and the guitar accompaniment transcribed from Bachâ??s figured bass lines. Written in guitar-friendly keys, 29 of the transcriptions employ a capo to achieve the original key designed for high voices. Without the capo, these same arrangements would be suitable to be sung by lower voices. The remaining 40 hymns are in their original guitar-friendly keys and so do not require a capo.
This volume contains accompaniment settings of all 69 of the sacred songs and arias for which Bach wrote figured bass annotation. For performance variety and convenience, this book includes â??Scores in their Original Keys,â? and stand-alone â??Guitar Accompaniment,â? and â??Bass Parts.