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UPC: 680160588442. 8.5 x 11 inches.
My third quartet is laid out in a three-movement structure, with each movement based on an early, middle, and late work of the great American impressionist painter Mary Cassatt. Although the movements are separate, with full-stop endings, the music is connected by a common scale-form, derived from the name MARY CASSATT, and by a recurring theme that introduces all three movements. I see this theme as Mary's Theme, a personality that stays intact while undergoing gradual change. I The Bacchante (1876) [Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] The painting shows a young girl of Italian or Spanish origin, playing a small pair of cymbals. Since Cassatt was trying very hard to fit in at the French Academy at the time, she painted a lot of these subjects, which were considered typical and universal. The style of the painting doesn't yet show Cassatt's originality, except perhaps for certain details in the face. Accordingly the music for this movement is Spanish/Italian, in a similar period-style but using the musical signature described above. The music begins with Mary's Theme, ruminative and slow, then abruptly changes to an alla Spagnola-type fast 3/4 - 6/8 meter. It evokes the Spanish-influenced music of Ravel and Falla. Midway through, there's an accompanied recitative for the viola, which figures large in this particular movement, then back to a truncated recapitulation of the fast music. The overall feeling is of a well-made, rather conventional movement in a contemporary Spanish/Italian style. Cassatt's painting, too, is rather conventional. II At the Opera (1880) [Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts] This painting is one of Cassatt's most well known works, and it hangs in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The painting shows a woman alone in a box at the opera house, completely dressed (including gloves) and looking through opera glasses at someone or something that is NOT on the stage. Across the auditorium from her, but exactly at eye level, is a gentleman with opera glasses intently watching her - though it is not him that she's looking at. It's an intriguing picture. This movement is far less conventional than the first movement, as the painting is far less conventional. The music begins with a rapid, Shostakovich-type mini-overture lasting less than a minute, based on Mary's Theme. My conjecture is that the woman in the painting has arrived late to the opera, busily stumbling into her box. What happens next is a kind of collage, a kind of surrealistic overlaying of two different elements: the foreground music, at first is a direct quotation of Soldier's Chorus from Gounod's FAUST (an opera Cassatt would certainly have heard in the brand-new Paris Opera House at that time), played by Violin II, Viola, and Cello. This music is played sul ponticello in the melody and col legno in the marching accompaniment. On top of this, the first violin hovers at first on a high harmonic, then descends into a slow melody, completely separate from the Gounod. It's as if the woman in the painting is hearing the opera onstage but is not really interested in it. Then the cello joins the first violin in a kind of love-duet (just the two of them, at first). This music isn't at all Gounod-derived; it's entirely from the same scale patterns as the first movement and derives from Mary's Theme and its scale. The music stays in a kind of dichotomy feeling, usually three-against-one, until the end of the movement, when another Gounod melody, Valentin's aria Avant de quitter ce lieux reappears in a kind of coda for all four players. It ends atmospherically and emotionally disconnected, however. The overall feeling is a kind of schizophrenic, opera-inspired dream. III Young Woman in Green, Outdoors in the Sun (1909) [Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts] The painting, one of Cassatt's last, is very simple: just a figure, looking sideways out of the picture. The colors are pastel and yet bold - and the woman is likewise very self-assured and not in the least demure. It is eight minutes long, and is all about melody - three melodies, to be exact (Young Woman, Green, and Sunlight). No angst, no choppy rhythms, just ever-unfolding melody and lush harmonies. I quote one other French composer here, too: Debussy's song Green, from Ariettes Oubliees. 1909 would have been Debussy's heyday in Paris, and it makes perfect sense musically as well as visually to do this. Mary Cassatt lived her last several years in near-total blindness, and as she lost visual acuity, her work became less sharply defined - something akin to late water lilies of Monet, who suffered similar vision loss. My idea of making this movement entirely melodic was compounded by having each of the three melodies appear twice, once in a pure form, and the second time in a more diffuse setting. This makes an interesting two ways form: A-B-C-A1-B1-C1. String Quartet No.3 (Cassatt) is dedicated, with great affection and respect, to the Cassatt String Quartet, whose members have dedicated themselves in large measure to the furthering of the contemporary repertoire for quartet.
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SKU: HL.14029486
SKU: CL.074-6036-04
CONTENTS: * The Joy Riders March and Two-Step * The Rifle Rangers March and Two-Step * The Avenger March * American Beauty Waltz * Dance of the Imps Characteristic Schottische * The Siren Waltz * Excelsior Galop * The Victor March and Two-Step * Triumph March * My Lady Waltz * Over the Stars Waltz * Roll of Honor March * Love's Way Waltz * Water Lilies Waltz * Evening Shadows Serenade * The Conqueror Overture *.
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8.25x12.0x0.042 inches.
SKU: PR.164002720
UPC: 680160573042. 8.5 x 11 inches.
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SKU: HL.14029484
SKU: FH.VC5
ISBN 978-1-55440-541-1.
This inaugural edition of the Cello Series offers a sound and progressive collection of Repertoire, Recordings, Etudes, Technique, and Orchestral Excerpts for the aspiring cellist. With an expansive representation of musical styles from all eras, this series addresses the need for a single collection of quality educational materials to foster musical development and instill appreciation of the richness and diversity of music written for cello. Supporting a balanced course of study, this series organizes repertoire into nine volumes from the Preparatory Level through Level 8. Each level offers music from a range of styles and compositional eras, including standard literature, new arrangements of familiar tunes, and music written for cellists, by cellists. These selections provide the flexibility to choose pedagogically appropriate material suited to each individual, and to motivate students to fully develop their musicianship and technique.Concertos, Sonatas, and Suites:Concerto in D Major, op. 213 - Mendelssohn, Ludwig- First Movement: Allegro moderatoConcertino No. 1 in F Major - Breval, Jean-Baptiste arr. L.-R. Feuillard- First Movement: AllegroSuite in G Major - Matz, Rudolf- Fourth Movement- Fifth MovementSonata in G Major - Bach, Johann Christoph Friedrich arr. Hugo Ruf- First Movement: AllegrettoSonata in C Major - De Fesch, Willem arr. Jason Noble- First Movement: Largo- Second Movement: VivaceSonata - Marcello, Benedetto arr. Alfred Piatti- First Movement: Largo- Second Movement: AllegroSonata in F Major, RV 41 - Vivaldi, Antonio arr. Kathleen Wood- First Movement: Largo- Second Movement: AllegroConcert Repertoire:O Canto Do Cysne Negro - Villa-Lobos, HeitorFrogs Dancing on Water Lilies - Mustonen, OlliLangsam, op. 102, no. 2 - Schumann, RobertWhen Music Sounds - Coulthard, JeanWie einst in schoener'n Tagen, op. 64, no. 1 - Popper, DavidBourree, op. 24 - Squire, William HenryNotturno, op. 59, no. 1 - Goltermann, GeorgScherzo and Trio - Reger, MaxLamento - Faure, GabrielLied - Rachmaninoff, SergeiUnaccompanied Repertoire:Capriccio No. 5 - Matz, RudolfRicercar No. 3 - Gabrielli, DomenicoSuite in C Major - Matz, Rudolf- Fourth Movement: Sarabande- Seventh Movement: GigueSuite No. 1 in G Major - Bach, Johann Sebastian- Third Movement: Courante.
SKU: CL.073-6002-03
CONTENTS: * The Joy Riders March and Two-Step * The Rifle Rangers March * The Avenger March * American Beauty Waltz * Dance of the Imps Characteristic Schottische * The Siren Waltz * Excelsior Galop * The Victor March * Triumph March * My Lady Waltz * Over the Stars Waltz * Roll of Honor March * Love's Way Waltz * Water Lilies Waltz * Evening Shadows Serenade * The Conqueror Overture *.
SKU: FP.FHC05
ISBN 979-0-57050-123-6.
Cuthbert Harris's albums are loved by teachers and pupils alike for both their playability and the progressive way they challenge and develop the technique of the improving player. Contains short pieces and studies together with questions and answers in the rudiments of music. Suggested grade 2.
