Score-William Schuman's Prayer In Time Of War for Orchestra. Study score.This work was first performed under the title 'Prayer-1943' by the Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Fritz Reiner on February 26 1943.Duration: approx 15 minutes.Instrumentation:3 Flutes (3rd Flute interchangeable with Piccolo)2 OboesEnglish Horn2 Clarinets in B-flat2 Bassoons4 Horns in F3 Trumpets in C3 TrombonesTubaTimpaniPercussion (Bass Drum Cymbals Gong Snare Drum)Violin IViolin IIViolaVioloncelloBass

This arrangement has been made from the original orchestration for full orchestra and incorporates the cuts authorized by the composer in 1963. The piano duet part is optional unless no wind is available. The brass parts are fully cued in both string and woodwind parts. The minimum wind required is 1 flute 1 oboe and 2 clarinets. This has recently been re-typeset by Goodmusic so is clearer than the original OUP printing but no musical changes have been made and the new edition is fully compaible with the old one.Duration: 7 minutes Orchestration2 Flutes 2 Oboes 2 Clarinets in Bb Bassoon 2 Horns in F 2 Trumpets in Bb 3 Trombones Timpani Percussion (3 players - Cymbals Triangle Bass drum Tenor drum Glockenspiel Tubular bell in C Side drum Large gong) Strings (Violin 1 Violin 2 Viola Cello Bass) Piano duet (optional) (Part included in Pack)

The Harry Potter Symphonic Suite arranged for full orchestra by Jerry Brubaker. This medley based on the endearing themes from the box office smash hit Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone weaves the vivid imagery of the film with varied textures to produce a work that will be loved by all. Wonderful symphonic literature certain to be a hit on any concert program. Duration 7:20. Score and all parts. 1 Conductor 1 1st C Flute/C Piccolo (Alto Flute Opt. Recorder) 1 2nd C Flute (Opt. Recorder) 2 Oboe (English Horn) 1 1st Bb Clarinet 1 2nd Bb Clarinet 1 Bb Bass Clarinet 2 Bassoons 1 1st Horn In F 1 2ndHorn In F 1 3rd Horn In F 1 4th Horn In F 1 1st Bb Trumpet 1 2nd Bb Trumpet 1 3rd Bb Trumpet 1 1st Trombone 1 2nd Trombone 1 3rd Trombone 1 Tuba 4 Percussion 1 (Orchestra Bells Xylophone Antique Bells Marimba Glockenspiel) 1 Percussion 2 (Hand Drums Antique Bells Timpani) 4 Percussion 3 (Vibraphone Chimes Small Tuned Drums Tambourine Snare Drum Suspended Cymbal) 4 Percussion 4 (Suspended Cymbal Small Tambourine Small Triangle Tam-Tam Bass Drum Crash Cymbals) 1 Celeste 1 Harp 8 1st Violin 8 2nd Violin 5 Viola 5 Cello 5 String Bass

Eight Varied Pieces For Orchestra-Three new collections of varied pieces for orchestra for players from beginner to grade 3 standard.This collection of three books each containing eight varied pieces has been compiled to capture the imagination of young players and to introduce them to a wide range of musical styles.Special effects appropriate to each instrument provide additional learning points and great entertainment both in rehearsal and performance. There are glissandos for strings and trombone flutter tonguing for flute and trumpets (for those able to) and a range of vocal sounds for all!The scoring allows these pieces to be played by variouscombinations of instruments. Ideally your orchestra should have some instruments from each section but if not (for example no brass) then the supplementary piano part (available separately) can be used to fill the gaps. It can also be used to provide extra support in rehearsals.As well as the normal percussion parts some of the pieces make use of a drum kit. For orchestras without a drum kit player a drum kit and bass backing track is available to download free of charge either as MP3 or WAV files.OrchestrationDescant recorder Treble recorder Flute 1 Flute 2 or Oboe Clarinet 1 Clarinet 2 Alto Sax Bassoon Horn in F Horn in Eb Trumpet 1 Trumpet 2 Trombone (Bass clef) Trombone (Treble clef) Timpani Drum Kit Percussion 1 Percuission 2 Percussion 3.Strings (Violin 1 Violin 2 Violin 3 Viola Cello Bass)Orchanics 3 contains:-Hallelujah + Ode to joy (Handel/Beethoven); Mairi's Wedding (Roberton); Ragtime Roundup (Richard Ling); Samborina (Richard Ling); Spring from Four Seasons (Vivaldi); Danserie (Susato); Yellow Bird (arr Ling); Silent Night.

The solo group consists of a sextet of the woodwind instruments which are normally doubled with more regular members of the orchestra: these six strangers now brought to the fore are piccolo alto flute cor anglais clarinet inEb bass clarinet in Bb and contrabassoon. They make a motley group diverse in colour as in register and one of the tasks of the piece sets itself is to have them blend and cohere both together as an ensemble and in partnershipwith the string orchestra (which itself is used with unusual variety and subtlety). Another evident task of the work is to provide fine solos for each member of the woodwind sextet: bright dances for the piccolo recitativesfor the alto flute a stoical song from the contrabassoon in the extreme bass. The work is cast as a single movement which begins in the composer's first-movement style of rapid regeneration. This is interrupted by slowinterventions including one for divided strings which gives rise to a sextuple cadenza for the soloists. Out of this comes a slow movement or sequence of short slow movements followed by a dancing finale with its own slowepisodes. Altogether this is music of songs and dances heavily tinged with Scottish rhythms and tonalities: one might think of a magic bagpipe having six chanters and a drone of variegated string texture.

This study score is based on the critical edition of ?The Barber Of Seville? edited by Patricia B. Brauner and published in 2008 as part of the series ?Works of Gioachino Rossini?. But who needs a new critical edition of ?The Barber Of Seville?? The opera has been performed in theatres throughout the world since 1816 and has never been absent from the repertoire. There are two reasons for a critical new edition: firstly none of the early editions satisfy modern demands for a scholarly-critical edition. Secondly there is a wealth of previously unpublished material relating to this opera of great interest to both scholars andperformers.Thus the famous overture which Rossini had already used in his earlier opera ?Aureliano in Palmira? differs noticeably from earlier editions in many places. The new edition enables performers to perform the overture either in its original scoring (as in ?Aureliano in Palmira?) which includes two Flutes two Oboes and Timpani or in the scoring for the subsequent opera ?The Barber Of Seville? (with just one flute one oboe and no timpani).A series of appendices contain music and information which have been included in no other edition of the opera to date.- Takes into account all original sources also including five manuscripts with Rossini?s autograph ornamentation.- Takes into consideration the full extent of Rossini?s personal notational characteristics.- With a detailed foreword (Eng/Ital)

Elisabeth Lutyens' music from the film 'The Skull' (1965). A3 conductor's score.Instrumentation: 2 Flutes (doubling Alto flute and Piccolo) 2 Clarinets (doubling Bass clarinet and Contrabass clarinet) 3 Horns 3 Trombones 2 Percussion Timpani Harp Piano Cimbalom Organ Violas (divisi) Cellos (divisi) Double bass.

Jack Mason's showcase features six songs skillfully scored for school orchestra. This set from Bernstein's timeless West Side Story contains score and seperate parts for Flute I Flute II Piccolo Oboe I Oboe II English Horn Clarinet in B I Clarinet in B II Bassoon I Bassoon II Alto-Sax I Alto-Sax II Tenor-Sax. Baritone-Sax F-Horn I-IV Trompete I-III Posaune I-III Tuba 3 Timpani-Percussion Harp 8 Violin I 8 Violin II 4 Viola 4 Cello and 4 Double Bass.

Full Score-The Persian traditional music (called the Dastgah Segah) is based on intervals made of three quarter-tones and natural whole-tones. Segah has no interval in common with the European/ Western equal-temperament tuning. This lack of common intervalsbetween the Segah mode and the equal-temperament tuning will lead to a cognitive dissonance if this mode is set against the equal-temperament system. My goal has been to elaborate on the innate tensions that exists between the two interval systemsand use it as a symbol for the existing political and cultural tensions between the Persian and the Western cultures. The piece consists of two Persian traditional instruments the Ney (Persian vertical bamboo flute) and the Kamanche (Persian spikefiddle) as the musical representatives of the Persian culture set against the Western orchestra as the musical representative of the Western culture. A small ensemble of Western instruments consisting of a harp and string quintet accompanies thePersian instruments. The harp is tuned to the Segah intervals and the string quintet plays in the Segah mode. The orchestra is performing inthe Western equal- temperament tuning. From the very first bars of the main section of the piece confusionsand misunderstandings arise. The orchestra being unable to play in Segah or understand the mode becomes more and more agitated. Musical tensions between the soloists and the orchestra lead to musical confrontations and finally to musicalviolence. The orchestra becomes extremely violent and militaristic and tries to suppress the soloists efforts to express their musical thoughts. In the midst of all these confusions and cultural misunderstandings musical connections and attractionsstart to take place. The orchestra and the soloists find themselves musically attracted to each other and start imitating each others musical phrases. Cognitive dissonances start to be gradually transformed to musical dialogues symbolizing thegradual replacement of the clash of civilizations with the dialogue of civilizations. Segah was written for Khosrow and Kian Soltani and premiered at the Segah Festival on January 15 2016.

Born in Havana Cuba in 1895 Ernesto Lecuona is arguably Cuba's greatest serious composer. He was a gifted pianist who wrote hundreds of songs and piano works before he died in 1963. Most of his music is composed in a rich authentic Cuban style. The most famous of his works is Malagueña the sixth movement of his Suite Andalucia for solo piano which was first published in 1928. Malagueña has been recorded as a popular song (with added lyrics) as a serious piano work (even by Lecuona himself in the 1950's) and also as a jazz standard (Bill Holman's arrangement for the Stan Kenton Orchestra in the early 1960's.) Over the years it has been arranged many times for variousother mediums ranging from symphony orchestra to field arrangements for drum and bugle corps.In 1976 James Barnes arranged Malagueña for the University of Kansas Marching Band. A few years later with permission from the publisher he expanded this original arrangement into a full work for symphonic band called Prelude Fantasy and Fandango on Lecuona's Malagueña. After several performances in the spring of 1978 (most notably at the MENC Convention in Colorado Springs) this work along with over 200 other Barnes manuscripts lay fallow in the KU Band Library. While packing up his office belongings when he retired from The University of Kansas in 2015 Barnes came across this long languishing Prelude Fantasy and Fandango which remained in condensed score. In the fall of 2016 he completely re-composed the opening portion of the work reduced the number of required percussion and disposed of the two harps in his 1978 version. This new setting features evocative thinly scored extended solo passages for clarinet bassoon and flute before the full wind band concludes the work with a powerful dramatic setting of the main themes of Lecuona's masterful Malagueña.

Wenn Die Rose Sich Selbst Schmückt Schmückt Sie Auch Den Garten (When The Rose Beautifies Itself It Beautifies The Garden ) was composed by Per Nørgård in 1971. Chamber Cantata for four performers Scored for Soprano Alto Flute Double Bass and Percussion (all playing also Crotales). Composed for and dedicated to Dorothy Dorrow. Parts available: KP01092 Preface / Programme Note The title of the work is borrowed from a fragment by the German poet Friedrich Rückert.This fragment this short sentence (which Rückert apparently neverelaborated upon) is the entire basis of the work. I was inspired by the meaning as well as the sound of these words.I perceive the meaning of the sentence as being a defence for the refinement of an individual’s personal gifts - far from the present hostility toward individuality and the senseless praise of impersonal success in society. Personal refinement can so the fragment in my interpretation at its best be accompanied by a deep sense of responsibility and become an active and positive influence in society.The sound the timbre of the individual words and characters is employed both instraightforward text-sequences as well as in the exploration of individual vowels and consonants as pure sounds. The soprano is often used purely instrumentally echoing and pre-echoing discreetly the notes of the flute and the harmonics of the double bass often imperceptably stealing their notes and altering them into human sounds which then yetagain are absorbed into the instrumental tapestry. Per Nørgård 1971

D major-Flute (2) (Flute-picc) Oboe (2) Clarinet in b-minor (2) Bassoon (2) Bugle (4) Trumpet (2) Trombone (3) Tuba Timbal Strings