A suite of five pieces for oboe and organ inspired by poetry of Mary Oliver. These lyrical and colorful pieces reflect the natural world Ms. Oliver describes in her poetry.

Includes a score and oboe part.

Thomas Wiggins was a talented American pianist and composer from the late nineteenth century. Born to slave parents, Wiggins was blind at birth and was not given usual slave labor. Instead, he learned to play piano by ear, and wrote his first composition at age 5. He was hired to tour throughout the US as a performer when he was only 8 years old, and earned an estimated $750,000 for his owner, General James Neil Bethune, making Wiggins arguably the most highly compensated pianist of the nineteenth century. Reportedly Wiggins could hear a performance only once and was able to reproduce the music at the piano. He continued to perform extensively until he was 55, when he allegedly suffered a stroke. Even after retiring, however, neighbors said they could hear Wiggins playing piano at all hours at his home in Hoboken, New Jersey.

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Welcome to the Choir is a quirky, fun concert piece for a cappella SATB choir written in 2013 by UK composer Chris Lawry and commissioned by Parkrose High School PHS Choir, Lesley Bossert and the Parkrose Educational Foundation. It received its US/World premier by the choir in April 2014 and the UK premiere, by the Harlequin Chamber Choir, in May 2014.The piece is a fantastic, descriptive, concert opener, and is dedicated to the past, present and future students of Parkrose 'may your singing serve as a healing element to the realities of life, giving you lifelong friendships and show you the importance of beauty in our lives through music'.The piece features descriptive elements from each section of the choir, 'bass line on beat' 'tenor rhythm off beat' 'soprano melody' alto harmonies, homophony, polyphony, melismatic singing, a great show piece to introduce the choir at concerts and shows. Much can also be made of the theatrical elements of the piece (at the conductor's discretion).The recording is a temporary computerised fix until the commissioning choir have finalised their recording of the piece later in 2014 (words below), sounds odd computerised but sounds incredible live! WORDS:[Basses] Let's start with the bass line. On beat. (repeated)[Tenors] and add in a tenor rhythm. Off beat. (")[Sopranos] Now for soprano melody; beautiful melody, soprano melody.[Altos] But don't forget the altos who can turn a melody, into harmony (S A) Melody and Harmony.STOP![All] We sing in homophony, ah! Homophony, ah! From minor to major, and changing the key...To sing in polyphony, polyphony, melismatic polyphony.Welcome to the choir! (x5)..................The recording is by the Izhevsk Choir conducted by Lev Nakariakov.

This composition is dedicated to the amazing memories people who leave or live give us. I wanted to create a thank you note for all wonderful memories i received from the many people i met in my live.

Lament for Trombone and String Orchestra by composer Jeremy Niles Kempton is a serious and lyrical work of about 6 minutes in length for advanced performers.

The work was composed and performed within a 2 week period at a memorial concert given for Helen Manheim, a violist in Mr. Kempton's Island Chamber Symphony on Long Island, NY. Ms. Manheim died rather suddenly and her passing left the composer with a deep feeling of regret at having taken her and so many other ICS musicians for granted.

The composition consists of 3 lengthy phrases. The first epitomizes the grief at her passing. The 2nd presents her life and consists of 3 phrases, all starting the same but each striving higher. The final section is her legacy, what she leaves behind.

The live performance features Mr. Kempton as soloist with the Island Chamber Symphony.

Item Number: S0.703425

Jan Freidlin's lush and beautiful Romantic Concerto for Trombone and Piano (reduction) was composed in 2004 and is in the traditional three movements. The 15-minute work is appropriate for advanced performers.

Below is what the composer has written about his work:

"Written in 2004 , this composition combines three contrasting movements, however their style is not typical of a classical concerto, nor of a romantic work.

The 1st movement - Moderato has a long recitative-like introduction performed by the soloist over a background of aleatoric sounds. The tonality is indefinite with many harmonic changes.

The music gradually builds up more and more leading the listener to the 2nd movement - Vivace energico in which there is, added rhythmic complexity. In the 2nd movement the main motive from the 1st movement is reintroduced and the mood gains in intensity with various syncopated rhythmic phrases as the piano and solo Trombonist accelerate together into a major climax.

With the energy drained out of the music by the conclusion of the 2nd movement the listener is brought to the 3rd movement - Adagietto. This movement is absolutely lyrical, elegiac and unexpectedly tonal. Its main melody has an atmosphere of nostalgia leading to the emotional center of the whole work, the softest climax of the Concerto . The soloist plays it in many tonalities, then gradually this warm wave eases, leaving the listener in a cathartic condition.

The Concerto contains many virtuosic moments for the soloist that sound very expressive and heroic."

Jan Freidlin

The mp3 sample contains a segment of each movement from a live performance of the Concerto performed by the Odessa Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Conductor Igor Shavruk and Trombone solist Andrei Sokolov.

Landscape II is the second piece of a series of short contemporary pieces for guitar written by Argentine-born American composer Pablo Emiliano Fedele.

This is the standard guitar edition with tuning D A D G B E. (Originally written for 10 strings classical guitar F# G# A# D E A D G B E, also available).

Written in a modern language, it's time signature is 3/4 in the Key of D Major. Following the path of Landscape I, the piece explores chords and textures, layers of sound and rhythmic complexity with a strong detail in the technical use of both hands.

Although not specifically detailed, some rhythm patterns of this piece are similar to those found in Argentinian folkloric music that influenced the composer.

The piece was written for an intermediate and advanced level. This edition contains a suggested fingering and positions to create the sound the composer believes is the essence of the piece. Students, teachers and artists are welcome to visit Pablo Fedele's website and social media to get in contact and ask all the questions about practice and performance of the piece.

Performance suggestion: This music could be performed with an additional media, like a video animation, a painting, a short film or live presentation, if possible.

Landscape II is the second piece of a series of short contemporary pieces for guitar written by Argentine-born American composer Pablo Emiliano Fedele.

This is the 10 strings classical guitar edition F# G# A# D E A D G B E (Standard guitar edition with tuning D A D G B E, also available).

Written in a modern language, it's time signature is 3/4 in the Key of D Major. Following the path of Landscape I, the piece explores chords and textures, layers of sound and rhythmic complexity with a strong detail in the technical use of both hands.

Although not specifically detailed, some rhythm patterns of this piece are similar to those found in Argentinian folkloric music that influenced the composer.

The piece was written for an intermediate and advanced level. This edition contains a suggested fingering and positions to create the sound the composer believes is the essence of the piece. Students, teachers and artists are welcome to visit Pablo Fedele's website and social media to get in contact and ask all the questions about practice and performance of the piece.

Performance suggestion: This music could be performed with an additional media, like a video animation, a painting, a short film or live presentation, if possible.

Landscape III is the third piece of a series of short contemporary pieces for guitar written by Argentine-born American composer Pablo Emiliano Fedele.

This is the standard guitar edition with tuning C A D G B E. (Originally written for 10 strings classical guitar F G Bb C D A D G B E, also available).

Written in a modern language, it's time signature is 3/4 in the Key of C Major. Following the path of Landscape I and Landscape II, the piece explores chords and textures, layers of sound and rhythmic complexity with a strong detail in the technical use of both hands.

Although not specifically detailed, some rhythm patterns of this piece are similar to those found in Argentinian folkloric music that influenced the composer.

The piece was written for an intermediate and advanced level. This edition contains a suggested fingering and positions to create the sound the composer believes is the essence of the piece. Students, teachers and artists are welcome to visit Pablo Fedele's website and social media to get in contact and ask all the questions about practice and performance of the piece.

Performance suggestion: This music could be performed with an additional media, like a video animation, a painting, a short film or live presentation, if possible.

Landscape III is the third piece of a series of short contemporary pieces for guitar written by Argentine-born American composer Pablo Emiliano Fedele.

This is the 10 strings classical guitar edition F G Bb C D A D G B E (Standard guitar edition with tuning C A D G B E, also available).

Written in a modern language, it's time signature is 3/4 in the Key of C Major. Following the path of Landscape I and Landscape II, the piece explores chords and textures, layers of sound and rhythmic complexity with a strong detail in the technical use of both hands.

Although not specifically detailed, some rhythm patterns of this piece are similar to those found in Argentinian folkloric music that influenced the composer.

The piece was written for an intermediate and advanced level. This edition contains a suggested fingering and positions to create the sound the composer believes is the essence of the piece. Students, teachers and artists are welcome to visit Pablo Fedele's website and social media to get in contact and ask all the questions about practice and performance of the piece.

Performance suggestion: This music could be performed with an additional media, like a video animation, a painting, a short film or live presentation, if possible.

Landscape I is a contemporary piece for guitar written by Argentine-born American composer Pablo Emiliano Fedele.

This is the standard guitar edition with tuning D A D G B E. (Originally written for 10 strings classical guitar F# G# A# D E A D G B E, also available).

Written in a modern language, it's time signature is 6/4 without a key signature indication. The piece explores chords and textures in combination with single notes passages, creating layers of sound.

The piece was written for an intermediate and advanced level. This edition contains a suggested fingering and positions to create the sound the composer believes is the essence of the piece. Students, teachers and artists are welcome to visit Pablo Fedele's website and social media to get in contact and ask all the questions about practice and performance of the piece.

Performance suggestion: This music could be performed with an additional media, like a video animation, a painting, a short film or live presentation, if possible.

The pdf file contains the original score (in letter format) followed by the somewhat larger copy with dedication by the composer and fingerings by Valentin Bogolubov who premiered the 3 Chromicons.

The sound sample is the live performance.

The Three Chromicons were premiered by pianist Valentin Bogolubov at the Société de concerts de St-Bruno, Saint-Bruno, Quebec, Canada, on 27 January 2007. Bogolubov's adventurous, technically demanding program, which also featured the works of Alexander Scriabin and Jean Chatillon, was accompanied by video animation of numerous works of art, four of which were created by the composer (among them, the Chromicon No. 3).

Ford explains the significance of these unique scores:

"In both my earliest chromicons, which I had begun to create by the 1980s, and in those I continue to make today, color is the element that links what is seen to what is heard. Unlike composer Alexander Scriabin, who may have been a true synaesthete as the result of a rare neurological condition enabling him actually to hear colors, my approach to color music has been by way of analogy. Although the tones in a musical scale and the colors of a prism both result from specific vibratory frequencies, scales can be replicated in various octaves while there is no comparable transposition observable in the case of the spectrum. However, the analogy between pitch and hue is implicit in the term "chromatic scale" (the Greek chrôma signifies "color"), and on that basis it is possible to equate the twelve tones of Western music with the hues on a twelvefold color wheel: red, red-orange, orange, yellow-orange, yellow, yellow-green, green, blue-green, blue, blue-violet, violet, and red-violet."

"By placing the pitch names of the chromatic scale in a separate band around the periphery of a such color wheel, much like the numbers on the face of a clock, and by rotating the central color wheel, it is possible for any given pitch to be aligned and associated with any hue. Such an easily constructed device, which I have dubbed the "chromonomicon," is the key necessary to decipher the musical meaning of my chromicons. The chromicon can be thought of as a calligraphic text in which each discrete area of color is a separate letter."

"Although there are literally millions of possible colors, all of them can be categorized as one of the twelve hues shown on the chromonomicon. Instead of being written from left to right or from right to left, the color-letters in a chromicon are arranged concentrically. The shapes of the individual letters, usually painted in watercolor and "illuminated" with metallic paints, colored pencils, and other media, are the result of each artist's creative meditation. The personal meaning of the chromiconic text as a whole emerges during and after this meditation, and may be expressed by a conventional title or accompanying commentary."

"Now, anyone wishing to realize a chromicon is at liberty to follow any path?straight or curvilinear?from the centermost letter to the periphery, constructing a cantus (melody) by notating the musical pitches associated with each contiguous color-letter encountered along the way. The cantus thereafter serves as the structural basis of a new, freely composed work. The individual pitches in the cantus may be moved to any octave, and may be repeated any number of times before proceeding to the next pitch in the sequence. Customarily, once the final tone of the cantus is reached, the entire melody is heard in reverse (retrograde), resulting in a palindrome. That palindrome is itself subject to varied repetition, so that in formal terms, each realization of a chromicon amounts to a 'mirror' theme with variations."

"Chromicon No. 3 travels even further back in collective human memory to the eighteenth century. For all its contemporary melodic and harmonic inflections, the style is pervasively contrapuntal, summoning to mind the polyphonic keyboard textures of Bach and Handel. It eschews the worldly strife and diversions mirrored in the first two chromicons, maintaining a dignified, highly stylized manner throughout, but with its unexpected final cadence on D, there seems to be a fleeting intimation of transcendence."

Video of Chromicon III
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHMw-vzZlGE