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Symphony No. 2 in C Minor "Resurrection" - Score Only
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1048751 Composed by Gustav M…
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1048751 Composed by Gustav Mahler. Arranged by Yoon Jae Lee. Classical,Romantic Period,Traditional. 304 pages. Ondine Press #653164. Published by Ondine Press (A0.1048751). Instrumentation: 2d2. 2d1. 2d Eflat (& bass cl. ad lib.). 2 (cfag. ad lib) - 4. 2. 2. 0 - tp - 1 (2) perc. hrp - str This orchestral reduction of Mahler's Symphony No. 2 by Yoon Jae Lee, can be performed by a chamber orchestra of approximately 33 to 38 players. The arrangement remains very faithful to Mahler's original and is ideal for professional chamber orchestras, academic conducting programs, student conductor concerts, or whenever the full orchestral forces required for the original are not present. Vocal lines are cued in the instruments and can be performed by orchestra only. This arrangement is part of the Mahler Chamber Project (MCP), a series of orchestral reductions of Gustav Mahler’s symphonic works created by conductor and arranger Yoon Jae Lee. The project encompasses the 9 complete symphonies, sections of the 10th symphony, and Das Lied von der Erde. Performance material available for hire worldwide through Ondine Press. Please email ondinepress@gmail.com for all rental inquiries.
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Symphony No. 2 in C Minor "Resurrection" - Score Only
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Urlicht (Primeval Light), Fourth Movement, Symphony No. 2 (for Brass Quintet [Horn Solo] & Organ)
Quintette de Cuivres: 2 trompettes, Cor, trombone, tuba
Brass Ensemble - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.740203 Composed by Gustav Mahle…
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Brass Ensemble - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.740203 Composed by Gustav Mahler. Arranged by Craig Garner. 20th Century. Score and parts. 14 pages. Dorm 40 Music #2917143. Published by Dorm 40 Music (A0.740203). This arrangement is part of the Chicago Gargoyle Brass and Organ Ensemble Signature Series.   This arrangement features the Horn which plays the part of the Alto solo throughout. The melody comes from Des Knaben Wunderhorn and it is one of Mahler's most beautiful songs. The entire movement is quiet, simple and hymn-like. Urlicht is a perfect prelude to the Finale of Symphony #2, which is also available through Dorm 40 Music and Sheet Music Plus. Scored in the lower key of B-flat. Performance time, 4:45. Published by Dorm 40 Music, www.dorm40music.com.  Do you know an Alto soloist? If so, we also have an arrangement for Alto solo (vocal), brass quintet and organ! You can find it at Dorm 40 Music or on Sheet Music Plus.
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Quintette de Cuivres: 2 trompettes, Cor, trombone, tuba
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Urlicht
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Easy Concert Pieces
Double bass and piano - easy - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q49505 24 Easy Pieces fr…
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Double bass and piano - easy - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q49505 24 Easy Pieces from 5 Centuries using half to 3rd Position. This edition: Sheet music. Double bass - concert pieces - music lesson - lessons - performance pieces. Easy Concert Pieces. Downloadable. Op. 2. Schott Music - Digital #Q49505. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q49505). English • German.The Easy Concert Pieces series features easy to moderately difficult works for double bass with piano accompaniment. Ordered by difficulty in three volumes, the pieces are suitable for auditions, competitions or exams. The series contains original works by Bottesini, Dragonetti, Gretchaninoff, Hindemith, Laska, Regner, Reinagle, Teppo Hauta-aho and others as well as orchestral excerpts by Beethoven, Dvorak, Haydn, Mahler and arrangements of famous classical masterpieces. Volume 2 (easy to intermediate) contains pieces up to the 3rd position. As some new double bass tutors have a different approach in introducing position changes, volume 2 offers several pieces which reach the 2nd position, some pieces using only 1st and 3rd positions and some more difficult pieces which encompass all positions from half to third position.The Easy Concert Pieces series features easy to moderately difficult works for double bass with piano accompaniment. All pieces are included on the accompanying CD, as a full version and as a piano accompaniment. Volume 2 (easy to intermediate) contains pieces up to the 3rd position. As some new double bass tutors have a different approach in introducing position changes, volume 2 offers several pieces which reach the 2nd position, some pieces using only 1st and 3rd positions and some more difficult pieces which encompass all positions from half to third position.
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Easy Concert Pieces
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Kindertotenlieder
Solovoice and orchestra - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q588711 Composed by Gustav Mahle…
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Solovoice and orchestra - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q588711 Composed by Gustav Mahler. Ernst eulenburg - orchestra - score. Eulenburg Miniature Scores. Downloadable, Study score. Duration 36 minutes. Ernst Eulenburg & Co. GmbH - Digital #Q588711. Published by Ernst Eulenburg & Co. GmbH - Digital (S9.Q588711). German.With more than 1,200 titles from the orchestral and choral repertoire, from chamber music and musical theatre, Edition Eulenburg is the world's largest series of scores, covering large part of music history from the Baroque to the Classical era and looking back on a long tradition.
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Kindertotenlieder
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Symphony No. 8 E flat major
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Orchestra - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q42999 Composed by Gustav Mahler. This edition…
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Orchestra - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q42999 Composed by Gustav Mahler. This edition: study score. Ernst Eulenburg - Orchestra - Score. Eulenburg Miniature Scores. Downloadable, Study score. Ernst Eulenburg & Co. GmbH - Digital #Q42999. Published by Ernst Eulenburg & Co. GmbH - Digital (S9.Q42999). Key: E flat major. German • English.With more than 1,200 titles from the orchestral and choral repertoire, from chamber music and musical theatre, Edition Eulenburg is the world's largest series of scores, covering large part of music history from the Baroque to the Classical era and looking back on a long tradition.
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Symphony No. 8 E flat major
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Songs of a Wayfarer
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Low voice and orchestra - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q4593 Composed by Gustav Mahler.…
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Low voice and orchestra - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q4593 Composed by Gustav Mahler. This edition: study score. Ernst Eulenburg - Orchestra - Songs of a Wayfarer - voice. Eulenburg Miniature Scores. Downloadable, Study score. Ernst Eulenburg & Co. GmbH - Digital #Q4593. Published by Ernst Eulenburg & Co. GmbH - Digital (S9.Q4593). German.With more than 1,200 titles from the orchestral and choral repertoire, from chamber music and musical theatre, Edition Eulenburg is the world's largest series of scores, covering large part of music history from the Baroque to the Classical era and looking back on a long tradition.
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Songs of a Wayfarer
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Symphony No. 6 A minor
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Orchestra - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q21361 Composed by Gustav Mahler. This edition…
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Orchestra - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q21361 Composed by Gustav Mahler. This edition: study score. Ernst Eulenburg - Orchester - Partitur. Eulenburg Miniature Scores. Downloadable, Study score. Duration 80' 0. Ernst Eulenburg & Co. GmbH - Digital #Q21361. Published by Ernst Eulenburg & Co. GmbH - Digital (S9.Q21361). Key: A minor.With more than 1,200 titles from the orchestral and choral repertoire, from chamber music and musical theatre, Edition Eulenburg is the world's largest series of scores, covering large part of music history from the Baroque to the Classical era and looking back on a long tradition.
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Symphony No. 6 A minor
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Symphony No. 4
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Orchestra - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q4434 G major. Composed by Gustav Mahle…
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Orchestra - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q4434 G major. Composed by Gustav Mahler. This edition: study score. Ernst Eulenburg - Orchestra - Score. Eulenburg Miniature Scores. Downloadable, Study score. Duration 54' 0. Ernst Eulenburg & Co. GmbH - Digital #Q4434. Published by Ernst Eulenburg & Co. GmbH - Digital (S9.Q4434). Key: G major.With more than 1,200 titles from the orchestral and choral repertoire, from chamber music and musical theatre, Edition Eulenburg is the world's largest series of scores, covering large part of music history from the Baroque to the Classical era and looking back on a long tradition.4 Flöten (3. und 4. Piccolo) · 3 Oboen (3. auch Engl. Horn) · 3 Klarinetten in B · A und C (2. auch Klarinette in Es · 3. auch Baßklarinette) · 3 Fagotte (3. auch Kontrafagott) · 4 Hörner · 3 Trompeten · Schlagwerk (Pauken · Große Trommel · Triangel · Schelle · Glockenspiel · Becken · Tam-tam) · Harfe · Streicher.
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Symphony No. 4
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Symphony No. 7 E minor
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Orchestra - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q46028 Composed by Gustav Mahler. This edition…
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Orchestra - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q46028 Composed by Gustav Mahler. This edition: study score. Ernst Eulenburg - Orchester - Partitur. Eulenburg Miniature Scores. Downloadable, Study score. Ernst Eulenburg & Co. GmbH - Digital #Q46028. Published by Ernst Eulenburg & Co. GmbH - Digital (S9.Q46028). Key: E minor.With more than 1,200 titles from the orchestral and choral repertoire, from chamber music and musical theatre, Edition Eulenburg is the world's largest series of scores, covering large part of music history from the Baroque to the Classical era and looking back on a long tradition.2 kleine Flöte - 4 große Flöten (3. auch 2. kleine Flöte) - 3 Oboen - Englisch Horn - Klarinette in Es - 3 Klarinetten in A (u. B) - Bassklarinette in A (u. B) - 3 Fagotte - Kontrafagott - Tenorhorn in B - 4 Hörner in F - 3 Trompeten in F (u. B) - 3 Posaunen - Tuba - Pauken - große Trommel - Becken - Tamtam - Triangel - Glockenspiel - Tamburin - Herdenglocken - tiefe Glocken - Violinen - Bratschen - Violoncelle - Kontrabässe - 2 Harfen - Mandoline - Gitarre.
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Symphony No. 5 C# minor
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Orchestra - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q12516 Composed by Gustav Mahler. This edition…
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Orchestra - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q12516 Composed by Gustav Mahler. This edition: study score. Ernst Eulenburg - Orchestra - Score. Eulenburg Miniature Scores. Downloadable, Study score. Ernst Eulenburg & Co. GmbH - Digital #Q12516. Published by Ernst Eulenburg & Co. GmbH - Digital (S9.Q12516). Key: C sharp minor.With more than 1,200 titles from the orchestral and choral repertoire, from chamber music and musical theatre, Edition Eulenburg is the world's largest series of scores, covering large part of music history from the Baroque to the Classical era and looking back on a long tradition.
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Kids in the Corner
Quintette de Cuivres: 2 trompettes, Cor, trombone, tuba
Brass Quintet Horn,Trombone,Trumpet,Tuba - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1263847
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Brass Quintet Horn,Trombone,Trumpet,Tuba - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1263847 Composed by Matthew Nunes. Chamber,Classical,Hip-Hop,Pop,R & B,Rock. 107 pages. Matthew Nunes Music #856760. Published by Matthew Nunes Music (A0.1263847). Listen to this piece hereKids in the Corner is a piece especially composed for Thomas Smith, a family friend and former trumpeter, as a personal thank you for his generous donation to my “ Get Matt to Maryland†Rally via rally.org.With this work I aimed to explore some dance styles that don’t tend to be invited to other suites. I wanted to challenge myself with these various styles while infusing the quirkiness of Thomas into the heart of the piece.I. HipThis summer I was able to pass through New York City on my way to a graduate school audition. On the train ride there I ended up next to a kid who was grooving to music I could hear snippets of through his headphones. This movement reflects characteristics of the sounds I heard on my way into the city.II. One for the lovebirds…It’s time to cuddle up next to your partner and take a trip down memory lane. This movement is an ode to the slow songs one may have experienced from a dance in the 1950’s.III. SwungFor quite some time I have been intrigued with early instrumental dances and this movement explores their defining characteristics while hinting at this work’s overall structure.IV. Posh, Prim, and ProperThis axiomatic propinquity of the Minuet and Trio is a coruscating combination of tonal and temporal creation. A suite as brilliant as this is but an inchoate one without homage to music’s finest moment. It is propitious that I elucidated an exposition featuring a Bach cello suite with motives from the Brahms Requiem in fugal counterpoint set against themes by Mahler.V. JigA trumpet player I was performing with was warming up before a concert and cascading a peculiar series of long tones in to the hall. After he finished I approached him and asked him what he was playing. What he revealed to me was hilarious and this movement is homage to that occurrence.- Matthew NunesWindsor, December 2014.
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Kids in the Corner
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Matthew Nunes Music
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PERFIL DEL ÁNIMA, Op. 86, for solo cello
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Cello Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1029293 Composed by CÉSAR CANO.…
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Cello Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1029293 Composed by CÉSAR CANO. Contemporary,World. Individual part. 16 pages. POLYHYMNIA Ediciones musicales #4799037. Published by POLYHYMNIA Ediciones musicales (A0.1029293). Perfil del ánima (Profile of the anima), Op. 86 is a solo cello piece written in a single movement. It is part of the series of PROFILES that I am composing since 2002 for solo instruments. The anima is a concept expounded by C.G. Jung in his book The Man and his Symbols. It is a personification of all female psychological tendencies in the psyche of a man, such as vague feelings and moods, prophetic forebodings, receptivity to the irrational, personal capacity for love, love of nature and, very importantly, his relationship with the unconscious. It is best perceived in dreams. If the dreamer is a man, he will discover a female personification of his unconscious. If it is a woman, it will be a male figure. Jung named them respectively anima and animus. My work has some quotes that evoke the anima, as a fragment of the 2nd movement of Mahler's 5th Symphony, which he wrote under the fascination of Alma Schindler, his future wife. Another citation is a motif of Dvořák’s opera Rusalka, an elf from Slavic mythology, which usually lives in a lake or river. Rusalka is an ancient fairy-tale figure, already appearing in literature in 1387. Her longing is to become a human being and to love as an earthly woman, even at the price of suffering and death. My piece evokes this inner and unconscious dialogue between the masculine and feminine in all of us, represented by the cello’s low and high registers. The use of many and varied instrumental resources (chords, microtones, harmonics, timbral variations, complex rhythms, tremolos, glissandi, pizzicati, etc.), together with its broadness and thematic complexity, make Profile of the anima a demanding work for the soloist. I finished its composition on December 21th, 2016. It is dedicated to Rafał Jezierski, who performed its world premiere on February 14th, 2017, in the Auditorium of the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia, within the cycle of concerts organized by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos.
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Brief Prelude for Violin and Piano
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Piano,Violin - Digital Download SKU: A0.924816 Composed by Stanley M. Hoffman. 20th…
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Piano,Violin - Digital Download SKU: A0.924816 Composed by Stanley M. Hoffman. 20th Century,Contemporary. 4 pages. Stanleymhoffman.com #3911867. Published by stanleymhoffman.com (A0.924816). This piece was composed for Vox Novus' 15 Minutes of Fame series. While it was not chosen for performance by Andrey Iliushkin and Leonid Zhelezny, this miniature can add to the atmospheric mood of recitals or concerts. This gentle prelude is inspired by rhythms and contours from Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Mahler), and the open fifth interval from La cathédrale agouties (Debussy). Otherwise the harmonies and melodies are very much the composer's own.
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String Quartet No. 3: Among Friends
Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle
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String Quartet String Quartet - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.987847 Composed by Robert M. Greenberg. 20th Century. Score and parts. 178 pages. Robert M. Greenberg #90283. Published by Robert M. Greenberg (A0.987847). Preferred Contact Information: RMonteverdi@comcast.net Performing Rights Organization: BMI Website: robertgreenbergmusic.com Facebook Band Page: facebook.com/RobertGreenbergMusic Duration: ca. 33 minutes Year of composition: 1995 Program Note: I. With Friends Like These II. Inner Voices III. Little Hands and Little Feet IV. Freund Barry V. Friendly Persuasion VI. All For One and One For All I've known the Alexander String Quartet since 1987. More than just colleagues, they have become my friends: I've traveled with them, performed with them, watched them rehearse, dined with them in their homes and they in mine; I know their children and they know my children. Throughout the time I've known the members of the quartet I have observed the relationship between them, that special bond shared by the members of any touring band, described by one pundit as being like a bad marriage with no sex. Such issues notwithstanding, this particular marriage works. A string quartet represents, perhaps, the ultimate musical compromise between individual incentive and the common good. In a string quartet, by definition, four distinct instrumental voices and four different instrumental roles unite to create a whole greater than its parts. And, lest we forget, behind each instrument is a person, with his own particular attitudes, feelings, needs, and, yes, issues, all of which must be tempered and blended for the common good of a good performance. Among Friends is, its liberties aside, about the four people behind the instruments of the Alexander String Quartet and their relationships with one another; the way they play, rehearse, get along and, on occasion, not get along. The first movement, With Friends Like These is gritty and contentious in tone. The players argue, debate, annoy, tease, irk, cajole, abuse, harass, form brief alliances, heap merde upon, gang up on, and otherwise find endless ways to irritate each other. It is in this movement that the individual characters of the four instrumental parts stand in highest relief: the first violin as coloratura prima donna, forever attempting to soar above it all; the second violin as the voice in the wilderness, the viola as the voice of reason and the 'cello as mover and shaker. The opening of the movement is marked argument in progress; with greatest intensity. The second, third and fourth movements are a series of portraits, played without a break. In movement two, Inner Voices, the second violin and viola are featured in a collegial and decidedly non-contentious dialogue. Movement three, Little Hands and Little Feet, is the quiet center of the quartet. It is here that the first violin finally attains the lyric heights vainly sought in the first movement. The fourth movement is a vigorous dance entitled Freund Barry. This movement honors three great friends: Dr. Barry Gardiner, whose friendship and support made the writing of this quartet possible; Gustav Mahler, whose Symphony No. 4, second movement (Freund Heine) inspired this one; and Sandy Wilson, who first encouraged me to compose my second string quartet (Child's Play) for the Alexander in 1987 and whose boisterous 'cello is Freund Barry's alter-ego. The fifth movement is entitled Friendly Persuasion. Rapid fire repeated notes, accompanimental figures and melodic lines are shuttled about from voice to voice, each time elaborated or altered in some way. In this way the music slowly metamorphoses, ultimately arriving at a version of the argumentative music that concluded the first movement. Movement six, All For One and One For All is a fast, brief coda/finale, during which the quartet plays primarily in unison, the musical antithesis of the contentious argument that began the quartet. Among Friends was commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation in the Library of Congress and the Alexander String Quartet. Among Friends i.
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