SKU: M7.AV-516
ISBN 9790203901198.
SKU: HL.49005064
ISBN 9790001054195. UPC: 073999787863. 9.0x12.0x0.185 inches. German - English - French.
German - English - French.
SKU: AP.36-52711050
ISBN 9781628762013. UPC: 679360706787. English.
The word "hymn" comes from the Greek "hymnos", meaning a festive song. To hymnologists (people who study hymns), the HYMN is the poetry, the lyrics, which is then set to a HYMN TUNE. Many wonderful hymn tunes have been used over the centuries with several completely different sets of words. The name of a hymn tune seldom matches the name of its hymn, and most people refer to hymns by their poetic names rather than their tune names. However, some hymn tunes are so powerful, so flexible and so rooted in the collective social consciousness that they transcend whatever poetry is put with them. Several tunes in this set have been used for many poems, most of which are unfamilar. But we know the melody instantly! Written for two violins and piano, both a viola and cello part are include to substitue for the 2nd violin. Hymns (tunes) include: 1. All Glory, Laud and Honor (St. Theodulph), 2. Crown Him With Many Crowns (Diademata), 3. Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken (Austria), 4. I Love to Tell the Story (Hankey), 5. Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise (St. Denio), 6. O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing (Axnon), 7. O Worship the King (Lyons), 8. Praise Ye the Lord, the Almighty (Lobe Den Herren).
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SKU: PR.16500092L
UPC: 680160039531. 11 x 17 inches.
Zion is the third and final installment of a series of works for Wind Ensemble inspired by national parks in the western United States, collectively called Three Places in the West. As in the other two works (The Yellowstone Fires and Arches), it is my intention to convey more an impression of the feelings I've had in Zion National Park in Utah than an attempt at pictorial description. Zion is a place with unrivalled natural grandeur, being a sort of huge box canyon in which the traveler is constantly overwhelmed by towering rock walls on every side of him -- but it is also a place with a human history, having been inhabited by several tribes of native Americans before the arrival of the Mormon settlers in the mid-19th century. By the time the Mormons reached Utah, they had been driven all the way from New York State through Ohio and, with tragic losses, through Missouri. They saw Utah in general as a place nobody wanted, but they were nonetheless determined to keep it to themselves. Although Zion Canyon was never a Mormon Stronghold, the people who reached it and claimed it (and gave it its present name) had been through extreme trials. It is the religious fervor of these persecuted people that I was able to draw upon in creating Zion as a piece of music. There are two quoted hymns in the work: Zion's Walls (which Aaron Copland adapted to his own purposes in both is Old American Songs and the opera The Tender Land) and Zion's Security, which I found in the same volume in which Copland found Zion's Walls -- that inexhaustible storehouse of 19th-century hymnody called The Sacred Harp. My work opens with a three-verse setting of Zion's Security, a stern tune in F-sharp minor which is full of resolve. (The words of this hymn are resolute and strong, rallying the faithful to be firm, and describing the city of our God they hope to establish). This melody alternates with a fanfare tune, whose origins will be revealed in later music, until the second half of the piece begins: a driving rhythmic ostinato based on a 3/4-4/4 alternating meter scheme. This pauses at its height to restate Zion's Security one more time, in a rather obscure setting surrounded by freely shifting patterns in the flutes, clarinets, and percussion -- until the sun warms the ground sufficiently for the second hymn to appear. Zion's Walls is set in 7/8, unlike Copland's 9/8-6/8 meters (the original is quite strange, and doesn't really fit any constant meter), and is introduced by a warm horn solo. The two hymns vie for attention from here to the end of the piece, with the glowingly optimistic Zion's Walls finally achieving prominence. The work ends with a sense of triumph and unbreakable spirit. Zion was commissioned in 1994 by the wind ensembles of the University of Texas at Arlington, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Oklahoma. It is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Copland.
SKU: CA.411155
ISBN 9790007170943. Key: E flat major. Text language: Church Slavonic.
Score available separately - see item CA.411100.
SKU: BR.CHB-5154-02
World premiere: Aachen, March 12, 1983
ISBN 9790004410790. 7.5 x 10.5 inches.
Das Werk entstand auf Anregung von Johannes Homberg fur sein Vokalensemble ,,Pro musica, als modernes Gegenstuck zu den altmeisterlichen Vertonungen der gleichen Texte (u. a. durch Palestrina oder Orlando di Lasso). Der anspruchsvolle dichte und sehr ausdrucksvolle Chorsatz der drei Motetten verbindet strenge, teils zwolftonige Strukturen mit weitgespannten tonalen Elementen. An Stelle der direkten Textbeschreibung oder ,,Tonmalerei tritt die gedanklich espressive Ausdeutung dieser bildhaften Liebeslyrik des Hohen Liedes. Bezeichnend fur die formale Gestaltung der Motetten ist der Wechsel von imitatorisch bewegten Motivabschnitten mit ruhenden Klangflachen und Akkordsatzen; so bildet sich eine Reihung von kontrastierenden Teilen oder Bildern in rhapsodischer Folge. Auf einen uberschwenglichen Gefuhlsausbruch folgt ein zart verhaltenes Liebesbekenntnis. Ein Leitmotiv ,,Oh sieh verbindet die drei Motetten; die leisen Tone und Klange uberwiegen. Der Zyklus Die Blume des Scharon ist ein modernes Gegenstuck zu den altmeisterlichen Vertonungen dergleichen Texte von Palestrina, Orlando di Lasso und deren Zeitgenossen. Der ausdrucksvolle, dichte und bei aller klanglichen Schonheit technisch schwierige Chorsatz verbindet - wie etwa im Divertimento fur Cembalo und Schlagzeug - strenge, teils zwolftonige Strukturen mit freien tonalen Elementen. An Stelle der direkten Textbeschreibung oder ,,Tonmalerei tritt die gedanklich espressive Ausdeutung der bildhaften Liebeslyrik des Hohen Liedes. Bezeichnend fur die formale Gestaltung der drei Motetten ist der Wechsel von imitatorisch bewegten Motiv-Abschnitten und ruhenden Klangflachen oder Akkordsatzen; so ergibt sich eine Reihung von kontrastierenden Bildern in rhapsodischer Folge. Auf uberschwengliche Gefuhlsausbruche folgt ein zart verhaltenes Liebesbekenntnis. Das Leitmotiv Oh sieh, verbindet die drei Chormotetten. Die leisen verhaltenen Tone uberwiegen, ein stimmungsvoller, schmerzlich dissonanter oder erfullt geloster Pianissimo-Klang steht jeweils am Ende der drei Satze.(Jurg Baur)CD:Bonner Kammerchor, cond. Peter HennCD Cantabile 2401Bibliography:Richter, Reinhold: Zwischen Tradition und Avantgarde zwischen Zweifel und Hoffnung. Einige Notizen zur Chor- und Orgelmusik von Jurg Baur anlasslich des 85. Geburtstages im vergangenen November, in: Forum Kirchenmusik 54 (2003), Heft 6, pp. 23-31.
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