SKU: HL.14041981
8.25x11.75x0.491 inches.
Lux In Tenebris from Luminosity. For SATB choir, Viola, Tanpura, Tam-Tam, and dance theatre.Luminosity is a multi-media work, commissioned by the conductor James Jordan of Westminster Choir College for the WestminsterWilliamson Voices, the women of the Westminster Schola Cantorum, the Blair Academy Singers (conductor, William Hammer) and the black-light dance company Archedream, for performance in Phildephia Cathedral during April2008.The text, compiled and edited by the composer, centres on the transcendent beauty of creation expressed by luminaries down the ages. Texts are taken from the writings of St John, St Teresa of Avila, Ryonen, StAugustine, Julian of Norwich, and St Isaac of Nineveh.ScoringSATB (with division)ViolaTanpuraTam-TamOrgan.
SKU: HL.49047454
UPC: 842819101086. 9.0x12.0x0.358 inches.
My 3rd String Quartet is in six contrasted movements. Certain musical figures recur across the work, but there are few themes as such. The main emphasis is on contrast of mood, texture, harmony, pacing and timing. Unlike many of my works this quartet had no extra-musical inspiration, and in principle should have no subtitle. Certain features already present in my music became more prominent in this new work: modes (limited collections of pitches) have always helped me to focus musical character, but here a sense of key note for each mode became much more pronounced, as did the difference between modes for each section of the work. A sort of hybrid key-system emerged (even with equivalents of major and minor) which is not normal tonality, nor does it aim to imitate it. Unlike tonality this key-system includes noises, extended performance techniques and intervals outside Western tuning as available resources. What I hope it does is to focus the listening experience onto different musical areas, to encourage a sense of both modulation from one area to another and to give the music a sense of goal. No conscious knowledge of this is needed when listening: the music should communicate directly on its own. Here, then, is this collection of six musical colours, related and unrelated, different yet belonging together, variable yet in a set order. Hence the subtitle, chosen both for both its sound and its sense: 'hana no hanataba' meaning, in Japanese, 'bouquet of flowers'. A brief description: 1) Moderately fast. Short droplets of sounds gather increasing momentum. 2) Very fast. Canons and bells at different speeds. 3) Very slow - fast - very slow - very fast - very slow. The main slow movement and its main scherzo. An emphasis on non-tempered tunings and on inhaling and exhaling waves of sound. The slow sections feature florid melodic writing. In the exuberant scherzo competing duos and trios create imaginary folk music. 4) Extremely fast/extremely slow. Open strings and harmonics fuse into a single string instrument - like a sort of large resonating Medieval tromba marina. 5) Very fast. A variation on movement 2). Variation, Schoenberg told Cage, is just a sort of repetition 'with some things changed and others not.' 6) Slow - Very Fast - Fast - Slow. The opening calm harmonies and florid melodies evoke movement 3) in different music. The fast part features one overt theme: a fanfare-like call to attention which is subject to extensive development. There is much use of non-Western tuning. At its climax the music freezes into a frieze - a wall of sound standing in front of the audience with increasing obstinacy and certainty as the work grinds towards its cadence.
SKU: LM.JJ08088
ISBN 9790230808088.
SKU: HL.143612
UPC: 888680059217. 5.0x5.0x0.18 inches.
From the English/Irish pop band One Direction, this is the first single released from their album,“Four.†Infused with rhythmic energy and an unforgettable hook, your choirs will love performing this pop hit!
SKU: HL.14005430
9.0x12.0x0.07 inches. English.
This was written in 1980. Dedicated to and edited by Julian Lloyd Webber, who also gave the first performance of them in Portsmouth in 1980.
SKU: PO.PE137S
ISBN 9781877564376.
Arranged for string orchestra by Julian Azkoul, artistic director and leader of the United Strings of Europe, Farr's quirky and clever Mondo Rondo is right at home in this larger setting. The visceral energy and grooving rhythms in the second and third movements are particularly well suited for orchestral reinforcement, while its hocketting pizzicato and subtle body percussion passages are made all the more dynamic in this context.Mondo Rondo is also available in its original form for string quartet and also arranged by the composer for piano trio.
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