Orchestra Bass Clarinet, Bassoon 1, Bassoon 2, Clarinet 1, Clarinet 2, Contrabass, Contrabassoon, English Horn, Flute 1, Flute 2, Harp, Horn 1, Horn 2, Horn 3, Horn 4, Oboe 1, Oboe 2, Percussion 1, Percussion 2, Percussion 3, Percussion 4, Piccolo and more.

SKU: PR.11641139L

Composed by Lowell Liebermann. Large Score. Duration 15 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #116-41139L. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.11641139L).

UPC: 680160682126.

Barcarolles for a Sinking City was inspired by the city of Venice, a place that has long held the fascination of artists, writers and composers, and which I have been lucky enough to visit on several occasions. Sadly it seems that future generations may not be so lucky: in addition to the city's slow sinking and recently discovered tilting, studies predict that if global warming and the resultant rise of ocean levels is unabated, the entire city (as well as many other coastal cities around the globe) will be under water by 2100.   I. Funeral Gondola The late, cryptic piano works of Franz Liszt made a profound impression on me as a young composer, among them two works he entitled La Lugubre Gondola (usually translated as The Funeral Gondola ) which were said to be a premonition of Wagner's death in Venice, his coffin transported through the canals in a black gondola. These late pieces of Liszt acquired even greater significance to me after I spent two summers in Bayreuth under the patronage of Friedelind Wagner, the granddaughter of Wagner and great-granddaughter of Liszt. This movement is a meditation on Wagner, Liszt, Venice and its own evanescence. II. Barcarolle/Quodlibet The Quodlibet (Latin for what pleases) is a musical form dating back to the 15th century where many disparate melodies are juxtaposed. Popular in the Renaissance, sacred and secular melodies were combined, often to comical effect due to the resultant incongruity of the words. The form was considered the ultimate test of a composer's mastery of counterpoint. The most famous Quodlibet is without doubt the final Variation of Bach's Goldberg Variations. As a form the Quodlibet is less common in more recent music, although examples can be found in the works of Kurt Weill and David Del Tredici.   My own Barcarolle/Quodlibet was inspired by the (perhaps apocryphal) story of the funeral where musicians were asked to play a Bach Choral, but due to miscommunication played instead the Bacarolle from The Tales of Hoffmann. Here, the Bach Choral Allen Menschen mussen sterben (All Men Must Die) is heard in the strings pizzicato, with a tempo indication In slow motion. The alto line of the Bach suggests a phrase from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (Alle Menchen werden Bruder) heard in the muted trombone. Before long, the famous tune from Offenbach's opera is heard, followed by quotations from iconic Barcarolles by Chopin, Mendelssohn and Faure, as well as two Venetian popular songs and more Beethoven.   III. Barcarola/Ostinato/Carillon An ostinato is a repeated musical figure, and carillon is Italian for music box. This movement references the obsolete genre of salon pieces that imitated music boxes: such works by composers like Liadov and Gretchaninov used to be a mainstay of pianists' encore repertoire. This movement is however much darker in conception than those pleasant trifles. Utilizing the full battery of percussion, the carefully notated temporal slowing of the ostinato becomes overwhelmed by a poignant chorale melody before this box is snapped shut.   IV. Barcarolle Oubliee (Forgotten Barcarolle) Marked limpido (still) the final movement begins with the sound of rain produced by a percussion instrument called (appropriately) a rain stick. Halting phrases in the harp coalesce into the accompaniment for a plangent melody heard in the clarinet. The central Adagio of this movement leads to a shattering climax, before the opening phrases return and dissipate into nothingness.

26 Pieces for Violin Players Book/CD. Composed by Katherine & Hugh Colledge. Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music. Classical. Softcover with CD. 12 pages. Boosey & Hawkes #M060134197. Published by Boosey & Hawkes

By Edwin Gordon. Notation and Recording of Brief Tunes and Rhythm Chants in Many Tonalities and Meters. Educational. Book and 2 CDs. 56 pages. Published by GIA Publications

Violoncello (3(picc)2.2.2 - 4.2.3.1 - timp.(cym ad lib.) - str)

SKU: BR.OB-5558-23

Urtext. Composed by Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowsky. Edited by Christoph Flamm. Orchestra; stapled. Orchester-Bibliothek (Orchestral Library).

Tchaikovsky's Hamburg Symphony in the Urtext

Symphony; Romantic. Part. 24 pages. Duration 44'. Breitkopf and Haertel #OB 5558-23. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.OB-5558-23).

ISBN 9790004344682. 10 x 12.5 inches.

Like Hamlet Overture, originating at about the same time, Tchaikovsky's 5th symphony, composed in 1888, focuses on the human existential question: To be or not to be - triumph over fate or triumph of fate? The per aspera ad astra dramaturgy underlying the symphony culminates in triumphant certainty. If Tchaikovsky was initially euphoric, then severe self-doubts befell him after he conducted the premiere in St. Petersburg. These doubts demonstrably led him to make interpretative changes for the Hamburg performance in 1889, including a cut in the finale. Only with the extremely positive response to this performance did his doubts dispel. Nevertheless, Tchaikovsky himself never again conducted the 5th symphony. It was only posthumously established in the repertoire through Arthur Nikisch's commitment. The new edition's textual criticism takes into account besides the autograph and first edition also the first edition's orchestral parts, together with the piano arrangement produced from the autograph by Sergei Taneyev. In addition to thoroughly clarifying dynamics and articulation, the source comparison also corrected many errors and solved problematical passages, such as, for instance, the trombone entry in m. 372 of the finale. Considered, moreover, for the first time has been the composer's doubts about his work and its ambiguities, frequently successfully suppressed in the history of its performance and reception. Tchaikovsky's conductor's copy is unfortunately lost, hence his alterations made for the Hamburg performance are not precisely known. They have survived only indirectly through remarks that Willem Mengelberg left to posterity, for which he could draw on Tchaikovsky's conductor's score and oral references by the composer's brother Modest. So, anyone wishing to deal seriously with the work's certainties will not be able to do so in the future without having also to deal with its uncertainties.

Tchaikovsky's Hamburg Symphony in the Urtext.

By Sebastian Lee (1805-1887). Edited by Walter Schulz. For 2 cellos. Delights for Strings. Easy/moderate. 28 pages. Published by Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag

Brass Band - Grade 4

SKU: BT.GOB-000494-030

Composed by Bruce Fraser. Set (Score & Parts). Gobelin Music Publications #GOB 000494-030. Published by Gobelin Music Publications (BT.GOB-000494-030).

Bruce Fraser composed this test piece for the ‘Gouden Spiker Festival’ 2003 (The Netherlands).
Suite Celebration was inspired by events in his recent family life.

The first movement celebrates the marriage of his daughter and reflects her bubbly personality and vitality.
The melodies and harmonies of the whole work are based on a note row which came up during a discussion with the publisher.
The second movement celebrates the birth of his grand-daughter ‘Rebecca Aileen’ and takes the form of a ballad featuring expressive opportunities for the soloists.
The final movement is more of a look into the future and hope of success and a good life for hisfamily.
Who knows what is coming?

Bruce Fraser componeerde dit werk als verplicht werk voor het 'Gouden Spiker Festival' in 2003.
Celebration Suite is ge?nspireerd op de gebeurtenissen in zijn recente gezinsleven.

Het eerste deel beschrijft het huwelijkvan zijn dochter en weerspiegelt haar bruisende persoonlijkheid en vitaliteit.
De melodieën en harmonieën van het gehele werk zijn gebaseerd op een notenreeks, die er kwam tijdens een gesprek met de uitgever.
Het tweededeel gaat over de geboorte van zijn kleindochter 'Rebecca Aileen' en heeft de vorm van een ballad met expressieve mogelijkheden voor de solisten.
Het laatste deel is meer een kijkje in de toekomst en de hoop op succes eneen goed leven voor zijn gezin.
Wie weet wat de toekomst brengt?

Jazz Piano Exercises and Etudes with CD * Book 2 composed by Tony Santorella. Arranged by Jonathon Robbins. For jazz piano. This edition: Paperback. Instructional. Exercises. Book and CD. Text Language: English. 48 pages. Published by Santorella Publications

High voice and piano - Late Intermediate

SKU: EC.9278

Composed by Joseph Stillwell. E.C. Schirmer Publishing #9278. Published by E.C. Schirmer Publishing (EC.9278).

UPC: 600313311185. English.

Songs of Love and Solace traces a young man's journey of love and heartbreak. The cycle of four texts by Irish poet William Butler Yeats begins with Brown Penny. This short poem depicts a young man infatuated with the idea of falling in love, and then becoming awestruck as he contemplates the depths of love’s power. In the second poem, He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, the poet, speaking to his beloved, realizes he has nothing of value to offer but his dreams. Tread softly, he implores, because you tread on my dreams.” In When You Are Old, we find our poet heartbroken. In his grief he peers into the future and foresees his beloved, in old age, remembering the depth and purity of their forsaken love: “But one man love the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.” In the final song, The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” the poet, saddened but wiser, wistfully resolves to escape the struggles and heartbreaks of his modern existence, and seek solace in the beauty and calm of nature. Songs may be performed separately.

21 Pieces for Cello Players Cello Part Only with CD. Composed by Hugh Colledge and Katherine Colledge. Boosey and Hawkes Chamber Music. Classical. Softcover with CD. 16 pages. Boosey and Hawkes #M060134272. Published by Boosey and Hawkes

Italian

SKU: HL.50605478

Nuova Edizione a Cura Di Giovanni Cestino. Classical, Italian Edition. Softcover. Ricordi #NR14250300. Published by Ricordi (HL.50605478).

ISBN 9781705190388. UPC: 196288126157.

Telling the world in its sound aspects from the listening point of the human being, and strengthened by a new auditory awareness, collectively improve the acoustic future of the environment in which we live. This is the meaning of a work out of every genre, unprecedented and without followers, in which an eclectic author, composer and cultured humanist, has merged science and poetry, artand research, leaving an indelible mark on all areas of culture and the creativity in which sound and listening have been thematized. The introduction and commentary by Giovanni Cestino, together with an afterword by Nicola Scaldaferri with interventions by Barry Truax, Steven Feld, Tess Knighton and Sabine Breitsameter, frame this new Italian edition providing a glimpse of the work and its cultural impact both in breadth and depth, suggesting new perspectives on what it means to read The Soundscape today. Italian Edition.

By Sebastian Lee (1805-1887). Edited by Walter Schulz. For 2 cellos. Delights for Strings. Easy/moderate. Published by Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag