SATB choir, unison choir, organ/piano, instrument ad lib

SKU: GH.GE-10665

Composed by Margaret Rizza. Children / adults. Piano reduction/parts. With Language: English, Latin, Swedish. Gehrmans Musikforlag #GE 10665. Published by Gehrmans Musikforlag (GH.GE-10665).

ISBN 9790070106658. 185 x 262 mm inches. Text: Biblical / Kjell Bengtsson (Swedish) / Christina Lovestam (Swedish) / etc.

Margaret Rizzas utgangspunkt ar sangen och musiken som en vag till bon, meditation och andlig fordjupning. Texterna speglar karnan och det mest centrala i kristen tro. Melodierna ar praglade av engelskt melodiskapande men bar ocksa spar av kyrkans traditionella musikarv. Vackra vokal- och instrumentalstammor ger mojlighet till stor variation. Arrangemangen fungerar for allt fran enstammig barnkor till rikskyrkosangshogtid med orkester. Sangerna later sig val kombineras med Taizesanger, forslagsvis sjunger forsamlingen Taizesangerna medan koren sjunger sangerna av Margaret Rizza.
Samtliga sanger finns aven utgivna separat (GE 10669-10676).

Guitar solo

SKU: GH.GE-11464

Composed by Benjamin Staern. Duration 15 minutes. Gehrmans Musikforlag #GE 11464. Published by Gehrmans Musikforlag (GH.GE-11464).

ISBN 979-0-070-11464-6. A4 inches.

Work note by the composer:

When I received the news of this commission, I had no idea what it would lead to. Writing for guitar solo is not the same as composing for orchestra where you have forty voices where you can easily mask an entire section. Here you are very naked to the bone.
The starting point for this work was from J.S. Bach's Chaconne in D-minor that Johannes had performed in concert, originally written for violin but there is a version transcribed for guitar and piano made by Ferruccio Busoni. When I went to Cortona (in Tuscany, Italy) completed the southern mentality of this work.
Arpalineais actually a merged word in Italian language. Arpa means harp, however in a musical context it's more or less resembled with the word arpeggio, which means broken chords. Lineameans line.

The work is divided in three parts.
I. Arpeggio: It starts with an opening chaconne-like sequence and is marked with a certain depth in which the chords starts to separate from the organum note in the bass and it culminates into a section called with rhythmical focus. These sections alternates, variates which each other.
The middle section has a playful and childish atmosphere where the guitarist knocks on the body of the guitar resembling a Spanish folk instrument cajon. This is leading to a section which tends more to a very aggressive fusion-like riff that loses control and reaches its climax at the end.

II. Linea: The static rhytmical pulse is now disintegrated and it forms more or less sort of a free, improvisational state in a rubatolike tempo. The character is described as a very hot day with temperatures rising above 37! C (or 100! F) where you can hardly do anything just sitting dozed off and pespiring because of the extreme heat watching a huge fog coming up in the evening that spreads around the Tuscan atmosphere.

III. Finale: It starts off with fast one-note ostinati then more and more notes pop up like a gradual rain storm with thunder strikes! And eventually it leads to that is a large flood through the streets of an medieval Southern town. The work ends with a short circuit slapped strings along with extremely fast tremolos that reaches higher and louder as possible!

Benjamin Staern

SKU: HL.48181420

Composed by Pierre Duclos. Leduc. Classical. Softcover. 5 pages. Alphonse Leduc #AL20943. Published by Alphonse Leduc (HL.48181420).

UPC: 888680856090. 9x12 inches.

“Short Piece is a piece for Saxophone and Piano by R. Duclos. Written for upper beginners, this really nice work is divided in three main parts: Allegretto, Allegro Scherzando and Tempo 1: Allegretto, with the third part being a variation of the main theme. This piece is really great for demonstrating the skills acquired as a beginner for a transition to the upper level and can also be played in a recital. &rdquo.

My Fate. By Itsik Manger, S. Beresovsky. Arranged by Mark Zuckerman. (SATB A Cappella). TRANSCONTINENTAL MUSIC CHORAL. Jewish. 10 pages. Published by Transcontinental Music Publications.

Orchestra (2.2.2.2/2.2.3.0,timp,str)

SKU: TM.06599SET

Composed by Franz Schubert. Set Type: D. Set of parts. Lucks Music Library #A2001. Published by Lucks Music Library (TM.06599SET).

11 movements. Introduction, Ancient Dance, Gavotte, Bacchanais, Apparation of Phoebus and the Muses, Phoebusi Evocation of Cupid, Cupid Make Psyche Appear, Goddesses Muses Nymphs and Bacchants, Variation for Flute.

Choral (SATB)

SKU: HL.345699

Composed by Johannes Brahms. Arranged by Stan Pethel. Shawnee Press. Concert, Festival, German. Octavo. 12 pages. Duration 132 seconds. Published by Shawnee Press (HL.345699).

ISBN 9781540092243. UPC: 840126920314. 6.75x10.5x0.029 inches.

This German legend text is set to music by Johannes Brahms. The strophic song set in variation is rhythmic, all parts receiving melody, and with important use of dynamics and upward modulation of key.