SKU: IM.3747
The first of J.S. Bach sonatas for viola da gamba, arranged for string bass in solo tuning. Keyboard part edited by Julius Klengel.
SKU: CH.CHP387
ISBN 9781635232233. 8.5 x 11 inches.
Are you ready for a new collection of energetic, catchy fiddle tunes? Perfect for in-person and remote private (or group) lessons, string ensembles of any combination, or impromptu chamber music parties, the violin, viola, cello, and bass books in this series can all be played together. The books are especially useful in string classes with students at different levels since each exercise and tune has parts at multiple levels so all of your students can play together. This book has the piano accompaniment to the exercises and tunes, guitar chords for all of the tunes, and a full score at the back so you can follow along while your students play.
SKU: HL.14033376
One of the most beautiful of all Bach's melodies, is this one taken from the alto aria of the 127th Cantata, and was accompanied by string quartet and oboe. As this accompaniment mainly consists of chords held by the strings, this adaptation was fraught with exceptional difficulties and it was only after three months' experiment that the adapter chose this form. Die seele ruht in Jesu handen.
SKU: BT.MUSM570209194
English.
For solo Piano. Published in 2006.
SKU: HL.1115745
ISBN 9781705180068. UPC: 196288105961.
Change is a collection of 10 compositions for piano, string quintet, guitars, and electronics. This book has been arranged for solo piano by the composer and features some changes to the piano writing to ensure it works without the accompanying instrumentation.
SKU: HL.49046922
ISBN 9787103059678. UPC: 196288082217. 9.0x12.0x0.095 inches.
Contents: Ancient Melody, Sacred Song, Inebriating String Music, Joyful Dance.
SKU: B7.B111
8.5x11 inches.
TRIBUTE TO KEROUAC, version for solo piano by David Alpher was inspired by the work, life, and times of Jack Kerouac, King of the Beat Generation. Cast in 7 movements, this significant composition is hugely influenced by jazz. In the preface to the score the composer writes: Kerouac demonstrated the epic contradiction of America: on the one hand its wild energy, joy of life, and expansiveness; on the other, its tendency to self-destruct. Tribute to Kerouac is my musical response to, and commemoration of, this important American writer who liked to describe himself as a 'jazz.poet.'The ensemble version of this work (for clarinet, tenor sax, piano & string bass) is recorded on Ongaku Records #024-112.
SKU: HL.354338
ISBN 9781705107669. UPC: 840126936964. 9.0x12.0x0.109 inches.
Richard Wilson was born in Cleveland on May 15, 1941. He studied piano with Roslyn Pettibone, Egbert Fischer, and Leonard Shure, andcello with Robert Ripley and Ernst Silberstein. After beginning composition studies with Roslyn Pettibone and Howard Whittaker, he went on in 1959 to Harvard, studying with Randall Thompson, G.W. Woodworth, and principally with Robert Moevs, and graduating in 1963 magna cum laude. Awarded the Frank Huntington Beebe Award for study abroad, he continued studying piano with Friedrich Wührer in Munich, and composition, again with Moevs, in Rome, where he also gave piano recitals. Wilson joined the faculty of Vassar College in 1966. He was appointed to the Mary Conover Mellon Professorship of Music there in 1988, and he has served three times as chairman of the Department of Music. Wilson has been commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony, the American Symphony, the New Juilliard Ensemble, the Koussevitzky Foundation, the Fromm Foundation, Chamber Music America, the Chicago Chamber Musicians, the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation, and the Library of Congress. His works have been heard in such American musical centers as New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Boston, Cleveland, and Los Angeles and at the Aspen Music Festival, but also in London, Berlin, Frankfurt, Zurich, Milan, Amsterdam, Graz, Leningrad, Stockholm, Tokyo, Bogota, and a number of Australian cities. The recipient in 1992 of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he was awarded the Elise L. Stoeger Prize of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in 1994, the Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004, and has served as composer in residence with the American Symphony Orchestra since 1992. Wilson has been praised by 21st Century Music as a “splendidly talented and highly accomplished composer whose music rewards seeking out†and by the New York Sun as “possessed of a hard-won idiom that has grown and developed over the years into a probing blend of wit, classic form, modern harmony, and impressionistic color.†Writing in the New Yorker, Andrew Porter called his String Quartet No. 3 a “richly wrought and unusual composition,†while the New York Times called it “a work of substance and expressivity ... [that] merits a place in the active repertory.â€.
