| Rise Up Singing
Lyrics and Chords [Sheet music] Hal Leonard
The Group Singing Songbook. By Various. Vocal. Size 9.5x12 inches. 281 pages. Pu...(+)
The Group Singing Songbook. By Various. Vocal. Size 9.5x12 inches. 281 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.
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| Rise Up Singing Lyrics and Chords [Sheet music] Hal Leonard
Arranged by Peter Blood, Annie Patterson. Vocal. Size 7.5x10.5 inches. 283 pages...(+)
Arranged by Peter Blood, Annie Patterson. Vocal. Size 7.5x10.5 inches. 283 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.
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| The Folksong Fake Book - C Edition
Fake Book [Fake Book] Hal Leonard
For voice and C instrument. Format: fakebook. With vocal melody, lyrics and chor...(+)
For voice and C instrument. Format: fakebook. With vocal melody, lyrics and chord names. Folk. Series: Hal Leonard Fake Books. 536 pages. 9.6x12 inches. Published by Hal Leonard.
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| Songs of the Western Frontier Piano, Voice [Sheet music] - Easy Mel Bay
By Jerry Silverman. By Jerry Silverman. For Piano/Vocal. SongBook. Archive Editi...(+)
By Jerry Silverman. By Jerry Silverman. For Piano/Vocal. SongBook. Archive Edition. Western American. Level: Beginning-Intermediate. Book. 112 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
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| The Real Book - Volume 1 Piano solo [Sheet music + Audio access] Hal Leonard
(Book/USB Flash Drive Play-Along Pack). By Various. For C Instruments. Real Book...(+)
(Book/USB Flash Drive Play-Along Pack). By Various. For C Instruments. Real Book Play-Along. USB Flash Drive. 462 pages. Published by Hal Leonard
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| The Real Book - Volume I Eb Instruments Hal Leonard
(E-Flat Instruments, Mini Edition). Composed by Various. For E-flat Instruments....(+)
(E-Flat Instruments, Mini Edition). Composed by Various. For E-flat Instruments. Fake Book. Softcover. 464 pages. Published by Hal Leonard
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| The Real Book - Volume 1 - Bb Edition (Book/USB Flash Drive Pack) Bb Instruments Hal Leonard
Book/USB Flash Drive Pack. Composed by Various. Real Book Play-Along. Softco...(+)
Book/USB Flash Drive Pack.
Composed by Various. Real
Book Play-Along. Softcover
with USB. 464 pages.
Published by Hal Leonard
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| The Real Book - Volume I - Sixth Edition French horn [Fake Book] Hal Leonard
F Instruments. Composed by Various. Fake Book. Jazz. Softcover. 464 pages. Pu...(+)
F Instruments. Composed by
Various. Fake Book. Jazz.
Softcover. 464 pages.
Published by Hal
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| The Real Book - Volume 1 - Sixth Edition (cd-rom edition) C Instruments [CD-ROM] Hal Leonard (C Edition). By Various.
CD ROM SHEET MUSIC.
CD-ROM. Published by Hal
Leonard
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| The Real Book - Volume 1
Eb Instruments [Fake Book] - Intermediate Hal Leonard
Eb Instruments - Difficulty: easy-medium to medium Sixth Edition. Composed by Va...(+)
Eb Instruments - Difficulty: easy-medium to medium
Sixth Edition. Composed by Various. Hal Leonard Instrumental Fake Books. Jazz. Fakebook (spiral bound). With melody, standard notation and chord names. 428 pages. Published by Hal Leonar
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| The Real Book - Volume I - Mini Edition Bb Instruments [Fake Book] Hal Leonard | | |
| The Real Book - Volume 1 - Mini Edition C Instruments [Fake Book] Hal Leonard
C Instruments. By Various. Fake Book (Includes melody line and chords). Publishe...(+)
C Instruments. By Various. Fake Book (Includes melody line and chords). Published by Hal Leonard.
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| The Real Book - Volume I Bass Clef Instruments Hal Leonard
(Bass Clef Instruments, Mini Edition). Composed by Various. For Bass Clef Instru...(+)
(Bass Clef Instruments, Mini Edition). Composed by Various. For Bass Clef Instruments. Fake Book. Softcover. 464 pages. Published by Hal Leonard
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| The Real Book - Volume 1: Sixth Edition (C Instruments Play-Along Edition) C Instruments [Sheet music + Audio access] Hal Leonard
C Instruments Play-Along Edition. Composed by Various. Real Book Play- Along. ...(+)
C Instruments Play-Along
Edition. Composed by
Various. Real Book Play-
Along. Softcover Audio
Online. 464 pages. Published
by Hal Leonard
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| The Reharmonized Real Book - Volume 1: C Instruments C Instruments [Fake Book] Hal Leonard
Arranged by Jack Grassel. Composed by Various. Arranged by Jack Grassel. Fake ...(+)
Arranged by Jack Grassel.
Composed by Various. Arranged
by Jack Grassel. Fake Book.
Jazz. Softcover. 456 pages.
Published by Hal Leonard
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| Valley Mist (An Appalachian Portrait) Concert band - Easy Hal Leonard
Concert Band (Score) - Grade 2 SKU: HL.4003190 Composed by Robert Longfie...(+)
Concert Band (Score) - Grade 2 SKU: HL.4003190 Composed by Robert Longfield. MusicWorks Grade 2. Folk. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.4003190). UPC: 884088656447. 9.0x12.0x0.049 inches. Inspired by the mountains of West Virginia, Valley Mist portrays a beautiful scene of cloud-like mist as it flows gently around the hills encompassing the entire valley in an atmosphere of peace and tranquility. Quoting the Appalachian folk song “Down in the Valleyâ€, this sensitively scored work includes an optional gentle rain effect with the use of finger snaps. Sure to be an enjoyable change of pace for any program. Dur: 3:35. $5.00 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 24 hours - In Stock | | |
| Go for Guitar Basic MDS (Music Distribution Services) (+)
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Take Off
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Take Two
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The First Blues
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Reggae Man
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Waltz
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Bamba Caramba
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Spanish Guitar
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Trance
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Guitar Forever
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Rockin' the Bridge
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Police
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Quarter Rest
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Tangito
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Aura Lee
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Boogie Woogie
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Upbeat
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Cockles & Mussels
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Bossa Nova Break
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Cantiga
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Rock & Rests
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D-Tripper
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Rocky Mountains
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Basso Malaguena
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Musette
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Jamaican Sailor
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Old MacDonald
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Salsa Party
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Minka
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El Vito
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Tom Dooley
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Steelpan Calypso
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Columbian Folkdance
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Loch Lomond
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Ukrainian Dance
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Chinese Take Away
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Shuffle & Swing
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Shuffle Blues
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Hit the Note
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ST James Infirmary
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Morning has Broken
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Straight Eight Rock
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The Minstrel's Song
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Auld Lang Syne
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Muss i denn
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Scarborough Fair
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El Noy de La Mare
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Troika Chromatica
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Passage to India
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Hava Nagila
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Shalom
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Jingle Bells
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Londonderry Air
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Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home
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Fur Elise (Beethoven)
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Swinging Guitar
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Feel Free
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The Entertainer
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Power Chord Rock
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Oriental
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Blues in A
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Rock
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| Accordion Varieties Complete Accordion Santorella Publications
Accordion Varieties Complete composed by Helene Criscio. For accordion. This edi...(+)
Accordion Varieties Complete composed by Helene Criscio. For accordion. This edition: Paperback. Collection. Polkas. Book. Text Language: English. 64 pages. Published by Santorella Publications
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| Upriver Concert band [Score] Theodore Presser Co.
Band Concert Band SKU: PR.465000130 For Large Wind Ensemble. Compo...(+)
Band Concert Band SKU: PR.465000130 For Large Wind Ensemble. Composed by Dan Welcher. Sws. Contemporary. Full score. With Standard notation. Composed 2010. Duration 14 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #465-00013. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.465000130). ISBN 9781598064070. UPC: 680160600144. 9x12 inches. Following a celebrated series of wind ensemble tone poems about national parks in the American West, Dan Welcher’s Upriver celebrates the Lewis & Clark Expedition from the Missouri River to Oregon’s Columbia Gorge, following the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. Welcher’s imaginative textures and inventiveness are freshly modern, evoking our American heritage, including references to Shenandoah and other folk songs known to have been sung on the expedition. For advanced players. Duration: 14’. In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s Corps of Discovery to find a water route to the Pacific and explore the uncharted West. He believed woolly mammoths, erupting volcanoes, and mountains of pure salt awaited them. What they found was no less mind-boggling: some 300 species unknown to science, nearly 50 Indian tribes, and the Rockies.Ihave been a student of the Lewis and Clark expedition, which Thomas Jefferson called the “Voyage of Discovery,†for as long as I can remember. This astonishing journey, lasting more than two-and-a-half years, began and ended in St. Louis, Missouri — and took the travelers up more than a few rivers in their quest to find the Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean. In an age without speedy communication, this was akin to space travel out of radio range in our own time: no one knew if, indeed, the party had even survived the voyage for more than a year. Most of them were soldiers. A few were French-Canadian voyageurs — hired trappers and explorers, who were fluent in French (spoken extensively in the region, due to earlier explorers from France) and in some of the Indian languages they might encounter. One of the voyageurs, a man named Pierre Cruzatte, also happened to be a better-than-average fiddle player. In many respects, the travelers were completely on their own for supplies and survival, yet, incredibly, only one of them died during the voyage. Jefferson had outfitted them with food, weapons, medicine, and clothing — and along with other trinkets, a box of 200 jaw harps to be used in trading with the Indians. Their trip was long, perilous to the point of near catastrophe, and arduous. The dream of a Northwest Passage proved ephemeral, but the northwestern quarter of the continent had finally been explored, mapped, and described to an anxious world. When the party returned to St. Louis in 1806, and with the Louisiana Purchase now part of the United States, they were greeted as national heroes.Ihave written a sizeable number of works for wind ensemble that draw their inspiration from the monumental spaces found in the American West. Four of them (Arches, The Yellowstone Fires, Glacier, and Zion) take their names, and in large part their being, from actual national parks in Utah, Wyoming, and Montana. But Upriver, although it found its voice (and its finale) in the magnificent Columbia Gorge in Oregon, is about a much larger region. This piece, like its brother works about the national parks, doesn’t try to tell a story. Instead, it captures the flavor of a certain time, and of a grand adventure. Cast in one continuous movement and lasting close to fourteen minutes, the piece falls into several subsections, each with its own heading: The Dream (in which Jefferson’s vision of a vast expanse of western land is opened); The Promise, a chorale that re-appears several times in the course of the piece and represents the seriousness of the presidential mission; The River; The Voyageurs; The River II ; Death and Disappointment; Return to the Voyage; and The River III .The music includes several quoted melodies, one of which is familiar to everyone as the ultimate “river song,†and which becomes the through-stream of the work. All of the quoted tunes were either sung by the men on the voyage, or played by Cruzatte’s fiddle. From various journals and diaries, we know the men found enjoyment and solace in music, and almost every night encampment had at least a bit of music in it. In addition to Cruzatte, there were two other members of the party who played the fiddle, and others made do with singing, or playing upon sticks, bones, the ever-present jaw harps, and boat horns. From Lewis’ journals, I found all the tunes used in Upriver: Shenandoah (still popular after more than 200 years), V’la bon vent, Soldier’s Joy, Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier, Come Ye Sinners Poor and Needy (a hymn sung to the tune “Beech Springâ€) and Fisher’s Hornpipe. The work follows an emotional journey: not necessarily step-by-step with the Voyage of Discovery heroes, but a kind of grand arch. Beginning in the mists of history and myth, traversing peaks and valleys both real and emotional (and a solemn funeral scene), finding help from native people, and recalling their zeal upon finding the one great river that will, in fact, take them to the Pacific. When the men finally roar through the Columbia Gorge in their boats (a feat that even the Indians had not attempted), the magnificent river combines its theme with the chorale of Jefferson’s Promise. The Dream is fulfilled: not quite the one Jefferson had imagined (there is no navigable water passage from the Missouri to the Pacific), but the dream of a continental destiny. $45.00 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| Great Smoky Mountains [Score] Theodore Presser Co.
Band Bass Clarinet, Bassoon 1, Bassoon 2, Clarinet, Clarinet 1, Clarinet 2, Clar...(+)
Band Bass Clarinet, Bassoon 1, Bassoon 2, Clarinet, Clarinet 1, Clarinet 2, Clarinet 3, Contrabass Clarinet, Contrabassoon, Double Bass, English Horn, Euphonium, Flute 1, Flute 2, Horn 1, Horn 2, Horn 3, Horn 4, Oboe 1, Oboe 2, Percussion 1 and more. SKU: PR.16500102F Mvt. 2 from Symphony No. 6 (Three Places in the East). Composed by Dan Welcher. Full score. 52 pages. Theodore Presser Company #165-00102F. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.16500102F). ISBN 9781491131749. UPC: 680160680276. Ever since the success of my series of wind ensemble works Places in the West, I've been wanting to write a companion piece for national parks on the other side of the north American continent. The earlier work, consisting of GLACIER, THE YELLOWSTONE FIRES, ARCHES, and ZION, spanned some twenty years of my composing life, and since the pieces called for differing groups of instruments, and were in slightly different styles from each other, I never considered them to be connected except in their subject matter. In their depiction of both the scenery and the human history within these wondrous places, they had a common goal: awaking the listener to the fragile beauty that is in them; and calling attention to the ever more crucial need for preservation and protection of these wild places, unique in all the world. With this new work, commissioned by a consortium of college and conservatory wind ensembles led by the University of Georgia, I decided to build upon that same model---but to solidify the process. The result, consisting of three movements (each named for a different national park in the eastern US), is a bona-fide symphony. While the three pieces could be performed separately, they share a musical theme---and also a common style and instrumentation. It is a true symphony, in that the first movement is long and expository, the second is a rather tightly structured scherzo-with-trio, and the finale is a true culmination of the whole. The first movement, Everglades, was the original inspiration for the entire symphony. Conceived over the course of two trips to that astonishing place (which the native Americans called River of Grass, the subtitle of this movement), this movement not only conveys a sense of the humid, lush, and even frightening scenery there---but also an overview of the entire settling-of- Florida experience. It contains not one, but two native American chants, and also presents a view of the staggering influence of modern man on this fragile part of the world. Beginning with a slow unfolding marked Heavy, humid, the music soon presents a gentle, lyrical theme in the solo alto saxophone. This theme, which goes through three expansive phrases with breaks in between, will appear in all three movements of the symphony. After the mood has been established, the music opens up to a rich, warm setting of a Cherokee morning song, with the simple happiness that this part of Florida must have had prior to the nineteenth century. This music, enveloping and comforting, gradually gives way to a more frenetic, driven section representative of the intrusion of the white man. Since Florida was populated and developed largely due to the introduction of a train system, there's a suggestion of the mechanized iron horse driving straight into the heartland. At that point, the native Americans become considerably less gentle, and a second chant seems to stand in the way of the intruder; a kind of warning song. The second part of this movement shows us the great swampy center of the peninsula, with its wildlife both in and out of the water. A new theme appears, sad but noble, suggesting that this land is precious and must be protected by all the people who inhabit it. At length, the morning song reappears in all its splendor, until the sunset---with one last iteration of the warning song in the solo piccolo. Functioning as a scherzo, the second movement, Great Smoky Mountains, describes not just that huge park itself, but one brave soul's attempt to climb a mountain there. It begins with three iterations of the UR-theme (which began the first movement as well), but this time as up-tempo brass fanfares in octaves. Each time it begins again, the theme is a little slower and less confident than the previous time---almost as though the hiker were becoming aware of the daunting mountain before him. But then, a steady, quick-pulsed ostinato appears, in a constantly shifting meter system of 2/4- 3/4 in alteration, and the hike has begun. Over this, a slower new melody appears, as the trek up the mountain progresses. It's a big mountain, and the ascent seems to take quite awhile, with little breaks in the hiker's stride, until at length he simply must stop and rest. An oboe solo, over several free cadenza-like measures, allows us (and our friend the hiker) to catch our breath, and also to view in the distance the rocky peak before us. The goal is somehow even more daunting than at first, being closer and thus more frighteningly steep. When we do push off again, it's at a slower pace, and with more careful attention to our footholds as we trek over broken rocks. Tantalizing little views of the valley at every switchback make our determination even stronger. Finally, we burst through a stand of pines and----we're at the summit! The immensity of the view is overwhelming, and ultimately humbling. A brief coda, while we sit dazed on the rocks, ends the movement in a feeling of triumph. The final movement, Acadia, is also about a trip. In the summer of 2014, I took a sailing trip with a dear friend from North Haven, Maine, to the southern coast of Mt. Desert Island in Acadia National Park. The experience left me both exuberant and exhausted, with an appreciation for the ocean that I hadn't had previously. The approach to Acadia National Park by water, too, was thrilling: like the difference between climbing a mountain on foot with riding up on a ski-lift, I felt I'd earned the right to be there. The music for this movement is entirely based on the opening UR-theme. There's a sense of the water and the mysterious, quiet deep from the very beginning, with seagulls and bell buoys setting the scene. As we leave the harbor, the theme (in a canon between solo euphonium and tuba) almost seems as if large subaquatic animals are observing our departure. There are three themes (call them A, B and C) in this seafaring journey---but they are all based on the UR theme, in its original form with octaves displaced, in an upside-down form, and in a backwards version as well. (The ocean, while appearing to be unchanging, is always changing.) We move out into the main channel (A), passing several islands (B), until we reach the long draw that parallels the coastline called Eggemoggin Reach, and a sudden burst of new speed (C). Things suddenly stop, as if the wind had died, and we have a vision: is that really Mt. Desert Island we can see off the port bow, vaguely in the distance? A chorale of saxophones seems to suggest that. We push off anew as the chorale ends, and go through all three themes again---but in different instrumentations, and different keys. At the final tack-turn, there it is, for real: Mt. Desert Island, big as life. We've made it. As we pull into the harbor, where we'll secure the boat for the night, there's a feeling of achievement. Our whale and dolphin friends return, and we end our journey with gratitude and celebration. I am profoundly grateful to Jaclyn Hartenberger, Professor of Conducting at the University of Georgia, for leading the consortium which provided the commissioning of this work. $36.99 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| A Festival Of Tunings for Fingerstyle Guitar Guitar notes and tablatures [Sheet music + Audio access] - Intermediate Mel Bay
Guitar - Intermediate SKU: MB.30957M Celtic, Perfect binding. Festival. B...(+)
Guitar - Intermediate SKU: MB.30957M Celtic, Perfect binding. Festival. Book and online audio. 244 pages. Mel Bay Publications, Inc #30957M. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.30957M). ISBN 9781513466101. 8.75 x 11.75 inches. This collection shows a wide variety of musical approaches in open and alternate tunings. The arrangements come from the playing of Davey Graham, Pat Kirtley, Tony McManus, John Renbourn, John Fahey, Sandy Shalk, Dave Evans, Martin Carthy, El McMeen, Leo Wijnkamp and Stefan Grossman. The music ranges from the medieval La Rotta to Willie Brown?s Future Blues from the deep Mississippi delta; from O?Carolan?s Lord Inchiquin to Waterbound, an old-time folksong. From Celtic airs and jigs to gospel and blues you will explore the world of tunings. Hopefully, this collection will help you to discover new approaches and techniques to playing your instrument. Along the way you?ll have fingerpicking challenges and fun. $29.95 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| Country and Western Gospel Hymnal - Volume 1 (Book)
Choral [Vocal Score] Brentwood-Benson
For voice. Format: vocal score (spiral bound). With vocal score and chord names....(+)
For voice. Format: vocal score (spiral bound). With vocal score and chord names. Gospel and Country. 9x12 inches. Published by Brentwood-Benson Music Publishing. Click for Split Trax Cassette (2)$12.99 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| Upriver Concert band Theodore Presser Co.
Band Concert Band SKU: PR.46500013L For Wind Ensemble. Composed by...(+)
Band Concert Band SKU: PR.46500013L For Wind Ensemble. Composed by Dan Welcher. Contemporary. Large Score. With Standard notation. Composed 2010. Duration 14 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #465-00013L. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.46500013L). UPC: 680160600151. 11 x 14 inches. I n 1803, President Thomas Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clarks Corps of Discovery to find a water route to the Pacific and explore the uncharted West. He believed woolly mammoths, erupting volcanoes, and mountains of pure salt awaited them. What they found was no less mind-boggling: some 300 species unknown to science, nearly 50 Indian tribes, and the Rockies. I have been a student of the Lewis and Clark expedition, which Thomas Jefferson called the Voyage of Discovery, for as long as I can remember. This astonishing journey, lasting more than two-and-a-half years, began and ended in St. Louis, Missouri and took the travelers up more than a few rivers in their quest to find the Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean. In an age without speedy communication, this was akin to space travel out of radio range in our own time: no one knew if, indeed, the party had even survived the voyage for more than a year. Most of them were soldiers. A few were French-Canadian voyageurs hired trappers and explorers, who were fluent in French (spoken extensively in the region, due to earlier explorers from France) and in some of the Indian languages they might encounter. One of the voyageurs, a man named Pierre Cruzatte, also happened to be a better-than-average fiddle player. In many respects, the travelers were completely on their own for supplies and survival, yet, incredibly, only one of them died during the voyage. Jefferson had outfitted them with food, weapons, medicine, and clothing and along with other trinkets, a box of 200 jaw harps to be used in trading with the Indians. Their trip was long, perilous to the point of near catastrophe, and arduous. The dream of a Northwest Passage proved ephemeral, but the northwestern quarter of the continent had finally been explored, mapped, and described to an anxious world. When the party returned to St. Louis in 1806, and with the Louisiana Purchase now part of the United States, they were greeted as national heroes. I have written a sizeable number of works for wind ensemble that draw their inspiration from the monumental spaces found in the American West. Four of them (Arches, The Yellowstone Fires, Glacier, and Zion) take their names, and in large part their being, from actual national parks in Utah, Wyoming, and Montana. But Upriver, although it found its voice (and its finale) in the magnificent Columbia Gorge in Oregon, is about a much larger region. This piece, like its brother works about the national parks, doesnt try to tell a story. Instead, it captures the flavor of a certain time, and of a grand adventure. Cast in one continuous movement and lasting close to fourteen minutes, the piece falls into several subsections, each with its own heading: The Dream (in which Jeffersons vision of a vast expanse of western land is opened); The Promise, a chorale that re-appears several times in the course of the piece and represents the seriousness of the presidential mission; The River; The Voyageurs; The River II ; Death and Disappointment; Return to the Voyage; and The River III . The music includes several quoted melodies, one of which is familiar to everyone as the ultimate river song, and which becomes the through-stream of the work. All of the quoted tunes were either sung by the men on the voyage, or played by Cruzattes fiddle. From various journals and diaries, we know the men found enjoyment and solace in music, and almost every night encampment had at least a bit of music in it. In addition to Cruzatte, there were two other members of the party who played the fiddle, and others made do with singing, or playing upon sticks, bones, the ever-present jaw harps, and boat horns. From Lewis journals, I found all the tunes used in Upriver: Shenandoah (still popular after more than 200 years), Vla bon vent, Soldiers Joy, Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier, Come Ye Sinners Poor and Needy (a hymn sung to the tune Beech Spring) and Fishers Hornpipe. The work follows an emotional journey: not necessarily step-by-step with the Voyage of Discovery heroes, but a kind of grand arch. Beginning in the mists of history and myth, traversing peaks and valleys both real and emotional (and a solemn funeral scene), finding help from native people, and recalling their zeal upon finding the one great river that will, in fact, take them to the Pacific. When the men finally roar through the Columbia Gorge in their boats (a feat that even the Indians had not attempted), the magnificent river combines its theme with the chorale of Jeffersons Promise. The Dream is fulfilled: not quite the one Jefferson had imagined (there is no navigable water passage from the Missouri to the Pacific), but the dream of a continental destiny. $80.00 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
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