SKU: HL.8754698
UPC: 884088650872. 6.75x10.5 inches.
Set in a happy Latin groove, this holiday classic from Mame will put everyone in the spirit of the season! Opening with a sizzling brass intro, the vocals present the familiar tune with solid harmonies and rhythmic verve. It transitions seamlessly into a joyful “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” for a perfect close to your concert! Score and parts (tpt 1-2, asx, tsx, tbn 1-2, bsx, pno, gtr, b, dm) available as a CD-ROM and as a digital download. ScorePlay - click to view score with recording.
SKU: VD.ED22901
ISBN 9790202009017. 11.69 x 8.26 inches.
SKU: HL.428623
ISBN 9781705163191. UPC: 196288063940. 6.75x10.5x0.19 inches.
This choral compilation brings together beloved carols and new seasonal lyrics with celebrated music from Bach, Handel, Mozart and others. As a collection, you can use this resource throughout Advent and Christmas, or use the optional narration to present the entire work as a cantata. A full line of support products is available to enable your performance options. Score and Parts (instrumentation varies by song) available as a digital download. For the Accompaniment Tracks: Audio is accessed online using the unique code generated upon purchase and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right. HL00428625: Accompaniment Tracks Songs include: Canon de Noel; Procession of Light; A Classic Advent Flourish; Advent Alleluia; Celebration for Advent; He Shall Feed His Flock; An Etude Carol; Christ Is Born! Let Earth and Heaven Rejoice; Adoramus Te; Christmas Jubilate.
SKU: CF.YPS211
ISBN 9781491152300. UPC: 680160909803. Key: F major.
A Certain Slant of Light is inspired by the introspective mood created by the rays of light on a dark cloudy day. A colorful, murmuring introduction is followed by a rich main theme in a minor key. It is a well-scored and fresh-sounding piece that will help young bands enhance their musicality.Rays of light against the dark of a cloudy day, or these same rays of light as they penetrate a dark room in late afternoon can create a mood of introspection and make us pause to reflect on the nature of life, loss and hope. A Certain Slant of Light is inspired by the title, but does not depict the actual poem There is a Certain Slant of Light by Emily Dickinson.A Certain Slant of Light opens with a colorful murmuring introduction followed immediately by a statement of the main theme of the piece. The opening briefly returns, followed by a setting of the melody in flute with woodwind accompaniment. The opening then returns and grows to a climax built on variations of the main theme. The piece fades to silence with a soft echo of the opening murmuring material.I enjoyed writing this piece and hope your students will enjoy playing these contrasting styles and that you will find the piece beneficial in teaching important musical concepts.Peter Terry, 2018.
SKU: BR.EB-8939
ISBN 9790004186084.
With his first String Quartet in D minor, op. 77, composed in 1855, the native Swiss composer Joachim Raff bid a brilliant farewell to Weimar. He had been there as Franz Liszt's assistant since 1850 and had made a name for himself in the city's art scene - now he embarked on new paths. He composed his second Quartet in A major, op. 90, already in 1857 in Wiesbaden, the spa town that was to become his home for 21 years. The two quartets are unequivocal works: orchestrally-conceived, full of energetic vigor, and at times uncompromisingly modern. They confidently continue the Beethoven tradition and attest at the same time to Raff's intensive confrontation with Richard Wagner's music during the Weimar years. In his chamber music, the composer wanted to achieve progress in an inherently historical way and to ground the individual substance in existing forms, as he told the Viennese violinist Josef Hellmesberger, who launched opus 77. The quartets, first published in 1860/62, found illustrious interpreters, among them, the Muller brothers' renowned ensemble, to which opus 90 was also dedicated, and Joseph Joachim.In collaboration with the Joachim-Raff-Archiv Lachen (CH)Some eighteen years elapsed between Raff's first counted String Quartet op. 77 and his Quartets Nos. 6-8 op. 192, combined as one work. As such, Raff parted with the weighty single opus in quartet composition - without, however, sacrificing musical quality.
SKU: CA.3106509
ISBN 9790007043889. Key: C major. Language: German/English.
Score available separately - see item CA.3106500.
SKU: PR.114423910
UPC: 680160688845.
SKU: HL.49041185
ISBN 9790204000081.
SKU: PR.114418040
ISBN 9781491109496. UPC: 680160639564.
Commissioned by flutist Cindy Anne Broz in celebration of her granddaughter Elise, Dorff’s FOR ELISE is a portrait of a delightful 3-year-old, as well as recital piece in the slow-fast mold of the great Conservatoire repertory. The main body of the work is a 6/8 rondo marked Exuberant, in which playful yet challenging episodes lead into a recurring jazz waltz, serving as a “safe†refrain.
SKU: CA.3914200
ISBN 9790007166663. Text language: German.
The ambitious late work of Georg Philipp Telemann, consciously dedicated to vocal composition, begins with the Donner-Ode (1756/1760). As a symbol thunder represents the forces of nature, here in close connection to the traumatic earthquake of Lisbon in 1755. The characteristic arrangement of the vocal parts and the scoring with three trumpets, the soloistic use of the timpani and instrumental ensemble made this avant-garde work popular and well known already during the composer's lifetime. The new edition presented here takes into consideration important, newly discovered sources such as the autograph of the first part.
SKU: CF.BPS138
ISBN 9781491159491. UPC: 680160918089.
Woody Woodblocker is a novelty piece featuring the title instrument as a soloist. It is suitable for bands currently in the first year of lessons. It should be performed in a lively manner and played at a tempo deemed suitable by the director. While the typical woodblock is usually struck with a drumstick, the director may wish to explore other types of blocks and mallets which may prove more effective with bands of varying sizes. To overcome the issue of balance, the woodblock notes are primarily sounded while the winds have rests within a measure. Young bands, therefore, with more than a few players in the percussion section may use more than one woodblock player on the solo part without upsetting the balance between woodblock(s) and winds. Thank you for choosing this composition.Woody Woodblocker is a novelty piece featuring the title instrument as a soloist. It is suitable for bands currently in the first year of lessons. It should be performed in a lively manner and played at a tempo deemed suitable by the director. While the typical woodblock is usually struck with a drumstick, the director may wish to explore other types of blocks and mallets which may prove more effective with bands of varying sizes. To overcome the issue of balance, the woodblock notes are primarily sounded while the winds have rests within a measure. Young bands, therefore, with more than a few players in the percussion section may use more than one woodblock player on the solo part without upsetting the balance between woodblock(s) and winds.Thank you for choosing this composition.
SKU: LM.JJ19718
ISBN 9790230819718.
SKU: HL.1161485
UPC: 196288121992. 6.75x10.5x0.019 inches. Isaiah 7:14, John 1:14, Matthew 1:18-23.
A quintessential Christmas classic! This arrangement is “on point†at every turn with stellar part writing and a creative accompaniment. Respectful to the source material, this octavo is equally at home in concert halls and sanctuaries. Score and Parts (fl 1-2, ob, cl 1-2, bn, perc 1-2, hp, vn 1-2, va, vc, db) available as a digital download.
SKU: BR.PB-5552-07
ISBN 9790004213629. 6.5 x 9 inches.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote his Hafner Symphony K. 385 in the summer of 1782 on the occasion of the elevation into the nobility of his friend and patron Sigmund Hafner. Next to the well-known movements, this version (A) also contained the March K. 408/2 (385a) and possibly a second, no longer extant minuet. Called Hafner=Musique by Mozart, the work was unquestionably a serenade at first. In early 1783 Mozart then reduced the Hafner Music for his subscription concert at the Vienna Burgtheater on 23 March 1783 to a four-movement symphony. This is the form in which the work was first printed in 1785 (Version B). For a further performance, Mozart added flute and clarinet parts to the symphony. In 1805, this version (C) was published by Andre in Offenbach, who thus began making it known.The primary sources of the present Breitkopf Urtext edition are the autographs to K. 385 and K. 408/2 (385a). It thus becomes possible for the first time to play all three versions of the Hafner Music, since the variants of Versions A and B can be easily discerned through indications in footnotes and notes in small print.
SKU: HL.49010943
ISBN 9790001097765. UPC: 073999944730. 9.0x12.0x0.102 inches.
4 Guitars.
SKU: CF.YPS214
ISBN 9781491152331. UPC: 680160909834. Key: Bb major.
This new piece from composer George Sweet is a delightful combination of Scotland the Brave and Amazing Grace. Each tune on its own is wonderful, but in Sweet's setting, they are masterfully layered to reflect the composer's Scottish-American heritage. This presentation of a Scottish melody with Americana-inspired harmonies is a stunning example of compositional craft.Bravery and Grace is a setting of the unofficial Scottish national anthem, Scotland the Brave. While the melody is taken from Scotland the Brave, the accompaniment and harmony both have a “Western Americana†feel, reminiscent of composers like Roy Harris and Aaron Copland.  This combination of a Scottish melody with American harmony is a reflection of the composer’s Scottish-American Heritage.The piece begins with a fragment of Scotland the Brave presented in a lush and reflective context. The main theme is performed in full by the upper voices at m. 9. The middle voices perform the material at m. 17, and the lower voices perform it again at m. 33. This results in a loud passage representing pipers at m. 46. The traditional spiritual Amazing Grace appears suddenly at m. 51 in a somewhat polytonal setting. This is, once again, reminiscent of practices of the aforementioned American composers.  After this lyrical presentation, a fragment of the main theme returns at m. 66. This is followed by a broad restatement of the theme at m. 70 and a brisk conclusion with a final flair of polytonality.
SKU: HL.49033137
ISBN 9790001133272.
Volker David Kirchner's works encompass every genre; in addition to numerous compositions for musical theatre and for orchestra, this viola player who formerly played in orchestras and chamber ensembles still shows a preference for composing chamber music. Yet even in this field of 'pure, absolute' music, Kirchner's work has a theatrical quality which shows itself very clearly in his choice of titles (e.g. Mysterion, Il canto della notte, Lamento d'Orfeo, Exil).In this Quintet Kirchner manages to use the various possible combinations of the different instruments to create highly expressive music.
SKU: BT.DHP-1043657-070
International.
Chernovil ist ein anspruchsvolles Stück für Blechbläserquintett in einer modernen Tonsprache, das an die Katastrophe, werlche sich 1986 im Atomkraftwerk von Tschernobyl ereignete, erinnert. Der Komponist widmet das Werk den tausenden Menschen - Kindern und Erwachsenen - die damals der radioaktiven Strahlung ausgesetzt waren, die genetische Probleme ausläste und sich negativ auf das Immunsystem auswirkte. Chernovil est une pièce pour Quintette de Cuivres ; un défi musical aux sonorités contemporaines, en mémoire de la catastrophe nucléaire de Tchernobyl (1986). Ferrer Ferran a dédié cette œuvre aux centaines d’enfants et d’adultes qui ont été exposés un haut niveau de radiation, source de graves problèmes génétiques et d’effets dévastateurs sur le système immunitaire. Cette musique programme reflète l’ampleur de la tragédie ; du début, alors que la centrale nucléaire fonctionnait normalement l’explosion du réacteur, synonyme de chaos. Ferrer Ferran a composé cette œuvre dans l’espoir qu’un tel désastre ne se renouvellera plus.
SKU: BR.PB-15111-07
ISBN 9790004212684. 6.5 x 9 inches.
One of the most frequently performed concertos of all, it was written while Mozart was working on the opera Le nozze di Figaro. The source situation is clear: the autograph score has survived, and the first printed editions were not published until after Mozart's death.The editorial quality of the new edition is guaranteed not only by Schiffs sensitive fingerings and stylistically well-grounded cadenzas, but also by the Mozart scholar Ernst-Gunter Heinemann to whom Henle has entrusted its urtext editions.Breitkopf/Henle cooperation means: Each work is edited according to predetermined standardized editorial guidelines. First and foremost among the sources consulted were Mozarts handwritten scores, being the most important sources. In some cases they had not been available when the previous editions were being prepared. Moreover, we know today that in addition to Mozarts own manuscripts, early copies in parts and prints also contain important information regarding the musical text.
SKU: M7.AV-6029-50
ISBN 9790203918745.
SKU: HL.8203086
UPC: 884088642600. 6.75x10.5 inches.
The 1969 hit by Creedence Clearwater Revival evokes an earlier time and place with John Fogerty's signature guitar riffs and licks. Vocal harmonies and the great rhythms of the country-rock style will energize any pop/show concert. Available separately: SATB, SAB, TTB, ShowTrax CD. Combo parts available as a digital download (tpt 1-2, tsx, tbn, gtr, b, dm). Duration: ca. 2:40.
SKU: BA.BA09332
ISBN 9790006533749. 32.5 x 26.6 cm inches.
Manfred Trojahn’s amply dimensioned piano quartet in four movements with a duration of approx. 40 minutes was composed and developed in several stages. The inner movements, a Vivace characterised by lombard rhythms and vitality and a dream-like adagio were written in the Mozart Year 2005. By 2008 the outer movements were completed. The opening Adagio “Zerbrochenes Lied†is an imposing lamentation of the dead whereas the Finale, a profound, moving “Wanderliedâ€, was dedicated to Trojahn’s friend and composer Wilhelm Killmayer on the occasion of his 80th birthday.In this way Trojahn’s work stands in the tradition of Mozart’s two piano quartets, but adds a biographical element.This is a large, musically demanding but rewarding work for ambitious musicians.
