SKU: BT.ALHE31120
English.
First of the series of _x001A_Quatre Visages_x001A_ by Darius Milhaud, I. La californienne is a short piece for Viola and Piano. With some difficulties, it requires some intermediate technique of the instrument and some theory knowledge toread in different keys. The book includes the score for Viola and Piano and the part for Viola only. The music has moderate tempo and is quite expressive. It is supposed to represent an American girl from California. She is partof the four faces with: II. The Wisconsonian, III. La Bruxelloise and IV. La Parisienne. Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) was a French modernist composer and a teacher. He was also part of Les Six and was strongly influenced by Jazz.His opus list ended at 443.
SKU: UT.LB-3
ISBN 9788881094462. 6.5 x 9.5 inches.
«Sono stata un?arpista attiva per mezzo secolo. Come tutti i miei colleghi, ho dovuto affrontare le difficoltà create dalla leggenda che l?arpa non abbia né musica, né storia. Fortunatamente, nel corso della mia carriera, ho potuto constatare che questa diceria è infondata e ho cercato di mettere in risalto almeno una piccola parte dell?immenso repertorio antico e moderno di questo strumento considerato un Paria della musica.Il lavoro è stato piano e diretto per i libri che ho scritto sulla musica d?arpa italiana e svizzera, perché basato su precisi titoli e frontespizi; la ricerca sarebbe stata ugualmente scorrevole per i libri che non scriverò sulla musica d?arpa francese, tedesca, austriaca, britannica, boema, spagnola, portoghese e scandinava.Per la musica olandese il cammino è un po? diverso: i pittori, i trattatisti e gli storici sono i testimoni e le guide che aiutano a ritrovare gli usi e i costumi musicali nei quali l?arpa aveva una parte importante.Il concertista in cerca di pezzi potrà utilizzare così questo libro: dopo i trattati (capitolo II), i dipinti (capitolo III), la storia e la cronaca (capitoli IV-VII), autori e musiche (capitoli VIII e IX), biblioteche ed editori (capitoli X e XI), arriverà all?indice secondo le formazioni strumentali (capitolo XII).Potrà cominciare dal cercare, in quest?ultimo capitolo, gli Autori adatti al suo gruppo e al suo programma; ritroverà i relativi dettagli nei capitoli VIII e IX; otterrà i pezzi seguendo le indicazioni dei capitoli X, XI e XII; e buona caccia, buono studio, buone prove!Nel cercare di stabilire che cosa sia olandese o non-olandese nella musica antica è stata seguita l?abitudine corrente di considerare patrimonio comune dei Paesi Bassi l?arte e la storia anteriori alla separazione delle "Sette Province" nel secolo XVI; e specificamente olandese tutto ciò che accadde in quei coraggiosi territori da allora in poi.»
SKU: BT.VOLMB21
ISBN 9788863880199. French.
Grade Three is a strategic point in the study of the piano. Having reached this point, after having overcome the elementary difficulties, the pupil gains a very different perspective on music.
• Unpublishedpieces have been collected with studies by Heller, Burgmuller, Czerny and classical compositions.
SKU: HL.50601807
ISBN 9788759838242. UPC: 888680936334. 12.25x16.5x0.74 inches.
Symphony No.5 Op.50 was composed by Carl Nielsen in 1922. Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) was a Danish musician, often seen as his countrys greatest composer. While his operas and songs have become embedded in the cultural heritage of his native Denmark, internationally he is better known for his symphonies and concertos distinguished by his prominent use of Brass instruments and dramatic changes in tonality. His Symphony No.5 (Op. 50, FS. 97) was composed in 1922, and is often seen as his War Symphony, despite the composer denying any such direct influence. Strangely, it is formed of only two movements, and does not have any title. Often said to be a modernist piece, it is constantly restless, some would say pulsating. Brought to fame by Leonard Bernstein in 1962, scholars and musicians arestill trying to understand this enigmatic work.
SKU: HL.49007431
ISBN 9790001115636. UPC: 073999733457. 19.0x12.0x0.112 inches.
Es gibt kaum eine Pop-Produktion, in der der Synthesizer nicht die erste Geige spielt. Von der modernsten Digitaltechnik profitiert auch das Schlagzeug (Drum-Set): Mit dem Drum-Computer, der digital gespeicherte Schlagzeugklange enthalt, lasst sich jeder beliebige Rhythmus programmieren. Die harmonische und rhythmische Verknupfung von Drum-Set, Bass-, Akkord- und Melodiestimme bildet das Grundgerust eines Popsongs. Auf dieser Basis ist die Rock-Pop-Keyboard-Schule aufgebaut. Die band-orientierten Kompositionen lassen sich in der Gruppe oder allein zur Cassette bzw. CD spielen und mit einem Homerecording-Equipment selbst aufnehmen und abmischen. Neben musikalischem und spieltechnischem Know-how enthalt jeder Band auch grundlegende Tipps fur den umgang mit Synthesizer, Drum-Computer und Homerecording-Equipment (nicht produktbezogen). Geeignet fur den Einzel- und Gruppenunterricht.
SKU: UT.DM-64
ISBN 9790215320628. 9 x 12 inches.
Questa piccola raccolta antologica dedicata alla musica contemporanea per chitarra nasce con il duplice intento di dare impulso alla creazione di musica d'autore rivolta ai giovanissimi e di avvicinare gli stessi a tecniche compositive e sonorità rappresentative dei tempi moderni ma non per questo allineate o aderenti ai consueti modelli, a volte di dubbia qualità , perlopiù proposti dai media.La raccolta non può certamente considerarsi rappresentativa della totalità delle tendenze e degli stili odierni ma riflette la molteplicità dei ruoli rivestiti dal musicista di oggi (sempre più spesso sia compositore che interprete e didatta) presentando ai ragazzi un repertorio nuovo, di qualità e a loro espressamente dedicato.I brani del volume sono stati volutamente concepiti senza eccessive difficoltà meccaniche per dar modo ai giovani interpreti di esplorare le innumerevoli risorse espressive della chitarra e di focalizzare l'attenzione su aspetti di carattere interpretativo oltre che sulla ricerca del suono. Sito Web: www.ciaochitarra.it
SKU: HL.49015352
ISBN 9790001125895.
SKU: BT.ALHE31564
French.
Duo Concertante, Op. 351 by Darius Milhaud was composed in 1956 for the Paris Conservatoire Contest. Many influences can be recognised in this piece: from the Provence where he was born, to jazz and other melodies of SouthAmerica. Lasting approximately 7 minutes, Duo Concertante, Op. 351 is started by a fanfare with a strong energy reminiscent of the South of France, followed by a simple and moderate clarinet partly joined by piano chords. Theinitial theme is then repeated one last time for the finale. Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) was a French modernist composer and a teacher. He was also part of the Les Six and was strongly influenced by Jazz. His opus list ended at443.
SKU: BT.ALHE33327
Second of the series of _x001A_Four Faces_x001A_ by Darius Milhaud, II. The Wisconsonian is a short piece for Alto and Piano. Easy to play, it requires some technique of the instrument and some theory knowledge to read in different keys. Thebook includes the parts for Viola and Piano and for Viola only. The music is cheerful and quite fast, with the Viola part playing mainly semisquavers alternating up and down every two bars. It is supposed to represent anAmerican girl coming from Wisconsin. She is part of the four faces with: I. The Californian girl, II. The Wisconsonian and IV. The Parisian girl. Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) was a French modernist composer and a teacher. He wasalso part of the Les Six and was strongly influenced by Jazz. His opus list ended at 443.
SKU: HL.48024642
ISBN 9781784542658. UPC: 888680949068. 7.25x10.25x0.241 inches.
New edition of this enigmatic, single-movement work for full orchestra lasting 13 minutes and dating from the early-1930s. In his preface, Gerard McBurney comments that, Despite the music's modernist surface, the Chant symphonique's 'three closely integrated movements' correspond rather neatly to a traditional sonata-form exposition, development and recapitulation. There is even an overall tonality of sorts - D major. But 'parts', 'moods', keys and cadences are all subjected in this unusual work to tremendous pressure and distortion, so that we quickly begin to suspect that something other, different and more mysterious, is really going on here..
SKU: HL.49007432
ISBN 9790001115643.
SKU: BT.MUSMS0285
Spanish.
Cualquiera que sea su nivel, Ud encontrará en este libro material para ampliar su cultura musical y para disfrutar tocando las más grandes melodías de la música clásica en su guitarra.
Todos los grandes compositores que han dejado huella en la historia de la música (Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Tchaïkovski, Verdi, Brahms, Wagner, Vivaldi...) están presentes en nuestro libro a través desus mejores obras. Melodías conocidas de todos, los mayores “éxitos” de la música clásica que uno podrá presumir saber tocar a la guitarra... que ésta sea acústicaoeléctrica.
Transcritas en solfeo y cifra y con las posturas que le vienen mejor al toque a la guitarra, dichas maravillosas melodías están grabadas en el CD adjunto, en unas versiones variadas ymodernas (con uno o más efectos: chorus, distorsión, delay...). Tendrá también a su disposición un playback completo para tocar cada una de ellas “en situación”... ¡Unamaravilla!
SKU: FG.55011-809-6
ISBN 9790550118096.
A long waited republication of Sonatas and sonatinas for piano compiled by Eeva Sarmanto-Neuvonen and Liisa Aroheimo-Marvia covers three centuries, 12 composers and 15 works from Scarlatti to Beethoven, with a Finnish modernist twist by Helvi Leiviskä and Erkki Salmenhaara. All the texts are in English and in Finnish.
SKU: HL.49015353
ISBN 9790001125901.
SKU: BT.PWM5363020
The Third Symphony occupies an special place in the evolutionary process of Szymanowskis style. The Symphony The Song of the Night, Op. 27, is a setting of the poem of the same title, from the second divan of Mawlana Jalal-ad-din Rumi, for tenor solo, mixed choir and orchestra. It was completed in the summer 1916. Szymanowskis interest in oriental music at this period is not so much , as far as the Third Symphony is concerned, an attempt at some formal stylisation of eastern music, but rather an indication of his search for some mode of expression which would best reflect the conflicts of his aesthetic and artistic ideas. It was the direct contact made with the art of the Grecian and Arabic worlds during his travel to Sicily and North Africa in 1911 and 1914 that provided the external stimulus for this interest. The Third Symphony can be classed with those symphonies for chorus and solo voices so often favoured by the neo-romantic and expressionist composers. It is written in a free ternary form, the thematic material being the basic unifying structural element, which imparts a conciseness to the form, and retaining the function despite the significant changes that occur in the melodic character of the music. The texture is polymelodic, and a score reveals a masterly interweaving of the multiplicity of parts, melodic lines and patterns of sound. This symphony is consummation of all Szymanowskis mastery in instrumentation and colour, and a superb study of orchestral polyphony. Here, Szymanowski liberates himself from the rigid relations of the functional harmonic system. In the place of tonal progressions, he shifts chromatically from one sound lane to another, of which the smallest units are chords made up of tritones and seconds, using only a free intervallic structure, far more remote in Szymanowski from the dominant centralistic harmony then Debussy. In style, the Third Symphony belongs to the neo-romantic period, if this can be broadly defined as including modernistic and expressionistic trends, and to musical impressionism. (based on the Preface to the ''Works'' by Teresa Chyli ska, PWM 1985).
SKU: BT.MUSM570364978
The title Par-feshani-ye 'Eshq translates, in English, to The Fluttering Wings Of Love and was taken from a text by the 18th century Sufi poet Bidel . Each brief movement takes a couplet from the poem as inspiration, drawing on an extraordinary array of images of clay pots on waterwheels, a nightingale’s fluttering wings, weighty fetters links and the world’s garden roses. The work is dedicated to friends Renée Reznek and Bruce Wannell. Bruce introduced Harrison to the poetry of Bidel and Renée had the privilege of performing the piece on its premiere performance. Australian born freelance composer and performer Sadie Harrison ’s unique fusion of elements from indigenousLithuanian music and poetry with her own modernist, often abrasive, style have led her to be compared with Bartok, but with her own warmth and grandeur. Since 2012 Harrison has been working alongside a long list of well accomplished musicians; Paul Carey, Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Sergej Okrushko, Alex South, Duncan Honeybourne are among many who have had the privilege work with Harrison so far. Performances of Harrison 's works have been given across the world by Lontano, London Chamber Symphony, Music Projects/ London, Ixion, Okeanos, Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Kokoro and the St. Christopherus Chamber Orchestra, and many others.
SKU: PR.114414250
UPC: 680160607846.
Lowell Liebermann's 4th String Quartet was commissioned by the Canandaigua Lake Chamber Music Festival and the Wood Library, Canandaigua, NY, for the Orion Quartet in celebration of their 20th Anniversary. The quartet was premiered by the Orions at the Canandaigua Lake Chamber Music Festival in Rochester, NY on February 9th, 2008. To quote the writer Mark Greenberg: It's a remarkable piece. The mood is elegiacal and meditative, the melodic lines sinuous and searching, the harmonies rich and astonishingly beautiful. Liebermann works within the traditions of Western tonality, but that is a mansion with many rooms. Liebermann inhabits all of them as his expressive purposes require, and he doesn't mind knocking down a wall to create new harmonic spaces. The Fourth Quartet doesn't exactly fit the neoromantic niche into which Liebermann is sometimes placed. Much of the music, especially near the beginning, is a highly advanced and fluid chromatic expressionism with modernist tendencies. Sometimes this roiling cloudscape breaks open to allow a patch of near-classical harmony and almost-resolution. Near the midpoint the clouds lift in leaping modulations. Several chordal passages recall Russian Orthodox chant. Suddenly, when you've begun to think the somber, deliberate pace has gone on a bit too long, Liebermann introduces a kind of hobbled, stilted jazz idiom. The piece dies in pensive quiet.
SKU: HL.14043011
ISBN 9788759829288. 9.7x14.0x0.079 inches.
Hans Abrahamsen 's Flowersongs (2012 version) for Flute, Oboe and Clarinet. Parts. 'I wrote Flowersongs for three Flutes in the spring of 1973, when I was 20 years old. Looking back now, 40 years begins to feel like a really long time and sometimes I think that it is as if someone in 1973 is talking about a piece from 1933! But in spite of this long time, this is still a very important piece for me. In Flowersongs , along with works like '10 Preludes' for String Quartet and 'Stratifications' for Orchestra, I feel that I was on my way to finding my own voice in the middle of the music of the great Central European modernist tradition from the 50s and the reaction from the 60s of thenew simplicity, minimalism and the possibility of poly-stilisme. The English title Flowersongs links to the flower power movement and the hippie culture of the 60s and the early 70s, and the work is trying to find the power inherent in this imaginary world. Many of my later works have titles in German, for example 'Winternacht' (1976/78), 'Nacht und Trumpeten' (1981) and much later 'Schnee' (2006-08). If we think of Flowersongs in German, it must be Blumenlieder, and to me it now sounds suddenly very different, more romantic and into the world of Schumann. Perhaps it is also a way in which to hear the piece? Another thing is that the correct English title is Flower Songs (as two words) and not as one word like in German or Danish. This is perhaps the German connection, as I incorrectly wrote the title as one word, but perhaps it is also a kind of naivety, which is also part of the work. I cannot help but carry with me to this day the ideas from my early works. For example, there are clear links in this work from the 8th Prelude from '10 Preludes' and to Canon 2a from 'Schnee' from 2008. This work is written for the wonderful ensemble recherche and it was meeting them that made me consider making a version of Flowersongs for Flute, Oboe and Clarinet.' - Hans Abrahamsen.
SKU: HL.14030004
ISBN 9788759818053. 11.75x16.5x0.35 inches.
Prelude to the Tempest Op.109 No.1 comes from an hour-long score of incidental music for orchestra by Danish composer, Jean Sibelius. In 1925 Sibelius was commissioned by the Danish Royal Theatre to create incidental music for Shakespeare's The Tempest. The resulting 34 miniatures represent Sibelius at his most modernistic and it is both rousing and powerful yet elsewhere light, gentle and airy, fully reflecting the breadth and depth of Shakespeare's characters.
