Composition

SKU: FP.FTJ06

Composed by John Turner. Sheet Music and Books. Recorder virtuosi and composer John Turner's indispensible new guide for composers writing for the solo recorder. This hugely useful book features chapters on the history of recorder composition, as well as the instrument's range, player technique, dynami. Classical, Instructional. Reference Book. Forsyths Publications #FTJ06. Published by Forsyths Publications (FP.FTJ06).

ISBN 9780951479537.

Composing for the recorder can be intimidating for those with limited or no experience playing the instrument. John Turner's new book is the ideal primer, taking the would be recorder composer on a journey through the history of recorder composition, and onwards to explore player techniques and the musicality offered by this versatile instrument. Each section is extensively referenced to exisiting compositions, providing a fantastic platform for further research by the reader.

About the Author:

JOHN TURNER is one of the leading recorder players of today. Born in Stockport, he was Senior Scholar in Law at Fitzwilliam College Cambridge before pursuing a legal career, acting for many distinguished musicians and musical organisations alongside his many musical activities. These included numerous appearances and recordings with David Munrow's Early Music Consort of London, the Academy of Ancient Music, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and the English Baroque Soloists. He now devotes his time to playing, writing, reviewing, publishing, composing and generally energising.

He has played as recorder soloist with the Halle Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Manchester Camerata, the English Baroque Soloists, the English Chamber Orchestra, and many other leading orchestras and ensembles. Concertos and works with orchestra have been written for him by Gordon Crosse, Anthony Gilbert, Peter Hope, Kenneth Leighton, Elis Pehkonen, Alan Bullard, John Casken, and many other distinguished composers. His recordings include no less than five sets of the Brandenburg Concertos, as well as the F Major version of Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 with Menuhin and George Malcolm, but lately he has madenumerous acclaimed recordings of the recorder’s contemporary concerto and chamber music repertoire, including several concerto discs, all of which have received critical acclaim. In all, he has given the first performances of over 600 works for the recorder, with works by many non-British composers, including Leonard Bernstein, Ned Rorem, Peter Sculthorpe, Douglas Lilburn and Petr Eben.

Many of the works he has premiered have now entered the instrument’s standard repertoire, and these and his own recorder compositions are regularly set for festivals and examinations. He edits series of recorder publications for both Forsyths and Peacock Press, and founded the periodical Manchester Sounds, in response to the perceived threat to music libraries in Great Britain. In addition he was responsible for the rediscovery of several works for his instrument, including the Rawsthorne Recorder Suite, Antony Hopkins' Pastiche Suite, Herbert Murrill’s Sarabande, the Handel F Major Trio Sonata and John Parry's Nightingale Rondo (the only substantial known British nineteenth century work for a fipple flute). He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Royal Northern College of Music in 2002 for his services to British music, and is a Visiting Distinguished Scholar of Manchester University.

By Mack Wilberg (1955-). For SATB choir and organ/chamber orchestra (4 horn, glockenspiel, percussion, organ, harp, and strings). Mixed Voices. Sacred, Christmas. Vocal score. Duration 3'

The many faces of the guitar, Volume 2. By Various. Arranged by Collectif. For guitar solo. Level: 1.5. 32 pages. Published by Les Productions d'OZ. (DZ 1042CD)

(solos: SATB - 0.0.0.0. - 0.0.0.0. - 2 cornetts ad lib. - str - bc)

SKU: BR.OB-32034-53

Cantata for Easter - Urtext. Composed by Johann Kuhnau. Edited by David Erler. Choir; stapled. Orchester-Bibliothek (Orchestral Library). Cantata; Baroque. Sheet Music. Duration 9'. Breitkopf and Haertel #OB 32034-53. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.OB-32034-53).

ISBN 9790004350959. 10 x 12.5 inches.

The cantata Christ lag in Todes-Banden is a mixed chorale cantata that sets the first and last verses of the corresponding Luther chorale verbatim, but the other movements in free poetry based on the content of the chorale. The time of composition cannot be clearly determined, but at the end of the copy that serves as the basis for the edition, there is a date of January 1693. According to this, the composition was written before 1693 and thus well before Johann Kuhnau took up his post as Thomaskantor in Leipzig (1701). The use of two cornetti is also a parallel to the cantata Lobe den Herren, meine Seele(PB 32091), whose composition can be linked to Kuhnau's stay in Zittau. The two parts marked Cornett are only in the first two movements of the cantata; in the further course, a collaparte lead would be possible, but cannot be proven. In principle, according to the source, the two cornett parts can also be played by violins. The title page also notes the possibility of adding ripieno singers, i.e. a choir, in the non-soloistic movements.The cantata, according to its text intended for Easter, is very well suited for use in church services with its small size and flexible scoring.

By Tarik O'Regan. For Choral (TTBB). Music Sales America. 40 pages. Novello and Co Ltd. #NOV955350. Published by Novello and Co Ltd.

Violin 2 (solo: vl - 2.2.2.2 - 4.2.0.0 - timp - str)

SKU: BR.OB-15132-16

Urtext. Composed by Max Bruch. Edited by Michael Kube. Orchestra; stapled. Orchester-Bibliothek (Orchestral Library). In Cooperation with G. Henle Verlag. Solo concerto; Romantic; Late-romantic. Part. 8 pages. Duration 25'. Breitkopf and Haertel #OB 15132-16. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.OB-15132-16).

ISBN 9790004341957. 10 x 12.5 inches.

Bruch's evergreen for the first time in UrtextThanks to the premiere performance by Joseph Joachim and to the release of the printed edition in 1868, Max Bruch's Violin Concerto no. 1 zipped onto the road to success and has never left it since. Yet from the preface of the BreitkopfUrtext edition,one can infer how things looked like behind the dazzling facade. After the world premiere, the composer struggled for the definitive form. He wrote 3, 4 development sections in the finale, and sought the advice of celebrated virtuosi such as Joseph Joachim and Ferdinand David to revise the solo part. And after all this was done (see above), Bruch suffered under the work's popularity: Have I written nothing but this one concerto?The new Urtext edition is based primarily on the first edition. Next to the main source and the autograph, what is supremely interesting is a solo part with entries by Joachim and Bruch. It confirms how intensively the two men collaborated on honing the final form of the work.

Concert band - Grade 3

SKU: CL.026-4227-01

Composed by Shaffer. Concert Band. Build-A-Band. Extra full score. Composed 2013. Duration 2 minutes, 7 seconds. C.L. Barnhouse #026-4227-01. Published by C.L. Barnhouse (CL.026-4227-01).

A delightful lyrical piece by popular composer David Shaffer that works wonderfully in the Build-A-Band format. Playable as long as you have the four main parts covered by the instruments of your choice. Arrangement includes optional parts for piano, timpani, percussion and mallet percussion. Will sound great with bands with extreme instrumentation issues and very small groups. Extremely nice!

About Build-A-Band Series

The Build-A-Band Series provides educational and enjoyable music for bands with incomplete or unbalanced instrumentation. Written using just four or five parts (plus percussion), these effective arrangements will work with any combination of brass, woodwind, string and percussion instruments as long as you distribute the parts so that each of the five parts is covered. All of the publications in the Build-A-Band Series have been arranged to be playable with any instrumentation as long as each part is used: 1st Part, 2nd Part, 3rd Part, 4th Part, and Bass Part. (Please note: In some of these arrangements the 4th Part, and the Bass Part are the same, making it possible to play those arrangements with only 4 parts.)

By Mario Davidovsky. For soprano, flute (piccolo), clarinet (bass clarinet), guitar, contrabass. (written in 2001). Duration 10'. Published by C.F. Peters.