Easy Guitar (Simplified arrangements for guitar). Size 9x12 inches. 168 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

Composed by David Bednall. Secular Choral - Mixed Voices. Vocal score. 8 pages. Duration 2.5'. Oxford University Press #9780193524439. Published by Oxford University Press

Chorus (with soloists) and piano (solos: Sp MezT2BarB - 2(picc).2(cor ang).2(Bkl).2(dble bsn) - 3.2.3.0 - timp.perc.(2) - Cel - str - stage music: 2trp.timp.perc)

SKU: BR.EB-9433

A Theatrical Caprice in One Act. Composed by Ferruccio Busoni. Choir; Softbound. Edition Breitkopf. Opera; Music theatre; Early modern; Late-romantic. Piano/Vocal Score. Duration 60'. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB 9433. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.EB-9433).

ISBN 9790004189108. 9 x 12 inches. German.

Text by the composerTranslation: engl. (E. J. Dent), ital. (V. Levi), port. (G. de Medeiros)Place and time: Bergamo, around the 18th century.Characters: Ser Matteo del Sarto, master tailor (baritone) - Abbate Cospicuo (baritone) - Dottore Bombasto (bass) - Leandro, Cavaliere (tenor) - Arlecchino (speaking part) - Colombina, Arlecchino's wife (mezzo-soprano) - Annunziata, Matteo's wife - Zwei Sbirren - Ein Karrner - a Donkey - People at the windows (silent parts)The idea behind this work was to combine a major speaking role with a part for a female singer and orchestra in the spirit of the opera buffa. The overall tone is pacifistic and anti-bourgeois. Busoni's inspiration was that of an opera-play in the style of Italian improvised comedy; he wanted types and characters on stage whose varying typology would provide the source of conflict ... The title hero absconds with the young wife of the Dante-reading tailor Matteo. He returns as a false barbarian commander, as a husband who engages in a duel with the suitor Count Leandro, and as a conqueror who announces the moral of the story in the epilogue: how to be able to bow in rags and still retain one's dignity and rights. The piece takes a turn for the absurd when the Abbate, at the sight of Leandro, who is presumed dead, begins to sing a chorale-like song of praise to the donkey of Providence who comes trotting in at that moment. This introduces the most musically refined number in the piece, the quartet, in which Leandro's love aria and his duet with Columbina satirize the attitudes prevalent in Italian opera from Scarlatti to Verdi. Musically, Busoni uses throughout the entire work an idiom of dance-like, blissfully transparent comedy and hides harmonic audacities behind touches of lightness. The orchestral sound radiates an incomparable brightness and buoyant elegance. (Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt, 1967)

In the appendix, EB 9433 contains the later composed aria Wer siegt? Wer fallt?..

(Melody, Lyrics and Simplified Chords in the Key of C). By Various. For C Instruments. Easy Fake Book. Softcover. 240 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

For Guitar. Guitar Tab Method. Softcover Audio Online. Guitar tablature. 32 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

By Pepper Choplin. For SATB Choir (SATB). Shawnee Press. Choral. 12 pages. Shawnee Press #A8603. Published by Shawnee Press

Voice and piano (Soli: SBar(T) - 1(picc.A-fl).1(cor ang).1(Ebclar.Bclar).0. - 1.1.2.0. - perc - hp - pno - str: 1.1.1.1.1.)

SKU: BR.DV-6140

Scenes for 2 Singers and 15 Instrumentalists. Composed by Udo Zimmermann. Voice; Softbound. Deutscher Verlag. World premiere: Hamburg, February 27, 1986DV 1140 awarded the German Music Edition Prize. Opera; Music theatre; Music post-1945; New music (post-2000). Piano/Vocal Score. Composed 1984/85. 140 pages. Duration 75'. Deutscher Verlag fur Musik #DV 6140. Published by Deutscher Verlag fur Musik (BR.DV-6140).

ISBN 9790200460230. 13.5 x 10.5 inches.

Translation: Engl. (S. Wadsworth) (1988) / (Norbert Rubesaat) (1993); French (Jean-Pierre Wurtz) (1997) Place and time: Jail Munchen-Stadelheim, in the hour before the execution on 22nd February 1943 Characters: Sophie Scholl (soprano) / Hans Scholl (baritone or tenor) >>Weisse Rose<< (White Rose) was the name of the resistance group to which Hans and Sophie Scholl belonged. Udo Zimmermann's composition is characterized by the varying structure of its scenes: dramatic, visionary scenes, e.g. the remembered wartime experiences on the front, Sophie's anxiety about the removal of the children and the wish to see her parents one last time, contrast with contemplative monologues that are intended to provide insights into the individual's particular situation. The composer interweaves into the structure of the piece dream sequences with sudden bursts of anxiety that are not triggered by the execution that is about to take place but by the consequences of one's own actions. The result is a deliberate fusion of the various parts into one another. More than 100 different productions prove that the topic is as important as ever and that the work is both artistically rewarding and practicable. Udo Zimmermann About the piece Two young people, the siblings Sophie and Hans Scholl, are in a prison cell, one hour before they are to be put to death by their fascist executioners. Their christian convictions and sense of responsibility gave them the courage to put up resistance, resistance against the lies, the contempt for humanity and all human values. Sophie and Hans Scholl took their stand in the full knowledge that they were taking a deadly risk. They would simply not have been able to live with their feelings of shame had they not grasped the chance of fighting for what they believed in, even though it was a dangerous thing to do. Memories of past events, doubts, hopes and fears, justification of deeds and an acceptance of death, all these things happen and move in, and between, these two people during this representation of the hour before death. The orchestra provides a psycho-physical shorthand of their inner mental state. Musical effects and gestures search for their identity in human behaviour. The moments of stillness and silence provide moments of musical tension, which are just as powerful as the eruptions of fear and desperation. CDs: Gabriele Fontana (soprano), Lutz-Michael Harder (tenor), Instrumentalensemble, cond. Udo Zimmermann CD Orfeo C 162 871 Grazyna Szklarecka (soprano), Frank Schiller (tenor), musica viva-ensemble dresden, cond. Udo Zimmermann CD Berlin Classics Eterna BC 0120 060-2 CD (excerpts): Gabriele Fontana (soprano), Lutz-Michael Harder (tenor), Ein Instrumentalensemble, cond. Udo Zimmermann CD BMG 74321 73628 2 Bibliography : Kornel , Attila: ,,Tief unter uns nur Schweigen - Die Asthetik der Stille in Udo Zimmermanns Kammeroper ,,Weisse Rose, in: Die Tonkunst 11 (2017), pp. 368-377. Rheinlander , Matthias: Im Osten nichts Neues? Ostalgie ohne Kitsch am Beispiel von Udo Zimmermanns Oper Die weisse Rose, in: Musik und Unterricht, Heft 73 (2003), pp. 34-40.

World premiere: Hamburg, February 27, 1986DV 1140 Awarded the German Music Edition Prize.