SKU: BT.YE0030
An easy virtuoso work published here for the first time and now much performed. Recorded Slatford/Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields (EMI). AMEB (Australian Syllabus) 2004. Orchestral material on hire from Yorke Edition (notSpartan).Programme Note:As a young professional player in the 1960s, my work as a double bassist with chamber ensembles and small orchestras took me all over the world. This presented an unparalleledopportunity to scour libraries and archives wherever I went. Long before the advent of the photocopier and e-mail, research was far more challenging than it is today. Eastern Europe was particularly difficult to access, withmanycollections kept under lock and key for all but a few hours a week. One quickly found colleagues who were keen to share information gleaned in passing, even though they had no specific interest in one's own particularspecialism (it is so often the peripheral topics that fascinate as much as the main subject under investigation, and one can quickly be side-tracked into political and social issues that have only slender bearing on the job inhand!).In the early 1970s James Brown, the then sub-principal oboist of the English Chamber Orchestra with whom I was working at the time, stumbled across a small collection of double bass manuscripts at the RoyalDanish State Library in Copenhagen. They were by Franz Anton Leopold Keÿper (b. c.1756, d. Copenhagen 7 June 1815), a double bassist of Dutch origin who worked as principal of the Royal Chapel Orchestra in Copenhagen.Keÿper's son was the bassoonist Franz Jacob August Keÿper (1792-1859). The collection included a number of concertos, some chamber music, and various naïve fragments. Although hardly the work of a Mozart or Haydn,the style is characteristic of the period. For an instrument such as the double bass, whose 18th century solo repertoire is largely written for tunings that are no longer in everyday use, Keÿper's music is easily approachablein its.
SKU: SU.32020090
…the vocabulary of this work is filled with extended gestures such as artificial harmonic glissandi, bowing behind the bridge, left hand hammer-ons, overly pressed scratchy tones, etc. The piece has all the attributes of a great story, beginning in a quirky fun manner and then becoming something unexpected, a virtuosic display with a wildly exciting ending. It is the effect of the pacing that is the tour de force, a one-way downhill roller coaster ride…the work remains in the lower half of the instrument for the most part and only ventures into the very highest registers for effect. The extraordinary challenge is to execute the variety of extended gestures within the tempo over eleven minutes. To play this work successfully requires mastering the art of Time Management. ~Hans Sturm, editor. Bass WorldDouble Bass solo Duration: 12' Composed: 2004 Published by: Distributed Composer.
SKU: BT.MUSM570367320
English.
Sadie Harrison's Ha llristningsomra det for solo Double Bass. Composed and published 2016. Duration c. 10 minutes The area of Tanumshede is situated on the south western coast of Sweden. Archaeologically, it is renowned for its unique series of Bronze Age rock carvings dating from between c. 1800 to 500 BCE. Incised into over 600 panels, the petroglyphs were originally situated along a 25 mile stretch of fjord coastline and as such there are many depictions of Hjortspring boats and seafaring activities. There are also scenes of hunting, agricultural and livestock farming and warring, with many armoured figures carrying swords, axes and shields. Whilst it is possible tointerpret most carvings as images of quotidian life, the meaning of some panels is less clear. It is likely that several scenes depict ritual acts overseen by gods, often surrounded by abstract symbols - crosses, dots and ‘cups’, the significance of which is now unknown. As well as being a source of information about Scandinavian Bronze Age weapons, vehicles, tools, ships, even hairstyles, the carvings have also been the subject of debates about gender. The society depicted on the rocks seems overwhelmingly patriarchal, making the rare carvings of probable female figures particularly important. The most famous of these is known as The Grieving Woman, apparently weeping over a dead warrior from a ship. Her grief, ‘heavy as rocks’ is heard in the opening movement of the piece, echoing through the remaining movements and giving the work its dark, melancholy character. The Woman returns in the final movement as a ghost, her footsteps coming closer and closer as her ‘lover’s’ ship is rebuilt over and over again. Movement III is gentler in tone, a song for the Woman and her lover - depicted as a couple rolling a giant sun surrounded by farm animals. Movement II represents the enigmatic Juggler or Calendar Man who holds 29 spheres in his hand - perhaps juggling the fate of The Grieving Woman.
SKU: BR.EB-9268
ISBN 9790004185681. 12 x 9 inches.
This piece originated as an introduction to instrumental musique-concrete. In this sort of piece it is common for sound phenomena to be so refined and organised that they are not so much the results of musical experiences as of their own acoustic attributes. Timbres, dynamics and so on arise not of their own volition but as components of a concrete situation characterised by texture, consistency, energy, resistance.This does not come from within but from a liberated compositional technique. At the same time it implies that our customary sharply-honed auditory habit is thwarted. The result is aesthetic provocation: beauty denying habit.(Helmut Lachenmann),,Cette nouvelle edition est une invitation faite aux violoncellistes qui souhaiteraient redecouvrir leur instrument et la maniere de la faire sonner en realisant dessus un nouveau genre de polyphonie: une polyphonie d'actions. (Francois-Xavier Feron, Circuit, Heft 25, Juni 2015)CDs/LPs:Michael Bach CD cpo 999 102-2 Lucas Fels CD Montaigne Auvidis MO 782075 Walter Grimmer CD col legno WWE 31863 Taco Kooistra CD Attacca Babel 9369-1 Pierre Strauch CD Accord 202082 Michael Bach LP ABE ERZ 1003 Werner Taube LP ABE ERZ 1003ensemble phorminxCD WER 6682 2Michael M. KasperCD Michael M. Kasper rounds per minute, Ensemble Modern Medien, EMCD-006Michael Svoboda (trombone)CD Wittener Tage fur neue Kammermusik 2011Bibliography:Deltz, Eberhard: begegnung im grenzbereich. Zwei Werke von Helmut Lachenmann und Hideaki Yamanobe im Spiegel eines Haiku von Matsuo Basho, in: Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik 167 (2006), Heft 1, pp. 36-41.Feron, Francois-Xavier: Enjeux et evolution du systeme de notation dans ,,Pression pour un(e) violoncelliste de Helmut Lachenmann, in: Circuit, Heft 25, 2015, pp. 55-65.GoGwilt, Keir: Templates for Technique in Mantel and Lachenmann. Between Transcendence and Immanence, in: The Dark Precursor: Deleuze and Artistic Research. Band I: The Dark Precursor in Sound and Writing, hrsg. von Paulo de Assis und Paolo Giudici, Leuven: Leuven University Press 2017, pp. 105-113.Griffiths, Paul: ModernMusic and After, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press 2010, pp. 216-219.Handschick, Matthias: Musik als ,,Medium der sich selbst erfahrenden Wahrnehmung. Moglichkeiten der Vermittlung Neuer Musik unter dem Aspekt der Auflosung und Reflexion von Gestalthaftigkeit (= Schriften der Hochschule fur Musik Freiburg 3), Hildesheim u. a.: Olms 2015, dort pp. 161-167.Hiekel, Jorn Peter: Helmut Lachenmann und seine Zeit, Laaber: Laaber 2023, S. 169-172, 231-232.Jahn, Hans-Peter: simultan eine Erinnerung, in: Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik 167 (2006), Heft 1, pp. 12-15.Lessing, Wolfgang: Musizieren als Prozess. Zur didaktischen Dimension von Helmut Lachenmanns Pression, in: Musik inszeniert. Prasentation und Vermittlung zeitgenossischer Musik heute, hrsg. von Jorn Peter Hiekel (= Veroffentlichungen des Instituts fur Neue Musik und Musikerziehung Darmstadt, Band 46), Mainz u. a.: Schott 2006, pp. 73-83.ders.: Verweigerung von Gewohnheit. Instrumentaldidaktische Annaherungen an Pression von Helmut Lachenmann, in: Darstellen und Mitteilen. Ein Handbuch der musikalischen Interpretation, hrsg. von Ursula Brandstatter, Martin Losert, Christoph Richter und Andrea Welte, Mainz: Schott 2010, pp. 111-122.ders.: Interpretation, Verstehen und Vermittlung, in: Ans Licht gebracht. Zur Interpretation Neuer Musik, hrsg. von Jorn Peter Hiekel (= Veroffentlichungen des Instituts fur Neue Musik und Musikerziehung Darmstadt, Band 53), Mainz u. a.: Schott 2013, pp. 24-39.Mosch, Ulrich: Das Unberuhrte beruhren Anmerkungen zur Interpretation von Helmut Lachenmanns Werken Pression und Allegro sostenuto, in: Musik inszeniert. Prasentation und Vermittlung zeitgenossischer Musik heute, hrsg. von Jorn Peter Hiekel (= Veroffentlichungen des Instituts fur Neue Musik und Musikerziehung Darmstadt, Band 46), Mainz u. a.: Schott 2006, pp. 25-46.Musik als Bildkritik Gesprach zwischen Gottfried Boehm, Helmut Lachenmann und Matteo Nanni, in: Helmut Lachenmann: Musik mit Bildern? Hrsg. von Matteo Nanni und Matthias Schmidt (= eikones, hrsg. von Nationalen Forschungsschwerpunkt Bildkritik an der Universitat Basel), Munchen: Wilhelm Fink 2012, pp. 237-269.Neuwirth, Markus: Strukturell vermittelte Magie. Kognitionswissenschaftliche Annaherungen an Helmut Lachenmanns Pression und Allegro sostenuto, in: Musik als Wahrnehmungskunst. Untersuchungen zu Kompositionsmethodik und Horasthetik bei Helmut Lachenmann, hrsg. von Christian Utz und Clemens Gadenstatter (= musik.theorien der gegenwart 2), Saarbrucken: Pfau 2008, pp. 73-100.Orning, Tanja: The Polyphonic Performer. A Study of Performance Practice in Music for Cello Solo by Morton Feldman, Helmut Lachenmann, Klaus K. Hubler and Simon Steen-Andersen, Diss. Oslo 2014, Oslo: NMH-publikasjoner (mit DVD).Sparrer, Walter-Wolfgang: Wider den geolten Gleichlauf. Von der Notwendigkeit strukturierender Verfahrensweisen bei der Interpretation von Musik. Modell I: Kompositionen fur Violoncello solo von J. S. Bach, Isang Yun und Helmut Lachenmann, in: Musikalische Produktion und Interpretation, hrsg. von Otto Kolleritsch, Wien/Graz 2003 (= Studien zur Wertungsforschung, Band 43), pp. 75-100.Utz, Christian: Erinnerte Gestalt und gebannter Augenblick. Zur Analyse und Interpretation post-tonaler Musik als Wahrnehmungspraxis Klangorganisation und Zeiterfahrung bei Morton Feldman, Helmut Lachenmann und Brian Ferneyhough, in: Ans Licht gebracht. Zur Interpretation Neuer Musik, hrsg. von Jorn Peter Hiekel (= Veroffentlichungen des Instituts fur Neue Musik und Musikerziehung Darmstadt, Band 53), Mainz u. a.: Schott 2013, pp. 40-67.World premiere: Como (Autunno musicale), September 30, 1970.
SKU: BA.BA08833-85
ISBN 9790006567584. 32.5 x 25.5 cm inches.
Sooner or later theRomantic Pieceswill pave their way through all the salons: thus the periodical Dalibor predicted when theRomantic Piecesop. 75 were first issued by the publisher Simrock in 1887. Since then they have become some of Dvorak's most popular works for violin and piano. Now they are being made available for violists also.Bella and Semjon Kalinowsky have arranged the four pieces on the basis of theComplete Edition of the Works of Antonin Dvorak. The piano part of the original version remains, while the violin part has been adapted for viola; it has been transcribed into the alto clef and includes fingering and bowing marks.With their entrancing melodies and poetry, these pieces pose few technical challenges and are thus easy to play.
SKU: BA.BA10418-85
ISBN 9790006564699. 32.5 x 25.5 cm inches. Key: G major.
Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto op. 64, is a key work of the 19th century, adhering to the classical style of Beethoven while pointing the way to the romantic ethos of Brahms. It has long been known that Mendelssohn performed the work with three soloists in succession: Ferdinand David, who worked closely with the composer during its composition and played it at the premiere; the 'child prodigy' Joseph Joachim; and Hubert Leonard, a young Belgian virtuoso about whom little is known.As proof sheets for the Violin Concerto in E minor were long considered lost, it could be described as somewhat of a sensation when proofs for the solo violin part resurfaced together with a letter from Mendelssohn to Leonard.The letter informs us that the composer invited Leonard to his home in Frankfurt in order to make his acquaintance. It was already known that Mendelssohn had given proof sheets to David; now we know that he also gave some to Leonard.The recently discovered proofs reveal how Leonard played the concerto with Mendelssohn on that memorable evening in February 1845. Besides containing bowing marks and fingering, they also show how Leonard executed shifts of position and where he employed open strings. Furthermore modifications made to dynamic markings and additional legato bowing are shown.It is safe to assume that all of this was done with Mendelssohn's approval. That the young violinist made a positive impression on the composer is confirmed in the latter's correspondence following their joint performance. Mendelssohn is full of praise for Leonard's playing and offers to lend his support in finding employment in Germany. This revised edition of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto (only the orchestral parts remain unchanged) includes a separate booklet on performance practice. The editor, Clive Brown, is an acknowledged expert on Romantic performance practice.
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SKU: BA.BA07590-85
ISBN 9790006541652. 32.5 x 25.5 cm inches. Preface: Marco Uvietta.
For this scholarly-critical edition, the editor has consulted no less than 16 sources, many more than were ever used for any other edition of the Requiem; some of these sources were never evaluated before and one source, a hand-written vocal score, particularly relevant to the evaluation of the Liber scriptus, was newly discovered.As such, this edition offers new philological and editorial decisions regarding phrasing, articulation and dynamics and succeeds in presenting practical suggestions to solve musical problems and those concerning the interpretation of this famous work.This edition comprises a concise Critical Commentary in the score as well as a detailed one on the Barenreiter website. The most important editions published in the 19th century are compared with regard to musicological questions in the work. The genesis of some misunderstandings included in the 1913 and 1964 Ricordi editions is traced. The first version of the Liber scriptus for chorus is included in the appendix while the later version for mezzosoprano solo is to be found in the main part of the edition.
SKU: M7.VHR-3903
ISBN 9783940069818.
Das neue Schulwerk verbindet Lieder und Aufgaben in sehr übersichtlicher Form. Viele Liedbeispiele und Liedbegleitungen mit Texten zum Singen erleichtern den Schülern den Zugang zur Musik. Alle Seiten dieses Unterrichtswerkes sind gleich aufgebaut. Das übersichtliche Layout erleichtert Lehrern und Schülern die Orientierung. Der Umfang des Materials ist auf zwei Unterrichtsjahre ausgerichtet.
SKU: LM.JJ14300
ISBN 9790230814300.
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