Tenor & String Quartet

SKU: PE.EP72822

Composed by Jonathan Dove. Voice(s) & Various Instruments. Edition Peters. Living Composer. Score and Part(s). 164 pages. Duration 00:30:00. Edition Peters #98-EP72822. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP72822).

ISBN 9790577011769. 232 x 303mm inches. English.

I have only visited Damascus once, twenty years ago, on the way to Palmyra.  I had a purpose (I was writing music for a play about Palmyra’s Queen Zenobia) but essentially I was a tourist.  Like any visitor, I was thrilled to step out of the noisy modern city into the magical ancient world of the walled Old City, its vibrant souk leading to the magnificent mosque, and a labyrinth of winding, narrow streets filled with the smell of unleavened bread.

In Palmyra, I was met with extraordinary kindness everywhere.  On one occasion, a little Bedouin boy noticed that I was risking sunstroke wandering bare-headed among the spectacular ruins: he showed me how to tie a turban, then took me to have tea with his family in their tent.

Since then, I have watched helplessly as these places of wonder have been devastated and their inhabitants scattered and killed.  When the Sacconi Quartet suggested that I might choose a Syrian poet for our collaboration, I welcomed the idea.

I searched for a long time to find a contemporary poet whose work might gain from any music I could imagine.  I felt it was important to find first-hand accounts of the Syrian experience – but, of course, I was always reading them in translation.  In an anthology called Syria Speaks, I was astonished to read something that looked like prose, but was full of poetry.  It was Anne-Marie McManus’s fine translation of Ali Safar’s A Black Cloud in a Leaden White Sky – an eloquent, thoughtful, contained yet vivid account of life in a war-torn country, all the more moving for its restraint.

In setting these words, I have not attempted to imitate Syrian music.  However, there is what might be called a linguistic accommodation in my choice of scale, or mode.  Several movements are in a mode that I first discovered while writing a cantata commemorating the First World War: it has a tuning that I associate with war, its violence and desolation.  This eight-note mode is similar to scales found in Syrian music.  I did not choose it in the abstract: it emerged from the harmonies I was exploring in the earlier work, and emerged again as I was looking for the right musical colours to set Ali Safar’s words.  In this work, its Arabic aspect is more prominent. - Jonathan Dove

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Celtic, Squareback saddle stitch. Fingerpicking Guitar. Book and online audio. Mel Bay Publications, Inc #30847M. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc

Choral; Violin (ShowTrax CD)

SKU: HL.218269

From Pete's Dragon. By Lindsey Stirling. Arranged by Ed Lojeski. Disney Choral. Movies, Pop. CD. Duration 220 seconds. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.218269).

UPC: 888680668396. 5.0x5.0x0.15 inches.

From the live action remake of Pete's Dragon, this exuberant song by violinist Lindsey Stirling featuring Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness portrays the playful sense of youthful adventure in a song that choirs will enjoy performing. The included violin part is slightly simplified for a student or community player.

(For Wind Symphony). Composed by Carter Pann (1972-). For concert band (piccolo, 2 flute 1, 2 flute 2, 2 flute 3, 2 flute 4, 2 oboes, 3 Bb clarinet 1, 3 Bb clarinet 2, 3 Bb clarinet 3, 3 Bb clarinet 4, 2 Bb bass clarinet (with low C), 2 bassoons, 2 Bb soprano saxophone, 2 Eb alto saxophone, 2 Bb tenor saxophone, 2 Eb baritone). Contemporary. Score and parts. Standard Notation. 48+280 pages. Duration 12 minutes. Published by Theodore Presser Company

Orchestra Violin 1, Violin 2 or Viola and Cello - Grade 3

SKU: AP.36-52702207

Composed by Catherine McMichael. Performance Music Ensemble; String Quartet. Latham Music. Christmas; Winter. Score and Part(s). Latham Music Enterprises #36-52702207. Published by Latham Music Enterprises (AP.36-52702207).

ISBN 9781628761894. UPC: 746241287649. English.

Includes optional Violin 2 for Viola. French carols; advanced intermediate level. First Noel, Il Est Ne, Pat a Pan, 'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime, Bring a Torch, Shepherds, Shake off your Drowsy Sleep, March of the 3 Kings, The Friendly Beasts.

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Violin Duet and Piano with optional Viola and Cello - Grade 2.5

SKU: AP.36-52711464

Composed by Catherine McMichael. Duet or Duo; Performance Music Ensemble; Violin Duet. Ludwig Masters. Sacred. Score. Latham Music Enterprises #36-52711464. Published by Latham Music Enterprises (AP.36-52711464).

UPC: 679360786093. English.

Lyrically beautiful settings of these historically rich tunes, most with an open modal sound. Violin 1 is at the intermediate level, Violin 2 is slightly more advanced, and the piano part is moderately difficult. What Wondrous Love, My Shepherd Will Supply My Need, Rock of Ages, Holy Manna, Come Ye Sinners, Christian's Farewell and Bozrah. Piano part is optional.

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For String Quintet. By Edward Bor. For 2 Violin, Viola, Violoncello, Contrabass. Score and parts. Published by Yorke Edition (spartan).

40 Pieces without Octaves. Composed by Barbara Arens. Barbara Arens is playing Small Hand Piano on YouTube. Book. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB-8987. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel

Violin Duet and Piano with optional Viola and Cello - Grade 2.5

SKU: AP.36-52711504

Composed by Catherine McMichael. Duet or Duo; Performance Music Ensemble; Violin Duet. Latham Music. Christmas; Sacred; Winter. Score. Latham Music Enterprises #36-52711504. Published by Latham Music Enterprises (AP.36-52711504).

ISBN 9781628763898. UPC: 746241244680. English.

A practical collection of some of the favorite traditional hymns of the Advent season. In these arrangements the first violin player plays a relatively straight-forward part for each tune while the second part contains a slightly more ornamented part. Titles include: Savior of the Nations, Come; Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming; Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence; The Angel Gabriel; Come, Redeemer of the Earth; Of the Father's Love Begotten; and Lift Up your Heads, Ye Mighty Gates.

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