Poul Ruders Sheet Music & Tabs

Percussion (Percussion Parts)

SKU: HL.14028050

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. 8 pages. Music Sales #KP00033. Published by Music Sales (HL.14028050).

ISBN 9788759858387. UPC: 888680630478. 16.5x11.75 inches. International (more than one language).

Work for Solo Percussion dating from 1983. Ruders writes: The extraordinary title is a typical example of Poul Ruder's (b. 1949) peculiar and bizarre sense of humour - Ruders, together with Hans Abrahamsen and Bo Holten, being one of the most important names within new Danish music after the Nørgård-Holmgreen-Nørholm generation. Although Ruders is influenced by Holmgreen's absurd simplicity, he takes up an original place in new Danish music to which he has conveyed humour and liveliness as well as theatre and virtuosity. Quotations, 'found objects', play an important part in Ruders' music, for instance in his chamber work MEDIEVAL VARIATIONS (1974), but the old material is being varied with adequate audacity and liveliness so as to yield new qualities, not unlike Peter Maxwell Davies' 'music on music'. ALARM is 'a short shocker, a kind of film soundtrack without the pictures', based on the horror in victor Hugo's THE BELL RINGER OF NOTRE DAME. To produce the right atmosphere of uneasiness and nervousness Ruders uses, among other things, the Balinese cymbal-machine 'ching-ching' and the snore of the 'didjeridoo' from Australia.

Full Score. Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Score Only. Composed 2017. 80 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH32201. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.232526).

Brass Ensemble, Brass Instruments, SATB

SKU: HL.14028037

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. 20th Century. Score. Music Sales #KP00435. Published by Music Sales (HL.14028037).

ISBN 9788759871799.

Ruders writes: gl0rIA is subtitled: a relique for large chorus and 12 brass-instruments. At the same time it is an exercise for chorus because only vowels do occur, or virtually no consonants are heard. The second part of the Missa Ordinarium, the Gloria in Exelcis Deo makes the literary basis of g10rIA, but I employ only the vowels, which in their full context form a non-language, - fragments of a tradition. A less dim vision of the severed body appears in the center of the piece, where the Domini Fili-section surfaces in its original shape. gl0rIA is a 20th century composer's hommage to the innocent faith of bygone days and a fanfare in honour of Claudio Monteverdi; thus the ever present elaborations of the introduction to the Vespro Della Beate Vergine. Superimposed on the torso of Latin, I wedge in a quotation from the Spanish renaissance poet Gonzalo de Berceo's Duelo de la Virgen, a surrealistic Lamento, in which the Jews, sent by Pilate to stand guard at the tomb of Christ, mock and ridicule Maria, Jesu mother. Thus a shadow has been cast over the jubilant religious appraisal of the past, which today's knowledge of atrocities and enormities engineered by Mankind, has - alas - made so hard to repeat.

Percussion (Percussion Parts)

SKU: HL.14033915

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. 14 pages. Music Sales #KP00034. Published by Music Sales (HL.14033915).

ISBN 9788759863725. 10.25x14.5x0.429 inches. English.

Poul Roduers' work for Solo Percussion dating from 1988. With Latin and World drums included in the instrumentation this is a precise and detailed yet expansive piece.

Orchestra

SKU: HL.14028038

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. 95 pages. Music Sales #KP00294. Published by Music Sales (HL.14028038).

ISBN 9788759854730. 12.0x16.5x0.3 inches. English.

The word GONG is saturated with associations: the splendour of the Orient, mysticism, drama, loud metallic clangour, violent impact, etc. The present piece draws upon all those connotations, but it is primarily a symphonic drama about the life and behaviour of the sun, our closest star and prime source of life on Earth. Describing the sun in music is not a new idea, of course; during a visit to Greece, Carl Nielsen was inspired by the orbit of the sun and its very un-Danish ferocity and thus wrote the Helios Overture. GONG is a Helios Overture too, of sorts, albeit more abstract. Recent astronomical research shows, that the surface of the sun reverberates like a gong, in four different, simultaneous tempi (not directly depicted in the score, though); the sun looks like a GONG, - the O in the written work looks like the sun; there is even a solar research group called GONG (Global Oscillation Network Group). Formally the composition follows the life and fate of the sun, from the initial explotional birth through the hyper-activity as energy source as we know it today to the final, predicted flaring up and collapse into a so-called white dwarf. But - being a musical composition, not an astrophysical thesis - GONG is brought to its compositional conclusion by a real concert-ending, a chord taken from the middle of the piece and sustained over several bars, from virtual nothingness to full force.

Clarinet and Orchestra

SKU: HL.14027975

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. Music Sales #KP00077. Published by Music Sales (HL.14027975).

ISBN 9788759864371.

Solo Clarinet part available: KP00083.

Trombone [Trio]

SKU: HL.14010989

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. 2 pages. Music Sales #KP01288. Published by Music Sales (HL.14010989).

ISBN 9788759857724. Danish.

For three trombones. In manuscript.

2 Pianos

SKU: HL.14028040

2 Pianos. Composed by Poul Ruders. Arranged by Peter-Paul Nash. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Music Sales #KP00013. Published by Music Sales (HL.14028040).

ISBN 9788759867600. English.

Version for 2 Pianos, arranged by Peter-Paul Nash.

Piano Duet

SKU: HL.14027998

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Music Sales #KP01376. Published by Music Sales (HL.14027998).

ISBN 9788759872925. English.

Piano Duet

SKU: HL.14027999

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Music Sales #KP01375. Published by Music Sales (HL.14027999).

ISBN 9788759878347. English.

Soprano-, Alto-, Tenor- and Baritone Saxophone

SKU: HL.14031314

Composed by Poul Ruders. Arranged by Jesper Nordin. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. Music Sales #KP01296. Published by Music Sales (HL.14031314).

ISBN 9788759886342. Danish.

Poul Ruders ' two Piano pieces Star Prelude And Love Fugue from 1990, expertly arranged for Saxophone Quartet by Jesper Nordin. Programme note Star Prelude and Love Fugue is the fruit of “a wonderful stay in Tokyo in March 1988” (the composer's words). The two pieces were composed in February 1990, and they are dedicated to Japanese pianist Aki Takahashi, who gave the premiere performance at the Lerchenborg Musikdage on 3 August 1990. The prelude is a fantasia on the prelude of Act Two of Poul Ruders' opera Tycho (1986), about Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (which should explain the title). The theme of the  Love Fugueis taken from the opening bars of anotherearlier Ruders' work, namely the a cappella motet Charitas Nunquam Excidit (which is Latin for “love never ceases”). The following fugue is purged of the genre's traditional gravitas, as is already signalled by the expression mark 'Swinging'. Its initial eleven bars quote the motet, but there after everything is newly composed. Per Erland Rasmussen, 2001.

Soprano-, Alto-, Tenor- and Baritone Saxophone

SKU: HL.14031313

Composed by Poul Ruders. Arranged by Jesper Nordin. Music Sales America. Classical. Set of Parts. 24 pages. Music Sales #KP01295. Published by Music Sales (HL.14031313).

ISBN 9788759852972. Danish.

Set for parts for Star Prelude And Love Fugue by Poul Ruders , expertly arranged for Saxophone Quartet by Jesper Nordin.  .

String Quartet (Parts) - Grade 5

SKU: HL.14028046

Parts. Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Softcover. 34 pages. Music Sales #KP00246. Published by Music Sales (HL.14028046).

ISBN 9788759859377. 9.5x14.25x0.12 inches. International (more than one language).

Score available: KP00247 Ruders writes: Quartet No. 3 Motet was written in 1979, commissioned by the Lerchenborg music-week of 1979 during which it was first performed by Quatuor Bernede. This short one-movement quartet is a kind of modernization of the 14th century French motets, a cadeau to this weird and fantastic music whose abstract and almost deprecatory, introvert expression appears unaccountably modern and incredibly ancient at the same time. Motet is a sober, cool treatise on rhythm and statics, depicted in a Gothic, crypt-like atmosphere. The almost completely non-vibrato movement is suggestive of boys' choir, monks' processions, and the piercing sound of musical glasses. An ancient world is reborn and becomes the world of today.

Choir

SKU: HL.14026318

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Set of Parts. Music Sales #KP00366. Published by Music Sales (HL.14026318).

ISBN 9788759871072. Danish.