Piano

SKU: HL.14032574

Composed by Douglas Wootton. Music Sales America. Education. Book Only. Golden Apple Productions #GA11061. Published by Golden Apple Productions (HL.14032574).

ISBN 9780711968264.

Two charming and factual mini-musicals for young children. Each musical has five songs with linking narration. Tadpole Rag tells in words and song the life cycle of the frog, an important topic at school. It can be performed as a costumed mini-musical with lots of fun movements and dance, or as a concert piece.Caterpillar Boogie describes the life cycle of the butterfly, again an important topic at this age. There is plenty of scope for creative design, movement, dance and singing. Duration: 15 minutes each. Script available in student book. If you need to license a school/youth theatre performance of this product, please use the online application form.

Piano; Voice (Voice and Piano)

SKU: HL.48009196

Voice and Piano. Composed by Sergei Prokofiev. Edited by F.H. Schneider. This edition: M060020520. Boosey & Hawkes Voice. Classical, Contemporary, Russian. 35 pages. Boosey & Hawkes #M060020520. Published by Boosey & Hawkes (HL.48009196).

UPC: 073999091960. 9.25x12.25x0.077 inches.

Text in Russian, French, German and English Contents: An Incantation for Fire and Water * The Voice of Birds * The Butterfly * Think of Me! (A Malayan Incantation) * The Pillars.

(Mid-Elementary Level). By Randall Hartsell. For Piano/Keyboard. Willis. Mid-Elementary. 4 pages. Published by Willis Music

Piano

SKU: BT.9781408192771

Composed by Karen Marshall. Get Set! Piano. Studies & Exercises. Book Only. 24 pages. Collins Music Publishing #9781408192771. Published by Collins Music Publishing (BT.9781408192771).

ISBN 9781408192771.

Get Set! Piano Pieces Book 1 is an exciting new collection of pieces by Heather Hammond and Karen Marshall, arranged and written specially for the twenty-first century child.

Get Set! PianoPieces Book 1 follows and supplements the tried and tested progression of Get Set! Piano Tutor Book 1. It includes favourites like Alice the camel, Little bird, Hot cross buns, We wish you a Merry Christmas andengaging new pieces from jigs to jazz featuring wriggly caterpillars and scary pirates. Many of the pieces have straightforward teacher duet parts to encourage ensemble playing from the start.

The book isattractivelylaid out and fully illustrated, with quizzes and crosswords to reinforce learning.

Chamber Music Bass Trombone, Horn, Trombone, Trumpet 1, Trumpet 2

SKU: PR.114412250

Composed by Melinda Wagner. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. Composed 2000. 40+10+9+10+11+12 pages. Duration 15 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41225. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114412250).

UPC: 680160017768.

Brass Quintet No. 1 was composed with great pleasure for the American Brass Quintet during the summer of 2000. It is cast in three movements. The work opens with a series of dramatic annunciatory gestures that serve to set into relief the faster, more angular, occasionally skittish heart of the movement. Both the beginning and the end of this core are framed by a long-held E-flat: two pillars that support and elevate the central part of the movement. The slow and quiet second movement can be viewed as a kind of lens or prism through which the music passes and changes. Pitches, then harmonies, are gradually brought into focus, then refracted - splintering off into more individual phrases (I was thinking here of the way light is split and bent by the prisms in our kitchen window). The end of the movement is characterized by a turn of the lens in the opposite direction as the music gradually blurs, then fades.   The final movement begins with a bit of imitative counterpoint. The character of the music is initially unabashed and proud, but is quickly foiled by increasing speed - a frantic kind of stretto! A more playful narrative follows, though; this occasionally studded with sharp, percussive chords. A brief choral-like section provides textural contrast before the recapitulation, and the familiar E-flat pillar from movement one ends the work.

Chamber Music Clarinet, Flute, Percussion, Piano, Tape, Violoncello, soprano voice

SKU: PR.11140180S

For Mezzo-soprano Voice and Chamber Ensemble with Tape. Composed by Shulamit Ran. Text: Five Poems of Nelly Sachs, Translation from German of Nos. I, III and IV by Ruth and Matthew Mead, of No. II by Michael Roloff and No. V by Michael Hamburger. Contemporary. Set of performance scores. With Standard notation. Composed 1969. 52 pages. Duration 18 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #111-40180S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.11140180S).

UPC: 680160601691. Text: Nelly Sachs. Nelly Sachs. Text: Five Poems of Nelly Sachs, Translation from German of Nos. I, III and IV by Ruth and Matthew Mead, of No. II by Michael Roloff and No. V by Michael Hamburger.

O The Chimneys is a setting of five poems by Nelly Sachs, the great German-Jewish 1966 Nobel Prize co-winner in literature, whose writing concerned itself almost entirely with the subject of the holocaust. Composed in 1969, the work was my own personal way of saying, through my own art, do not forget. Shockingly, these words have as much relevance today as they did when the work was written. Today we find ourselves having to say do not forget, do not distort, do not deny it ever happened.   I selected the five poems from Sachs' O The Chimneys collection, retaining its grimly evocative title even though I did not include the actual poem by that name. In scoring the work for female voice, flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, cello, piano and percussion, I aimed to give myself the broadest possible palette of instrumental colors while using the smallest number of participants. Yet as I was planning the final moments of my cycle, I felt that instrumental sound alone would not suffice to express the horror. An electronic tape segment was added to the work's final climax.   The first two poems (A Dead Child Speaks and Already Embraced by the Arm of Heavenly Solace), both depicting the tearing of a child away from his mother, are treated essentially as one unit, with the first acting as an introduction to the second. These two, and the cycle's apocalyptic fifth poem (Hell is Naked from Glowing Enigmas II), act as the two weighty pillar points, so to speak, surrounding the more introspective two middle poems (Fleeing and Someone Comes). To maximize dramatic differentiation within the constraints of a relentlessly tragic subject matter, I used range as a means to delineate contrast, by dividing the sounds available to me into low and dark (mvt. III) vs. high and, at times, eerily bright (mvt. IV) colors. Thus the two middle poems are intended to balance the frenzied madness of which the work's outer parts are made.   The work received its first performance in New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Grace Rainey Auditorium on January 19, 1970.   --Shulamit Ran.

Concert band - Grade 2

SKU: CL.011-4270-01

Composed by Orcino. Young Concert Band. Command Series. Audio recording available separately (item CL.WFR383). Extra full score. Composed 2014. Duration 2 minutes, 17 seconds. C.L. Barnhouse #011-4270-01. Published by C.L. Barnhouse (CL.011-4270-01).

Who doesn't like a sunny day in the midst of winter? Who is that statuesque figure all decked out in his winter finery? Who stands proud, guarding the family home? Why it's Milton the Melting Snowman! But alas, as the day progresses and temps rise a transformation begins. Listen, as the music evokes Milton's dismay, I'm melting! The musical adventure pays tribute to this gallant guardian, soon to be a fond memory until next year. Set your mind free wander with this whimsical winter musical offering as the band pays tribute to this pillar of packed snow.

About C.L. Barnhouse Command Series

The Barnhouse Command Series includes works at grade levels 2, 2.5, and 3. This series is designed for middle school and junior high school bands, as well as high school bands of smaller instrumentation or limited experience. Command Series publications have a slightly larger instrumentation than the Rising Band Series, and are typically of larger scope, duration, and musical content.

Chamber Music Clarinet, Flute, Mezzo-soprano voice, Percussion, Piano, Tape, Violoncello

SKU: PR.111401800

For Mezzo-soprano Voice and Chamber Ensemble with Tape. Composed by Shulamit Ran. Arranged by Nelly Sachs. Text: Five Poems of Nelly Sachs, Translation from German of Nos. I, III and IV by Ruth and Matthew Mead, of No. II by Michael Roloff and No. V by Michael Hamburger. Contemporary. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. Composed 1969. 51+16+14+20+14+15 pages. Duration 18 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #111-40180. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.111401800).

UPC: 680160618132. 8.5 x 11 inches. Text: Nelly Sachs. Nelly Sachs. Text: Five Poems of Nelly Sachs, Translation from German of Nos. I, III and IV by Ruth and Matthew Mead, of No. II by Michael Roloff and No. V by Michael Hamburger.

O The Chimneys is a setting of five poems by Nelly Sachs, the great German-Jewish 1966 Nobel Prize co-winner in literature, whose writing concerned itself almost entirely with the subject of the holocaust. Composed in 1969, the work was my own personal way of saying, through my own art, do not forget. Shockingly, these words have as much relevance today as they did when the work was written. Today we find ourselves having to say do not forget, do not distort, do not deny it ever happened.   I selected the five poems from Sachs' O The Chimneys collection, retaining its grimly evocative title even though I did not include the actual poem by that name. In scoring the work for female voice, flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, cello, piano and percussion, I aimed to give myself the broadest possible palette of instrumental colors while using the smallest number of participants. Yet as I was planning the final moments of my cycle, I felt that instrumental sound alone would not suffice to express the horror. An electronic tape segment was added to the work's final climax.   The first two poems (A Dead Child Speaks and Already Embraced by the Arm of Heavenly Solace), both depicting the tearing of a child away from his mother, are treated essentially as one unit, with the first acting as an introduction to the second. These two, and the cycle's apocalyptic fifth poem (Hell is Naked from Glowing Enigmas II), act as the two weighty pillar points, so to speak, surrounding the more introspective two middle poems (Fleeing and Someone Comes). To maximize dramatic differentiation within the constraints of a relentlessly tragic subject matter, I used range as a means to delineate contrast, by dividing the sounds available to me into low and dark (mvt. III) vs. high and, at times, eerily bright (mvt. IV) colors. Thus the two middle poems are intended to balance the frenzied madness of which the work's outer parts are made.   The work received its first performance in New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Grace Rainey Auditorium on January 19, 1970.   --Shulamit Ran.

Concert band - Grade 2

SKU: CL.011-4270-00

Composed by Orcino. Young Concert Band. Command Series. Audio recording available separately (item CL.WFR383). Score and set of parts. Composed 2014. Duration 2 minutes, 17 seconds. C.L. Barnhouse #011-4270-00. Published by C.L. Barnhouse (CL.011-4270-00).

Who doesn't like a sunny day in the midst of winter? Who is that statuesque figure all decked out in his winter finery? Who stands proud, guarding the family home? Why it's Milton the Melting Snowman! But alas, as the day progresses and temps rise a transformation begins. Listen, as the music evokes Milton's dismay, I'm melting! The musical adventure pays tribute to this gallant guardian, soon to be a fond memory until next year. Set your mind free wander with this whimsical winter musical offering as the band pays tribute to this pillar of packed snow.

About C.L. Barnhouse Command Series

The Barnhouse Command Series includes works at grade levels 2, 2.5, and 3. This series is designed for middle school and junior high school bands, as well as high school bands of smaller instrumentation or limited experience. Command Series publications have a slightly larger instrumentation than the Rising Band Series, and are typically of larger scope, duration, and musical content.