Clarinet, Piano Accompaniment (Clarinet)

SKU: HL.14020275

Composed by Elizabeth Maconchy. Music Sales America. Post-1900. Sheet Music, Instrumental Work. With Text language: English. 8 pages. Chester Music #CH55334. Published by Chester Music (HL.14020275).

ISBN 9780711966987. UPC: 884088492052. 8.25x11.75x0.082 inches.

This work was commissioned by Thea King with funds provided by the Arts Council of Great Britain and first performed by her and Paula Fen at the International Clarinet Congress in Denver, Colorado, on 12 August 1980. It was written with her playing in mind.

SSAA Choir - Grade 2

SKU: HL.14043067

Composed by John Tavener. Choral. Classical. Octavo. 14 pages. Chester Music #CH8052001. Published by Chester Music (HL.14043067).

6.75x9.75x0.057 inches.

If Ye Love Me , by John Tavener , was commissioned by Manchester International Festival (MIF Creative) with thanks to the support of the MIF Commissioning Circle. In If Ye Love Me , there are subtle echo-effects between three String Quartets which are complimented by an upper Voice choir.

Orchestra (Full Score)

SKU: HL.14043216

Orchestra Full Score. Composed by Michael Nyman. Music Sales America. Classical, Contemporary. Softcover. 160 pages. Chester Music #CH60952. Published by Chester Music (HL.14043216).

ISBN 9781783056200. English.

Michael Nyman's Musique A Grande Vitesse (MGV) translates as ‘high speed music’ and was commissioned by the Festival de Lille for the inauguration of the TGV North EuropeanParis-Lille line in 1993.

This piece of sheet music runs continuously, but was conceived as an abstract, imaginary journey; or rather five inter-connected journeys, each ending with a slow, mainly stepwise melody which isonly heard in its 'genuine' form when the piece reaches its destination.

Thematic 'transformation' is a key to MGV as a whole. Throughout the piece ideas - rhythmic, melodic, harmonic, motivic, textural -constantly change their identity as they pass through different musical 'environments'.

The opening bars establish both a recurrent rhythmic principle - 9, 11, or 13-beat rhythmic cycles heard against a regular 8 - and aharmonic process - chord sequences (mainly over C and E) which have the note E in common. (Coincidentally, MGV begins in C and ends in E). A later scalic, syncopated figure (again first heard over C, E and A)begins the second section, featuring Brass, in D flat.

The topography of MGV should be experienced without reference to planning, description or timetables. Its tempo changes and unpredictable slowings downbear no logical relation to the high speed of the Paris-Lille journey, while the temptation to treat MGV as a concerto grosso, with the Michael Nyman band as the ripeno, was resisted: more suitably theband (amplified in live performance) lays down the tracks on which MGV runs.

SATB Choir

SKU: HL.14041362

Composed by John Tavener. Music Sales America. Classical. Choral Score. Composed 2012. 4 pages. Chester Music #CH76989. Published by Chester Music (HL.14041362).

UPC: 884088594503. 6.75x9.75x0.01 inches.

For unaccompanied SATB choir.

This work was written for the Choir of Eton College.

Text by King Henry VI, who founded Eton College in 1440.

String Quartet (Score)

SKU: HL.284555

String Quartet. Composed by John Luther Adams. Music Sales America. Classical. Softcover. Composed 2018. 74 pages. Chester Music #CH87868. Published by Chester Music (HL.284555).

UPC: 888680912901. 9x12 inches.

Composers note:

I never imagined I would write a string quartet. Then I heard the JACK Quartet, and I understood how I might be able to make the medium my own. The result was The Wind in High Places - a twenty-minute work composed entirely on natural harmonics and open strings.

Over the next few years, two more quartets followed. The second quartet, untouched, is a further exploration of the aeolian sound world of the first. Then, in Canticles of the Sky, the musicians finally touch the fingerboards of their instruments.

And now comes Everything That Rises.

This fourth quartet is more expansive, both in time and in space. It grows out of Sila: The Breath of the World - a performance-length choral/orchestral work composed on a rising series of sixteen harmonic clouds.

Everything That Rises traverses this same territory, but in a much more melodic way.

Each musician is a soloist, playing throughout. They surround the audience. Time floats.

Over the course of an hour, the lines spin out - always rising - in acoustically perfect intervals that grow progressively smaller as they spiral upward... until the music dissolves into the soft noise of the bows, sighing.