Richard Reed Parry's Quartet For Heart And Breath is an innovative and original piece based on the performers' own bodily rhythms. This sheet music is for String Quartet (Violin/Violin/Viola/Cello).Richard Reed Parry is familiar to millions as the lead singer of rock band Arcade Fire, yet his foray into classical music is equally worthy of attention. Quartet For Heart And Breath is an experiment into using the performers' heartbeats and breathing to dictate the tempo. The performers are instructed to wear stethoscopes in order to listen to their heartbeats closely, while one complete breath corresponds to one bar and two heartbeats equal two crotchets.The result is a quiet and subtle piece, as each instrument has to play softly so as to be able to keep in time. The piece also has a naturally occurring dynamism in that the players' heart rates constantly change as the performance goes on, with each instrument falling in and out of sync sometimes culminating in a beautiful moment of all heartbeats matching each other. Interestingly, this unique aspect means that no performance will ever be the same, meaning to hear or play this composition will be a truly once in a lifetime experience.Quartet For Heart And Breath is a superbly one-of-a-kind composition by Richard Reed Parry. Commissioned by the Kronos Quartet, this piece makes for a wonderfully distinctive performance, with fascinating implications for the connection between the music and the body. / Quatuor A Cordes

Remember fighting off the Sandman, desperately struggling to stay awake at the chance that you might catch a glimpse of Saint Nick. Every rustle or bump made you jolt from your quilted pod and race to the living room where the lit tree posed, draped in soft light. Still no Santa! It took all your energy to climb back into bed with your eyelids drawn and your body heavy. Tucked back in as best as you could with the sheets and pillows slightly disheveled, you dozed off while musical thoughts fill your groggy head. A wide, animated grin filled your face as you dreamt of chilly nights of caroling and warm, fire-lit sing-a-longs. Music has always been an integral part of the holiday season. As everyone knows, there is no better way to celebrate than with a song. Re-live your childhood memories and share your love of music this holiday season with Santa's Little Helper published by Santorella Publications. Santa's Little Helper for Viola is also written as solos or duets in accommodating keys for Violin, Cello and Bass. This best selling Santorella Publication includes a piano accompaniment CD with lyrics, so the whole family can sing along. The Piano Accompaniment book for this Stringed Instrument Edition is sold separately. Santorella's Horn Edition is also available for trumpet, clarinet, flute, alto sax and trombone../ Recueil / Alto et Piano

For Violin, Viola and Piano (Reduced from the orchestra version). Britten was so remarkably prolific as a young composer that many of the works from his teens were put aside to await revision or completion as he rushed on to the next piece. This was particularly the case around the time of his Opus 1 Sinfonietta , composed in the summer of 1932, his second year as a student at the Royal College Of Music. The Sinfonietta was written (in less than three weeks) very soon after Britten had completed the first draft of the Double Concerto - but after finishing the Sinfonietta he went back to revise the Concerto's second movement. He started work on his Op.2 Phantasy for Oboe and String Trio a few weeks later. Although the Concerto follows the same three-movement pattern as the Sinfonietta , it is more ambitious in scale - and since the sketch is, unusually for Britten, complete in practically every detail, it is puzzling that he never made a full score of the work after finishing the composition, and seems to have made no attempt to get it performed. It is not clear if he had particular performers in mind (he was, of course, a Viola player, although he is not likely to have intended the part for himself). He showed the work to his composition teacher at the college, John Ireland, who, as Britten recorded in his diary, was 'pretty pleased' with it - but it is distinctly possible that his experience in rehearsing the Sinfonietta with a student orchestra in 1932 ('I have never heard such an appalling row!' reads another diary entry) discouraged him from going on to complete the Double Concerto in score. He was not to hear any of his orchestral works until the first performance of Our Hunting Fathers in 1936. In the absence of Britten's full score it was necessary for me to prepare the work from the sketch. But the instrumentation is so carefully indicated in the draft that the resulting score is not far from being 100% Britten - only between bars 70 and 74 of the slow movement did there seem to be any need to add anything significant to Britten's texture. The Double Concerto (Britten's manuscript title was 'Concerto In B Minor', but he referred to it in his diary, in characteristic shorthand, as '2ble Concerto') is the most recent addition to his corpus of works, mostly dating from Britten's youth and early maturity, that, since his death, have been revived after many years, or performed for the first time. Britten himself occasionally returned to his early works, and in his last years revised both the early String Quartet In D of 1931 and the opera Paul Bunyan . The Piano score published separately is not a reduction from the orchestral score, but a transcription of Britten's composition sketch, including his indications of instrumentation. The first performance of the Double Concerto was given at the 50th Aldeburgh Festival by Katherine Hunka and Philip Dukes, with the Britten-Pears Orchestra conducted by Kent Nagano, on June 15th 1997. -Colin Matthews / Violon, Alto Et Piano

for Viola. If you play an instrument and you're a Disney fan, you'll love this collection of 101 favorites to learn and play! Songs include: Beauty and the Beast - Can You Feel the Love Tonight - A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes - Evermore - Go the Distance - He's a Pirate - I See the Light - Kiss the Girl - Let It Go - Mickey Mouse March - Reflection - A Spoonful of Sugar - True Love's Kiss - We're All in This Together - When You Wish upon a Star - A Whole New World - You've Got a Friend in Me - Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah - and more./ Recueil / Alto

Les Chardons d'après Van Gogh Discipline / Instrument : Alto et orchestre de chambre Nomenclature : 1(+picc).1(+ca).2(+clB).1(cbn) / 1.1.1.0 / perc / 1.1.2.1.1 Genre : contemporain Média : Partition Nombre de pages : 90 Format : A3 Editeur : Lemoine Réf. : 28792 Date de parution : 28/05/2009 ISBN / ISMN : 9790230987929 Création 09/09/2009 - Turin (Italie), Festival Settembre Musica, Geneviève Strosser (vla), Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, Daniel Kawka (direction) Commanditaire Commande de l'Etat à l'initiative de Daniel Kawka et de l'Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain Notice Van Gogh écrit en 1888 : Le peintre de l'avenir, c'est un coloriste comme il n'y en a pas encore eu. A cette époque, Van Gogh se sépare des impressionnistes, élargit leur intuition de la couleur et la simplifie. La forme-couleur se crée plutôt qu'elle ne se recompose dans notre vision. Van Gogh ne se soucie plus que de l'énergie de l'image. Le peintre séjourne en Arles où Gauguin le rejoint quelque temps. Il veut rénover les fondements mêmes de l'art, changer la technique de la peinture. Il rêve de créer un atelier du Midi et pense trouver là le Japon idéal, les paysages de Monticelli, de Cézanne, le rayonnement du soleil et l'âpre lumière qui annonce l'art de l'avenir. Il forge un style original en deux cents tableaux, parmi lesquels les Tournesols (août 1888), Joseph Roulin, le postier (août 1888), L'Arlésienne (novembre 1888) et Les Chardons, qui datent de la même année. Des tons vifs et crus, des couleurs claires, éclatantes, étalées en des dispositions stridentes à grands coups de pinceau ou au couteau, résument tout le registre expressif de son art. Bleu contre jaune, vert contre rouge écarlate, lilas, gris-rose, gris-violet, bleu et vert, noir et jaune: la seule force des contrastes suffit au déploiement de la forme. Tournesols, oliviers, chaumes, cyprès, ravins, rochers, chardons, tous ces motifs lacérés, distordus, ont l'intensité spontanée d'un tourment intérieur. Van Gogh a délibérément renoncé à la capture de l'instant fugitif comme à la représentation de la lumière, de l'air, de l'atmosphère - la qualité transitoire de l'impression visuelle lui importe peu désormais. Ses toiles sont emportées par la véhémence des touches, la brutale évidence des couleurs, leur vitalité convulsive. Désespoir, lucidité, emportement sont les traits d'un art que l'on a reconnu précurseur de l'expressionnisme. Les Chardons nous découvrent les racines du monde, une sorte de brasier originel d'où jaillissent trois flamèches. Les assises géologiques du paysage - l'expression est de Cézanne - y semblent déchiquetées, consumées dans une perpétuelle fournaise. C'est un enchevêtrement d'arêtes vives, une nature émiettée, une image de passion et de fureur. Au fond, à gauche, se découpe un petit pan de ciel bleu, encastré dans un horizon surélevé de montagnes vertes. La terre, chauffée à blanc, y occupe tout l'espace. Au premier plan, un fourmillement de stries incandescentes qui se tordent et crépitent. Les Chardons d'après Van Gogh - ma propre transposition musicale inspirée du tableau auquel elle emprunte son titre - sont écrits pour un alto soliste et une formation de chambre de quinze instrumentistes. Cette pièce s'attache à restituer la vitalité sourde de la toile, son atmosphère d'embrasement. Elle n'a ni contours ni limites, ni, à proprement parler, de schèmes d'organisation. J'y ai plutôt recherché des agencements formels doués d'une valeur dynamique, donnant au modelé de la masse sonore un rôle ambigu: axes de forces, impulsion des gestes, variété des dimensions directrices, tensions du matériau, conflit des principes formateurs. L'alto décrit en permanence la trajectoire idéale d'un mouvement irréel - formes spiralées, volutes, arabesques. Mais il fraie son chemin dans un milieu constamment hostile. Le choix du timbre de l'alto met en valeur le registre du sous-médium, à l'intensité contenue. La technique d'écriture consiste en une composition de textures, dont le propre est l'enchevêtrement des forces et des formes. Les structures perceptibles elles-mêmes procèdent du seul jeu des masses et des couleurs. J'ai évidemment mis l'accent sur la dynamique de l'interaction des couleurs qui forment la trame sonore. Je nourris toutefois un certain scepticisme à l'égard des méthodes scientifiques et raisonnées qui s'appliquent au traitement des propriétés acoustiques du son. La culture du son n'est pas, à mon sens, réductible à la science du son. La musique, me semble-t-il, a ceci de commun avec la peinture qu'elle peut investir la couleur de qualités contraires. Un bleu violacé peut s'assimiler aussi bien à un pourpre tirant sur le bleu qu'à un bleu en train de rougir. Van Gogh soutenait précisément l'idée d'un dynamisme, et même d'une intentionnalité de la couleur, capable de se déployer selon des foyers et des aires de diffusion, en transgressant toute limite. La musique que je souhaite écrire n'a pourtant rien de commun avec une nouvelle forme d'impressionnisme. C'est le drame que je recherche dans la plastique sonore. Ce drame peut être aussi bien celui des structures dispersées que de l'amplification indéfinie des actes, celui de la violence des masses tumultueuses comme celui du surgissement ou de l'essor. La partition est une Commande de l'Etat, à l'initiative de Daniel Kawka et de l'Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain. Hugues Dufourt

To complement the 'Sassmannshaus Early Start on the Viola? method, Bärenreiter offer a selection of recital pieces tailored to this educational concept. This edition presents 14 pieces covering a wide stylistic spectrum, giving viola players a rich body of appealing concert pieces to choose from.The works are arranged in increasing order of difficulty, the cornerstones being two works by Georg Eduard Goltermann- his technically simple 'Andante religioso? and his demanding 'Adagio? and 'Tarantella?. Works by Kalliwoda, Fauré, Grieg, Dvorák, amongst others, are included.- 14 recital pieces presented in increasing order of difficulty- Wide range of styles includedThe editorKurt Sassmannshaus is a violinist and viola player, a professor of violin in Cincinnati (OH) and a promoter of violin teaching with projects in Germany, China and the United States. He continues the work of his father Egon Sassmannshaus, who set new standards with the Sassmannshaus string methods. / Alto Et Piano

This collection features 12 Great Movie Themes complete with backing tracks that will make you sound great! Audio is available online via streaming or download.Pieces include: Batman Theme, The Godfather (Love Theme), He's a Pirate, Mrs. Darcy, My Heart Will Go on (Love Theme from 'Titanic'), Over the Rainbow, The Pink Panther, Star Wars (Main Theme) and more. / Alto

This massive collection will keep instrumentalists busy with 101 pop hits to learn and play! Songs include: All About That Bass - All of Me - Brave - Breakaway - Call Me Maybe - Clocks - Fields of Gold - Firework - Hello - Hey, Soul Sister - Ho Hey - I Gotta Feeling - I Will Remember You - Jar of Hearts - Love Story - 100 Years - Roar - Rolling in the Deep - Royals - Say Something - Shake It Off - Smells like Teen Spirit - Uptown Funk - When You Say Nothing at All - and more. / Alto

40 Of His Greatest Hits. Par LLOYD WEBBER ANDREW. 40 of the most memorable songs composed by the inimitable Andrew Lloyd Webber are gathered in this value-packed instrumental solo collection. Songs include: Amigos Para Siempre (Friends for Life) - Any Dream Will Do - Don't Cry for Me Argentina - I Believe My Heart - I Don't Know How to Love Him - Learn to Be Lonely - Love Changes Everything - Memory - No Matter What - The Phantom of the Opera - Pie Jesu - Starlight Express - Stick It to the Man - Tell Me on a Sunday - 'Til I Hear You Sing - Whistle Down the Wind - With One Look - You Must Love Me - and many more./ Recueil / Alto

John Luther Adams' The Wind In High Places for String Quartet. Score and parts.This work was commissioned to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Theodore Front Musical Literature. It is dedicated to Christine Clark. / Quatuor A Cordes