SKU: SU.46200030
Clarinet, Violin & Piano Published by: Verdehr Trio Pathways is nominally in three movements, to be played without pause almost forming one large movement with three large sections. The first (in a flexible sonata form) and third operate within a pervasive romanticism. The second explores other directions atop continuous alternation between 4/8 and 5/8 measures. Michigan State University Press.
SKU: SU.46200090
Clarinet, Violin & Piano Duration: 22' Composed: 1988 Published by: Verdehr Trio Tripartita is a title invented for this score, a piece in three movements for three players. The first movement Elaborations is a sonata-like structure whose ideas evolve out of the harmonic succession heard as the background material of the opening passage. The second and third movements are based on essentially the same scalar and harmonic materials as the first; however, they are somewhat different in their moods and expression, in part because they both incorporate elements derived from popular music idioms of the early part of the twentieth century. The form of the second movement, Dances,is related to the nineteenth century scherzo with two trios; here, the scherzo sections are fast and jazzy,while the more relaxed digressions are, respectively, a ragtime-waltz and a tango. The third movement Blues with Variations follows without pause, and furthermore is linked structurally to the previous movements, since the chord sequence for the blues (and subsequent variations) is the same one employed from the very opening of the work. —William Averitt.
SKU: SU.46200050
Clarinet, Violin & Piano Duration: 10' Composed: 2001 Published by: Verdehr Trio Every measure of Collage – 1912 is based on one or more snippets taken from one composition each by Béla Bartók, Irving Berlin, Claude Debussy, W.C. Handy, Charles Ives, Gustav Mahler, Maurice Ravel, Arnold Schoenberg, James Scott, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, and JoaquÃn Turina. The work is about 12 minutes long and consists of two parts that are performed without pause. Michigan State University Press.
SKU: SU.46200040
Clarinet, Violin & Piano Duration: 28' Composed: 1994 Published by: Verdehr Trio The first movement, marked Allegretto, is in sonata-allegro form with extended recapitulations of the two major thematic ideas but varied both in music treatment and instrumentation. The second movement is a scherzo with a trio section interpolated throughout the movement. The third movement marked Adagio assai, is a large-canvassed, expressive slow movement in which a rhythmic motive heard in the first two movements is fully emphasized and used in building towards the climax of the movement. Michigan State University Press.
SKU: SU.46200080
Clarinet, Violin & Piano Duration: 15 ' Composed: 1999 Published by: Verdehr Trio Written as a tribute to the Verdehr Trio, the first movement begins as a lyrical dialogue for violin and clarinet, which with the harp-like entrance of the piano transforms into a virtuosic dance. The second movement and third movements use themes Chihara’s musical SHOGUN. Michigan State University Press.
SKU: IS.CM6073EM
ISBN 9790365060733.
Charles Camilleri (1931 - 2009) was a Maltese composer. As a teenager, he composed a number of works based on folk music and legends of his native Malta. He moved from his early influences by Maltese folk music to a musical form in which nothing is fixed and his compositions evolve from themselves with a sense of fluency and inevitability. He composed over 100 works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, voice and solo instruments. Camilleri's work has been performed throughout the world and his research of folk music and improvisation, the influences of the sounds of Africa and Asia, together with the academic study of European music, helped him create a universal style. Camilleri is recognized in Malta as one of the major composers of his generation. He died on 3 January 2009 at the age of 77. His funeral took place two days later at Naxxar, his long-time town of residence. Flags across Malta were flown at half-mast in tribute to him.
