| Mendelssohns Möwen (2012) Cello - Advanced Barenreiter
Violoncello - Level 5 SKU: BA.BA11043 A Song without Words for Violonc...(+)
Violoncello - Level 5 SKU: BA.BA11043 A Song without Words for Violoncello Solo. Composed by Manfred Trojahn. Stapled. Performance score. Composed 2012. 4 pages. Duration 10 minutes. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA11043_00. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BA11043). ISBN 9790006543229. 33.5 x 25.5 cm inches. Manfred Trojahn on the origin and title of his impressive virtuoso solo work: Admittedly I do not know if he had seagulls, but since Mendelssohn was born in Hamburg, he will not have gone through life without at least the impression of the cry of seagulls. Nor do I know if seagulls played any part in his life in Rome. I myself was astonished when, one or two years ago in the Villa Massimo, I was, not exactly annoyed but disturbed by the strong rhythmical cry of seagulls. I was just about to write a bassoon solo when the seagulls started. Then the idea came to me that precisely this sequence of notes could serve as the basis of the work. And the sequence for the bassoon solo is, in turn, the basis of the piece for violoncello - this is how titles are born... Of course the violoncello meanders with virtuosic ease from the seagull motif to the 'elf-like' skittering brought to music by Mendelssohn and used time and again in his compositions, finally becoming a cabaletta. Now, cabalettas are not very representative of Mendelssohn, but as I was composing I definitely wanted to put a cabaletta in this passage. I am sure Mendelssohn and I will easily agree on this, especially since later justice is done to him in the rapid passages and, of course in the tonal cadenza at the very end, which is more indicative of his time than of mine ... isn't it?
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| Of Elutropia (1982) Cello Chester
Cello SKU: HL.14010200 For Solo Cello. Composed by Brian Elias. Mu...(+)
Cello SKU: HL.14010200 For Solo Cello. Composed by Brian Elias. Music Sales America. Classical. Softcover. With Text language: English. Chester Music #CH88180. Published by Chester Music (HL.14010200). UPC: 884088837112. “Elutropia is a Gemme, in colour greene, or grassie, in part coloured and bespotted with Purple speckes & bloud coloures vaines. This is a marvellous Jugler, for it will cause things object to be presented to our eies as it listeth. It being put into a Basan of water chaungeth to a mans eyesight the Sunne his beames, and giveth them a contrarie colour. Being also moved and beaten in the ayre maketh to appeare a bloudie Sunne, and darkneth the ayre in the maner of an Eclipse: and therfore it is called Eloutropia as you would say, the Sunne his enimie. There is of this name also a certain Hearbe which Enchaunters & Witches have oftentimes used and doe use, as also that above said, whereby they have mocked and deluded many, which by meanes and working and enchauntment, have so dazzled the beholders eies, that they have gone by them invisibly.†John Maplet (died 1592) A greene forest, or A natural historie 1567 This text from the clergyman, astrologer and natural historian John Maplet's fascinating work in which he describes the properties of various gemstones is the inspiration for this piece. Without being programmatic, the music is constantly developed to try and mimic the way the shafts of light mutate through the gem, and the illusions and magic they create. $10.00 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 4 to 6 weeks | | |
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