SKU: HL.49013032
ISBN 9790001131902. 8.25x11.75x0.24 inches.
Schlagzeug I: 3 Beck. * kl. Tr. * Crot. * 7 Tempelbl. * Vibr. - Schlagzeug II: 8 Tamt. * 6 Boo-Bam * Vibr. * Ratsche - Schlagzeug III: Crot * gr. Tr. * 2 Flex. * Marimba (5 Okt.) - Schlagzeug IV: 6 Tomt. * Stempelfl. * Mar. * Cuica * 2 Kurbisraspeln * Marimba (4 Okt.) * Kast. - Schlagzeug V: P. * 1 Stempelfl. * Guiro * Glsp. - Schlagzeug VI: 14 Thai-Gongs * 6 Bong. * Holztomt. * Peitsche mit Fussmasch. (oder Gegenschlagblocke).
SKU: BR.PB-5116-07
ISBN 9790004210086. 6.5 x 9 inches.
From among Brahms' 21 Hungarian Dances, the composer orchestrated three of them himself and conducted them in this version. These three had not been available as study scores to this day.
SKU: HL.49018099
ISBN 9790001158428. UPC: 884088567347. 8.25x11.75x0.457 inches. Latin - German.
On letting go(Concerning the selection of the texts) In the selection of the texts, I have allowed myself to be motivated and inspired by the concept of 'letting go'. This appears to me to be one of the essential aspects of dying, but also of life itself. We humans cling far too strongly to successful achievements, whether they have to do with material or ideal values, or relationships of all kinds. We cannot and do not want to let go, almost as if our life depended on it. As we will have to practise the art of letting go at the latest during our hour of death, perhaps we could already make a start on this while we are still alive. Tagore describes this farewell with very simple but strikingly vivid imagery: 'I will return the key of my door'. I have set this text for tenor solo. Here I imagine, and have correspondingly noted in a certain passage of the score, that the protagonist finds himself as though 'in an ocean' of voices in which he is however not drowning, but immersing himself in complete relaxation. The phenomenon of letting go is described even more simply and tersely in Psalm 90, verse 12: 'So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom'. This cannot be expressed more plainly.I have begun the requiem with a solo boy's voice singing the beginning of this psalm on a single note, the note A. This in effect says it all. The work comes full circle at the culmination with a repeat of the psalm which subsequently leads into a resplendent 'lux aeterna'. The intermediate texts of the Requiem which highlight the phenomenon of letting go in the widest spectrum of colours originate on the one hand from the Latin liturgy of the Messa da Requiem (In Paradisum, Libera me, Requiem aeternam, Mors stupebit) and on the other hand from poems by Joseph von Eichendorff, Hermann Hesse, Rabindranath Tagore and Rainer Maria Rilke.All texts have a distinctive positive element in common and view death as being an organic process within the great system of the universe, for example when Hermann Hesse writes: 'Entreiss dich, Seele, nun der Zeit, entreiss dich deinen Sorgen und mache dich zum Flug bereit in den ersehnten Morgen' ['Tear yourself way , o soul, from time, tear yourself away from your sorrows and prepare yourself to fly away into the long-awaited morning'] and later: 'Und die Seele unbewacht will in freien Flugen schweben, um im Zauberkreis der Nacht tief und tausendfach zu leben' ['And the unfettered soul strives to soar in free flight to live in the magic sphere of the night, deep and thousandfold']. Or Joseph von Eichendorff whose text evokes a distant song in his lines: 'Und meine Seele spannte weit ihre Flugel aus. Flog durch die stillen Lande, als floge sie nach Haus' ['And my soul spread its wings wide. Flew through the still country as if homeward bound.']Here a strong romantically tinged occidental resonance can be detected which is however also accompanied by a universal spirit going far beyond all cultures and religions. In the beginning was the sound Long before any sort of word or meaningful phrase was uttered by vocal chords, sounds, vibrations and tones already existed. This brings us back to the music. Both during my years of study and at subsequent periods, I had been an active participant in the world of contemporary music, both as percussionist and also as conductor and composer. My early scores had a somewhat adventurous appearance, filled with an abundance of small black dots: no rhythm could be too complicated, no register too extreme and no harmony too dissonant. I devoted myself intensely to the handling of different parameters which in serial music coexist in total equality: I also studied aleatory principles and so-called minimal music.I subsequently emigrated and took up residence in Spain from where I embarked on numerous travels over the years to India, Africa and South America. I spent repeated periods during this time as a resident in non-European countries. This meant that the currents of contemporary music swept past me vaguely and at a great distance. What I instead absorbed during this period were other completely new cultures in which I attempted to immerse myself as intensively as possible.I learned foreign languages and came into contact with musicians of all classes and styles who had a different cultural heritage than my own: I was intoxicated with the diversity of artistic potential.Nevertheless, the further I distanced myself from my own Western musical heritage, the more this returned insistently in my consciousness.The scene can be imagined of sitting somewhere in the middle of the Brazilian jungle surrounded by the wailing of Indians and out of the blue being provided with the opportunity to hear Beethoven's late string quartets: this can be a heart-wrenching experience, akin to an identity crisis. This type of experience can also be described as cathartic. Whatever the circumstances, my 'renewed' occupation with the 'old' country would not permit me to return to the point at which I as an audacious young student had maltreated the musical parameters of so-called contemporary music. A completely different approach would be necessary: an extremely careful approach, inching my way gradually back into the Western world: an approach which would welcome tradition back into the fold, attempt to unfurl the petals and gently infuse this tradition with a breath of contemporary life.Although I am aware that I will not unleash a revolution or scandal with this approach, I am nevertheless confident as, with the musical vocabulary of this Requiem, I am travelling in an orbit in which no ballast or complex structures will be transported or intimated: on the contrary, I have attempted to form the message of the texts in music with the naivety of a 'homecomer'. Harald WeissColonia de San PedroMarch 2009.
SKU: AP.38483
UPC: 038081432397. English.
A sprite is a small or elusive supernatural being such as an elf or pixie. This piece is evocative of just such beings. It is playful in character, portraying images of these beings as they dance about and frolic in their own spaces---be that wood, water, fields, or even in our imagination. These sprites invite you to play with them as you listen to the music.
SKU: AP.38483S
UPC: 038081432403. English.
SKU: HL.51487584
UPC: 196288122449. 6.75x9.5x0.187 inches.
Debussy wrote these two short dances to a commission from the instrument-making firm of Pleyel, which was keen to use famous names in the marketing of its newly-developed chromatic harp. The dances are also playable without problem on the pedal harp, which was to replace the chromatic harp on the concert platform. The archaic style of the pieces, including modal harmonies, used to express a “sacred†rite and a “profane†dance of joy, points to the enthusiasm for antiquity of Debussy himself and of the artistic world around 1900. This is Henle's first critical edition of the pieces, and is based on careful checking of the autograph and first edition.
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SKU: AP.45819
UPC: 038081523279. English.
Transcribed from the original piano version for string orchestra by the composer himself, this suite is a staple of string ensemble repertoire. Perfectly set for young players, this will become a classic for your library. (2:10) This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.
SKU: TM.06568SET
P/C in set. Hail, Hail; Hallowe'en; Jografree; The Nature Class; When Perrico plays; Indian Dance; Popular Pauline; I and Myself and Me.
SKU: HL.49033032
ISBN 9790001130554. UPC: 888680942229. 8.25x11.5x0.462 inches. English.
Fascinated by the idea that there could be an omniscient witch, Partch wrote these ten scenes for a singer and ensemble. The musicians and their movements are part of the plot in which people are freed from various problems by a witch. Most of the required instruments and the sound system used were developed by Partch itself.
SKU: TM.06943SET
Chorus in English (no piano reduction); Vocal Score in French/English; Score in German/English. Narrator in score and vocal score only. Clothbound score. Overture, No. 1 Scherzo, No. 2 Melodram, Elfenmarsch (A March of Fairies), No. 3 Lied mit Chor (Song with Chorus), No. 4 Melodram, No. 5 Intermezzo, No. 6 Melodram, No. 7 Notturno, No. 8 Melodram, No. 9 Hochzeitmarsch (Wedding March), No. 10 Melodram, No. 11 Ein Tanz Von Ruplein (Dance of Clowns), No. 12 Melodram, No. 13 Finale.
SKU: TM.06943SC
SKU: BR.PB-5581
ISBN 9790004213919. 10 x 12.5 inches.
A Programmatic Declaration of BeliefFelix Mendelssohn Bartholdy composed his Reformation Symphony for the celebrations marking the 300th anniversary of the Confessio Augustana, the Protestant declaration of faith. Owing to various and only partially explained reasons, there was no performance in 1830, the year in question; it was only two years later that the composer conducted the premiere of his work, now heavily revised, in Berlin. There was only one more performance in Mendelssohn's lifetime, this one conducted by Julius Rietz in Dusseldorf; the composer had since distanced himself from his opus.Conceived for the concert hall, the symphony formulates its theological references through the integration of various motives. This occurs in the finale, for example, in which Mendelssohn quotes the Luther chorale Ein feste Burg in the flute, from where it builds up to a triumphant principal theme. The strong extra-musical aspect must have been one of the reasons for the composer's later avoidance of this score, especially since Mendelssohn was becoming increasingly skeptical about explicitly programmatic music in the instrumental domain. Next to the Dusseldorf performance material of 1837, two scribal copies have been examined for the first time; they transmit the main stages of the version of 1830.
SKU: BR.PB-5598-07
ISBN 9790004214954. 6.5 x 9 inches.
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