SKU: SU.12600020
Commissioned by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Dedicated to the workers of the Pittsburgh iron furnaces, Eliza Furnace features metallic percussion instruments, brass, and flutes that reflect the industrial roots of the city's history while celebrating its future as a model for sustainability, environmental responsibility and the arts.Orchestra Duration: 5 Composed: 2014 Published by: Plurabelle Music Performance materials available on rental only:.
SKU: HL.50495851
FOR LARGE ORCHESTRA - PARTITURA.
SKU: KN.8365
UPC: 822795083651.
The arranger has taken this lively melody and added easy fiddle-style touches, a pinch of pizzicato, some simple double stops, open string ostinatos and fun-loving bass lines to create a winner that performers will want to practice and audiences will love to hear. Duration 1:40. Available in SmartMusic.
SKU: BT.SY-4062-01
English.
SKU: BR.PB-5432
World premiere of the orchestral version: Stuttgart, January 1, 2018World premiere of the piano version: Mito, June 17, 2017
Have a look into EB 9283.
ISBN 9790004212790. 10 x 12.5 inches.
Marche fatale is an incautiously daring escapade that may annoy the fans of my compositions more than my earlier works, many of which have prevailed only after scandals at their world premieres. My Marche fatale has, though, little stylistically to do with my previous compositional path; it presents itself without restraint, if not as a regression, then still as a recourse to those empty phrases to which modern civilization still clings in its daily utility music, whereas music in the 20th and 21st centuries has long since advanced to new, unfamiliar soundscapes and expressive possibilities. The key term is banality. As creators we despise it, we try to avoid it - though we are not safe from the cheap banal even within new aesthetic achievements.Many composers have incidentally accepted the banal. Mozart wrote Ein musikalischer Spass [A Musical Jape], a deliberately amateurishly miscarried sextet. Beethoven's Bagatellen op. 119 were rejected by the publisher on the grounds that few will believe that this minor work is by the famous Beethoven. Mauricio Kagel wrote, tongue in cheek, so to speak, Marsche, um den Sieg zu verfehlen [Marches for being Unvictorious], Ligeti wrote Hungarian Rock; in his Circus Polka Stravinsky quoted and distorted the famous, all too popular Schubert military march, composed at the time for piano duet. I myself do not know, though, whether I ought to rank my Marche fatale alongside these examples: I accept the humor in daily life, the more so as this daily life for some of us is not otherwise to be borne. In music, I mistrust it, considering myself all the closer to the profounder idea of cheerfulness having little to do with humor. However: Isn't a march with its compelling claim to a collectively martial or festive mood absurd, a priori? Is it even music at all? Can one march and at the same time listen? Eventually, I resolved to take the absurd seriously - perhaps bitterly seriously - as a debunking emblem of our civilization that is standing on the brink. The way - seemingly unstoppable - into the black hole of all debilitating demons: that can become serene. My old request of myself and my music-creating surroundings is to write a non-music, whence the familiar concept of music is repeatedly re-defined anew and differently, so that derailed here - perhaps? - in a treacherous way, the concert hall becomes the place of mind-opening adventures instead of a refuge in illusory security. How could that happen? The rest is - thinking.(Helmut Lachenmann, 2017)CD (Version for Piano):Nicolas Hodges CD Wergo WER 7393 2 Bibliography:Ich bin nicht ,,pietistisch verformt. Ein Gesprach [von Jan Brachmann] mit dem Komponisten Helmut Lachenmann, in: FAZ vom 7. Juni 2018, p. 15.World premiere of the piano version: Mito/Japan, June 17, 2017, World premiere of the orchestral version: Stuttgart, January 1, 2018, World premiere of the ensemble version: Frankfurt, December 9, 2020.
SKU: AP.48067S
UPC: 038081556857. English.
Lost Tomb of the Incas by Michael Story will transport your orchestra to the ancient civilization of the Incas. Featuring full-sounding melodies, interesting rhythmic accompaniments, and exciting percussion parts, this piece can be performed by string orchestra alone, or with as many added winds and percussion as possible, up to full orchestra. A perfect piece to open or close any concert or festival! (2:00) This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.
SKU: AP.48067
UPC: 038081556840. English.
SKU: BT.SY-4484-01
German.
SKU: AP.41264
UPC: 038081480770. English.
This trio shines as transcribed for string orchestra and makes possible the inclusion of a viola part, both as an equal player in the primary melodic material and in fulfilling harmonic realizations. All parts are playable in first position with the exception of fourth position required occasionally for cellos. Opportunities abound for students to polish Baroque bowing techniques. (4:30) This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.
SKU: AP.41264S
UPC: 038081480787. English.
SKU: AP.44815S
UPC: 038081515526. English.
A true joy to perform and to hear, this timeless George Gershwin piece is perfectly set for strings with optional percussion and arranged by Jerry Brubaker. Composed in 1928, then immortalized in the 1951 movie, it has become a classic. All the highlights are included in just over four minutes. (4:20) This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.
SKU: AP.38500
UPC: 038081438900. English.
This suite is comprised of four movements whose composers hail from Finland, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. Full of teaching opportunities, the contrasting movements include both dance tunes and folk songs stylized in the Romantic idiom. Musically sophisticated beyond the technical demands, each movement stands alone, or can be played together to make a substantial and satisfying concert or contest selection.
SKU: AP.46720S
UPC: 038081532882. English.
This stately grade 1.5 piece, Coronation of the Queen by Susan H. Day, uses easy rhythms, features interesting harmonies and memorable melodies, and reinforces low 2nd finger on D and A strings. Imagine a royal procession and celebration with crowds cheering as their beloved Queen passes by. You can hear the rhythmical chant Here Comes the Queen, and that quarter--eight--eight--half-note rhythm is found throughout the rest of the piece in all parts. Visualizing the story will bring this music to life! This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.
SKU: AY.OR3659PM
ISBN 9790543576940.
Nave was commissioned by the Arturo Márquez Extraordinary Fellowship in Composition of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). It is inspired by the Stultifera Navis (or The Ship of Fools) and by the book Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault, in which the author explains that during the Middle Ages until the Renaissance, in some European cities, the madmen and the sick were placed on ships and thrown out of society. Exiled, with no place or course, they wandered through the seas and rivers, embarked on a symbolic quest for reason.
SKU: AP.29664
UPC: 038081321578. English.
Young string musicians will enjoy performing this heavy rock style piece because it utilizes an aggressive style and mixed tonality similar to 'their' music that they listen to for fun. The concept behind the title of this piece is that, although we sometimes move dully through our daily routines, it is good to take time to appreciate the individual moments that make up our lives, like a child does the first time they experience something. All parts are in first position with few accidentals or difficult bowing patterns. At the same time, this piece will challenge your group with its independent voicings and syncopated, interlocking rhythms. This piece would add variety to any school concert, and would fit nicely in a festival program, especially one that utilized several different genres. (3:40).
SKU: BR.SON-636
ISBN 9790004803912. 10 x 12.5 inches.
The present volume contains five orchestral works, which Sibelius composed in 1904-1910: Die Dryade (Op. 45 No. 1), Musik zu einer Szene [Op. 45 No. 2/1904], Tanz-Intermezzo (Op. 45 No. 2), Pohjolas Tochter (Op. 49), and Pan und Echo (Op. 53a). An early version of Tanz-Intermezzo is included as an appendix. In addition, a fragment illustrating the unrealized plan of a symphonic poem called Luonnotar, which Sibelius reworked into Pohjolas Tochter, appears as a facsimile. Musik zu einer Szene is now published for the first time. Except for Pohjolas Tochter, all the works were composed for a choreographic purpose, (sub-)titled or referred to as dance intermezzos, or related to opus 45.
SKU: HL.49017939
ISBN 9790001144711. UPC: 884088566869. 8.25x11.75x0.205 inches.
This most frequently played orchestral work by Aribert Reimann quotes from and makes use of Robert Schumann's last finished composition, the so-called 'Geistervariationen' [Ghost Variations] in E flat major for piano from 1854, composed shortly before Schumann's suicide attempt. Reflecting on Schumann's subsequent life in Endenich, Reimann leaves the lyrical character of the original unchanged. But the breaking up of the theme into the third, fifth and seventh fragments symbolizes the transition from dreamy imagination to sickly brooding.
SKU: AP.49426S
ISBN 9781470650940. UPC: 038081571850. English.
The composer, Mark Wood, writes: Come Fly with Me comes from my personal visualization of flying while improvising music. In writing a work which combines classical and American rock styles, I have created a vehicle for musicians to spread their wings and truly learn the beautiful art of composing their own music on the spot in the improvisation section. (4:00).
SKU: KJ.SO380C
UPC: 8402704787.
Unparalleled was written in celebration of the 100th anniversary of America's National Park Service. Players and audiences will be swept up with the mix of simplicity and evolving grandeur of the music which beautifully symbolizes the myriad elements of nature, found in our National Parks. Extensive enrichment materials provide opportunities for students to learn about and reflect upon the natural and cultural resources so carefully preserved in America's National Parks. Duration: 3:36.
SKU: KJ.SO380F
SKU: RU.5360
SKU: HL.14027994
ISBN 9788759864593.
New York is the city which fascinates and inspires Ruders. Time and again he goes back there to work. 'Manhattan Abstraction' (1982) subtitles - a symphonic skyline for large orchestra - was conceived there. Ruders' Brittish colleague Oliver Knussen defines the piece as: - a performance of an extraordinary Morden-Times-like construction. It is a sort of symphonic sculpture, which in the composer's own words words propels forth from one particular inspiration: the New York profile, as seen from Liberty Island, one icy cold January day with it's open, clear sky and dazzling sun light. 'Manhatten Abstraction' appears as an amalgam of some of the compositorical habits found in present pieces. For instance, are present here compositorical ideas and melodic loans from 'Capriccio Pian'e Forte', 2nd String Quartet(1979), 'Four Compositions' (1980), and 2nd Piano Sonata(1982). The question at hand is mainly concerned with the enhanced elaboration of Ruders' use of the classic English change-ringing system: a permuting method pre-determining the order of tone-appearances and /or tone groups; a serial technique in other words. In spite of the rigidly fixed material, Ruders somehow manages to chisel out a personal expression by way of emphasising contrasting elements already existing within the material itself. The spiky, repetitive sections form a counterpart to a more human violin-solo. This dialectical tension is - as hinted by the title - a symphonic abstraction of a fascinating metropolis; the most beautiful and the ugliest. The subtitle: a symphonic skyline reflects the musical erection of the Manhattan profile, which under the clear sky, materializes into the most powerful and compelling man-made sculpture on earth. Thus 'Manhattan Abstraction' is a homage to, as well as a vision of, this giant contraption of concrete, glass, and chrome.
SKU: AP.49426
ISBN 9781470650933. UPC: 038081571843. English.
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