SKU: HL.49016967

ISBN 9790001140034. UPC: 841886003576. 9.0x12.0x0.092 inches.

SKU: HL.50498631

8.5x11.75x0.104 inches.

SKU: LM.23422D

ISBN 9790231702361.

ABSIL : Serenade - Espieglerie - ALAIN : Nous n'irons plus au bois - AURIC : Danse francaise - BERTHOMIEU : L'Ane capricieux - BITSCH : Clair matin - BOULNOIS : Berceuse du petit negre - CHAILLEY : Frere Jacques - CLERGUE : Simplement - Crepuscule - CLIQUET-PLEYEL : La Guitare de Ramon - DAMASE : Pluie - DUTILLEUX : Bergerie - FRAGGI : Les Sabots de Cathy - FRANCAIX : L'Oiseau tombe du nid - FRANCK : Chant de la Creuse - NOEL-GALLON : Promenade dans le parc - HUBEAU : Chanson americaine - JACOB : Blues - KOECHLIN : Sicilienne - LANDOWSKI : Les Cailloux du petit poucet - LELEU : Melodie - MEUNIER : Tendresse - MICHAEL : Pour un rayon de lune - Danse des gardiens du temple - PASCAL : Clarinette solo - PLE : Le Chant du patre - Devant l'Icone - SANCAN : Premiere melancolie - SAS : Pastoral - Ronda - Cancion - SAUGUET : Le Manege a vapeur - TAILLEFERRE : Lavandin de Haute-Provence - Rose d'Anjou - THIRIET : Petit conte - Plantation song - WIENER : Spiritual.

SKU: B7.B111

8.5x11 inches.

TRIBUTE TO KEROUAC, version for solo piano by David Alpher was inspired by the work, life, and times of Jack Kerouac, King of the Beat Generation. Cast in 7 movements, this significant composition is hugely influenced by jazz. In the preface to the score the composer writes: Kerouac demonstrated the epic contradiction of America: on the one hand its wild energy, joy of life, and expansiveness; on the other, its tendency to self-destruct. Tribute to Kerouac is my musical response to, and commemoration of, this important American writer who liked to describe himself as a 'jazz.poet.'The ensemble version of this work (for clarinet, tenor sax, piano & string bass) is recorded on Ongaku Records #024-112.

SKU: HL.234744

9.0x12.0x0.035 inches.

Composer's Note: The Lullaby from The Unicorns arose from an opera libretto I commissioned from John Heath-Stubbs (1918-2006) in the late 1960s. In his story two unicorns are discovered in a remote part of Africa. Both the East and West want to obtain them for research so they send out rival expeditions. The Western technique is to lure the unicorn with a young girl singing a lullaby. Both East and West capture unicorns but the mythical animals escape in the end. I never completed the opera but I made a six-movement suite from it called The Unicorns. There are three songs and three instrumental numbers and the first performance was given with Elisabeth Soderstrom and Solna Brass under Lars-Gunnar Bjorklund at Ekensbergskyrkan, Solna, Sweden on 31 October 1982. This version was recorded and my arrangement of the three songs for voice and piano was recorded by Marilyn Hill Smith. The career of the Lullaby continued with a version for clarinet and piano, which I premiered with Jack Brymer aboard the Sea Princess in the Mediterranean on 29 September 1986. The oboe version was for Sarah Francis, and Duke Dobing and I have recorded it for flute an piano. Lullaby can be played with a variety of solo instruments and is also available for piano left hand and piano solo.

SKU: IG.PMS121

9 x 12 in inches.

Innocence is available for either piano solo or piano and chamber accompaniment (flute, clarinet, first and second violins, viola and cello). It is a good learning tool for aspiring musicians at or above a beginner's level.

Technically, the piece contains several tertian harmonies and simple flares of credenza-like complexities. The form is a through composed inspiration that later becomes more refined in terms of symmetry and balance. Less technically described, Innocence was written to demonstrate the differences and the compatibility between traditional and untraditional harmonic development. Students will or should recognize the two different approaches.

In the most traditional approach, the listener is typically able to predict how the melody will unfold. It is like a journey down a road where the passengers can see all the straight-aways and turns ahead. Innocence , however, while never discarding or disrespecting musical grammar, is occasionally innocently twisted to hijack the listener into gently surprising and unanticipated turns. It is a good learning tool to point out the different approaches to composition. It is also simply a fun and entertaining piece in and of itself.

SKU: PR.11441803S

UPC: 680160639403.

A delightful musical story about a dog and her day-long celebration of life as told by various instruments, Sadie's Birthday Adventures offers a moment of audience participation and invites discussion about the individual voices (instruments) chosen to tell this tale. Children will enjoy the frog (bass trombone), butterfly (glockenspiel), and a romp in the forest with a chipmunk (full ensemble). Sadie's Birthday Adventures was commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra for its Sound All Around series of children's interactive concerts. For advanced performers.

SKU: HL.49017398

9.0x12.0x0.087 inches.

SKU: HL.44000922

ISBN 9790080120019. UPC: 073999825220. Bach (23 x 30,2 cm) inches. Vasilyevich Sergey Rachmaninov; Zoltan Kocsis.

Vocalise, for soprano (or tenor) voice with piano accompaniment, came into being in 1910 as the final piece in Rachmaninov's Op. 34 song series. Most of the songs were tailored to suit the personalities of various outstanding Russian singers (including Chaliapin), and dedicated to them. An interesting feature of Vocalise, which was written for the soprano Antonina Nezhdanova, is that, as its title indicates, the vocal solo has no text: the performer can sing it through on any one vowel of her choice. This song became one of the composer's most popular pieces, and countless arrangements have been made of it (for orchestra, for various chamber ensembles, for violin, for cello, for almost every kind of brass instrument, for clarinet, for guitar, for harmonica, even for cello orchestra!). One of the most successful transcriptions for solo piano, first published in 1981, is the work of the world-famous Hungarian concert pianist, conductor and composer, Zoltan Kocsis.