SKU: BP.BP2337
UPC: 748769023372. 6.875 x 10.5 inches.
Newly revoiced for Tenor/Bass Choirs, this majestic setting of Charles Wesley's text Ye Servants of God, combined with resounding echoes of Worthy the Lamb provides a deeply moving experience suitable for Easter, Ascension, and general worship.
SKU: CA.3912719
ISBN 9790007164508. Language: German.
Telemann's setting of Psalm 121 I lift up mine eyes to the hills reveals him to be an admirer of French music. Constructed on the example of a grand motet, each of the movements is patterned after the French model: the model of an overture for the first movement, the echoes of a chaconne in the second, the dotted gigue rhythms of the Canarie in the third. In addition there is the lively exchange between choir and solo ensemble, and much more. The music is full of poetic imagery, whenever the occasion arises, as at the very beginning with the words Ich hebe meine Augen auf, or in a later passage with the text Siehe, der Hüter Israel schläft noch schlummert nicht (Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep). Score and parts available separately - see item CA.3912700.
SKU: CL.026-4799-01
This Ed Huckeby adaptation of the original work makes a great concert or contest selection for limited-instrumentation ensembles. Combining the well-known melodic elements of Simple Gifts and the Korean folk song Ahrirang, this well-crafted medley will delight both performer and listener. Highly recommended!
SKU: HL.4006670
UPC: 840126927917.
March Prelude: Alnwick Town was commissioned by the Alnwick Playhouse Concert Band (with Ray Thompson as conductor) to celebrate their first 25 years. It opens majestically with answering phrases between various sections of the band, leading to a faster march-like section - its main theme echoes the rhythms of the opening material. A bridge passage featuring snippets for saxophones and trumpets leads to a new theme, more legato in nature and repeated after a change of key. The bridge passage returns to herald a restatement of the main theme before the opening material reappears to close the work with a flourish.
SKU: BP.BP2336
UPC: 748769023365. 6.875 x 10.5 inches.
Newly revoiced for Treble Choirs, this majestic setting of Charles Wesley's text Ye Servants of God, combined with resounding echoes of Worthy the Lamb provides a deeply moving experience suitable for Easter, Ascension, and general worship.
SKU: AP.42780
ISBN 9781470615512. UPC: 038081484297. English.
Based on some of the rhythmic timpani passages from Beethoven's Symphony No. 8. Beethoven's unique use of octaves on the timpani part is a particular focus of this solo, expanding this compositional technique into contemporary music language for the timpani.
SKU: TM.09023SET
P/C in set.
SKU: TM.07358SC
SKU: GI.G-171030
ISBN 9781574631340. UPC: 888680625795.
This continuation of volumes 1-5 provides band directors with a ready-made curriculum developed to incorporate comprehensive-musicianship training through quality band literature. This volume features American Riversongs by Pierre La Plante, Echoes of the Hollow Square by Johnnie Vinson, and ...and the antelope play by John Alan Carnahan. Every unit study integrates technical skills, musical knowledge and creative projects that lead student musicians to an enlightened and expressive performance. Student workbooks for each of the featured works may be downloaded. Each unit study includes: · Ear training · Rhythm studies · Essential skills information for teaching the compositional elements of music · Rehearsal strategies for addressing common ensemble issues · Creative projects · Active listening activities · Sample teaching schedule · Unit quiz (and answer sheet) · Student practice plan · Optional band projects.
SKU: AP.41335
ISBN 9780739097786. UPC: 038081462288. English.
Over the course of ten years, legendary young-band composers John O'Reilly and Mark Williams composed and arranged over 100 creative works that correlate with specific pages in their highly successful band method, Accent on Achievement. Alfred Music is now proud to make these arrangements available in a book format that includes 22 full arrangements in each collection. The Light Concert Collection includes creative arrangements of folk, rock, jazz, and Latin-American music. Titles: Rockin' la Bamba * Sailors Holiday * River Trilogy * No Drummer Left Behind * African Marching Song * Stand Up and Swing * and 16 others.
SKU: CF.BPS115
ISBN 9781491152010. UPC: 680160909513.
The Gauntlet is a piece written to sound bold and exciting while also being accessible to young performers with a limited range. Simple yet bold rhythms add excitement, heightened by the fact that every section has an opportunity to play melodic content. The interesting “development†section provides a contrast to the opening and helps to build the suspense before the return of the main theme. The percussion helps to drive the energy of the piece by providing a variety of colorful sounds including a gong solo at the end to signal the knight’s triumph.A knight gallops over the rise of the hill into battle, determination shining in his eyes. He must charge through the treacherous lines and survive in order to preserve his kingdom and his honor. The pounding of the battle drums echoes the desperate pounding of his heart. Swords clash and the hooves of the horses strike the muddy ground. He must run this torturous gauntlet. Will he succeed before it is too late?The Gauntlet is a piece written to sound bold and exciting while also being easy for young players to perform due to the piece’s limited range (comprised of the first seven notes in most method books). Simple but bold rhythms add an air of excitement. This is heightened by the fact that every section has an opportunity to play melodic content, even the low brass. The interesting “development†section provides a contrast to the opening section and helps to build some intrigue and suspense before the return of the main theme. The percussion helps to drive the energy of the piece by providing lots of colorful sounds including a gong solo at the end to signal the knight’s triumph.
SKU: LO.20-2095L
ISBN 9780787765699.
The popular African American spiritual is given an upbeat, energetic setting by Kevin Stewart. This piece is wonderful for teaching and perfecting various handbell techniques, including martellato, shakes, echoes, thumb damps, and malleting. Ringers and audiences alike will enjoy this fun piece suitable for worship or concert settings.
SKU: BT.MUSM570365081
English.
Composed in 2012, the two pieces in Sadie Harrison’s Heartoutbursts! take their inspiration from traditional English folk. ' ...in the folk-song there is to be found the complete history of a people, recorded by the race itself, through the heartoutbursts of its healthiest output. It is a history compiled with deeper feeling and more understanding than can be found among the dates and data of thegreatest historian... '(Percy Grainger 1922) In 1905, Joseph Taylor won a Lincolnshire folksong competition with his rendition of Brigg Fair , a song he had learnt from a gypsy. Australian composer Percy Grainger subsequently published a setting in his Lincolnshire Posy , with Delius usingthe tune in his rhapsody, Brigg Fair . Both composers sought to vivify the tradition of English folksong, celebrating not only the ancient tunes and words but also the qualities of particular folksingers like Joseph Taylor. Harrison’s own Australian Heartoutbursts! follow unashamedly in the Grainger tradition with echoes of the original folktunes underpinning both songs Brigg Fair and The Seeds of Love . Although different in character, both texts use similar images as analogies for the joys and despairing associated with love - the lark and violet symbolize youth, the lily as virginity, the red rose as true love, and the willow representing falsehood and abandonment.
SKU: WD.080689539237
UPC: 080689539237.
From Chris Tomlin’s worship album Never Lose Sight, Home is a cheerily hopeful, uplifting song anticipating the freedom and unending praise we’ll know in Heaven, our true home…a place where all echoes of sickness, pain and sorrow will be replaced with triumph and joy everlasting! Arranged by David Wise and Orchestrated by David Shipps, come into the loving arms of the Father as you sing, Home!
SKU: HL.51487045
ISBN 9790201870458. UPC: 888680745318. 6.75x9.5x0.244 inches.
In autumn 1895, after returning from New York once and for all, Dvorák took up his former position as teacher at the Prague Conservatory. This clearly had an inspiring impact on him because in the space of just four weeks he composed a new string quartet in G major. Together with the Quartet in A-flat major op. 105, it forms a glorious close to his chamber music oeuvre. Echoes of Bohemian folk music are here mixed with cantabile themes, while his motivic working shows him to be a master at the height of his powers. Even today, it seems almost as if we can feel the composer's satisfaction with this work: “I am working so easily and it is going so smoothly that I could not wish it better.â€.
SKU: CF.BPS115F
ISBN 9781491152690. UPC: 680160910199.
SKU: FA.MFCD014PN
8.27 x 11.69 inches.
Fetes galantes was actually planned as a hybrid opera-ballet to a libretto by Debussy's friend Louis Laloy. For this, Laloy arranged selected poetry by Paul Verlaine into three tableaux, replacing an earlier (unstarted) Debussyan project with Charles Morice entitled Crimen amoris. During his last productive summer of 1915, Debussy set a sequence from the start of the first tableau, 'Les Masques', involving stanzas 1 and 3 of the opening song for Mezzetin in Verlaine's comedy Les Uns et les autres. The action is set in a park a la Watteau late one summer afternoon as Mezzetin attempts to entertain a group of nonchalant masqueraders with only the aid of his voice and a mandolin.This appears to have been prefaced by a slower, elegiac introduction reminiscent of the opening of the comtemporary Cello Sonata and it leads to a danced minuet by the masqued dancers which has clear echoes of the piano piece L'Isle Joyeuse (1904). Following Laloy's scenario, the mas-queraders then sing extracts from Verlaine's 'A la promenade' (from Fetes galantes itself). The minuet returns at greater length before being cut short by a chilly gust of wind, after which the park returns to its orginal state (and music) as though nothing had really happened.
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