| Jazz Guitar Etudes by Greg Fishman Guitar [Sheet music + CD] Greg Fishman Jazz Studios
By Greg Fishman. For Guitar. Play-Along (Book CD). Published by Greg Fishman Jaz...(+)
By Greg Fishman. For Guitar. Play-Along (Book CD). Published by Greg Fishman Jazz Studios
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| Best of Janet Jackson Piano, Vocal and Guitar [Sheet music] Hal Leonard
Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook. Softcover. 136 pages. Published by Hal Leona...(+)
Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook. Softcover. 136 pages. Published by Hal Leonard
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| Zion Concert band Theodore Presser Co.
Concert Band Bass Clarinet, Bassoon 1, Bassoon 2, Clarinet, Clarinet 1, Clarinet...(+)
Concert Band Bass Clarinet, Bassoon 1, Bassoon 2, Clarinet, Clarinet 1, Clarinet 2, Clarinet 3, Contrabassoon, English Horn, Euphonium, Flute 1, Flute 2, Flute 3, Horn 1, Horn 2, Horn 3, Horn 4, Oboe 1, Oboe 2, Percussion 1, Percussion 2, Percussion 3 and more. SKU: PR.16500092L For Concert Band. Composed by Dan Welcher. Spiral. Contemporary. Large Full Score. With Standard notation. Composed 1994. 76 pages. Duration 10 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #165-00092L. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.16500092L). UPC: 680160039531. 11 x 17 inches. Zion is the third and final installment of a series of works for Wind Ensemble inspired by national parks in the western United States, collectively called Three Places in the West. As in the other two works (The Yellowstone Fires and Arches), it is my intention to convey more an impression of the feelings I've had in Zion National Park in Utah than an attempt at pictorial description. Zion is a place with unrivalled natural grandeur, being a sort of huge box canyon in which the traveler is constantly overwhelmed by towering rock walls on every side of him -- but it is also a place with a human history, having been inhabited by several tribes of native Americans before the arrival of the Mormon settlers in the mid-19th century. By the time the Mormons reached Utah, they had been driven all the way from New York State through Ohio and, with tragic losses, through Missouri. They saw Utah in general as a place nobody wanted, but they were nonetheless determined to keep it to themselves. Although Zion Canyon was never a Mormon Stronghold, the people who reached it and claimed it (and gave it its present name) had been through extreme trials. It is the religious fervor of these persecuted people that I was able to draw upon in creating Zion as a piece of music. There are two quoted hymns in the work: Zion's Walls (which Aaron Copland adapted to his own purposes in both is Old American Songs and the opera The Tender Land) and Zion's Security, which I found in the same volume in which Copland found Zion's Walls -- that inexhaustible storehouse of 19th-century hymnody called The Sacred Harp. My work opens with a three-verse setting of Zion's Security, a stern tune in F-sharp minor which is full of resolve. (The words of this hymn are resolute and strong, rallying the faithful to be firm, and describing the city of our God they hope to establish). This melody alternates with a fanfare tune, whose origins will be revealed in later music, until the second half of the piece begins: a driving rhythmic ostinato based on a 3/4-4/4 alternating meter scheme. This pauses at its height to restate Zion's Security one more time, in a rather obscure setting surrounded by freely shifting patterns in the flutes, clarinets, and percussion -- until the sun warms the ground sufficiently for the second hymn to appear. Zion's Walls is set in 7/8, unlike Copland's 9/8-6/8 meters (the original is quite strange, and doesn't really fit any constant meter), and is introduced by a warm horn solo. The two hymns vie for attention from here to the end of the piece, with the glowingly optimistic Zion's Walls finally achieving prominence. The work ends with a sense of triumph and unbreakable spirit. Zion was commissioned in 1994 by the wind ensembles of the University of Texas at Arlington, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Oklahoma. It is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Copland. $105.00 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Zion Theodore Presser Co.
Orchestra Bassoon 1, Bassoon 2, Bassoon 3, Clarinet 1, Clarinet 2, Clarinet 3, C...(+)
Orchestra Bassoon 1, Bassoon 2, Bassoon 3, Clarinet 1, Clarinet 2, Clarinet 3, Contrabass, Flute 1, Flute 2, Flute 3, Harp, Horn 1, Horn 3, Horn 4, Oboe 1, Oboe 2, Oboe 3, Percussion 1, Percussion 2, Percussion 3, Percussion 4, Piano, Timpani, Trombone 1 and more. SKU: PR.466000470 Composed by Dan Welcher. Spiral. Large Score. With Standard notation. Duration 10 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #466-00047. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.466000470). UPC: 680160099405. 11 x 17 inches. This is the second incarnation of a work I first composed in 1994 for symphonic wind ensemble. The earlier version was intended to be the summation of three-part suite, each part being named for a different national park in the Western United States. This orchestral version, commissioned in 1999 by the Utah Symphony and dedicated to the memory of Aaron Copland, is more than a re-scoring of the earlier piece; it is a re-thinking of all its elements. Zion is a place with unrivaled natural grandeur, being a sort of huge box canyon in which the traveler is constantly overwhelmed by towering rock walls on every side of him -- but it is also a place with a human history, having been inhabited by several tribes of native Americans before the arrival of the Mormon settlers in the mid-19th century. By the time the Mormons reached Utah, they had been driven all the way from New York State through Ohio and, with tragic losses, through Missouri. They saw Utah in general as a place nobody wanted, but they were nonetheless determined to keep it to themselves. Although Zion Canyon was never a Mormon Stronghold, the people who reached it and claimed it (and gave it its present name) had been through extreme trials. It is the religious fervor of these persecuted people that I was able to draw upon in creating Zion as a piece of music. There are two quoted hymns in the work: Zion's Walls (which Aaron Copland adapted to his own purposes in both his Old American Songs and the opera The Tender Land) and Zion's Security, which I found in the same volume in which Copland found Zion's Walls -- that inexhaustible storehouse of 19th-century hymnody called The Sacred Harp. My work opens with a three-verse setting of Zion's Security, a stern tune in F-sharp minor which is full of resolve. (The words of this hymn are resolute and strong, rallying the faithful to be firm, and describing the city of our God they hope to establish). This melody alternates with a fanfare tune, whose origins will be revealed in later music, until the second half of the piece begins: a driving rhythmic ostinato based on a 3/4-4/4 alternating meter scheme. This pauses at its height to restate Zion's Security one more time, in a rather obscure setting surrounded by freely shifting patterns in the flutes, clarinets, and percussion -- until the sun warms the ground sufficiently for the second hymn to appear. Zion's Walls is set in 7/8, unlike Copland's 9/8-6/8 meters (the original is quite strange, and doesn't really fit any constant meter), and is introduced by a warm horn solo. The two hymns vie for attention from here to the end of the piece, with the glowingly optimistic Zion's Walls finally achieving prominence. The work ends with a sense of triumph. $80.00 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
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| Praise ye the Lord, all ye nations (Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden) Choral SATB - Intermediate Carus Verlag
SATB choir [4 instruments], basso continuo - Level 3 SKU: CA.3123006 Comp...(+)
SATB choir [4 instruments], basso continuo - Level 3 SKU: CA.3123006 Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Edited by Gunter Graulich. This edition: urtext. Stuttgart Urtext Edition: Bach vocal. Lobet Den Herrn, Alle Heiden Rev.2003. Innovative practice aids, Sacred vocal music, Motets, Psalms, German, Praise and thanks, Psalms. Choral Score. BWV 230. 16 pages. Duration 8 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 31.230/06. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.3123006). ISBN 9790007165420. Key: C major. Text language: German/English. This motet, no matter how popular it is, presents Bach scholars with a few puzzles: is it really by Bach? Somehow the text doesn't fit with the notes, at least not so that it's comfortable to sing. And is the musicologists' problem the same for the choral singers? Not, of course not in the Alleluia fugue: in that, there really is something to worry about ... year of composition unknown. Score available separately - see item CA.3123000. $6.95 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Praise ye the Lord, all ye nations (Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden) Choral SATB - Intermediate Carus Verlag
SATB choir [4 instruments], basso continuo - Level 3 SKU: CA.3123012 L...(+)
SATB choir [4 instruments], basso continuo - Level 3 SKU: CA.3123012 Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden. Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Edited by Gunter Graulich. Arranged by Paul Horn. This edition: urtext. Stuttgart Urtext Edition: Bach vocal. Lobet Den Herrn, Alle Heiden Rev.2003. Sacred, Motets, Psalms, German; Stuttgart Urtext editions; Occasions: Praise and thanks. Single Part, String instrument. BWV 230. 8 pages. Duration 8 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 31.230/12. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.3123012). ISBN 9790007210953. Key: C major. Language: German/English. This motet, no matter how popular it is, presents Bach scholars with a few puzzles: is it really by Bach? Somehow the text doesn't fit with the notes, at least not so that it's comfortable to sing. And is the musicologists' problem the same for the choral singers? Not, of course not in the Alleluia fugue: in that, there really is something to worry about ... year of composition unknown. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3123000. $5.95 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Praise ye the Lord, all ye nations (Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden) Choral SATB - Intermediate Carus Verlag
SATB choir [4 instruments], basso continuo - Level 3 SKU: CA.3123005 L...(+)
SATB choir [4 instruments], basso continuo - Level 3 SKU: CA.3123005 Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden. Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Edited by Gunter Graulich. Arranged by Paul Horn. This edition: urtext. Stuttgart Urtext Edition: Bach vocal. Lobet Den Herrn, Alle Heiden Rev.2003. Sacred, Motets, Psalms, German; Stuttgart Urtext editions; Occasions: Praise and thanks. Choral Score. BWV 230. 12 pages. Duration 8 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 31.230/05. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.3123005). ISBN 9790007051006. Key: C major. Language: German/English. This motet, no matter how popular it is, presents Bach scholars with a few puzzles: is it really by Bach? Somehow the text doesn't fit with the notes, at least not so that it's comfortable to sing. And is the musicologists' problem the same for the choral singers? Not, of course not in the Alleluia fugue: in that, there really is something to worry about ... year of composition unknown. Score available separately - see item CA.3123000. $6.95 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Praise ye the Lord, all ye nations (Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden) Choral SATB - Intermediate Carus Verlag
SATB choir [4 instruments], basso continuo - Level 3 SKU: CA.3123013 L...(+)
SATB choir [4 instruments], basso continuo - Level 3 SKU: CA.3123013 Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden. Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Edited by Gunter Graulich. Arranged by Paul Horn. This edition: urtext. Stuttgart Urtext Edition: Bach vocal. Lobet Den Herrn, Alle Heiden Rev.2003. Sacred, Motets, Psalms, German; Stuttgart Urtext editions; Occasions: Praise and thanks. Single Part, String instrument. BWV 230. 4 pages. Duration 8 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 31.230/13. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.3123013). ISBN 9790007210960. Key: C major. Language: German/English. This motet, no matter how popular it is, presents Bach scholars with a few puzzles: is it really by Bach? Somehow the text doesn't fit with the notes, at least not so that it's comfortable to sing. And is the musicologists' problem the same for the choral singers? Not, of course not in the Alleluia fugue: in that, there really is something to worry about ... year of composition unknown. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3123000. $5.95 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Praise ye the Lord, all ye nations (Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden) Choral SATB - Intermediate Carus Verlag
SATB choir [4 instruments], basso continuo - Level 3 SKU: CA.3123014 L...(+)
SATB choir [4 instruments], basso continuo - Level 3 SKU: CA.3123014 Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden. Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Edited by Gunter Graulich. Arranged by Paul Horn. This edition: urtext. Stuttgart Urtext Edition: Bach vocal. Lobet Den Herrn, Alle Heiden Rev.2003. Sacred, Motets, Psalms, German; Stuttgart Urtext editions; Occasions: Praise and thanks. Single Part, String instrument. BWV 230. 4 pages. Duration 8 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 31.230/14. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.3123014). ISBN 9790007210977. Key: C major. Language: German/English. This motet, no matter how popular it is, presents Bach scholars with a few puzzles: is it really by Bach? Somehow the text doesn't fit with the notes, at least not so that it's comfortable to sing. And is the musicologists' problem the same for the choral singers? Not, of course not in the Alleluia fugue: in that, there really is something to worry about ... year of composition unknown. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3123000. $5.95 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Praise ye the Lord, all ye nations (Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden) Choral SATB - Intermediate Carus Verlag
SATB choir [4 instruments], basso continuo - Level 3 SKU: CA.3123011 L...(+)
SATB choir [4 instruments], basso continuo - Level 3 SKU: CA.3123011 Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden. Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Edited by Gunter Graulich. Arranged by Paul Horn. This edition: urtext. Stuttgart Urtext Edition: Bach vocal. Lobet Den Herrn, Alle Heiden Rev.2003. Sacred, Motets, Psalms, German; Stuttgart Urtext editions; Occasions: Praise and thanks. Single Part, String instrument. BWV 230. 4 pages. Duration 8 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 31.230/11. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.3123011). ISBN 9790007210946. Key: C major. Language: German/English. This motet, no matter how popular it is, presents Bach scholars with a few puzzles: is it really by Bach? Somehow the text doesn't fit with the notes, at least not so that it's comfortable to sing. And is the musicologists' problem the same for the choral singers? Not, of course not in the Alleluia fugue: in that, there really is something to worry about ... year of composition unknown. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3123000. $5.95 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Praise ye the Lord, all ye nations (Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden) Choral SATB [Score and Parts] - Intermediate Carus Verlag
SATB choir [4 instruments], basso continuo - Level 3 SKU: CA.3123009 L...(+)
SATB choir [4 instruments], basso continuo - Level 3 SKU: CA.3123009 Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden. Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Edited by Gunter Graulich. Arranged by Paul Horn. This edition: urtext. Stuttgart Urtext Edition: Bach vocal. Lobet Den Herrn, Alle Heiden Rev.2003. Sacred, Motets, Psalms, German; Stuttgart Urtext editions; Occasions: Praise and thanks. Set of Orchestra Parts. BWV 230. 20 pages. Duration 8 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 31.230/09. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.3123009). ISBN 9790007051013. Key: C major. Language: German/English. This motet, no matter how popular it is, presents Bach scholars with a few puzzles: is it really by Bach? Somehow the text doesn't fit with the notes, at least not so that it's comfortable to sing. And is the musicologists' problem the same for the choral singers? Not, of course not in the Alleluia fugue: in that, there really is something to worry about ... year of composition unknown. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.3123000. $24.95 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Praise ye the Lord, all ye nations (Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden) - Intermediate Carus Verlag
Coro SATB [4 Instr], Bc - Level 3 SKU: CA.3123049 Composed by Johann Seba...(+)
Coro SATB [4 Instr], Bc - Level 3 SKU: CA.3123049 Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Edited by Gunter Graulich. Stuttgart Urtext Edition: Bach vocal. Organ. Innovative practice aids, Sacred vocal music, Motets, Psalms, German, Praise and thanks, Psalms. Single Part, Organ. BWV 230. 8 pages. Duration 8 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 31.230/49. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.3123049). ISBN 9790007242190. Key: C major. Language: German/English. This motet, no matter how popular it is, presents Bach scholars with a few puzzles: is it really by Bach? Somehow the text doesn't fit with the notes, at least not so that it's comfortable to sing. And is the musicologists' problem the same for the choral singers? Not, of course not in the Alleluia fugue: in that, there really is something to worry about ... year of composition unknown. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3123000. $12.95 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| 40 Songs for Kids
Easy Piano - Beginner Hal Leonard
Really Easy Piano Series. Composed by Various. Really Easy Piano. Children, Po...(+)
Really Easy Piano Series.
Composed by Various. Really
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Softcover. 120 pages.
Published by Hal Leonard
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| The First Leon Choral Unison [Accompaniment CD] Brentwood-Benson
By Dennis Allen, Nan Allen. For Unison/2PT. Modern Christian. Sacred. Accompanim...(+)
By Dennis Allen, Nan Allen. For Unison/2PT. Modern Christian. Sacred. Accompaniment Track (Musical) - CD. Duration 30 minutes. Published by Brentwood-Benson Music Publishing.
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| String Quartet No. 3 String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello [Score] Theodore Presser Co.
String quartet String Quartet SKU: PR.16400272S Cassatt. Composed ...(+)
String quartet String Quartet SKU: PR.16400272S Cassatt. Composed by Dan Welcher. Premiere: Cassatt Quartet, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL. Contemporary. Full score. With Standard notation. Composed 2007. WRT11142. 52 pages. Duration 24 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #164-00272S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.16400272S). UPC: 680160588442. 8.5 x 11 inches. My third quartet is laid out in a three-movement structure, with each movement based on an early, middle, and late work of the great American impressionist painter Mary Cassatt. Although the movements are separate, with full-stop endings, the music is connected by a common scale-form, derived from the name MARY CASSATT, and by a recurring theme that introduces all three movements. I see this theme as Mary's Theme, a personality that stays intact while undergoing gradual change. I The Bacchante (1876) [Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] The painting shows a young girl of Italian or Spanish origin, playing a small pair of cymbals. Since Cassatt was trying very hard to fit in at the French Academy at the time, she painted a lot of these subjects, which were considered typical and universal. The style of the painting doesn't yet show Cassatt's originality, except perhaps for certain details in the face. Accordingly the music for this movement is Spanish/Italian, in a similar period-style but using the musical signature described above. The music begins with Mary's Theme, ruminative and slow, then abruptly changes to an alla Spagnola-type fast 3/4 - 6/8 meter. It evokes the Spanish-influenced music of Ravel and Falla. Midway through, there's an accompanied recitative for the viola, which figures large in this particular movement, then back to a truncated recapitulation of the fast music. The overall feeling is of a well-made, rather conventional movement in a contemporary Spanish/Italian style. Cassatt's painting, too, is rather conventional. II At the Opera (1880) [Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts] This painting is one of Cassatt's most well known works, and it hangs in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The painting shows a woman alone in a box at the opera house, completely dressed (including gloves) and looking through opera glasses at someone or something that is NOT on the stage. Across the auditorium from her, but exactly at eye level, is a gentleman with opera glasses intently watching her - though it is not him that she's looking at. It's an intriguing picture. This movement is far less conventional than the first movement, as the painting is far less conventional. The music begins with a rapid, Shostakovich-type mini-overture lasting less than a minute, based on Mary's Theme. My conjecture is that the woman in the painting has arrived late to the opera, busily stumbling into her box. What happens next is a kind of collage, a kind of surrealistic overlaying of two different elements: the foreground music, at first is a direct quotation of Soldier's Chorus from Gounod's FAUST (an opera Cassatt would certainly have heard in the brand-new Paris Opera House at that time), played by Violin II, Viola, and Cello. This music is played sul ponticello in the melody and col legno in the marching accompaniment. On top of this, the first violin hovers at first on a high harmonic, then descends into a slow melody, completely separate from the Gounod. It's as if the woman in the painting is hearing the opera onstage but is not really interested in it. Then the cello joins the first violin in a kind of love-duet (just the two of them, at first). This music isn't at all Gounod-derived; it's entirely from the same scale patterns as the first movement and derives from Mary's Theme and its scale. The music stays in a kind of dichotomy feeling, usually three-against-one, until the end of the movement, when another Gounod melody, Valentin's aria Avant de quitter ce lieux reappears in a kind of coda for all four players. It ends atmospherically and emotionally disconnected, however. The overall feeling is a kind of schizophrenic, opera-inspired dream. III Young Woman in Green, Outdoors in the Sun (1909) [Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts] The painting, one of Cassatt's last, is very simple: just a figure, looking sideways out of the picture. The colors are pastel and yet bold - and the woman is likewise very self-assured and not in the least demure. It is eight minutes long, and is all about melody - three melodies, to be exact (Young Woman, Green, and Sunlight). No angst, no choppy rhythms, just ever-unfolding melody and lush harmonies. I quote one other French composer here, too: Debussy's song Green, from Ariettes Oubliees. 1909 would have been Debussy's heyday in Paris, and it makes perfect sense musically as well as visually to do this. Mary Cassatt lived her last several years in near-total blindness, and as she lost visual acuity, her work became less sharply defined - something akin to late water lilies of Monet, who suffered similar vision loss. My idea of making this movement entirely melodic was compounded by having each of the three melodies appear twice, once in a pure form, and the second time in a more diffuse setting. This makes an interesting two ways form: A-B-C-A1-B1-C1. String Quartet No.3 (Cassatt) is dedicated, with great affection and respect, to the Cassatt String Quartet, whose members have dedicated themselves in large measure to the furthering of the contemporary repertoire for quartet. $38.99 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| String Quartet No. 3 String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.164002720 Cassatt. Composed b...(+)
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.164002720 Cassatt. Composed by Dan Welcher. Spiral and Saddle. Premiere: Cassatt Quartet, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL. Contemporary. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. Composed 2007. WRT11142. 52+16+16+16+16 pages. Duration 24 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #164-00272. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.164002720). UPC: 680160573042. 8.5 x 11 inches. My third quartet is laid out in a three-movement structure, with each movement based on an early, middle, and late work of the great American impressionist painter Mary Cassatt. Although the movements are separate, with full-stop endings, the music is connected by a common scale-form, derived from the name MARY CASSATT, and by a recurring theme that introduces all three movements. I see this theme as Mary's Theme, a personality that stays intact while undergoing gradual change. I The Bacchante (1876) [Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] The painting shows a young girl of Italian or Spanish origin, playing a small pair of cymbals. Since Cassatt was trying very hard to fit in at the French Academy at the time, she painted a lot of these subjects, which were considered typical and universal. The style of the painting doesn't yet show Cassatt's originality, except perhaps for certain details in the face. Accordingly the music for this movement is Spanish/Italian, in a similar period-style but using the musical signature described above. The music begins with Mary's Theme, ruminative and slow, then abruptly changes to an alla Spagnola-type fast 3/4 - 6/8 meter. It evokes the Spanish-influenced music of Ravel and Falla. Midway through, there's an accompanied recitative for the viola, which figures large in this particular movement, then back to a truncated recapitulation of the fast music. The overall feeling is of a well-made, rather conventional movement in a contemporary Spanish/Italian style. Cassatt's painting, too, is rather conventional. II At the Opera (1880) [Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts] This painting is one of Cassatt's most well known works, and it hangs in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The painting shows a woman alone in a box at the opera house, completely dressed (including gloves) and looking through opera glasses at someone or something that is NOT on the stage. Across the auditorium from her, but exactly at eye level, is a gentleman with opera glasses intently watching her - though it is not him that she's looking at. It's an intriguing picture. This movement is far less conventional than the first movement, as the painting is far less conventional. The music begins with a rapid, Shostakovich-type mini-overture lasting less than a minute, based on Mary's Theme. My conjecture is that the woman in the painting has arrived late to the opera, busily stumbling into her box. What happens next is a kind of collage, a kind of surrealistic overlaying of two different elements: the foreground music, at first is a direct quotation of Soldier's Chorus from Gounod's FAUST (an opera Cassatt would certainly have heard in the brand-new Paris Opera House at that time), played by Violin II, Viola, and Cello. This music is played sul ponticello in the melody and col legno in the marching accompaniment. On top of this, the first violin hovers at first on a high harmonic, then descends into a slow melody, completely separate from the Gounod. It's as if the woman in the painting is hearing the opera onstage but is not really interested in it. Then the cello joins the first violin in a kind of love-duet (just the two of them, at first). This music isn't at all Gounod-derived; it's entirely from the same scale patterns as the first movement and derives from Mary's Theme and its scale. The music stays in a kind of dichotomy feeling, usually three-against-one, until the end of the movement, when another Gounod melody, Valentin's aria Avant de quitter ce lieux reappears in a kind of coda for all four players. It ends atmospherically and emotionally disconnected, however. The overall feeling is a kind of schizophrenic, opera-inspired dream. III Young Woman in Green, Outdoors in the Sun (1909) [Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts] The painting, one of Cassatt's last, is very simple: just a figure, looking sideways out of the picture. The colors are pastel and yet bold - and the woman is likewise very self-assured and not in the least demure. It is eight minutes long, and is all about melody - three melodies, to be exact (Young Woman, Green, and Sunlight). No angst, no choppy rhythms, just ever-unfolding melody and lush harmonies. I quote one other French composer here, too: Debussy's song Green, from Ariettes Oubliees. 1909 would have been Debussy's heyday in Paris, and it makes perfect sense musically as well as visually to do this. Mary Cassatt lived her last several years in near-total blindness, and as she lost visual acuity, her work became less sharply defined - something akin to late water lilies of Monet, who suffered similar vision loss. My idea of making this movement entirely melodic was compounded by having each of the three melodies appear twice, once in a pure form, and the second time in a more diffuse setting. This makes an interesting two ways form: A-B-C-A1-B1-C1. String Quartet No.3 (Cassatt) is dedicated, with great affection and respect, to the Cassatt String Quartet, whose members have dedicated themselves in large measure to the furthering of the contemporary repertoire for quartet. $53.00 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| David Blake: Scenes Cello Solo Cello Music Sales
Cello SKU: HL.14028929 Composed by David Blake. Music Sales America. Clas...(+)
Cello SKU: HL.14028929 Composed by David Blake. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Music Sales #NOV120425. Published by Music Sales (HL.14028929). Written for Moray Welsh whilst still an undergraduate at York University. This piece was completed in mid-September. Inspired by Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf. A solo 'cello seemed an appropriate medium for music which might explore the character of Harry Haller, with his desire for bourgeois comfort and his strong misanthropic and suicidal tendencies. The opening theme attempts to express this - melancholy, nostalgic, a bit Biedermeyer (cf. Brahms Intermezzi). The basic theme of the book, at its simplest, is that every human personality consists of hundred of different personalities - within every man there lurks a wolf. Accordingly the tendency of my piece is for all its musical material to become distorted, either by thematic transformation or by changes of timbre. There are three movements played without a break. The first is a character portrait of the Steppenwolf. The second is concerned in the most general sort of way with the dance elements in the novel - Harry's being taught to dance and appreciate low 'popular' music - a tango is recapitulated in a waltz and 'Yearning', a popular song of the time (1927) is hinted at. The third movement concerns the Masked Ball and the Magic Theatre. Mozart is one of Hesse's great loves and he is repeatedly mentioned in the book. Inevitably some Mozart quotes have been worked in, the most significant being a reference to The Magic Flute 'fire and water' flute theme in the middle of the second movement. Long before I finished the piece, I was disenchanted with the work of Hesse. Much of Steppenwolf I now find rather embarrassing and the claims currently made for Hesse's greatness seem to me exaggerated. Since my piece is in no important sense programmatically specific, this change of heart doesn't really matter. ~ David Blake. $12.95 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Morten Lauridsen's Waldron Island Reflections from the Film "Shining Night" GIA Publications
SKU: GI.G-8657 A man, an Island, and Music That Moves the World. C...(+)
SKU: GI.G-8657 A man, an Island, and Music That Moves the World. Composed by Michael Stillwater. Music Education. 32 pages. GIA Publications #8657. Published by GIA Publications (GI.G-8657). ISBN 9781622770649. Edited and Photographed by Michael Stillwater  Waldron Island Reflections offers images and words from Shining Night, the award-winning documentary film about the life and music of Morten Lauridsen. Morten Lauridsen, among the leading American composers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, draws his inspiration from the serenity of nature. In his summer residence on remote Waldron Island in the San Juan Archipelago many of his greatest works are composed. For anyone who appreciates nature as inspiration for creativity, Waldron Island Reflections provides a glimpse into a unique Pacific Northwest haven where timeless words are given a musical voice through Lauridsen’s sublime artistry. About the music of Morten Lauridsen: In 2007 Morten Lauridsen received the National Medal of Arts, the highest artistic award in the United States, from the President in a White House ceremony “for his composition of radiant choral works combining musical beauty, power, and spiritual depth.†He is Distinguished Professor of Composition at the USC Thornton School of Music, Los Angeles. www.mortenlauridsen.net/ “For those of us who need great music to live and feel more fully, these works speak clearly to the soul and illuminate our greater hope.â€â€“ St. Louis Post-Dispatch “This is celestial and spine-tingling stuff. Contemporary choral music really doesn’t come any better than this.†– Daily Express  Michael Stillwater is a filmmaker and music educator whose award-winning documentary, Shining Night: A Portrait of Composer Morten Lauridsen, was deemed “a heartening rarity†by Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal. www.shiningnightfilm.net. $12.95 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| FastTrack Drums Songbook 1 ? Level 1 Drums [Sheet music + Audio access] - Beginner Hal Leonard
Book/Online Audio Drums SKU: HL.697290 By Various. Fast Track Music Instr...(+)
Book/Online Audio Drums SKU: HL.697290 By Various. Fast Track Music Instruction. Instructional, Learn To Play and Play Along. Softcover Audio Online. 32 pages. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.697290). ISBN 9780793574162. UPC: 073999849950. 9.0x12.0x0.11 inches. The FastTrack songbooks are designed to let students jam with their friends learning other instruments in the series, so all the books have the same songs and are compatible. Each book includes access to online play-along audio in case a player doesn't have their own band available! The Level 1 songbooks feature 8 classic songs, including: Brown Eyed Girl â?¢ Great Balls of Fire â?¢ I Want to Hold Your Hand â?¢ Oh, Pretty Woman â?¢ Wild Thing â?¢ Wonderful Tonight â?¢ You Really Got Me â?¢ Your Song. About Fast Track Music Instruction FastTrack is (you guessed it!) a fast way for beginners to learn to play that instrument they just bought. FastTrack is different from other method books: we've made them user-friendly with plenty of cool songs that make it easy and fun for players to teach themselves. Plus, the last section of all the FastTracks books have the same songs so that students can form a band and jam together. (2)$12.99 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 24 hours - In Stock | | |
| Unterwegs mit der Querflöte 1 Vol. 1 Flute - Easy Holzschuh Musikverlag
Flute SKU: M7.VHR-3670 A tutor book for the youngest ones - Volume 1: ...(+)
Flute SKU: M7.VHR-3670 A tutor book for the youngest ones - Volume 1: Draußen im Grünen (Out in the Country). Composed by Katharina Flaig. Sheet music. Method. 68 pages. Holzschuh Musikverlag #VHR 3670. Published by Holzschuh Musikverlag (M7.VHR-3670). ISBN 9783864341472. German. The series 'Unterwegs mit der Querflöte' (Out and About With the Flute) is for children from the age of 5 learning to play the flute in one-to-one lessons or in pairs. The main aim has been to keep the book as concise as possible and to leave out any information which doesn't directly concern the pupil. The key features: - Simple explanations - easy for children from the age of 5 to follow - Four icons show what to do - without any fancy words - Playing duets and from memory right from the start - for holistic music-making - Ample additional material - numerous pieces, piano accompaniments and exercises together with the complete teacher's book and a parent's supplement are available online free of charge at: www.holzschuh-verlag.de/unterwegs Volume 1 - Draußen im Grünen (Out in the Country) looks at playing in the five-note range f' - c^2 and reinforces what has been learnt with additional exercises and puzzles in a motivating but not overloaded approach. With the help of four icons, each child immediately knows what is to be done at which point in the book and can also work independently. This flute tutor thus has no need for lengthy explanations and reams of information and the pupil will only find what is really meant to be for him. $23.95 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 4 to 6 weeks | | |
| Kiji Takes A Ride! (Full Score) Jazz Ensemble - Intermediate Kendor Music Inc.
Jazz Ensemble - Grade 5 SKU: KN.SN70157S Composed by Sammy Nestico. Sammy...(+)
Jazz Ensemble - Grade 5 SKU: KN.SN70157S Composed by Sammy Nestico. Sammy Nestico Premium Jazz Series. Kendor Music Inc #SN70157S. Published by Kendor Music Inc (KN.SN70157S). UPC: 822795701579. Recorded on the Sammy Sammy Nestico CD This Is The Moment, this revised arrangement does not call for flutes, woodwinds, French horns or tuba, though some additional personnel (second keyboard/synthesizer, mallets, 2 percussion) are needed. This is a real specialty number that can't be played by every group, but bear in mind that it sounds more difficult than it really is. It is great fun to play, individual parts are not extreme, and the bright tempo doesn't call for a lot of fancy syncopation. With some committed rehearsal, this will work well on a diversified program. $7.00 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
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