(1993-94). Composed by Rebecca Saunders (1967-). Peters Contemporary Library. Modern. Score. Composed 1993-94; First Performance: 25 May 1994, Velte-Saal, Musikhochschule, Karls. Duration 00:10:00. Edition Peters #EP7502. Published by Edition Peters

(Carol For Unaccompanied Choir) Composed by Jonathan Dove. Vocal score for SS solos and SATB choir. With choral notation and piano accompaniment (for rehearsal only). Text language English. 12 pages. Published by C.F. Peters.

By Traditional. Arranged by Ben Parry. For SSAATTBB choir a cappella. Kikapust Choral Series. Choral, Christmas. Grade 3. Sheet Music. Duration 2 minutes, 30 seconds. Published by Edition Peters

Orchestra Soprano voice solo, 2 Mezzo-soprano voice soli, 3 Tenor voice soli, 3 Baritone voice soli, 2 Bass voice Soli, 3 Boys, 1 Girl, 10 children1, harp, 2 percussion, String Quartet, double bass

SKU: PE.EP7795

Opera in Two Acts. Composed by Jonathan Dove. Score. Peters Contemporary Library. Living Composer. Score and Part(s). 364 pages. Edition Peters #98-EP7795. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP7795).

ISBN 9790577006093.

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About Peters Contemporary Library

Mark Andre
Milton Babbitt
Daniel Bjarnason
Earle Brown
John Cage
Henry Cowell
James Dillon
Jonathan Dove
Brian Ferneyhough
Roxanna Panufnik
Rebecca Saunders
Erkki-Sven Tuur
Charles Wuorinen

These are just a few of the composers whose most adventurous scores are now available to purchase through the Peters Contemporary Library. A new global initiative of the Edition Peters Group, the Peters Contemporary Library is a project designed to put these bold 20th- and 21st-century works, once available only for rental, into the collections of libraries, performers, scholars, and conductors alike.

Kicked off in 2016, the Peters Contemporary Library already contains many cutting-edge works and is constantly expanding. We are proud to offer these bold new scores for sale, for the first time ever, to modern musicians and students of music all around the world.

Tenor & String Quartet

SKU: PE.EP72822

Composed by Jonathan Dove. Voice(s) & Various Instruments. Edition Peters. Living Composer. Score and Part(s). 164 pages. Duration 00:30:00. Edition Peters #98-EP72822. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP72822).

ISBN 9790577011769. 232 x 303mm inches. English.

I have only visited Damascus once, twenty years ago, on the way to Palmyra.  I had a purpose (I was writing music for a play about Palmyra’s Queen Zenobia) but essentially I was a tourist.  Like any visitor, I was thrilled to step out of the noisy modern city into the magical ancient world of the walled Old City, its vibrant souk leading to the magnificent mosque, and a labyrinth of winding, narrow streets filled with the smell of unleavened bread.

In Palmyra, I was met with extraordinary kindness everywhere.  On one occasion, a little Bedouin boy noticed that I was risking sunstroke wandering bare-headed among the spectacular ruins: he showed me how to tie a turban, then took me to have tea with his family in their tent.

Since then, I have watched helplessly as these places of wonder have been devastated and their inhabitants scattered and killed.  When the Sacconi Quartet suggested that I might choose a Syrian poet for our collaboration, I welcomed the idea.

I searched for a long time to find a contemporary poet whose work might gain from any music I could imagine.  I felt it was important to find first-hand accounts of the Syrian experience – but, of course, I was always reading them in translation.  In an anthology called Syria Speaks, I was astonished to read something that looked like prose, but was full of poetry.  It was Anne-Marie McManus’s fine translation of Ali Safar’s A Black Cloud in a Leaden White Sky – an eloquent, thoughtful, contained yet vivid account of life in a war-torn country, all the more moving for its restraint.

In setting these words, I have not attempted to imitate Syrian music.  However, there is what might be called a linguistic accommodation in my choice of scale, or mode.  Several movements are in a mode that I first discovered while writing a cantata commemorating the First World War: it has a tuning that I associate with war, its violence and desolation.  This eight-note mode is similar to scales found in Syrian music.  I did not choose it in the abstract: it emerged from the harmonies I was exploring in the earlier work, and emerged again as I was looking for the right musical colours to set Ali Safar’s words.  In this work, its Arabic aspect is more prominent. - Jonathan Dove

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Orchestra Marx (Bar), Jenny (S), Tussi (S), Freddy (T), Helene (MS), Engels (T), Spy (T), Pawnbroker (Bar/B), Melanzane (T), Franz (Bar), Chief Inspector Littlejohorn (Bar), Sergeant (Bar), Foreman (Bar)-Chorus(TB)-3(II+III=piccolo), 3(III=English horn), 3(III=B-cl

SKU: PE.EP73091

A Comedy - Libretto by Charles Hart. After an original scenario by Jürgen Weber. Composed by Jonathan Dove. Opera Works. Edition Peters. Book. 474 pages. Duration 01:20:00. Edition Peters #98-EP73091. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP73091).

ISBN 9790577014838. 297 x 420 mm inches. English. Charles Hart.

Set across a single day in summer 1871, Marx in London follows the philosopher and economist as he is beset by his troubled wife, his denied illegitimate son, his overly curious daughter, and his notorious lack of capital. Knowing that he will never finish writing Das Kapital, Marx escapes to the British Library, where he has a vision that will eventually become a nightmare.

Written to mark Marx's bicentenary, Jonathan Dove's Marx in London features a libretto by Charles Hart, after an original scenario by Jürgen Weber, and was commissioned and premiered by Theater Bonn in December 2018.

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Choir Secular Countertenor Solo - Children's Chorus - SATB choir- 2 piano - percussion

SKU: PE.EP72698A

Cantata for Solo Countertenor, Children's Chorus, Adult Mixed Chorus, Two Pianos and Percussion. Composed by Jonathan Dove. Choral Works (inc. Oratorios). Edition Peters. Book. 92 pages. Duration 00:25:00. Edition Peters #98-EP72698A. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP72698A).

ISBN 9790577010519. 210 x 297mm inches. English.

Commissioned by Making Music with funds from the Nicholas Berwin Charitable Foundation

First performance: 12th March 2016, Waltham Singers, conducted by Andrew Fardell, King Edward's Grammar School, Chelmsford.

Music runs through the story of Arion, which begins with a singing competition in Sicily. Arion wins the prize, and this puts his life in danger: his newfound wealth excites the Greed of the sailors who are supposed to be bringing him back to Corinth, and they threaten to kill him.  They allow Arion to sing one last song, and the power of his singing attracts dolphins to the ship.  At The End of his song, he jumps overboard, and one of the dolphins carries him to safety.  So Arion’s musical gift gets him into trouble, but it is also his salvation.  

The idea of being rescued by a music-loving dolphin is very appealing.  In Robert Graves’ account of the myth, the dolphin could not bear to be parted from Arion, and accompanied him back to court, where “it soon succumbed to a life of luxury.”  However, Herodotus says that, after his rescue and return to Corinth, Arion failed to return the dolphin to the sea, and it died there.  Apollo placed the dolphin among the stars, and next to it, Arion’s lyre, in recognition of his musical skill.  This is one of the mythical explanations of the origins of the constellations Delphinus and Lyra.

It seems natural to sing a story that has singing at its heart.  When I was asked by the Nicholas Berwin Charitable Trust to write a choral work for Making Music, something that would be within reach of many choirs, and involve children, this story struck me as ideal: the men of the chorus could be the bloodthirsty sailors, and the women could create an atmosphere of mystery for the arrival of the dolphins, represented by children’s voices.  There would be one solo voice: Arion, the marvellous singer.  Andrew Fardell, the conductor who was advisor to this commission, had suggested that I might use the same instrumentation as a popular arrangement of Orff’s Carmina Burana, a work that, as well as using children’s chorus, features a solo countertenor.  I thought the magical, otherworldly quality of this voice would help to convey the extraordinary effect Arion’s singing had on all who heard it. 

- Jonathan Dove

Choir Sacred Mixed Choir, Children's Choir - 1.1.1.1 - 1.2.1.1 - Perc - Pno - Acc - Str. 4.4.4.4.2

SKU: PE.EP14630

For Four Mixed Choirs, Children's Choir, Large Ensemble and Electronics. Composed by Mark Andre. Full Score. Peters Contemporary Library. Classical; Contemporary. Book. 88 pages. Edition Peters #98-EP14630. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP14630).

ISBN 9790014139254. German.

rw? 4 by Mark Andre is a contemporary work for four Mixed Choirs, Children's Choir, Large Ensemble and Electronics which is part of a four-part cycle. The word rw? (pronounced rúach) comes from Aramaic and covers a whole field of words: wind, breath, soul, spirit. In the Bible it stands for 'Holy Spirit'. In his cycle, the French composer and sound researcher Mark Andre makes this 'holy' breath concretely and existentially tangible. rw? 4 was commissioned by KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen funded by the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung. The complete cycle was first performed on 15 May 2022 at the KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen, Hannover by more than 200 singers and Ensemble Modern, conducted by Ingo Metzmacher.

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Mark Andre
Milton Babbitt
Daniel Bjarnason
Earle Brown
John Cage
Henry Cowell
James Dillon
Jonathan Dove
Brian Ferneyhough
Roxanna Panufnik
Rebecca Saunders
Erkki-Sven Tuur
Charles Wuorinen

These are just a few of the composers whose most adventurous scores are now available to purchase through the Peters Contemporary Library. A new global initiative of the Edition Peters Group, the Peters Contemporary Library is a project designed to put these bold 20th- and 21st-century works, once available only for rental, into the collections of libraries, performers, scholars, and conductors alike.

Kicked off in 2016, the Peters Contemporary Library already contains many cutting-edge works and is constantly expanding. We are proud to offer these bold new scores for sale, for the first time ever, to modern musicians and students of music all around the world.

Orchestra Accordion, Percussion, Grand Piano, Strings 4.4.4.4.2, Electronics

SKU: PE.EP14443

For Ensemble and Electronics. Composed by Mark Andre. Full Score. Peters Contemporary Library. Classical; Contemporary. Score. 100 pages. Edition Peters #98-EP14443. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP14443).

ISBN 9790014135010. German.

rw? 1 by Mark Andre is a contemporary work for Ensemble and Electronics which is part of a four-part cycle. The word rw? (pronounced rúach) comes from Aramaic and covers a whole field of words: wind, breath, soul, spirit. In the Bible it stands for 'Holy Spirit'. In his cycle, the French composer and sound researcher Mark Andre makes this 'holy' breath concretely and existentially tangible. rw? 1 was commissioned by SWR and Ensemble Resonanz for the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2019 where it was first performed on 19 October 2019 by Ensemble Resonanz. The complete cycle was first performed on 15 May 2022 at the KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen, Hannover by more than 200 singers and Ensemble Modern, conducted by Ingo Metzmacher.

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Mark Andre
Milton Babbitt
Daniel Bjarnason
Earle Brown
John Cage
Henry Cowell
James Dillon
Jonathan Dove
Brian Ferneyhough
Roxanna Panufnik
Rebecca Saunders
Erkki-Sven Tuur
Charles Wuorinen

These are just a few of the composers whose most adventurous scores are now available to purchase through the Peters Contemporary Library. A new global initiative of the Edition Peters Group, the Peters Contemporary Library is a project designed to put these bold 20th- and 21st-century works, once available only for rental, into the collections of libraries, performers, scholars, and conductors alike.

Kicked off in 2016, the Peters Contemporary Library already contains many cutting-edge works and is constantly expanding. We are proud to offer these bold new scores for sale, for the first time ever, to modern musicians and students of music all around the world.

Orchestra 3(1/2/3,Picc).3(1/2/3,CorA).4(1/2/3,BCl/4,BCl).3(1/2/3,Cbsn) - 6.3.3.1 - Timp.3Perc - Str(14.12.10.8.8)

SKU: PE.EP14634

Four Verses for Orchestra and Record. Composed by Arnulf Herrmann. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles. Peters Contemporary Library. Classical. Score. 64 pages. Edition Peters #98-EP14634. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP14634).

ISBN 9790014139414. German.

Dämonen (Ein Kinderlied) – English: Demons (A Children's Song) – by Arnulf Herrmann is a 21-minute work for orchestra and a record with the children's song Die Blümelein, sie schlafen (The little flowers are sleeping). On it, white noise and historical fragments of this song, preserved in various versions, can be heard. The recording is interwoven with the orchestra, sets the tempo and, not least, provides the timeframe by limiting it to the duration of one record side. But the end is only technical: The needle lifts, but the song is not over.

The premiere took place on 16 October 2022 at the Donaueschinger Musiktage, with the SWR Symphony Orchestra conducted by Bas Wiegers.

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Mark Andre
Milton Babbitt
Daniel Bjarnason
Earle Brown
John Cage
Henry Cowell
James Dillon
Jonathan Dove
Brian Ferneyhough
Roxanna Panufnik
Rebecca Saunders
Erkki-Sven Tuur
Charles Wuorinen

These are just a few of the composers whose most adventurous scores are now available to purchase through the Peters Contemporary Library. A new global initiative of the Edition Peters Group, the Peters Contemporary Library is a project designed to put these bold 20th- and 21st-century works, once available only for rental, into the collections of libraries, performers, scholars, and conductors alike.

Kicked off in 2016, the Peters Contemporary Library already contains many cutting-edge works and is constantly expanding. We are proud to offer these bold new scores for sale, for the first time ever, to modern musicians and students of music all around the world.

Orchestra harpsichord and strings

SKU: PE.EP67458

Composed by William Albright. Score. Peters Contemporary Library. 20th Century. Score and Part(s). 88 pages. Duration 28 minutes. Edition Peters #98-EP67458. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP67458).

ISBN 9790300740171. 297 x 420mm inches.

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About Peters Contemporary Library

Mark Andre
Milton Babbitt
Daniel Bjarnason
Earle Brown
John Cage
Henry Cowell
James Dillon
Jonathan Dove
Brian Ferneyhough
Roxanna Panufnik
Rebecca Saunders
Erkki-Sven Tuur
Charles Wuorinen

These are just a few of the composers whose most adventurous scores are now available to purchase through the Peters Contemporary Library. A new global initiative of the Edition Peters Group, the Peters Contemporary Library is a project designed to put these bold 20th- and 21st-century works, once available only for rental, into the collections of libraries, performers, scholars, and conductors alike.

Kicked off in 2016, the Peters Contemporary Library already contains many cutting-edge works and is constantly expanding. We are proud to offer these bold new scores for sale, for the first time ever, to modern musicians and students of music all around the world.