Violin and Piano. Composed by Karl Jenkins. Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music. Softcover. 20 pages. Boosey & Hawkes #M060132988. Published by Boosey & Hawkes

Mixed choir (SATB) - easy

SKU: HL.49001640

Composed by Karl May. This edition: Folding. Sheet music. Schott Chorblattreihe (Choral Music). Classical. Choral Score. 3 pages. Duration 4'. Schott Music #CHBL 436. Published by Schott Music (HL.49001640).

ISBN 9790001020145.

By Karle Erickson. For SATB choir a cappella with optional Instruments . Pentecost, Reformation, Thanksgiving, Christ the King, General . Choral. Level: Moderately Easy. Published by MorningStar Music Publishers.

Orchestra 2 Clarinets (2 dbl. bass Clarinet), 2 Flutes (2 dbl. Piccolo), 2 Horns, 2 Oboes (2 dbl. English Horn), 2 Trombones, 2 Trumpets, 2 bassoons, 3 Timpani + tenor Drum (or Tom Tom), High Hat, S, Tuba (Trombone 2 and Tuba may be played by one player), bass Drum

SKU: PR.416414360

One-Act Opera. Composed by Leonard Lehrman. Based on Bernard Malamud's Notes From A Lady At A Dinner Party. Tales of Malamud. Opera. Full score. With Standard notation. Composed 1974. 109 pages. Theodore Presser Company #416-41436. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.416414360).

UPC: 680160606245. 8.5 x 11 inches. Based on Bernard Malamud's Notes From A Lady At A Dinner Party. Based on Bernard Malamud's Notes From A Lady At A Dinner Party.

Orchestra 2 Clarinets (2 dbl. bass Clarinet), 2 Flutes (2 dbl. Piccolo), 2 Horns, 2 Oboes (2 dbl. English Horn), 2 Trombones, 2 Trumpets, 2 bassoons, 3 Timpani + tenor Drum (or Tom Tom), High Hat, S, Tuba (Trombone 2 and Tuba may be played by one player), bass Drum

SKU: PR.41641436L

One-Act Opera. Composed by Leonard Lehrman. Based on Bernard Malamud's Notes From A Lady At A Dinner Party. Tales of Malamud. Opera. Large Score. With Standard notation. Composed 1974. 109 pages. Theodore Presser Company #416-41436L. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.41641436L).

UPC: 680160606252. 11 x 14 inches. Based on Bernard Malamud's Notes From A Lady At A Dinner Party. Based on Bernard Malamud's Notes From A Lady At A Dinner Party.

Concert Band - Grade 3

SKU: AP.36-50105344

Composed by Karl L. King. Arranged by Gene Milford. Concert Band; Performance Music Ensemble. Concert Band - LudwigMasters. Score. Duration 2:00. LudwigMasters Publications #36-50105344. Published by LudwigMasters Publications (AP.36-50105344).

ISBN 9798892703109. UPC: 659359647932. English.

Trouping Days is a popular band wagon march, played fast and loud as the band rode through towns to attract customers. This arrangement by Gene Milford exhibits Karl King's wonderful gift for melody and is scored for the current concert band from his original edition. (2:00).

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Concert Band; Orchestra 1.2.2.2: 2.2.0.0: Timp: Str (9-8-7-6-5 in set): Solo pianos (2 - available separately)

SKU: AP.36-A775601

Arranged by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn and ed./arr. by Karl-Heinz Kohler. Full Orchestra, Solo Keyboard with Ensemble, Conductor Score. Kalmus Critical Editions. Score. LudwigMasters Publications #36-A775601. Published by LudwigMasters Publications (AP.36-A775601).

ISBN 9798892701938. UPC: 659359900174. English.

At the precocious age of fourteen, Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) scribbled out his Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in E major. He wrote a second, this time longer, double piano concerto the following year. In December 1823, the young composer gave the first performance of the E major concerto with his sister Fanny Mendelssohn. Since he came to regard it as mere juvenilia, it never achieved publication in his lifetime. Filled with stylish finger-work, the concerto clearly served to display the musical gifts of the two siblings. It remained forgotten until a version, which had been revised by the composer himself and edited by Karl-Heinz Köhler, surfaced in 1961 in a Leipzig critical edition. Instrumentation: 1.2.2.2: 2.2.0.0: Timp: Str (9-8-7-6-5 in set): Solo pianos (2 - available separately).

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SKU: BR.EB-9387

Composed by Christian Mason. Edition Breitkopf. New music (post-2000); Music post-1945. Set of parts. Composed 2019. Duration 20'. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB 9387. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.EB-9387).

ISBN 9790004188576. 0 x 0 inches.

Commissioned by the Kolner Philharmonie (KolnMusik) for the non bthvn projekt 2020 and the Cite de la musique / Philharmonie de Paris Dedicated to Arditti Quartet Each movement of this quartet explores a single state, its lights and its shadows. Each movement, you could say, is a moment . And these moments could last for more or less time without compromising their essential nature. The processes could be extended or compressed, repeated or reversed, but the core ideas - if they are ideas, but maybe they are simply experiences? - are what they are. Despite this, the precise sequence of movements matters a great deal. Heard together they do articulate some kind of linear narrative, maybe even a metaphorical journey (albeit a circular one where the arrival might, who knows, prove to be a new departure). One situation gives way to another and instrumental relationships within the quartet vary, but ultimately the imaginative impulse behind the piece preferences states of unity. Whether or not this unity is expressed texturally - sometimes literal unisons pervade, but not always - there is generally a sense that even seemingly diverse aspects relate to a fundamental condition of concord: a conscious limitation in the pitch structure to spectral emanations of the root notes E-flat and C. At the opening this is unambiguously audible in the perpetual alternation of these two notes in the low cello register. Later the two spectra are woven into a micro-tonal 'double-spectral-mode' (derived from the first 24 partials of the C and E-flat fundamentals), which defines the subtle melodic inflection of the second movement, and the never-quite-chromatic ascending scales of the third. For now this feels like a rich source of melodic possibility, so far only just glimpsed... And why the insistence on E-flat? Probably by way of historical anecdote. Apparently Karl Holz (a member of the Schuppanzigh Quartet) said to Beethoven: We performed your Quartet in E-flat Op. 127 in his [Weber's] honour; he found the Adagio too long; but I told him: Beethoven also has a longer feeling and a longer imagination than anyone standing or not standing today. - Since then, even Linke (another member of the quartet) can no longer stand him: we cannot forgive him for this. Listening again to Op. 127, in light of these comments, I was struck by the opening moment: the unfolding of an E-flat 7th chord over the course of a few bars. Every time I hear it I find myself wishing that Beethoven would have lingered longer there, without resolution or progression, just enjoying that sonority. And maybe - why not? - tune the 7th naturally. And what would it be to stretch that moment into an entire piece? What would Weber think of that?! In the end I was not so extreme in my self-limitation, and other concerns took over, but it was from these thoughts that the composition process began... Lastly, about the title: it comes from a book called 'The Clock of the Long Now' by Stewart Brand, published at the turn of the millennium. It's about the creation of a thousand-year clock to embody the aspiration to thinking in terms of longer time-spans than are presently habitual. If the music of Beethoven embodied a 'longer' feeling and imagination than some of his contemporaries were able to appreciate, what is our relation to time now? Longer or shorter? Maybe it depends who you ask... It's probably more extreme in both directions: attention spans might be diminishing in the digital world, but conversely there is an awareness of distant pasts and potential futures which would have been inconceivable at the time of Beethoven. In any case, the interesting thing is to ponder how societal conditions, assumptions and expectations might - whether consciously or unconsciously - influence the time of art, for listeners and creators alike. And what if time is running out? (Christian Mason)

World premiere: Paris, Cite de la musique, January 14, 2020.

Chamber Music

SKU: PR.164002120

Composed by Dan Welcher. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. 32+16+12+12+12 pages. Duration 16 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #164-00212. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.164002120).

UPC: 680160037582.

Works of chamber music including flute and strings are not nearly as numerous as those for clarinet, or even the oboe. Probably the reason for this is the less assertive, more pure tone the flute possesses - it can't compete for volume or range with the clarinet, except in its top octave, and the oboe's tone is more penetrating and easily discerned from within a string texture. Consequently, composers who have written for flute and strings have done so in lightweight divertimento works: compare, for instance, the delicate flute quartets of Mozart with his monumental quintet for clarinet and strings.   When Karl and Joan Karber approached me with the ideas of writing a work for flute and string trio, I originally thought it would be best to write a humorous, rather offhand piece - but a look at their repertoire (mostly comprised of smaller works of the Rococo period) convinced me that it was the last thing they needed. In spite of the challenge (or maybe because of it?), I determined to write a large work, and a serious work. Zephyrus (named for the God of the West Wind, in deference to the flute) is a three-movement work, with each movement cast in a very different form, but all three being built of the same twelve-note series. There is also a rhythmic motive and a pair of themes that appear in all three movements.   The first movement plays with the idea of contrast and persuasion. The flute, at the outset, is the hell-for-leather protagonist, charging and swooping around the strings - who seem oddly unconcerned by his passion. Indeed, they have a more somber song to sing - and as the movement unfolds, the flute becomes less and less active, while the strings become increasingly enlivened. By the midpoint, when all four instruments are finally in the same meter and the same tempo, the flute's energy has finally infected the other three players, and this energy does not let up until the movement's abrupt final cadence.   The second movement begins with a tag from the first - as if the energy left over was too great to simply stop. At length, though, a very poignant flute melody appears over an almost bluesy harmony in the strings. After this has been fully exposed, a slight increase in motion, marked gently rocking in triplets, features a theme-fragment from Leonard Bernstein's Symphony No. 2 (Kaddish). Bernstein died as I was writing this work, and it seemed quite natural to encourage what was already implicit in the music, and create an Elegy for L.B. The music rises and peaks, then in the recapitulation of the opening the Kaddish theme reappears, as the ensemble suggests a gentle song of sleep.   The final movement is a Rondo-Variations form, with the slight alteration of adding the main theme of the second movement in what would be the trio of the form. The ritornello theme is a kind of ethnic dance music, almost an allusion to the Klezmer ensembles of Eastern Europe. The successive episodes between the ritornelli are loosely organized variations on the basic theme, but always beginning with a metric modulation, a rhythmic changing of gears. The movement reaches and apex of speed and furious pulsing, then abruptly pirouttes, and finishes.   Zephyrus was written between April and November of 1990 in Austin, Aspen, and Honolulu, and is dedicated to Karl Kraber and The Chamber Soloists of Austin. --Dan Welcher.

Clarinet quartet or choir

SKU: P2.30105

Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Arranged by Joshua Mietz. Chamber music. Published by Potenza Music (P2.30105).

Dedicated to Prince Franz Joseph von Lobkowitz, String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1, was finished on June 25, 1799 with some revisions thereafter. Beethoven initially felt it to be a work in progress and commented that he had not yet learned to write quartets properly. Despite his perfectionism, only minor changes were made after the premier performance. The Adagio is impassioned, tragic, and dark. Karl Amenda, Beethoven's violinist friend, revealed that the composer contemplated the tomb scene from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet when composing this operatic second movement. Toward the end of the movement, the rhythms of the solo voices become faster and, as such, become more severe. The Scherzo third movement closely resembles the playful quality found in Haydn's quartets and is most closely aligned with the harmonic structures of the first movement.

A clarinetist approaching this work faces many of the same challenges of his string-playing colleagues including: interpretation, note length, tempi, dynamics, and all other musical decisions. To further complicate matters, clarinetists must also discuss and agree upon breathing strategies and alternative fingerings. While this work is orchestrated for three B-flat soprano clarinets and a B-flat bass clarinet with a low C extension, it may be performed by a larger clarinet-choir as well. Throughout the original work, there are places where a string player performs double or even triple stops and those notes have been included in this transcription for two reasons: the first is to provide options to the players performing in a quartet to add a slight variance in color, the second is to further enhance the harmony when the work is performed by more than four clarinetists. It is remarkable to observe the subtle variances in flexibility and tone when performed by a four-person ensemble as opposed to a larger group. This edition does not vary from the original in key or, to the extent possible, range with the exception of a few octaves that have been transposed to better promote facility on the clarinet.