Volume 2. Composed by Heinz Both. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Klarinetten-Bibliothek (Clarinet Library). Playing score. 34. 28 pages. Schott Music #KLB 34. Published by Schott Music

The Perfect Way to Rediscover the Piano. Composed by Melanie Spanswick. Schott. Softcover. 120 pages. Schott Music #ED13945. Published by Schott Music

Organ solo

SKU: CA.1820300

Composed by Various. Edited by Richard Mailander. Editions for the new German catholic songbook Gotteslob. Fastenzeit,Ostern. Organ music based on hymns, Lent and Passiontide, Holy Week, Easter and Eastertide. Collection. 104 pages. Carus Verlag #CV 18.203/00. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.1820300).

ISBN 9790007143428.

The second volume continues with 43 compositions for the time of Holy Lent and Easter. For this time of year the new hymnal Gotteslob contains a great number of new songs. Therefore more than 20 pieces are commissioned renditions for this edition - for many songs they are even the first chorale arrangements overall. The collection presents some previously unknown pieces between baroque and present times. The pieces are quite easy to learn and take between two and five minutes playing time and are particularly suitable for the recessional and for the communion.

Piano Solo

SKU: YM.GTP01100357

Under the Big Tree. Composed by Various. Kids Piano. Children's Songs. Score. Yamaha Music Media #GTP01100357. Published by Yamaha Music Media (YM.GTP01100357).

ISBN 9784636102505. 8.5 x 12 inches.

This two-handed easy-to-play music book is arranged at an easy introductory level for children who can now play melodies with one hand on the piano.
It features 30 well-known children's songs and nursery rhymes with easy explanations of music notation and fingerings, using cute illustrations to make it easy to visualize the music. Let's try two-handed playing for the first time with this book!

Orchestra strings - beginner

SKU: KJ.SO336F

Composed by Raymond Brown. Arranged by Raymond Brown. Score. Neil A. Kjos Music Company #SO336F. Published by Neil A. Kjos Music Company (KJ.SO336F).

UPC: 8402704167.

Into the Dragon's Den focuses on playing F-sharps and F-naturals, and helps students become more comfortable with 2-note slurs. The piece centers around E minor, offering the perfect mood for the subject: confronting difficult things and handling fear. As Mr. Brown mentions in his program notes, Like the brave knight [heading into the dragon's den], beginning string students have to venture into the dark unknown to confront F-natural. Approx. time - 2:30

Steps to Successful Literature presents exceptional performance pieces - concert and festival works for beginning to intermediate string orchestras. Each piece is correlated with a specific location in String BasicsTM Books 1 or 2. Literature reinforces musical skills, concepts, and terms introduced in the method. Sometimes, a few new concepts are included and are officially introduced and defined in the score and parts. Each string orchestra work offers extended learning opportunities and briefly taps into one or more elements related to common core state standards.

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.

Banjo (clawhammer) - Beginning-Intermediate

SKU: MB.20313M

Composed by Dan Levenson. Solos and Duets, Tunebooks, Wire bound, Banjo: Clawhammer, Tunebook. Banjo. Book and online audio. 248 pages. Mel Bay Publications, Inc #20313M. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.20313M).

ISBN 9780786687541. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.

This book and extensive online audio recording is intended to be a tune repertoire book. It includes over 100 Old-Time festival favorites. Some are cliche, others unusual, some easy, some difficult. The book contains 2 lines of tablature (one basic and one advanced) as well as standard notation and suggested chords. The basic version should be playable by those with general clawhammer skills. The advanced version will require more time and finesse as it is more ornamental (often more than just melodic) and may include less than intuitive ways of playing some passages. Includes access to online audio.

Score and Parts

SKU: HL.367874

Score and Parts. Composed by Donald Crockett. LKM Music. Softcover. Lauren Keiser Music Publishing #X504092. Published by Lauren Keiser Music Publishing (HL.367874).

ISBN 9781705140307. UPC: 840126966664. 9.0x12.0x0.523 inches.

Commissioned by Caramoor Music Festival in New York and premiered July 14, 2017 by the Argus Quartet, this work is in no small part a response to this quartet's sense of adventure and expressive emotional range. Inspired by two end-of-civilization novels the composer was reading prior to composing the work, the quartet unfolds in a single movement, loosely based on plot lines in both novels. One of the novels includes a Traveling Symphony, an assortment of musicians and actors who travel the countryside for decades playing symphonies, jazz and orchestral arrangements of popular music alongside performances of Shakespeare plays, reminiscent of medieval troupes traveling the countryside in plague-ridden times. The work is written so that the quartet embodies the Traveling Symphony, not only playing music but also singing and 'stage whispering' fragments of King Lear and other text across the collection of nine scenes.

Grade 2

SKU: CL.024-4985-01

A Joyous Fanfare!. Composed by James Swearingen. Young Concert Band. Extra full score. C.L. Barnhouse #024-4985-01. Published by C.L. Barnhouse (CL.024-4985-01).

If you’re looking for a grade 2 piece that produces impact at the start of your concert, then you’ll definitely want to consider this outstanding work by celebrated composer James Swearingen. Brass, woodwinds and percussion all unite with the playing of a glorious fanfare. The best is yet to come, with wonderful themes that are layered over driving rhythms. The dramatic ending is a wait and see moment for what is sure to be an enthusiastic response by the entire audience. A glorious moment for one and all!

By John Philip Sousa (1854-1932). Arranged by Michael Story. Marching Band. Marching Band. Big and Easy. Form: March. 20th Century; Patriotic; Romantic. Grade 2. Conductor Score and Parts. 114 pages