Percussion (Percussion Parts)

SKU: HL.14028050

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. 8 pages. Music Sales #KP00033. Published by Music Sales (HL.14028050).

ISBN 9788759858387. UPC: 888680630478. 16.5x11.75 inches. International (more than one language).

Work for Solo Percussion dating from 1983. Ruders writes: The extraordinary title is a typical example of Poul Ruder's (b. 1949) peculiar and bizarre sense of humour - Ruders, together with Hans Abrahamsen and Bo Holten, being one of the most important names within new Danish music after the Nørgård-Holmgreen-Nørholm generation. Although Ruders is influenced by Holmgreen's absurd simplicity, he takes up an original place in new Danish music to which he has conveyed humour and liveliness as well as theatre and virtuosity. Quotations, 'found objects', play an important part in Ruders' music, for instance in his chamber work MEDIEVAL VARIATIONS (1974), but the old material is being varied with adequate audacity and liveliness so as to yield new qualities, not unlike Peter Maxwell Davies' 'music on music'. ALARM is 'a short shocker, a kind of film soundtrack without the pictures', based on the horror in victor Hugo's THE BELL RINGER OF NOTRE DAME. To produce the right atmosphere of uneasiness and nervousness Ruders uses, among other things, the Balinese cymbal-machine 'ching-ching' and the snore of the 'didjeridoo' from Australia.

Orchestra (Score) - Grade 4

SKU: HL.14027994

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Set. 86 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH29830. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14027994).

ISBN 9788759864593.

New York is the city which fascinates and inspires Ruders. Time and again he goes back there to work. 'Manhattan Abstraction' (1982) subtitles - a symphonic skyline for large orchestra - was conceived there. Ruders' Brittish colleague Oliver Knussen defines the piece as: - a performance of an extraordinary Morden-Times-like construction. It is a sort of symphonic sculpture, which in the composer's own words words propels forth from one particular inspiration: the New York profile, as seen from Liberty Island, one icy cold January day with it's open, clear sky and dazzling sun light. 'Manhatten Abstraction' appears as an amalgam of some of the compositorical habits found in present pieces. For instance, are present here compositorical ideas and melodic loans from 'Capriccio Pian'e Forte', 2nd String Quartet(1979), 'Four Compositions' (1980), and 2nd Piano Sonata(1982). The question at hand is mainly concerned with the enhanced elaboration of Ruders' use of the classic English change-ringing system: a permuting method pre-determining the order of tone-appearances and /or tone groups; a serial technique in other words. In spite of the rigidly fixed material, Ruders somehow manages to chisel out a personal expression by way of emphasising contrasting elements already existing within the material itself. The spiky, repetitive sections form a counterpart to a more human violin-solo. This dialectical tension is - as hinted by the title - a symphonic abstraction of a fascinating metropolis; the most beautiful and the ugliest. The subtitle: a symphonic skyline reflects the musical erection of the Manhattan profile, which under the clear sky, materializes into the most powerful and compelling man-made sculpture on earth. Thus 'Manhattan Abstraction' is a homage to, as well as a vision of, this giant contraption of concrete, glass, and chrome.

Cello and Orchestra

SKU: HL.14028003

Cello Concerto No. 1. Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. Composed 2002. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30292. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14028003).

ISBN 9788759862896.

Poul Ruders Polydrama (Manyfold Event) for cello and orchestra, is the last part of a drama trilogy otherwise consisting of Dramaphonia for piano and 11 instruments and Monodrama for percussion and 32 instruments. In this abstract drama, the individual listener is left entirely to his own associations. The composer has compared polydrama with the gradual defoliation of a big tree: the vigorously growing organism is attacked by a swarm of locusts until, finally, nothing remains but bare branches in a landscape of long shadows; a solitary, singing bird remains, however, like a streak of hope in an increasingly dark and pessimistic universe.

Mixed Choir [SMezATB] and Piano - Grade 5

SKU: HL.14027991

Composed by Paul Bentley and Poul Ruders. Arranged by Karen Hoffmann. Music Sales America. Opera or Operetta. Vocal Score. Composed 2007. 446 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30753. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14027991).

ISBN 9788759815182. UPC: 884088471545. 8.5x12.0x1.215 inches. International (more than one language).

This is the complete vocal score to Poul Ruders' critically acclaimed opera, in a hardbound edition. Features a piano reduction by the composer.

Alto Flute and Percussion

SKU: HL.14027972

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. 6 pages. Music Sales #KP00297. Published by Music Sales (HL.14027972).

ISBN 9788759854464. 0.031 inches. English.

A dramatic and rhythmic composition for Drumming Flutist, by Poul Ruders. Carnival for Alto-flute and Bongo-drum was written in 1980 and includes directions and an explanation of the arrangement for performance.

Violin and Orchestra

SKU: HL.14028022

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Set. 80 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30180. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14028022).

ISBN 9788759861615. 12.0x16.5x0.52 inches.

Ruders writes: My second concerto for violin and orchestra is a 'reverse' cousin of Polydrama the cello concerto. The former starts out extremely slow and speeds up gradually and the latter progresses in exactly the opposite way, but whereas the cello concerto is composed as one, uninterrupted stretch, the violin concerto is formally completely different: there are 4 movements, each of them combined via a 'ritornello', a solo-cadenza which appears 4 times (the works conclude with a solo) in almost the shape, i.e. the length varies from time to time.

Guitar

SKU: HL.14028001

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. 20 pages. Music Sales #KP01286. Published by Music Sales (HL.14028001).

ISBN 9788759884188. Danish.

Poul Ruders.

Violin

SKU: HL.14027969

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Composed 2006. 8 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30574. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14027969).

ISBN 9788759859827. 9.5x14.5x0.046 inches.

Bel Canto by Poul Ruders for Violin Solo. Written in 2004.

Brass Ensemble, Brass Instruments, SATB

SKU: HL.14028037

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. 20th Century. Score. Music Sales #KP00435. Published by Music Sales (HL.14028037).

ISBN 9788759871799.

Ruders writes: gl0rIA is subtitled: a relique for large chorus and 12 brass-instruments. At the same time it is an exercise for chorus because only vowels do occur, or virtually no consonants are heard. The second part of the Missa Ordinarium, the Gloria in Exelcis Deo makes the literary basis of g10rIA, but I employ only the vowels, which in their full context form a non-language, - fragments of a tradition. A less dim vision of the severed body appears in the center of the piece, where the Domini Fili-section surfaces in its original shape. gl0rIA is a 20th century composer's hommage to the innocent faith of bygone days and a fanfare in honour of Claudio Monteverdi; thus the ever present elaborations of the introduction to the Vespro Della Beate Vergine. Superimposed on the torso of Latin, I wedge in a quotation from the Spanish renaissance poet Gonzalo de Berceo's Duelo de la Virgen, a surrealistic Lamento, in which the Jews, sent by Pilate to stand guard at the tomb of Christ, mock and ridicule Maria, Jesu mother. Thus a shadow has been cast over the jubilant religious appraisal of the past, which today's knowledge of atrocities and enormities engineered by Mankind, has - alas - made so hard to repeat.

Orchestra

SKU: HL.14028044

For Large Orchestra. Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. 234 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #KP00693. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14028044).

ISBN 9788759850640. 12.0x16.5x0.605 inches. Danish.

The full score of Ruders' Solar Triology for large orchestra.

Score Orchestra

SKU: HL.14028045

Symphony and Transformation Score. Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. Composed 2002. 186 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30496. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14028045).

ISBN 9788759872574. UPC: 884088434403. 11.75x16.5x0.475 inches.

A second Symphony by Ruders, commissioned by the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress for the New York City based chamber orchestra, Riverside Symphony. The piece is subtitled Symphony And Transformation to express the formal symphonic nature of a piece that is otherwise in a state of constant musical and textural transformation.

Violin, Harp, Harpsichord and String Orchestra - Grade 4

SKU: HL.14028023

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. Composed 2013. 78 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH29977. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14028023).

ISBN 9788759870846. 12.0x16.5x0.53 inches. English.

Violin Concerto No.1 for Violin solo and Harp, Harpsichord and Strings by Poul Ruders (1981).

Percussion (Percussion Parts)

SKU: HL.14033915

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. 14 pages. Music Sales #KP00034. Published by Music Sales (HL.14033915).

ISBN 9788759863725. 10.25x14.5x0.429 inches. English.

Poul Roduers' work for Solo Percussion dating from 1988. With Latin and World drums included in the instrumentation this is a precise and detailed yet expansive piece.

Guitar

SKU: HL.14027983

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Composed 2002. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30346. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14027983).

ISBN 9788759860991. 8.25x12.0x0.087 inches. English.

Two Pieces for Solo Guitar.