By Johnny Marks. Arranged by Jack Bullock. Orchestra. Full Orchestra; Part(s); Score. Pop Intermediate Full Orchestra. Christmas; Winter. Grade 2.5. 156 pages. Published by Alfred Music

Concert Band - Grade 3.5

SKU: AP.50879S

Composed by Adrian B. Sims. Concert Band; Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles. Alfred Concert Band. Programmatic. Score. Duration 3:40. Alfred Music #00-50879S. Published by Alfred Music (AP.50879S).

ISBN 9781470668426. UPC: 038081587295. English.

Journey of a Comet, by Adrian B. Sims, was inspired by the mascot of the composer's high school alma mater. This relentless work depicts a comet racing through the sky. After traveling past obstacles ranging from planets to asteroids, the music breaks free from gravitational forces and truly soars. An energetic and inspirational composition! (3:40).

Orchestra - Grade 2.5

SKU: AP.40495S

Composed by Johnny Marks. Arranged by Jack Bullock. Full Orchestra; Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles. Pop Intermediate String/Full Orchestra. Christmas; Secular; Winter. Score. 12 pages. Duration 2:10. Alfred Music #00-40495S. Published by Alfred Music (AP.40495S).

UPC: 038081453743. English.

We all know Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen---Santa's reindeer for his yearly trip. But it was Rudolph who saved the night on that foggy Christmas Eve, leading with his red nose! For over sixty years, this holiday song has been loved by all. This flexible setting can be performed by strings alone or with the addition of any combination of piano and winds. (2:10).

61 Golden Oldies. Composed by various artists and composers. This edition: Guitar TAB Edition. Book; Guitar Mixed Folio; Guitar TAB. The Guitar Collection. Rock. 216 pages. Published by Alfred Music

Over 50 Pop Music Favorites (Piano/Vocal/Guitar). Composed by various artists and composers. This edition: Piano/Vocal/Guitar. Artist/Personality; Book; P/V/C Mixed Folio; Piano/Vocal/Chords. Greatest Hits. Pop; Pop/Rock; Rock. 248 pages. Published by Alfred Music

Graded Selections for Intermediate Pianists. Arranged by Dan Coates. Other; Promotional Packet; Solo. Pop. Published by Alfred Music (AP.106802).

By Hawley Ades; Alfred Burt. For SATB Choir. Choral. Sheet Music. Published by Shawnee Press.

By Janet Gardner. Arranged by Jay Althouse. For Choir. Children's Musicals and Programs. Score. 40 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

Chamber Music Violin

SKU: PR.114418750

Composed by Michael Hersch. Sws. Performance Score. 8 pages. Duration 11 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41875. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114418750).

ISBN 9781491129524. UPC: 680160655489. 9 x 12 inches.

The seven-movement in the snowy margins might be considered a sort of atomic suite, as each movement is succinct, yet a microcosmic powerhouse inspired by “The Comet,” by Polish writer and Holocaust victim Bruno Schulz. Hersch’s intensity is expressed through dramatically captivating violin gestures, pushing the boundaries of texture, technique, and emotion.
Michael Hersch’s in the snowy margins was written in 2010. Like much of his work, it is grounded in literature and art. The title is drawn from a short story, The Comet by Polish writer, poet, and artist, Bruno Schulz (1892-1942). This forms the last of his collection The Street of Crocodiles, published in 1934. Schulz was shot by a Nazi officer in 1942.Both the title of Hersch’s work, and the ‘motto’ found on the composer’s manuscript (‘Thus far and no further. But what has become of the end of the world…’) are to be found in The Comet. It’s interesting that in in the snowy margins, unlike his earlier Fourteen Pieces which were inspired by the poetry of Primo Levi, Hersch chose to not title each individual movement with a quote. However his choices of text are applied, there is a clear quality of distillation. In every case, the texts which the composer has chosen to eschew lie beneath the music, akin to the greater mass of an iceberg, submerged, but imminent.Hersch also has very particular taste in visual art, and there seems to be common ground between the intensely expressionist drawing of Schulz, and those of Michael Mazur, which inspired his string quartet Images from a Closed Ward. The parallels between these artists reflect common traits shared between these two pieces, which provide a window on how the music should be approached, expressively and technically. I would argue, that from a violinist’s point of view, this pertains directly to how bow and left hand should approach the string: the febrile vibrancy of both Mazur and Schulz’s pencil and charcoal strokes, perhaps what T.S. Eliot called the ‘circulation of the lymph’, in every gesture, speaks to the intense experience, physically and emotionally, of playing (and hearing) this music. There is an intense sense of ‘truth to materials’ at every moment, the sense that every note sings on the edge of, or even beyond, total collapse.— Peter Sheppard-Skaerved.

The Definitive Paul Simon Songbook by Paul Simon. For Melody Line, Lyrics and Chords. Music Sales America. Folk Rock. Softcover. 560 pages. Paul Simon Music #PS11594. Published by Paul Simon Music

Arranged by Various. For organ. Christmas, Easter, Lent, Devotion, Classics, Hymntune, Patriotic, Wedding, Sacred. Organ Collection. 187 pages

By Charles E. Calhoun [Bill Haley and His Comets]. Arranged by Michael Story and Mike Story. Marching Band. Marching Band. Big and Easy. Swing. Grade 2. Conductor Score and Parts. 114 pages