SKU: PR.446412930
UPC: 680160614196. Letter inches. Libretto by Scott Russell Sanders. Libretto by Scott Russell Sanders.
Commissioned, premiered, and frequently performed by Roundabout Opera for Kids, Mooch the Magnificent is a 40-minute opera (with a 30-minute alternate version), scored for SATB principal roles, extra speaking and non-speaking parts, and an ensemble of Clarinet, Cello, Percussion, and Piano. It may also be performed in piano reduction. In a zoo of the future, populated not by animals but by robots in animal form, Mooch, an orphan girl, convinces the zookeeper to hire her to fix the robots when they break down, but she is actually reprogramming them to be increasingly wild. The opera takes place in a dome-covered city that is part of a worldwide network of such cities, connected by travel tubes, sealed off from the outside. The time is late twenty-first century, after human beings, afraid of the wilds, have moved indoors.
SKU: PR.441410280
ISBN 9781491101261. UPC: 680160614226. Letter inches. Libretto by Scott Russell Sanders. Libretto by Scott Russell Sanders.
SKU: CN.S11238
Inspired by Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals, this work depicts many of the insects we know and love using interesting effects like tapping small sticks. Bands may like to perform the Carnival as a complete suite or to play individual movements on their own.Carnival of the Insects was commissioned by the National School Band Association and was first performed at the Scottish Festival organized by NSBA and Brian Duguid of West Lothian Arts on May 12, 2001. The music letters SBA were used to form the basis of the melodies to personalize the piece for the Association. (S can be Eb, B can be Bb using European note names.) The Carnival is inspired by Saint Saens Carnival of the Animals and derives a lot of the rhythmic structures from it. March of the Ants - The Thin Black Line The composer was reminded of a French holiday when a line of ants would march every night from the gate of the house, past the pool and up into the garden. Crickets and stick insects Here the composer remembered balmy Mediterranean nights and the sound of crickets. An interesting effect is to have small groups of players around the performance venue randomly tapping small sticks throughout this movement. Insectivores These are the creatures which eat insects and the music has a dramatic scary feel to it with a chase in the middle. Metamorphosis This is where the caterpillar changes into a butterfly. The Euphonium melody will strike the listener as being very similar to The Elephant. The Bug Parade This is a grand finales where we can imagine many of the insects in a Disney-like parade. Bands may like to perform the Carnival as a complete suite or to play individual movements on their own.
SKU: AP.36-A829901
ISBN 9781581068528. UPC: 654690647610. English.
Following a disastrous concert tour of Germany in 1885-86, Saint-Saëns withdrew to a small Austrian village, where he composed The Carnival of the Animals in February 1886. It is scored for two pianos, two violins, viola, cello, double bass, flute (and piccolo), clarinet (C and B?), glass harmonica, and xylophone. From the beginning, the composer regarded the work as a piece of fun. He wrote to his publishers Durand in Paris that he was composing a work for the coming Shrove Tuesday, and confessing that he knew he should be working on his Third Symphony, but that this work was such fun (... mais c'est si amusant!). He had apparently intended to write the work for his students at the École Niedermeyer, but it was first performed at a private concert given by the cellist Charles Lebouc on Shrove Tuesday, 9 March 1886.
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SKU: AP.36-A829902
UPC: 654690647641. English.
SKU: BT.DHP-1165672-140
English-German-French-Dutch.
The Magic Book is taken from a tale by Danish author Tang Kristensen. It tells the story of Hans who has the power to transform himself into anything he likes thanks to a magical book. But his last transformation turns the tide against them…This great and refreshing piece contains three movements: Hans and the Animals, In the Castle and Royal Wedding.The Magic Book is gebaseerd op een verhaal van de Deense auteur Tang Kristensen. Het gaat over Hans, die zichzelf kan veranderen in alles wat hij wil, dankzij een toverboek. Maar zijn laatste transformatie lijkt zich tegen hem te keren… Ditfraaie, hartverwarmende werk bevat drie delen: Hans and the Animals, In the Castle en Royal Wedding.The Magic Book (Das Zauberbuch“) ist ein Märchen des dänischen Autors Tang Kristensen. Es erzählt die Geschichte von Hans, der sich dank eines Zauberbuches in alles Mögliche verwandeln kann. Aber bei seiner letzten Verwandlung wendet sich dasBlatt gegen ihn … Dieses großartige und erfrischende Stück hat drei Sätze: Hans and the Animals (Hans und die Tiere“), In the Castle (Im Schloss“) und Royal Wedding (Königliche Hochzeit“).The Magic Book est tiré d’un conte de l’auteur danois Tang Kristensen. Il raconte l’histoire de Hans qui possède le pouvoir de se transformer en tout ce qu’il désire gr ce un livre magique. Mais sa dernière transformation lui joue un mauvaistour… Ce morceau magnifique et rafraîchissant contient trois mouvements : Hans and the Animals (Hans et les animaux), In the Castle (Au ch teau)et Royal Wedding (Mariage royal).Tratto dalla favola del narratore danese Tang Kristensen, è la storia di Hans, il ragazzo con la capacit di trasformarsi in qualsiasi cosa grazie ai poteri conferitigli da un libro magico. La sua ultima trasformazione, tuttavia, potrebbe ritorcerglisi contro… scopri questa grande storia musicale che si compone di quattro movimenti!
SKU: BT.DHP-1165672-010
The Magic Book is taken from a tale by Danish author Tang Kristensen. It tells the story of Hans who has the power to transform himself into anything he likes thanks to a magical book. But his last transformation turns the tide against them…This great and refreshing piece contains three movements: Hans and the Animals, In the Castle and Royal Wedding.The Magic Book is gebaseerd op een verhaal van de Deense auteur Tang Kristensen. Het gaat over Hans, die zichzelf kan veranderen in alles wat hij wil, dankzij een toverboek. Maar zijn laatste transformatie lijkt zich tegen hem te keren… Ditfraaie, hartverwarmende werk bevat drie delen: Hans and the Animals, In the Castle en Royal Wedding.Dieses großartige, erfrischende Werk in drei Sätzen geht auf ein Märchen des dänischen Autors Tang Kristensen zurück. Es erzählt die Geschichte von Hans, der sich dank eines Zauberbuches in alles Mögliche verwandeln kann. Aber bei seiner letztenVerwandlung wendet sich das Blatt gegen ihn…
Die drei Sätze: Hans and the Animals (Hans und die Tiere“), In the Castle (Im Schloss“) und Royal Wedding (Königliche Hochzeit“).The Magic Book est tiré d’un conte de l’auteur danois Tang Kristensen. Il raconte l’histoire de Hans qui possède le pouvoir de se transformer en tout ce qu’il désire gr ce un livre magique. Mais sa dernière transformation lui joue un mauvaistour… Ce morceau magnifique et rafraîchissant contient trois mouvements : Hans and the Animals (Hans et les animaux), In the Castle (Au ch teau)et Royal Wedding (Mariage royal).Tratto dalla favola del narratore danese Tang Kristensen, è la storia di Hans, il ragazzo con la capacit di trasformarsi in qualsiasi cosa grazie ai poteri conferitigli da un libro magico. La sua ultima trasformazione, tuttavia, potrebbe ritorcerglisi contro… scopri questa grande storia musicale che si compone di quattro movimenti!
SKU: HL.14027502
ISBN 9780711988866. 9.0x12.0x0.103 inches. English.
Robin's passion is to sing. He happily joins in with all the festive Christmas music, but this doesn't make him very popular. The stars redeem the situation, and take him to the Bethlehem stable, where he leads a Christmas sing-along with all the animals and characters from the play. A charming story with clever songs that implement the National Curriculum for Music Requirements. Details of these and other curriculum links are included in the educational notes. The matching CD contains a complete performance of all the songs plus imaginative backing tracks to sing along to. Script available in student book. If you need to license a school/youth theatre performance of this product, please use the online application form.
SKU: PO.PE212
ISBN 9781776609321.
Inspired by the Chinese Zodiac animals, Ho tailored this book of twelve piano compositions to the educational needs of students in Levels 2 to 7 of the Royal Conservatory of Music Piano Series. Ho devoted much time to researching the animals legends, personality traits, and cultural significance, as well as their distinguishing physical languages so as to capture their musical spirit and recreate their physical/gestural languages in pianistic form. In addition, he incorporates many sounds, harmonies, and performance techniques learned from his years of researching (and composing for) Chinese traditional instruments.
SKU: PR.362034230
ISBN 9781598069556. UPC: 680160624225. Letter inches. English.
When the Texas Choral Consort asked Welcher to write a short prologue to Haydn's The Creation, his first reaction was that Haydn already presents Chaos in his introductory movement. As he thought about it, Welcher began envisioning a truer void to precede Haydn's depiction of Chaos within the scope of 18th-century classical style - quoting some of Haydn's themes and showing human voices and inhuman sounds in a kind of pre-creation melange of color, mood, and atmosphere. Welcher accepted this challenge with the proviso that his prologue would lead directly into Haydn's masterpiece without stopping, and certainly without applause in between. Scored for mixed chorus and Haydn's instrumentation, Without Form and Void is a dramatically fresh yet pragmatic enhancement to deepen any performance of Haydn's The Creation. Orchestral score and parts are available on rental.When Brent Baldwin asked me to consider writing a short prologue to THE CREATION, my first response was “Why?â€Â THE CREATION already contains a prologue; it’s called “Representation of Chaosâ€, and it’s Haydn’s way of showing the formless universe. How could a new piece do anything but get in the way? But the more I thought about it, the more it made sense. The Age of Enlightenment’s idea of “Chaos†was just extended chromaticism, no more than Bach used (in fact, Bach went further).Perhaps there might be a way to use the full resources of the modern orchestra (or at least, a Haydn-sized orchestra) and the modern chorus to really present a cosmic soup of unborn musical atoms, just waiting for Haydn’s sure touch to animate them. Perhaps it could even quote some of Haydn’s themes before he knew them himself, and also show human voices and inhuman sounds in a kind of pre-creation mélange of color, mood, and atmosphere. So I accepted the challenge, with the proviso that my new piece not be treated as some kind of “overtureâ€, but would instead be allowed to lead directly into Haydn’s masterpiece without stopping, and certainly without applause. I crafted this five minute piece to begin with a kind of “music of the spheres†universe-hum, created by tuned wine glasses and violin harmonics. The chorus enters very soon after, with the opening words of Genesis whispered simultaneously in as many languages as can be found in a chorus. The first two minutes of my work are all about unborn human voices and unfocused planetary sounds, gradually becoming more and more “coherent†until we finally hear actual pitches, melodies, and words. Three of Haydn’s melodies will be heard, to be specific, but not in the way he will present them an hour from now. It’s almost as if we are listening inside the womb of the universe, looking for a faint heartbeat of worlds, animals, and people to come. At the end of the piece, the chorus finally finds its voice with a single word: “God!â€, and the orchestra finally finds its own pulse as well. The unstoppable desire for birth must now be answered, and it is----by Haydn’s marvelous oratorio. I am not a religious man in any traditional sense. Neither was Haydn, nor Mozart, nor Beethoven. But all of them, as well as I, share in what is now called a humanistic view of how things came to be, how life in its many forms developed on this planet, and how Man became the recorder of history. The gospel according to John begins with a parody of Genesis: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.â€Â  I love that phrase, and it’s in that spirit that I offer my humble “opener†to the finest work of one of the greatest composers Western music has ever known. My piece is not supposed to sound like Haydn. It’s supposed to sound like a giant palette, on which a composer in 1798 might find more outrageous colors than his era would permit…but which, I hope, he would have been delighted to hear.
SKU: HL.234744
9.0x12.0x0.035 inches.
Composer's Note: The Lullaby from The Unicorns arose from an opera libretto I commissioned from John Heath-Stubbs (1918-2006) in the late 1960s. In his story two unicorns are discovered in a remote part of Africa. Both the East and West want to obtain them for research so they send out rival expeditions. The Western technique is to lure the unicorn with a young girl singing a lullaby. Both East and West capture unicorns but the mythical animals escape in the end. I never completed the opera but I made a six-movement suite from it called The Unicorns. There are three songs and three instrumental numbers and the first performance was given with Elisabeth Soderstrom and Solna Brass under Lars-Gunnar Bjorklund at Ekensbergskyrkan, Solna, Sweden on 31 October 1982. This version was recorded and my arrangement of the three songs for voice and piano was recorded by Marilyn Hill Smith. The career of the Lullaby continued with a version for clarinet and piano, which I premiered with Jack Brymer aboard the Sea Princess in the Mediterranean on 29 September 1986. The oboe version was for Sarah Francis, and Duke Dobing and I have recorded it for flute an piano. Lullaby can be played with a variety of solo instruments and is also available for piano left hand and piano solo.
SKU: GI.G-527
Text by Noel Goemanne.
Conversational Solfege is a dynamic and captivating first-through-eighth grade general music program that enables students to become independent musical thinkers with the help of a rich variety of folk and classical music. It is organized around increasingly complex rhythmic and melodic content. Each new rhythmic or melodic element is discovered first in patterns and then reinforced with folk songs, rhymes, and classical examples. Central to the Conversational Solfege program is the use of music harvested from our rich and diverse American musical history. This variety of music serves as a common thread that spans and bonds generations. Each book contains varied song material so the teacher can select appropriate music for the lower grades or older beginners. This 12-step teaching method carefully brings students from readiness to, ultimately, creating music through inner hearing and then transferring their musical thoughts into notation—in other words, to compose music! This CD provides 14 classical selections referenced in Conversational Solfege Level 2. These examples provide reinforcement for emerging literacy skills, and they also enable students to listen to wonderful classical examples with greater attention. Listening to classical music can be challenging for elementary students. With nothing to hang onto, the many notes can be too much to comprehend and attention soon wanes. But with minimal literacy skills, students will have enough musical information to discover that classical music can be accessible and appealing. In the included booklet, timings are given for each selection and the portions of the music that are readable by the students are reproduced. Whether using this CD with Conversational Solfege instructional materials or simply as a resource of classical music with simple to read rhythmic and melodic material, both teachers and students will delight in discovering this wonderful music through literacy. This series is a complete, innovative approach to teaching music that will stay fresh year after year. CONTENTS Conversational Solfege Unit 5: 1. Antonin Dvorak • New World Theme Conversational Solfege Unit 6: 2. Franz Joseph Haydn • Theme from  the Surprise Symphony, 3. Camille Saint-Sans • Turtles from Carnival of the Animals, 4. Ludwig van Beethoven • Symphony No. 7, 2nd Movement, 5. Josef Strauss • Feuerfest (Fireproof) Polka, Op. 269 Conversational Solfege Unit 7: 6. Jacques Offenbach • Can-Can, 7. Dmitry Kabalevsky • Pantomime from the Comedians, 8. Edvard Grieg • In the Hall of the Mountain King Conversational Solfege Unit 9 and Unit 11: 9. Jacques Offenbach • Barcarolle Conversational Solfege Unit 10: 10. Edvard Grieg • Morning Conversational Solfege Unit 11: 11. Ottorino Respighi • Ground in G Conversational Solfege Unit 12: 12. Johann Sebastian Bach • Jesu, Joy of Men's Desiring, 13. Jean Sibelius • Finlandia Conversational Solfege Unit 13: 14. Ludwig Van Beethoven • Symphony No. 6, Movement 5 John M. Feierabend is Professor Emeritus and former Director of Music Education at The Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford, Connecticut.
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