Richard Reed Parry's Quartet For Heart And Breath for mixed Ensemble.Quartet for Heart And Breath was commissioned for Kronos Quartet by the 2009 MusicNOW Festival. The mixedEnsemble arrangement was premiered by yMusic.Instrumentation: Flute Clarinet in Bb Trumpet in Bb Violin Viola Violoncello and Double Bass (optional).'This piece is based around the idea of using the widelyvarying internal rhythms of the performers? bodies as performance parameters. There is no actual tempo or meter built into the piece. The breathing rates of the players are used in alternation with the individual performers? heartrates to determine the pace at which all of the musical material is played. This requires that the performers generally play quietly and delicately with little or no vibrato so as to be able to hear their heartbeats adequately.This in combination with thenatural variance between the different heart rates results in a kind of delicate musical ?pointillism?: starts and stops which are somewhat staggered parts which repeatedly line up and fall out ofsync with each other different individuals? pulses rising and falling. The piece is never performed exactly the same way twice.The performers wear stethoscopes positioned over their hearts so that each can follow his orher own heart rate. Two eighth notes/quavers correspond to the two sounds of a normal heartbeat and performers should match as closely as possible the staccato and irregular rhythm they hear. When instructed to ?play to breath? the natural cycle of one inhalation and one exhalation or vice versa will determine the length of the bar (two quarter notes/crotchets) without any attempt to make it metronomic. For wind players this means that the phrase isextended to encompass the whole of their natural breath without straining to hold for as long as possible. When one instrument is designated the leader their breath will determine the starts of phrases and the procession from

Richard Reed Parry's Quartet For Heart And Breath is an innovative and original piece based on the performers' own bodily rhythms. This sheet music is for String Quartet(Violin/Violin/Viola/Cello).Richard Reed Parry is familiar to millions as the lead singer of rock band Arcade Fire yet his foray into classical music is equally worthy of attention. Quartet For Heart AndBreath is an experiment into using the performers' heartbeats and breathing to dictate the tempo. The performers are instructed to wear stethoscopes in order to listen to their heartbeats closely while one completebreath corresponds to one bar and two heartbeats equal two crotchets.The result is a quiet and subtle piece as each instrument has to play softly so as to be able to keep in time. The piece also has a naturally occurringdynamism in that the players' heart rates constantly change as the performance goes on with each instrument falling in and out of sync sometimes culminating in a beautiful moment of all heartbeats matching each other.Interestingly this unique aspect means that no performance will ever be the same meaning to hear or play this composition will be a truly once in a lifetime experience.Quartet For Heart And Breath is asuperbly one-of-a-kind composition by Richard Reed Parry. Commissioned by the Kronos Quartet this piece makes for a wonderfully distinctive performance with fascinating implications for the connection between the musicand the body.

Treble Clef Version-Richard Reed Parry's Duet For Heart And Breath Treble Clef version for Viola (or other instrument of suitable range) and Piano (or other polyphonic instrument).The performers wear stethoscopespositioned over their hearts so that each can follow his or her own heart rate. Two eighth notes (quavers) correspond to the two sounds of a normal heartbeat and performers should match as closely as possible the staccato andirregular rhythm they hear. When instructed to ?play to breath? the natural cycle of one inhalation and one exhalation or vice versa will determine the length of the bar (two quarter notes/crotchets) without any attempt to makeit metronomic.'This piece is based around the idea of using the widely varying internal rhythms of the performers? bodies as performance parameters. There is no actual tempo or meter built into the piece. The breathingrates of the players are used in alternation with the individual performers? heart rates to determine the pace at which all of the musical material is played. This requires that the performers generally play quietly anddelicately with little or no vibrato so as to be able to hear their heartbeats adequately. This in combination with thenatural variance between the different heart rates results in a kind of delicate musical ?pointillism?:starts and stops which are somewhat staggered parts which repeatedly line up and fall out of synch with each other different individuals? pulses rising and falling. The piece is never performed exactly the same way twice.'- Richard Reed Parry.

Peace love good will to all - these are the expressions of Christmas in our hearts. Spread the holiday joy with this heartwarming original. Performance Time: Approx. 2:50.Available separately: SATB SAB 2-Part and ShowTrax CD.

Melton is everyone's friend. In fact he's so full of love and cheer that the tiniest thing sets his heart aglow and his body a-meltin'. One chorus of “Oh Christmas Tree” and he shrinks an inch! Not a good situationif you are a snowman! With a heart that warm he'll soon be nothing but slush! 20 minutes long with five original songs rhyming dialog and a castload of your favorite winter characters make up this charming musical for primarygrades that reinforces the 'heart-warming' message of the season: “it's about love!” Complete piano/vocal arrangements choreography staging and costume ideas are all included in the Teacher Edition. The ReproduciblePak offers vocal lines lyric sheets and dialog for your star performers. The available CD makes a professional-level performance a real possibility for any elementary students. Ideal for a small classroom or a cast of thousands “Melton the Warm-Hearted Snowman” will warm the hearts of performers and audiences alike! Songs include: What a Perfect Winter Day Melton the Warm-Hearted Snowman Tough Love! Cool Carols It's About Love.Performance Time: Approx. 20 minutes. For grades K-3. Available: Teacher Edition Reproducible Pak Performance/Accompaniment CD Preview CD Classroom Kit (Teacher/Repro/PA CD) and Choreography Video.

Our GRV folio features all the songs from the second album by these Canadian punk-metal pranksters. Includes note-for-note tab transcriptions of their hit Fat Lip and 11 more: All She's Got · Crazy Amanda Bunkface · Handle This · Heart Attack · In Too Deep · Motivation · Never Wake Up · Nothing on My Back · Pain for Pleasure · Rhythms · and Summer plus great photos of the band in action.

The Best of Paul Baloche-Paul Baloche describes his music career as ?journaling his process of his walk with the Lord.? This songbook features 12 of his best praise

Paperback-Alan Bullard's This Is The Truth Sent From Above for SATB and Piano or Organ.This heart-warming setting of a familiar text includes all the hallmarks of a Bullard carol. Through subtle time-signature changes a gentle modulation elegant contrapuntal lines and an uplifting finale the composer evokes the perfect Christmas feeling.

Prayer of the Heart was inspired by The Chain of Hope. This charitable organisation raises money for the treatment of heart disorders in children including Marfan’s Syndrome of which John Tavener is a sufferer. Thesinger should sit on a low stool bowing towards the heart. This facilitates the soul’s concentration and its unification in ecstasy. The Prayer of the Heart is prayed ceaselessly day and night awake or sleeping becauseit has become at one with the beating of the heart... Silence peace sweetness of union with God... The Prayer is not usually sounded with the voice at all it is silent. Therefore the music must be played and sungintensely quietly with no physical effort. The Byzantine bell and large Tibetan temple bowl may be played by the singer. Prayer of the Heart should be sung in subdued lighting perhaps by candlelight. The recording of theheartbeat should sound very tenderly and quietly throughout.

Lennox Berkeley's I Carry Your Heart With Me for medium Voice and Piano.'Sometime in 1970 I gave Lennox Berkeley a volume of poems by the American poet E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) since mysister Meriel Dickinson and I were commissioning him towrite a song-cycle for a whole programme of settings of Cummings. At the time he became involved with Chinese poetry and we were delighted with the Chinese Songs Op. 78.However a year or so later in July 1972 Berkeley did set a poem by Cummings. This was ‘i carry your heart with me’ from 95 Poems (1958) and he dedicated the song to the countertenorTay Cheng Jim.The manuscript leavesfew questions. Obviously the pedal sustains the sextuplet and triplet groups at the start and finish. It is possible that all the As in bar 32 of the left hand piano part should be flat although there are clashes like thiselsewhere. A few phrase-marks have been added on existing patterns.' - Peter Dickinson