SKU: P2.50010

Between Walls is a group of songs on the poems of William Carlos Williams for soprano voice, soprano saxophone and piano. Within each movement, the music helps describe the text or set the mood of each of the movements. The first movement, Between Walls, is solemn, without joy or humor, quiet in nature and thoughtful. In the text, where nothing will grow, the last pitch on grow is much higher than the previous pitches, as if it were to grow. The soprano and the saxophone are unison on In which and then move apart a step and a third on shine the ending with a dissonant minor 2nd on the word broken, playing upon the text. Young Woman at a Window is for soprano and piano alone. This movement is also quite dissonant and the piano sustains that tonality by using pedal through out. The soprano sings in the lower tessitura while the piano moves slowly between major thirds and minor seconds to minor thirds and tritones to the end of the piece, suggesting the sadness of the women, with tears on her cheeks. The listener is left to wonder what she and the child are looking at. The Nightingales is a contrast to the first two movements. The tonality is more consonant, lyrical in the saxophone line and arpeggiated chords sustained with pedal throughout most of the piano line, promoting a poetic and expressive premise. In The Thing, the lines move more independently and do not come together as one until the text bitterly together, which is unison, to the last line moving apart to the M3rd. As the Cat is sprightly and jaunty, the piano and saxophone placing the beats in an unexpected manner, the soprano a bit disjunctive at times, just as how a cat might work it's way carefully over obstacles to find it's way to it's final destination.

SKU: PR.UE034612

ISBN 9783702473709.

A revised edition of the piano/vocal score by Jiří Zahrádka is presented in German, English, and Czech. Based on a play by Karel Capek, The Makropulos Affair tells of an ongoing century-long legal case and a mysterious woman who seems to have unnatural knowledge of the origins. But how can that be, in a woman so young? Janáček's penultimate opera continues to enjoy worldwide popularity today and is considered among his strongest works.

SKU: BT.MUSM570207770

English.

Anne Boyd 's The Quiet Place for Oboe (doubling antique cymbals), Clarinet (doubling rin), Viola and Harp. The Quiet Place was commissioned by the Warwick and Leamington Festival for performance by Okeanos on their New Music Day on 14th July 2002. The Quiet Place is a meditation site in the University of York dedicated by Dame Janet Baker In honour of the spirituality which is in all people. It was a place I visited frequently in the months I spent as visiting Professor at the University in late 2001. So soon after the attack on the New York Trade Centre, the world felt a very unstable place, especially to be so far from my Australian home. It was difficult to make much senseof existence in a world of fanatical fundamentalism - both Islamic and Christian. Perhaps for comfort, I found myself thinking back a thousand years to the vital earth based spirituality of Hildegard of Bingen and uncovered an Antiphon she had composed, 'Nunc Aperuit'. This chant became the basis of the work I have written for Okeanos in response to an invitation from Jinny Shaw whom I met in York last year. In English translation the words of the chant translate as Now the closed door has opened for us, / What the serpent has suffocated in woman./ Therefore shines forth in the dawn/ the flower from the Virgin Mary. The music of The Quiet Place is a simple meditation which explores the moods of this text often retreating into a silence which is both breath and transcendence. - Anne Boyd.

SKU: WD.080689571398

UPC: 080689571398.

Easter's story is ultimately about changed lives - ordinary people transformed forever by the mercy of a Cross and the victory of an empty tomb. This is the powerful theme of Glorious Day, an impactful new musical from Simply Word that looks at Jesus' life through the eyes of those He touched. Featuring a dynamic mix of recent titles from Casting Crowns and Aaron Shust along with new poignant character-specific songs from Lee Black and Gina Boe, Glorious Day will speak directly to the heart of each individual in your congregation. Marty Hamby has expertly arranged this accessible work so that choirs of all sizes can perform the musical in its entirety or as individual numbers during the Lenten season. Deborah Craig-Claar has written a beautifully-crafted two-person narration as well as providing optional dramatic monologues for Peter, the adulterous woman, and the man born blind. A vibrant accompaniment DVD will offer all the help you need to make Glorious Day an unforgettable experience for your church and community.

SKU: WD.080689500091

UPC: 080689500091.

Easter's story is ultimately about changed lives - ordinary people transformed forever by the mercy of a Cross and the victory of an empty tomb. This is the powerful theme of Glorious Day, an impactful new musical from Simply Word that looks at Jesus' life through the eyes of those He touched. Featuring a dynamic mix of recent titles from Casting Crowns and Aaron Shust along with new poignant character-specific songs from Lee Black and Gina Boe, Glorious Day will speak directly to the heart of each individual in your congregation. Marty Hamby has expertly arranged this accessible work so that choirs of all sizes can perform the musical in its entirety or as individual numbers during the Lenten season. Deborah Craig-Claar has written a beautifully-crafted two-person narration as well as providing optional dramatic monologues for Peter, the adulterous woman, and the man born blind. A vibrant accompaniment DVD will offer all the help you need to make Glorious Day an unforgettable experience for your church and community.

SKU: BT.DHP-1053824-140

The Chinese conceptions yin and yang represent the two contradicting principles of an object or phenomenon, such as day and night, light and dark, man and woman. In Yin Yang Serenade this can be found in the musical opposites, legato-staccato and minor-major, creating an work with great atmospheric contrast.

De Chinese begrippen yin en yang vertegenwoordigen de twee tegenovergestelde principes van een voorwerp of verschijnsel, zoals dag en nacht, licht en donker, man en vrouw, enz. In Yin Yang Serenade is dit onder andere terugte vinden in de tegenstellingen legato-staccato en mineur-majeur - waardoor een mooi sfeercontrast ontstaat.

Die chinesischen Symbole Yin und Yang stehen für zwei gegensätzliche Prinzipien eines Objekts oder Phänomens, wie zum Beispiel Tag und Nacht, Licht und Dunkel oder Mann und Frau. In Jacob de Haans Yin Yang Serenade bestehen die Prinzipien in den musikalischen Gegensätzen legato und staccato sowie Moll und Dur. Diese Paare kreieren einen stimmungsvollen Kontrast, der die Yin Yang Serenade zu einem besonderen Erlebnis für Musiker und Publikum macht.

La philosophie chinoise est dominée par les notions de Yin et de Yang, deux principes naturels opposés et complémentaires qui déterminent tout individu, toute chose et tout phénomène. Le Yin et le Yang sont le masculin et le féminin, le jour et la nuit, l’obscurité et la lumière, etc. Dans Yin Yang Serenade, Jacob de Haan applique cette conception la musique en opposant le jeu en legato au jeu en staccato, la tonalité mineure la tonalité Majeure, etc., donnant ainsi naissance des contrastes éthérés et fluides.

La filosofia cinese si appoggia alle nozioni di Yin e di Yang, due principi naturali opposti e complementari che determinano ogni individuo e ogni fenomeno. Il Yin e il Yang sono il maschile ed il femminile, il giorno e la notte, l’oscurit e la luce…. In Yin Yang Serenade, Jacob de Haan applica questo concetto alla musica, opponendo il gioco in legato a quello in staccato, la tonalit maggiore a quella minore, dando così vita a contrasti eterei e fluidi.