Featuring: Mari's Wedding / Finnegan's Wake. Arranged by Bob Phillips. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Sound Innovations for String Orchestra. Form: Dance. Folk; Traditional. Score. 8 pages. Duration 1:50. Alfred Music #00-45864S. Published by Alfred Music (AP.45864S).

Edited by Florence Titmus. Arranged by Daniel Kelley. For Violin Duet. Duets. Music for Two. Classical. Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Score with 2 parts. Published by Last Resort Music Publishing.

Edited by Pansy Chang. Arranged by Daniel Kelley. For Cello Duet. Duets. Music for Two. Classical. Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Score with 2 parts. Published by Last Resort Music Publishing.

Arranged by Lauren Bernofsky. Orchestra. String Orchestra. Highland String Orchestra. Folk; Jewish Heritage. Grade 3. Conductor Score and Parts. 24 pages

Concert band (Flute 1, Flute 2, Oboe, Bb Clarinet 1, Bb Clarinet 2, Bb Clarinet 3, Bb Bass Clarinet, Bassoon, Alto Saxophone 1/2, Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, Horn in F 1/2, Bb Trumpet 1, Bb Trumpet 2, Bb Trumpet 3, Trombone 1/2, Euphonium, Baritone T.C., Tuba,) - grade 3.5

SKU: CN.S11295

Composed by Bruce Fraser. Score only. Duration 5:30. Published by G & M Brand Music Publishers (CN.S11295).

Greek Folk Dances captures the excitement of two dance styles the composer encountered while on holiday in the Greek Islands - the Hasapiko and the Syrto. The first is slow and dramatic dance that plods along showcasing the solo clarinet, while the second is a blazing fast fire dance that alternates between 4/4, 3/4 and 7/8.

The inspiration for these dances came from my first proper cruise in 2007, when we traveled around Greek islands and spent a week on the island of Corfu. Traditional music was all around us and we had the chance to watch and take part in some dancing. I began to formulate mu own ideas into two of the dance styles I had encountered - the Hasapiko and the Syrto. The Hasapiko is a butcher dance where the dancers put their arms around each other's shoulders and move in a slow side to side motion, dragging the insides of their feet on the ground. The music often speeds up, but not necessarily. The Syrto is much faster, again with arms around shoulders. Often a solo dancer breaks away, doing acrobatic dance tricks in the middle of the circle. I observed solo fire dancing among flames sprayed onto the ground using some flammable liquid. I have tried to capture some of the excitement of this. The Syrto can be in 3/4 time or 7/8 time, or a mixture of the two. I have used all three options in a gradual speeding up process charging towards a hugely energetic ending.

Composed by John LaBarbera. Squareback saddle-stitched. Book and online audio. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.22176M).

Piano

SKU: BT.EMBZ60

Composed by Bela Bartok. Book Only. Composed 1951. 20 pages. Editio Musica Budapest #EMBZ60. Published by Editio Musica Budapest (BT.EMBZ60).

English-German-Hungarian.

'Bartók wrote the first dance around the time of the Romanian movements of the 'Seven Sketches', after his first trip collecting Romanian folk music in July-August 1909. The second dance is the fruit of March the following year, and it was only after some time he decided they should be published as a pair. From the beginning, audiences were impressed by the first dance, in the composer's peculiar performance, with its initial drumming, and its driving rhythms. If less popular, compositionally the second dance is more original. He parades and varies his material in a chain form, and this too is reminiscent of the dances heard in the playing of Romanian Transylvanian villagemusicians, which in his scholarly work Bartók called 'motive dances.' (HCD 32525 Bartók New Series Vol. 25, László Somfai).

By Klicker. Arranged by Mary Elizabeth Clark. For Piano. This edition: 2 copies included. Piano Quartet (Two Pianos, Eight Hands). Level: Late Elementary. 10 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

Recorder

SKU: HL.49002382

Performance Score. Arranged by W. Stannard Allen. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Edition Schott. Classical. Playing score. 24 pages. Schott Music #ED10467. Published by Schott Music (HL.49002382).

ISBN 9790220102660. UPC: 073999485042. 9.0x12.0x0.175 inches.

3 recorders (SSA); percussion ad lib.

Composed by Bela Bartok (1881-1945). Edited by Hywel Davies. BH Piano. Classical. Softcover with CD. 52 pages. Boosey and Hawkes #M060131998. Published by Boosey and Hawkes (HL.48023789).

Concert Band/Harmonie - Grade 2

SKU: BT.AMP-025-010

Composed by Edvard Grieg. Arranged by Philip Sparke. Debut Series (Anglo). Set (Score & Parts). Composed 2001. Anglo Music Press #AMP 025-010. Published by Anglo Music Press (BT.AMP-025-010).

The melodies, harmonies, moods and rhythms of Norwegian folk songs and dance (even the sounds of Norwegian folk instruments) permeate the music of Edvard Grieg (1843-1907). After studying in Leipzig and Copenhagen he returned to Norway and a chance meeting with Norwegian nationalist Rikard Nordraak ignited his interest in folk music and laid the foundation for his compositional style. His most famous orchestral works are the Piano Concerto (1868) and the incidental music to Ibsen’s play Peer Gynt (1875). He wrote many collections of folk music for piano and these two tunes come from his 25 Norwegian Folk Songs and Dances, op. 17.

1.Cow Keeper's Song 2.Wedding March. Die Musik von Edvard Grieg ist durchdrungen von Melodien, Harmonien, Stimmungen und Rhythmen norwegischer Volkslieder und -tänze, man hört sogar norwegische Instrumente erklingen. Zu seinen berühmtesten Orchesterwerken zählen das Piano Concerto (1868) und die Vertonung von Ibsens Peer Gynt (1875). Darüber hinaus komponierte er viel Volksmusik für Klavier, darunter auch diese beiden Melodien, die 25 Norwegian Folk Songs and Dances, op. 17 entnommen sind.

Piano (Piano solo) - x, x, x

SKU: HL.51481282

Piano. Composed by Edvard Grieg. Edited by Einar Steen-Nö, kleberg, Ernst-Gü, and nter Heinemann. Sheet Music. Paperbound. Henle Music Folios. Classical. Softcover. 32 pages. G. Henle #HN1282. Published by G. Henle (HL.51481282).

ISBN 9790201812823. UPC: 888680745288. 9.0x12.0x0.111 inches.

The decisive role that Norwegian folk music played for Edvard Grieg can be felt in almost all of his works. For his Norwegian Dancesop. 35, presented here in an Urtext edition, Grieg took old folk tunes from a collection published by the musician and researcher Ludvig Mathias Lindeman and arranged them for piano four hands in 1880. A few years later, Grieg also made the two-hand version presented here. For this Henle Urtext edition, all the extant autographs in the Grieg Archive in Bergen, Norway were consulted alongwith the contemporary first editions. The co-editor here is the Norwegian pianist and Grieg specialist Einar Steen-Nøkleberg, who is also responsible for the fingerings.

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