(Poems) Score and Parts. By Karel Husa. G. Schirmer String Ensemble. Size 9x12 inches. Published by Associated Music Publishers, Inc.

Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano & optional Double Bass

SKU: ST.Y261

Composed by Morgan Hayes. Chamber music. Version for Clarinet in A, Violin, Violoncello, Piano and optional Double Bass. Score and parts. Score and parts. Stainer & Bell Ltd. #Y261. Published by Stainer & Bell Ltd. (ST.Y261).

ISBN 9790220222580.

The ground bass, a type of theme-and-variations much favoured by English composers from Purcell to Britten, receives a 21st-century makeover in Morgan Hayes's Dances on a Ground.

The 'ground' in this case is, appropriately, a robotic, march-like tune for cello that asserts itself in unrelenting mechanical repetitions according to the rules of the form. But among the other instruments there is little consensus about the path the music should take. Though the theme resists for a time, increasingly assaulted by their capricious flights of melody and spiky pizzicatos it abandons its stubborn resistance, is turned to fragments, then dissolves in a fierce conclusion, leaving only an outline of its former self.

Premiered in Vilnius, Lithuania, in May 2009 by the Composers Ensemble with pianist Huw Watkins, Dances on a Ground revisits an earlier work written for the Smith Quartet, and presents its material in terms of a carefully chosen instrumentation of clarinet in A, violin, cello, piano and optional double bass. The same performers gave the work's UK premiere last September, at Kings Place, London.

Orchestra Bass Clarinet, Clarinet, English Horn, Flute, Oboe, Percussion, Piano, Viola, Violin, Violoncello, alto Flute

SKU: PR.44641154L

Composed by Gerald Levinson. This edition: Large Score. Large Score. With Standard notation. Theodore Presser Company #446-41154L. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.44641154L).

UPC: 680160096770. 11x17 inches.

TIME AND THE BELL… was commissioned in 1998 by Meet the Composer for Orchestra 2001, the Society for New Music, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group. The title alludes to T.S.Eliot’s Four Quartets, evoking both the sound world and the musical/poetic preoccupations of the work.

Arranged by Marshall Ocker. For String Quartet. Includes set of performance parts (violin I and II, viola, violincello) and full score. Christmas and holiday. 73 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Amp.