Flute. Composed by Various. Instrumental Play-Along. Softcover Audio Online. 16 pages. Music Sales #AM1012583. Published by Music Sales

Tenor & String Quartet

SKU: PE.EP72822

Composed by Jonathan Dove. Voice(s) & Various Instruments. Edition Peters. Living Composer. Score and Part(s). 164 pages. Duration 00:30:00. Edition Peters #98-EP72822. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP72822).

ISBN 9790577011769. 232 x 303mm inches. English.

I have only visited Damascus once, twenty years ago, on the way to Palmyra.  I had a purpose (I was writing music for a play about Palmyra’s Queen Zenobia) but essentially I was a tourist.  Like any visitor, I was thrilled to step out of the noisy modern city into the magical ancient world of the walled Old City, its vibrant souk leading to the magnificent mosque, and a labyrinth of winding, narrow streets filled with the smell of unleavened bread.

In Palmyra, I was met with extraordinary kindness everywhere.  On one occasion, a little Bedouin boy noticed that I was risking sunstroke wandering bare-headed among the spectacular ruins: he showed me how to tie a turban, then took me to have tea with his family in their tent.

Since then, I have watched helplessly as these places of wonder have been devastated and their inhabitants scattered and killed.  When the Sacconi Quartet suggested that I might choose a Syrian poet for our collaboration, I welcomed the idea.

I searched for a long time to find a contemporary poet whose work might gain from any music I could imagine.  I felt it was important to find first-hand accounts of the Syrian experience – but, of course, I was always reading them in translation.  In an anthology called Syria Speaks, I was astonished to read something that looked like prose, but was full of poetry.  It was Anne-Marie McManus’s fine translation of Ali Safar’s A Black Cloud in a Leaden White Sky – an eloquent, thoughtful, contained yet vivid account of life in a war-torn country, all the more moving for its restraint.

In setting these words, I have not attempted to imitate Syrian music.  However, there is what might be called a linguistic accommodation in my choice of scale, or mode.  Several movements are in a mode that I first discovered while writing a cantata commemorating the First World War: it has a tuning that I associate with war, its violence and desolation.  This eight-note mode is similar to scales found in Syrian music.  I did not choose it in the abstract: it emerged from the harmonies I was exploring in the earlier work, and emerged again as I was looking for the right musical colours to set Ali Safar’s words.  In this work, its Arabic aspect is more prominent. - Jonathan Dove

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Composed by Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762). Edited by Peter Walls. This edition: Critical Edition. Opera Omnia - Vol. 12. Early Music, Instructional. Score (cloth bound). 180 pages. Published by Ut Orpheus

The Songs of Michael Flanders and Donald Swann. (Piano/Vocal). By Donald Swann. For piano/vocal. This edition: Piano/Vocal/Chords. Personality Book; Piano/Vocal. Faber Edition. Broadway. Songbook. 223 pages. Published by Faber Music

Composed by Cecilia McDowall. New Horizons. Vocal score. 36 pages. Duration 18'. Published by Oxford University Press (OU.9780193411487).

Composed by James Chepponis. Cathedral Series. Catholic Year A Ascension Day; Catholic Year C Christ the King; Year C Reign of Christ; Year A Reign of Christ/Proper 29 (34). Christ the King, Praise/ Thanksgiving. Choral score. Published by MorningStar Music Publishers (MN.60-9028).

Choral (SATB divisi)

SKU: HL.1423734

Composed by Evelyn Simpson-Curenton. Gentry Publications. Octavo. Gentry Publications #JG2706. Published by Gentry Publications (HL.1423734).

UPC: 196288200222.

â??Build Ye The Walls,â? composed by Evelyn Simpson-Curenton, is a profound concert piece for piano and choir. This stirring composition was commissioned by the Whitman College Chorale, under the direction of Miles Canaday, and the Thomas Circle Singers, led by Miles Canaday as Artistic Director. Evelyn's inspiring message in the lyrics urges us to pray daily for the strength to erect the walls of understanding, human dignity, hope, peace, justice, and integrity. This powerful work is a testament to the transformative power of music in conveying a message of unity and aspiration for a better world. Enjoy the writing of this amazing composer and icon.