Recorder and Voccal

SKU: YM.GTW01100296

Composed by Various. Traditional Japanese Song. J-Pop, Traditional Japanese Song, Kayo. Book. Yamaha Music Media #GTW01100296. Published by Yamaha Music Media (YM.GTW01100296).

ISBN 9784636102062. 8.5 x 12 inches.

A number of famous songs, mainly Shoka (traditional Japanese songs), associated with each month from January to December are collected in a book. The sheet music includes lyrics, so even those who are not good with sheet music can enjoy singing those nostalgic songs!

TTBB choir

SKU: GH.CG-5493

Composed by Maurice Karkoff. Octavo. With Language: Swedish. Gehrmans Musikforlag #CG 5493. Published by Gehrmans Musikforlag (GH.CG-5493).

ISBN 9790070022163. 185 x 262 mm inches. Text: Lars Englund (Swedish).

Chamber Music Anvil, Bass Drum, Crotales, Glockenspiel, Gong, Percussion, Suspended Cymbal, Tam-tam, Triangle, Tubular Bells, Vibraphone, Violin

SKU: PR.114410790

Composed by Daniel Dorff. Set of performance scores. With Standard notation. Composed 1993. 32+32 pages. Duration 13 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41079. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114410790).

ISBN 9781491112687. UPC: 680160015580. 9 x 12 inches.

THREE MYSTERIES OF NAGASAKI was inspired by the eerie darkness and ambiguous bells of the oldest Western church in Japan. Dorff’s program note describes impressions of his visit to Nagasaki while withholding any explanation of the three movements. The 13-minute work is a duo for violin and one percussionist, with an array of pitched and unpitched ringing metallic instruments plus bass drum.
THREE MYSTERIES OF NAGASAKI was inspired by the ambiguous bells of the oldest Western church in Japan.In an island nation that used to thrive on isolation from the rest of the world, Nagasaki has long been a vulnerable exception. From the 16th through 19th centuries, it was Japan’s only international port, open to Portuguese and Dutch traders. From this sole crossroads, Christianity (along with European food, flowers, and language) began flowing into the otherwise insular culture. The US Navy’s presence in the 1800s added to Nagasaki being Japan’s exposed Achilles’ heel, which may be why Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is set in this city, with Cho-Cho-San’s vulnerability symbolizing the risk of openness to Western influence.I’ve had occasion to visit Nagasaki, and have never felt so haunted. Aside from the unspeakable atrocity of 1945 and the lasting presence of that horror, there also remains a mysterious air of not really being in pure Japan, or in the present day. Nowhere was this more obvious than within the Ōura Basilica, the earliest Christian church built in Japan. Decades after visiting the basilica, I still recall its oddly distorted and slowly pealing bells, and timeless incense floating in relative darkness. The mysterious bells have stayed with me both for their own sonority, and as a subconscious reminder of everything Nagasaki is and was.Composed for a violinist-percussionist couple who ended a decades-long relationship just as I completed the work (and never performing it), it was originally called simply THREE MYSTERIES; I couldn’t make a direct reference in the title because it felt too raw. Looking back years later, the updated title THREE MYSTERIES OF NAGASAKI seems to ask more questions than it answers.

Orchestra (3(3picc.A-fl.B-fl).4.3.0 - 4.3.3.2 - perc(5) - 2pno - str: 8.8.8.8.8.8)

SKU: BR.PB-5435

Composed by Helmut Lachenmann. Orchestra; Softcover. Partitur-Bibliothek (Score Library). Music post-1945; New music (post-2000). Full score. Composed 2003/04. 108 pages. Duration 25'. Breitkopf and Haertel #PB 5435. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.PB-5435).

ISBN 9790004212820. 11.5 x 16.5 inches.

Meine eigene neue Orchesterkomposition hat den Titel ,,SCHREIBEN. Die praktische Aktion des Schreibens, als mechanisches Einwirken per Hand, Stift, Pinsel, auf eine Flache (Papier, Pergament, Stein etc.), ausgelost und gesteuert von einem kommunikativen Bedurfnis und, bei aller Spontaneitat, beherrscht durch die Regeln von Schrift und Sprache, ist fur mich einer der geheimnisvollsten Vorgange im zwischenmenschlichen Alltag, bei dem menschlicher Geist und tote Materie einander begegnen: Gedanken bzw. Gedachtes werden auf einer Flache - Papier, Pergament, Stein - festgehalten, ihr sozusagen anvertraut. Und auf diesem Umweg uber Sprache, Schrift und Gravur begegnen sie dem Geist des lesenden oder entziffernden Mitmenschen. Als Komponist aber frage ich: gibt es auch einen anderen Kausalitatszusammenhang, gibt es z. B. ein ,,autonomes Schreiben, eine sinn-freie Zeichengebung, durch entfesselte, losgelassene Fortbewegung der schreibenden Hand, wo der Schreibende seinem eigenen Schreiben nur noch staunend zusieht? Werden nicht in Japan Bilder, auch ,,abstrakte, geschrieben??? (In einem Underground-Film der 70er-Jahre uber den jungen Mozart sieht sich der Zuschauer versetzt in ein Zimmer eines italienischen Gasthauses, in dem der junge durchreisende Mozart am Tisch eilig die Rezitative einer seiner italienischen Opern zu Papier bringt. Mehr als eine Viertelstunde lang sind wir dabei, horen nicht die entstehende Musik, sondern das nervose Kratzen der Feder auf dem groben Notenpapier in nachmittaglicher Stille - nur der gleichmassige Pendelschlag der Wanduhr ist noch zu horen -, und wir erleben diese sekundare Klangwelt kaum weniger intensiv als nachher andere Horer die dabei stumm entstehende Musik.) Das Orchester in meinem Stuck ,,schreibt. Es fugt Strich zu Strich, versteht sich selbst als eine Art vielfaltiges ,,Schreib-Gerat. Wir als Horer lesen nicht das ,,Geschriebene, aber wir horen den Vorgang des Schreibens, den Bogenstrich, die Bewegung des scharrenden Holzstabs auf Fell oder Tamtam, und wir beobachten dessen Imitation bzw. Transformation durch - zeitweise auch tonlos - sich zu linearen Gestalten verbindende Blasinstrumente als eine Art klingender Schreib-Zeremonie. Es ergibt sich eine Musik, die gelegentlich ihren gedanklichen Ausgangspunkt vergisst und sich als autonome Klang-Situation fortentwickelt und verwandelt, und die schliesslich im hochsten Register eine Art ,,Kantilene be-schreibt. Wer das deutsche Wort ,,Schreiben (engl. ,,to write) schreibt, der schreibt dabei auch unweigerlich das Wort ,,Schrei (engl. ,,shout), und er schreibt auch das Wort ,,reiben (engl. ,,to rub). So emotional der erste Begriff gedacht werden kann, so nuchtern-praktisch ist der zweite. Von beiden Aspekten, samt ihrer Gegensatzlichkeit, ist mein Stuck gepragt. (Helmut Lachenmann, 2003)

World premiere: Tokyo/Japan, December 4, 2003.

Band Bass Clarinet, Bassoon 1, Bassoon 2, Clarinet 1, Clarinet 2, Clarinet 3, Clarinet 4, Clarinet 5, Clarinet 6, Contrabassoon, English Horn, Euphonium, Flute 1, Flute 2, Flute 3, Flute 4, Flute 5, Harp, Horn 1, Horn 2, Horn 3, Horn 4, Oboe 1 and more.

SKU: PR.41541156L

Composed by Stacy Garrop. Large Score. With Standard notation. 66 pages. Duration 19 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #415-41156L. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.41541156L).

UPC: 680160642953. 11 x 17 inches.

The Mythology Suite consists of three movements of my Mythology Symphony, which I arranged for large wind ensemble. The arrangements of The Lovely Sirens and Penelope Waits were commissioned by James Ripley and Carthage College for the Carthage Wind Orchestra's 2017 Japan tour. I added Pandora Undone to complete the set; Stephen Squires and the Chicago College of Performing Arts gave the premiere of the entire Suite in February 2017. Movement 1: The Lovely Sirens The Sirens were sea nymphs, usually pictured as part woman and part bird, who lived on a secluded island surrounded by rocks. Their enchanting song was irresistible to passing sailors, who were lured to their deaths as their ships were destroyed upon the rocks. The Lovely Sirens presents three ideas: the Sirens' beautiful song, an unfortunate group of sailors whose course takes them near the island, and the disaster that befalls the sailors. The sailors' peril is represented by the Morse code S.O.S. signal (three dots, three dashes, and three dots--represented musically by short and long rhythms). The S.O.S. signal grows increasingly more insistent and distressed as it becomes obvious that the sailors, smitten with the voices of the Sirens, are headed for their demise. Movement 2: Penelope Waits This quiet movement represents Queen Penelope, the faithful wife of Odysseus, as she patiently waits twenty years for her husband's return from fighting the Trojan Wars. Penelope herself is represented as an oboe. She is accompanied by the ensemble as she keeps at bay the suitors who wish to marry her and inherit her riches. Movement 3: Pandora Undone This movement is, in turns, both lighthearted and serious. The music depicts a young, naive Pandora who, while dancing around her house, spies a mysterious box. She tries to resist opening it, but her curiosity ultimately gets the best of her. When she cracks the lid open and looks inside, all evils escape into the world. Dismayed by what she has done, she looks inside the box once more. She discovers hope still in the box and releases it to temper the escaped evils and assuage mankind's new burden.
The Mythology Suite consists of three movements of my Mythology Symphony, which I arranged for large wind ensemble. The arrangements of The Lovely Sirens and Penelope Waits were commissioned by James Ripley and Carthage College for the Carthage Wind Orchestra’s 2017 Japan tour. I added Pandora Undone to complete the set; Stephen Squires and the Chicago College of Performing Arts gave the premiere of the entire Suite in February 2017.Movement 1: The Lovely SirensThe Sirens were sea nymphs, usually pictured as part woman and part bird, who lived on a secluded island surrounded by rocks. Their enchanting song was irresistible to passing sailors, who were lured to their deaths as their ships were destroyed upon the rocks. The Lovely Sirens presents three ideas: the Sirens’ beautiful song, an unfortunate group of sailors whose course takes them near the island, and the disaster that befalls the sailors. The sailors’ peril is represented by the Morse code S.O.S. signal (three dots, three dashes, and three dots—represented musically by short and long rhythms). The S.O.S. signal grows increasingly more insistent and distressed as it becomes obvious that the sailors, smitten with the voices of the Sirens, are headed for their demise.Movement 2: Penelope WaitsThis quiet movement represents Queen Penelope, the faithful wife of Odysseus, as she patiently waits twenty years for her husband's return from fighting the Trojan Wars. Penelope herself is represented as an oboe. She is accompanied by the ensemble as she keeps at bay the suitors who wish to marry her and inherit her riches.Movement 3: Pandora UndoneThis movement is, in turns, both lighthearted and serious. The music depicts a young, naïve Pandora who, while dancing around her house, spies a mysterious box. She tries to resist opening it, but her curiosity ultimately gets the best of her. When she cracks the lid open and looks inside, all evils escape into the world. Dismayed by what she has done, she looks inside the box once more. She discovers hope still in the box and releases it to temper the escaped evils and assuage mankind's new burden.

Voice(s) solo

SKU: BR.EB-9170

Composed by Nicolaus A. Huber. Voice; stapled. Edition Breitkopf. World premiere: Berlin (Festival Ultraschall), January 15, 2005. Music post-1945; New music (post-2000). Score. Composed 2004. 8 pages. Duration 9'. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB 9170. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.EB-9170).

ISBN 9790004182260. 12.5 x 10 inches.

Schon Beethoven klopfte auf die Gegenstande seiner Wohnungen und Oskar Fischinger erzahlte Cage, dass alle Gegenstande eine Seele besassen, die man durch ihren Klang befreien konne. Die Stimme eines Menschen ist in dieser Hinsicht von ganz besonderer Art. Sie ist, unabhangig von der Musik, die sie singt und flustert, besonders komplex aus allgemein menschlicher und spezieller Ich-Struktur zusammengesetzt und eine Welt eigenstandiger Vermogen und Erfahrungen. Ich habe dabei immer die Vorstellung einer innersten Zentrierung, die kegelformig nach Aussen abstrahlt und sich verstromt. Diese (tonale?) Zentrierung bestimmt die Tone und Klange sehr fremd, behalt aber doch insistierend den Ich-Focus des Klingens. Nicht umsonst ist in den asiatischen Gesangskulturen - etwa in Korea oder in Japan - die Stimme mit Perkussion verbunden. Das ist ja nicht nur ,,Rhythmus zum Gesang, sondern vor allem Klang-Punkt (im An-Schlag) und dezentrierende Offnung zu den Klangseelen anderer Gegenstande und Materialien. Ich wurde wahrend der Komposition an meinem Stuck immer mehr dazu getrieben, die Musik zu anderen Materialien hinzutreiben, zu anderen Resonanzen (auch des Denkens) bis hin zur globalisierten, ziemlich rein schwingenden Frequenz des Tones einer Stimmgabel. Jetzt kann ich nur noch hoffen, dass Ihnen die Musik und die zugrunde liegende Empfindungsstruktur gefallt. Die verwendeten Texte sind: Aber ein Mund, ein Mund -, , der singt und spricht ..., durft ich nur horen, ((Rainer Maria Rilke, aus: SPATE GEDICHTE, Leipzig: Insel 1935, S. 103)) rohes Gehor ((vgl. Karl Marx, MEW / Erganzungsband I, S. 541)) , wie Regen Sorge tragend ((Rainer Maria Rilke, aus: NEUE GEDICHTE, Leipzig: Insel 1950, S. 41)) Aus Blick und Traum Menschenduft ((Nicolaus A. Huber)) Platz da!! ((vgl. Heinz Dieter Kittsteiner,: Mit Marx fur Heidegger - Mit Heidegger fur Marx, Munchen: Fink 2004, S. 83)) Die ubrigen Artikulationen stammen aus den Holderlinzeilen: Das Erdenrund ist so geschmuckt, , und hoher ((aus: Friedrich Holderlin: Turmgedichte, Munchen 1991, S. 53 bzw. 55, Der Herbst bzw. Der Winter)) Nicolaus A. Huber (2004)

World premiere: Berlin (Festival Ultraschall), January 15, 2005.

Chamber Music String Quartet

SKU: PR.144401000

Composed by George Perle. Spiral. Premiere: Forum Group of the International Society for Contemporary Music, in New York City. Contemporary. Score. With Standard notation. Composed 1946-1948. Opus 21. Theodore Presser Company #144-40100. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.144401000).

UPC: 680160025589. 11 x 8.5 inches.

George Perle, now an instructor at the University of Louisville, was born in 1915, in Bayonne, New Jersey. He began work on the Third String Quartet in 1946 in Japan and completed it the following year in New York City. It was presented for the first time at a concert of the Forum Group of the International Society for Contemporary Music, in New York City on Feb. 7, 1948. The work is based on the following twelve-tone series, and its permutations and transpositions: d; e-flat; a-flat; b; c; f-sharp; c-sharp; f-natural; g; a; e; b-flat. The score is arranged in the present publication in such a way as to render unnecessary the extraction of parts for performance. Each player may read his part directly from a copy of the score.

Composed by Allan Alexander. Saddle stitch. World Music/Guitar Instruction. Book and Downloadable audio. Duration 70 minutes. Published by ADG Productions

Chamber Music Bass Clarinet 1, Bass Clarinet 2, Bass Clarinet 3, Basset Horn, Clarinet, Clarinet 1, Clarinet 2, Clarinet 3, Clarinet 4, Clarinet 5, Clarinet 6

SKU: PR.114415540

For Clarinet Choir. Composed by Eric Ewazen. Contemporary. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. 20+8+8+8+8+8+8+8+8+8+8+8 pages. Theodore Presser Company #114-41554. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114415540).

UPC: 680160609444. 9 x 12 inches.

For clarinetist Ayako Neidich and the NY Licorice Ensemble (a true musical bridge between New York and Japan), Ewazen has refashioned two of his fanfares, originally scored for other forces. An orchestral tone poem, Fanfare from Monument to Color and Light, was remade as a trumpet ensemble, and now finds new life as clarinet choir. His Front Range Fanfare, originally for brass ensemble, brings its grandeur and majesty to clarinets. These new settings bring a celebration by Ewazen to better clarinet choirs. For advanced performers.

Piano Solo

SKU: YM.GTP01100046

Composed by Keichan. Arranged by Keichan. Keichan. Artist Folio. Score. Yamaha Music Media #GTP01100046. Published by Yamaha Music Media (YM.GTP01100046).

ISBN 9784636100303. 8.5 x 12 inches.

Matching piano songbook for Keichan's first CD album KARA RA BAKO. Keichan, a Japanese pianist, is rapidly gaining popularity in Japan, with over 1 million subscribers to his YouTube channel (as of May 2022) and regular appearances on Japanese TV. The book features 11 of his original pieces performed with a free and genre-less style and arranged for intermediate level piano solo. The 5 pieces listed in #12-16 have special three-staff piano scores for both the piano and the melody line, faithfully scored from his original CD performance. An artist interview and special photos included at the beginning of the book.

SKU: BR.BV-402

Beitrage zu einer kritischen Musikwissenschaft. Composed by Peter Schweinhardt. Edited by Peter Schweinhardt. Softbound. Buchverlag Breitkopf & Hartel (Music Books). Book. 268 pages. Breitkopf and Haertel #BV 402. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.BV-402).

ISBN 9783765104022. 6.5 x 9.5 inches.

Eisler for the Present Age In 2012, the 50th anniversary of Hanns Eisler's death was the occasion at an international symposium for a review of the current Eisler research. The range of topics in this volume of more or less extensively revised symposium papers covers the analysis of various compositional and aesthetic aspects, especially from film music, via the historiographically-oriented survey of the stages of the composer's biography (in Denmark, USA, Austria, Germany) to the general consideration of Eisler's position in the past and the present. Investigating the history of the Eisler reception in Japan turns out to be real virgin territory.

2nd Edition. By Coldplay. Guitar Chord Songbook. Pop, Rock. Softcover. 304 pages. Published by Music Sales

SKU: BA.BA09009-14

Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Edited by Jonathan Del Mar. Stapled. Finale. A Pronunciation Guide for Japanese Singers. Book. Opus 125. 14 pages. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA09009_14. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BA09009-14).

ISBN 9790006566303. 26.8 x 18.5 cm inches. Key: D minor. Preface: Tsuchida, Eizaburo. Text: Schiller, Friedrich von.

This Pronunciation Guide helps Japanese singers with the pronunciation of the German text in theFinaleof Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. It includes the singing text in German, the international phonetic transcription, Japanese Katakana as well as a translation into Japanese.

The Introduction by Eizaburo Tsuchida sheds light on the history and reception of the 9th Symphony in Japan.