Jazz Ensemble (Score) - Grade 3

SKU: HL.7013567

By Freddie Mercury and Queen. Arranged by Paul Murtha. Young Jazz (Jazz Ensemble). Jazz, Pop, Rock. Softcover. 12 pages. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.7013567).

UPC: 888680983628. 9.0x12.0x0.026 inches.

The music of rock group Queen is always fun to play, and particularly this hit featuring solo alto sax in the slow opening, then the full band rockin' out in the fast section. There's a brief solo for alto sax, then a return to the slow tempo for the finish.

Transcribed Scores Bass; Drums; Guitar; Piano/Keyboard; Vocal Complete Scores Collectors Edition. By Queen. Transcribed Score. Pop, Rock. Hardcover. Published by Hal Leonard

(Score/Piano Acc.). Arranged by Victor L�pez. For Score/Piano Acc.. Book; Mixed Instruments - Flexible Instrumentation. Pop Instrumental Ensembles. Pop/Rock. Grade 2.5; Grade 3. 48 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing

(Easy Piano). Arranged by Dan Coates. For Piano. This edition: Easy Piano. Book; Piano - Easy Piano Collection; Sing-Along. The Giant Book of Sheet Music. Broadway. Easy Piano. 196 pages. Published by Alfred Music

For SATB divisi and Piano. Composed by Will Todd. Boosey and Hawkes Sacred Choral. 20 pages. Boosey and Hawkes #M060130595. Published by Boosey and Hawkes (HL.48023643).

Grade 2

SKU: CL.011-3225-01

Composed by Orcino. Young Concert Band. Command Series. Audio recording available separately (item CL.WFR323). Extra full score. Composed 2002. Duration 2 minutes, 49 seconds. C.L. Barnhouse #011-3225-01. Published by C.L. Barnhouse (CL.011-3225-01).

Here’s one you don’t want to miss! A perfect showstopper for any holiday or winter concert! Very descriptive and all sections of the band get a chance to shine! Very impressive for this grade level! DON’T MISS THIS ONE!!

About C.L. Barnhouse Command Series

The Barnhouse Command Series includes works at grade levels 2, 2.5, and 3. This series is designed for middle school and junior high school bands, as well as high school bands of smaller instrumentation or limited experience. Command Series publications have a slightly larger instrumentation than the Rising Band Series, and are typically of larger scope, duration, and musical content.

Violin, Cello, Piano Duet

SKU: HL.14041576

Composed by Kevin Volans. Music Sales America. Book Only. Composed 2011. 64 pages. Chester Music #CH74437. Published by Chester Music (HL.14041576).

9.25x12.0x0.21 inches.

For Violin, Cello and Piano Duet.

In the past composers wrote 'pieces' of music. More important pieces were called'works'. Nowadays, however, most composers write minutes. Phone up anyprofessional composer and ask how'r'ya doing? and nine out of ten will say something like: 'Terrible/ awful ... I've only written 4 (or .....) minutes and I have to write ... minutes!'
We're all commissioned to write minutes - like so many feet of wallpaper. Imagine this:' We loved your Jupiter Symphony Mr. Mozart, but it's 3 minutes less than wecommissioned.'
Fortunately most composers cheat a bit, and most commissioners don't sit with stopwatches in their hands.1000bars is not 1000 bars long. I stopped when the piece was finished. However it did turn out to be exactly 4'33' in duration.

What the piece itself is about has nothing to do with its title or length.

&nb sp;- Kevin Volans

Chamber Music oboe

SKU: PR.114422520

Sonata for Oboe and Piano. Composed by Katherine Needleman. Set of Score and Parts. 24+8 pages. Duration 15:45. Theodore Presser Company #114-42252. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114422520).

ISBN 9781491134788. UPC: 680160683833.

After decades as a renowned oboe virtuoso, Katherine Needleman was improvising at the piano during the quarantine summer of 2020 when her ideas congealed in a powerful way. Within a week she completed a 16-minute oboe sonata inspired by the world’s overlapping crises. This riveting three-movement sonata bears the title qua resurget ex favilla, drawn from the Dies Irae text referring to rising back from ashes. Needleman won the International Double Reed Society’s Inaugural Commissioning Competition by entering her own recording of this work, performing as both oboist and pianist from her living room. As a result, IDRS commissioned her to compose a new work for English horn and piano which was premiered at their 2021 Virtual Symposium and programmed for the live 2022 convention.
I’m not exactly sure how, in a life consumed by music, I never put anything on paper between the time I stopped at age 10 and the age of 42. I mean, I have some ideas why, but that could easily dissolve into a feminist manifesto or a condemnation of my musical education and the overwhelming culture of American oboe playing, the vehicle through which I’ve made a living my entire adult life. Rather than go there, I will just say this is the first piece I put on paper in my adult life.Six months into COVID-19 lockdown in the US, the world was feeling pretty weird. I had familiarized myself with the music notation program, Sibelius, for recent arranging projects. I had written some mockeries of A.M.R. Barret oboe etudes in response to an assignment I was given (and did appropriately first). When I descended into a dark chorale in the middle of the fourth mockery, I realized I needed a new vehicle. I wrote a short, ridiculous piece for my husband’s birthday, and then, the next night, when improvising at the piano, like I’ve done since I was seven years old, this piece came to me. However, this time, I sketched it out into Sibelius. Over the course of the next week, I found notating and picking permanent, official notes to enter into the computer challenging. But it was all done on paper in seven days, and I took another few for dynamics and articulations thinking they might be useful for someone else, if I would ever be lucky enough for someone else to play it.I don’t have much to say about the music of qua resurget ex favilla itself. It’s a personal statement couched in the feelings of that time. The US presidential election was looming large and ugly in my mind, well, that and the end of life as we knew it, but I also had some bizarre feeling that everything would be okay.

By John Cage (1912-1992). For for any instrument or combination of instruments. Modern. Sheet Music. Composed 1952. Duration 4 minutes 33 seconds. Published by Edition Peters

Orchestra Violin I, Violin II, Violin III (Viola T.C.), Viola, Cello, Bass, Piano - Grade 1

SKU: CF.FAS134

La Réjouissance. Composed by George Frideric Handel. Arranged by Caryn Wiegand Neidhold. Fas. Set of Score and Parts. Duration 1:30. Carl Fischer Music #FAS134. Published by Carl Fischer Music (CF.FAS134).

ISBN 9781491164778. UPC: 680160923687. Key: D major.

George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) is a German composer whose musical legacy has lasted over three hundred years. While most people know his Hallelujah Chorus from the oratorio Messiah, many of his other compositions are still performed around the world, including La Rejouissance from the Royal Fireworks Suite. The suite was commissioned by King George of England to celebrate the Treaty of Aix-La-Chapel. King George said he wanted only wind and percussion instruments, specifically requesting “no fiddles.” 12,000 people attended the dress rehearsal of the concert. In contrast, the actual performance happened in the rain, which meant many of the fireworks did light, but managed to set the immense pavilion on fire. Handel later added strings to the Royal Fireworks Suite for a charity performance for The Foundling Hospital of London.For young students, the character of Handel’s music is defined by the types of bow strokes. Quarter notes should be played with a detached bow stroke with a hint of an accent. Eighth notes may be played more connected but will sound best with a slight détaché stroke. If more advanced students join the performance, a minimized vibrato is typical of music from the Baroque era. Terraced dynamics may be practiced by stopping just before the dynamic change and adjusting the weight of the bow arm, then proceeding in the new dynamic such as in mm. 37–39.