Composed by George Rochberg and Christina Jennings. Arranged by Christina Jennin...(+)
Composed by George
Rochberg and Christina
Jennings. Arranged by
Christina Jennings.
Instrumental Solo.
Concerts. Galaxy Music
Corporation #1.3371.
Published by Galaxy Music
Corporation
Chamber Music Bass Flute
1, Bass Flute 2,
Contrabass Flute, Flute
1, Flute 2, Flute 3,
Flute 4, Piccolo 1,
Piccolo 2, alto Flute 1,
alto Flute 2
SKU:
PR.114417700
For
Flute Orchestra.
Composed by Daniel Dorff.
Folder, .2inch white
spine. Premiered by the
Mid-Atlantic Flute
Convention festival flute
choir, conducted by
George Pope, Beston, VA.
Contemporary. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed 2015.
24+4+4+4+4+4+4+4+4+4+4+2+
2 pages. Duration 5
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-41770.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114417700).
ISBN
9781491108000. UPC:
680160636259. 9x12
inches.
To mark its
50th anniversary, the
Flute Society of
Washington commissioned
Daniel Dorff to compose a
celebratory work for
large flute ensemble, to
premiere en masse at its
2016 convention. Dorff
responded with Fireworks,
a 5-minute dazzler scored
for 2 piccolos, 4 C
flutes, 2 altos, 2
basses, and 1 contrabass.
In describing performance
of Fireworks, Dorff says:
Real pyrotechnic
fireworks typically shoot
upward quickly and
neatly, pop at the top,
and then cascade downward
slowly in a beautifully
out-of-sync descent.
Fireworks has many
passages musically
depicting this crisp
upward whoosh exploding
into downward sprinkles,
often punctuated by a pop
at the
top. PERFORMANCE
SUGGESTIONS1) FIREWORKS
may be performed by any
size ensemble ranging
from 11 soloists up to a
large festival choir. It
may be preferable to keep
the piccolos at one
player per part even when
the other parts have
multiple players.2) Real
pyrotechnic fireworks
typically shoot upward
quickly and neatly, pop
at the top, and then
cascade downward slowly
in a beautifully
out-of-sync descent.
FIREWORKS has many
passages musically
depicting this crisp
upward whoosh exploding
into downward sprinkles,
often punctuated by a pop
at the top.3) All
dynamics are relative to
the whole blend, and some
performance situations
may require attention and
adjustments to keep the
balance as notated.4) The
“puh†effect
with x-shaped noteheads
in the Bass and
Contrabass parts is a
beatbox technique
sounding similar to
pizzicato. There is
naturally-produced flute
pitch along with the
percussive attack.5)
“Like tolling
bells†(bar 191
onward) indicates a rapid
decay of each note, like
church bells.This will
help the antiphonal echo
beginning in bar 195, and
the seating placement may
also enhance the
antiphonal effect.
Piano SKU: HL.14040983 Piano. Composed by Theodor Grigoriu. Music ...(+)
Piano
SKU:
HL.14040983
Piano. Composed by
Theodor Grigoriu. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover].
Editions Musicales
Transatlantiques
#ETR001822. Published by
Editions Musicales
Transatlantiques
(HL.14040983).
French.
The
Modal Column is a cycle
of paired pieces for
piano, starting from the
classical structure-
prelude-fugue - used by
Bach in Das
wohltemperierte Klavier.
The modes that are being
used have a relatively
simple octavizing
structure, hence an
almost infinite variety
of combinations that can
generate a large number
of pieces, impossible to
exhaust by a composer.
Therein lies the idea of
a column, in the sense
given by Brancusi, i.e.
an endless succession of
modules.
In the
vision of the author, the
mechanism of the mode is
a secondary (ancillary)
aspect, the primary goal
is deciphering the ethos
incorporated in it.
The prelude-fugue
structure hypostatizesthe
musical discourse at the
two possible extremes.
free-constructed. While
Romanian music rules in
free areas, like any old
music with an (especially
oral) tradition, the
constructed pieces start
from Dutch (Flemish) or
Venetian polyphony, which
precedes the idea of
fugue, understood as a
technology of the
movement (dynamics) of
sound, after the models
of Giovanni Gabrieli or
Ockeghem.
The
Modal Column is first of
all the presentation of a
melodic world but, as the
subtitle indicates, also
an investigation into the
ethos of Romanian music.
The forms in which the
pieces are thought are
simple, non-ostentatious,
the whole cycle being in
fact a musical workshop,
whose better parts may be
worth including in ampler
works. Before the
succinct description of
the six couples in Books
I and II, a few
observations, necessary
from a musicological
point of view:
1. The modes are rich
in nostalgia, with even
graver nuances in the
livelier movements.
2. It is well-known,
that all the columns -
Egyptian obelisks,
ancient ornamental
columns - have scenarios
engraved on them.
Trajan's Column describes
the wars against the
Dacians and their defeat.
George Calinescu says,
'Trajan's Column is
beautiful, but let us not
forget that the Dacians
are in chains on it.' The
Romanian melos is
millennia-old and was but
little influenced by
historical.
String Quartet SKU: C4.9790-902250559 Composed by George Henschel. Edited...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
C4.9790-902250559
Composed by George
Henschel. Edited by
Daniel Mitterdorfer and
Harold Fabrikant.
Classical. Score and
Parts. Crescendo Music
Publications
#9790-902250559.
Published by Crescendo
Music Publications
(C4.9790-902250559).
ISBN 9790902250559.
8.27 x 11.7
inches.
Not much is
known of the performance
history of this work,
though its dedication to
the Kneisel Quartet
indicates that Henschel
held them in high esteem.
Cast in the traditional
four-movement structure,
the Quartet looks back
unashamedly to the
Romantic period and would
not be out of place in a
programme containing any
of Brahms' Quartets.