Duke Street Orchestre d'harmonie [Conducteur et Parties séparées] - Facile C.L. Barnhouse
Grade 2 SKU: CL.011-1781-00 Composed by J. Spears. Young Concert Band. Co...(+)
Grade 2
SKU:
CL.011-1781-00
Composed by J. Spears.
Young Concert Band.
Command Series. Audio
recording available
separately (item
CL.WFR369). Score and set
of parts. Composed 1984.
C.L. Barnhouse
#011-1781-00. Published
by C.L. Barnhouse
(CL.011-1781-00).
Take the famous
old hymn tune, ``Duke
Street,’’
set it in overture form,
mix in a variety of
musical styles and
exciting splashes of
percussion, bake it with
Spears’ skillful
scoring for the young
band, and you have the
recipe for a musical
feast.
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.
Performed by Jeff Carson. By Neil Thrasher And Jim Jonosky. Edited by Jeannette ...(+)
Performed by Jeff Carson.
By Neil Thrasher And Jim
Jonosky. Edited by
Jeannette Delisa.
Piano/Vocal/Chords.
Arrangements for piano
and voice with guitar
chords. 6 pages.
Published by Warner
Brothers.
Piano and orchestra SKU: FG.55011-372-5 Composed by Matthew Whittall. Stu...(+)
Piano and orchestra
SKU:
FG.55011-372-5
Composed by Matthew
Whittall. Study score.
Fennica Gehrman
#55011-372-5. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-372-5).
ISBN
9790550113725.
Imag
es of the sea figure
prominently throughout my
life and memories: from
holidays on the Atlantic
coast during my Canadian
childhood to my current
Baltic home, and the
imagined, only later
experienced Mediterranean
of my ancestral heritage.
As an immigrant (son of
an immigrant) bound to
two northern countries,
the sea is emblematic of
my twin homelands, from
the expanses of water
surrounding them to those
separating them. A Mari
usque ad Mare. The sea is
also an enduring image of
the unknown, of expanses
unexplored, of the raw
power of nature and, for
too many currently, of
terror holding a hope of
refuge - or the pain of
loss. Such disparate
ideas were captured for
me in the seascapes of
the New York painter
MaryBeth Thielhelm, whom
I met in 2008 during a
residency on the Gulf of
Mexico. Her vast,
abstract, nearly
monochromatic depictions
of imaginary seas in
wildly varying moods were
the catalyst for a
concerto where the piano
is frequently far from a
hero battling a
collective, but rather
acts as a channel for
elemental forces surging
up from the orchestra,
floating - sometimes
barely so - on its
constantly shifting
surface. There are few
themes to speak of,
beyond a handful of
iconic ideas that
periodically cycle
upward. Rather, the
piano's material is
largely an ornamentation
of the more primal
rhythmic and harmonic
impulses from the
orchestra below - a
poetic interpretation, if
you will, of the more
immediate experience of
facing the vastness of
some unknown body of
water. The title
Nameless Seas is borrowed
from one of Thielhelm's
exhibitions, as are those
of the four movements,
which are bridged
together into two halves
of roughly equal weight -
one rhapsodic and free,
the other more
single-minded and direct,
separated only by a short
breath. The opening
movement, Nocturne, is
predominantly calm, if
brooding, darkness and
light alternating
throughout. Lyrical
arabesques sparkle over
gently lapping
cross-currents in the
strings and mirrored
timpani, the piano's full
power only rarely
deployed. The waves
gradually build, drawing
in the full orchestra for
a meeting of forces in
Land and Sea, a brighter,
more warmly lyrical scene
that unfolds in series of
dreamlike, sometimes even
nostalgic visions, which
for me carry strong
memories of sitting on
rocks above surging
Atlantic waves. The third
movement, Wake, is a
fast, perpetual-motion
texture of glinting,
darting rhythms and
sudden shafts of light,
with a prominent part for
the steel drums, limning
the piano's quicksilver
figurations. An ecstatic
climax crashes into a
solo cadenza that grows
progressively calmer and
more introspective rather
than virtuosic. Much of
the tension finally
releases into Unclaimed
Waters, a drifting,
meditative seascape in
which the piano is
progressively engulfed by
a series of ever-taller
waves, ultimately
dissolving into a
tolling, rippling
continuum of sound.
It has been a great
privilege to realize such
a long-held dream as this
piece, and to write it
for not one, but two
great pianists.
Risto-Matti Marin and
Angela Hewitt, both of
whose friendship and
support have been
unfailing and humbling,
share the dedication.
Nameless Seas was
commissioned by the
PianoEspoo festival and
Canada's National Arts
Centre, with the
premieres in Ottawa and
Helsinki led by Hannu
Lintu and Olari Elts.
Thanks are due also to
the Jenny and Antti
Wihuri fund, whose
generous grant provided
me with much-needed time,
and Escape to Create in
Seaside, Florida, the
source to which I
returned to do a large
part of the work.
Shenandoah Orchestre d'harmonie [Conducteur] - Facile Opus III Wind Orchestra Publications
Concert band - Grade 3 SKU: CL.012-4147-75 Arranged by Bond. Concert Band...(+)
Concert band - Grade 3
SKU:
CL.012-4147-75
Arranged by Bond. Concert
Band. Concert Band
Series. Audio recording
available separately
(item CL.WFR376).
Oversized, spiral-bound
score. Composed 2012.
Duration 3 minutes, 7
seconds. Opus III Wind
Orchestra Publications
#012-4147-75. Published
by Opus III Wind
Orchestra Publications
(CL.012-4147-75).
This rich
arrangement of a popular
traditional American
melody is aimed at the
younger band who wish to
showcase their
development of a warm
sound and expressive
phrasing. The palette of
colors changes throughout
to allow each section to
shine as the melodic
responsibilities are
passed around the various
sections of the ensemble.
As the piece ebbs and
flows from subtle
splashes of light to
dramatic presentations of
the melody, the overall
effect is contemporary
and picturesque in its
essence while remaining
accessible to less
experienced bands. While
performance markings are
indicated, the arranger
would encourage directors
to flavor their
interpretation of the
score with personal
choices of expression,
flexibility of tempo and
dynamic contrast.
Mixed choir a cappella with bass-solo - advanced SKU: HL.49044128 Zwei...(+)
Mixed choir a cappella
with bass-solo - advanced
SKU: HL.49044128
Zwei Gesange nach
Texten von Friedrich
Hebbel und Gerda von
Robertus. Composed by
Rudi Stephan. Arranged by
Clytus Gottwald. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Choral. Octavo. Composed
1908/1911. 16 pages.
Duration 7'. Schott Music
#SKR20060. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49044128).
ISBN
9790001168915.
German.
He was
regarded as the German
hope among the composers
of his generation and as
'next man of New Music',
but his early death
quashed all such hopes of
the music scene: Rudi
Stephan died at the early
age of 28, leaving behind
instrumental works as
well as some songs in
which he admitted
expressionist concepts of
art, as were later
expressed mainly by the
Viennese School. Clytus
Gottwald has taken up the
cause of transcribing two
of the songs by this
composer, who died in the
First World War, for
nine-part mixed a
cappella choir
(SSAATTBBB) with solo
bass in his honour. In
spite of the Latin title,
Memento vivere is a
German-language secular
song based on a text by
Friedrich Hebbel which is
permeated by harmonies
sharpened with
dissonances. The music of
Kythere to words by Gerda
von Robertus is
characterized by the
excessive use of harmonic
shifts in the style of
Debussy.
Jazz Ensemble Kendor Konvertible for 9-17 players - Grade 2 SKU: KN.00296S(+)
Jazz Ensemble Kendor
Konvertible for 9-17
players - Grade 2
SKU:
KN.00296S
Composed by
Jon Phelps. Jazz Gateway.
Kendor Music Inc #00296S.
Published by Kendor Music
Inc (KN.00296S).
UPC:
822795002966.
Writt
en in the calypso style,
this Latin original
features a tuneful melody
supported by an
interesting chord
progression with solid
orchestration. Though
this chart contains great
learning material, it's
simply fun to play and
will leave the band and
the audience whistling
the melody. The piano
part is fully notated
with chord symbols
provided. The guitar part
consists primarily of
changes and slashes, with
a couple brief notated
sections where the
guitarist shares some
melodic material with the
ensemble. The solo
section has changes cued
for all instruments and
can be negotiated with
the notes from only one
scale. A guitar chord
chart by Jim Greeson is
included in each set.
Duration 2:45.
H.M.S. Pinafore Voix seule [Vocal Score] Faber Music Limited
(or The Lass That Loved a Sailor (Vocal Score)). By William S. Gilbert and Arthu...(+)
(or The Lass That Loved a
Sailor (Vocal Score)). By
William S. Gilbert and
Arthur S. Sullivan. For
Voice. Masterworks;
Score; Vocal (Opera)
Score. Faber Edition.
Masterwork; Romantic.
Published by Faber Music
The Cuckoo Chorale Unison Unison [Teacher Editions|Teacher Editions] Alfred Publishing
(The Day the Cuckoo Lost Her Colors -- A Mexican Folk Tale for Unison Voices (Te...(+)
(The Day the Cuckoo Lost
Her Colors -- A Mexican
Folk Tale for Unison
Voices (Teacher's
Handbook)). By Sally K.
Albrecht and Jay
Althouse. Unison Choir.
This edition: Teacher's
Handbook (100%
Reproducible). Book;
Classroom/Pre-School;
Musicals; Musicals and
Programs; Reproducible.
Multicultural; World. 52
pages. Published by
Alfred Music Publishing
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.144404550 Composed by Sydney F. Hodk...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.144404550
Composed
by Sydney F. Hodkinson.
Set of Score and Parts.
With Standard notation.
Composed 2002.
53+20+16+16+16 pages.
Duration 22 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#144-40455. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.144404550).
UPC:
680160030859.
After
finishing a serious
woodwind quintet in the
fall of 2001 [Tela
Lacerata], I found, in
the ensuing months, that
its cinders/ashes were
still impregnating my
eardrums. Therefore, when
I set out to write the
present string piece, I
realized that the musical
veins of the quartet,
like related cousins,
were sharing the same
blood as the earlier wind
composition. The
resultant Fifth Quartet
evolved into two large,
extended movements, each
one containing seven
parts that are played
without pause. As the
list of the various
sub-sections clearly
indicates, the formal
structure of the
movements appear to be
identical: each with
three main parts
enveloped by interludes,
plus an introduction and
coda. However, the
principal segments of the
first (slow) movement
gradually decrease in
length, while those of
the second (fast)
movement increase. In
addition, there is a
goodly amount of sonic
material stolen from the
first movement which
reappears -- stitched
together in a new guise
-- into the world of the
second. for example, the
bulk of Parts B and C of
Movement II are lifted
bodily, although
elaborately modified,
from their first
appearances in the
Introduction and Part A
of the fist movement.
This offers, I suppose at
least a hint of a
traditional
recapitulation. As was
true in the earlier
woodwind piece -- both
harmonically and
melodically -- the
embryonic growth of the
musical fabric (primarily
the tritone and perfect
fifth) is omnipresent,
almost obsessively,
throughout the course of
the whole work. These two
intervals, not unlike
plasticine, habitually
transform themselves into
the scales, chords, and
melodic lines that
pervade the texture of
the quartet. Owing to the
largely unrelieved
dramatic flow, the
shifting speed, and the
often fervent intensity,
the quartet places
considerable demands on
the dexterity,
virtuosity, and stamina
of the four performers.
String Quartet No. 5 is
approximately 22 minutes
in duration and
affectionately dedicated
to my violinist wife
Elizabeth, as a gift for
our 47 years together. It
was commissioned by the
Corigliano String
Quartet, New York, NY. --
Sydney Hodkinson.
Composed by
Kirby Shaw. Performance
Music Ensemble; Single
Titles. Alfred Choral
Designs. Christmas;
Novelty; Secular. Choral
Octavo. 12 pages. Alfred
Music #00-41542.
Published by Alfred Music
(AP.41542).
UPC:
038081466224.
English.
A little
bit vaudeville, a little
bit country, this zany
novelty number is a hoot!
You know Dasher and
Dancer, and Prancer and
Vixen? Well, this isn't
about those guys, it's
actually about their
wacky cousins. You'll be
laughing well into
January!
About Alfred
Choral
Designs
Th
e Alfred Choral Designs
Series provides student
and adult choirs with a
variety of secular choral
music that is useful,
practical, educationally
appropriate, and a
pleasure to sing. To that
end, the Choral Designs
series features original
works, folk song
settings, spiritual
arrangements, choral
masterworks, and holiday
selections suitable for
use in concerts,
festivals, and
contests.
Orchestra Piano SKU: PR.11641861SP Composed by William Kraft. Part. 35 pa...(+)
Orchestra Piano
SKU:
PR.11641861SP
Composed by William
Kraft. Part. 35 pages.
Duration 21 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#116-41861SP. Published
by Theodore Presser
Company (PR.11641861SP).
UPC:
680160685202.
What?
! - my composer
colleagues said - A
concerto for the piano?
It's a 19th century
instrument! Admittedly we
are in an age when
originally created
timbres and/or
musico-technological
formulations are often
the modus operandi of a
piece. Actually, this
Concerto began about two
years ago when, during
one of my creative jogs,
the sound of the
uppermost register of the
piano mingled with wind
chimes penetrated my
inner ear. The challenge
and fascination of
exploring and developing
this idea into an
orchestral situation
determined that some day
soon I would be writing a
work for piano and
orchestra. So it was a
very happy coincidence
when Mona Golabek phoned
to tell me she would like
discuss the Ford
Foundation commission.
After covering areas of
aesthetics and
compositional styles, we
found that we had a good
working rapport, and she
asked if I would accept
the commission. The
answer was obvious. Then
began the intensive
thought process on the
stylistic essence and
organization of the work.
Along with this went a
renewed study of
idiomatic writing for the
piano, of the kind
Stravinsky undertook with
the violin when he began
his Violin Concerto. By a
stroke of great fortune,
the day in February 1972
that I received official
notice from the Ford
Foundation of the
commission, I also
received a letter from
the Guggenheim Foundation
informing me I had been
awarded my second
fellowship. With the good
graces of Zubin Mehta and
Ernest Fleischmann,
masters of my destiny as
a member of the Los
Angeles Philharmonic, I
was relieved of my
orchestral duties during
the Hollywood Bowl
season. Thus I was able
to go to Europe to work
and to view the latest
trends in music
concentrating in London
(the current musical
melting pot and showcase
par excellence), Oslo,
Norway, for the Festival
of Scandinavian Music
called Nordic Days, and
Warsaw, Poland, for its
prestigious Autumn
Festival. Over half the
Concerto was completed in
that summer and most of
the rest during the 72-73
season with the final
touches put on during a
month as Resident Scholar
at the Rockefeller
Foundation's Villa
Serbelloni in Bellagio,
Italy. So much for the
external and
environmental influences,
except perhaps to mention
the birds of Sussex in
the first movement, the
bells of Arhus (Denmark)
in the second movement
and the bells of Bellagio
at the end of the
Concerto. Primary in the
conception was the
personality of Miss
Golabek: she is a
wonderfully vital and
dynamic person and a real
virtuoso. Therefore, the
soloist in the Concerto
is truly the protagonist;
it is she (for once we
can do away with the
generic he) who unfolds
the character and intent
of the piece. The first
section is constructed in
the manner of a
recitative - completely
unmeasured - with letters
and numbers by which the
conductor signals the
orchestra for its
participation. This
allows the soloist the
freedom to interpret the
patterns and control the
flow and development of
the music. The Concerto
is actually in one
continuous movement but
with three large
divisions of sufficiently
contrasting character to
be called movements in
themselves. The first
'movement' is based on a
few timbral elements: 1)
a cluster of very low
pitches which at the
beginning are practically
inaudibly depressed, and
sustained silently by the
sostenuto pedal, which
causes sympathetic
vibrating pitches to ring
when strong notes are
struck; 2) a single
powerful note indicated
by a black note-head with
a line through it
indicating the strongest
possible sforzando; 3)
short figures of various
colors sometimes ominous,
sometimes as splashes of
light or as elements of
transition; 4) trills and
tremolos which are the
actual controlling
organic thread starting
as single axial tremolos
and gradually expanding
to trills of increasingly
larger and more powerful
scope. The 'movement'
begins in quiescent
repose but unceasingly
grows in energy and
tension as the stretching
of a string or rubber
band. When it can no
longer be restrained, it
bursts into the next
section. The second
'movement,' propelled by
the released tension, is
a brilliant virtuosic
display, which begins
with a long solo of wispy
percussion, later joined
in duet with the piano.
Not to be ignored, the
orchestra takes over
shooting the material
throughout all its
sections like a small
agile bird deftly
maneuvering through
nothing but air, while
the piano counterposes
moments of lyricism. The
orchestra reaches a
climax, thrusting us into
the third 'movement'
which begins with a
cadenza-like section for
the piano. This moves
gently into an expressive
section (expressive is
not a negative term to
me) in which duets are
formed with various
instruments. There are
fleeting glimpses of
remembrances past, as a
fragmented
recapitulation. One
glimpse is hazily
expressed by strings and
percussion in a moment of
simultaneous contrasting
levels of activity, a
technique of which I have
been fond and have
utilized in various
fixed-free relationships,
particularly in my
Percussion Concerto,
Contextures and Games:
Collage No. 1. The second
half of the third
'movement; is a large
coda - akin to those in
Beethoven - which brings
about another display of
virtuosity, this time
gutsy and driving,
raising the Concerto to a
final climax, the soloist
completing the fragmented
recapitulation concept as
well as the work with the
single-note sforzando and
low cluster from the very
opening of the first
movement.
By Kenneth Leighton (1921-1988). For Choral (SSAA). Music Sales America. Choral,...(+)
By Kenneth Leighton
(1921-1988). For Choral
(SSAA). Music Sales
America. Choral, Secular.
24 pages. Novello and Co
Ltd. #NOV160198.
Published by Novello and
Co Ltd.
Orchestra SKU: SU.24200230 For Orchestra. Composed by Max A. Fried...(+)
Orchestra
SKU:
SU.24200230
For
Orchestra. Composed
by Max A. Friedman.
Orchestra. Study Score.
Subito Music Corporation
#24200230. Published by
Subito Music Corporation
(SU.24200230).
Tone poem for
large orchestra.2,1 2,1
3,1 2,1; 4331; timp,
perc; stgs Duration: 15'
Composed: 2015-16
Published by: Asher Rose
Music Performance
materials available on
rental only:.
Arranged by Daniel Kelley. For Flute (or Oboe or Violin) and Cello (or Bassoon)....(+)
Arranged by Daniel
Kelley. For Flute (or
Oboe or Violin) and Cello
(or Bassoon). Duets.
Music for Two. Gilbert &
Sullivan, Irish, Rags.
Level:
Intermediate/Advanced.
Score with 2 parts.
Published by Last Resort
Music Publishing.
Odd Man Out (parts) Quintette de Cuivres: 2 trompettes, Cor, trombone, tuba Subito Music
Brass Quintet SKU: SU.24100220 For Brass Quintet. Composed by Stan...(+)
Brass Quintet
SKU:
SU.24100220
For
Brass Quintet.
Composed by Stanley
Friedman. Brass, Brass
Ensemble, Chamber Music,
Brass Quartet/Quintet.
Set of Parts. Subito
Music Corporation
#24100220. Published by
Subito Music Corporation
(SU.24100220).
Fast, furious
but highly engaging;
written for Spanish
Brass; 7 min.brass
quintet Composed: 2010
Published by: Asher Rose
Music.