Choir; orchestra SKU: HP.C5178O Composed by Carl Tuttle and Melchior Tesc...(+)
Choir; orchestra
SKU:
HP.C5178O
Composed by
Carl Tuttle and Melchior
Teschner. Arranged by
Jack Schrader. Piano
Accompaniment with
Optional Orchestra.
Confirmation /
Graduation, Palm Sunday,
Peace, Sacred. Set of
Instrumental Parts. Hope
Publishing Company
#C5178O. Published by
Hope Publishing Company
(HP.C5178O).
UPC:
763628144227. By Melchior
Teschner & Carl
Tuttle.
Choral
medley of songs by
Melchior Teschner &
Carl Tuttle Choral medley
incorporating Melchior
Teschner's All Glory,
Laud and Honor with Carl
Tuttle's Hosanna -
skillfully arranged by
Jack Schrader. The
orchestration by Mark
Kellner contains a
Conductor's Score and
parts for: Piano, Rhythm,
Flute, Oboe, Clarinet,
Trumpet 1, Trumpet 2 & 3,
Horns 1 & 2, Trombone 1 &
2, Trombone 3/Tuba,
Percussion, Timpani,
Harp, Violins, Violas,
Cellos and Basses.
Vocal ensemble (duet, 2 med voices) SKU: HP.8893 Composed by Bill Gaither...(+)
Vocal ensemble (duet, 2
med voices)
SKU:
HP.8893
Composed by
Bill Gaither and Gloria
Gaither. Arranged by Jack
Schrader. Piano
Accompaniment with
Optional Orchestra.
Easter Sunday. Vocal
score. 8 pages. Hope
Publishing Company #8893.
Published by Hope
Publishing Company
(HP.8893).
UPC:
763628188931. By William
& Gloria
Gaither.
Popular
worship song by
William & Gloria
Gaither The 'classic'
Gloria & Bill Gaither
song is showcased in this
gleaming, artistic
arrangement by Jack
Schrader. This standard
favorite has been given a
fresh, dignified
treatment and should meet
the needs of many choirs
during the Easter/Lenten
season, as well as many
other Sundays throughout
the church year. The
orchestration consists of
a Conductor's Score and
parts for: Flute, Oboe,
Clarinet, Trumpets 1, 2,
& 3, Horns 1 & 2,
Trombone 1, 2, and 3 (or
Sub. Tuba for Trombone
3), Percussion, Timpani,
Harp, Violins, Violas,
Cellos, and Basses.
With Variants, Examples and Advice for Playing and Improvising on any instrument...(+)
With Variants, Examples
and Advice for Playing
and Improvising on any
instrument. Edited by
Pascale Boquet, Gerard
Rebours. Music Books/CDs.
Teaching Works. Level:
Grade 0. 144 pages.
Published by Editions
Fuzeau Classique - France
(French import).
A Jubilant Song Chorale SSAA SSAA, Piano [Octavo] Hope Publishing Company
By Allen Pote. For SSAA choir and keyboard with optional handbells and brass or ...(+)
By Allen Pote. For SSAA
choir and keyboard with
optional handbells and
brass or orchestration.
Hope's All-Time Best
Selling Choral Series.
Sacred, General Worship,
God's
Attributes/Character,
Joy, Praise. Octavo. 12
pages. Published by Hope
Publishing Company
Chinese Folk Dance Suite Saxophone Soprano et Piano [Conducteur et Parties séparées] Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Piano, soprano Saxophone SKU: PR.114419290 Composed by Chen...(+)
Chamber Music Piano,
soprano Saxophone
SKU:
PR.114419290
Composed
by Chen Yi. Edited by
Chen Yi. Arranged by Wong
Tak Chiu. Sws. Score and
parts. 44 pages. Duration
20 minutes. Theodore
Presser Company
#114-41929. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.114419290).
ISBN
9781491135235. UPC:
680160676118. 9 x 12
inches.
Supported
by a major commissioning
award from the Serge
Koussevitzky Music
Foundation in the Library
of Congress, my Chinese
Folk Dance Suite is
written for violin solo
and orchestra, and
premiered by The Women's
Philharmonic with violin
soloist Terrie Baune,
conducted by Apo Hsu, on
March 10, 2001, at Yerba
Buena Center For the Arts
Theater in San Francisco.
Inspired by various
Chinese traditional folk
dances, I've composed
three movements in the
suite: 1) Lion Dance.
Traditionally, people
dance with richly
decorated hand made
lions, accompanied by
percussion ensemble, to
celebrate happy occasions
and major festivals
throughout the country.
In the composition, I use
Chinese drum and other
percussion instruments in
the background, to form a
dynamic and rhythmic
texture responding to the
solo part, which imitates
the tunes played on the
suona (traditional
Chinese trumpet). The
pitch materials came from
traditional Guangdong
Music tune and Chaozhou
Music tune ; 2) YangKo.
Originated in northern
China, it's a major folk
dance form in mass
performance popularized
in the country. In YangKo
performance, people
always play rhythmic
patterns on the drums
hung around their waists
while singing and
dancing. In my second
movement, I have imagined
a warm scene of YangKo
dancing in distance. The
solo violin plays a sweet
and gracious melodic line
while all members in the
orchestra sing the
non-pitch syllables in
different layers as the
soft background, to
imitate the percussion
sound which produces the
ever going pulse. 3)
Muqam. It is a large
scale traditional music
and dance form from Uygur
nationality in Xinjiang
province, originated in
the 15th century. In my
third movement, I keep
the meter of seven eight
and the melodic style of
Muqam music. The fiery
dancing gesture cumulates
the sustained climax
section at the end of the
work, after a colorful
violin cadenza in both
improvisational singing
style and polyphonic
writing with woven lines.
Scored for 2 flutes (2nd
doubling piccolo), 2
oboes, 2 clarinets in Bb,
2 bassoons, 4 French
horns in F, 2 trumpets in
Bb, 3 trombones,
percussion 1 (3 congas,
low tom-tom, temple
block, paddle castanets),
percussion 2 (snare drum,
6 small Beijing opera
gong, 12 big Beijing
opera gong, crotales,
tambourine), percussion 3
(suspended cymbal, a pair
of 6 Chinese cymbals,
bass drum), solo violin,
violins I, violins II,
violas, cellos and double
basses. Duration is about
16 minutes. The work is
recorded on Bis [CD-1352]
and released in 2003,
performed by Cho-Liang
Lin and the Singapore
Symphony Orchestra, cond.
by Lan Shui. Reduction
for B-flat soprano
saxophone and piano by
Wong Tak Chiu (2017) and
edited by Chen Yi (2018)
The second movement
YangKo is premiered by
Dr. Wong and Korak
Lerpibulchai at the
Singapore Saxophone
Symposium on 8/13/2017.
The American premiere of
the saxophone and piano
reduction version of
Chinese Folk Dance Suite
is given by Chi Him Chik
and Hao Yin at the
Society for American
Music National Conference
in Kansas City, MO on
3/2/2018.
Piano and orchestra - difficult SKU: HL.49046544 For piano and orchest...(+)
Piano and orchestra -
difficult
SKU:
HL.49046544
For
piano and orchestra.
Composed by Gyorgy
Ligeti. This edition:
Saddle stitching. Sheet
music. Edition Schott.
Softcover. Composed
1985-1988. Duration 24'.
Schott Music #ED23178.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49046544).
ISBN
9781705122655. UPC:
842819108726.
9.0x12.0x0.224
inches.
I composed
the Piano Concerto in two
stages: the first three
movements during the
years 1985-86, the next
two in 1987, the final
autograph of the last
movement was ready by
January, 1988. The
concerto is dedicated to
the American conductor
Mario di Bonaventura. The
markings of the movements
are the following: 1.
Vivace molto ritmico e
preciso 2. Lento e
deserto 3. Vivace
cantabile 4. Allegro
risoluto 5. Presto
luminoso.The first
performance of the
three-movement Concerto
was on October 23rd, 1986
in Graz. Mario di
Bonaventura conducted
while his brother,
Anthony di Bonaventura,
was the soloist. Two days
later the performance was
repeated in the Vienna
Konzerthaus. After
hearing the work twice, I
came to the conclusion
that the third movement
is not an adequate
finale; my feeling of
form demanded
continuation, a
supplement. That led to
the composing of the next
two movements. The
premiere of the whole
cycle took place on
February 29th, 1988, in
the Vienna Konzerthaus
with the same conductor
and the same pianist. The
orchestra consisted of
the following: flute,
oboe, clarinet, bassoon,
horn, trumpet, tenor
trombone, percussion and
strings. The flautist
also plays the piccoIo,
the clarinetist, the alto
ocarina. The percussion
is made up of diverse
instruments, which one
musician-virtuoso can
play. It is more
practical, however, if
two or three musicians
share the instruments.
Besides traditional
instruments the
percussion part calls
also for two simple wind
instruments: the swanee
whistle and the
harmonica. The string
instrument parts (two
violins, viola, cello and
doubles bass) can be
performed soloistic since
they do not contain
divisi. For balance,
however, the ensemble
playing is recommended,
for example 6-8 first
violins, 6-8 second, 4-6
violas, 4-6 cellos, 3-4
double basses. In the
Piano Concerto I realized
new concepts of harmony
and rhythm. The first
movement is entirely
written in bimetry:
simultaneously 12/8 and
4/4 (8/8). This relates
to the known triplet on a
doule relation and in
itself is nothing new.
Because, however, I
articulate 12 triola and
8 duola pulses, an
entangled, up till now
unheard kind of polymetry
is created. The rhythm is
additionally complicated
because of asymmetric
groupings inside two
speed layers, which means
accents are
asymmetrically
distributed. These
groups, as in the talea
technique, have a fixed,
continuously repeating
rhythmic structures of
varying lengths in speed
layers of 12/8 and 4/4.
This means that the
repeating pattern in the
12/8 level and the
pattern in the 4/4 level
do not coincide and
continuously give a
kaleidoscope of renewing
combinations. In our
perception we quickly
resign from following
particular rhythmical
successions and that what
is going on in time
appears for us as
something static,
resting. This music, if
it is played properly, in
the right tempo and with
the right accents inside
particular layers, after
a certain time 'rises, as
it were, as a plane after
taking off: the rhythmic
action, too complex to be
able to follow in detail,
begins flying. This
diffusion of individual
structures into a
different global
structure is one of my
basic compositional
concepts: from the end of
the fifties, from the
orchestral works
Apparitions and
Atmospheres I
continuously have been
looking for new ways of
resolving this basic
question. The harmony of
the first movement is
based on mixtures, hence
on the parallel leading
of voices. This technique
is used here in a rather
simple form; later in the
fourth movement it will
be considerably
developed. The second
movement (the only slow
one amongst five
movements) also has a
talea type of structure,
it is however much
simpler rhythmically,
because it contains only
one speed layer. The
melody is consisted in
the development of a
rigorous interval mode in
which two minor seconds
and one major second
alternate therefore nine
notes inside an octave.
This mode is transposed
into different degrees
and it also determines
the harmony of the
movement; however, in
closing episode in the
piano part there is a
combination of diatonics
(white keys) and
pentatonics (black keys)
led in brilliant,
sparkling quasimixtures,
while the orchestra
continues to play in the
nine tone mode. In this
movement I used isolated
sounds and extreme
registers (piccolo in a
very low register,
bassoon in a very high
register, canons played
by the swanee whistle,
the alto ocarina and
brass with a harmon-mute'
damper, cutting sound
combinations of the
piccolo, clarinet and
oboe in an extremely high
register, also
alternating of a
whistle-siren and
xylophone). The third
movement also has one
speed layer and because
of this it appears as
simpler than the first,
but actually the rhythm
is very complicated in a
different way here. Above
the uninterrupted, fast
and regular basic pulse,
thanks to the asymmetric
distribution of accents,
different types of
hemiolas and inherent
melodical patterns appear
(the term was coined by
Gerhard Kubik in relation
to central African
music). If this movement
is played with the
adequate speed and with
very clear accentuation,
illusory
rhythmic-melodical
figures appear. These
figures are not played
directly; they do not
appear in the score, but
exist only in our
perception as a result of
co-operation of different
voices. Already earlier I
had experimented with
illusory rhythmics,
namely in Poeme
symphonique for 100
metronomes (1962), in
Continuum for harpsichord
(1968), in Monument for
two pianos (1976), and
especially in the first
and sixth piano etude
Desordre and Automne a
Varsovie (1985). The
third movement of the
Piano Concerto is up to
now the clearest example
of illusory rhythmics and
illusory melody. In
intervallic and chordal
structure this movement
is based on alternation,
and also inter-relation
of various modal and
quasi-equidistant harmony
spaces. The tempered
twelve-part division of
the octave allows for
diatonical and other
modal interval
successions, which are
not equidistant, but are
based on the alternation
of major and minor
seconds in different
groups. The tempered
system also allows for
the use of the
anhemitonic pentatonic
scale (the black keys of
the piano). From
equidistant scales,
therefore interval
formations which are
based on the division of
an octave in equal
distances, the
twelve-tone tempered
system allows only
chromatics (only minor
seconds) and the six-tone
scale (the whole-tone:
only major seconds).
Moreover, the division of
the octave into four
parts only minor thirds)
and three parts (three
major thirds) is
possible. In several
music cultures different
equidistant divisions of
an octave are accepted,
for example, in the
Javanese slendro into
five parts, in Melanesia
into seven parts, popular
also in southeastern
Asia, and apart from
this, in southern Africa.
This does not mean an
exact equidistance: there
is a certain tolerance
for the inaccurateness of
the interval tuning.
These exotic for us,
Europeans, harmony and
melody have attracted me
for several years.
However I did not want to
re-tune the piano
(microtone deviations
appear in the concerto
only in a few places in
the horn and trombone
parts led in natural
tones). After the period
of experimenting, I got
to pseudo- or
quasiequidistant
intervals, which is
neither whole-tone nor
chromatic: in the
twelve-tone system, two
whole-tone scales are
possible, shifted a minor
second apart from each
other. Therefore, I
connect these two scales
(or sound resources), and
for example, places occur
where the melodies and
figurations in the piano
part are created from
both whole tone scales;
in one band one six-tone
sound resource is
utilized, and in the
other hand, the
complementary. In this
way whole-tonality and
chromaticism mutually
reduce themselves: a type
of deformed
equidistancism is formed,
strangely brilliant and
at the same time
slanting; illusory
harmony, indeed being
created inside the
tempered twelve-tone
system, but in sound
quality not belonging to
it anymore. The
appearance of such
slantedequidistant
harmony fields
alternating with modal
fields and based on
chords built on fifths
(mainly in the piano
part), complemented with
mixtures built on fifths
in the orchestra, gives
this movement an
individual, soft-metallic
colour (a metallic sound
resulting from
harmonics). The fourth
movement was meant to be
the central movement of
the Concerto. Its
melodc-rhythmic elements
(embryos or fragments of
motives) in themselves
are simple. The movement
also begins simply, with
a succession of
overlapping of these
elements in the mixture
type structures. Also
here a kaleidoscope is
created, due to a limited
number of these elements
- of these pebbles in the
kaleidoscope - which
continuously return in
augmentations and
diminutions. Step by
step, however, so that in
the beginning we cannot
hear it, a compiled
rhythmic organization of
the talea type gradually
comes into daylight,
based on the simultaneity
of two mutually shifted
to each other speed
layers (also triplet and
duoles, however, with
different asymmetric
structures than in the
first movement). While
longer rests are
gradually filled in with
motive fragments, we
slowly come to the
conclusion that we have
found ourselves inside a
rhythmic-melodical whirl:
without change in tempo,
only through increasing
the density of the
musical events, a
rotation is created in
the stream of successive
and compiled, augmented
and diminished motive
fragments, and increasing
the density suggests
acceleration. Thanks to
the periodical structure
of the composition,
always new but however of
the same (all the motivic
cells are similar to
earlier ones but none of
them are exactly
repeated; the general
structure is therefore
self-similar), an
impression is created of
a gigantic, indissoluble
network. Also, rhythmic
structures at first
hidden gradually begin to
emerge, two independent
speed layers with their
various internal
accentuations. This
great, self-similar whirl
in a very indirect way
relates to musical
associations, which came
to my mind while watching
the graphic projection of
the mathematical sets of
Julia and of Mandelbrot
made with the help of a
computer. I saw these
wonderful pictures of
fractal creations, made
by scientists from Brema,
Peitgen and Richter, for
the first time in 1984.
From that time they have
played a great role in my
musical concepts. This
does not mean, however,
that composing the fourth
movement I used
mathematical methods or
iterative calculus;
indeed, I did use
constructions which,
however, are not based on
mathematical thinking,
but are rather craftman's
constructions (in this
respect, my attitude
towards mathematics is
similar to that of the
graphic artist Maurits
Escher). I am concerned
rather with intuitional,
poetic, synesthetic
correspondence, not on
the scientific, but on
the poetic level of
thinking. The fifth, very
short Presto movement is
harmonically very simple,
but all the more
complicated in its
rhythmic structure: it is
based on the further
development of ''inherent
patterns of the third
movement. The
quasi-equidistance system
dominates harmonically
and melodically in this
movement, as in the
third, alternating with
harmonic fields, which
are based on the division
of the chromatic whole
into diatonics and
anhemitonic pentatonics.
Polyrhythms and harmonic
mixtures reach their
greatest density, and at
the same time this
movement is strikingly
light, enlightened with
very bright colours: at
first it seems chaotic,
but after listening to it
for a few times it is
easy to grasp its
content: many autonomous
but self-similar figures
which crossing
themselves. I present my
artistic credo in the
Piano Concerto: I
demonstrate my
independence from
criteria of the
traditional avantgarde,
as well as the
fashionable
postmodernism. Musical
illusions which I
consider to be also so
important are not a goal
in itself for me, but a
foundation for my
aesthetical attitude. I
prefer musical forms
which have a more
object-like than
processual character.
Music as frozen time, as
an object in imaginary
space evoked by music in
our imagination, as a
creation which really
develops in time, but in
imagination it exists
simultaneously in all its
moments. The spell of
time, the enduring its
passing by, closing it in
a moment of the present
is my main intention as a
composer. (Gyorgy
Ligeti).