Chamber Music Piano SKU: PR.140401330 Composed by R. Nathaniel Dett. Edit...(+)
Chamber Music Piano
SKU: PR.140401330
Composed by R. Nathaniel
Dett. Edited by Lara
Downes. 32 pages.
Duration 18 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#140-40133. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.140401330).
ISBN
9781491134412. UPC:
680160684939.
Natha
niel Dett was among
America’s leading
composers in the early
20th century, and
MAGNOLIA SUITE is a
beautiful example of his
rich, hybrid style.
Deeply inspired by the
music and mission of
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor,
Dett’s piano music
springs from the late
Romantic traditions of
florid texture and
embellishment, along with
programmatic titles and
raw emotion. It is
notable for melody
writing inspired by and
paraphrasing
African-American song.
The 18-minute MAGNOLIA
SUITE contains five
movements, any of which
may also be performed
separately. This edition
by Lara Downes provides a
clean, new engraving that
corrects the many errors
and unclear indications
appearing in the
historical
printing. Robert
Nathaniel Dett was born
in a place that was built
on freedom. The little
village of Drummondville,
Ontario was founded by
enslaved Africans
– Dett’s
ancestors among them
– who traveled the
Underground Railroad out
of the American South
into Canada. Their
journey brought them to a
safe haven, a place where
fortunes and futures
could be transformed in
the span of one
generation, to lives full
of new possibilities. You
could call it “the
place where the rainbow
ends,†which is the
title of the last
movement of Dett’s
Magnolia Suite.When Dett
wrote these pieces, he
was a young teacher at
Lane College in
Tennessee, a historically
Black college that had
been founded in 1882, the
year of his birth. A
place built on freedom,
with the purpose of
educating
newly-emancipated slaves
– a place designed
to nurture the blossoming
of ideas, the vibrant
flowering of minds set
free. This music is
inspired by the gorgeous
splendor of the magnolia
blooms on that college
campus, and also by the
shared histories,
experiences, and
aspirations of the
community that Dett found
there.These five pieces
pay affectionate tribute
to lineage and legacy.
They express gratitude
for the bittersweet
beauties of the present;
nostalgia for the past (a
bit romanticized, as the
past always is); and an
effervescent optimism for
the future that awaits us
in the place where the
rainbow ends.
For Concert Band.
Composed by Dan Welcher.
Spiral. Contemporary.
Large Full Score. With
Standard notation.
Composed 1994. 76 pages.
Duration 10 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#165-00092L. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.16500092L).
UPC:
680160039531. 11 x 17
inches.
Zion is the
third and final
installment of a series
of works for Wind
Ensemble inspired by
national parks in the
western United States,
collectively called Three
Places in the West. As in
the other two works (The
Yellowstone Fires and
Arches), it is my
intention to convey more
an impression of the
feelings I've had in Zion
National Park in Utah
than an attempt at
pictorial description.
Zion is a place with
unrivalled natural
grandeur, being a sort of
huge box canyon in which
the traveler is
constantly overwhelmed by
towering rock walls on
every side of him -- but
it is also a place with a
human history, having
been inhabited by several
tribes of native
Americans before the
arrival of the Mormon
settlers in the mid-19th
century. By the time the
Mormons reached Utah,
they had been driven all
the way from New York
State through Ohio and,
with tragic losses,
through Missouri. They
saw Utah in general as a
place nobody wanted, but
they were nonetheless
determined to keep it to
themselves. Although Zion
Canyon was never a Mormon
Stronghold, the people
who reached it and
claimed it (and gave it
its present name) had
been through extreme
trials. It is the
religious fervor of these
persecuted people that I
was able to draw upon in
creating Zion as a piece
of music. There are two
quoted hymns in the work:
Zion's Walls (which Aaron
Copland adapted to his
own purposes in both is
Old American Songs and
the opera The Tender
Land) and Zion's
Security, which I found
in the same volume in
which Copland found
Zion's Walls -- that
inexhaustible storehouse
of 19th-century hymnody
called The Sacred Harp.
My work opens with a
three-verse setting of
Zion's Security, a stern
tune in F-sharp minor
which is full of resolve.
(The words of this hymn
are resolute and strong,
rallying the faithful to
be firm, and describing
the city of our God they
hope to establish). This
melody alternates with a
fanfare tune, whose
origins will be revealed
in later music, until the
second half of the piece
begins: a driving
rhythmic ostinato based
on a 3/4-4/4 alternating
meter scheme. This pauses
at its height to restate
Zion's Security one more
time, in a rather obscure
setting surrounded by
freely shifting patterns
in the flutes, clarinets,
and percussion -- until
the sun warms the ground
sufficiently for the
second hymn to appear.
Zion's Walls is set in
7/8, unlike Copland's
9/8-6/8 meters (the
original is quite
strange, and doesn't
really fit any constant
meter), and is introduced
by a warm horn solo. The
two hymns vie for
attention from here to
the end of the piece,
with the glowingly
optimistic Zion's Walls
finally achieving
prominence. The work ends
with a sense of triumph
and unbreakable spirit.
Zion was commissioned in
1994 by the wind
ensembles of the
University of Texas at
Arlington, the University
of Texas at Austin, and
the University of
Oklahoma. It is dedicated
to the memory of Aaron
Copland.
Orchestra (Study Score) SKU: HL.14021000 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Da...(+)
Orchestra (Study Score)
SKU: HL.14021000
Composed by Sir Peter
Maxwell Davies. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover].
Composed 1999. 44 pages.
Chester Music #CH61307.
Published by Chester
Music (HL.14021000).
ISBN 9780711959927.
5.5x7.5x0.2
inches.
Commissione
d to write a piece for
the 50th anniversary of
the United Nations,
Davies provided a musical
General Assembly of his
own: a bright overture
based on an Australian
aboriginal song which
gives rise to 'national
anthems' of various kinds
and instrumental
colourings. Finally the
'anthems' are combined,
'if not triumphantly',
Davies says, 'at least in
a manner whereby they get
along together'. The
first performance took
place in June 1995 in
Nottingham. It was given
by the Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra conducted by
Peter Maxwell Davies.
Score (miniature).
Duration c. 14mins.
For SATB chorus, brass quintet and organ. Composed by Thea Musgrave (1928...(+)
For SATB chorus, brass
quintet and organ.
Composed by Thea Musgrave
(1928-). Choral. Octavo.
76 pages. Novello and Co
Ltd. #NOV165231.
Published by Novello and
Co Ltd. (HL.14047823).
By Nicolas Horvath. By Robert Orledge and Claude Debussy (1862-1918). Redi...(+)
By Nicolas Horvath. By
Robert Orledge and Claude
Debussy (1862-1918).
Rediscoverd Debussy.
Christmas. Score. Musik
Fabrik #MFCD017A.
Published
by Musik Fabrik
Piano - Grade 5 SKU: FA.MFCD017B By Nicolas Horvath. By Claude Debussy an...(+)
Piano - Grade 5
SKU:
FA.MFCD017B
By
Nicolas Horvath. By
Claude Debussy and Robert
Orledge. Rediscoverd
Debussy. Christmas.
Score. Musik Fabrik
#MFCD017B. Published by
Musik Fabrik
(FA.MFCD017B).
8.27 x
11.69
inches.
Contains Le
Roi Lear:
Prelude,Premiere Fanfare,
and La Mort de
Cordelia,Toomai des
elephants, Rodrigue et
Chimene: Prelude a l'acte
1p. Le Martyre de Saint
Sebastien: La Passion ,
and No-ja-li ou Le Palais
du Silence
From
Robert Orledge's
notes:
My interest
in the wonderful music of
Claude Debussy began in
the 1980s when I
researched and published
a book with Cambridge
University Press entitled
Debussy and the Theatre.
During the course of my
studies in Paris, I was
amazed to discover that
Debussy planned over 50
theatrical works but only
finished two of these
entirely by himself (the
opera Pelleas et
Melisande in 1893-1902
and the ballet Jeux for
Diaghilev's Ballets
Russes in 1912-13). Of
the rest, many were never
started musically (like
Siddartha and Orphee-roi
with the Oriental scholar
Victor Segalen, 1907);
some had a few
tantalising sketches
(like the Edgar Allan Poe
opera Le Diable dans le
beffroi, 1902-03); some
were half-finished (like
his other Poe opera La
Chute de la Maison Usher,
1908-17); while others
were musically complete
but had their
orchestrations completed
by other composers (like
Khamma, by Charles
Koechlin, 1912-13; or Le
Martyre de Saint
Sebastien and La Boite a
joujoux by his 'angel of
corrections' ['l'ange des
Corrections'] Andre
Caplet in 1911 and 1919
respectively).
For
it has to be admitted
that what some scholars
call Debussy's
'compulsive achievement'
could equally well be
viewed as laziness,
especially as far as the
minute detail required
for calligraphing his
orchestral scores was
concerned. It was as if
creating the music itself
was of greater importance
than controlling its
final sound, even if
Debussy was an
imaginative orchestrator
when he found the time
and energy to do it. It
also seems true that
Debussy also preferred
inventing ideas to
turning them into
complete pieces. However,
despite the lack of
detail in many of his
sketches (missing clefs,
key signatures, dynamics,
phrasing, etc.) the notes
themselves are
surprisingly accurate,
whether or not they can
be compared with a later
draft. Thus, a large
number of sketches exist
for his Chinese ballet
No-ja-li ou Le Palais du
Silence and it is not too
difficult to see which
parts of Georges de
Feure's 1913 scenario
(see below) inspired
which ideas. But Debussy
hardly made any attempt
to join them together
after the first few
bars.
It was
usually up to his
publisher, Jacques
Durand, to find solutions
when Debussy risked a
breach of contract.
Debussy was supposed to
supervise the
orchestrations completed
by others, but this
supervision was usually
very light and restricted
to quiet, sensitive
moments in which problems
were easier to spot. Far
from jealously guarding
every one of his created
notes, as Ravel did,
Debussy once even went as
far as to ask Koechlin to
'write a ballet for him
that he would sign' on 26
March 1914 when he was
hard-pressed to fulfil
his lucrative contract
for No-ja-li with Andre
Charlot at the Alhambra
Theatre in London. In the
end, Debussy (through
Durand) sent Charlot the
symphonic suite Printemps
instead, whose
orchestration had been
completed by Henri Busser
in the Spring of
1912.
So, when I
was offered early
retirement as Professor
of Music at Liverpool
University in 2004, I
seized the opportunity it
would give me to spend
time trying to
reconstruct some of
Debussy's lost potential
masterpieces from his
existing sketches and
drafts--then
orchestrating them in
Debussy's style when this
was appropriate. I had
begun this mission in
2001 with the most
promising project, the
missing parts of Scene 2
of La Chute de la Maison
Usher and the sheer joy
it gave me at every stage
persuaded me to tackle
other projects,
especially when Debussy
experts were unable to
identify exactly where I
took over from Debussy
(and vice versa) in
Usher.
Quicksilver Saxophone Alto et Piano Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Piano, alto Saxophone SKU: PR.114419850 Composed by Stacy G...(+)
Chamber Music Piano, alto
Saxophone
SKU:
PR.114419850
Composed
by Stacy Garrop. Sws. See
lengthy program note on
prefatory page. Set of
Score and Parts. 44+24
pages. Duration 23
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-41985.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114419850).
ISBN
9781491135808. UPC:
680160681044. 9 x 12
inches.
Both a
spectacular concerto for
saxophone, and a dramatic
tone poem on Roman
mythology, QUICKSILVER is
a 23-minute concerto for
Alto Saxophone and Wind
Ensemble by one of the
sax literature’s
most commissioned and
admired composers.Through
worded captions as well
as gorgeously expressive
tone painting, Movement 1
depicts the birth and
childhood pranks of
Mercury, Movement 2 shows
him escorting souls to
the gates of the
Underworld, and Movement
3 is a phantasmagoric
finale portraying Mercury
as messenger amid the
conflicts of other
mythological figures.
There are many YouTube
performances available,
both in the original
version with Wind
Ensemble, and with
Piano. In addition to
being another name for
the element mercury,
“quicksilverâ€
is used to describe
something that changes
quickly or is difficult
to contain. My concerto
of the same name was
inspired by the Roman god
Mercury, as well as the
mercurial nature of the
saxophone: unpredictable,
very lively, and
volatile. Mercury (known
as Hermes in Greek
mythology) is best known
for his winged shoes,
which allowed him to fly
swiftly as the messenger
of his fellow Olympians.
Mercury had other duties
too, including serving as
the god of merchants,
travelers, and
tricksters; he also
ushered souls of the
departed to the
Underworld.Quicksilver
tells three tales of the
Roman god. The first
movement (Antics of a
Newborn God) opens with
the birth of Mercury;
after he takes his first
steps, he toddles around,
gleefully looking for
mischief. He stumbles
across a herd of cows
that belong to his
brother Apollo; Mercury
slyly lets the cows out
of their pen before
toddling onward with his
mischief-making.In the
second movement (Guiding
Souls to the Underworld),
Pluto, god of the
Underworld, bids Mercury
to bring him fresh souls.
The movement begins with
death-knells tolling for
humans who are about to
die; Mercury picks up
these souls and leads
them down to the gates of
the Underworld.The third
and final movement
(Messenger of Olympus)
depicts Mercury as he is
busily running errands
for various gods and
goddesses. We first
encounter him mid-flight
as he dashes to earth to
find Aeneas, a Trojan
lieutenant who had been
run out of Troy by the
invading Greeks. Aeneas
is on a quest to find
land on which to
establish a new city that
would eventually become
Rome. While traveling, he
is distracted from his
quest when he meets the
beautiful queen Dido.
They live together for
many years before Mercury
intervenes; he chastises
Aeneas for giving up on
his quest and persuades
him to pick it up again.
As Aeneas mournfully
resumes his journey, we
hear Dido perish of a
broken heart. Mercury
then takes to the skies
to seek out Perseus, who
is preparing to kill
Medusa, the hideous
gorgon who has snakes for
hair and a gaze that
turns those who catch her
glance into stone.
Mercury advises Perseus
on how to slay Medusa and
lends Perseus his sword
to do the deed. We hear
Perseus victorious in the
beheading of Medusa,
after which Mercury takes
to the skies once more to
fly home to Olympus.
Piano, Vocal and Guitar SKU: BT.MUSAM971531 Book Only. Wise Publications ...(+)
Piano, Vocal and Guitar
SKU:
BT.MUSAM971531
Book
Only. Wise Publications
#MUSAM971531. Published
by Wise Publications
(BT.MUSAM971531).
ISBN
9780711989900.
E
verybody's favourite
Christmas carols and
songs in one wonderfully
practical and convenient
edition
creates The
Best Christmas Songbook
Ever (A5
Format),
featuring 49 songs
arranged for Piano,
VoiceandGuitar.Â
Every member of the
family is catered for,
young and old, with a
selection of favourites
covering the traditional
classics that make the
season special
like Away In A
Manger, We Three Kings
OfOrientAre and O Come, All Ye
Faithful. Not only
this, but more recent pop
tunes are represented
such as I Wish It
Could Be Christmas Every
Day, Last
Christmas and
Santa ClausIsComing
To Town. The
generous selection of
songs from old carols to
new tunes makes this the
perfect book for you this
Christmas, so you can
begin Christmas Eve with
the classic carols and
bring in Christmas Day
with thefuncontemporary
pop.Â
The
accessible arrangements
of lyrics, melody, Piano
and Guitar chords mean
that you don't have to
spend too much time
practising before family
and friends can gather
around the Piano for
aChristmassing-along.
Because this songbook has
everything, you can keep
it as part of your music
collection and dig it out
every year for those
times when the family can
gather around and sing
the songs that get you
into thespirit of
theseason.Â
For
the best and most varied
collection of Christmas
songs ever compiled, from
old to new, classic to
contemporary, pick up
The Best
Christmas Songbook Ever,
and put a
Yuletidesmile on theface
of everyone with these
universally loved
tunes.
You can also
purchase this book in
its larger,
standardsize for abumper-sized
Yuletide.
The Wabash Cannonball Orchestre à Cordes [Conducteur et Parties séparées] - Facile FJH
By Traditional. Arranged by Carrie Lane Gruselle. Intermediate String Orchestra....(+)
By Traditional. Arranged
by Carrie Lane Gruselle.
Intermediate String
Orchestra. FJH Developing
Strings. Score for this
title: ST6104S. Extra
part for this title:
ST6104P. String
Orchestra. Level: 2.
Score and Set of Parts.
Published by The FJH
Music Company Inc.
For Guitar. 1-2-3 Fingerstyle Guitar is designed for intermediate to advanced fl...(+)
For Guitar. 1-2-3
Fingerstyle Guitar is
designed for intermediate
to advanced flat-pick
players who are ready to
throw down that pick for
a while to finally get a
handle on fingerstyle.
That's the secret
ingredient of this study
program -- its a
beginning fingerstyle.
DVD. Published by eMedia
Music
Ravel's Bolero for Classical Guitar composed by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). Arran...(+)
Ravel's Bolero for
Classical Guitar composed
by Maurice Ravel
(1875-1937). Arranged by
Jerry George. For guitar
solo. Solo. Classical.
Sheet Music. Text
Language: English;
Standard notation and
tablature. 4 pages.
Published by Santorella
Publications
Concert Band (Score & Parts) - Grade 4 SKU: HL.48024054 Composed by Gusta...(+)
Concert Band (Score &
Parts) - Grade 4
SKU:
HL.48024054
Composed
by Gustav Holst. Arranged
by Jon Mitchell.
Windependence Master
Level. Classical,
Concert. Softcover.
Boosey & Hawkes
#M051663637. Published by
Boosey & Hawkes
(HL.48024054).
UPC:
888680678678. 9x12
inches.
A century
ago, James Causley
Windram, then band
director of the 5th
Northumberland Fusiliers
(and later the Coldstream
Guards) asked Gustav
Holst if he would
transcribe some of the
composer's Hymns from
the Rig Veda for
military band. Always a
band advocate, Holst
readily agreed. In this
thoroughly characteristic
suite, two of Windram's
settings (Hymn of the
Travellers and
Battle Hymn) have
been edited for modern
instrumentation, while a
third (Hymn to
Manas) has been
arranged by Jon Ceander
Mitchell from Holst's
original choral
setting.
Raveling, Unraveling Ensemble de cuivres [Conducteur] - Intermédiaire/avancé Anglo Music
Brass Band - Grade 6 SKU: BT.AMP-448-130 In search of 'La Valse'. ...(+)
Brass Band - Grade 6
SKU:
BT.AMP-448-130
In
search of 'La Valse'.
Composed by Philip
Sparke. Elite Series.
Score Only. Composed
2016. 85 pages. Anglo
Music Press #AMP 448-130.
Published by Anglo Music
Press (BT.AMP-448-130).
9x12 inches.
English-German-French-Dut
ch.
WINNING
PERFORMANCE EBBC LILLE
2016Raveling,
Unraveling In Search of
‘La
Valse’ was
written for the Cory Band
as their own-choice test
piece for the 2016
European Brass Band
Championships in Lille.
The piece found its
genesis in
Sparke’s The
Unknown Journey
(2014) forconcert band,
and the use of
Ravel’s La
Valse as a structural
undercurrent to the
original piece is an act
of reverence.
Sparke’s aim was
to produce a work that is
organic rather than
episodic in nature. The
composer’s view is
that little inmusic does
this better than La
Valse and for this
reason he uses various
sections of this
masterpiece, both
manipulated and quoted
verbatim (including much
of its stunningclosing
passages) to provide the
overall geography of his
new work. Asthe music
progresses, more of the
Ravel appears, surfacing
completely as the piece
reaches its climax - a
gesture of homage to the
French master.
WINNAAR EBBC
LILLE 2016Raveling,
Unraveling In Search of
‘La
Valse’ is
geschreven voor de Britse
Cory Band als keuzewerk
voor de Europese
Brassband
Kampioenschappen van 2016
in Lille. De oorsprong
ligt in Sparkes The
Unknown Journey
(2014)
voorharmonieorkest. Het
is een diepe buiging naar
Ravels La Valse,
die wordt gebruikt als
een soort structurele
onderstroom van een
origineel stuk muziek,
met als doel een werk te
maken dat organisch van
karakter is. De componist
heeftverschillende
gedeelten uit het
meesterwerk ingebracht,
zowel bewerkt als
letterlijk geciteerd met
veel van de prachtige
slotpassages om de
algehele opbouw van zijn
nieuwe werk te scheppen.
Naarmate demuziek
voortgaat, verschijnt er
meer vanRavel, waarna de
wals volledig opduikt in
de apotheose: een fraai
eerbetoon aan de Franse
meester.
SIEGER
EBBC LILLE
2016Raveling,
Unraveling In Search of
La Valse wurde für
die Cory Band als selbst
ausgewähltes
Prüfungsstück bei
den European Brass Band
Championships 2016 in
Lille komponiert. Die
Komposition hat ihren
Ursprung in Sparkes 2014
entstandenemStück
The Unknown
Journey für
Blasorchester. Es handelt
sich um eine Art Hommage,
denn Ravels La
Valse wird hier als
formale Grundlage für
ein eher in sich
geschlossenes und nicht
nur episodenhaftes
Originalwerk verwendet.
DemKomponisten zufolge
gibt es kaum eine Musik,
die dies besser vermag
als La Valse. Er
verwendet verschiedene
Abschnitte aus diesem
Meisterwerk, sowohl
bearbeitet als auch
direkt übernommen
inklusive zahlreicher
fantastischer
Schlusspassagen ,um die
Gesamtstruktur seines
neuen Werkes
darzustellen. Je mehr die
Musik voranschreitet,
umso mehr wird Ravels
Einfluss erkennbar, vor
allem beim Erreichen des
musikalischen
Höhepunktes des
gesamten Stückes eine
Hommage an den
französischenMeister.
Raveling Unraveling Ensemble de cuivres [Conducteur et Parties séparées] - Intermédiaire/avancé Anglo Music
Brass Band - Grade 6 SKU: BT.AMP-448-030 In search of 'La Valse'. ...(+)
Brass Band - Grade 6
SKU:
BT.AMP-448-030
In
search of 'La Valse'.
Composed by Philip
Sparke. Elite Series.
Concert Piece. Set (Score
& Parts). Composed 2016.
Anglo Music Press #AMP
448-030. Published by
Anglo Music Press
(BT.AMP-448-030).
English-German-French-
Dutch.
WINNING
PERFORMANCE EBBC LILLE
2016Raveling,
Unraveling In Search of
‘La
Valse’ was
written for the Cory Band
as their own-choice test
piece for the 2016
European Brass Band
Championships in Lille.
The piece found its
genesis in
Sparke’s The
Unknown Journey
(2014) forconcert band,
and the use of
Ravel’s La
Valse as a structural
undercurrent to the
original piece is an act
of reverence.
Sparke’s aim was
to produce a work that is
organic rather than
episodic in nature. The
composer’s view is
that little inmusic does
this better than La
Valse and for this
reason he uses various
sections of this
masterpiece, both
manipulated and quoted
verbatim (including much
of its stunningclosing
passages) to provide the
overall geography of his
new work. Asthe music
progresses, more of the
Ravel appears, surfacing
completely as the piece
reaches its climax - a
gesture of homage to the
French master.
WINNAAR EBBC
LILLE 2016Raveling,
Unraveling In Search of
‘La
Valse’ is
geschreven voor de Britse
Cory Band als keuzewerk
voor de Europese
Brassband
Kampioenschappen van 2016
in Lille. De oorsprong
ligt in Sparkes The
Unknown Journey
(2014)
voorharmonieorkest. Het
is een diepe buiging naar
Ravels La Valse,
die wordt gebruikt als
een soort structurele
onderstroom van een
origineel stuk muziek,
met als doel een werk te
maken dat organisch van
karakter is. De componist
heeftverschillende
gedeelten uit het
meesterwerk ingebracht,
zowel bewerkt als
letterlijk geciteerd met
veel van de prachtige
slotpassages om de
algehele opbouw van zijn
nieuwe werk te scheppen.
Naarmate demuziek
voortgaat, verschijnt er
meer vanRavel, waarna de
wals volledig opduikt in
de apotheose: een fraai
eerbetoon aan de Franse
meester.
SIEGER
EBBC LILLE
2016Raveling,
Unraveling In Search of
La Valse wurde für
die Cory Band als selbst
ausgewähltes
Prüfungsstück bei
den European Brass Band
Championships 2016 in
Lille komponiert. Die
Komposition hat ihren
Ursprung in Sparkes 2014
entstandenemStück
The Unknown
Journey für
Blasorchester. Es handelt
sich um eine Art Hommage,
denn Ravels La
Valse wird hier als
formale Grundlage für
ein eher in sich
geschlossenes und nicht
nur episodenhaftes
Originalwerk verwendet.
DemKomponisten zufolge
gibt es kaum eine Musik,
die dies besser vermag
als La Valse. Er
verwendet verschiedene
Abschnitte aus diesem
Meisterwerk, sowohl
bearbeitet als auch
direkt übernommen
inklusive zahlreicher
fantastischer
Schlusspassagen ,um die
Gesamtstruktur seines
neuen Werkes
darzustellen. Je mehr die
Musik voranschreitet,
umso mehr wird Ravels
Einfluss erkennbar, vor
allem beim Erreichen des
musikalischen
Höhepunktes des
gesamten Stückes eine
Hommage an den
französischenMeister.
Composed
by Dan Welcher. Spiral.
Large Score. With
Standard notation.
Duration 10 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#466-00047. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.466000470).
UPC:
680160099405. 11 x 17
inches.
This is the
second incarnation of a
work I first composed in
1994 for symphonic wind
ensemble. The earlier
version was intended to
be the summation of
three-part suite, each
part being named for a
different national park
in the Western United
States. This orchestral
version, commissioned in
1999 by the Utah Symphony
and dedicated to the
memory of Aaron Copland,
is more than a re-scoring
of the earlier piece; it
is a re-thinking of all
its elements. Zion is a
place with unrivaled
natural grandeur, being a
sort of huge box canyon
in which the traveler is
constantly overwhelmed by
towering rock walls on
every side of him -- but
it is also a place with a
human history, having
been inhabited by several
tribes of native
Americans before the
arrival of the Mormon
settlers in the mid-19th
century. By the time the
Mormons reached Utah,
they had been driven all
the way from New York
State through Ohio and,
with tragic losses,
through Missouri. They
saw Utah in general as a
place nobody wanted, but
they were nonetheless
determined to keep it to
themselves. Although Zion
Canyon was never a Mormon
Stronghold, the people
who reached it and
claimed it (and gave it
its present name) had
been through extreme
trials. It is the
religious fervor of these
persecuted people that I
was able to draw upon in
creating Zion as a piece
of music. There are two
quoted hymns in the work:
Zion's Walls (which Aaron
Copland adapted to his
own purposes in both his
Old American Songs and
the opera The Tender
Land) and Zion's
Security, which I found
in the same volume in
which Copland found
Zion's Walls -- that
inexhaustible storehouse
of 19th-century hymnody
called The Sacred Harp.
My work opens with a
three-verse setting of
Zion's Security, a stern
tune in F-sharp minor
which is full of resolve.
(The words of this hymn
are resolute and strong,
rallying the faithful to
be firm, and describing
the city of our God they
hope to establish). This
melody alternates with a
fanfare tune, whose
origins will be revealed
in later music, until the
second half of the piece
begins: a driving
rhythmic ostinato based
on a 3/4-4/4 alternating
meter scheme. This pauses
at its height to restate
Zion's Security one more
time, in a rather obscure
setting surrounded by
freely shifting patterns
in the flutes, clarinets,
and percussion -- until
the sun warms the ground
sufficiently for the
second hymn to appear.
Zion's Walls is set in
7/8, unlike Copland's
9/8-6/8 meters (the
original is quite
strange, and doesn't
really fit any constant
meter), and is introduced
by a warm horn solo. The
two hymns vie for
attention from here to
the end of the piece,
with the glowingly
optimistic Zion's Walls
finally achieving
prominence. The work ends
with a sense of
triumph.
(Encounters with the Healer, the Servant, the Lord of Easter). By Pepper Choplin...(+)
(Encounters with the
Healer, the Servant, the
Lord of Easter). By
Pepper Choplin. Cantatas.
Eastertide, Lent, Sacred.
CD kit. Published by
Lorenz Publishing Company
Ollie and Me Flûte traversière et Piano [Reduction] Theodore Presser Co.
For Flute and Piano. Composed by Gary Schocker. Solo part with piano redu...(+)
For Flute and
Piano. Composed by
Gary Schocker. Solo part
with piano reduction.
With Standard notation.
10 pages. Duration 4
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-41363.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114413630).
(An Inspiring Method to Playing the Drums, Guided by the Legends). By Rich Lacko...(+)
(An Inspiring Method to
Playing the Drums, Guided
by the Legends). By Rich
Lackowski. For Drumset.
Artist/Personality; Book;
DVD; Method/Instruction;
Percussion - Drum Set
Method or Collection. On
the Beaten Path.
Beginner. 136 pages.
Published by Alfred Music
Publishing
Piano SKU: HU.HN842 Composed by Maurice Ravel. Edited by Peter Jost. Piano Solo...(+)
Piano
SKU: HU.HN842
Composed by Maurice
Ravel. Edited by Peter
Jost. Piano Solo, Piano
and Keyboard, Repertoire,
Solos. Miroirs. 20th
Century, Classical,
Romantic. Softcover Book.
69 pages. G. Henle
#HN842. Published by G.
Henle (HU.HN842).
12.2 x 9.3 x 0.2 inches.