By Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741). For SATB Choir, 2 Violins, Viola, Basso continuo. This edition: Paperbound. Stuttgart Urtext editions. Score available separately - see item CA.4000400. Mass sections. Level 3. Vocal score. Language: Latin/English. RV 591. 24 pages. Duration 10 min. Published by Carus Verlag

SATB choir, 2 violins, viola, basso continuo - Level 3

SKU: CA.4000412

Composed by Antonio Vivaldi. This edition: urtext. Stuttgart Urtext Edition: Vivaldi-Archiv. German title: Credo. Innovative practice aids, Sacred vocal music, Mass sections. Single Part, Violin 2. RV 591. 8 pages. Duration 10 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 40.004/12. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.4000412).

ISBN 9790007057398. Key: E minor. Language: Latin/English.

The Credo belongs to that large group of church works which Vivaldi composed in Venice between 1713 and 1717 for the Ospedale della Pieta, then his primary place of employment. The composition, conceived solely for choir and strings, is characterized by a two-layered formal design: a continuous, basic motivic idea, i.e., a constant rhythmic impulse with rapid tone repetition builds an instrumental layer, while on the other hand the writing for choir renders the text in a blocklike structure in chordal declamation. This structure will only be abandoned briefly in the concluding section of work, where the text Et vitam venturi saeculi is embedded in a concise fugue. Score and part available separately - see item CA.4000400.

SATB choir, 2 violins, viola, basso continuo - Level 3

SKU: CA.4000411

Composed by Antonio Vivaldi. This edition: urtext. Stuttgart Urtext Edition: Vivaldi-Archiv. German title: Credo. Innovative practice aids, Sacred vocal music, Mass sections. Single Part, Violin 1. RV 591. 8 pages. Duration 10 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 40.004/11. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.4000411).

ISBN 9790007057381. Key: E minor. Language: Latin/English.

The Credo belongs to that large group of church works which Vivaldi composed in Venice between 1713 and 1717 for the Ospedale della Pieta, then his primary place of employment. The composition, conceived solely for choir and strings, is characterized by a two-layered formal design: a continuous, basic motivic idea, i.e., a constant rhythmic impulse with rapid tone repetition builds an instrumental layer, while on the other hand the writing for choir renders the text in a blocklike structure in chordal declamation. This structure will only be abandoned briefly in the concluding section of work, where the text Et vitam venturi saeculi is embedded in a concise fugue. Score and part available separately - see item CA.4000400.

Written by Blake Neely. Instructional Softcover Audio Online for alto saxophone. Series: Hal Leonard Fasttrack Music Instruction. 48 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

By Jerry Silverman. For Guitar (Flatpicking and Fingerpicking). Songbook. Folk. Level: Beginning-Intermediate. Book. Size 5.5x8. 128 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc.

arranged by Lily Afshar. For Guitar (Classical). solos. Editiones Classicae. World Music. Level: Intermediate-Advanced. Book. Size 8.5x11. 16 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc.

by Dewitt Scott. For pedal steel guitar. All styles, E9 tuning. Level: Multiple Levels. Chart. Chord book. Size 8.75x11.75. 4 pages. Published by Mel Bay Pub., Inc.

(First Movement, K. 550). Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Arranged by John Caponegro. For string orchestra (88555) with optional 3rd violin/viola TC (3 copies) and piano. Cadet String Orchestra Series. Grade 2. Score and set of parts. Duration 1 minute, 50 seconds. Published by Kendor Music Inc

Written by Nancy Faber, Randall Faber. Instructional book for piano. Level 2A-2B. With musical examples and illustrations. 95 pages. Published by The FJH Music Company Inc..

Chorus (with soloists) and piano (solos: SAATBB - choir: SSAATB - 2rec.B-fl.2.0.0. - 0.2.0.0. - timp - str - bc)

SKU: BR.ED-10296

Hail! Bright Cecilia. Composed by Henry Purcell. Edited by Christopher Hogwood. Choir; stapled. Renaissance/early Baroque; Baroque. Piano/Vocal Score. 80 pages. Duration 60'. Breitkopf and Haertel #ED 10296. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.ED-10296).

ISBN 9790220101977. 7.5 x 11 inches.

The Ode was admirably set by Mr. Henry Purcell, and performed twice with universal applause.
(The Gentlemen's Journal, 1692)

The popularity of Purcell's setting is apparent from the many sources that survive and from the printed extracts which appeared almost immediately after its first performance. The primary source for this edition is the largely autograph manuscript in the Bodleian Library. Rather to reduce the orthography to a norm, the capitalization of the vocal text favours Purcell's preferences.
(Christop her Hogwood) Vokalensemble Stuttgart und den Kammerchor des Kopernikus-Gymnasiums Wasseralfingen. Fur diese beiden ganz unterschiedlichen Chorformationen hat Martin Smolka 2012 auch gezielt seine Partitur angelegt. Biografisch ist das Agnus Dei eine Art kleines Requiem fur seinen kurz zuvor verstorbenen Vater. Das liturgische Agnus Dei rahmt den deutschen Text Eh das Madchen entschlief ... der bei Auffuhrungen in anderen Landern durch eine Ubersetzung ersetzt werden soll.

Der SWR-Redakteur Hans-Peter Jahn schreibt dazu im Programmheft: Die fur Smolka typischen minimalistischen Taktzellen schaffen eine archaische Sinnlichkeit. Eine einfache und zugleich streng gebaute Vokalmusik mit Tiefenwirkung.

Nac h der Urauffuhrung war die Esslinger Zeitung hellauf begeistert: Smolka ist ein Meister der Stimmbehandlung und der chorischen Klanggestaltung. Im Zentrum des Stucks gerat die Musik zum Stillstand: im leisen gleichmassigen Summen uber dem plotzlich fortissimo ein tschechisches Kinderlied erklingt eines das der Vater seinen Kindern haufig vorgesungen hat. Das alles war sehr beruhrend. Und eigentlich noch mehr als das. My father PhDr. Jaroslav Smolka (1933-2011) was a leading Czech musicologist author of books Czech Cantata and Oratorium Fuga in Czech Music Smetana's Orchestra Music Smetana's Vocal Music monography of Jan Dismas Zelenka and many others. He was a legendary teacher of Music History at Prague Music Academy critic recording producer composer; for almost 50 years he was an important and highly respected personality of Prague musical life.
My father devoted a lot of time and energy to musical education and activities of my sister and me using often quite original methods such as teaching of intervals and counterpoint through Bartok's Microcosmos ear training filling all imaginable moments of everyday life or lessons of harmony analysis starting with Overture to Tristan and Musorgsky's Catacombs. The Martinu song Wondering Maiden was his solo number in our home vocal productions which he used to sing with amazing devotion while his huge voice was audible in several neighboring streets.
My Agnus Dei is closely bound to all this history e.g. by using canon and preferring beauty of dissonant seconds like Bartok or quoting Martinu and his refined neoclassical harmony. Father would be probably a bit critical about the minimalistic monotony of the main body of the piece. Nevertheless firstly he would improvise a short lecture of history of Agnus Dei in Requiem in Czech Music naming by heart many dates and all examples of changes of order of the traditional text by composers. Examples would be sung probably.
(Martin Smolka).

By Keith Snell. Edited by Diane Hidy. (Piano Town). Snell Piano. Piano Town. Level: Level 2. Music Book. Size 232. Published by Neil A. Kjos Music Company.

(Theory Book 2). By Nancy Faber and Randall Faber. For Piano. Faber Piano Adventures®. Methods. SMP Level 2 (Late Elementary). Softcover. 64 pages. Faber Music #FF1474. Published by Faber Music

Guitar duet - Intermediate

SKU: DZ.DZ-4120

Composed by Various. Score and parts. Les Productions d'OZ #DZ 4120. Published by Les Productions d'OZ (DZ.DZ-4120).

ISBN 9782898520372.

This fourth booklet is dedicated to ensemble playing through five trios and three quartets of various styles (tango, ballad, rock, etc.) appropriate for the end of primary school with a few years of experience and the beginning of secondary school. Some pieces are written in a homorhythmic manner and can constitute an introduction to ensemble music, while others are rather polyrhythmic. They can constitute a first contact with the following techniques and effects: staccato, pizzicato, accent, louré, natural harmonic, percussion or crossed strings. This volume is therefore intended for guitarists who already know the notes in first position. Two pieces include a more advanced part with an introduction to playing in 5th position. These are short pieces that do not present technical challenges other than those allowing you to achieve the effects and play expressively.

You will find in the scores indications of nuances, timbre, attack and fingerings which constitute suggestions for work and not prescriptions. Teachers and students are therefore invited to make interpretation choices different from those proposed or to try to convincingly render those already written.

The pieces were composed or arranged by UQAM music education students as part of a course aimed at equipping musicians for teaching guitar in the school system. Many of them are musicians from different backgrounds (composition, performance, world music, etc.), which explains the creativity found in the pieces. All the pieces have been the subject of an audio recording available on the Productions d’Oz website and on YouTube. Search for À vos guitares, prêt, joue! Vol. 4.

Isabelle Héroux, editor, professor, Department of Music, UQAM.
Louis-Edouard Thouin-Poppe, assistant editor, arranger and engraver.

Ce quatrième cahier est consacré au jeu en ensemble grâce à cinq trios et trois quatuors de styles variés (tango, ballade, rock…) appropriés pour la fin du primaire avec quelques années d’expér ience et le début du secondaire. Certaines pièces sont écrites de manière homorythmique et peuvent constituer une initiation à la musique d’ensemble, alors que d’autres sont plutôt polyrythmiques. Elles peuvent constituer un premier contact avec les techniques et effets suivants : staccato, pizzicato, accent, louré, harmonique naturelle, percussion ou cordes croisées. Ce volume s’adresse donc aux guitaristes qui connaissent déjà les notes en première position. Deux pièces comportent une partie plus avancée avec une initiation au jeu en Ve position. Ce sont des pièces courtes qui ne présentent pas de défis techniques outre ceux permettant de réaliser les effets et de jouer de manière expressive.

Vous trouverez dans les partitions des indications de nuances, de timbre, d’attaque et de doigtés qui constituent des suggestions de travail et non des prescriptions. Ainsi, les enseignants et les élèves sont invités à faire des choix d’interprÃà ‚©tation différents de ceux qui sont proposés ou à tenter de rendre de manière convaincante ceux déjà écrits.

Les pièces ont été composées ou arrangées par des étudiants en enseignement de la musique de l’UQAM dans le cadre d’un cours qui vise à outiller les musiciens pour l’enseignement de la guitare dans le système scolaire. Beaucoup d’entre eux sont des musiciens provenant d’horizons différents (composition, interprétation, musique du monde, etc.) ce qui explique la créativité que l’on retrouve dans les pièces. Toutes les pièces ont fait l’objet d’un enregistrement audio disponible sur le site des Productions d’Oz et sur YouTube. Recherchez À vos guitares, prêts, jouez! Vol. 4.

Isabelle Héroux, éditrice, professeure, Département de musique, UQAM.
Louis-Edouard Thouin-Poppe, assistant éditeur, arrangeur et graveur.

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.
  
  

Composed by Jacob Narverud. Fold. Octavo. 8 pages. Duration 2 minutes. Carl Fischer Music #CM9648. Published by Carl Fischer Music

Composed by Robert Schumann. Edited by Charles Timbrell. Book; Masterworks; Piano Collection; Piano Supplemental. Alfred Masterwork Edition. Form: Suite. Masterwork; Romantic. 56 pages. Published by Alfred Music (AP.45955).