Adventures in the Ukulele World. Book. Biography / Music Bisac, Biography / Pe...(+)
Adventures in the Ukulele
World. Book. Biography /
Music
Bisac, Biography /
Personal
Memoir,
Biography/Composers and
Musicians. Hardcover. 238
pages. Duration 180
seconds.
Published by Backbeat
Books
(Over 850 Classical Themes and Melodies in the Original Keys) For C instrument. ...(+)
(Over 850 Classical
Themes and Melodies in
the Original Keys) For C
instrument. Format:
fakebook (spiral bound).
With vocal melody
(excerpts) and chord
names. Lassical. Series:
Hal Leonard Fake Books.
646 pages. 9x12 inches.
Published by Hal Leonard.
(Alto Sax). For Alto Sax.
Book; CD; Instrumental
Series; Play-Along.
Ultimate Pop Instrumental
Solos Series. Movie.
Grade 2; Grade 3. 84
pages. Published by
Alfred Music Publishing
Saxophone Alto [Partition] - Intermédiaire Hal Leonard
Performed by The Beatles. For Eb alto saxophone. Format: Solo Songbook. With tra...(+)
Performed by The Beatles.
For Eb alto saxophone.
Format: Solo Songbook.
With transposed melody.
Classic rock, britpop and
psychedelic rock. 96
pages. 9x12 inches.
Published by Hal Leonard.
(
Composed by Various. For Piano/Keyboard. Hal Leonard Fake Books. Classical. Diff...(+)
Composed by Various. For
Piano/Keyboard. Hal
Leonard Fake Books.
Classical. Difficulty:
medium to
medium-difficult.
Fakebook. Melody line,
chord names and lyrics
(on some songs). 413
pages. Published by Hal
Leonard
Treble (Alto) Recorder and Basso Continuo [Cello Ad Lib.] - intermediate SKU:...(+)
Treble (Alto) Recorder
and Basso Continuo [Cello
Ad Lib.] - intermediate
SKU:
BT.DOW-02527-404
From Der getreue
Music-Meister, TWV 41:B3
B flat Major.
Composed by Georg Philipp
Telemann. Dowani 3 Tempi
Play Along. Book with
Part and Audio-Online.
Composed 2021. 20 pages.
Dowani #DOW 02527-404.
Published by Dowani
(BT.DOW-02527-404).
ISBN 9789043162418.
English-German-French.
This edition presents
one of the most important
chamber works of the 18th
century for recorder: the
Sonata for Treble (Alto)
Recorder and Basso
continuo from Der
getreue
Music-Meister, TWV
41:B3 in B flat major. It
allows you to work
through the piece
systematically and at
different tempi with
accompaniment. The
recordings begin with the
concert version of each
piece, following which
you will hear the
harpsichord accompaniment
at slow and medium tempo
to help you practise.
Having mastered these
slower versions,
youââ¬â¢ll now
be ready to play with
basso continuo
accompaniment at the
original tempo. All of
the versions were
recorded live.
Mit dieser
Ausgabe
präsentieren wir
Ihnen eines der wohl
bedeutendsten
Kammermusikwerke des 18.
Jahrhunderts für
Blockflöte: die
Sonate für
Altblockflöte und
Basso continuo aus Der
getreue
Music-Meister, TWV
41:B3 in B-Dur von Georg
Philipp Telemann. Diese
Ausgabe ermöglicht
es Ihnen, das Werk
systematisch und in
verschiedenen Tempi mit
Begleitung zu
erarbeiten. Sie
hören
zunächst die
Konzertversion eines
jeden Stückes
(Blockflöte und
Basso continuo). Zum
ÃÅben folgt nun im
langsamen und mittleren
Tempo die
Cembalobegleitung;
anschließend
können Sie sich im
Originaltempo von der
Continuogruppe begleiten
lassen. Alle
eingespielten Versionen
wurden live aufgenommen.
(75 Short Late Elementary Piano Solos with Optional Duet Accompaniments). Arrang...(+)
(75 Short Late Elementary
Piano Solos with Optional
Duet Accompaniments).
Arranged by Tom Gerou.
For Piano. This edition:
Five Finger Piano. Book;
Piano Collection; Piano
Supplemental. 5 Finger.
Children; Movie; Pop.
Five Finger; Late
Elementary. 152 pages.
Published by Alfred Music
Publishing
(Concerto for Alto Saxophone in E-flat Major). By Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936)...(+)
(Concerto for Alto
Saxophone in E-flat
Major). By Alexander
Glazunov (1865-1936).
Edited by Regina Back and
Douglas Woodfull-Harris.
For Alto Saxophone Solo
and Piano (String
Reduction). This edition:
Urtext Edition. Score and
part. Op. 109. Duration
13 minutes. Published by
Baerenreiter Verlag
For voice and C instrument. Format: fakebook. With vocal melody, lyrics and chor...(+)
For voice and C
instrument. Format:
fakebook. With vocal
melody, lyrics and chord
names. Randb and classic
soul. Series: Hal Leonard
Fake Books. 437 pages.
9x12 inches. Published by
Hal Leonard.
For C instrument and voice. Format: fakebook (spiral bound). With chord names, v...(+)
For C instrument and
voice. Format: fakebook
(spiral bound). With
chord names, vocal melody
and lyrics. Jazz. Series:
Hal Leonard Fake Books.
448 pages. 9x12 inches.
Published by Hal Leonard.
Fakebook for Eb instrument and voice. With vocal melody, lyrics and leadsheet no...(+)
Fakebook for Eb
instrument and voice.
With vocal melody, lyrics
and leadsheet notation.
Series: Hal Leonard Fake
Books. 448 pages.
Published by Hal Leonard.
(E-Z Play Today #199). Composed by Various. For Organ, Piano/Keyboard, Electroni...(+)
(E-Z Play Today #199).
Composed by Various. For
Organ, Piano/Keyboard,
Electronic Keyboard. E-Z
Play Today. Softcover.
528 pages. Published by
Hal Leonard
Organ SKU: BR.EB-9306 Urtext - Critical Source Edition of the Free Org...(+)
Organ
SKU:
BR.EB-9306
Urtext
- Critical Source Edition
of the Free Organ
Works. Composed by
Dietrich Buxtehude.
Edited by Harald Vogel.
Solo instruments;
Softbound. Edition
Breitkopf.
Renaissance/early
Baroque; Baroque. Score.
84 pages. Breitkopf and
Haertel #EB 9306.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.EB-9306).
ISBN 9790004187708. 12
x 9 inches.
This
edition is the result of
Harald Vogel's many years
of practice as an
organist and
musicologist. The music
text is based on a
reevaluation of 17th- and
18th-century manuscripts
containing the free organ
and keyboard works by
Buxtehude. They
originated during a
transitional phase
between the traditional
letter tablature and the
staff notation still in
use today. Since many
works have survived only
in transcriptions for
staff notation, the
editor was confronted
with a high error rate,
which he carefully
analyzes in the
Einzelanmerkungen. During
the preparation of the
edition, the editor
always kept sight of the
performance practice, but
still, the image of the
sources is never
distorted (e. g. by
superfluous rests,
beaming not conforming to
the sources and the
unhistorical adjustment
of time signatures) and
stays very close to the
compositional notation,
the letter tablature. The
flexible use of three
staves and the
differentiated
distribution of the
voices on the staves
allow for an
approximation in reading
conventions of historical
notation with its
resulting information
about hand division.
Grouping the free organ
repertoire into works
with obbligato pedal and
works for manuals, this
edition is organized in
two volumes. The first
subvolume (I/1, EB 9304)
contains the Preface and
the Preludes, whereas the
second subvolume (I/2, EB
9305) contains Toccatas,
Ostinato works,
alternative versions and
a comprehensive Critical
Commentary (in German
only). Volume II (EB
9306) contains
Buxtehude's free organ
and keyboard works
(manualiter) with the
corresponding texts
(Preface and Critical
Commentary).Until 1971,
Harald Vogel worked on a
dissertation (with Georg
von Dadelsen, Hamburg) on
Die Fuge um Bach. Besides
the description of the
inclusion of triple
measures into the C
notation and the
irregularities of the
voice mutation in the
polyphonic structures,
this also included a
discussion about the
justification of the
inner textual criticism.
With the inner textual
criticism, deviations in
parallel passages are
unified. The North German
fugue style, reaching a
peak in Buxtehude's work,
is characterized by a
constant diversity of
details in subject and
polyphonic progressions.
One of the indicators of
the fantastic style is
the dissolution of the
polyphonic structures at
the ends of the fugues,
evident in Buxtehude's
work.In this edition, a
musical text is presented
that avoids the
uniformity of detail not
conforming to the
sources. However, there
are many examples of
transcription and cursory
errors, which are
analyzed in a methodical
systematic manner. About
the editor: As an
organist, professor,
organ expert, and
scholar, Harald Vogel has
rendered outstanding
services to the
interpretation of early
music and especially to
historical performance
practice concerning the
organ for decades. He has
received numerous awards,
including an ECHO Klassik
as Instrumentalist of the
Year (2012), honorary
doctorates from Lulea
University of Technology
(Sweden, 2008) and
Oberlin College (USA,
2014), as well as the
Buxtehude Prize of the
City of Lubeck (2018).
Harald Vogel is the
author and editor of
numerous scholarly
publications and
editions. Through his
lifelong performance
practice, he can look
back on an extensive
discography, including
the complete recording of
Buxtehude's organ works,
which he recorded in
various locations with
historical organ
instruments of the North
German organ building
tradition in Scandinavia,
North Germany and the
Netherlands.
pure
source edition (no
mixture of different
transmissions)
comprehensive commentary
(Vol. I/2 & II) (with
texts about the sources,
chronology, use of keys,
liturgic placement as
well as detailed critical
remarks, incl. music
examples (in German
only))good page
turnsflexible division of
voices (on 2 or 3
systems, good
legibility)contains
facsimiles.
Organ SKU: BR.EB-9415 Urtext - Critical Source Edition of the Free Org...(+)
Organ
SKU:
BR.EB-9415
Urtext
- Critical Source Edition
of the Free Organ
Works. Composed by
Dietrich Buxtehude.
Edited by Harald Vogel.
Solo instruments;
Softbound. Edition
Breitkopf.
Renaissance/early
Baroque; Baroque. Score.
192 pages. Breitkopf and
Haertel #EB 9415.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.EB-9415).
ISBN 9790004188897. 12
x 9 inches.
This
edition is the result of
Harald Vogel's many years
of practice as an
organist and
musicologist. The music
text is based on a
reevaluation of 17th- and
18th-century manuscripts
containing the free organ
and keyboard works by
Buxtehude. They
originated during a
transitional phase
between the traditional
letter tablature and the
staff notation still in
use today. Since many
works have survived only
in transcriptions for
staff notation, the
editor was confronted
with a high error rate,
which he carefully
analyzes in the
Einzelanmerkungen. During
the preparation of the
edition, the editor
always kept sight of the
performance practice, but
still, the image of the
sources is never
distorted (e. g. by
superfluous rests,
beaming not conforming to
the sources and the
unhistorical adjustment
of time signatures) and
stays very close to the
compositional notation,
the letter tablature. The
flexible use of three
staves and the
differentiated
distribution of the
voices on the staves
allow for an
approximation in reading
conventions of historical
notation with its
resulting information
about hand division.
Grouping the free organ
repertoire into works
with obbligato pedal and
works for manuals, this
edition is organized in
two volumes. The first
subvolume (I/1, EB 9304)
contains the Preface and
the Preludes, whereas the
second subvolume (I/2, EB
9305) contains Toccatas,
Ostinato works,
alternative versions and
a comprehensive Critical
Commentary (in German
only). Volume II (EB
9306) contains
Buxtehude's free organ
and keyboard works
(manualiter) with the
corresponding texts
(Preface and Critical
Commentary).Until 1971,
Harald Vogel worked on a
dissertation (with Georg
von Dadelsen, Hamburg) on
Die Fuge um Bach. Besides
the description of the
inclusion of triple
measures into the C
notation and the
irregularities of the
voice mutation in the
polyphonic structures,
this also included a
discussion about the
justification of the
inner textual criticism.
With the inner textual
criticism, deviations in
parallel passages are
unified. The North German
fugue style, reaching a
peak in Buxtehude's work,
is characterized by a
constant diversity of
details in subject and
polyphonic progressions.
One of the indicators of
the fantastic style is
the dissolution of the
polyphonic structures at
the ends of the fugues,
evident in Buxtehude's
work.In this edition, a
musical text is presented
that avoids the
uniformity of detail not
conforming to the
sources. However, there
are many examples of
transcription and cursory
errors, which are
analyzed in a methodical
systematic manner. About
the editor: As an
organist, professor,
organ expert, and
scholar, Harald Vogel has
rendered outstanding
services to the
interpretation of early
music and especially to
historical performance
practice concerning the
organ for decades. He has
received numerous awards,
including an ECHO Klassik
as Instrumentalist of the
Year (2012), honorary
doctorates from Lulea
University of Technology
(Sweden, 2008) and
Oberlin College (USA,
2014), as well as the
Buxtehude Prize of the
City of Lubeck (2018).
Harald Vogel is the
author and editor of
numerous scholarly
publications and
editions. Through his
lifelong performance
practice, he can look
back on an extensive
discography, including
the complete recording of
Buxtehude's organ works,
which he recorded in
various locations with
historical organ
instruments of the North
German organ building
tradition in Scandinavia,
North Germany and the
Netherlands.
pure
source edition (no
mixture of different
transmissions)
comprehensive commentary
(Vol. I/2 & II) (with
texts about the sources,
chronology, use of keys,
liturgic placement as
well as detailed critical
remarks, incl. music
examples (in German
only))good page
turnsflexible division of
voices (on 2 or 3
systems, good
legibility)contains
facsimiles.
Organ SKU: BR.EB-9305 Urtext - Critical Source Edition of the Free Org...(+)
Organ
SKU:
BR.EB-9305
Urtext
- Critical Source Edition
of the Free Organ
Works. Composed by
Dietrich Buxtehude.
Edited by Harald Vogel.
Solo instruments;
Softbound. Edition
Breitkopf.
Renaissance/early
Baroque; Baroque. Score.
84 pages. Breitkopf and
Haertel #EB 9305.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.EB-9305).
ISBN 9790004187692. 12
x 9 inches.
This
edition is the result of
Harald Vogel's many years
of practice as an
organist and
musicologist. The music
text is based on a
reevaluation of 17th- and
18th-century manuscripts
containing the free organ
and keyboard works by
Buxtehude. They
originated during a
transitional phase
between the traditional
letter tablature and the
staff notation still in
use today. Since many
works have survived only
in transcriptions for
staff notation, the
editor was confronted
with a high error rate,
which he carefully
analyzes in the
Einzelanmerkungen. During
the preparation of the
edition, the editor
always kept sight of the
performance practice, but
still, the image of the
sources is never
distorted (e. g. by
superfluous rests,
beaming not conforming to
the sources and the
unhistorical adjustment
of time signatures) and
stays very close to the
compositional notation,
the letter tablature. The
flexible use of three
staves and the
differentiated
distribution of the
voices on the staves
allow for an
approximation in reading
conventions of historical
notation with its
resulting information
about hand division.
Grouping the free organ
repertoire into works
with obbligato pedal and
works for manuals, this
edition is organized in
two volumes. The first
subvolume (I/1, EB 9304)
contains the Preface and
the Preludes, whereas the
second subvolume (I/2, EB
9305) contains Toccatas,
Ostinato works,
alternative versions and
a comprehensive Critical
Commentary (in German
only). Volume II (EB
9306) contains
Buxtehude's free organ
and keyboard works
(manualiter) with the
corresponding texts
(Preface and Critical
Commentary).Until 1971,
Harald Vogel worked on a
dissertation (with Georg
von Dadelsen, Hamburg) on
Die Fuge um Bach. Besides
the description of the
inclusion of triple
measures into the C
notation and the
irregularities of the
voice mutation in the
polyphonic structures,
this also included a
discussion about the
justification of the
inner textual criticism.
With the inner textual
criticism, deviations in
parallel passages are
unified. The North German
fugue style, reaching a
peak in Buxtehude's work,
is characterized by a
constant diversity of
details in subject and
polyphonic progressions.
One of the indicators of
the fantastic style is
the dissolution of the
polyphonic structures at
the ends of the fugues,
evident in Buxtehude's
work.In this edition, a
musical text is presented
that avoids the
uniformity of detail not
conforming to the
sources. However, there
are many examples of
transcription and cursory
errors, which are
analyzed in a methodical
systematic manner. About
the editor: As an
organist, professor,
organ expert, and
scholar, Harald Vogel has
rendered outstanding
services to the
interpretation of early
music and especially to
historical performance
practice concerning the
organ for decades. He has
received numerous awards,
including an ECHO Klassik
as Instrumentalist of the
Year (2012), honorary
doctorates from Lulea
University of Technology
(Sweden, 2008) and
Oberlin College (USA,
2014), as well as the
Buxtehude Prize of the
City of Lubeck (2018).
Harald Vogel is the
author and editor of
numerous scholarly
publications and
editions. Through his
lifelong performance
practice, he can look
back on an extensive
discography, including
the complete recording of
Buxtehude's organ works,
which he recorded in
various locations with
historical organ
instruments of the North
German organ building
tradition in Scandinavia,
North Germany and the
Netherlands.
pure
source edition (no
mixture of different
transmissions);
comprehensive commentary
(Vol. I/2 & II) (with
texts about the sources,
chronology, use of keys,
liturgic placement as
well as detailed critical
remarks, incl. music
examples (in German
only)); good page
turnsflexible division of
voices (on 2 or 3
systems, good
legibility); contains
facsimiles. Contains the
Critical Commentary of
the subvolumes I/1 and
I/2.
Organ SKU: BR.EB-9304 Urtext - Critical Source Edition of the Free Org...(+)
Organ
SKU:
BR.EB-9304
Urtext
- Critical Source Edition
of the Free Organ
Works. Composed by
Dietrich Buxtehude.
Edited by Harald Vogel.
Solo instruments;
Softbound. Edition
Breitkopf.
Renaissance/early
Baroque; Baroque. Score.
108 pages. Breitkopf and
Haertel #EB 9304.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.EB-9304).
ISBN 9790004187685. 12
x 9 inches.
This
edition is the result of
Harald Vogel's many years
of practice as an
organist and
musicologist. The music
text is based on a
reevaluation of 17th- and
18th-century manuscripts
containing the free organ
and keyboard works by
Buxtehude. They
originated during a
transitional phase
between the traditional
letter tablature and the
staff notation still in
use today. Since many
works have survived only
in transcriptions for
staff notation, the
editor was confronted
with a high error rate,
which he carefully
analyzes in the
Einzelanmerkungen. During
the preparation of the
edition, the editor
always kept sight of the
performance practice, but
still, the image of the
sources is never
distorted (e. g. by
superfluous rests,
beaming not conforming to
the sources and the
unhistorical adjustment
of time signatures) and
stays very close to the
compositional notation,
the letter tablature. The
flexible use of three
staves and the
differentiated
distribution of the
voices on the staves
allow for an
approximation in reading
conventions of historical
notation with its
resulting information
about hand division.
Grouping the free organ
repertoire into works
with obbligato pedal and
works for manuals, this
edition is organized in
two volumes. The first
subvolume (I/1, EB 9304)
contains the Preface and
the Preludes, whereas the
second subvolume (I/2, EB
9305) contains Toccatas,
Ostinato works,
alternative versions and
a comprehensive Critical
Commentary (in German
only). Volume II (EB
9306) contains
Buxtehude's free organ
and keyboard works
(manualiter) with the
corresponding texts
(Preface and Critical
Commentary).Until 1971,
Harald Vogel worked on a
dissertation (with Georg
von Dadelsen, Hamburg) on
Die Fuge um Bach. Besides
the description of the
inclusion of triple
measures into the C
notation and the
irregularities of the
voice mutation in the
polyphonic structures,
this also included a
discussion about the
justification of the
inner textual criticism.
With the inner textual
criticism, deviations in
parallel passages are
unified. The North German
fugue style, reaching a
peak in Buxtehude's work,
is characterized by a
constant diversity of
details in subject and
polyphonic progressions.
One of the indicators of
the fantastic style is
the dissolution of the
polyphonic structures at
the ends of the fugues,
evident in Buxtehude's
work.In this edition, a
musical text is presented
that avoids the
uniformity of detail not
conforming to the
sources. However, there
are many examples of
transcription and cursory
errors, which are
analyzed in a methodical
systematic manner. About
the editor: As an
organist, professor,
organ expert, and
scholar, Harald Vogel has
rendered outstanding
services to the
interpretation of early
music and especially to
historical performance
practice concerning the
organ for decades. He has
received numerous awards,
including an ECHO Klassik
as Instrumentalist of the
Year (2012), honorary
doctorates from Lulea
University of Technology
(Sweden, 2008) and
Oberlin College (USA,
2014), as well as the
Buxtehude Prize of the
City of Lubeck (2018).
Harald Vogel is the
author and editor of
numerous scholarly
publications and
editions. Through his
lifelong performance
practice, he can look
back on an extensive
discography, including
the complete recording of
Buxtehude's organ works,
which he recorded in
various locations with
historical organ
instruments of the North
German organ building
tradition in Scandinavia,
North Germany and the
Netherlands.
pure
source edition (no
mixture of different
transmissions);
comprehensive commentary
(Vol. I/2 & II) (with
texts about the sources,
chronology, use of keys,
liturgic placement as
well as detailed critical
remarks, incl. music
examples (in German
only)); good page
turnsflexible division of
voices (on 2 or 3
systems, good
legibility); contains
facsimiles. The
corresponding Critical
Commentary is contained
in Volume I/2 (EB
9305).
Cassatt. Composed
by Dan Welcher. Premiere:
Cassatt Quartet,
Northeastern Illinois
University, Chicago, IL.
Contemporary. Full score.
With Standard notation.
Composed 2007. WRT11142.
52 pages. Duration 24
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #164-00272S.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.16400272S).
UPC:
680160588442. 8.5 x 11
inches.
My third
quartet is laid out in a
three-movement structure,
with each movement based
on an early, middle, and
late work of the great
American impressionist
painter Mary Cassatt.
Although the movements
are separate, with
full-stop endings, the
music is connected by a
common scale-form,
derived from the name
MARY CASSATT, and by a
recurring theme that
introduces all three
movements. I see this
theme as Mary's Theme, a
personality that stays
intact while undergoing
gradual change. I
The Bacchante (1876)
[Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania] The
painting shows a young
girl of Italian or
Spanish origin, playing a
small pair of cymbals.
Since Cassatt was trying
very hard to fit in at
the French Academy at the
time, she painted a lot
of these subjects, which
were considered typical
and universal. The style
of the painting doesn't
yet show Cassatt's
originality, except
perhaps for certain
details in the face.
Accordingly the music for
this movement is
Spanish/Italian, in a
similar period-style but
using the musical
signature described
above. The music begins
with Mary's Theme,
ruminative and slow, then
abruptly changes to an
alla Spagnola-type fast
3/4 - 6/8 meter. It
evokes the
Spanish-influenced music
of Ravel and Falla.
Midway through,
there's an accompanied
recitative for the viola,
which figures large in
this particular movement,
then back to a truncated
recapitulation of the
fast music. The overall
feeling is of a
well-made, rather
conventional movement in
a contemporary
Spanish/Italian style.
Cassatt's painting, too,
is rather conventional.
II At the Opera
(1880) [Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston,
Massachusetts]
This painting is one of
Cassatt's most well known
works, and it hangs in
the Museum of Fine Arts
in Boston. The painting
shows a woman alone in a
box at the opera house,
completely dressed
(including gloves) and
looking through opera
glasses at someone or
something that is NOT on
the stage. Across the
auditorium from her, but
exactly at eye level, is
a gentleman with opera
glasses intently watching
her - though it is not
him that she's looking
at. It's an intriguing
picture. This
movement is far less
conventional than the
first movement, as the
painting is far less
conventional. The music
begins with a rapid,
Shostakovich-type
mini-overture lasting
less than a minute, based
on Mary's Theme. My
conjecture is that the
woman in the painting has
arrived late to the
opera, busily stumbling
into her box. What
happens next is a kind of
collage, a kind of
surrealistic overlaying
of two different
elements: the foreground
music, at first is a
direct quotation of
Soldier's Chorus from
Gounod's FAUST (an opera
Cassatt would certainly
have heard in the
brand-new Paris Opera
House at that time),
played by Violin II,
Viola, and Cello. This
music is played sul
ponticello in the melody
and col legno in the
marching accompaniment.
On top of this, the first
violin hovers at first on
a high harmonic, then
descends into a slow
melody, completely
separate from the Gounod.
It's as if the woman in
the painting is hearing
the opera onstage but is
not really interested in
it. Then the cello joins
the first violin in a
kind of love-duet (just
the two of them, at
first). This music isn't
at all Gounod-derived;
it's entirely from the
same scale patterns as
the first movement and
derives from Mary's Theme
and its scale. The music
stays in a kind of
dichotomy feeling,
usually
three-against-one, until
the end of the movement,
when another Gounod
melody, Valentin's aria
Avant de quitter ce lieux
reappears in a kind of
coda for all four
players. It ends
atmospherically and
emotionally disconnected,
however. The overall
feeling is a kind of
schizophrenic,
opera-inspired dream.
III Young Woman in
Green, Outdoors in the
Sun (1909) [Worcester Art
Museum, Massachusetts]
The painting, one
of Cassatt's last, is
very simple: just a
figure, looking sideways
out of the picture. The
colors are pastel and yet
bold - and the woman is
likewise very
self-assured and not in
the least demure. It is
eight minutes long, and
is all about melody -
three melodies, to be
exact (Young Woman,
Green, and Sunlight). No
angst, no choppy rhythms,
just ever-unfolding
melody and lush
harmonies. I quote one
other French composer
here, too: Debussy's song
Green, from Ariettes
Oubliees. 1909 would have
been Debussy's heyday in
Paris, and it makes
perfect sense musically
as well as visually to do
this. Mary Cassatt
lived her last several
years in near-total
blindness, and as she
lost visual acuity, her
work became less sharply
defined - something akin
to late water lilies of
Monet, who suffered
similar vision loss. My
idea of making this
movement entirely melodic
was compounded by having
each of the three
melodies appear twice,
once in a pure form, and
the second time in a more
diffuse setting. This
makes an interesting two
ways form:
A-B-C-A1-B1-C1.
String Quartet No.3
(Cassatt) is dedicated,
with great affection and
respect, to the Cassatt
String Quartet, whose
members have dedicated
themselves in large
measure to the furthering
of the contemporary
repertoire for
quartet.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.164002720 Cassatt. Composed b...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.164002720
Cassatt. Composed
by Dan Welcher. Spiral
and Saddle. Premiere:
Cassatt Quartet,
Northeastern Illinois
University, Chicago, IL.
Contemporary. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed 2007. WRT11142.
52+16+16+16+16 pages.
Duration 24 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#164-00272. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.164002720).
UPC:
680160573042. 8.5 x 11
inches.
My third
quartet is laid out in a
three-movement structure,
with each movement based
on an early, middle, and
late work of the great
American impressionist
painter Mary Cassatt.
Although the movements
are separate, with
full-stop endings, the
music is connected by a
common scale-form,
derived from the name
MARY CASSATT, and by a
recurring theme that
introduces all three
movements. I see this
theme as Mary's Theme, a
personality that stays
intact while undergoing
gradual change. I
The Bacchante (1876)
[Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania] The
painting shows a young
girl of Italian or
Spanish origin, playing a
small pair of cymbals.
Since Cassatt was trying
very hard to fit in at
the French Academy at the
time, she painted a lot
of these subjects, which
were considered typical
and universal. The style
of the painting doesn't
yet show Cassatt's
originality, except
perhaps for certain
details in the face.
Accordingly the music for
this movement is
Spanish/Italian, in a
similar period-style but
using the musical
signature described
above. The music begins
with Mary's Theme,
ruminative and slow, then
abruptly changes to an
alla Spagnola-type fast
3/4 - 6/8 meter. It
evokes the
Spanish-influenced music
of Ravel and Falla.
Midway through,
there's an accompanied
recitative for the viola,
which figures large in
this particular movement,
then back to a truncated
recapitulation of the
fast music. The overall
feeling is of a
well-made, rather
conventional movement in
a contemporary
Spanish/Italian style.
Cassatt's painting, too,
is rather conventional.
II At the Opera
(1880) [Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston,
Massachusetts]
This painting is one of
Cassatt's most well known
works, and it hangs in
the Museum of Fine Arts
in Boston. The painting
shows a woman alone in a
box at the opera house,
completely dressed
(including gloves) and
looking through opera
glasses at someone or
something that is NOT on
the stage. Across the
auditorium from her, but
exactly at eye level, is
a gentleman with opera
glasses intently watching
her - though it is not
him that she's looking
at. It's an intriguing
picture. This
movement is far less
conventional than the
first movement, as the
painting is far less
conventional. The music
begins with a rapid,
Shostakovich-type
mini-overture lasting
less than a minute, based
on Mary's Theme. My
conjecture is that the
woman in the painting has
arrived late to the
opera, busily stumbling
into her box. What
happens next is a kind of
collage, a kind of
surrealistic overlaying
of two different
elements: the foreground
music, at first is a
direct quotation of
Soldier's Chorus from
Gounod's FAUST (an opera
Cassatt would certainly
have heard in the
brand-new Paris Opera
House at that time),
played by Violin II,
Viola, and Cello. This
music is played sul
ponticello in the melody
and col legno in the
marching accompaniment.
On top of this, the first
violin hovers at first on
a high harmonic, then
descends into a slow
melody, completely
separate from the Gounod.
It's as if the woman in
the painting is hearing
the opera onstage but is
not really interested in
it. Then the cello joins
the first violin in a
kind of love-duet (just
the two of them, at
first). This music isn't
at all Gounod-derived;
it's entirely from the
same scale patterns as
the first movement and
derives from Mary's Theme
and its scale. The music
stays in a kind of
dichotomy feeling,
usually
three-against-one, until
the end of the movement,
when another Gounod
melody, Valentin's aria
Avant de quitter ce lieux
reappears in a kind of
coda for all four
players. It ends
atmospherically and
emotionally disconnected,
however. The overall
feeling is a kind of
schizophrenic,
opera-inspired dream.
III Young Woman in
Green, Outdoors in the
Sun (1909) [Worcester Art
Museum, Massachusetts]
The painting, one
of Cassatt's last, is
very simple: just a
figure, looking sideways
out of the picture. The
colors are pastel and yet
bold - and the woman is
likewise very
self-assured and not in
the least demure. It is
eight minutes long, and
is all about melody -
three melodies, to be
exact (Young Woman,
Green, and Sunlight). No
angst, no choppy rhythms,
just ever-unfolding
melody and lush
harmonies. I quote one
other French composer
here, too: Debussy's song
Green, from Ariettes
Oubliees. 1909 would have
been Debussy's heyday in
Paris, and it makes
perfect sense musically
as well as visually to do
this. Mary Cassatt
lived her last several
years in near-total
blindness, and as she
lost visual acuity, her
work became less sharply
defined - something akin
to late water lilies of
Monet, who suffered
similar vision loss. My
idea of making this
movement entirely melodic
was compounded by having
each of the three
melodies appear twice,
once in a pure form, and
the second time in a more
diffuse setting. This
makes an interesting two
ways form:
A-B-C-A1-B1-C1.
String Quartet No.3
(Cassatt) is dedicated,
with great affection and
respect, to the Cassatt
String Quartet, whose
members have dedicated
themselves in large
measure to the furthering
of the contemporary
repertoire for
quartet.