By Elizabeth Alexander. For Men's Chorus (TTBB choir a cappella). Collegiate Rep...(+)
By Elizabeth Alexander.
For Men's Chorus (TTBB
choir a cappella).
Collegiate Repertoire,
Community Chorus, Concert
Music. Courage, Hardship,
Sacred (Worship and
Praise), Choral.
Moderately Advanced.
Octavo. Text language:
English. Duration 6
minutes. Published by
Seafarer Press
By Various.
Harmonica. Blues,
Country, Folk, Pop, Rock.
Softcover. 336 pages.
Published by Hal Leonard
(HL.300155).
ISBN
9781540061874. UPC:
888680960902. 9.0x12.0
inches.
Play your
favorite harmonica solos
and learn new classics
with this new collection
of songs for 10-hole
diatonic C harp! This
comprehensive songbook
presents an extensive
collection of 140 songs
spanning diverse genres
including blues, rock,
country, folk,
traditional, gospel, and
pop. Curated for
harmonica enthusiasts of
all levels, each song is
meticulously transcribed
with harmonica tabs,
lyrics, and chord
symbols, and skillfully
adapted for various
harmonica positions.
Furthermore, the songbook
offers valuable insights
for performing each piece
in its original key,
along with note-for-note
transcriptions of intros,
licks, and solos by
esteemed harp experts and
virtuosos from varied
musical backgrounds. Add
this new songbook to your
collection today to
unlock the endless
possibilities of your
harmonica!
By Mountain. For Guitar. Hal Leonard Guitar Recorded Versions. Hard Rock. Diffic...(+)
By Mountain. For Guitar.
Hal Leonard Guitar
Recorded Versions. Hard
Rock. Difficulty: medium.
Guitar tablature
songbook. Guitar
tablature, standard
notation, vocal melody,
lyrics, chord names and
guitar notation legend.
72 pages. Published by
Hal Leonard
The Road Unknown Orchestre d'harmonie [Conducteur et Parties séparées] - Facile Alfred Publishing
By Richard Meyer. Music by Richard Meyer. For Concert Band. Concert Band. Young ...(+)
By Richard Meyer. Music
by Richard Meyer. For
Concert Band. Concert
Band. Young Symphonic.
Patriotic. Level: 2
(Medium Easy) (grade 2).
Conductor Score & Parts.
258 pages. Published by
Alfred Publishing.
Voix Baryton, Piano [Partition + Accès audio] Hal Leonard
Baritone/Bass Book/Online Audio. Edited by Richard Walters and Richard Walter. V...(+)
Baritone/Bass Book/Online
Audio. Edited by Richard
Walters and Richard
Walter. Vocal Collection.
Piece for the NFMC Vocal
event with the National
Federation of Music Clubs
(NFMC) Festivals Bulletin
2008-2009-2010. Musical
Theatre, Broadway, Play
Along. Softcover Audio
Online. 272 pages.
Published by Hal Leonard
The Road Unknown Orchestre d'harmonie [Conducteur] - Facile Alfred Publishing
By Richard Meyer. Music by Richard Meyer. For Concert Band. Concert Band. Young ...(+)
By Richard Meyer. Music
by Richard Meyer. For
Concert Band. Concert
Band. Young Symphonic.
Level: 2 (Medium Easy)
(grade 2). Conductor
Score. 36 pages.
Published by Alfred
Publishing.
Trombone; Trumpet - advanced SKU: HL.49007612 Trumpet and Piano. C...(+)
Trombone; Trumpet -
advanced
SKU:
HL.49007612
Trumpet and Piano.
Composed by Wolf Escher.
This edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Edition Schott.
Classical. 80 pages.
Schott Music #ED 7897.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49007612).
ISBN
9790001081764. UPC:
073999543940.
9.0x12.0x0.218
inches.
String Quartet No.
3. Composed by
Shulamit Ran. Sws.
Contemporary. Full score.
With Standard notation.
Composed March 9 2013. 32
pages. Duration 23
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-41690S.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.11441690S).
UPC:
680160626021. 9 x 12
inches.
Ran's third
string quartet was
written for the Pacifica
Quartet, who are
featuring it in numerous
performances from May
2014 through February
2016, across the country
and abroad. Their blog
page dedicated to the
work also features the
composer's notes, for
more indepth insight.
...impassioned solos
emerge from ominous
quiet, and high arpeggios
in the violins quiver
alongside the earthy
cello. Ms. Ran skillfully
deploys these extremes of
color, volume and pitch,
yet the overall somewhat
chilly impression is one
of poise. -- Zachary
Woolfe, The New York
Times. My third string
quartet was composed at
the invitation of the
Pacifica
Quartet, whose
music-making I have come
to know closely and
admire hugely as resident
artists at the University
of Chicago. Already
in our early
conversations Pacifica
proposed that this
quartet might, in some
manner, refer to the
visual arts as a point of
germination. Probing
further, I found out that
the quartet members had
special interest in art
created during the
earlier part of the 20th
century, perhaps between
the two world wars.Â
It was my good fortune to
have met, a short while
later, while in residence
at the American Academy
in Rome in the fall of
2011, art conservationist
Albert Albano who steered
me to the work of Felix
Nussbaum (1904-1944), a
German-Jewish painter
who, like so many others,
perished in the Holocaust
at a young age, and who
left some powerful,
deeply moving art that
spoke to the life that
was unraveling around
him. The title of my
string quartet takes its
inspiration from a major
exhibit devoted to art by
German artists of the
period of the Weimar
Republic (1919-1933)
titled “Glitter and
Doom: German Portraits
from the 1920sâ€,
first shown at New
York’s
Metropolitan Museum of
Art in 2006-07.Â
Nussbaum would have been
a bit too young to be
included in this
exhibit. His most
noteworthy art was
created in the last very
few years of his short
life. The
exhibit’s
evocative title, however,
suggested to me the idea
of “Glitter, Doom,
Shards, Memory†as
a way of framing a
possible musical
composition that would be
an homage to his life and
art, and to that of so
many others like him
during that era.
 Knowing that their
days were numbered, yet
intent on leaving a mark,
a legacy, a memory, their
art is triumph of the
human spirit over
annihilation. Parallel
to my wish to compose a
string quartet that,
typically for this genre,
would exist as
“pure musicâ€,
independent of a
narrative, was my desire
to effect an awareness in
my listener of matters
which are, to me, of
great human concern.
 To my mind there is
no contradiction between
the two goals. Â As in
several other works
composed since 1969, this
is my way of saying
‘do not
forget’, something
that, I believe, can be
done through music with
special power and
poignancy. Â Â The
individual titles of the
quartet’s four
movements give an
indication of some of the
emotional strands this
work explores. 1)
“That which
happened†(das was
geschah) – is how
the poet Paul Celan
referred to the Shoah
– the Holocaust.
 These simple words
served for me, in the
first movement, as a
metaphor for the way in
which an
“ordinaryâ€
life, with its daily flow
and its sense of sweet
normalcy, was shockingly,
inhumanely, inexplicably
shattered. 2)
“Menace†is a
shorter movement,
mimicking a Scherzo.
 It is also
machine-like, incessant,
with an occasional,
recurring, waltz-like
little tune –
perhaps the chilling
grimace we recognize from
the executioner’s
guillotine mask. Â Like
the death machine it
alludes to, it gathers
momentum as it goes, and
is
unstoppable. 3) â
If I must perish - do
not let my paintings
dieâ€; these words
are by Felix Nussbaum
who, knowing what was
ahead, nonetheless
continued painting till
his death in Auschwitz in
1944. Â If the heart of
the first movement is the
shuddering interruption
of life as we know it,
the third movement tries
to capture something of
what I can only imagine
to be the conflicting
states of mind that would
have made it possible,
and essential, to
continue to live and
practice one’s art
– bearing witness
to the events.
 Creating must have
been, for Nussbaum and
for so many others, a way
of maintaining sanity,
both a struggle and a
catharsis – an act
of defiance and salvation
all at the same
time. 4)
“Shards,
Memory†is a direct
reference to my
quartet’s title.
 Only shards are left.
 And memory.  The
memory is of things large
and small, of unspeakable
tragedy, but also of the
song and the dance, the
smile, the hopes. All
things human. Â As we
remember, in the face of
death’s silence,
we restore dignity to
those who are
gone.—Shulamit
Ran .
2-part mixed voices,
assembly, keyboard
accompaniment, C
instrument - Beginning
SKU: GI.G-5346
Composed by Bob Moore.
Eastertide, Lent 5 A,
Lent 5 B, Palm Sunday,
Good Friday, Easter PM,
Easter 3 A, Easter 3 B,
OT 11 C, OT 13 C.
Celebration Series.
Sacred. Octavo. With
guitar chord names. 8
pages. GIA Publications
#5346. Published by GIA
Publications (GI.G-5346).
UPC: 785147534600.
English. Text by Richard
Leach. Scripture: Luke
9:57–58, Luke
19:29–40, Luke
23:53, Luke
24:13–35, John
12:1–3.
This
ballad-like text traces
the journey of Jesus and
his followers, a journey
that leads to the cross,
and then leads on again.
Mostly unison with a
countermelody for the
male voices on the
refrain. The verses work
well with solo voices or
ensemble singing.
This
ballad-like text traces
the journey of Jesus and
his followers.
(Improving Reading and Sight-Reading Skills in the String Classroom or Studio) E...(+)
(Improving Reading and
Sight-Reading Skills in
the String Classroom or
Studio) Edited by Andrew
H. Dabczynski, Bob
Phillips, Richard Meyer.
Instructional book for
viola. With instructional
text and bowings. Series:
Sight-Read It for
Strings. 32 pages.
Published by Alfred
Publishing.
transcribed by Richard Kriehn. For Mandolin. transcribed solos. Sugar Hill Recor...(+)
transcribed by Richard
Kriehn. For Mandolin.
transcribed solos. Sugar
Hill Records. Bluegrass
and Country. Level:
Intermediate. Book. Size
8.75x11.75. 64 pages.
Published by Mel Bay
Publications, Inc.
(Improving Reading and Sight-Reading Skills in the String Classroom or Studio) E...(+)
(Improving Reading and
Sight-Reading Skills in
the String Classroom or
Studio) Edited by Andrew
H. Dabczynski, Bob
Phillips, Richard Meyer.
Instructional book and
conductor's score for
string ensemble. With
instructional text and
bowings. Series:
Sight-Read It for
Strings. 64 pages.
Published by Alfred
Publishing.
Composed by Richard Page; Steve George; John Lang. Arranged by Kirby Shaw. Perfo...(+)
Composed by Richard Page;
Steve George; John Lang.
Arranged by Kirby Shaw.
Performance Music
Ensemble; Single Titles.
Alfred Pop Choral Series.
Classic Pop; Secular.
Choral Octavo. 16 pages.
Alfred Music #00-47106.
Published by Alfred Music
(AP.47106).
By Richard Gilewitz. For Guitar (Fingerpicking). technique. Acoustic Music. Leve...(+)
By Richard Gilewitz. For
Guitar (Fingerpicking).
technique. Acoustic
Music. Level:
Beginning-Intermediate.
Book CD DVD. Size
8.75x11.75. 96 pages.
Published by Mel Bay
Publications, Inc.
40 Songs from 14 Shows and Films. Composed by Stephen Sondheim (1930-). Edited...(+)
40 Songs from 14 Shows
and
Films. Composed by
Stephen
Sondheim (1930-). Edited
by
Richard Walters. P/V/G
Composer Collection.
Softcover. 328 pages.
Published by Rilting
Music,
Inc.
(Baritone/Bass (40 Songs)). By Stephen Sondheim (1930-). Edited by Richard Walte...(+)
(Baritone/Bass (40
Songs)). By Stephen
Sondheim (1930-). Edited
by Richard Walters. For
Baritone, Low Voice,
Piano Accompaniment
(Baritone/Bass). Vocal
Collection. 302 pages.
Published by Hal Leonard
(High Voice). Arranged by Richard Walters. For high voice and piano. Vocal Colle...(+)
(High Voice). Arranged by
Richard Walters. For high
voice and piano. Vocal
Collection. Classical
Period, Americana and
Vocal Standards.
Difficulty: medium.
Collection (two copies
needed for performance).
Vocal melody, lyrics and
piano accompaniment. 218
pages. G. Schirmer
#ED3851. Published by G.
Schirmer
(Improving Reading and Sight-Reading Skills in the String Classroom or Studio) E...(+)
(Improving Reading and
Sight-Reading Skills in
the String Classroom or
Studio) Edited by Andrew
H. Dabczynski, Bob
Phillips, Richard Meyer.
Instructional book for
cello. With instructional
text and bowings. Series:
Sight-Read It for
Strings. 32 pages.
Published by Alfred
Publishing.