Solo piano - Grade 5-6 SKU: B7.B495 Composed by Howard J. Buss. 21st Cent...(+)
Solo piano - Grade 5-6
SKU: B7.B495
Composed by Howard J.
Buss. 21st Century.
Score. Brixton
Publications #B495.
Published by Brixton
Publications (B7.B495).
8.5x11
inches.
La Sonata
modello The Template
Sonata for solo piano by
Howard J. Buss is
dedicated to pianist
James Helton. The music
traverses a wide rage of
moods and sonic
atmospheres. The composer
designed a template of
meter changes derived
from the numerical series
in mathematics codified
by the medieval Italian
mathematician, Leonardo
Fibonacci. In this
adaptation of the
Fibonacci sequence each
number represents a
quarter note and is
expressed in the
succession of meters 4/4,
3/4, 5/4, 4/4, 4/4, 5/4,
3/4, 5/4, 4/4, 4/4, 4/4,
4/4, and 5/4. This series
of measures is repeated
throughout the work.
While each 13-bar segment
implies that the music
fits into a particular
metrical scheme, the
composer exerts
independence in a variety
of ways, such as with
phrasing that sometimes
ignores the underlying
structure. Buss states:
This metrical template
was at times useful, but
often seemed arbitrary
and counter to the thrust
and development of the
musical material. My
challenge was to find a
way to work with the
template while using its
rigidity to spark
creative solutions.
Although the music
evolves within the
template, my ultimate
goal was that the
listener be unaware of
the structural
underpinnings and simply
enjoy the beauty of the
music..
Violin, piano SKU: FG.55011-754-9 Viulusonaatti. By Walter Wolff. ...(+)
Violin, piano
SKU:
FG.55011-754-9
Viulusonaatti. By
Walter Wolff. By Yrjö
Kilpinen. Classical.
Book. Fennica Gehrman
#55011-754-9. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-754-9).
ISBN
9790550117549.
YrjÃ
ƒÂ¶ Kilpinen (1892-1959)
is most known for his
hundreds of lieds and
song cycles. His
instrumental compositions
have been less know, ie.
the six piano sonatas and
suite for gamba and
piano. Large-scale Sonata
for violin and piano is
dated in 1935 with opus
number 87. The work was
never finished, and
National Library in
Helsinki holds several
sketches and versions in
its Kilpinen collection.
In 2015 violinist
Frida Backman
commissioned a completion
of the Sonata from
composer Walter Wolff.
Wolff worked on the
sketches and versions
until 2018, when the work
was completed and the
Sonata premiered.
The present
publication is the first
publication of the
Sonata. It sheds light to
Kilpinen as an
instrumental composer.
Yrjö Kilpinen
(1892-1959) tunnetaan
lähinnä
lied-sävellyksistäÃ
ƒÂ¤n, joita aktiivisina
sävellysvuosina
syntyikin satoja.
Vähemmälle
huomiolle ovat
jääneet hänen
instrumentaalisävellyk
sensä, mm. kuusi
pianosonaattia,
sellosonaatti, sarja
gamballe ja pianolle
sekä muutamat
pikkukappaleet.
Vuodelle 1935
päivätty
neliosainen,
laajamuotoinen sonaatti
viululle ja pianolle (op.
87) jäi
keskeneräiseksi.
Suomen Kansalliskirjaston
Kilpinen-kokoelmassa oli
useita luonnoksia ja eri
versioita. Sonaatin
osista neljäs oli
keskeneräisin.
Viulutaiteilija
Frida Backman tilasi
konserttiaan varten
sonaatin
täydennöksen
säveltäjä Walter
Wolffilta. Hän sai
työnsä
päätöksen 2018,
jonka jälkeen sonaatti
kantaesitettiin.
Fennica Gehrmanin
julkaisu on sonaatin
ensipainos, ja siten
laajentaa kuvaamme
Yrjö Kilpisestä
instrumenttiteosten
säveltäjänä.
Teoksen osat:
Allegro - Andante -
Andante Moderato -
Allegro.
Choir Secular Double Choir and Violoncello SKU: PE.EP73479 Composed by Fr...(+)
Choir Secular Double
Choir and Violoncello
SKU: PE.EP73479
Composed by Francis Pott.
Choral Works (inc.
Oratorios). Edition
Peters. Living Composer.
Vocal Score. 164 pages.
Edition Peters
#98-EP73479. Published by
Edition Peters
(PE.EP73479).
ISBN
9790577019888. 297 x
210mm inches.
English.
At
First Light was
commissioned by Eric
Bruskin, a resident of
Philadelphia, USA, in
memory of his mother.
Eric had a longstanding
enthusiasm for my work,
and I was touched to be
the person he approached
for a task which is both
a privilege and a
daunting responsibility.
In a sense, no music can
ever measure up to the
weight of love or the
hope of consolation
vested in it under such
circumstances - but in
memory I carry the deaths
of both my own parents,
and I was able to draw
upon that. Eric's
fondness for my Cello
Sonata (itself written in
memoriam) led him to ask
that I include a solo
'cello part in the new
work - but his attachment
also to my polyphonic
sacred choral writing
meant that he wanted a
centrepiece which would
be both a showcase of
that approach and the
celebration of a life
well lived. Therefore,
the seven movements of At
First Light arrange
themselves as a series of
slow meditations
surrounding an exuberant
9-minute motet in which
the lamenting cello falls
temporarily
silent.
Eric's
Jewish faith meant that
approaching an agnostic
humanist brought up
within the Anglican
tradition was hardly free
of problems! Gradually,
though, I was able to win
his approval for a
collated mosaic of texts.
This embraces some
liturgical Latin
(necessary for the motet)
as the shared preserve of
broad western culture in
general, but balances it
with a secular approach
to loss, celebration,
remembrance and the many
shades of our mourning
those whom we see no
longer. Eric was adamant
that he did not want the
title Requiem; but what
has emerged is still a
form of semi-secular
Requiem in all but name,
taking its title instead
from a phrase in the poem
by Thomas Blackburn set
as the third movement.
This seemed to suggest
succinctly how the loss
of one very close to us
is an awakening into an
unfamiliar world where
everything is changed.
Following the exuberant
central movement, the
texts by the
Lebanese-born Kahlil
Gibran and the US,
Kentuckian poet Wendell
Berry first address the
departed loved one
directly, then place us
within an imaginary
funeral cortege, where
the perennial and
universal in human
experience become
personal without
subscribing explicitly to
any particular faith (or
lack of it). The final
text of all is a
translation of a Hebraic
prayer, requested and
provided by Eric Bruskin,
which serves to mirror
its Latin counterpart
heard at the
outset.
Throughout
, the lamenting cello
represents a commentary
on the experience
articulated in the text.
It evokes and, in a
sense, tries to embrace
and sanctify the
individual existential
journeys of the bereft,
as they in turn seek to
make their own sense of
what the short-lived
Second World War poet
Alun Lewis called 'the
unbearable beauty of the
dead' (movement
5).
In a modern
world hostage to ever
greater menace,
displacement, bloodshed
and anguish, I hope
fervently that this music
not only brings a measure
of solace to the person
who commissioned it, but
also makes its own small
contribution to bailing
out the sinking ship of
humanity.
(Score) SKU: HL.14037632 Carl Nielsen Collected Works Section IV: Vol....(+)
(Score)
SKU:
HL.14037632
Carl
Nielsen Collected Works
Section IV: Vol. 1.
Composed by Carl August
Nielsen. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Hardcover. 388 pages.
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
#CN00052. Published by
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14037632).
ISBN
9788759818244. UPC:
884088562045. 10.25x13
inches.
Contents:
CHAMBER MUSIC: Polka for
Violin; Duet for Violins;
Romance for Violin and
Piano in G Major; Romance
for Violin and Piano in D
Major; Sonata for Violin
and Piano; Fantasy for
Clarinet and Piano; Trio
for Violin, Cello and
Piano; Quartet for Two
Violins, Viola and Cello
in D Minor; Movement for
Two Violins, Viola and
Cello in F Major (Add.
9); Movement for Two
Violins, Viola and Cello
in F Major (Add. 10);
Movement for Two Violins,
Viola and Cello in F
Major (Add. 11); Movement
for Two Violins, Viola
and Cello in G Minor;
Movement for Two Violins,
Viola and Cello in F
Sharp Minor; Movement for
Two Violins, Viola and
Cello in B Flat Major;
Trauermarsch for Two
Violins, Viola and Cello.
PIANO PIECES: Two
Character Pieces;
Norwegian Folk Dance;
Andante; Piano Piece;
Peasant Dance;
Allegretto; Add. 22;
Minuet; Add. 24;
Andantino; Add. 26; A
Little Piano Piece.
CANTATA: Cantata for The
Commemoration Of P.S.
Krøyer.
ARRANGEMENTS: Prelude to
'Snefrid' for Piano;
'Snefrid' for Recitation
and Piano Quintet;
'Elves' Dance' From 'Sir
Oluf He Rides ''; 'Dance
of the Handmaidens' from
'Hagbarth and Signe' for
Piano; 'Canto Serioso'
for Cello and Piano;
Dances from 'Aladdin'for
Piano; Excerpts from 'The
Mother' for Piano; 'A
Fair And Lovely Land' for
Brass; Cantata for The
Centenary of The
Polytechnic College for
Reciter, Male Choir,
Strings and Piano;
Counterpoint Exercises;
Two Part Fugue (Add. 38);
Two Part Fugue (Add. 39);
Three-part Fugue (Add.
40); Three-part Fugue
(Add. 41); Three-part
Fugue (Add. 42);
Three-part Fugue (Add.
43); Three-part Fugue
(Add. 44). APPENDIX:
Greeting; Gade; Denmark!;
Welcome to 20 Della
Grazia, Little Marie!;
The Shepherd's
Melody.