Chamber Music Clarinet, Piano, Violin SKU: PR.164002390 Composed by Dan W...(+)
Chamber Music Clarinet,
Piano, Violin
SKU:
PR.164002390
Composed
by Dan Welcher. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed 1995. 26+14+14
pages. Duration 14
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #164-00239.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.164002390).
UPC:
680160038091.
I
became interested in the
work of Plato through my
friend and collaborator,
the writer and
philosopher Paul
Woodruff. Paul's new
translation, with
Alexander Nehamas, of the
Symposium gave me
insights into ancient
Greek ways of thinking
about Love, Beauty, and
Wisdom -- and managed to
keep the earthy, and
often bawdy side of it
all in full view. But
their new translation of
Plato's later dialogue
Phaedrus went even
further: the beauty of
the speeches is
breathtaking, and the
discourse itself is
enough to keep one awake
at night. Basically the
Great Speech of Socrates
in the Phaedrus dialogue
has to do with the place
of Eros in the world, and
with the conflict in the
soul between fleshly
pleasure and philosophic
discovery. I will not
attempt to encapsulate
this brilliant discourse
in a program note:
suffice it to say that
reading it gave rise to
my two-sided work for
clarinet, violin, and
piano, Phaedrus. The
first movement represents
the Philosophic life, and
is thus subtitled
Apollo's Lyre (Invocation
and Hymn). It begins with
an unaccompanied melody
for the clarinet, which
(after a pair of
harp-like flourishes for
the piano, expands into
an accompanied canon. The
voices in the dialogue
(clarinet and violin)
follow each other by a
prescribed number of
beats, but the music is
totally devoid of any
meter at all. The piano,
representing the lyre,
accompanies this lyric
love-feast with repeated
strummed chords. The
canon has three large
sections, and ends with
violin echoing the
unaccompanied clarinet
invocation as the sound
of the lyre fades. The
second movement, called
Dionysus' Dream-Orgy
(Ritual Dance) presents,
after a brief
introduction, another
kind of unmetered music.
Rather than long lyric
flights of philosophic
song, however, this time
we hear a unison dance of
unbridled energy and
sensual transport. The
piece soon forms itself
into a loose arch form,
with contrasting metered
dance sections divided by
the unison unmetered orgy
tune. Midway through the
movement, Apollo's melody
returns from the first
movement, but it is a
temporary reminiscence.
The orgiastic dance
returns, reaches a
climax, and ends with a
stomping of feet. While
Plato asserts that a
proper balance between
lust and reason is
necessary in all men, he
(naturally) gives the nod
to Philosophy as the
better choice in which to
live. Not so in my music:
the two sides are meant
to coexist and to
complement each other. No
sides are taken. Phaedrus
was commissioned of the
Verdehr Trio by Michigan
State University. It is
dedicated to the Vedehr
Trio with great affection
and admiration.
SSAA choir SKU: WD.080689660177 Book. Word Music #080689660177. Published...(+)
SSAA choir
SKU:
WD.080689660177
Book.
Word Music #080689660177.
Published by Word Music
(WD.080689660177).
UPC:
080689660177.
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Piano Accompaniment; Sheng SKU: HL.49046896 Concerto for Sheng and Pia...(+)
Piano Accompaniment;
Sheng
SKU:
HL.49046896
Concerto for Sheng and
Piano Piano Reducation
from Orchestra.
Composed by Enjott
Schneider. Edition
Schott. Chinese.
Softcover. 68 pages.
Schott Music #ED22908.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49046896).
ISBN
9781705166215. UPC:
841886033788.
9.0x12.0x0.252
inches.
The
thirty-minute composition
exposes a musical theme
whose rampant changes are
set in three movements
that correspond to some
of the famous eight
triagrams of the 'I GING'
(the Book of Changes):
TSCHEN is the awakener,
the thunder, to which the
properties of the
provocative, Violent,
associated with impetuous
growth. KAN as depth and
abyss has the image of
water, which corresponds
to the moon and
everything mysterious,
difficult to understand
and melancholic
(logically this movement
is based on a 12-tone
series and a shifted,
mirror-symmetrical
rhythm). TOUEI is the
pleasure, the friends,
the happiness, the
serenity, to which the
image of the
lakecorresponds. The
changes do not want to
imitate Asian models in
terms of rhythm or
melody, but rather remain
in the language
conventions of Western
music in the sound
material. The bridging to
Chinese music succeeds
above all through the use
of the sheng (one of the
oldest musical
instruments) and the
formal implementation of
the given spiritual
principles in tonal
growth processes. Enjot
Schneider.
Piano (Piano solo) - x, x SKU: HL.51481156 Piano. Composed by Clau...(+)
Piano (Piano solo) - x, x
SKU: HL.51481156
Piano. Composed by
Claude Debussy. Edited by
Ernst-Gü and nter
Heinemann. Sheet Music.
Paperbound. Henle Music
Folios. Single edition
from HN 404. Classical,
Romantic Period.
Softcover. 12 pages. G.
Henle #HN1156. Published
by G. Henle
(HL.51481156).
ISBN
9790201811567. UPC:
888680749705.
9.25x12.25x0.07
inches.
In his
youth, when still
searching for his own
personal style, Debussy
composed a series of
short, stand-alone piano
pieces. He took
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nocturne and waltz, but
in general used each of
them just once, as if
trying them out. One such
was the “Valse
romantiqueâ€,
published by Choudens of
Paris in 1891 and thus
written at the same time
as his famous piano works
“Two
Arabesques†and the
“Suite
bergamasqueâ€. This
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“Debussy: Piano
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