Oratorio in three
parts. Composed by
George Frideric Handel.
Edited by Merlin Channon.
This edition: complete
edition, urtext edition.
Linen. Halle Handel
Edition (HHA) Series I,
Volume 23. Complete
edition, Score. HWV 62.
Duration 2 hours, 20
minutes. Baerenreiter
Verlag #BA04089_00.
Published by Baerenreiter
Verlag (BA.BA04089).
ISBN 9790006550081. 33
x 26 cm inches. Text
Language: English. Text:
Newburgh
Hamilton.
The
“Occasional
Oratorio†was
composed as a reaction to
a political event which
shook the whole of
England : the Jacobite
rebellion of 1745-46
against the Hanoverian
monarchy was crushed
under the leadership of
the Duke of Cumberland.
Handel, who was working
on the oratorio “
Judas Maccabaeusâ€
at the time, composed the
oratorio quickly and
reused some movements
from earlier works. With
the choice of a libretto
by Newburgh Hamilton he
demonstrated his support
for the monarchy. The
work was first performed
on 14 February 1746 at
the Covent Garden Theatre
in London .
For
the first time this
seldomly performed
oratorio which
nevertheless contains
wonderful music is
available in an Urtext
edition based on the
“ Halle Handel
Edition†. All
available sources have
been consulted. Further
movements which Handel
added for later
performances are included
in the appendix.
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Concert Band; Orchestra - Grade 1 SKU: AP.49215 Featuring Good King We...(+)
Concert Band; Orchestra -
Grade 1
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Featuring
Good King Wenceslas.
Arranged by Scott Watson.
5 or More; MakeMusic
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- Flexible
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Titles; Solo Small
Ensembles. Alfred Debut
Series. Christmas;
Holiday Pops; Winter.
Score and Part(s).
Duration 2:30. Alfred
Music #00-49215.
Published by Alfred Music
(AP.49215).
ISBN
9781470648589. UPC:
038081569383.
English.
This
version of At the Feast
of Stephen by Scott
Watson is part of our
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This novel
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traditional carol Good
King Wenceslas will
musically transport you
and your students to the
royal Christmas banquet
hall of a medieval king!
The old carol tells the
story of a legendary
10th-century monarch,
Duke Wenceslas of
Bohemia, who went out in
the severe cold to give
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December 26, also known
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well-known 13th-century
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and ladies to the Feast
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Concert Band; Orchestra -
Grade 1
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Featuring Good King
Wenceslas. Arranged
by Scott Watson. 5 or
More; Mixed Instruments -
Flexible Instrumentation;
Performance Music
Ensemble; Quartet; Single
Titles; Solo Small
Ensembles. Alfred Debut
Series. Christmas;
Holiday Pops; Winter.
Score. Duration 2:30.
Alfred Music #00-49215S.
Published by Alfred Music
(AP.49215S).
ISBN
9781470648596. UPC:
038081569390.
English.
This
version of At the Feast
of Stephen by Scott
Watson is part of our
Alfred FLEX offerings and
is designed with maximum
flexibility for use by
any mix of
instruments---wind,
strings, and percussion,
including like- or
mixed-ensembles with as
few as 4 players. The
suggested instrumentation
and a customizable
Teacher Map will help you
plan out how to best
assign parts to suit your
ensemble's needs. The
4-part instrumentation
will support balanced
instrumentation of the
lower voices. It also
comes with supplemental
parts for maximum
flexibility. With the
purchase of this piece,
permission is granted to
photocopy the parts as
needed for your ensemble.
A percussion
accompaniment track is
also available as a free
download. String parts
have been carefully
edited with extra
fingerings and
appropriate bowings to
support students in mixed
ensembles playing in less
familiar keys.
This novel
setting of the
traditional carol Good
King Wenceslas will
musically transport you
and your students to the
royal Christmas banquet
hall of a medieval king!
The old carol tells the
story of a legendary
10th-century monarch,
Duke Wenceslas of
Bohemia, who went out in
the severe cold to give
charity to the poor on
December 26, also known
as St. Stephen's Day. The
well-known 13th-century
tune, as well as
additional original
material in period style,
vividly conjures a lively
celebration of Christmas
in the high Middle Ages.
Come now ye lords
and ladies to the Feast
of Stephen and upon your
instruments faire make
most merry this Yuletide!
Music Drama in 3
Acts. Composed by
Richard Wagner. Choir;
stapled. Chor-Bibliothek
(Choral Library).
Richard Wagner wrote
Tristan and
Isolde in the years
1857 to 1859. The first
edition was published by
Breitkopf & Hartel in
Leipzig in 1860. The
world premiere took place
in the Konigliches Hof-
und National-Theater in
Munich on 10 June 1865 u.
Opera; Music theatre;
Romantic. Choral score. 8
pages. Breitkopf and
Haertel #ChB 138-02.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel
(BR.CHB-138-02).
ISBN
9790004400791. 6 x 8.5
inches.
Translation
s: engl. (H. und F.
Comer), french (A.
Ernst/P. Bruck) Place:
Tristan's ship, King
Mark's castle in
Cornwall, Tristan's
castle Characters:
Tristan (tenor) - King
Mark (bass) - Isolde
(soprano) - Kurwenal
(baritone) - Melot
(tenor) - Brangane
(mezzo-soprano) -
Shephard (tenor) - Mate
(baritone) - Voice of a
young sailor (tenor)In
1856 pressing financial
obligations forced Wagner
to interrupt the
composition of the Ring
to work on Tristan und
Isolde. He initially
planned a work that was
modest in its production
and performance demands.
The project was also
given priority not least
because of the prospect
of the royalties which he
would then receive. He
once again turned to
Breitkopf & Hartel for
the performance material:
'Tristan und Isolde' is
scheduled to be given its
first performance at the
end of this year. I still
hope that it will take
place in Karlsruhe under
my guidance. Due to the
celebrity that I have now
acquired, I assume that a
new and easily
performable work of mine
should be able to spread
very quickly across the
German stages in its
first winter season.
Wagner was wrong.
although the publisher
had spent a great deal of
time and money in
producing preliminary
material, Wagner wrote to
Breitkopf & Hartel from
Munich in November 1864:
The squalor of Germany's
opera singers and the
vile condition of its
opera houses have so far
dissuaded me from
allowing a performance of
'Tristan und Isolde'.
What I needed was an
impassioned young monarch
to restore my courage.
Next spring you will hear
about the work's premiere
in Munich, and you will
then hopefully become
more confident about this
publication.
Richa
rd Wagner wrote Tristan
and Isolde in the years
1857 to 1859. The first
edition was published by
Breitkopf & Hartel in
Leipzig in 1860. The
world premiere took place
in the Konigliches Hof-
und National-Theater in
Munich on 10 June 1865
under the direction of
Hans von Bulow.
Concert Band - Grade 1 SKU: AP.39618S Composed by Scott Watson. Concert B...(+)
Concert Band - Grade 1
SKU: AP.39618S
Composed by Scott Watson.
Concert Band; MakeMusic
Cloud; Performance Music
Ensemble; Single Titles.
Alfred Debut Series.
Form: Fanfare; March;
Rondo. Score. 12 pages.
Alfred Music #00-39618S.
Published by Alfred Music
(AP.39618S).
UPC:
038081454863.
English.
Powder
your wig, polish your
shoes, and get ready to
enter the court of an
18th-century monarch with
this bright, majestic
concert work! Despite its
pomp and grandeur, the
rhythms, ranges, and
scoring of this work in
rondo form are right on
target for younger
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Composed by
Sir Arthur Seymour
Sullivan. Arranged by
Andrew Balent. SWS. Carl
Fischer Young Performance
Series. Full score. With
Standard notation. Carl
Fischer Music #YPS59F.
Published by Carl Fischer
Music (CF.YPS59F).
ISBN 9780825864520.
UPC: 798408064525. 9 X 12
inches.
A sparkling
medley from one of the
best-known of Gilbert and
Sullivan's operettas has
been deftly prepared by
the always skillful
Andrew Balent. The medley
includes five selections
from the original work:
We Sail the Ocean Blue,
I'm Called Little
Buttercup (a trumpet
solo), I Am the Monarch
of the Sea, When I Was a
Lad and He Is an
Englishman.
Composed by Various. For Piano/Keyboard. Hal Leonard Fake Books. Classical. Diff...(+)
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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
Chamber Music Piano SKU: PR.110407440 A Cycle of 30 Poems for Piano So...(+)
Chamber Music Piano
SKU: PR.110407440
A Cycle of 30 Poems
for Piano Solo.
Composed by Philip
Maneval. This edition:
Op. 23. Performance
Score. With Standard
notation. Composed 2000.
68 pages. Duration 30
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #110-40744.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.110407440).
UPC:
680160002085.
A
piano poetry project from
Maneval, Migrations was
completed in 1998 and
premiered in 2002 by
Ignat Solzhenitsyn at the
Kimmel Center in
Philadelphia. The cycle
is comprised of thirty
separate reflections of
the incredible migratory
journey of the Monarch
butterfly, a
multi-generational trek.
While conceived as a
whole, Migrations can be
performed as selected
individual pieces or sets
of pieces. For advanced
performers. Duration:
35'.
SKU: BR.BV-418 Complete Letters in 35 Volumes and Supplements. Com...(+)
SKU: BR.BV-418
Complete Letters in 35
Volumes and
Supplements. Composed
by Richard Wagner. Edited
by Andreas Mielke. Linen.
Buchverlag Breitkopf &
Hartel (Music Books).
Romantic period. Complete
Works. 736 pages.
Breitkopf and Haertel #BV
418. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.BV-418).
ISBN
9783765104183. 5.5 x 8.5
inches.
German.
Letters to
Cosima and Ludwig Cosima
von Bulow and King Ludwig
II of Bavaria are clearly
the main persons in
Richard Wagner's
correspondence of the
year 1866. Wagner sent
more than 100 letters and
telegrams to the young
Cosima, who was (still)
not able to share her
life with him and who was
for him an important link
to the royal court in
Munich during this
period. Of course, Wagner
also wrote directly to
the young monarch and
passionate art lover
Ludwig, addressing him
long letters in order to
obtain his favor.
Compositionally, Wagner
was working on the
completion of Die
Meistersinger von
Nurnberg in 1866. In
April, he settled in
Tribschen near Lucerne,
where he lived for a few
years. This marked a
temporary end to his
previous restlessness.
Bolstering the high
source value of this
comprehensively annotated
volume is the fact that
34 letters from this
eventful year are
published here for the
first time; a further 15
can be read in German in
their entirety, also for
the first time.
Opera
in three acts.
Composed by George
Frideric Handel. Edited
by Terence Best. This
edition: complete
edition, urtext edition.
Linen. Halle Handel
Edition (HHA) Serie II
Band 20. Complete
edition, Score. HWV 23.
Duration 3 hours.
Baerenreiter Verlag
#BA04081_00. Published by
Baerenreiter Verlag
(BA.BA04081).
ISBN
9790006497782. 33 x 25.8
cm inches.
In his
libretto for “
Riccardo primoâ€,
Paolo Rolli drew on
Antonio Lotti’s
opera “ Isacio
tiranno †which had
been performed in Venice
in 1710. Handel needed a
text with two great
women’s roles, for
the two best female
singers of the day were
members of his troupe
– Francesca
Cuzzoni and Faustina
Bordoni . He had already
written the operas
“Alessandroâ€
and “ Admeto
†for them. He
began composing “
Riccardo †in
spring 1727, completing
the first version on 16
May. However,
following the death of
King George I on 11 June
1727, the theatres
remained closed. For
Handel, who had become a
British citizen in
February 1727, the
accession of George II to
the throne offered new
possibilities, and he
embarked on a revision of
the opera. With this, he
was able to offer a new
opera for the coronation
festivities, the hero of
which was one of King
George’s
charismatic
forebears. From May
onwards, Handel
thoroughly revised the
present score, wrote some
parts anew and expanded
it with particularly
splendid music. Handel
and Rolli also improved
the plot and introduced
patriotic elements to
honour the British
monarchy.
The
historic background is
the third crusade against
Saladin, the Sultan of
Egypt and Syria , who had
recaptured Jerusalem in
1187. Although King
Richard I captured Cyprus
and together with French
crusaders stormed the
fortress of Akko in the
Holy Land, the crusade
ended with a ceasefire
and Jerusalem remained in
Saladin’s hands.
Richard was given the
title
‘Coeur-de-lionâ€
¹â€™ by the English
for his great military
ability and bravery,
although the Sicilians
had first given him this
name because of his
relentless cruelty in
clashes around Messina
.
The vocal
score is based on the
Halle Handel Edition
volume published in 2005,
edited by Terence Best,
and contains the second
version of the opera
which was premiered in
November 1727.
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LLY SOUND - A
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based on all available
sources - A
description of the
sources -
Information on the
genesis and history of
the work - Valuable
notes on performance
practice - Includes
an introduction with
critical commentary
explaining source
discrepancies and
editorial decisions
... AND
PRACTICAL -
Page-turns, fold-out
pages, and cues where you
need them - A
well-presented layout and
a user-friendly
format - Excellent
print quality -
Superior paper and
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Composed
by Edward Michaelson.
Sheet music. Score and
parts. Handelsware #RSC
60228. Published by
Handelsware
(M7.RSC-60228).
English.
One of
the most famous marches
from Johann Strauss (the
father), celebrating the
might of the Old Habsburg
monarchy. Things go a
little awry in this
novelty arrangement
however!
SATB choir and organ (opt.) (SATB) - Very Easy to Easy SKU: OU.9780193953932<...(+)
SATB choir and organ
(opt.) (SATB) - Very Easy
to Easy
SKU:
OU.9780193953932
Composed by William
Turner. Edited by
Geoffrey Webber. Sacred
choral - mixed voices.
Church Music Society
Publications. Sacred,
Choral Leaflet. Vocal
score. 16 pages. Duration
3'. Oxford University
Press #9780193953932.
Published by Oxford
University Press
(OU.9780193953932).
ISBN 9780193953932. 10
x 7 inches.
For
SATB and organ (optional)
William Turner was one of
the most important
composers writing at the
time of the Restoration
of the monarchy. This
sprightly anthem, first
performed at the
coronation of Queen Anne,
is well within the grasp
of competent choirs and
will be highly suitable
to celebrate the Diamond
Jubilee of the present
Queen.