Shabbat Shalom Orchestre à Cordes [Conducteur et Parties séparées] - Intermédiaire Alfred Publishing
(Klezmer Music for Strings). Arranged by Susan C. Brown. Orchestra. String Orche...(+)
(Klezmer Music for
Strings). Arranged by
Susan C. Brown.
Orchestra. String
Orchestra. Belwin Concert
String Orchestra. Folk;
Jewish Heritage. Grade
3.5. Conductor Score and
Parts. 128 pages
2nd Edition. By Various. Piano/Vocal/Chords Songbook (Arrangements for piano and...(+)
2nd Edition. By Various.
Piano/Vocal/Chords
Songbook (Arrangements
for piano and voice with
guitar chords). Size 9x12
inches. 176 pages.
Published by Hal Leonard.
Piano Facile [Partition] - Débutant Kjos Music Company
Bastien Piano Basics, Level 1, Piano. For piano. Method book. Bastien Piano Basi...(+)
Bastien Piano Basics,
Level 1, Piano. For
piano. Method book.
Bastien Piano Basics.
Learn To Play. Level 1.
Instructional book.
Introductory text,
instructional text, easy
piano notation,
fingerings, lyrics (on
most songs) and
illustrations. 55 pages.
Published by Neil A. Kjos
Music Company
Choir Secular (Women's Choir) SKU: AP.47730 From Once on This Islan...(+)
Choir Secular (Women's
Choir)
SKU:
AP.47730
From
Once on This
Island. Composed
by Stephen Flaherty.
Arranged by Kirby Shaw.
Performance Music
Ensemble; Single Titles.
Alfred Pop Choral Series.
Broadway; Secular. Choral
Octavo. 12 pages. Alfred
Music #00-47730.
Published by Alfred Music
(AP.47730).
UPC:
038081544236. English.
Lynn
Ahrens.
Infused
with the syncopated
rhythms of the West
Indies, this arrangement
from Once on This Island
is guaranteed to bring
the house down! Low
voices maintain the
groove while upper voices
dance above in perfect
harmony. Whether you
choose to add
choreography or not, you
won't be able to stand
still! Both the optional
SoundPax and SoundTrax CD
preserve the
island-influenced
instrumentation of the
Broadway score.
About Alfred
Pop Choral
Series
The
Alfred Pop Series
features outstanding
arrangements of songs
from the popular music
genre. These publications
provide exciting,
contemporary, and
educationally-sound
arrangements for singers
of all ages, from
elementary through high
school, to college and
adult choirs.
E-Z Play Today (Easy big-note right-hand-only arrangements for piano, organ, and...(+)
E-Z Play Today (Easy
big-note right-hand-only
arrangements for piano,
organ, and electronic
keyboard). Size 9x12
inches. 48 pages.
Published by Hal Leonard.
Choir Secular SKU: AP.47731 From Once on This Island. Compo...(+)
Choir Secular
SKU:
AP.47731
From
Once on This
Island. Composed
by Stephen Flaherty.
Arranged by Kirby Shaw.
This edition: SoundTrax
CD. Choral Octavo;
Performance Music
Ensemble; Single Titles.
Alfred Pop Choral Series.
Broadway; Secular. CD.
Alfred Music #00-47731.
Published by Alfred Music
(AP.47731).
UPC:
038081544243. English.
Lynn
Ahrens.
Infused
with the syncopated
rhythms of the West
Indies, this arrangement
from Once on This Island
is guaranteed to bring
the house down! Low
voices maintain the
groove while upper voices
dance above in perfect
harmony. Whether you
choose to add
choreography or not, you
won't be able to stand
still! Both the optional
SoundPax and SoundTrax CD
preserve the
island-influenced
instrumentation of the
Broadway score.
About Alfred
Pop Choral
Series
The
Alfred Pop Series
features outstanding
arrangements of songs
from the popular music
genre. These publications
provide exciting,
contemporary, and
educationally-sound
arrangements for singers
of all ages, from
elementary through high
school, to college and
adult choirs.
Chorus (with soloists) and piano (solos: SMezMez(A)ATTBarBBB - choir: SSAATTBB -...(+)
Chorus (with soloists)
and piano (solos:
SMezMez(A)ATTBarBBB -
choir: SSAATTBB -
picc.2.2.2.2. - 4.2.3.0.
- timp - hp - str)
SKU: BR.DV-6081
Lyrical Opera in 3
Acts. Composed by
Pjotr Iljitsch
Tschaikowsky. Edited by
Manfred Koerth / Wo
Ebermann. Arranged by M.
Koerth and W. Ebermann.
Choir; Softbound.
Deutscher Verlag. Opera;
Music theatre; Romantic.
Piano/Vocal Score. 300
pages. Deutscher Verlag
fur Musik #DV 6081.
Published by Deutscher
Verlag fur Musik
(BR.DV-6081).
ISBN
9790200460032. 9.5 x 12
inches.
Duration:
full evening Translation
: German (W. Ebermann/M.
Koerth), Engl. (D.
Llyod-Jones), French (M.
Delines) Place and
time: Partly on the
estate, partly in
Petersburg, in 20ies of
the 19th
Century
Characters
: Larina, Owner of the
Estate (mezzo-soprano) -
Tatiana (soprano) and
Olga (alto), her
Daughters - Filipjewna,
Wet Nurse
(mezzo-soprano/alto) -
Eugen Onegin (baritone) -
Lenskij (tenor) - Prince
Gremin (bass) - A
Commander (bass) -
Saretzkij (bass) -
Triquet, a French Man
(tenor) - Guillot, a
Valet (silent part) -
Country Folk, Ball
Guests, Squire, Officers
(chorus) - Waltz,
mazurka, polonaise and
Russian dance (Ballet
)
There is an
interesting parallel
between the subject of
the opera and
Tchaikovsky's life during
the year he wrote the
work (1877): in each
case, a letter provokes
fateful developments in
the lives of the
protagonists. In the
opera, Tatyana's love
letter to Eugene sets off
the tragedy, whereas in
real life, the love
letter of a pupil led the
composer into a marriage,
which lasted all of ...
three months. Tchaikovsky
took this doomed decision
without love, solely
because the circumstances
want it and because I
cannot act differently.
Certain allusions made,
for example, in a letter
of January 1878 to
Taneyev suggest that the
composer's personal
situation also flowed
into the work: I did not
want anything to do with
the so-called 'grand
opera.' I am looking for
an intimate but powerful
drama which is built on
the conflict of
circumstances which I
myself have seen and
experienced, a conflict
which truly moves me.
Partly for this reason
the composer decided to
call the work not an
opera but lyrical
scenes.Eugene Onegin,
conceived by Tchaikovsky
for limited resources and
a small stage, is the
most frequently performed
Russian opera today along
with Mussorgsky's Boris
Godunov, which represents
a completely contrary
aesthetic stance.
Tschaikowskys
letzte Oper - auf ein
Libretto seines Bruders
Modest nach der
Dramenvorlage des
danischen Schriftstellers
Henrik Hertz - lebt von
den poetischen Momenten
und den symbolbeladenen
Charakterportrats der
Hauptfiguren: Die junge
blinde Jolanthe wird von
ihrem Vater aus Sorge um
ihren Makel und zum
Schutz ihrer
Jungfraulichkeit und vor
den Widrigkeiten der Welt
in einen paradiesischen
Garten gesperrt. Er
befielt zu ihrem Schutz
sie um ihre Blindheit
unwissend zu lassen. Ein
Arzt warnt sehen werde
sie nur konnen wenn sie
es selbst wolle gleich
welche Angste aus der
vollstandigen Erkenntnis
der Welt erwachsen. Als
der junge Vaudemont in
ihre Abgeschiedenheit
einbricht und sich beide
ineinander verlieben
befreit er sie von ihrer
Unwissenheit erklart was
Farbe und Licht bedeuten.
Erst die Liebe zu ihm
macht sie sehend.
Die dunkle Welt
der Jolanthe zeichnet
Tschaikowsky zu Beginn
musikalisch durch eine
Introduktion
ausschliesslich fur
Blaser. Erst mit dem
Eintritt in die
unbekannte Welt der Liebe
und des Sehens verwendet
Tschaikowsky einen warmen
Streicherklang. Gerade
dadurch stiess die Oper
wohl bei Zeitgenossen auf
Verstorung. Tschaikowskys
,,Jolanthe nimmt in
seinem Opernschaffen eine
Sonderstellung ein: neben
dem glucklichen Ende
einer Apotheose des
Lichts und der Liebe mit
einem religios gepragten
Schlusschoral ist es
eines der wenigen
Buhnenwerke Tschaikowskys
ohne Bezug zur russischen
Geschichte. Der
ausgepragte Lyrismus des
Werks verweist
stattdessen auf
Tschaikowskys Nahe zur
franzosischen Kultur die
im 19. Jahrhundert einen
starken Einfluss auf
Russland hatte. Die Oper
wurde 1892 am
Mariinsky-Theater in
Sankt Petersburg als
Auftragswerk zusammen mit
seinem Ballett ,,Der
Nussknacker
uraufgefuhrt.
Nebe
n der Produktion des
Munchner
Rundfunkorchesters wurde
,,Jolanthe szenisch
erfolgreich bei den
Festspielen Baden-Baden
mit Anna Netrebko und
Piotr Beczala als
Liebespaar rehabilitiert.
Ausserhalb Deutschlands
lief die Opernraritat in
Toulouse Tokyo San
Sebastian und Monte
Carlo. Zuletzt erneut die
,,Suddeutsche Zeitung:
,,Jolanthe ist eine
Opernausgrabung die
,,wirklich zu Unrecht
vergessen ist.
Tchaikovsky's last opera
- on a libretto by the
composer's brother Modest
based on the drama by the
Danish author Henrik
Hertz - derives its
life-blood from its
poetic moments and the
symbol-laden portraits of
the leading characters:
the blind young Yolanta
is kept prisoner in a
paradisiacal garden by
her father who fears for
her purity and her
virginity and seeks to
protect her from the
adversities of the world.
To do so he orders
everyone to keep her
ignorant of the fact that
she is blind. A doctor
warns that she will only
be able to see when she
is ready to do so herself
no matter what fears
might result from a
complete experience of
the world. When the young
Vaudemont breaks into her
secluded world and the
two fall in love he frees
her from her ignorance
and explains the
significance of color and
light. It is through her
love for him that she is
finally able to see. At
the beginning of the work
Tchaikovsky depicts
Yolanta's dark world with
an introduction scored
exclusively for winds. It
is not until her
discovery of the unknown
world of love and sight
that Tchaikovsky uses a
warm string sound. This
is what many of the
composer's contemporaries
found disturbing about
the
opera.
Tchaikovsky
's Yolanta occupies a
special place in the
composer's operatic
oeuvre: for one it has a
happy ending an
apotheosis of light and
love with a religiously
stamped closing chorale;
for another it is one of
Tchaikovsky's few stage
works without any
reference to Russian
history. Instead the
work's pronounced
lyricism points to the
composer's closeness to
French culture. which
exerted a strong
influence on Russia in
the 19th
century.
The opera
was given its world
premiere at the Mariinsky
Theater in St. Petersburg
in 1892. It had been
commissioned along with
the ballet The
Nutcracker. Next to the
production by the
Munchner
Rundfunkorchester Yolanta
was also successfully
rehabilitated in a recent
staged production at the
Baden-Baden Festival with
Anna Netrebko and Piotr
Beczala as the lovers.
Outside of Germany the
operatic rarity was
performed in Toulouse
Tokyo San Sebastian and
Monte Carlo.
In
closing another quote
from the Suddeutsche
Zeitung: 'Yolanta' is an
operatic rediscovery of a
work that was truly
'wrongly forgotten'.
Choir Secular (SATB choir) SKU: AP.47728 From Once on This Island(+)
Choir Secular (SATB
choir)
SKU:
AP.47728
From
Once on This
Island. Composed
by Stephen Flaherty.
Arranged by Kirby Shaw.
Performance Music
Ensemble; Single Titles.
Alfred Pop Choral Series.
Broadway; Secular. Choral
Octavo. 12 pages. Alfred
Music #00-47728.
Published by Alfred Music
(AP.47728).
UPC:
038081544212. English.
Lynn
Ahrens.
Infused
with the syncopated
rhythms of the West
Indies, this arrangement
from Once on This Island
is guaranteed to bring
the house down! Low
voices maintain the
groove while upper voices
dance above in perfect
harmony. Whether you
choose to add
choreography or not, you
won't be able to stand
still! Both the optional
SoundPax and SoundTrax CD
preserve the
island-influenced
instrumentation of the
Broadway score.
About Alfred
Pop Choral
Series
The
Alfred Pop Series
features outstanding
arrangements of songs
from the popular music
genre. These publications
provide exciting,
contemporary, and
educationally-sound
arrangements for singers
of all ages, from
elementary through high
school, to college and
adult choirs.
Allegretto Flûte traversière et Piano PWM (Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne)
Flute; Piano Accompaniment (Score and Solo Part) SKU: HL.253939 Flute ...(+)
Flute; Piano
Accompaniment (Score and
Solo Part)
SKU:
HL.253939
Flute
and Piano. Composed
by Jó and zef
Swider. PWM. Classical.
Softcover. 22 pages.
Polskie Wydawnictwo
Muzyczne #12021010.
Published by Polskie
Wydawnictwo Muzyczne
(HL.253939).
9.0x12.0
inches.
Allegretto
for flute and piano by
Jozef Swider is a work of
a great artistic value
that comprises a perfect
didactic material,
filling a gap in the
Polish flute literature.
Allegretto for flute and
piano is a one-part
composition of an ABA1
structure with a cadenza.
A four-bar piano
introduction developsinto
the flute part intoning a
dance and folk-style
melody, which becomes
fragmented in terms of
rhythm and densified in
its facture. The dialogue
between the flute and the
piano involves mutual
motif complementation.
The melody gathers
momentum (numerous
ascending and descending
progressions,
undulations, typical
ties, trills), a dynamic
gradation develops into
the middle, more peaceful
and cantilena-style,
part. The culmination,
initially outlined by the
flute and continued by
the piano, leads to the
cadenza characterised by
considerable performative
freedom across motifs in
parts A and B, exhibiting
the colour and sound
values ofthe instrument.
The link A1 comprises a
quasi-variation
development of the first
passage of the work; it
is the most
dynamic,energetic and
diversified in terms of
the applied sound
registers (characteristic
alloctava marking),
articulation and agogics.
Themarking piu vivo in
bar 136, combined with
irregular metric
divisions and shifts in
accents, intensified
dynamics and expression
adds spontaneity,
ultimately leading to the
work's finale. The
application of the minor
mode, the economy of
expressive means and a
changeable course of
narration reflect
introvert characteristics
of the composer a man of
outstanding humbleness
and modesty, at the same
time full of unrest,
self-criticism and little
faith towards himself,
which is confirmed by
recently found notes of
his.
Composed
by Michael J. Miller.
Concert Band (CPS). Full
score. With Standard
notation. 36 pages. Carl
Fischer Music #CPS216F.
Published by Carl Fischer
Music (CF.CPS216F).
ISBN 9781491153109.
UPC:
680160910601.
Cosmi
c Expedition takes
performers on a musical
journey far across the
galaxy via three main
sections. This
fanfare composition would
be perfect for opening a
concert. It has bold
brass fanfare figures
over textural woodwinds
to start and
then takes the
listener on a sonic
journey through a
variation of harmonic
colors, tambural and
textural
shifts. Cosmic
Expedition takes
performers on a musical
journey far across the
galaxy via three main
sections. The first, a
rather celebratory and
triumphant fanfare in Bb
major begins with the
upper woodwinds and
percussion creating a
sound-screen, that is a
busy texture consisting
of a flurry of repeated
notes over which the
horns and alto saxophones
present the opening
theme. The sound-screen
should be carefully
balanced and give way to
the melody at m. 5, which
should be played
extremely marcato. The
timpani solo beginning in
m. 11 must not be
understated. A brief
percussion interlude
separates a restatement
of the opening theme,
this time with the
addition of the trumpet,
tenor saxophone, and
euphonium, and a counter
melody by the low winds.
The percussion interlude
is playful, light, but
full of vigor and energy.
An Ab in the low winds
pulls the harmony towards
G minor in m. 40 to start
the second section, a
more serious fanfare.
Here, the marimba repeats
an ostinato that is
complemented by the bass
drum and woodblock. The
upper woodwinds with the
xylophone and snare drum
dance over the stern
secondary fanfare. A
longing call lead by the
trombones, interrupted by
a subtle snare drum
beckons to the clarinets
and horn who begin the
third section of the
piece at m. 68. This
haunting melody in C
minor is legato, and
starkly contrasts all
which came before it. A
relentless concert
tom-tom played with hard
mallets keeps the
momentum persistent, and
a heartbeat-like pulse is
felt from the tuba and
baritone saxophone. The
melody rises towards m.
84 when the brass harken
back to the fanfare style
before fading back into
another lush woodwind
strain.A recapitulation
of the low winds’
call is heard at m. 100
which in this occasion
intensifies into an
emphatic statement by the
battery percussion
instruments. Now in Eb
major, the opening
fanfare theme is heard
again once more before
fading into the beginning
of the piece’s
conclusion.To end, the
counter melody from the
opening section duels
with chromatic tension
above before swelling to
an arrival in the
original key of Bb major.
The full ensemble
celebrates the
piece’s
resolution, and after a
few crunchy power chords
the journey is
completed.
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 .
Composed by
Brian Balmages. Arranged
by Brian Balmages.
Series; String Orchestra.
FJH Developing Strings.
Score and Part(s).
Duration 3:00. The FJH
Music Company Inc
#98-ST6457. Published by
The FJH Music Company Inc
(FJ.ST6457).
UPC:
241444389256.
English.
Opening
with a thriving energetic
rhythm, this exciting
piece features a
dance-like, memorable
melody that will stay
with the listener long
after this celebration is
over! Moving through
simple meter changes that
create additional
momentum, the various
sections include moments
of slight restrain
contrasted with carefree
child-like fun. Get ready
to experience the
soundtrack of one giant
celebration!
About FJH
Developing
Strings
Sl
ightly more advanced than
Beginning Strings, this
series begins to involve
more position work and a
slightly more complex
rhythmic figures.
Rehearsal piano is often
provided. Ideal for
middle school and smaller
high school programs.
Grade 2 - 2.5
Piano - Grade 4 SKU: FA.MFCD007PN By Nicolas Horvath. By Claude Debussy a...(+)
Piano - Grade 4
SKU:
FA.MFCD007PN
By
Nicolas Horvath. By
Claude Debussy and Robert
Orledge. Rediscoverd
Debussy. Classical,
Impressionistic. Score.
Musik Fabrik #MFCD007PN.
Published by Musik Fabrik
(FA.MFCD007PN).
8.27 x
11.69
inches.
Debussy's
friendship with the
versatile poet and
playwright Gabriel Mourey
began in 1899, and in
July 1907 Mourey offered
Debussy a libretto based
on Le roman de Tristan -
Joseph Bedier's
adaptation of a
twelfth-century Breton
romance by the
Anglo-Norman poet known
as Thomas - which had
recently been published
in Paris. Debussy
enthusiastically outlined
the four-act plot to
Victor Segalen that
October, and the main
differences from Wagner's
Tristan und Isolde are
that none of the action
takes place in Cornwall
and that Isolde of the
White Hands is found
guilty of cuckolding King
Marc with Tristan, who
has to rescue her from
the leper colony in which
she is abandoned in Act
1. She also betrays him
when he goes mad at the
end.
The idea of a
Tristan that restored its
'legendary character' and
had no connections with
Wagner, appealed to
Debussy, who was
extremely moved by the
circumstances of
Tristan's death. Even if
he thought that Mourey's
poetry was 'not very
lyrical and many passages
do not exactly invite
music', he did work on
the libretto and the
music that summer and
sent his publisher,
Jacques Durand, 'one of
the 363 themes for the
Roman de Tristan' in a
letter sent from
Pourville on 23 August,
1907. The present prelude
grows from this theme,
together with the
poignant Breton folksong
Le Faucon. After a short
atmospheric introduction,
Debussy's dance-like
theme (which is
definitely not a
leitmotif) gradually
gains momentum and after
it reaches its ecstatic
climax, representing the
transient happiness of
the lovers, it dissolves
into an expressive coda
and an elegiac close (all
growing from Debussy's
opening, off-stage
trumpet calls), leaving
us with the ultimate
tragedy of their
ill-fated
affair.
Unfortunat
ely, Mourey's actual
libretto has been lost
and the project
eventually foundered
because Bedier's cousin,
Louis Artus, wanted
Debussy to use the
scenario he had prepared
and copyrighted for the
stage, and would not
allow him to proceed with
Mourey's version.
Debussy, it need hardly
be said, would never have
dreamed of collaborating
with the author of the
vaudeville hit La culotte
(The pants)!
Choir Secular SKU: AP.47732 From Once on This Island. Compo...(+)
Choir Secular
SKU:
AP.47732
From
Once on This
Island. Composed
by Stephen Flaherty.
Arranged by Kirby Shaw.
This edition: SoundPax.
Choral Octavo;
Performance Music
Ensemble; Single Titles.
Alfred Pop Choral Series.
Broadway; Secular.
Part(s). 24 pages. Alfred
Music #00-47732.
Published by Alfred Music
(AP.47732).
UPC:
038081544250. English.
Lynn
Ahrens.
Infused
with the syncopated
rhythms of the West
Indies, this arrangement
from Once on This Island
is guaranteed to bring
the house down! Low
voices maintain the
groove while upper voices
dance above in perfect
harmony. Whether you
choose to add
choreography or not, you
won't be able to stand
still! Both the optional
SoundPax and SoundTrax CD
preserve the
island-influenced
instrumentation of the
Broadway score.
About Alfred
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Series
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Alfred Pop Series
features outstanding
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provide exciting,
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Piano SKU: FG.55011-456-2 Composed by Esa Pietila. Fennica Gehrman #55011...(+)
Piano
SKU:
FG.55011-456-2
Composed by Esa Pietila.
Fennica Gehrman
#55011-456-2. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-456-2).
ISBN
9790550114562.
Thre
e Strides of Light is
inspired by the light and
its behaviour in
different circumstances,
appearances and
surroundings. The work is
in three movements, but
they are played together
attacca.
The
first movement starts off
with a headstrong theme
on the left hand. This
motif has persistent
momentum, like a train,
and one could think of it
as the rays of a setting
sun. The beams are
straight and relentlessly
penetrate our eyes. The
seven-bar repetition on
the left hand supports
this mental image, until
the repetition ends and a
new thematically central
motive starts to emerge,
bringing new kind of
texture for the last rays
and dance of the setting
sun. At the end, the
light vanishes into the
night.
Second
movemement, slow rubato,
depicts the first rays of
the rising sun, they drop
behind a morning cloud
into the day, growing,
developing and becoming
yet faster. Eventually
the day opens up in all
of it sunny glory. The
music leads us towards
the third movement, in
which one bathes in the
rays of the sun. The
repetative motive of the
first movement returns,
but by now it has been
transformed into
something else. A pensive
quintuplet-passage
emerges, paving ground
for the final themes of
the work. The ending of
the work is thick in
sound, depicting the
relentless glare of the
sun and the heat sun
creates. Within the
entire work, one can
imagine to have gone
through a whole 24-hour
period on the sea, in
which the three strides
of light are apparent in
different parts of the
day.