Voice (alto) and piano - advanced

SKU: HL.49007991

Composed by Dieter Schnebel. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Edition Schott. Classical. Composed 1994. 28 pages. Duration 15'. Schott Music #ED 8416. Published by Schott Music (HL.49007991).

ISBN 9790001112253. 9.0x12.0x0.116 inches.

The poems selected here are taken from the anthology 'Kein Zauberspruch' [No Magic Formula] (Frankfurt, 1972). As indicated by the title, the original collection focuses on the various characteristic processes of writing poetry and the peculiarities of the individual poems. The voice again and again takes on a reciting tone, while the piano comments in a restrained and often static manner.

Chamber Music Cello, Piano, Violin

SKU: PR.414411630

Composed by Shulamit Ran. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. 28+28+20+24+20+24 pages. Duration 20 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #414-41163. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.414411630).

ISBN 9781491114551. UPC: 680160089956. 9.5 x 13 inches.

EXCURSIONS is a one-movement work exploring two “characters.” A rhapsodic, descending passage is introduced by the cello, followed by a  static, chorale-like phrase for the violin and cello. Their individual developments are separated by a slow, contrasting middle section. The composer has written: “This is analogous to situations in life: we stand by a crossroad, choosing one option and forfeiting the other. But in art, the realm of the imagination, we can perhaps afford to pursue more than one route to its ultimate destination… or can we? It is symbolic that in this work both roads eventually lead to the same place.”.
Excursi ons for violin, cello and piano, is a one-movement work of tripartite structure in which materials explored in the first of three large sections are brought back in the last section.  The traditional statement-contrast-restat ement form, which is readily suggested by such a description, is, however, not at all in the mold in which the work is cast.  Rather, my aim was to subject the essential materials of the piece (two “characters” –the rhapsodic, descending passage played by the cello in the very opening and, later, a static, slow moving, chorale-like phrase for the violin and cello) to two entirely different developments separated by a slow, contrasting middle section.  This is analogous to an exploration of the ramifications that two divergent choices made by the same person might lead to.  In life, as we stand by a crossroad, choosing one option usually means having to forfeit the other.  But in art, the realm of the imagination, we can perhaps afford to pursue more than one route to its ultimate destination…or can we?  It is, I believe, symbolic that in this work both roads eventually lead to the same place: in composing Excursions, it seemed absolutely inescapable that at the end the slow, contrasting middle sections – both more resigned and peaceful than the battling spirits of the outer parts – should return briefly to end the work. The piano trio combination (once highly favored, but to this composer still as challenging today) is approached here as a collaborative effort of three equal soloists – partners.  Of the available pairings, the two strings find themselves occasionally approached as a team pitted against the piano.  The cello-piano combination is also not uncommon here, and there is an extended violin cadenza toward the end of the piece.  The writing for the three instruments is closely and at times interlinked, but the players are all instructed to play from scores. Excursions was first performed at Brandeis University in 1982.

(Big Beats). By Christopher Norton. (Piano). Boosey and Hawkes Piano. BOOK W/CD. 10 pages. Published by Boosey & Hawkes.

Book/CD Pack. By Christopher Norton. (Trumpet). Boosey and Hawkes Chamber Music. BOOK W/CD. 16 pages. Published by Boosey & Hawkes.

Chamber Music String Quartet

SKU: PR.114405050

Composed by John Downey. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. 53 pages. Duration 25 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-40505. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114405050).

UPC: 680160008377. 11 x 14 inches.

Although structurally it subdivides into five movements, the entire quartet emerges as one vast continuum. There are no formal breaks between movements. However, certain musical signposts can be discerned, associated with each of the movements' terminations and new beginnings. The opening movement, The Nostalgia of Clanging Bell Sonorities, begins floating on recurrent Bbs whose soft rhythmic flow slowly puts into motion strong undercurrents suggestive of the latent power of water... After several suggestions of tolling bells, the movement gradually fades into hushed tones of veiled and very distant sonorities. It uses a unique efffect, for the first time in a musical context, conveyed through the use of extra heavy practice mutes. The second movement, The Spill of Water , disengages itself from the first through its distinct contrast in tempo. Water moves fast, and when it splashes, it tends to run wildly. In this case, it happens to be bubbly water that gushes forth bodly... smashing across rocky shorlines. So, too, the music attempts to conjure such moods. At the end of this movement, a cello cadenza emerges, introducing an introspective type of melodicism. The third movement, The Poignancy of Memory, contains many silences as it tries to convey memory through fragmented remembrances much like often occur in our dream state. Progressing through several slowly building images, it gradually works itself into juxtaposition of musical images. Towards the movement's end, high harmonics are sounding in all four instruments while left hand pizzicato notes in the cello pluch the last remembrances of this central core. Almost imperceptibly, the viola assumes leadership as it dissolves into: The fourth movement, The Fluidity of Motion, which has mostly the viola, but also the cello, articulating lyrical statements against the sheets of sound conjured up by the two violins playing a flood of swirling figures, evokes a kind of static motion in spae. Here, the virtually imperceptible manner in which this hushed whisper continues incessantly, can suggest the potential fluidity with which movement may inch forward... Later into the fourth movement , two fairly extended solos by the second and then the first violins, lead to a kind of spontaneous dialogue among the four instrumentalists. Eventually, this musical conversation gets caught up in: The fifth movement's The Rush of Time, which opens with a hushed flurry of speed, precipitates the Finale. It generates, at first slowly, but then very swiftly, whole shifts of rhythmic fields that initially seem to conflict with one another. Ultimately, this use of 'psycho-rhythmics contributes to an on-rush of motion and time. Rhythmic changes are, at times, abruptly precipitated with but little or no preparation creating a kind of inevitability in forward thrust, while the movement rushes forward with a feeling of gradual and continuous acceleration. It gathers density as more and more notes are piled progressively upon successive beats. The attempt is to spark tension and ignite excitement by means of frenetic confrontations of dissimilitudes. Ultimately - with the help of time - these polarities centrifically spin out their own destinies with their accompanying fall-out and own inevitable resolutions.

SKU: HL.293808

Amp Modeler/Effects Processor. Hotone Pedals. Guitar Pedal. Hal Leonard #MP-100. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.293808).

UPC: 888506050022. 10.0x16.0x2.75 inches.

The Hotone Ampero Amp Modeler / Effects Processor is a game changer! It's heart pounding amp modeling and uber quality effects are powered by the new-gen, dual-DSP CDCM HD (Comprehensive Dynamic Circuit Modeling High Definition) & F.I.R.E. (Field Impulse Response Enhancement) system. Packaged in a lightweight case with a 4″ hi-def color touch screen, Ampero delivers all the real sounds of rock... past and present. Built on Hotone's powerful XTOMP, acclaimed Binary Series, and breakthrough VStomp Amp virtual plugin, the CDCM HD & F.I.R.E. system showcases Hotone's new high-shelf circuit modeling methods. Unlike the static state circuitry of most mainstream modeling, CDCM HD & F.I.R.E. technology “rebuilds” the entire circuitry using modeled electronic components, resulting in a tone that is vivid, accurate and expressive. CDCM HD & F.I.R.E. provides Ampero with 64 amplifier models, 60 cabinet models, 100+ legendary pedal models, and mic type/position simulations. In addition, Ampero shares the same 244 effects as the ever-growing XTOMP library, as well as 50+ new Hotone original effects and so much more. Ampero can handle up to nine effect modules simultaneously, and even includes a user custom IR loader with 3rd party IR support. Ampero is incredibly easy to set up and program. A straight-forward user interface features a 4″ 800 x 480 touch screen with dynamic color display and three quick access knobs for hands-on parameter tweaking. Its four assignable footswitches with halo LEDs and built-in expression pedal only add to Ampero's overwhelming benefits to electric instrumentalists, acoustic players and keyboardists alike.

Book/CD Pack. By Christopher Norton. (Saxophone). Boosey and Hawkes Chamber Music. Book and CD Package. Size 9x12 inches. 16 pages. Published by Boosey and Hawkes.

Chamber Music String Quartet

SKU: PR.11440505S

Composed by John Downey. Full score. With Standard notation. 53 pages. Duration 25 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-40505S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.11440505S).

UPC: 680160008391. 11 x 14 inches.

Although structurally it subdivides into five movements, the entire quartet emerges as one vast continuum. There are no formal breaks between movements. However, certain musical signposts can be discerned, associated with each of the movements' terminations and new beginnings. The opening movement, The Nostalgia of Clanging Bell Sonorities, begins floating on recurrent Bbs whose soft rhythmic flow slowly puts into motion strong undercurrents suggestive of the latent power of water... After several suggestions of tolling bells, the movement gradually fades into hushed tones of veiled and very distant sonorities. It uses a unique effect, for the first time in a musical context, conveyed through the use of extra heavy practice mutes. The second movement, The Spill of Water, disengages itself from the first through its distinct contrast in tempo. Water moves fast, and when it splashes, it tends to run wildly. In this case, it happens to be bubbly water that gushes forth bodly... smashing across rocky shorelines. So, too, the music attempts to conjure such moods. At the end of this movement, a cello cadenza emerges, introducing an introspective type of melodicism. The third movement, The Poignancy of Memory, contains many silences as it tries to convey memory through fragmented remembrances much like often occur in our dream state. Progressing through several slowly building images, it gradually works itself into juxtaposition of musical images. Towards the movement's end, high harmonics are sounding in all four instruments while left hand pizzicato notes in the cello pluck the last remembrances of this central core. Almost imperceptibly, the viola assumes leadership as it dissolves into: The fourth movement, The Fluidity of Motion, which has mostly the viola, but also the cello, articulating lyrical statements against sheets of sound conjured up by the two violins playing a flood of swirling figures, evokes a kind of static motion in space. Here , the virtually imperceptible manner in which this hushed whisper continues incessantly, can suggest the potential fluidity with which movement may inch forward... Later into the fourth movement, two fairly extended solos by the second and then the first violins, lead to a kind of spontaneous dialogue amont the four instrumentalists. Eventually, this musical conversation gets caught up in: The fifth movement's The Rush of Time, which opens with a hushed flurry of speed, precipitates the Finale. It generates, at first slowly, but then very swiftly, whole shifts of rhythmic fields that initially seem to conflict with one another. Ultimately, this use of psycho-rhythmics contributes to an on-rush seem of motion and time. Rhythmic changes are, at times, abruptly precipitated with but little or no preparation creating a kind of inevitability in forward thrust, while the movement rushes forward with a feeling of gradual and continuous acceleration. It gathers density as more and more notes are piled progressively upon successive beats. The attempt is to spark tension and ignite excitement by means of frenetic confrontations of dissimilitudes. Ultimately - with the help of time - these polarities centrifically spin out their own destinies with their accompanying fall-out and own inevitable resolutions.

(Big Beats). By Christopher Norton. (Violin). Boosey and Hawkes Chamber Music. BOOK W/CD. 16 pages. Published by Boosey and Hawkes.

(Big Beats). By Christopher Norton. (Cello). Boosey and Hawkes Chamber Music. BOOK W/CD. Size 9x12 inches. 16 pages. Published by Boosey and Hawkes.

Book/CD Pack. By Christopher Norton. (Flute). Boosey and Hawkes Chamber Music. BOOK W/CD. Size 9x12 inches. 16 pages. Published by Boosey & Hawkes.

Book/CD Pack. By Christopher Norton. (Clarinet). Boosey and Hawkes Chamber Music. BOOK W/CD. 16 pages. Published by Boosey and Hawkes.

(No. 3 from Love Was My Lord and King ). By Gwyneth W. Walker (1947-). For TTBB choir, chamber Orchestra or Piano. Choral, general. Octavo. 12 pages. Published by E.C. Schirmer Publishing

Composed by Gabriel Jackson (1962-). For 2 pianos. 40 pages. Duration 17 minutes. Published by Oxford University Press

Orchestra Bass Clarinet, Bass Drum, Bassoon 1, Bassoon 2, Bassoon 3, Celesta, Cello, Chimes, Clarinet, Clarinet 1, Clarinet 2, Clarinet 3, Contrabass, Contrabassoon, Cymbal, Glockenspiel, Gong, Harp, Horn, Horn 1, Horn 2, Horn 3, Horn 4, Piano, Piccolo 1 and more.

SKU: CF.O5445

Composed by Henry Brant. SWS. Large Score. With Standard notation. Composed 1983. Duration 15 minutes. Carl Fischer Music #O5445. Published by Carl Fischer Music (CF.O5445).

ISBN 9780825840449. UPC: 798408040444. 9 X 14 inches.

Written for the late Robert Shaw and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in 1983, Desert Forests is one of the most successful of Brant's spatial works for conventional-sized symphony orchestra. The score mandates that the higher woodwinds (piccolos, flutes, oboes, clarinets) be stationed in a balcony at the back of the hall and the trumpets and trombones in boxes or balconies on opposite sides of the hall. There is also an optional improvised piano-obbligato. A recommended seating diagram for the stage instruments (also unusually arranged) is included in the score and was used to great effect in the performances conducted by Kurt Masur with the New York Philharmonic in May 1994. This extraordinary work expands the idea of bitonality and spatiality as a structural device to create a fifteen minute exercise in ecstatic polyphony, inspired, according to the composer by a visit to a forest of saguro cactus in Saguro National Monument, near Tucson, Arizona. Complete performance materials are available on rental.

4 saxophones

SKU: BR.KM-2234

Composed by Jurg Baur. Kammermusik-Bibliothek (Chamber Music Library).

World premiere: Rottenburg am Neckar, February 1, 1987

Music post-1945. Full score. Composed 1986. 36 pages. Duration 15'. Breitkopf and Haertel #KM 2234. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.KM-2234).

ISBN 9790004501382. 9 x 12 inches.

Ein kurzweiliges, kontrastreiches Opus, angeregt durch das Rascher-Quartett, dem es auch gewidmet ist; keine experimentelle, aber instrumentengerechte, neue Musik, auf die Spiel- und Ausdrucksmoglichkeiten sowie auf den spezifischen Klang eines technisch und musikalisch anspruchsvollen Saxophon-Ensembles bezogen (Sopran - Alt- Tenor - Bariton)Funf suitenformig locker aneinander gereihte Satze (Funf ,,Blatter) werden durch ein dodekaphonisches Leitmotiv verknupft, das zu Anfang eines jeden Satzes erklingt.Im Circulo ostinato bestimmt diese Figur entscheidend den Verlauf des Stuckes; zu Beginn des Finales verdichtet sie sich zum vierstimmigen Kanon. Ostinate und rhythmische Formeln pragen den Charakter des ganzen Werkes.Allegro ruzzone (Ubermut)Ein knappes lebhaftes Eingangsstuck; auf dem Hohepunkt erscheint, wie ein Atemholen, ein melodisch-ausdrucksvoller Gedanke, der sich imitatorisch im Kreise dreht, ehe eine kurze Stretta in schnellem Tempo zum Pianissimoschluss fuhrt.Circulo ostinato (Kreisende Wiederholung) (Andante con moto)Der Mittelteil des Satzes entwickelt sich aus gestauten Tonwiederholungen und den melodischen Flosklen des Urthemas in immer neuen Anlaufen zu grosser Steigerung. Am Anfang und Ende steht ein mehrstimmiger Kanon, der um eine abwarts gerichtete chromatische Tonfolge kreist.Ballo estatico (,,Entfesselter Tanz) (Allegro molto)In diesem Satz dominieren rhythmisch tanzerische und aggressive Elemente; drei verschiedene Episoden entfalten sich uber ostinaten Bassbewegungen, die letzte gerat zur ,,freien Variation uber Debussys (,,Golliwoggs cake walk aus den ,,Children's Corner).Sogno solitario (Einsamer Traum) (Andante)Der ,,langsame Satz des Quartetts wachst aus rezitativischem Beginn, uber einen ausdrucksvollen Mittelteil (mit engraumiger Melodik) bis zu einer ausgedehnten Trillerflache und dichten, abwarts sturzenden chromatischen Figuren (Quintolen), kehrt uber einen ruhigen Abschnitt (in tiefer Lage) zum Rezitativ zuruck, klingt verhalten aus.Fugato scherzando (Allegro molto)Ein virtuos humorvolles Finale, nach dem einleitenden vierstimmigen ,,Kreisel-Kanon des Leitmotivs entwickelt sich aus einem skurrilen Thema eine rhythmisch vertrackte Fuge, unterbrochen von einem trioahnlichen Intermezzo und wirkungsvoll turbulent zum befreienden Schluss gesteigert.(Jurg Baur)Bibliography:Gudelho fer, Matthias: Jurg Baur. Die spate Kammermusik, Koln: Dohr 2002.

World premiere: Rottenburg am Neckar, February 1, 1987.