By Wolfgang Amade Mozart. Edited by Christopher Hogwood. For Three flutes. Full ...(+)
By Wolfgang Amade Mozart.
Edited by Christopher
Hogwood. For Three
flutes. Full score and
parts. Published by
Edition HH Music
Publishers (U.K. Import).
(4 Classics Arranged for Orchestra Bells, Vibraphone, and Marimba). Composed by ...(+)
(4 Classics Arranged for
Orchestra Bells,
Vibraphone, and Marimba).
Composed by Ludwig van
Beethoven (1770-1827).
Arranged by Brian
Slawson. For Mallet
Percussion. Book;
Percussion - Mallet
Instrument Trio; Trio.
Alfred�s
Percussion Performance
Series. Classical;
Masterwork Arrangement;
Romantic. 12 pages.
Published by Alfred Music
(4 Classics Arranged for Orchestra Bells, Vibraphone and Marimba). By Peter Ilyi...(+)
(4 Classics Arranged for
Orchestra Bells,
Vibraphone and Marimba).
By Peter Ilyich
Tchaikovsky (1840-1893).
Arranged by Brian
Slawson. For Mallet
Percussion. Book;
Percussion - Mallet
Instrument Trio; Trio.
Alfred's Keyboard
Percussion Series.
Masterwork
Mixed Trios. By Various. Arranged by Daniel Kelley. For Clarinet in Bb. Trios. M...(+)
Mixed Trios. By Various.
Arranged by Daniel
Kelley. For Clarinet in
Bb. Trios. Music for
Three. Late 19th/Early
20th Century Favorites.
Level:
Intermediate/Advanced.
Part 1. Published by Last
Resort Music Publishing.
AMA Flute 2000 Flûte traversière [Partition + CD] - Facile AMA Verlag
By Robert Winn. For Flute. Method. AMA Verlag. All Styles. Level: Beginning. Boo...(+)
By Robert Winn. For
Flute. Method. AMA
Verlag. All Styles.
Level: Beginning. Book/CD
Set. Size 9x12. 88 pages.
Published by AMA Verlag.
ISBN 3932587316.
Mixed Trios. By Various. Arranged by Daniel Kelley. For Cello or Bassoon. Trios....(+)
Mixed Trios. By Various.
Arranged by Daniel
Kelley. For Cello or
Bassoon. Trios. Music for
Three. Late 19th/Early
20th Century Favorites.
Level:
Intermediate/Advanced.
Part 3. Published by Last
Resort Music Publishing.
Chamber Music Clarinet, Flute, Piano SKU: PR.114417610 Based on themes...(+)
Chamber Music Clarinet,
Flute, Piano
SKU:
PR.114417610
Based
on themes from Puccini's
Madama Butterfly.
Composed by Michael
Webster. Sws each. See
the notes on Madama
Butterfly on page two and
the notes on Sonata
Cho-Cho-San on page three
of the full score.
Contemporary. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed 1997. 44+8+12
pages. Duration 24
minutes, 28 seconds.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-41761. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.114417610).
ISBN
9781491107904. UPC:
680160636051. 9x12
inches.
SONATA
CHO-CHO-SAN(Based on
themes from
Puccini’s Madama
Butterfly)In the spirit
of the great 19th-century
opera fantasies for
woodwinds, Michael
Webster has created a
concert trio on the many
great arias from
Puccini's Madama
Butterfly. However, as
its name implies, Sonata
Cho-Cho-San is not the
typical virtuosic
operatic potpourri.
Rather, it follows the
plot, resembling a sonata
mirroring Puccini's use
of recurring and
developing themes.
Webster makes the most of
the winds as versatile
performers - equally
suited to deliver
Puccini's beautiful vocal
writing, and to ornament
and embroider the
poignant themes in
symphonic style. For
advanced
performers.______________
_________________________
Text from the scanned
back cover:Born in 1944,
Michael Webster made his
New York recital debutat
Town Hall in 1968 with
his eminent father,
Beveridge Webster, as
pianist. In the same
year, he won the Young
Concert Artists
International Competition
and succeeded his
teacher, Stanley Hasty,
as Principal Clarinet in
the Rochester
Philharmonic, a position
he held for twenty years.
Webster has performed
with the Chamber Music
Society of Lincoln
Center, the 92nd Street
Y, with the Tokyo,
Cleveland, Muir, Ying,
Enso, and Dover String
Quartets, and with the
festivals of Marlboro,
Santa Fe, Norfolk,
Chamber Music Northwest,
Angel Fire, Steamboat
Springs, Park City,
Sitka, Kapalua, Bowdoin,
Orcas Island,
Skaneateles, La Musica di
Asolo, Stratford,
Victoria, and Domaine
Forget.As soloist he has
appeared with many
orchestras, including the
Philadelphia Orchestra
under Aaron Copland and
the Boston Pops under
John Williams. His
travels have taken him as
performer and teacher to
most of the 50 states, as
well as Canada,
Mexico,Puerto Rico,
Central and South
America, Europe, Japan,
China, Australia, and New
Zealand. Webster was
Acting Principal Clarinet
of the San Francisco
Symphony, and has served
on the clarinet and/or
conducting faculties of
New England Conservatory,
Boston University,
University of Michigan,
and the Eastman School,
from which he earned his
three degrees. Currently
he is Professor of Music
at Rice
University’s
Shepherd School of Music
and Artistic Director of
the Houston Youth
Symphony, which has won
multiple first prizes in
national performance
competitions.With his
wife, flutist Leone
Buyse, and pianist Robert
Moeling, he plays in the
Webster Trio, which has
recorded his arrangements
on Tour de France and
World Wide Webster for
Crystal Records.
Otherarrangements were
recorded for Nami and
Camerata Tokyo in Japan
with pianist Chizuko
Sawa. Webster has also
recorded for Albany,
Arabesque, Beaumont,
Bridge, Centaur, CRI, and
New World. He has played
at many ClarinetFests for
the International
Clarinet Association and
written a column entitled
“TeachingClarinetâ
€ in The Clarinet
Magazine since 1998.
Michael Webster is a
Buffet artist-clinician,
performing on Buffet
clarinets
exclusively.
String Quartet SKU: HL.14036341 Composed by Hugh Wood. Music Sales Americ...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14036341
Composed
by Hugh Wood. Music Sales
America. Classical. Set.
Composed 2001. Chester
Music #CH60931. Published
by Chester Music
(HL.14036341).
ISBN
9780711955080.
Comm
issioned by the BBC and
premiered by the
Chilingirian String
Quartet. Quoting Wood: In
my Second and Third
Quartets I attempted
sectional, agglutinative
forms: in my Fourth I
return to the
conventional four
movement form of my First
Quartet of 1962. Both
works build up (as in the
19th century symphony) to
the Finale, thus making
it the most substantial
movement, which provides
a climax to the work. The
First Movement has, in
both works, only the
status of an
Introduction. But there
the consciously willed
resemblances end. This
Introduction follows the
Second Quartet to a
certain extent, in that
it provides a sort of
'cauldron', from which
elements to be used later
can all be plucked. Its
opening will reappear at
various points throughout
the work, most completely
at a climatic point of
the Finale (bar 110).
Subsequent material will
be more fully worked out
in the second movement, a
large Scherzo. The
Introduction concludes
with an unusually placed
violin cadenza (itself a
rare feature in a string
quartet, the idea lifted
from Elliott Carter's
First Quartet) of which
the opening is to
reappear halfway through
the Finale. The Scherzo
(which follows attacca)
does not have at its
centre a discretely
characterized Trio: a
figure in double-stops
like a distant fanfare
supplies the necessary
contrast of a second
idea. The Slow Movement
has a secondary idea
first heard on the cello
and marked appassionato:
an agitato middle section
recalls the opening of
the work, but in a
formulation which will be
found closely to
anticipate its
reappearance in the
Finale. The Finale is
planned on a broad scale.
Only after a fully worked
exposition of both
primary and secondary
material does the opening
of the whole work return,
now in a greatly extended
form. Then, at bar 140,
the tune of the violin
cadenza is first
harmonized in fanfare
style on the upper
instruments, then
presented as a chorale on
the lower ones, with a
rushing semiquaver
accompaniment above. This
climatic activity mounts
to the very end. The work
is dedicated to the
Chilingirian Quartet, old
friends over many years.
Score available
separately: SOS04044.
(32 Transcriptions for Guitar). Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-17...(+)
(32 Transcriptions for
Guitar). Composed by
Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart
(1756-1791).
Arranged by Martin Hegel.
For
Guitar (Guitar). Guitar.
Softcover. Schott Music
#ED21856. Published by
Schott
Music
Composed by Muzio
Clementi. Arranged by
Douglas Townsend. Carl
Fischer Young String
Orchestra Series.
Classical. Full score.
With Standard notation.
12 pages. Carl Fischer
Music #YAS13F. Published
by Carl Fischer Music
(CF.YAS13F).
ISBN
9780825848339. UPC:
798408048334. 8.5 X 11
inches. Key: G
major.
IApart from
some of his Sonatinas,
Opus 36, Clementi's life
and music are hardly
known to the piano
teachers and students of
today. For example, in
addition to the above
mentioned Sonatinas,
Clementi wrote sixty
sonatas for the piano,
many of them unjustly
neglected, although his
friend Beethoven regarded
some of them very highly.
Clementi also wrote
symphonies (some of which
he arranged as piano
sonatas), a substantial
number of waltzes and
other dances for the
piano as well as sonatas
and sonatinas for piano
four-hands.In addition to
composing, Clementi was a
much sought after piano
teacher, and included
among his students John
Field (Father of the
'Nocturne'), and
Meyerbeer.In his later
years, Clementi became a
very successful music
publisher, publishing
among other works the
first English edition of
Beethoven's Violin
Concerto, in the great
composer's own
arrangement for the
piano, as well as some of
his string quartets.
Clementi was also one of
the first English piano
manufacturers to make
pianos with a metal frame
and string them with
wire.The Sonatina in C,
Opus 36, No. 1 was one of
six such works Clementi
wrote in 1797. He must
have been partial to
these little pieces (for
which he also provided
the fingerings), since
they were reissued
(without the fingering)
by the composer shortly
after 1801. About 1820,
he issued ''the sixth
edition, with
considerable improvements
by the author;· with
fingerings added and
several minor changes,
among which were that
many of them were written
an octave higher.IIIt has
often been said,
generally by those
unhampered by the facts,
that composers of the
past (and, dare we add,
the present?), usually
handled their financial
affairs with their public
and publishers with a
poor sense of business
acumen or common sense.
As a result they
frequently found
themselves in financial
straits.Contrary to
popular opinion, this was
the exception rather than
the rule. With the
exception of Mozart and
perhaps a few other
composers, the majority
of composers then, as
now, were quite
successful in their
dealings with the public
and their publishers, as
the following examples
will show.It was not
unusual for 18th- and
19th-century composers to
arrange some of their
more popular compositions
for different
combinations of
instruments in order to
increase their
availability to a larger
music-playing public.
Telemann, in the
introduction to his
seventy-two cantatas for
solo voice and one melody
instrument (flute, oboe
or violin, with the usual
continua) Der Harmonische
Gottesdienst, tor
example, suggests that if
a singer is not available
to perform a cantata the
voice part could be
played by another
instrument. And in the
introduction to his Six
Concertos and Six Suites
for flute, violin and
continua, he named four
different instrumental
combinations that could
perform these pieces, and
actually wrote out the
notes for the different
possibilities. Bach
arranged his violin
concertos for keyboard,
and Beethoven not only
arranged his Piano Sonata
in E Major, Opus 14, No.
1 for string quartet, he
also transposed it to the
key of F. Brahm's
well-known Quintet in F
Minor for piano and
strings was his own
arrangement of his
earlier sonata for two
pianos, also in F
Minor.IIIWe come now to
Clementi. It is well
known that some of his
sixty piano sonatas were
his own arrangements of
some of his lost
symphonies, and that some
of his rondos for piano
four-hands were
originally the last
movements of his solo
sonatas or piano trios.In
order to make the first
movement of his
delightful Sonatina in C,
Opus 36, No. 1 accessible
to young string players,
I have followed the
example established by
the composer himself by
arranging and transposing
one of his piano
compositions from one
medium (the piano) to
another. (string
instruments). In order to
simplify the work for
young string players, in
the process of adapting
it to the new medium it
was necessary to
transpose it from the
original key of C to G,
thereby doing away with
some of the difficulties
they would have
encountered in the
original key. The first
violin and cello parts
are similar to the right-
and left-hand parts of
the original piano
version. The few changes
I have made in these
parts have been for the
convenience of the string
players, but in no way do
they change the nature of
the music.Since the
original implied a
harmonic framework in
many places, I have added
a second violin and viola
part in such a way that
they not only have
interesting music to
play, but also fill in
some of the implied
harmony without in any
way detracting from the
composition's musical
value. Occasionally, it
has been necessary to
raise or lower a few
passages an octave or to
modify others slightly to
make them more accessible
for young players.It is
hoped that the musical
value of the composition
has not been too
compromised, and that
students and teachers
will come to enjoy this
little piece in its new
setting as much as
pianists have in the
original one. This
arrangement may also be
performed by a solo
string quartet. When
performed by a string
orchestra, the double
bass part may be
omitted.- Douglas
TownsendString editing by
Amy Rosen.
About Carl
Fischer Young String
Orchestra
Series
Thi
s series of Grade 2/Grade
2.5 pieces is designed
for second and third year
ensembles. The pieces in
this series are
characterized
by: --Occasionally
extending to third
position --Keys
carefully considered for
appropriate
difficulty --Addition
of separate 2nd violin
and viola
parts --Viola T.C.
part
included --Increase
in independence of parts
over beginning levels