Full
Score. Composed by
Per Norgard. Music Sales
America. 20Th Century,
Classical. Softcover. 188
pages. Edition Wilhelm
Hansen #KP00865.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14032192).
ISBN
9788759858394.
12.0x16.5x0.78 inches.
International (more than
one
language).
Symphony
No. 6 for orchestra,
1997-99. Preface /
Program Note:... with the
Lord a day is like a
thousand years, and a
thousand years is like a
day(New Testament, 2
Peter 3:8)My SYMPHONY NO.
6 was commissioned by the
Danish National Radio
Symphony Orchestra, the
Gteborg Symphony
Orchestra and the Oslo
Philharmonic Orchestra,
to be premiered at the
millenium 2000.The
subtitle AT THE END OF
THE DAY can be understood
literally or it can mean
when all is added up.
However, in my opinion,
nothing ever quite adds
up, there is always
something missing, any
ending will be
provisional ...This
symphony appears to end
only a few minutes into
the first movement, the
first passage, as the
music fades away to
almost-silence, after a
start of flying colours.
But then there is still
something, a small motive
(first heard in the
initial sound-waves)
which reappears,
hesitant, but persistent,
and this embryo is what
leads on the musical
progression. An agitated
section of many
instrumental voices comes
next, until all the
voices become obsessed
with the same phrase, a
see-saw motive based on
thirds. This section
evolves into almost
martial ferocity, when
broken off by a tutti
descent into an extreme
bass-world (a bass-world
which actually permeates
the whole symphony,
emplyoing instruments
that I have never used
before: double-bass tuba,
double-bass trombone,
double-bass clarinet, and
bass flute).The second
movement, the second
passage, apparently takes
off where the first
passage ended, but now
the events are more
ambiguous, and the same
music may be perceived as
fast-moving one moment
and slow-moving the next.
This section is a kind of
passacaglia, the
characteristic baroque
bass-variation.Without a
break follows the third
and last passage, in a
contrasting high
register. The music is
rhythmically knotty as
well as freely flowing.
As in the beginning of
the symphony, a
never-ending descent or
fall breaks off the
events, and at the very
end a delta of new
beginnings, of other
worlds, is revealed
....The symphony is
dedicated to Helle, my
wife. - Per Norgard.
By Keith Getty and Stuart Townend. Arranged by Lloyd Larson. For SATB choir. Cho...(+)
By Keith Getty and Stuart
Townend. Arranged by
Lloyd Larson. For SATB
choir. Choral music.
General, Lent, Communion,
Cross of Christ, Good
Friday, Holy Week,
Humility, Lord's Supper,
Maundy Thursday,
Sacrifice, Contemporary.
Choral octavo. 12 pages.
Published by Hope
Publishing Company
Piano (SATB) - early intermediate SKU: CR.984129 Composed by David von Ka...(+)
Piano (SATB) - early
intermediate
SKU:
CR.984129
Composed by
David von Kampen. Choral.
Octavo. With music.
Concordia Publishing
House #984129. Published
by Concordia Publishing
House (CR.984129).
UPC: 078777075972. 7 x
10.25 inches.
A
setting by David von
Kampen of Psalm 149:1-4
(KJV) for SATB choir and
piano. This energetic
setting with driving
piano part is useful at
the end of the Church
Year and for All Saints'
Day, when Psalm 149 is
appointed.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.164002720 Cassatt. Composed b...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.164002720
Cassatt. Composed
by Dan Welcher. Spiral
and Saddle. Premiere:
Cassatt Quartet,
Northeastern Illinois
University, Chicago, IL.
Contemporary. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed 2007. WRT11142.
52+16+16+16+16 pages.
Duration 24 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#164-00272. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.164002720).
UPC:
680160573042. 8.5 x 11
inches.
My third
quartet is laid out in a
three-movement structure,
with each movement based
on an early, middle, and
late work of the great
American impressionist
painter Mary Cassatt.
Although the movements
are separate, with
full-stop endings, the
music is connected by a
common scale-form,
derived from the name
MARY CASSATT, and by a
recurring theme that
introduces all three
movements. I see this
theme as Mary's Theme, a
personality that stays
intact while undergoing
gradual change. I
The Bacchante (1876)
[Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania] The
painting shows a young
girl of Italian or
Spanish origin, playing a
small pair of cymbals.
Since Cassatt was trying
very hard to fit in at
the French Academy at the
time, she painted a lot
of these subjects, which
were considered typical
and universal. The style
of the painting doesn't
yet show Cassatt's
originality, except
perhaps for certain
details in the face.
Accordingly the music for
this movement is
Spanish/Italian, in a
similar period-style but
using the musical
signature described
above. The music begins
with Mary's Theme,
ruminative and slow, then
abruptly changes to an
alla Spagnola-type fast
3/4 - 6/8 meter. It
evokes the
Spanish-influenced music
of Ravel and Falla.
Midway through,
there's an accompanied
recitative for the viola,
which figures large in
this particular movement,
then back to a truncated
recapitulation of the
fast music. The overall
feeling is of a
well-made, rather
conventional movement in
a contemporary
Spanish/Italian style.
Cassatt's painting, too,
is rather conventional.
II At the Opera
(1880) [Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston,
Massachusetts]
This painting is one of
Cassatt's most well known
works, and it hangs in
the Museum of Fine Arts
in Boston. The painting
shows a woman alone in a
box at the opera house,
completely dressed
(including gloves) and
looking through opera
glasses at someone or
something that is NOT on
the stage. Across the
auditorium from her, but
exactly at eye level, is
a gentleman with opera
glasses intently watching
her - though it is not
him that she's looking
at. It's an intriguing
picture. This
movement is far less
conventional than the
first movement, as the
painting is far less
conventional. The music
begins with a rapid,
Shostakovich-type
mini-overture lasting
less than a minute, based
on Mary's Theme. My
conjecture is that the
woman in the painting has
arrived late to the
opera, busily stumbling
into her box. What
happens next is a kind of
collage, a kind of
surrealistic overlaying
of two different
elements: the foreground
music, at first is a
direct quotation of
Soldier's Chorus from
Gounod's FAUST (an opera
Cassatt would certainly
have heard in the
brand-new Paris Opera
House at that time),
played by Violin II,
Viola, and Cello. This
music is played sul
ponticello in the melody
and col legno in the
marching accompaniment.
On top of this, the first
violin hovers at first on
a high harmonic, then
descends into a slow
melody, completely
separate from the Gounod.
It's as if the woman in
the painting is hearing
the opera onstage but is
not really interested in
it. Then the cello joins
the first violin in a
kind of love-duet (just
the two of them, at
first). This music isn't
at all Gounod-derived;
it's entirely from the
same scale patterns as
the first movement and
derives from Mary's Theme
and its scale. The music
stays in a kind of
dichotomy feeling,
usually
three-against-one, until
the end of the movement,
when another Gounod
melody, Valentin's aria
Avant de quitter ce lieux
reappears in a kind of
coda for all four
players. It ends
atmospherically and
emotionally disconnected,
however. The overall
feeling is a kind of
schizophrenic,
opera-inspired dream.
III Young Woman in
Green, Outdoors in the
Sun (1909) [Worcester Art
Museum, Massachusetts]
The painting, one
of Cassatt's last, is
very simple: just a
figure, looking sideways
out of the picture. The
colors are pastel and yet
bold - and the woman is
likewise very
self-assured and not in
the least demure. It is
eight minutes long, and
is all about melody -
three melodies, to be
exact (Young Woman,
Green, and Sunlight). No
angst, no choppy rhythms,
just ever-unfolding
melody and lush
harmonies. I quote one
other French composer
here, too: Debussy's song
Green, from Ariettes
Oubliees. 1909 would have
been Debussy's heyday in
Paris, and it makes
perfect sense musically
as well as visually to do
this. Mary Cassatt
lived her last several
years in near-total
blindness, and as she
lost visual acuity, her
work became less sharply
defined - something akin
to late water lilies of
Monet, who suffered
similar vision loss. My
idea of making this
movement entirely melodic
was compounded by having
each of the three
melodies appear twice,
once in a pure form, and
the second time in a more
diffuse setting. This
makes an interesting two
ways form:
A-B-C-A1-B1-C1.
String Quartet No.3
(Cassatt) is dedicated,
with great affection and
respect, to the Cassatt
String Quartet, whose
members have dedicated
themselves in large
measure to the furthering
of the contemporary
repertoire for
quartet.
Cassatt. Composed
by Dan Welcher. Premiere:
Cassatt Quartet,
Northeastern Illinois
University, Chicago, IL.
Contemporary. Full score.
With Standard notation.
Composed 2007. WRT11142.
52 pages. Duration 24
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #164-00272S.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.16400272S).
UPC:
680160588442. 8.5 x 11
inches.
My third
quartet is laid out in a
three-movement structure,
with each movement based
on an early, middle, and
late work of the great
American impressionist
painter Mary Cassatt.
Although the movements
are separate, with
full-stop endings, the
music is connected by a
common scale-form,
derived from the name
MARY CASSATT, and by a
recurring theme that
introduces all three
movements. I see this
theme as Mary's Theme, a
personality that stays
intact while undergoing
gradual change. I
The Bacchante (1876)
[Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania] The
painting shows a young
girl of Italian or
Spanish origin, playing a
small pair of cymbals.
Since Cassatt was trying
very hard to fit in at
the French Academy at the
time, she painted a lot
of these subjects, which
were considered typical
and universal. The style
of the painting doesn't
yet show Cassatt's
originality, except
perhaps for certain
details in the face.
Accordingly the music for
this movement is
Spanish/Italian, in a
similar period-style but
using the musical
signature described
above. The music begins
with Mary's Theme,
ruminative and slow, then
abruptly changes to an
alla Spagnola-type fast
3/4 - 6/8 meter. It
evokes the
Spanish-influenced music
of Ravel and Falla.
Midway through,
there's an accompanied
recitative for the viola,
which figures large in
this particular movement,
then back to a truncated
recapitulation of the
fast music. The overall
feeling is of a
well-made, rather
conventional movement in
a contemporary
Spanish/Italian style.
Cassatt's painting, too,
is rather conventional.
II At the Opera
(1880) [Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston,
Massachusetts]
This painting is one of
Cassatt's most well known
works, and it hangs in
the Museum of Fine Arts
in Boston. The painting
shows a woman alone in a
box at the opera house,
completely dressed
(including gloves) and
looking through opera
glasses at someone or
something that is NOT on
the stage. Across the
auditorium from her, but
exactly at eye level, is
a gentleman with opera
glasses intently watching
her - though it is not
him that she's looking
at. It's an intriguing
picture. This
movement is far less
conventional than the
first movement, as the
painting is far less
conventional. The music
begins with a rapid,
Shostakovich-type
mini-overture lasting
less than a minute, based
on Mary's Theme. My
conjecture is that the
woman in the painting has
arrived late to the
opera, busily stumbling
into her box. What
happens next is a kind of
collage, a kind of
surrealistic overlaying
of two different
elements: the foreground
music, at first is a
direct quotation of
Soldier's Chorus from
Gounod's FAUST (an opera
Cassatt would certainly
have heard in the
brand-new Paris Opera
House at that time),
played by Violin II,
Viola, and Cello. This
music is played sul
ponticello in the melody
and col legno in the
marching accompaniment.
On top of this, the first
violin hovers at first on
a high harmonic, then
descends into a slow
melody, completely
separate from the Gounod.
It's as if the woman in
the painting is hearing
the opera onstage but is
not really interested in
it. Then the cello joins
the first violin in a
kind of love-duet (just
the two of them, at
first). This music isn't
at all Gounod-derived;
it's entirely from the
same scale patterns as
the first movement and
derives from Mary's Theme
and its scale. The music
stays in a kind of
dichotomy feeling,
usually
three-against-one, until
the end of the movement,
when another Gounod
melody, Valentin's aria
Avant de quitter ce lieux
reappears in a kind of
coda for all four
players. It ends
atmospherically and
emotionally disconnected,
however. The overall
feeling is a kind of
schizophrenic,
opera-inspired dream.
III Young Woman in
Green, Outdoors in the
Sun (1909) [Worcester Art
Museum, Massachusetts]
The painting, one
of Cassatt's last, is
very simple: just a
figure, looking sideways
out of the picture. The
colors are pastel and yet
bold - and the woman is
likewise very
self-assured and not in
the least demure. It is
eight minutes long, and
is all about melody -
three melodies, to be
exact (Young Woman,
Green, and Sunlight). No
angst, no choppy rhythms,
just ever-unfolding
melody and lush
harmonies. I quote one
other French composer
here, too: Debussy's song
Green, from Ariettes
Oubliees. 1909 would have
been Debussy's heyday in
Paris, and it makes
perfect sense musically
as well as visually to do
this. Mary Cassatt
lived her last several
years in near-total
blindness, and as she
lost visual acuity, her
work became less sharply
defined - something akin
to late water lilies of
Monet, who suffered
similar vision loss. My
idea of making this
movement entirely melodic
was compounded by having
each of the three
melodies appear twice,
once in a pure form, and
the second time in a more
diffuse setting. This
makes an interesting two
ways form:
A-B-C-A1-B1-C1.
String Quartet No.3
(Cassatt) is dedicated,
with great affection and
respect, to the Cassatt
String Quartet, whose
members have dedicated
themselves in large
measure to the furthering
of the contemporary
repertoire for
quartet.
(An Inspiring Method to Playing the Drums, Guided by the Legends). By Rich Lacko...(+)
(An Inspiring Method to
Playing the Drums, Guided
by the Legends). By Rich
Lackowski. For Drumset.
Artist/Personality; Book;
DVD; Method/Instruction;
Percussion - Drum Set
Method or Collection. On
the Beaten Path.
Beginner. 136 pages.
Published by Alfred Music
Publishing
Choral SATB choir, piano SKU: CF.CM9713 Composed by Jacob Narverud. 16 pa...(+)
Choral SATB choir, piano
SKU: CF.CM9713
Composed by Jacob
Narverud. 16 pages.
Duration 4:01. Carl
Fischer Music #CM9713.
Published by Carl Fischer
Music (CF.CM9713).
ISBN 9781491160084.
UPC: 680160918683. Key: G
major. English. Robert
Bode. Original.
The
piece was commissioned by
Kevin Scully, Director of
Creative Arts, for the
Port Washington School
District, New York, with
special thanks to the Ed
Foundation and HEARTS for
their unwavering support.
Performance Notes This
lighthearted piece is a
great way to bring
multiple choirs together
in harmony. It may be
sung by a single SATB
choir, though it is
intended to be performed
by multiple choirs of
varying age levels. Song
of the Sound was written
for an all-district
feeder festival piece for
combined elementary,
middle level, and high
school choirs. Here is a
suggested outline for
combining multiple
choirs: Rehearsal Letters
A to B: Elementary choir
only (two-part, Soprano,
Alto) Rehearsal Letter B:
add Middle Level Soprano,
Alto with Elementary
choir Rehearsal Letter C:
Middle Level choir only
Rehearsal Letter D: High
School choir only
Rehearsal Letter E to the
end: Everyone! Song of
the Sound: Running on the
beach, digging in the
sand, Seaweed in my toes,
bucket in my hand. When
I'm at the shore, way
above the rest, These are
all the things that I
love the best. Skipping
like a stone on the
water, diving deep in the
silvery foam, Swimming
far where the land cannot
hold us, where the
lighthouse calls us home.
Flying free above the
marshes, soaring high
above the sea, Where the
tern and cormorant and
plover call to lands we
cannot see.Come let us go
to the water, let us go
to the singing shore:
Where the gentle breezes
whisper and the mighty
breakers roar. We will
look to the shining
ocean, to the East, where
the new day dawned: We
will sing a song of the
edge of the world and the
waiting sky beyond. -Poem
by Robert Bode (Hope
Springs Retreat Center,
Ohio. August 2019) About
the Composer: Jacob
Narverud (b. 1986) is an
American composer,
arranger, and conductor.
Dr. Narverud is an active
guest Conductor/Clinician
for Choral Festivals and
All-State Choirs across
the country and is the
Founder/Artistic Director
of the Tallgrass Chamber
Choir, a professional
ensemble comprised of
musicians from across the
Great Plains. As a
sought-after composer,
Narverud has been
commissioned to write new
works for a variety of
choral ensembles and
organizations. Many of
his Editors' Choirs
compositions are
publisher Best Sellers
and are performed
worldwide by choirs of
all levels. Website:
www.jnarverud.com YouTube
& Spotify:
@jacobnarverud. The
piece was commissioned by
Kevin Scully, Director of
Creative Arts, for the
Port Washington School
District, New York, with
special thanks to the Ed
Foundation and HEARTS for
their unwavering
support.Performance
NotesThis lighthearted
piece is a great way to
bring multiple choirs
together in harmony. It
may be sung by a single
SATB choir, though it is
intended to be performed
by multiple choirs of
varying age levels. Song
of the Sound was written
for an all-district
feeder festival piece for
combined elementary,
middle level, and high
school choirs. Here is a
suggested outline for
combining multiple
choirs:Rehearsal Letters
AÂ to B: Elementary
choir only (two-part,
Soprano, Alto)Rehearsal
Letter B: add Middle
Level Soprano, Alto with
Elementary choirRehearsal
Letter C: Middle
Level choir onlyRehearsal
Letter D: High School
choir onlyRehearsal
Letter E to the end:
Everyone!Song of the
Sound:Running on the
beach, digging in the
sand,Seaweed in my toes,
bucket in my hand.When
I'm at the shore, way
above the rest,These are
all the things that I
love the
best. Skipping like a
stone on the water,
diving deep in the
silvery foam,Swimming far
where the land cannot
hold us, where the
lighthouse calls us
home.Flying free above
the marshes, soaring high
above the sea,Where the
tern and cormorant and
plover call to lands we
cannot see.Come let us go
to the water, let us go
to the singing
shore:Where the gentle
breezes whisper and the
mighty breakers roar.We
will look to the shining
ocean, to the East, where
the new day dawned:We
will sing a song of the
edge of the world and the
waiting sky beyond.-Poem
by Robert Bode (Hope
Springs Retreat Center,
Ohio. August 2019)About
the Composer:Jacob
Narverud (b. 1986) is an
American composer,
arranger, and conductor.
Dr. Narverud is an active
guest Conductor/Clinician
for Choral Festivals and
All-State Choirs across
the country and is the
Founder/Artistic Director
of the Tallgrass Chamber
Choir, a professional
ensemble comprised of
musicians from across the
Great Plains. As a
sought-after composer,
Narverud has been
commissioned to write new
works for a variety of
choral ensembles and
organizations. Many of
his Editors' Choirs
compositions are
publisher Best Sellers
and are performed
worldwide by choirs of
all levels. Website:
www.jnarverud.comÂ
YouTube & Spotify:
@jacobnarverud.
Edited by Amy Appleby. Collection and examples CD for easy solo piano. Over 200 ...(+)
Edited by Amy Appleby.
Collection and examples
CD for easy solo piano.
Over 200 best-loved
Christian hymns that have
inspired praise and
worship for over four
centuries. Series: Piano
Treasury Series. 392
pages. Published by Music
Sales.
Composed
by Charles Thatcher.
Advent, Christmastide,
Lent, Eastertide,
Ordinary Time. Sacred. 64
pages. GIA Publications
#10314. Published by GIA
Publications
(GI.G-10314).
ISBN
7851471031413. English,
Latin. Text Source:
Antiphons tr. Charles
Thatcher, verses, The
Grail,
1963.
Entrance
Antiphons for the Church
Year contains thirty
antiphon texts from
the Graduale Simplex,
translated from Latin and
set to newly composed
music. The psalm verses
appointed for these
antiphons are taken from
the Grail translation
(1963). As with the
Responsorial Psalm of the
Mass, the assembly sings
the antiphon after its
intonation by the
cantor/choir, repeating
it after each verse of
the psalm. The number of
psalm verses which are
sung may vary according
to need. The singing of
the doxology, Glory to
the Father, while
recommended, is optional.
In several cases (e.g.,
Christmas and Easter),
the assembly sings a
refrain—a simple
acclamation in
Latin—and the
actual antiphon text is
sung by the cantor/choir.
The antiphon functions as
a first and final verse.
It is thought that
liturgical singing in the
early Church consisted in
part of such short
acclamatory phrases. Many
of the antiphons in this
collection are proper to
a specific Sunday,
solemnity, or feast. The
rest are seasonal in
nature and, like the
common Responsorial
Psalms of the Lectionary,
may be chosen according
to what seems best for
the occasion. The
antiphons of Christmas
Day and Easter Sunday
could be used at daily
Masses during their
octaves. Notations in the
scores of some antiphons
suggest alternate
occasions when they are
appropriate. Regarding
performance, these
compositions were
conceived with
flexibility in mind.
Assembly participation
and instrumental
accompaniment are
assumed. SATB choral
singing is effective, but
not necessary. Discrete
use of descants where
provided can lend an air
of festivity. Psalm
verses might be sung by
an entire choir, by a
small group or cantor, or
a combination of
both.
By Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767). Edited by Klaus Hofmann. This edition: pa...(+)
By Georg Philipp Telemann
(1681-1767). Edited by
Klaus Hofmann. This
edition: paperbound.
Sacred, Motets, Psalms,
German; Choral
Collections, SAM Choir,
Choral Collections,
Women's Choir, Stuttgart
Urtext editions;
Occasions: Praise and
thanks, Psalms; Use
during church year:
Special Days, End of the
church year, Easter and
Eastertide. Score. 104
pages
Composed by Various. For Piano/Keyboard. Hal Leonard Fake Books. Classical. Diff...(+)
Composed by Various. For
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
The Definitive Paul Simon Songbook by Paul Simon. For Melody Line, Lyrics and Ch...(+)
The Definitive Paul Simon
Songbook by Paul Simon.
For Melody Line, Lyrics
and Chords. Music Sales
America. Folk Rock.
Softcover. 560 pages.
Paul Simon Music
#PS11594. Published by
Paul Simon Music
In All Major and Minor Keys. Composed by J. B. Albert. Edited by Julie DeRoche...(+)
In All Major and Minor
Keys.
Composed by J. B. Albert.
Edited by Julie DeRoche.
Book.
With Standard notation.
32
pages. Carl Fischer Music
#O99X. Published by Carl
Fischer Music
Chorale SATB SATB, Piano [Octavo] Lorenz Publishing Company
By Keith Getty and Stuart Townend. For SATB choir and piano (with optional orche...(+)
By Keith Getty and Stuart
Townend. For SATB choir
and piano (with optional
orchestra). Christ the
King, Eastertide,
General, Lent, Palm
Sunday, Sacred. Sacred
Anthem