Shabbat Shalom Orchestre à Cordes [Conducteur] - 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. 12
pages
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
Composed by Brendan
Mcbrien. Score. Neil A.
Kjos Music Company
#SO183F. Published by
Neil A. Kjos Music
Company (KJ.SO183F).
Listen to this
one! It's a programmatic
work depicting the
interplay between
opponents during the
composer's favorite board
game, Risk. Ponticello,
col legno, and other
special techniques are
employed.
Composed
by Chatori Shimizu.
Ensembles - Chamber
Music. Periferia
Publishing #CM3207PM.
Published by Periferia
Publishing (AY.CM3207PM).
ISBN
9790803752763.
Jean
Ignace Isidore Gerard, a
19th Century French
caricaturist, is not
well-known in Japan. The
composer was inspired to
compose Fiddle after
seeing Grandville's work,
Apocalypse du ballet,
which expresses
continuous patterns of
transformative objects in
a sense of disorienting
beauty. Although all four
instruments are
responsible for four
individual melodies, they
are not subjected to
fixed pitches and
textures (extended
techniques such as sul
ponticello and sul tasto
are used), and are
intended to create a
merged acoustic fabric
that is in constant
transformation.
By Richard Meyer. Music by Richard Meyer. For string orchestra. String Orchestra...(+)
By Richard Meyer. Music
by Richard Meyer. For
string orchestra. String
Orchestra. String
Orchestra. Level: Level 3
(grade 3). Conductor
Score & Parts. 2 pages.
Published by Alfred
Publishing.
By Loreta Fin. Orchestra.
Part(s); Score; String
Orchestra. Wilfin String
Orchestra: Young String
Ensemble Series. Winter.
Grade 2. 66 pages.
Published by Alfred Music
Composed by
Aaron Fryklund. Carl
Fischer Young String
Orchestra Series. Set of
Score and Parts.
16+16+4+10+10+10+12
pages. Carl Fischer Music
#YAS210. Published by
Carl Fischer Music
(CF.YAS210).
ISBN
9781491160442. UPC:
680160919031.
In
the dim moonlight on a
night long past a rider
emerges from the fog and
slowly dares to cross a
mysterious and unsettling
bridge. The trembling
rider hesitates, unsure
whether he is more
nervous about the legend
of the headless horseman
or the creaking and
shifting he feels under
his own horse's hooves.
Haunted Bridges is a work
for string orchestra
inspired by Washington
Irving's Ichabod Crane
and his ill-fated ride in
Sleepy Hollow. The piece
contains allusions to the
tune London Bridge is
Falling Down, first as a
creeping counter-melody
and later as a theme in a
twisted 3/4 section whose
shifting harmonic
progression draws to mind
the fall of the fabled
bridge. Haunted Bridges
contains alternating F/C
sharps and naturals
throughout and devilishly
unpredictable harmonic
patterns. The piece also
calls for numerous
extended techniques that
students will enjoy,
including playing behind
the bridge, sul
ponticello, portamento,
and seagull glissandi.
Special techniques:
Haunted Bridges calls for
a handful of extended
techniques, most of which
are self explanatory or
commonly known. The
technique appearing in
the Violin II part from
measures 58-72 may
require some additional
explanation. This figure
is sometimes referred to
as seagull glissando and
is achieved by lightly
touching the finger to
the string and gliding up
and down the string,
producing many transient
natural harmonics as the
finger crosses the nodes
of the string. It is
suggested to start with
the 3rd finger on the A
string and slowly
glissando up beyond the
natural A harmonic, then
slowly back down,
continuing in this
pattern until measure 73.
It is also intended for
each player to vary their
speed slightly so that
the timing of the
glissandi are all a
little different,
resulting in a
shimmering, aleatoric
effect. In the dim
moonlight on a night long
past a rider emerges from
the fog and slowly dares
to cross a mysterious and
unsettling bridge. The
trembling rider
hesitates, unsure whether
he is more nervous about
the legend of the
headless horseman or the
creaking and shifting he
feels under his own
horse's hooves. Haunted
Bridges is a work for
string orchestra inspired
by Washington Irving's
Ichabod Crane and his
ill-fated ride in Sleepy
Hollow. The piece
contains allusions to the
tune London Bridge is
Falling Down, first as a
creeping counter-melody
and later as a theme in a
twisted 3/4 section whose
shifting harmonic
progression draws to mind
the fall of the fabled
bridge. Haunted Bridges
contains alternating
F/CÂ sharps and
naturals throughout and
devilishly unpredictable
harmonic patterns. The
piece also calls for
numerous extended
techniques that students
will enjoy, including
playing behind the
bridge, sul ponticello,
portamento, and seagull
glissandi.Special
techniques:Haunted
Bridges calls for a
handful of extended
techniques, most of which
are self explanatory or
commonly known. The
technique appearing in
the Violin II part from
measures 58-72 may
require some additional
explanation. This figure
is sometimes referred to
as seagull glissando and
is achieved by lightly
touching the finger to
the string and gliding up
and down the string,
producing many transient
natural harmonics as the
finger crosses the nodes
of the string. It is
suggested to start with
the 3rd finger on the A
string and slowly
glissando up beyond the
natural A harmonic, then
slowly back down,
continuing in this
pattern until measure 73.
It is also intended for
each player to vary their
speed slightly so that
the timing of the
glissandi are all a
little different,
resulting in a
shimmering, aleatoric
effect.
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
Composed
by Caryn Wiegand
Neidhold. Yas. Full
score. Duration 2
minutes, 18 seconds. Carl
Fischer Music #YAS235F.
Published by Carl Fischer
Music (CF.YAS235F).
ISBN 9781491165270.
UPC: 680160924189. Key: E
minor.
(De)composit
ion explores the myriad
of sounds possible on a
string instrument. These
sounds are regularly used
in movie music to
highlight the storyline,
feeling, or character.
Musicians use the wood
part of the bow, slide
their fingers on the
fingerboard, play with
their bow on the wrong
side of the bridge, and
many other techniques to
create this creepy and
mysterious
(De)composition.Performan
ce SuggestionsStudents
hear extended techniques
in movies, TV shows, and
even commercials. These
sounds are expressive and
contextually meaningful
but are rarely used in
student-level orchestra
music. In
(De)composition, the
extended techniques are
essential to the overall
sound and structure.
Glissandi help students
move their hands out of
first position but allow
the freedom of playing
random notes. In
addition, students will
use their bows in new
ways, such as chop,
behind the bridge,
tremolo, sul ponticello,
and col legno.
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
Composed by
Caryn Wiegand Neidhold.
Yas. Set of Score and
Parts. Duration 2
minutes, 18 seconds. Carl
Fischer Music #YAS235.
Published by Carl Fischer
Music (CF.YAS235).
ISBN 9781491164877.
UPC: 680160923786. Key: E
minor.
(De)composit
ion explores the myriad
of sounds possible on a
string instrument. These
sounds are regularly used
in movie music to
highlight the storyline,
feeling, or character.
Musicians use the wood
part of the bow, slide
their fingers on the
fingerboard, play with
their bow on the wrong
side of the bridge, and
many other techniques to
create this creepy and
mysterious
(de)composition.Performan
ce SuggestionsStudents
hear extended techniques
in movies, TV shows, and
even commercials. These
sounds are expressive and
contextually meaningful
but are rarely used in
student-level orchestra
music. In
(De)composition, the
extended techniques are
essential to the overall
sound and structure.
Glissandi help students
move their hands out of
first position but allow
the freedom of playing
random notes. In
addition, students will
use their bows in new
ways, such as chop,
behind the bridge,
tremolo, sul ponticello,
and col legno.
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
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.
Electronics; Violin (Violin) SKU: HL.338853 Solo Violin and Electronic...(+)
Electronics; Violin
(Violin)
SKU:
HL.338853
Solo
Violin and
Electronics. Composed
by Elzbieta Sikora. PWM.
Classical, Contemporary.
Softcover. 20 pages.
Polskie Wydawnictwo
Muzyczne #12405.
Published by Polskie
Wydawnictwo Muzyczne
(HL.338853).
ISBN
9781540090232. UPC:
840126914146.
Soleo
s was written to a
commission of 10th
International Violin
Competition Leopold
Mozart 2019 in Augsburg.
It is not by chance that
the title containes the
words solo and sole,
since Soleos represents a
musical rendering of the
gradual heating up of a
star, rising inexorably
to maximum effervascence.
This work comprises four
sections of similar
duration.Its inner
tension grows
continuously up to the
middle point of the
fourth section, where it
is discharged ina a
climax. The violin part
employs a variety of
articulations, such as
sul ponticello, ricochet
and saltando, as well as
murmuring of noise-like
effects and playing in
the highest possible
register. Yet the solo
instrument eschews
neither cantilena nor
virtuosity. In several
places, we find distant
references to stylistic
figures from the music of
Leopold Mozart and his
era. In this work, I
again impart an illusory
freedom to the electronic
part, which affords the
soloist some latitude. I
wanted Soleos to be
interpreted in such a way
that it sounds different
each time. Despite the
pracise notation, the
performer can also find
here material from which
to create a personal
vision of rhis work.
[Elzbieta Siora
translated by John
Comber]. The commissioned
work was made possible
through the generous
support of
Forberg-Schneider-Stiftun
g Recording is available
on the wbsite:
www.pwm.com.pl/sikora/sol
eos/index.html.