Composed by Ken Berg. National Songs/Patriotic, 21st Century. Instrumental pa...(+)
Composed by Ken Berg.
National Songs/Patriotic,
21st Century.
Instrumental
part. Duration 2 minutes,
45
seconds. Galaxy Music
Corporation #1.3546.
Published by Galaxy Music
Corporation
New music
(post-2000). Full score.
Composed 2016/17/20. 48
pages. Duration 8'.
Breitkopf and Haertel #PB
5432. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.PB-5432).
ISBN
9790004212790. 10 x 12.5
inches.
Marche
fatale is an incautiously
daring escapade that may
annoy the fans of my
compositions more than my
earlier works, many of
which have prevailed only
after scandals at their
world premieres. My
Marche fatale has,
though, little
stylistically to do with
my previous compositional
path; it presents itself
without restraint, if not
as a regression, then
still as a recourse to
those empty phrases to
which modern civilization
still clings in its daily
utility music, whereas
music in the 20th and
21st centuries has long
since advanced to new,
unfamiliar soundscapes
and expressive
possibilities. The key
term is banality. As
creators we despise it,
we try to avoid it -
though we are not safe
from the cheap banal even
within new aesthetic
achievements.Many
composers have
incidentally accepted the
banal. Mozart wrote Ein
musikalischer Spass [A
Musical Jape], a
deliberately amateurishly
miscarried sextet.
Beethoven's Bagatellen
op. 119 were rejected by
the publisher on the
grounds that few will
believe that this minor
work is by the famous
Beethoven. Mauricio Kagel
wrote, tongue in cheek,
so to speak, Marsche, um
den Sieg zu verfehlen
[Marches for being
Unvictorious], Ligeti
wrote Hungarian Rock; in
his Circus Polka
Stravinsky quoted and
distorted the famous, all
too popular Schubert
military march, composed
at the time for piano
duet. I myself do not
know, though, whether I
ought to rank my Marche
fatale alongside these
examples: I accept the
humor in daily life, the
more so as this daily
life for some of us is
not otherwise to be
borne. In music, I
mistrust it, considering
myself all the closer to
the profounder idea of
cheerfulness having
little to do with humor.
However: Isn't a march
with its compelling claim
to a collectively martial
or festive mood absurd, a
priori? Is it even music
at all? Can one march and
at the same time listen?
Eventually, I resolved to
take the absurd seriously
- perhaps bitterly
seriously - as a
debunking emblem of our
civilization that is
standing on the brink.
The way - seemingly
unstoppable - into the
black hole of all
debilitating demons: that
can become serene. My old
request of myself and my
music-creating
surroundings is to write
a non-music, whence the
familiar concept of music
is repeatedly re-defined
anew and differently, so
that derailed here -
perhaps? - in a
treacherous way, the
concert hall becomes the
place of mind-opening
adventures instead of a
refuge in illusory
security. How could that
happen? The rest is -
thinking.(Helmut
Lachenmann, 2017)CD
(Version for
Piano):Nicolas Hodges CD
Wergo WER 7393 2
Bibliography:Ich bin
nicht ,,pietistisch
verformt. Ein Gesprach
[von Jan Brachmann] mit
dem Komponisten Helmut
Lachenmann, in: FAZ vom
7. Juni 2018, p.
15.
World premiere
of the piano version:
Mito/Japan, June 17,
2017, World premiere of
the orchestral version:
Stuttgart, January 1,
2018, World premiere of
the ensemble version:
Frankfurt, December 9,
2020.
(Mix and Match Quartets for Strings, Woodwind, Brass and Keyboard). By Various. ...(+)
(Mix and Match Quartets
for Strings, Woodwind,
Brass and Keyboard). By
Various. Arranged by
Daniel Kelley. String
quartet, woodwind
quartet, piano quintet,
mixed quartet, clarinet
quartet, saxophone
quartet. For Viola in
alto clef. Quartets.
Intermediate Music for
Four series. Classical.
Intermediate. Partbook -
part 3. Published by Last
Resort Music Publishing
(Mix and Match Quartets for Strings, Woodwind, Brass and Keyboard). By Various. ...(+)
(Mix and Match Quartets
for Strings, Woodwind,
Brass and Keyboard). By
Various. Arranged by
Daniel Kelley. String
quartet, woodwind
quartet, piano quintet,
mixed quartet, clarinet
quartet, saxophone
quartet. For Keyboard or
Guitar. Quartets.
Intermediate Music for
Four series. Classical.
Intermediate. Partbook.
Published by Last Resort
Music Publishing
By Various. Arranged by Daniel Kelley. For Flute or Oboe or Violin in C. Quartet...(+)
By Various. Arranged by
Daniel Kelley. For Flute
or Oboe or Violin in C.
Quartets. Intermediate
Music for Four.
Classical. Level:
Intermediate. Part 1.
Published by Last Resort
Music Publishing.
Voice and Piano SKU: BT.EMBZ20017A New Liszt Edition, Series IX. Vol.2...(+)
Voice and Piano
SKU:
BT.EMBZ20017A
New
Liszt Edition, Series IX.
Vol.2.. By David
Trippett. By Franz Liszt.
EMB New Listz Edition.
Classical. Book
Hardcover. Composed 2019.
180 pages. Editio Musica
Budapest #EMBZ20017A.
Published by Editio
Musica Budapest
(BT.EMBZ20017A).
English-German-Hungari
an.
In 1845 Franz
Liszt embarked on a
project to compose an
Italian opera based on
Lord Byron’s
tragedy, Sardanapalus
(1821). It was central to
his ambition to attain
status as a major
European composer, with
premieres variously
planned for Milan,
Vienna, Paris and London.
But he abandoned it half
way through, and the
music he completed has
lain silently for 170
years.
Liszt’s difficulty
in obtaining a libretto
meant that composition
only began in April 1850.
He completed virtually
all the music for Act 1
in an annotated
piano-vocal score of 111
pages, contained within
his N4 music
‘sketch
book’. The unnamed
librettist was an Italian
poet and political
prisoner, seemingly
living under house
arrest, and a close
acquaintance of Cristina
Belgiojoso. His libretto
survives as underlay in
the N4 sketchbook and has
been critically
reconstructed and
translated.
Sardanapalo is
Liszt’s only
mature opera. While he
consistently referred to
it in French, as
Sardanapale, the
published title of the
Italian opera would
almost certainly have
used the Italian name,
hence this forms the
title of the first
edition. There are three
solo roles and a chorus
of concubines. The
manuscript was previously
thought to be fragmentary
and partially illegible,
but it was finally
deciphered to
international acclaim in
March 2017.
Liszt’s score
offers a richly melodic
style, with elements from
Bellini and Verdi
alongside glimmers of
Wagner and the symphonic
poems ahead: a unique
mixture of Italianate
pastiche and mid-century
harmonic innovation. It
remains quintessentially
Lisztian. The opera sets
Byron’s tragedy
about war and peace in
ancient Assyria: the last
King, effeminate in his
tastes, is drawn to wine,
concubines and feasts
more than politics and
war: his subjects find
him dishonourable (a
‘man queen’)
and military rebels seek
to overthrow him, but are
pardoned, for the King
rejects the ‘deceit
of glory’ built on
others’ suffering:
this leads only to a
larger uprising, the
Euphrates floods its
banks, destroying the
castle’s main
defensive wall, and
defeat is inevitable: the
King sends his family
away and orders that he
be burned alive with his
lover, amid scents and
spices in a grand
inferno. As Byron put it:
‘not a mere pillar
formed of cloud and
flame, but a light to
lessen ages.’ For
his part, Liszt told a
friend that his finale
‘will even aim to
set fire to the entire
audience!’
This critical edition
includes a detailed study
on the genesis of
Liszt’s
Sardanapalo in English,
German, and Hungarian,
the libretto in the
original Italian as well
as in English, German,
and Hungarian
translation, several
facsimile pages of
Liszt’s
manuscript, and a
detailed Critical
Report.
Trombone and Piano - advanced SKU: CY.CC2512 Composed by Jan Freidlin. Ar...(+)
Trombone and Piano -
advanced
SKU:
CY.CC2512
Composed by
Jan Freidlin. Arranged by
Jan Freidlin.
Contemporary. Solo part
and piano score.
Published by Cherry
Classics (CY.CC2512).
Jan Freidlin
has written a delightful
work in 8 movements for
Trombone and Piano called
A Little Theater Buffo.
It is the story of a
circus clown and his
adventures with his
friends. The titles of
the movements are:
1.
Ouverture 2.
Recitativo &
Refrain 3. Piano
Interlude 4. The
Puppet Show 5.
Harlequin's Arietta 6.
Duetto Military 7.
Romance of Pierrot 8.
Final Kaleidoscope
This
work is about 15 minutes
in length, for advanced
performers and will make
a wonderful addition to a
recital.
The sample
digital sound file is an
excerpt from movement 6.
Duetto Military, a
sarcastic march featuring
a dialog between the
Trombonist and the
Pianist.
Composed by Edward Elgar (1857-1934). Arranged by Wolfgang Birtel. String Ensemb...(+)
Composed by Edward Elgar
(1857-1934). Arranged by
Wolfgang Birtel. String
Ensemble. Softcover.
Schott Music #ED21756.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49044334).
Composed by John Trotter. Featured Products, Wire bound. Method. Book/CD set...(+)
Composed by John Trotter.
Featured Products, Wire
bound. Method. Book/CD
set.
282 pages. Mel Bay
Publications, Inc
#610506E.
Published by Mel Bay
Publications, Inc
By Various. Arranged by Daniel Kelley. For Violin in C. Quartets. Intermediate M...(+)
By Various. Arranged by
Daniel Kelley. For Violin
in C. Quartets.
Intermediate Music for
Four. Classical.
Intermediate. Part 3.
Published by Last Resort
Music Publishing