SKU: CF.CAS164F

ISBN 9781491165492. UPC: 680160924400. Key: D major.

Waterscape is a piece inspired by and intended to create images of lazy evenings on beautiful Lake Hartwell, located in the northwest Tri-County area of South Carolina (Oconee, Pckens, and Anderson Counties). The piece gives imagery of sunlight reflecting off the water as lake goers enjoy fishing, boating, water skiing, tubing, or simply dangling their feet off of a dock into the water. The piece should have a languid, easy feel, never rushed, but driving.

About Carl Fischer Concert String Orchestra Series

Thi s series of pieces (Grade 3 and higher) is designed for advancing ensembles. The pieces in this series are characterized by:

• Expanded use of rhythms, ranges and keys but technical demands are still carefully considered
• More comprehensive bowing techniques
• Viola T.C. included
• Careful selection of keys and degree of difficulty for advancing musicians

SKU: WD.080689633126

UPC: 080689633126.

David T. Clydesdale and Steve Moore have written a Christmas musical that is certain to tug at your heart. That's the Good News! takes a sentimental, honest look at how Christ can bring hope and peace to a hurting world. That's the Good News! tells the story of Will, a radio news announcer in the small town of Pinckney, Nebraska as he faces his first Christmas without his wife of 40 years. Because of her death, Will looks at the world in a different light, especially the news he reads everyday of murder and theft and struggles with bad things happening to good and innocent people. Through a series of events and interaction with key people in his life, Will finds true peace on earth. This drama can be easily staged and additional biblical characters can enter throughout the production to create a live nativity scene.

SKU: HL.49007288

SKU: HL.49017921

ISBN 9790220131509. UPC: 884088567590. 8.25x11.75x0.062 inches. English.

Composed for the Alwinton and Holystone Church Choir near the composer's home in Northumberland, John Casken sets Christina Rossetti's In the bleak mid-winter - a poem popularised by Gustav Holts' setting of the same name for SATB choir and organ. A traditional carol based on the nativity it paints a vivid picture of the chill of winter and is ideal for choirs wishing to move away from the well-known whilst retaining an element of tradition. Constantly flowing organ lines create a sense of unease but this is uplifting music with subtle crescendos and powerful homophonic writing for the voices.

SKU: ST.CN19P

ISBN 9790220224782.

The composer was drawn to the beautiful stillness and sadness of the poem by Christina Rossetti, which transcend its rigid sonnet structure, and allude via the epigraph to the mysterious Willow-Wood cycle by Christina's brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The music suggests a division of the poem into three stanzas, alternating with tranquil interludes (using the opening melody) representing the 'willow-wood' of the title, so that the listener is constantly reminded of the gentle surroundings. As the intensity of the text increases, so does the astringency of dissonance in the verses, reaching its apogee just before consonance breaks through at the crucial phrase 'one moment joined'. The simplicity of the vocal writing conveys the serenity of the setting, while simultaneously suggesting the austere melancholy of the lovers. An Echo from Willow-Wood was the winner of the Stainer & Bell Award for Choral Composition 2015.

SKU: HL.49045324

ISBN 9790001159678. UPC: 841886030657. 9.0x12.0x0.069 inches.

The original version for violin dates from 1981, thus being one of the early works by the Israeli composer who teaches at Harvard University. About 35 years later, in 2015, Chaya Czernowin arranged the solo piece for the cellist Christina Meissner and also wrote a version for viola solo. In this early creative period, her tonal language shows the slow introduction of the sound of new music.

SKU: HL.49044503

ISBN 9790001199872. UPC: 841886025899. 9.0x12.0x0.13 inches.

Cordoba war im 11. Jahrhundert eine der grossten Hauptstadte Europas. Menschen verschiedener Kulturen und Religionen - Juden, Moslems und Christen lebten dort in Eintracht zusammen und bedeutende Philosophen, Wissenschaftler und Kunstler gingen aus dieser Stadt hervor. Avoroes, maurischer Philosoph, Maimonides, judischer Philosoph, Abu Hassan Hazm, arabischer Universalgelehrter, lebten in dieser Stadt. Die 'Hagia Sophia' in Konstantinopel, zuerst mehrere Jahrhunderte christliche Kirche, dann mehrere Jahrhunderte Moschee und die 'Mezquita' in Cordoba, zuerst mehrere Jahrhunderte Moschee, dann mehrere Jahrhunderte christliche Kirche, haben etwas gemeinsam: sie sind Symbol fur den interreligiosen Dialog. Diese Symbolidee wird in meinem Orgelstuck Cordoba musikalisch in ein strukturelles Notenbild umgesetzt, das die Betrachtungen und Visionen von 'Hagiia Sophia' (ED 54 282), 'Ex oriente lux' (ED 55826) vollendet. (Robert Helmschrott).

SKU: HL.322532

UPC: 888680974718. 5.0x5.0x0.15 inches. Christina Rossetti/David Rasbach. I John 4:7-12.

One of our most treasured Christmas texts is adorned with delicate beauty in this fresh setting. An expressive piano part flows easily through the fabric of this choral tapestry. The sparkling flute obbligato is a shimmering addition to the anthem's possibilities. Capturing a classic Christmas sound, this piece is ideal for concert or sanctuary use. Score and Parts (fl, hp, vn 1-2, va, vc, db) available as a digital download.

SKU: DZ.DZ-3721

ISBN 9782897956387.

SKU: DZ.DZ-4005

ISBN 9782897959227.

SKU: DZ.DZ-3855

ISBN 9782897957728.

SKU: FG.55011-455-5

ISBN 9790550114555.

This cycle of carols, to the poetry of Christina Rossetti, was assembled piecemeal over a number of years, gradually acquiring a larger dramatic and harmonic arch shape as new settings were added. I was particularly attracted to Rossetti's conflation of the dark, fallow winter landscape with that of the soul waiting for salvation. The cycle traces the long nights of watchfulness before Christmas, with the great event constantly deferred, only glimpsed periodically in different visions before the music turns inward again to contemplation. The opening carol embodies this spirit, with passages of diffuse, roving harmony interspersed with meditative, lyrical pedals, calling out the night watch and dreaming of a far-off summer of the spirit. Earth Grown Old is a kind of double carol, setting two complete poems, their lines at first presented separately as a still, expectant chorale and a jubilant dance, then progressively interwoven toward a fervent climax before once again receding into quiet. In the bleak mid-winter, which sets a highly compressed version of Rossetti's original poem, presents an enfeebled landscape frozen in time, in dire need of deliverance. A gentle melody weaves its way through static drones, broken by an angels' chorus announcing the joy to come. Love Came Down at Christmas ends the waiting, with its gently falling, overlapping lines building to a final revelation, the mystery of Christmas at last made real.