Composed by Carl
Strommen. FS-SWS. Carl
Fischer Concert
Performance Series. Score
and Set of Parts. With
Standard notation.
8+8+4+8+8+8+4+4+4+4+4+4+4
+8+8+8+4+4+6+6+4+6+8+2+2+
10+1+4+24 pages. Carl
Fischer Music #CPS8.
Published by Carl Fischer
Music (CF.CPS8).
ISBN
9780825839962. UPC:
798408039967. 9 X 12
inches. Key: C
minor.
Starting
from a lovely and
haunting melody
introduced by the
clarinets, Carl
Strommen's Invocation and
Dance, in two contrasting
sections, is an object
lesson in how to write
memorably for young
musicians using simple,
straightforward and
appealing material. The
fast second section
begins with some
wonderful quiet
percussion writing and
the phrase and meter
shifting versions of the
original tune cleverly
vary it before leading to
the fully-scored return
of the melody in its
original form. This
selection is contest and
festival material of the
highest quality.
Duration: 4'40.
Composed by Carl
Strommen. SWS. Carl
Fischer Concert
Performance Series. Full
score. With Standard
notation. 24 pages. Carl
Fischer Music #CPS8F.
Published by Carl Fischer
Music (CF.CPS8F).
ISBN
9780825839979. UPC:
798408039974. 9 X 12
inches. Key: C
minor.
Concert band - Grade 3 SKU: CL.012-4139-75 Composed by Conaway. Concert B...(+)
Concert band - Grade 3
SKU:
CL.012-4139-75
Composed by Conaway.
Concert Band. Concert
Band Series. Audio
recording available
separately (item
CL.WFR376). Oversized,
spiral-bound score.
Composed 2012. Duration 4
minutes. Opus III Wind
Orchestra Publications
#012-4139-75. Published
by Opus III Wind
Orchestra Publications
(CL.012-4139-75).
Influenced by
the rhythms and dances of
western Africa, this
fiery work is sure to
bring the house down at
your next concert or
contest performance.
Accessible melodies,
driving polyrhythms, and
powerful scoring all
combine to create an
experience your students
and audiences will be
talking about for
years!
Chamber Music Hand Clap, alto Saxophone, soprano Saxophone SKU: CF.FE184 ...(+)
Chamber Music Hand Clap,
alto Saxophone, soprano
Saxophone
SKU:
CF.FE184
Composed by
Warren Benson. Spiral
(each score). Full score.
With Standard notation. 5
pages. Duration 4:30.
Carl Fischer Music
#FE184. Published by Carl
Fischer Music (CF.FE184).
ISBN 9780825877452.
UPC: 798408077457. 11 x
14 inches.
Composed by James Barnes. For Concert Band (CD). Band - Band Collection. Souther...(+)
Composed by James Barnes.
For Concert Band (CD).
Band - Band Collection.
Southern Music. CD only.
Southern Music Company
#CDBAR1. Published by
Southern Music Company
Chamber Music Clarinet, Piano, Violin SKU: PR.164002390 Composed by Dan W...(+)
Chamber Music Clarinet,
Piano, Violin
SKU:
PR.164002390
Composed
by Dan Welcher. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed 1995. 26+14+14
pages. Duration 14
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #164-00239.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.164002390).
UPC:
680160038091.
I
became interested in the
work of Plato through my
friend and collaborator,
the writer and
philosopher Paul
Woodruff. Paul's new
translation, with
Alexander Nehamas, of the
Symposium gave me
insights into ancient
Greek ways of thinking
about Love, Beauty, and
Wisdom -- and managed to
keep the earthy, and
often bawdy side of it
all in full view. But
their new translation of
Plato's later dialogue
Phaedrus went even
further: the beauty of
the speeches is
breathtaking, and the
discourse itself is
enough to keep one awake
at night. Basically the
Great Speech of Socrates
in the Phaedrus dialogue
has to do with the place
of Eros in the world, and
with the conflict in the
soul between fleshly
pleasure and philosophic
discovery. I will not
attempt to encapsulate
this brilliant discourse
in a program note:
suffice it to say that
reading it gave rise to
my two-sided work for
clarinet, violin, and
piano, Phaedrus. The
first movement represents
the Philosophic life, and
is thus subtitled
Apollo's Lyre (Invocation
and Hymn). It begins with
an unaccompanied melody
for the clarinet, which
(after a pair of
harp-like flourishes for
the piano, expands into
an accompanied canon. The
voices in the dialogue
(clarinet and violin)
follow each other by a
prescribed number of
beats, but the music is
totally devoid of any
meter at all. The piano,
representing the lyre,
accompanies this lyric
love-feast with repeated
strummed chords. The
canon has three large
sections, and ends with
violin echoing the
unaccompanied clarinet
invocation as the sound
of the lyre fades. The
second movement, called
Dionysus' Dream-Orgy
(Ritual Dance) presents,
after a brief
introduction, another
kind of unmetered music.
Rather than long lyric
flights of philosophic
song, however, this time
we hear a unison dance of
unbridled energy and
sensual transport. The
piece soon forms itself
into a loose arch form,
with contrasting metered
dance sections divided by
the unison unmetered orgy
tune. Midway through the
movement, Apollo's melody
returns from the first
movement, but it is a
temporary reminiscence.
The orgiastic dance
returns, reaches a
climax, and ends with a
stomping of feet. While
Plato asserts that a
proper balance between
lust and reason is
necessary in all men, he
(naturally) gives the nod
to Philosophy as the
better choice in which to
live. Not so in my music:
the two sides are meant
to coexist and to
complement each other. No
sides are taken. Phaedrus
was commissioned of the
Verdehr Trio by Michigan
State University. It is
dedicated to the Vedehr
Trio with great affection
and admiration.
Transcriptions and Arrangements, Original Compositions for Violin and Piano. Com...(+)
Transcriptions and
Arrangements, Original
Compositions for Violin
and Piano. Composed by
Fritz Kreisler
(1875-1962). Edited by
Eric Wen. The Fritz
Kreisler Collection.
Classical and 20th
Century. Collection and
set of performance parts.
With introductory text,
bowings and fingerings.
Published by Carl Fischer
Gopak Chorale SATB SATB, Piano [Octavo] - Intermédiaire Schirmer
By Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881). Arranged by Vadim Prokhorov. For SAT...(+)
By Modest Petrovich
Mussorgsky (1839-1881).
Arranged by Vadim
Prokhorov. For SATB Choir
and piano [or full
orchestra] (Mixed
Voices). Secular. Choral.
Moderately difficult.
Octavo. 16 pages
Viola and Piano SKU: HL.14028850 Composed by Robert Saxton. Music Sales A...(+)
Viola and Piano
SKU:
HL.14028850
Composed
by Robert Saxton. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover].
Composed 2002. Chester
Music #CH61038. Published
by Chester Music
(HL.14028850).
ISBN
9780711942530.
Invo
cation, Dance and
Meditation by Robert
Saxton, written in 1991
for viola and piano.
22 Organ Pieces from the 19th and 20th Century. By Various. Arranged by Barbara ...(+)
22 Organ Pieces from the
19th and 20th Century. By
Various. Arranged by
Barbara Heller, Lucia
Schnellbacher. Schott.
Size 9x12 inches. 150
pages. Published by
Schott.