Music and Lyrics for 100 Classic Songs. Composed by Various. Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook. Softcover. 464 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

By Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. Vocal Score. Broadway. Book. 152 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

C Instruments. Composed by Various. Fake Book. Softcover. Published by Hal Leonard

Composed by Serge Gainsbourg. For Voice, piano or guitar (TAB). Best of 50 titres. Pop - Jazz. Score. 184 pages. Published by Editions Henry Lemoine

Orchestra

SKU: BA.BA06861

Sinfonie (1923-1928). Composed by Leos Janacek. Arranged by Leoš Faltus and Miloš Štedron. This edition: complete edition, urtext edition. Linen. Complete Critical Edition of the Works of Leos Janacek H/3. Complete edition, Score, Set of parts. Duration 40 minutes. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA06861_00. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BA06861).

ISBN 9790260104211. 34.3 x 27 cm inches.

Leoš Janácek’s symphonic fragment Dunaj (The Danube) dates from the period of the composition of “Katya Kabanova”. The composer was not concerned with a musical-picturesque description of a river landscape, but with the mythical link between women’s destinies and water.

“Pale green waves of the Danube! There are so many of you, and one followed by another. You remain interlocked in a continuous flow. You surprise yourselves where you ended up – on the Czech shores! Look back downstream and you will have an impression of what you have left behind in your haste. It pleases you here. Here I will rest with my symphony.” Thus Leoš Janácek described the idea behind the composition project which occupied him in 1923/24. However, after further work, it remained incomplete in 1926. His “symphony” entitled Dunaj has survived as a continuously-notated, four-movement bundle of sketches in score form. It is one of the works which occupied him until his death. The scholarly reconstruction by the two Brno composers Miloš Štedron and Leoš Faltus closely follows the original manuscript.

A whole conglomeration of motifs stands behind the incomplete work. What at first seems like a counterpart to Smetana’s Vltava, in fact doesn’t turn out to be a musical depiction of the Danube. On the contrary, the fateful link between the destiny of women, water and death permeates the range of motifs found in the work. It seems to be no coincidence that Janácek, whilst working on the opera Katya Kabanova, in which the Volga, as the river bringing death plays an almost mythical role, planned a Danube symphony, and that its content was linked with the destiny of women: in the sketches, two poems were found which may have provided the stimulus for several movements of the symphony. He copied a poem by Pavla Kriciková into the second movement, in which a girl remarks that whilst bathing in a pond, she was observed by a man. Filled with shame, the young naked woman jumps into the water and drowns. The outer movements likewise draw on the poem “Lola” by the Czech writer Sonja Špálová, published under the pseudonym Alexander Insarov. This is about a prostitute who asks for her heart’s desire: she is given a palace, but then goes on a long search for it and is finally no longer wanted by anyone. She suffers, feels cold and just wants a warm fire. Janácek adds his remark “she jumps into the Danube” to the inconclusive ending.

To these tangible literary models is added Adolf Veselý’s verbal account which reports that the composer wanted to portray “in the Danube, the female sex with all its passions and driving forces”. The third movement is said to characterise the city of Vienna in the form of a woman.

It is evident that in his composition, Janácek was not striving for a simple, natural lyricism. The River Danube is masculine in the Slavic language – “ten Dunaj” – and assumes an almost mythical significance in the national character, indeed often also a role bringing death. The four movements are motivically conceived. Elements of sound painting, small wave-like figures in the first movement, motoric, driving movements in the third are obvious evocations of water. And the content and the literary level are easy to discover. The “tremolo of the four timpani”, which was amongst Janácek’s first inspirations, appears in the second movement. It is not difficult to retrace in it the fate of the drowning bather. The oboe enters lamentoso towards the end of the movement over timpani playing tremolo, its descending figure is taken over by the flute, then upper strings and intensified considerably. The motif of drowning – Lola’s despair – returns again in the fourth movement in the clarinet, before the work ends abruptly and dramatically.

One special effect is the use of a soprano voice in the motor-driven third movement. The singer vocalises mainly in parallel with the solo oboe, but also in dialogue with other parts such as the viola d’amore, which Janácek used in several late works as a sort of “voice of love”.

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By Various. Easy Piano Songbook. Latin. Softcover. 208 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

(Easy Jazz Play-Along Volume 5). By Various. For C Instruments, Bass Clef Instruments, Bb Instruments, Eb Instruments. Easy Jazz Play Along. Softcover with CD. 152 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

For voice, piano and guitar chords. Format: piano/vocal/chords songbook. With vocal melody, piano accompaniment, lyrics, chord names and guitar chord diagrams. Latin. 248 pages. 9x12 inches.

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(GEB)

SKU: HL.49033130

Die Gunther-Schule Munchen 1924 bis 1944. Composed by Kugler. Edited by Michael Kugler. This edition: Paperback/Soft Cover. Paperback. Edition Schott. 307 pages. Schott Music #ED9502. Published by Schott Music (HL.49033130).

ISBN 9783795704490. UPC: 884088567477. 6.25x8.5x0.825 inches. German.

Dorothee Gunther und Carl Orff grundeten 1924 in Munchen eine Schule fur Gymnastik und Tanz, deren Bogen sich von der Aufbruchstimmung Mitte der 20er Jahre bis zum dramatischen Ende im Zweiten Weltkrieg spannt. Im vorliegenden Buch stellen sieben Autoren alle tanzerischen, musikalischen, kunsterlischen, padagogischen und historischen Aspekte dieser Schule dar, in der Orffs Idee einer Elementaren Musik Gestalt annahm.Ein umfangreicher Dokumentationsteil umfasst u.a. die Aufsatze von D. Gunther und C. Orff aus den 20er und 30er Jahren, Rezensionen zur kunsterlischen und padagogischen Arbeit sowie weitgehend unveroffentlichtes Fotomaterial.Dabei entsteht ein facettenreiches und lebendiges Bild einer grossen Tanzkunst und einer improvisatorischen Musikpraxis, hervorgegangen aus der kongenialen Zusammenarbeit der Tanzerin Maja Lex und der Musikerin Gunild Keetman.

(Voice and Piano)

SKU: HL.50589863

Ricordi Germany. Hal Leonard #UFA11429. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.50589863).

Baritone Voice and Piano

SKU: BT.ALHE18544

Composed by Pietro Mascagni. Score Only. Heugel & Cie #ALHE18544. Published by Heugel & Cie (BT.ALHE18544).

French.

'O Lola, blanche Fleur...' (French text)

This edition: Piano/Vocal/Chords. P/V/C Mixed Folio. Rolling Stone Magazine. Pop/Rock. Book. 384 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

(2.2.2.2/2.0+2.3.1,timp,5 perc,hp,str,solo violin)

SKU: TM.06201SET

Composed by Pietro Mascagni. Arranged by Wiegand. Set Type: D. Set of parts. Published by Lucks Music Library (TM.06201SET).

P/C in set. Siciliana, Valse, Alfio's Song, Church Scene, Lola's Song, Intermezzo.

Edited by Gail Lew. Arranged by Jerry Ray, Tom Roed, Eugenie Rocherolle, Gail Lew. Piano method/supplement (e int pa). Level: early intermediate, level 3. 32 pages. Published by Alfred Music

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