By Heuy P. Smith. Arranged by Kirby Shaw. Choir Secular. 2-Part Choir. Choral Octavo. Pop Choral. 8 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing

By Heuy P. Smith. Arranged by Kirby Shaw. Choir Secular. Men's Choir. Choral Octavo. Pop Choral. 8 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing

By Heuy P. Smith. Arranged by Kirby Shaw. Choir Secular. SATB choir. Choral Octavo. Pop Choral. 8 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing

By Heuy P. Smith. Arranged by Kirby Shaw. Choir Secular. For SoundPax. This edition: SoundPax. Choral Octavo; Part(s). Pop Choral. 18 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing

Arranged by Kirby Shaw. For Choir. (TBB). Choral Octavo. Pop Choral Series. Choral Octavo. 24 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.
Level: Moderate (grade 3).

Book/CD Pack Piano

SKU: HL.14048329

Book with MP3 CD. Composed by Hans-Guenter Heumann. Music Sales America. Classical. Softcover with CD. Composed 2016. 88 pages. Bosworth & Co. #BOE7852. Published by Bosworth & Co. (HL.14048329).

ISBN 9783865439543. 9.0x12.0x0.277 inches. German.

20 easy and medium difficulty pieces. Minimal and New Age music dominates these very emotional compositions by Hans-Gunter Heumann.

By Heuy P. Smith. Arranged by Kirby Shaw. Choir Secular. This edition: SoundTrax CD. CD; Choral Octavo. Pop Choral

By Heuy P. Smith. Arranged by Kirby Shaw. Choir Secular. 3-Part Mixed Choir (SAB). Choral Octavo. Pop Choral. 8 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing

Promoting positive body image in the lyric, with a catchy melody and an infectious grove, this pop tune definitely has a bit of a '50s and '60s doo-wop feel that makes it refreshing. With its throwback soul beat, its body-positive message couched in a cute musical metaphor, and its dance-filled, candy-colored video, it's become a straight-up pop phenomenon loved by today's pop culture. A very playable arrangement with a fresh touch! (1:45).

Concert Band/Harmonie (Score) - Grade 5

SKU: HL.44011765

Composed by Jan de Haan. De Haske Concert Band. Concert Piece. Score Only. Composed 2010. De Haske Publications #1094779. Published by De Haske Publications (HL.44011765).

UPC: 884088896621. 9x12 inches. English-German-French-Dut ch.

A flashback is an interesting psychological phenomenon: a seemingly random trigger can bring back long-forgotten memories from the subconscious mind. The composer underwent a similar experience before writing this piece. He was asked to write a piece for The National Youth Fanfare Band in the Netherlands, one which he heard perform many years ago. All of a sudden he remembered Deep Harmony, a piece frequently programmed back then. He used his own flashback-experience as an inspiration to weave an old English hymn into his new composition, much like a musical flashback. The right idea at the right moment, as this piece will prove!

Een flashback is een psychologisch fenomeen: een hedendaagse belevenis roept zomaar uit het niets herinneringen uit het verleden op. Zo verging het ook Jan de Haan, toen hij een muziekstuk voor het Nationaal Jeugd Fanfare Orkest inopdracht kreeg. Het is het orkest waarin hij zelf ooit speelde. Plotseling viel hem het werk Deep Harmony in, een werk dat hij destijds vaak had gespeeld. Zijn flashback op dit Engelse kerklied nam hij als inspiratiebronen hij verwerkte het in dit nieuwe muziekstuk. De juiste inval op het juiste moment, zoals nu iedereen kan horen!

Ein Flashback ist ein psychologisches Phanomen: Eine Erfahrung weckt scheinbar aus dem Nichts die Erinnerung an lang Zurückliegendes. So ging es auch Jan de Haan, als er ein Stück für ein Jugendauswahlorchester der Niederlande, in dem er selbst einst mitspielte, schreiben sollte. Plotzlich fiel ihm ein damals oft programmiertes Stück namens Deep Harmony ein und er nahm diesen Flashback als Inspiration, dieses englische Kirchenlied in seinem neuen Werk zu verarbeiten. Der richtige Einfall im richtigen Moment, wie das Resultat beweist!

Le flash-back est un phenomene psychologique. Des evenements du passe, imprimes dans la memoire a long terme, resurgissent comme une reponse inconsciente et soudaine a un stimulus lie a une experience anterieure.Cette œuvre a ete composee a l'occasion du cinquantieme anniversaire de l'Orchestre de Fanfare National des Jeunes des Pays-Bas, une formation talentueuse, dont Jan de Haan fut lui-meme membre, au cours des annees 1960. Jeune musicien, il eprouvait un profond respect pour le chef d'alors, Piebe Bakker (1929-2002), un homme passionne, avec un style de direction tres stimulant. En revenant sur cette periode, quarante ans apres, Jan de Haan a revecu lesnombreuses interpretations de la piece Deep Harmony. La melodie scintillante - extraite d'un cantique anglais - lui est alors apparue comme un flash-back et c'est comme un eclair mental qu'il a choisi de lui redonner vie dans le passage final de cette œuvre.

String Quartet (clar,vl,vc,pno)

SKU: BR.KM-2516

Composed by Isabel Mundry. Chamber music; stapled. Kammermusik-Bibliothek (Chamber Music Library). World premiere of the 1st version: Dresden, Semperoper, June 6, 2008. Music post-1945; New music (post-2000). Score and parts. Composed 2007/09. 60 pages. Duration 15'. Breitkopf and Haertel #KM 2516. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.KM-2516).

ISBN 9790004502938. 11.5 x 16 inches.

Der Komposition gehen keine aussermusikalischen Eindrucke voraus, sondern sie konzentriert sich auf innermusikalische Uberlegungen, weshalb es nicht leicht ist, uberhaupt Worte fur sie zu finden. In einem losen Zyklus, den ich in den nachsten Jahren fortsetzen mochte, will ich mich auf das Phanomen der innermusikalischen Bindungen konzentrieren sowie auf ihr Gegenuber, die Einschnitte, Trennlinien oder Kontraste. Jenseits der Tonalitat stellt sich mit jeder neuen Komposition auch die Frage erneut, was zwei Klange zusammenhalten kann, was Ferne und Nahe bedeuten, was das Lose ist und was das Gebundene. Stehen solche Uberlegungen in meinen anderen Kompositionen im Dienste anderer Visionen, so will ich ihnen hier wie ein Geologe auf den Grund gehen.Immer wieder ziehen sich Linien durch die Musik, im konkreten Sinne melodischer Phrasen, aber auch im allgemeinen Sinne der Weiterfuhrung von Klangcharakteren. So unterliegt die Musik permanenten Wandlungen, gehalten von imaginaren Faden, die sich auch verknoten, vernetzen oder vervielfaltigen konnen. Gleichzeitig gibt es auch Einschnitte, scheinbar losgeloste Geschehnisse, die wie unbegrundet hineinplatzen, und dennoch vergleichbar mit einem Stein in einem Fluss ihren Einfluss auf den Verlauf des Ganzen nehmen.Liaison - der Titel beschreibt zwei Seiten dieses Projektes, namlich einerseits die Bindung als innermusikalisch fokussiertes Thema, andererseits den Antrieb, sich mit einem solch basalen Phanomen der Musik erneut zu beschaftigen: die Liaison als Liebesbeziehung, in der die einfachsten Dinge doch wieder zu einem Ratsel werden konnen.(Isabel Mundry).

Soprano, tenor, Knabensoprano, flugelhorn, mixed choir and chamber orchestra (Study Score)

SKU: HL.49018099

Boy Soprano, Soprano, Tenor, Flugelhorn, Mixed Chorus, and Chamber Orchestra Study Score. Composed by Harald Weiss. This edition: Paperback/Soft Cover. Sheet music. Study Score. Classical. Softcover. Composed 2008/2009. 188 pages. Duration 100'. Schott Music #ED20619. Published by Schott Music (HL.49018099).

ISBN 9790001158428. UPC: 884088567347. 8.25x11.75x0.457 inches. Latin - German.

On letting go(Concerning the selection of the texts) In the selection of the texts, I have allowed myself to be motivated and inspired by the concept of 'letting go'. This appears to me to be one of the essential aspects of dying, but also of life itself. We humans cling far too strongly to successful achievements, whether they have to do with material or ideal values, or relationships of all kinds. We cannot and do not want to let go, almost as if our life depended on it. As we will have to practise the art of letting go at the latest during our hour of death, perhaps we could already make a start on this while we are still alive. Tagore describes this farewell with very simple but strikingly vivid imagery: 'I will return the key of my door'. I have set this text for tenor solo. Here I imagine, and have correspondingly noted in a certain passage of the score, that the protagonist finds himself as though 'in an ocean' of voices in which he is however not drowning, but immersing himself in complete relaxation. The phenomenon of letting go is described even more simply and tersely in Psalm 90, verse 12: 'So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom'. This cannot be expressed more plainly.I have begun the requiem with a solo boy's voice singing the beginning of this psalm on a single note, the note A. This in effect says it all. The work comes full circle at the culmination with a repeat of the psalm which subsequently leads into a resplendent 'lux aeterna'. The intermediate texts of the Requiem which highlight the phenomenon of letting go in the widest spectrum of colours originate on the one hand from the Latin liturgy of the Messa da Requiem (In Paradisum, Libera me, Requiem aeternam, Mors stupebit) and on the other hand from poems by Joseph von Eichendorff, Hermann Hesse, Rabindranath Tagore and Rainer Maria Rilke.All texts have a distinctive positive element in common and view death as being an organic process within the great system of the universe, for example when Hermann Hesse writes: 'Entreiss dich, Seele, nun der Zeit, entreiss dich deinen Sorgen und mache dich zum Flug bereit in den ersehnten Morgen' ['Tear yourself way , o soul, from time, tear yourself away from your sorrows and prepare yourself to fly away into the long-awaited morning'] and later: 'Und die Seele unbewacht will in freien Flugen schweben, um im Zauberkreis der Nacht tief und tausendfach zu leben' ['And the unfettered soul strives to soar in free flight to live in the magic sphere of the night, deep and thousandfold']. Or Joseph von Eichendorff whose text evokes a distant song in his lines: 'Und meine Seele spannte weit ihre Flugel aus. Flog durch die stillen Lande, als floge sie nach Haus' ['And my soul spread its wings wide. Flew through the still country as if homeward bound.']Here a strong romantically tinged occidental resonance can be detected which is however also accompanied by a universal spirit going far beyond all cultures and religions. In the beginning was the sound Long before any sort of word or meaningful phrase was uttered by vocal chords, sounds, vibrations and tones already existed. This brings us back to the music. Both during my years of study and at subsequent periods, I had been an active participant in the world of contemporary music, both as percussionist and also as conductor and composer. My early scores had a somewhat adventurous appearance, filled with an abundance of small black dots: no rhythm could be too complicated, no register too extreme and no harmony too dissonant. I devoted myself intensely to the handling of different parameters which in serial music coexist in total equality: I also studied aleatory principles and so-called minimal music.I subsequently emigrated and took up residence in Spain from where I embarked on numerous travels over the years to India, Africa and South America. I spent repeated periods during this time as a resident in non-European countries. This meant that the currents of contemporary music swept past me vaguely and at a great distance. What I instead absorbed during this period were other completely new cultures in which I attempted to immerse myself as intensively as possible.I learned foreign languages and came into contact with musicians of all classes and styles who had a different cultural heritage than my own: I was intoxicated with the diversity of artistic potential.Nevertheless, the further I distanced myself from my own Western musical heritage, the more this returned insistently in my consciousness.The scene can be imagined of sitting somewhere in the middle of the Brazilian jungle surrounded by the wailing of Indians and out of the blue being provided with the opportunity to hear Beethoven's late string quartets: this can be a heart-wrenching experience, akin to an identity crisis. This type of experience can also be described as cathartic. Whatever the circumstances, my 'renewed' occupation with the 'old' country would not permit me to return to the point at which I as an audacious young student had maltreated the musical parameters of so-called contemporary music. A completely different approach would be necessary: an extremely careful approach, inching my way gradually back into the Western world: an approach which would welcome tradition back into the fold, attempt to unfurl the petals and gently infuse this tradition with a breath of contemporary life.Although I am aware that I will not unleash a revolution or scandal with this approach, I am nevertheless confident as, with the musical vocabulary of this Requiem, I am travelling in an orbit in which no ballast or complex structures will be transported or intimated: on the contrary, I have attempted to form the message of the texts in music with the naivety of a 'homecomer'. Harald WeissColonia de San PedroMarch 2009.

Cello and Piano

SKU: BT.EMBZ14779

Composed by Franz Liszt. Book Only. Composed 2011. 16 pages. Editio Musica Budapest #EMBZ14779. Published by Editio Musica Budapest (BT.EMBZ14779).

The arranger of this work (a well-known Hungarian composer living in Romania) writes: This piece has always excited my imagination, from several points of view. First of all, its name. The German title, the obstinate one, may refer to its ostinato character. This is close to Liszt's programme concept, but the French word 'obstiné' is closer in meaning to stubborn. There is just a shade of difference, but to me it is important, because the latter suggests the description of a type of behaviour, the emotional state of a dancer's inner frame of mind abstracted into movements, expressed in dance movements, and this is a fascinating interpretation. The demonstration ofstubborn resistance and defiance to the point of exhaustion was not a frequently occurring phenomenon with Liszt. Secondly, at the beginning of the seventies Zoltán Kocsis played the piece in Transylvania. At that time, I asked the composer, Is the character of the continuous staccato in the left hand sharp, short, or an accompanying background like a constant shadow? Is it a weighty Brahmsian staccato, an ominous knocking? - and so on. Then there are the Bartókian false relations that keep recurring in the work, the B-E flat-G, etc. That foreshadows Debussy, creating harmonic thrills that, when I hear the work, keep my continuing interest alive for it. Finally, my immediate reason for arranging the work was of a family nature: in connection with Liszt's jubilee year, my daughter, who is a cellist, wanted a 'more energetic' piece to play at a bicentenary concert an addition to the existing slow, lyrical, or sombre works written by Liszt for the cello.

The arranger of this work, the well-known Romania-based Hungarian composer Cs ky Boldizsár writes: This piece has always excited my imagination, from several points of view. First of all, its name. The German title, the obstinateone, may refer to its ostinato character, this is close to Liszt's programme concept, but the French word 'obstiné' is closer in meaning to stubborn. There is just a shade of difference, but to me it is important, because the lattersuggests the description of a type of behaviour, the emotional state of a dancer's inner frame of mind abstracted into movements, expressed in dance movements, and this is a fascinating interpretation. The demonstration of stubbornresistance , defiance to the point of exhaustion, was not a frequently occurring phenomenon with Liszt. Secondly, at the beginning of the seventies Zoltán Kocsis played the piece here in Transylvania (Romania).

Der Bearbeiter des Werkes, der renommierte ungarische Komponist aus Rumänien, schreibt: Dieses Stück reizte immer schon meine Phantasie, sogar in vielerlei Hinsicht. Als erstes sein Name. Der deutsche Titel ‚Hartnäckiger' kann auf den ihm innewohnenden ostinativen Charakter hinweisen, was der Liszt'schen Programm-Konzeption näher kommt, das französische ,obstiné' steht jedoch eher dem Wort ‚dickköpfig' nah. Das sind nur geringfügige Unterschiede, mir ist das dennoch wichtig, weil aus Letzterem die Darstellung eines Verhaltens, der in Tanzgesten ausgedrückte, zur Bewegung abstrahierte innere emotionale Zustand eines Tänzers durchscheint, und das ist eine überaus beeindruckendeErklärun g. Die Demonstration des bis zur Erschöpfung reichenden Trotzes, der störrischen Kraft erscheint bei Liszt selten. Der zweite Aspekt: Zu Beginn der 70er Jahre spielte bei uns Zoltán Kocsis das Stück. Schon damals (und seitdem) frage ich den Komponisten:.

(TB)

SKU: HL.49032755

Spielraume fur Streicher. Composed by Mantel. This edition: Paperback/Soft Cover. Book. Edition Schott. Gerhard Mantel vermittelt in diesem Buch Hintergrundwissen zum Phanomen der Intonation und nennt praktische Ubemethoden, die uber eine simple, spontane Bestimmung von zu hoch - zu tief weit hinausgehen. Die teilweise unkonventionellen Losungsansatze ermog. 180 pages. Schott Music #ED 8729. Published by Schott Music (HL.49032755).

ISBN 9783795787295. 5.75x8.25x0.384 inches. German.

'How can I play cleaner - even cleaner?' This question bothers every critical string instrument player during his/her daily practice. According to a survey, more than 70 per cent of the actual practising time and attention of a string instrument player is spent on intonation.In this book, Gerhard Mantel provides basic information on the phenomenon of intonation, presenting practical methods which go far beyond a simple, spontaneous determination of 'too high - too low'. His approaches to a solution, some of them quite unconventional, enable every sting instrument player to find his/her individual way to the best possible intonation and eliminate seemingly insoluble problems in the ensemble playing with other string instrument, wind instrument or piano players. The author attaches particular importance to dealing with intonation playfully and use it specifically for the artistic expression.

Concert Band/Harmonie (Score & Parts) - Grade 5

SKU: HL.44011764

Composed by Jan de Haan. De Haske Concert Band. Concert Piece. Score Only. Composed 2010. Hal Leonard #1094779. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.44011764).

UPC: 884088896614. 9x12 inches. English(US)/Deutsch/Franc ais/Nederlands.

A flashback is an interesting psychological phenomenon: a seemingly random trigger can bring back long-forgotten memories from the subconscious mind. The composer underwent a similar experience before writing this piece. He was asked to write a piece for The National Youth Fanfare Band in the Netherlands, one which he heard perform many years ago. All of a sudden he remembered Deep Harmony, a piece frequently programmed back then. He used his own flashback-experience as an inspiration to weave an old English hymn into his new composition, much like a musical flashback. The right idea at the right moment, as this piece will prove!

Een flashback is een psychologisch fenomeen: een hedendaagse belevenis roept zomaar uit het niets herinneringen uit het verleden op. Zo verging het ook Jan de Haan, toen hij een muziekstuk voor het Nationaal Jeugd Fanfare Orkest inopdracht kreeg. Het is het orkest waarin hij zelf ooit speelde. Plotseling viel hem het werk Deep Harmony in, een werk dat hij destijds vaak had gespeeld. Zijn flashback op dit Engelse kerklied nam hij als inspiratiebronen hij verwerkte het in dit nieuwe muziekstuk. De juiste inval op het juiste moment, zoals nu iedereen kan horen!

Ein Flashback ist ein psychologisches Phanomen: Eine Erfahrung weckt scheinbar aus dem Nichts die Erinnerung an lang Zurückliegendes. So ging es auch Jan de Haan, als er ein Stück für ein Jugendauswahlorchester der Niederlande, in dem er selbst einst mitspielte, schreiben sollte. Plotzlich fiel ihm ein damals oft programmiertes Stück namens Deep Harmony ein und er nahm diesen Flashback als Inspiration, dieses englische Kirchenlied in seinem neuen Werk zu verarbeiten. Der richtige Einfall im richtigen Moment, wie das Resultat beweist!

Le flash-back est un phenomene psychologique. Des evenements du passe, imprimes dans la memoire a long terme, resurgissent comme une reponse inconsciente et soudaine a un stimulus lie a une experience anterieure.Cette œuvre a ete composee a l'occasion du cinquantieme anniversaire de l'Orchestre de Fanfare National des Jeunes des Pays-Bas, une formation talentueuse, dont Jan de Haan fut lui-meme membre, au cours des annees 1960. Jeune musicien, il eprouvait un profond respect pour le chef d'alors, Piebe Bakker (1929-2002), un homme passionne, avec un style de direction tres stimulant. En revenant sur cette periode, quarante ans apres, Jan de Haan a revecu lesnombreuses interpretations de la piece Deep Harmony. La melodie scintillante - extraite d'un cantique anglais - lui est alors apparue comme un flash-back et c'est comme un eclair mental qu'il a choisi de lui redonner vie dans le passage final de cette œuvre.