Chamber Music String Quartet

SKU: PR.16400195S

Composed by Peter Schickele. Full score (study). With Standard notation. Theodore Presser Company #164-00195S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.16400195S).

UPC: 680160037308.

String quartet String Quartet

SKU: PR.16400272S

Cassatt. Composed by Dan Welcher. Premiere: Cassatt Quartet, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL. Contemporary. Full score. With Standard notation. Composed 2007. WRT11142. 52 pages. Duration 24 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #164-00272S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.16400272S).

UPC: 680160588442. 8.5 x 11 inches.

My third quartet is laid out in a three-movement structure, with each movement based on an early, middle, and late work of the great American impressionist painter Mary Cassatt. Although the movements are separate, with full-stop endings, the music is connected by a common scale-form, derived from the name MARY CASSATT, and by a recurring theme that introduces all three movements. I see this theme as Mary's Theme, a personality that stays intact while undergoing gradual change.   I The Bacchante (1876) [Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]   The painting shows a young girl of Italian or Spanish origin, playing a small pair of cymbals. Since Cassatt was trying very hard to fit in at the French Academy at the time, she painted a lot of these subjects, which were considered typical and universal. The style of the painting doesn't yet show Cassatt's originality, except perhaps for certain details in the face. Accordingly the music for this movement is Spanish/Italian, in a similar period-style but using the musical signature described above. The music begins with Mary's Theme, ruminative and slow, then abruptly changes to an alla Spagnola-type fast 3/4 - 6/8 meter. It evokes the Spanish-influenced music of Ravel and Falla.   Midway through, there's an accompanied recitative for the viola, which figures large in this particular movement, then back to a truncated recapitulation of the fast music. The overall feeling is of a well-made, rather conventional movement in a contemporary Spanish/Italian style. Cassatt's painting, too, is rather conventional.   II At the Opera (1880) [Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts]   This painting is one of Cassatt's most well known works, and it hangs in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The painting shows a woman alone in a box at the opera house, completely dressed (including gloves) and looking through opera glasses at someone or something that is NOT on the stage. Across the auditorium from her, but exactly at eye level, is a gentleman with opera glasses intently watching her - though it is not him that she's looking at. It's an intriguing picture.   This movement is far less conventional than the first movement, as the painting is far less conventional. The music begins with a rapid, Shostakovich-type mini-overture lasting less than a minute, based on Mary's Theme. My conjecture is that the woman in the painting has arrived late to the opera, busily stumbling into her box. What happens next is a kind of collage, a kind of surrealistic overlaying of two different elements: the foreground music, at first is a direct quotation of Soldier's Chorus from Gounod's FAUST (an opera Cassatt would certainly have heard in the brand-new Paris Opera House at that time), played by Violin II, Viola, and Cello. This music is played sul ponticello in the melody and col legno in the marching accompaniment. On top of this, the first violin hovers at first on a high harmonic, then descends into a slow melody, completely separate from the Gounod. It's as if the woman in the painting is hearing the opera onstage but is not really interested in it. Then the cello joins the first violin in a kind of love-duet (just the two of them, at first). This music isn't at all Gounod-derived; it's entirely from the same scale patterns as the first movement and derives from Mary's Theme and its scale. The music stays in a kind of dichotomy feeling, usually three-against-one, until the end of the movement, when another Gounod melody, Valentin's aria Avant de quitter ce lieux reappears in a kind of coda for all four players. It ends atmospherically and emotionally disconnected, however. The overall feeling is a kind of schizophrenic, opera-inspired dream.   III Young Woman in Green, Outdoors in the Sun (1909) [Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts]   The painting, one of Cassatt's last, is very simple: just a figure, looking sideways out of the picture. The colors are pastel and yet bold - and the woman is likewise very self-assured and not in the least demure. It is eight minutes long, and is all about melody - three melodies, to be exact (Young Woman, Green, and Sunlight). No angst, no choppy rhythms, just ever-unfolding melody and lush harmonies. I quote one other French composer here, too: Debussy's song Green, from Ariettes Oubliees. 1909 would have been Debussy's heyday in Paris, and it makes perfect sense musically as well as visually to do this.   Mary Cassatt lived her last several years in near-total blindness, and as she lost visual acuity, her work became less sharply defined - something akin to late water lilies of Monet, who suffered similar vision loss. My idea of making this movement entirely melodic was compounded by having each of the three melodies appear twice, once in a pure form, and the second time in a more diffuse setting. This makes an interesting two ways form: A-B-C-A1-B1-C1.   String Quartet No.3 (Cassatt) is dedicated, with great affection and respect, to the Cassatt String Quartet, whose members have dedicated themselves in large measure to the furthering of the contemporary repertoire for quartet.

Piano (Piano Solo)

SKU: HL.51481620

Piano Solo. Composed by Sergei Prokofiev. Edited by Claudia Heine. Henle Music Folios. Classical. Softcover. 43 pages. G. Henle #HN1620. Published by G. Henle (HL.51481620).

UPC: 196288209157. 9.0x12.0x0.164 inches.

Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas 6â??8 are often referred to as â??war sonatasâ?, since they were composed in Russia during World War II during times of great hardship. As the shortest of the three, no. 7 is entirely focused on the essentials, and is certainly Prokofiev's most famous piano sonata. Anyone who has heard it will not forget the hasty first movement, marked â??Allegro inquietoâ?, the cantabile theme of the second movement and the relentless pull of the machine-like, thudding finale. The Sonata appeared in print in 1943 and that same year received the Stalin Prize (second category), including prize-money of 50,000 rubles, which was welcomed with great joy in the Prokofiev household. You can also derive joy from Prokofiev's Seventh Sonata, here critically edited on the basis of all the sources, and produced using Henle's legendary music engraving. A preface by the world's most prominent Prokofiev researcher, Simon Morrison, rounds off the edition.

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SATB/SATB choir - Level 3

SKU: CA.116400

Composed by Samuel Scheidt. Edited by Ursula Herrmann. German title: Christ lag in Todesbanden. Sacred, Motets; Use during church year: Holy Week, Easter and Eastertide. Full score. Composed 1620. SSWV 22. Duration 3 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 01.164/00. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.116400).

ISBN 9790007001315. Key: A minor. Language: German.

Chamber Music Flute, Harp

SKU: PR.164001780

For Flute and Harp. Composed by Dan Welcher. Classical. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. Composed Apr-86. Duration 7 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #164-00178. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.164001780).

UPC: 680160037056.

The American imagist poet Amy Lowell (1874-1925) provided both the title and the substance for this brief descriptive work in her poem Night Clouds. I had been commissioned by the flute/harp duo Chaski to write a piece that had a different sound than most flute and harp pieces. The image of these elusive beasts cavorting through the night, before the appearance of the tiger sun, seemed to me perfectly suited for the flute and harp and would give me the chance to write a work for that combination that did NOT have overtones of nymphs and shepherds. I wanted to make much use of the harp's more violent sounds (beating the strings and the soundboard, for instance) as well as its unusual and idiomatic effects, such as pedal glissandi. For the flute, there are jet-whistle effects, extremes of register, pitch-bending and other decidedly non-pastoral gestures. The work was composed in 1986.   --Dan Welcher.

Chamber Music String Quartet

SKU: PR.164001820

In Memoriam. Composed by Peter Schickele. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. 46+20+20+18+19 pages. Theodore Presser Company #164-00182. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.164001820).

UPC: 680160037124.

Chamber Music String Quartet

SKU: PR.164001400

Composed by Lawrence Moss. With Standard notation. Theodore Presser Company #164-00140. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.164001400).

UPC: 680160036691.

TTB (ATB) choir, 2 violins, basso continuo

SKU: CA.1016405

Composed by Johann Rosenmuller. Edited by Hans Grischkat, Albrecht Tunger. German title: Herr, mein Gott, ich danke dir. Sacred vocal music, Cantatas, Psalms, German, Praise and thanks. Choral Score. 8 pages. Carus Verlag #CV 10.164/05. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.1016405).

ISBN 9790007020897. Language: German.

Score available separately - see item CA.1016400.

Cello

SKU: KU.OCT-10164_VC

Composed by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Edited by Istvan Mariassy. Bach format (230 x 302). Wtq 164. Staple Bound. Part. 7 pages. Edition Kunzelmann #OCT-10164_VC. Published by Edition Kunzelmann (KU.OCT-10164_VC).

ISBN 9790206202933. Key: Bb major.

Chamber Music String Quartet

SKU: PR.16400224S

Composed by Peter Schickele. Full score. With Standard notation. Theodore Presser Company #164-00224S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.16400224S).

UPC: 680160037889.

String Quartet

SKU: PR.16400222S

Composed by Dan Welcher. Full score (study). With Standard notation. Duration 11 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #164-00222S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.16400222S).

UPC: 680160037841.

This work follows my Quartet No. 1 by five years. In terms of style and aesthetic aim, however, it seems light years away. Where the first work, a 28-minute, four-movement piece, took aim at cosmic conflicts and heroic resolutions, the present work is intended as a kind of divertissment. Harbor Music lasts a mere eleven minutes, is cast in a single movement with six sections, and should leave both performers and listeners with a feeling of good humor and affection.   The title comes from my experience as a guest in the magnificent city of Sydney, Australia. One of its most attractive features is its unique system of ferry boats: the city is laid out around a large, multi-channeled harbor, with destinations more easily approached by water than by land. Consequently, inhabitants of Sydney get around on small, people-friendly boats that come and go from the central docks at Circular Quay. During a week's visit in 1991, I must have boarded these boats at least a dozen times, always bound for a new location - the resort town of Manley, or the Zoo at Taronga Park, or the shopping district at Darling Harbour.   In casting about for a form for my second string quartet, a kind of loose rondo came to mind. Each new destination would be approached from the same starting-out point (although there are subtle variations in the repeating theme; it's always in a new key, and the texture is never the same). The result, I hope, is a sense of constant new information presented with introductory frames of a more familiar nature.   The embarkation theme, which begins the piece, is a sort of bi-tonal fanfare in which the violins are in G major and the viola and cello are in B-flat major. It is bold, eager, and forward-looking. The first voyage maintains this bi-tonality, beginning as a 9/8 due for second violin and viola in a kind of rocking motion -much as a boat produces when reaching the deeper water in the harbor. A sweet, nostalgic theme emerges over this rocking accompaniment. This music is developed somewhat, then transforms quickly into a much faster and lighter episode, filled with rising and falling scales (again, in differing keys). A scherzando interlude in short notes and changing meters provides contrast, and the episode ends with a reprise of the scales.   The second embarkation follows, this time in A major/C major. It leads quickly into a very warm and slow theme, in wide-leaping intervals for the viola. This section is interrupted twice by solo cadenzas for the cello, suggesting distant boat-horns in major thirds. The end of the episode becomes a transition, with boat-horns leading into the final appearance of the embarkation music, this time in trills and tremolos instead of sharply accented chords. The nostalgic theme of the first episode makes a final appearance, serving now as a coda. The rocking motion continues, in a lullaby fashion, leaving us drowsy and satisfied on our homeward journey.   Harbor Music was written for the Cavani Quartet, and is dedicated to Richard J. Bogomolny. Commissioned by his employees at First National Supermarkets as a gift, it represents a thank you from many of the people (including this composer) who have benefitted from his vision and generosity. An ardent advocate of chamber music (and a cellist himself), Mr. Bogomolny has for many years been Chairman of the Board of Chamber Music America. -- Dan Welcher.

Chamber Music String Quartet

SKU: PR.164001960

Composed by Dan Welcher. Contemporary. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. Composed 1987. 56+19+18+19+20 pages. Duration 26 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #164-00196. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.164001960).

UPC: 680160037315.

Viola

SKU: KU.OCT-10164_VA

Composed by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Edited by Istvan Mariassy. Bach format (230 x 302). Wtq 164. Folded. Part. 6 pages. Edition Kunzelmann #OCT-10164_VA. Published by Edition Kunzelmann (KU.OCT-10164_VA).

ISBN 9790206202926. Key: Bb major.

Chamber Music String Quartet

SKU: PR.16400182S

Composed by Peter Schickele. Full score. With Standard notation. Theodore Presser Company #164-00182S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.16400182S).

UPC: 680160037148.

Violin 1

SKU: KU.OCT-10164_VL1

Composed by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Edited by Istvan Mariassy. Bach format (230 x 302). Wtq 164. Folded. Part. 8 pages. Edition Kunzelmann #OCT-10164_VL1. Published by Edition Kunzelmann (KU.OCT-10164_VL1).

ISBN 9790206202902. Key: Bb major.