Only One Glimpse Fanfare [Conducteur] - Facile Gobelin Music Publications
Fanfare Band - Grade 2.5 SKU: BT.GOB-000113-120 Composed by Agathe Backer...(+)
Fanfare Band - Grade 2.5
SKU:
BT.GOB-000113-120
Composed by Agathe
Backer-Grøndahl.
Arranged by Klaas van der
Woude. Score Only.
Gobelin Music
Publications #GOB
000113-120. Published by
Gobelin Music
Publications
(BT.GOB-000113-120).
A gem from the
Norwegian folk music.
No difficult and
complicated matter but
music based on sounds and
atmosphere. The
melody is one of pure
beauty and mystical
characteristic of the
tranquil scenery of
Norway.
Solo for
2 B-flat instruments. Een
juweeltje uit de Noorse
volksmuziek. Geen
moeilijke, ingewikkelde
materie maar muziek
gebaseerd op klank en
sfeer. De melodie is
er een van pure
schoonheid en
karakteristiek voor het
mystieke verstilde Noorse
landschap.
Only One Glimpse Orchestre d'harmonie [Conducteur] - Facile Gobelin Music Publications
Concert Band/Harmonie - Grade 2.5 SKU: BT.GOB-000344-140 Composed by Agat...(+)
Concert Band/Harmonie -
Grade 2.5
SKU:
BT.GOB-000344-140
Composed by Agathe
Backer-Grøndahl.
Arranged by Tom Brevik.
Score Only. Gobelin Music
Publications #GOB
000344-140. Published by
Gobelin Music
Publications
(BT.GOB-000344-140).
A gem from the
Norwegian folk music.
No difficult and
complicated matter but
music based on sounds and
atmosphere. The
melody is one of pure
beauty and mystical
characteristic of the
tranquil scenery of
Norway. Een juweeltje uit
de Noorse volksmuziek.
Geen moeilijke,
ingewikkelde materie maar
muziek gebaseerd op klank
en sfeer. De melodie
is er een van pure
schoonheid en
karakteristiek voor het
mystieke verstilde Noorse
landschap.
Only One Glimpse Fanfare [Conducteur et Parties séparées] - Facile Gobelin Music Publications
Fanfare Band - Grade 2.5 SKU: BT.GOB-000113-020 Composed by Agathe Backer...(+)
Fanfare Band - Grade 2.5
SKU:
BT.GOB-000113-020
Composed by Agathe
Backer-Grøndahl.
Arranged by Klaas van der
Woude. Set (Score &
Parts). Gobelin Music
Publications #GOB
000113-020. Published by
Gobelin Music
Publications
(BT.GOB-000113-020).
A gem from the
Norwegian folk music.
No difficult and
complicated matter but
music based on sounds and
atmosphere. The
melody is one of pure
beauty and mystical
characteristic of the
tranquil scenery of
Norway.
Solo for
2 B-flat instruments. Een
juweeltje uit de Noorse
volksmuziek. Geen
moeilijke, ingewikkelde
materie maar muziek
gebaseerd op klank en
sfeer. De melodie is
er een van pure
schoonheid en
karakteristiek voor het
mystieke verstilde Noorse
landschap.
Only One Glimpse Orchestre d'harmonie [Conducteur et Parties séparées] - Facile Gobelin Music Publications
Concert Band/Harmonie - Grade 2.5 SKU: BT.GOB-000344-010 Composed by Agat...(+)
Concert Band/Harmonie -
Grade 2.5
SKU:
BT.GOB-000344-010
Composed by Agathe
Backer-Grøndahl.
Arranged by Tom Brevik.
Set (Score & Parts).
Gobelin Music
Publications #GOB
000344-010. Published by
Gobelin Music
Publications
(BT.GOB-000344-010).
A gem from the
Norwegian folk music.
No difficult and
complicated matter but
music based on sounds and
atmosphere. The
melody is one of pure
beauty and mystical
characteristic of the
tranquil scenery of
Norway.
Solo for
2 B-flat instruments. Een
juweeltje uit de Noorse
volksmuziek. Geen
moeilijke, ingewikkelde
materie maar muziek
gebaseerd op klank en
sfeer. De melodie is
er een van pure
schoonheid en
karakteristiek voor het
mystieke verstilde Noorse
landschap.
Only One Glimpse Ensemble de cuivres [Conducteur] - Facile Gobelin Music Publications
Brass Band - Grade 2.5 SKU: BT.GOB-000114-130 Composed by Agathe Backer-G...(+)
Brass Band - Grade 2.5
SKU:
BT.GOB-000114-130
Composed by Agathe
Backer-Grøndahl.
Arranged by Tom Brevik.
Score Only. 6 pages.
Gobelin Music
Publications #GOB
000114-130. Published by
Gobelin Music
Publications
(BT.GOB-000114-130).
A gem from the
Norwegian folk music.
No difficult and
complicated matter but
music based on sounds and
atmosphere. The
melody is one of pure
beauty and mystical
characteristic of the
tranquil scenery of
Norway.
Solo for
2 B-flat instruments. Een
juweeltje uit de Noorse
volksmuziek. Geen
moeilijke, ingewikkelde
materie maar muziek
gebaseerd op klank en
sfeer. De melodie is
er een van pure
schoonheid en
karakteristiek voor het
mystieke verstilde Noorse
landschap.
Only One Glimpse Ensemble de cuivres [Conducteur et Parties séparées] - Facile Gobelin Music Publications
Brass Band - Grade 2.5 SKU: BT.GOB-000114-030 Composed by Agathe Backer-G...(+)
Brass Band - Grade 2.5
SKU:
BT.GOB-000114-030
Composed by Agathe
Backer-Grøndahl.
Arranged by Tom Brevik.
Set (Score & Parts). 29
pages. Gobelin Music
Publications #GOB
000114-030. Published by
Gobelin Music
Publications
(BT.GOB-000114-030).
A gem from the
Norwegian folk music.
No difficult and
complicated matter but
music based on sounds and
atmosphere. The
melody is one of pure
beauty and mystical
characteristic of the
tranquil scenery of
Norway.
Solo for
2 B-flat instruments. Een
juweeltje uit de Noorse
volksmuziek. Geen
moeilijke, ingewikkelde
materie maar muziek
gebaseerd op klank en
sfeer. De melodie is
er een van pure
schoonheid en
karakteristiek voor het
mystieke verstilde Noorse
landschap.
Danse Classique Orchestre à Cordes [Conducteur] - Intermédiaire Wingert-Jones Publications
Composed by Daniel DiMarino. For string orchestra. Original Concert Work. Gr...(+)
Composed by Daniel
DiMarino.
For string orchestra.
Original
Concert Work. Grade 4.
Score
and set of parts.
Duration
4:06. Published by
Wingert-
Jones Publications
Orchestra Piano SKU: PR.11641861SP Composed by William Kraft. Part. 35 pa...(+)
Orchestra Piano
SKU:
PR.11641861SP
Composed by William
Kraft. Part. 35 pages.
Duration 21 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#116-41861SP. Published
by Theodore Presser
Company (PR.11641861SP).
UPC:
680160685202.
What?
! - my composer
colleagues said - A
concerto for the piano?
It's a 19th century
instrument! Admittedly we
are in an age when
originally created
timbres and/or
musico-technological
formulations are often
the modus operandi of a
piece. Actually, this
Concerto began about two
years ago when, during
one of my creative jogs,
the sound of the
uppermost register of the
piano mingled with wind
chimes penetrated my
inner ear. The challenge
and fascination of
exploring and developing
this idea into an
orchestral situation
determined that some day
soon I would be writing a
work for piano and
orchestra. So it was a
very happy coincidence
when Mona Golabek phoned
to tell me she would like
discuss the Ford
Foundation commission.
After covering areas of
aesthetics and
compositional styles, we
found that we had a good
working rapport, and she
asked if I would accept
the commission. The
answer was obvious. Then
began the intensive
thought process on the
stylistic essence and
organization of the work.
Along with this went a
renewed study of
idiomatic writing for the
piano, of the kind
Stravinsky undertook with
the violin when he began
his Violin Concerto. By a
stroke of great fortune,
the day in February 1972
that I received official
notice from the Ford
Foundation of the
commission, I also
received a letter from
the Guggenheim Foundation
informing me I had been
awarded my second
fellowship. With the good
graces of Zubin Mehta and
Ernest Fleischmann,
masters of my destiny as
a member of the Los
Angeles Philharmonic, I
was relieved of my
orchestral duties during
the Hollywood Bowl
season. Thus I was able
to go to Europe to work
and to view the latest
trends in music
concentrating in London
(the current musical
melting pot and showcase
par excellence), Oslo,
Norway, for the Festival
of Scandinavian Music
called Nordic Days, and
Warsaw, Poland, for its
prestigious Autumn
Festival. Over half the
Concerto was completed in
that summer and most of
the rest during the 72-73
season with the final
touches put on during a
month as Resident Scholar
at the Rockefeller
Foundation's Villa
Serbelloni in Bellagio,
Italy. So much for the
external and
environmental influences,
except perhaps to mention
the birds of Sussex in
the first movement, the
bells of Arhus (Denmark)
in the second movement
and the bells of Bellagio
at the end of the
Concerto. Primary in the
conception was the
personality of Miss
Golabek: she is a
wonderfully vital and
dynamic person and a real
virtuoso. Therefore, the
soloist in the Concerto
is truly the protagonist;
it is she (for once we
can do away with the
generic he) who unfolds
the character and intent
of the piece. The first
section is constructed in
the manner of a
recitative - completely
unmeasured - with letters
and numbers by which the
conductor signals the
orchestra for its
participation. This
allows the soloist the
freedom to interpret the
patterns and control the
flow and development of
the music. The Concerto
is actually in one
continuous movement but
with three large
divisions of sufficiently
contrasting character to
be called movements in
themselves. The first
'movement' is based on a
few timbral elements: 1)
a cluster of very low
pitches which at the
beginning are practically
inaudibly depressed, and
sustained silently by the
sostenuto pedal, which
causes sympathetic
vibrating pitches to ring
when strong notes are
struck; 2) a single
powerful note indicated
by a black note-head with
a line through it
indicating the strongest
possible sforzando; 3)
short figures of various
colors sometimes ominous,
sometimes as splashes of
light or as elements of
transition; 4) trills and
tremolos which are the
actual controlling
organic thread starting
as single axial tremolos
and gradually expanding
to trills of increasingly
larger and more powerful
scope. The 'movement'
begins in quiescent
repose but unceasingly
grows in energy and
tension as the stretching
of a string or rubber
band. When it can no
longer be restrained, it
bursts into the next
section. The second
'movement,' propelled by
the released tension, is
a brilliant virtuosic
display, which begins
with a long solo of wispy
percussion, later joined
in duet with the piano.
Not to be ignored, the
orchestra takes over
shooting the material
throughout all its
sections like a small
agile bird deftly
maneuvering through
nothing but air, while
the piano counterposes
moments of lyricism. The
orchestra reaches a
climax, thrusting us into
the third 'movement'
which begins with a
cadenza-like section for
the piano. This moves
gently into an expressive
section (expressive is
not a negative term to
me) in which duets are
formed with various
instruments. There are
fleeting glimpses of
remembrances past, as a
fragmented
recapitulation. One
glimpse is hazily
expressed by strings and
percussion in a moment of
simultaneous contrasting
levels of activity, a
technique of which I have
been fond and have
utilized in various
fixed-free relationships,
particularly in my
Percussion Concerto,
Contextures and Games:
Collage No. 1. The second
half of the third
'movement; is a large
coda - akin to those in
Beethoven - which brings
about another display of
virtuosity, this time
gutsy and driving,
raising the Concerto to a
final climax, the soloist
completing the fragmented
recapitulation concept as
well as the work with the
single-note sforzando and
low cluster from the very
opening of the first
movement.
Concert Band - Grade 4 SKU: WJ.3014231 Composed by Jacob Narverud. C...(+)
Concert Band - Grade
4
SKU: WJ.3014231
Composed by Jacob
Narverud. Concert Band
Grade 4 & Up. Concert
Band Series. Concert and
Contest. Concert and
Contest. Score and parts.
Wingert-Jones
Publications #3014231.
Published by
Wingert-Jones
Publications
(WJ.3014231).
UPC:
822424018498. 9 x 12
inches.
Beautiful
and poignant, here is an
intriguing musical
portrait of the passage
of time. Relaxed and
gentle, with lush, solid
harmonies and an
occasional glimpse of
dissonance, this is a
work that fully displays
the musical dimensions of
the ensemble. The lyrical
melody, continuously
passed and developed from
one section to another,
represents the dawning of
each new day. Perfect for
concerts, festivals and
graduation
ceremonies.
That Little Beast Orchestre d'harmonie [Conducteur] - Intermédiaire Wingert-Jones Publications
Concert Band - Grade 4.5 SKU: WJ.SBW2405FS Composed by Peter Sciaino. Sym...(+)
Concert Band - Grade 4.5
SKU: WJ.SBW2405FS
Composed by Peter
Sciaino. Symphonic Grade
4 & Up. Contest/Festival.
Score Only. Wingert-Jones
Publications #SBW2405FS.
Published by
Wingert-Jones
Publications
(WJ.SBW2405FS).
9 x 12
inches.
This new,
intense work by Composer
Peter Sciaino is a
perfect glimpse into the
creative and unique
personality that make him
so fun and lovable. This
work takes all the things
that makes Peter's music
unique and mashes them
together in a fun, fast,
and jazzy new work for
the concert band!
That Little Beast Orchestre d'harmonie - Intermédiaire Wingert-Jones Publications
Concert Band - Grade 4.5 SKU: WJ.SBW2405 Composed by Peter Sciaino. Symph...(+)
Concert Band - Grade 4.5
SKU: WJ.SBW2405
Composed by Peter
Sciaino. Symphonic Grade
4 & Up. Contest/Festival.
Set of parts.
Wingert-Jones
Publications #SBW2405.
Published by
Wingert-Jones
Publications
(WJ.SBW2405).
9 x 12
inches.
This new,
intense work by Composer
Peter Sciaino is a
perfect glimpse into the
creative and unique
personality that make him
so fun and lovable. This
work takes all the things
that makes Peter's music
unique and mashes them
together in a fun, fast,
and jazzy new work for
the concert band!
Only One Glimpse Ensemble de cuivres [Conducteur et Parties séparées] - Facile Gobelin Music Publications
Brass Band - Grade 2.5 SKU: GO.114 Composed by Agathe Backer-Grondahl. Ar...(+)
Brass Band - Grade 2.5
SKU: GO.114
Composed by Agathe
Backer-Grondahl. Arranged
by Tom Brevik. Brass Band
Series. Solo. Score and
parts. Duration 2:00.
Published by Gobelin
Music Publications
(GO.114).
Only One Glimpse Orchestre d'harmonie [Conducteur et Parties séparées] - Facile Gobelin Music Publications
Concert Band - Grade 2.5 SKU: GO.344 Concert Band. Composed by Aga...(+)
Concert Band - Grade 2.5
SKU: GO.344
Concert Band.
Composed by Agathe
Backer-Grondahl. Arranged
by Tom Brevik. Concert
Band series. Solo. Score
and parts. Duration 2:00.
Published by Gobelin
Music Publications
(GO.344).
Piano SKU: HL.14041307 Composed by Per Norgard. Music Sales America. Clas...(+)
Piano
SKU:
HL.14041307
Composed
by Per Norgard. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover]. 14
pages. Edition Wilhelm
Hansen #WH31073.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14041307).
ISBN
9788759819333.
10.25x14.5x0.052
inches.
Waterways
(Vandveje) -
Three Pieces for Piano by
Per
Nørgård
(2008-09).
Written
for Anne Marie Fjord
Abildskov.
Preface /
Programme
Note The
three small piano pieces
collectively called
WATERWAYS was composed in
2008-2009 for Anne Marie
Fjord Abildskov and they
are dedicated to
her. You will hear
traces of earlier piano
works of mine –
GROOVING from 1968 and
ACHILLEUS AND THE
TORTOISE from 1983
– in these new
pieces.
The first movement
is characterized by
echo-like sounds, which
also appear in GROOVING.
Semitones are overlayered
and soundsimultaniously,
and then they are muted
one by one to give a
reminiscence of the
initial sound. In this
new movement an extra
echo is added, like an
extra skim of the
stone across the
water surface –
three skims,
actually.
In the second
movement you may hear
traces of ACHILLEUS AND
THE TORTOISE. The left
and right hand both play
arpeggio-like scale
patterns. The music is
shimmering, like a
moiré on a water
surface, with constantly
changing, very short
durations. In the
third movement the
pattern of irregular
durations is maintained
and expanded, but only in
fragments – and you
may catch a glimpse of a
new melody
emerging.
Piano Solo - Easy-Intermediate SKU: FP.FBS03 Composed by Sarah Baker. She...(+)
Piano Solo -
Easy-Intermediate
SKU:
FP.FBS03
Composed by
Sarah Baker. Sheet Music
and Books. Nine pieces
on a day time theme
for solo piano, by Sarah
Baker. Suggested grade
4-5. Classical.
Collection. Forsyths
Publications #FBS03.
Published by Forsyths
Publications (FP.FBS03).
ISBN
9790570500192.
Sara
h Baker is Vocal Composer
in Residence at Education
Music Services, an ABRSM
examiner and a well known
composer of songs and
musicals for primary
schools and massed-choral
events.
All this
experience has come
together in the creation
of this album of piano
pieces, inspired by
growing up in the
Chiltern Hills. Suitable
for players of around
grade 4-5 standard, her
evocative sound pieces
describe a crash-landing
hot air balloon, garden
invading cows and a even
a snake in a
pond!
Air
Balloon!: One vivid
memory I have as a child
is of the day that a hot
air balloon passed over
our house and made an
emergency landing on the
road in front! The sound
of the gas being blown
into the balloon to try
to keep it high enough to
pass the house sounded so
loud and intimidating,
and then there was the
bustle of the neighbours
as we all went out into
the street to watch. It
was both terrifying and
exhilarating to watch the
balloon float past and
then land so near
by.
Buzzards
Circling: There is
something so calming and
restful about watching
birds of prey circling in
the thermal currents of a
summer sky. Growing up in
the Chilterns gave me
plenty of opportunity to
watch buzzards and red
kites. This piano solo
captures the beauty of
their flight as they
glide so effortlessly
through the
air.
There’
s A Cow In The Garden
Eating The Flowers:
Inspired by the memory of
seeing an unexpected cow
in the garden! This
surreal image is captured
in a quirky waltz, as I
portray both the
absurdity of the moment
and the sense of wonder I
felt as a child, looking
out of the window and
seeing the cow walking
round and eating the
flowers. The final phrase
articulates my longing:
‘I wish it would
come
again’.
Wat
ching The World Go By: A
short, reflective piece,
remembering what it was
like to have time to just
sit and watch the world
go by from my bedroom
window.
Autumn
Skies: A miniature about
the beauty of Autumn
skies and the poignant
sense of loss for a
summer gone. Friends I
was fortunate to have
several children of my
own age living close by.
We seemed to be forever
making dens, playing out
in the street and
generally enjoying each
other’s company.
This piece reflects that
sense of
well-being.
Snake
In The Pond: One hot
summer I was astonished
and scared to see a grass
snake cooling off in our
garden pond! I watched,
both horrified and
fascinated, as it rose up
from the depths and then
disappeared again. Here I
portray the sense of the
hazy summer afternoon as
I peacefully watched the
tiny movements of fish in
the pond, contrasted with
the fear and excitement
of seeing the snake
appear.
Morning
Commute: I recollect many
mornings stuck in traffic
as my Dad took me to
school on his way to
work. There is one main
road out of the village
where I grew up, and that
got more and more
congested the closer we
got to the town. We may
not have chatted a lot,
but it was always good to
be together with my Dad,
lost in our own
thoughts.
The
Witch’s Cottage:
My siblings and I had a
fascination with a small
cottage nearby. It was
set back from the road in
a dark part of the woods
and we called it 'the
witch's cottage’.
Every time we passed, I
imagined I heard the
distant cackle of the
witch and wished I could
catch a glimpse of
her.
These pieces
are written to complement
my other collection,
Night Time Impressions,
which also draw on
childhood recollections,
particularly of the woods
behind the house where I
grew up. - Sarah Baker
2023.
Pacific Dreams Chorale SATB [Conducteur et Parties séparées] - Facile De Haske Publications
SATB Choir - Grade 3 SKU: BT.DHP-0991451-050 Composed by Jacob De Haan. I...(+)
SATB Choir - Grade 3
SKU:
BT.DHP-0991451-050
Composed by Jacob De
Haan. Inspiration Series.
Set (Score & Parts).
Composed 1999. De Haske
Publications #DHP
0991451-050. Published by
De Haske Publications
(BT.DHP-0991451-050).
English.
Pacific
Dreams describes the
experience of Miguel, a
traveling composer from
Spain who, feeling
somewhat alienated from
his homeland, is
wandering through an area
of Sydney known as The
Rocks. At a small outdoor
market in a typical
street of this
oldcolonial
neighbourhood, he
discovers a print of
William DeShazos painting
Pacific Dreams Portrayed
in the painting is the
surf of one of the exotic
islands in the Pacific.
Next, with the impressive
Sydney Harbour Bridge
looming over the
narrowstreets of The
Rocks, he envisions
sultry Pacific beaches.
Suddenly a theme he once
composed about the lakes
in Japan comes to him. Is
it the Asian influences
present in cosmopolitan
Sydney that bring this
theme to mind? Or perhaps
the waters aroundSydney,
over which he could sail
to Tahiti? He is
uncertain. Could this
same theme be used to
create a new composition
about his feelings for
the metropolis Sydney?
How then to work his
Pacific Dreams into the
mix? Miguel is certainly
no fan ofHawaiian music.
Mayby he could use the
vocabularies of islands
like Hawaii and Tahiti,
their beautiful vowel
combinations being sung
ad libitum by a mixed
choir.With these ideas
and his newly purchased
print of Pacific Dreams,
he boards the Metroat
Circular Quay. He has a
final glimpse of the
harbour and the Sydney
Opera House as the train
races into the ground. On
to the hotel! To work! He
must compose!Maestoso :
Miguel is impressed as he
gazes upon the Sydney
Harbour Bridge. And yet,
hewants to go away from
this city. Away, to an
exotic island in the
Pacific.Steady Rock : In
the Rocks, musicians are
playing at a square.
Miguel basks in the
atmosphere but at the
same time he is
fantasizing about Hawaii
and Tahiti.Andante
Lamentoso :In his hotel
room, Miguel is feeling
sad and lonely in this
big city. He takes
comfort in his Pacific
Dreams.Allegro : Miguel
boards the boat that
takes him from Darling
Harbour to Circular Quay.
In his mind he is
traveling on to Hawaii.
Or is ithome, where the
bolero is playing? He is
pulled back to reality by
the skyline of
Sydney.
Wir
schlüpfen in die Haut
von Miguel und reisen mit
ihm nach Australien.
Einigermaßen
entfremdet von seiner
spanischen Heimat
schlendert er durch das
Viertel The Rocks in
Sydney. Auf einem kleinen
Markt entdeckt er einen
Druck des Gemäldes
Pacific Dreams von
William DeShazo. Das Bild
stellt die Meeresbrandung
auf einer exotischen
Insel im Pazifik dar.
Während die
eindrucksvolle Harbour
Bridge von Sidney vor ihm
auftaucht, ist er in
Gedanken bei den
heißen Stränden im
Stillen Ozean. Auf einmal
kommt ihm das Thema in
den Sinn, das er einst
über die Gewässer
Japans komponiert hatte.
Liegt es an den
asiatischen
Einflüssen, die im
kosmopolitischen Sydney
so vielfältig
vertretensind? Oder sind
es die Wasser rund um
Sydney, über die er
nach Tahiti segeln
könnte? Er ist sich
unsicher. Könnte er
genau dieses Thema für
eine neue Komposition
über die Metropole
Sydney verwenden? Wie
sollte er seine Träume
vom Pazifik, seine
Pacific Dreams, in
diese Mixtur einbringen?
Vielleicht könnte er
den Wortschatz von Inseln
wie Hawaii und Tahiti
für seine Komposition
verwenden. Und einen
gemischten Chor die
schönen
Vokalverbindungen ad
libitum singen lassen.
Mit diesen Ideen im Kopf
steigt er in die Metro am
Circular Quay. Auf ins
Hotel und frisch ans
Werk! Jetzt muss er
einfach
komponieren....
Pacific Dreams Ensemble de cuivres [Conducteur et Parties séparées] - Facile De Haske Publications
Brass Band - Grade 3 SKU: BT.DHP-0991451-030 Composed by Jacob De Haan. I...(+)
Brass Band - Grade 3
SKU:
BT.DHP-0991451-030
Composed by Jacob De
Haan. Inspiration Series.
Original Light Music. Set
(Score & Parts). Composed
1999. De Haske
Publications #DHP
0991451-030. Published by
De Haske Publications
(BT.DHP-0991451-030).
Pacific Dreams
describes the experience
of Miguel, a traveling
composer from Spain who,
feeling somewhat
alienated from his
homeland, is wandering
through an area of Sydney
known as The Rocks. At a
small outdoor market in a
typical street of this
oldcolonial
neighbourhood, he
discovers a print of
William DeShazos painting
Pacific Dreams Portrayed
in the painting is the
surf of one of the exotic
islands in the Pacific.
Next, with the impressive
Sydney Harbour Bridge
looming over the
narrowstreets of The
Rocks, he envisions
sultry Pacific beaches.
Suddenly a theme he once
composed about the lakes
in Japan comes to him. Is
it the Asian influences
present in cosmopolitan
Sydney that bring this
theme to mind? Or perhaps
the waters aroundSydney,
over which he could sail
to Tahiti? He is
uncertain. Could this
same theme be used to
create a new composition
about his feelings for
the metropolis Sydney?
How then to work his
Pacific Dreams into the
mix? Miguel is certainly
no fan ofHawaiian music.
Mayby he could use the
vocabularies of islands
like Hawaii and Tahiti,
their beautiful vowel
combinations being sung
ad libitum by a mixed
choir.With these ideas
and his newly purchased
print of Pacific Dreams,
he boards the Metroat
Circular Quay. He has a
final glimpse of the
harbour and the Sydney
Opera House as the train
races into the ground. On
to the hotel! To work! He
must compose!Maestoso :
Miguel is impressed as he
gazes upon the Sydney
Harbour Bridge. And yet,
hewants to go away from
this city. Away, to an
exotic island in the
Pacific.Steady Rock : In
the Rocks, musicians are
playing at a square.
Miguel basks in the
atmosphere but at the
same time he is
fantasizing about Hawaii
and Tahiti.Andante
Lamentoso :In his hotel
room, Miguel is feeling
sad and lonely in this
big city. He takes
comfort in his Pacific
Dreams.Allegro : Miguel
boards the boat that
takes him from Darling
Harbour to Circular Quay.
In his mind he is
traveling on to Hawaii.
Or is ithome, where the
bolero is playing? He is
pulled back to reality by
the skyline of
Sydney.
Wir
schlüpfen in die Haut
von Miguel und reisen mit
ihm nach Australien.
Einigermaßen
entfremdet von seiner
spanischen Heimat
schlendert er durch das
Viertel The Rocks in
Sydney. Auf einem kleinen
Markt entdeckt er einen
Druck des Gemäldes
Pacific Dreams von
William DeShazo. Das Bild
stellt die Meeresbrandung
auf einer exotischen
Insel im Pazifik dar.
Während die
eindrucksvolle Harbour
Bridge von Sidney vor ihm
auftaucht, ist er in
Gedanken bei den
heißen Stränden im
Stillen Ozean. Auf einmal
kommt ihm das Thema in
den Sinn, das er einst
über die Gewässer
Japans komponiert hatte.
Liegt es an den
asiatischen
Einflüssen, die im
kosmopolitischen Sydney
so vielfältig
vertretensind? Oder sind
es die Wasser rund um
Sydney, über die er
nach Tahiti segeln
könnte? Er ist sich
unsicher. Könnte er
genau dieses Thema für
eine neue Komposition
über die Metropole
Sydney verwenden? Wie
sollte er seine Träume
vom Pazifik, seine
Pacific Dreams, in
diese Mixtur einbringen?
Vielleicht könnte er
den Wortschatz von Inseln
wie Hawaii und Tahiti
für seine Komposition
verwenden. Und einen
gemischten Chor die
schönen
Vokalverbindungen ad
libitum singen lassen.
Mit diesen Ideen im Kopf
steigt er in die Metro am
Circular Quay. Auf ins
Hotel und frisch ans
Werk! Jetzt muss er
einfach
komponieren....
SKU: LO.99-2265H Composed by Alisa Bair. Choral. Concert. Performance/reh...(+)
SKU: LO.99-2265H
Composed by Alisa Bair.
Choral. Concert.
Performance/rehearsal CD.
Heritage Music Press
#99/2265H. Published by
Heritage Music Press
(LO.99-2265H).
UPC:
000308117028.
A
tender, intimate glimpse
into the most private
place of grief, this rich
and emotional original
expresses the universal
longing for one who has
passed on, while gently
questioning the mystery
of the world beyond. With
words written in memory
of the lyricist’s
father and music born out
of the resonant
experience of the
composer who lost her
daughter, “From
There†is a superb
choice for any school,
church or community
wanting to honor
someone’s memory
or simply acknowledge
that loss is part of
life.