Requiem. Composed
by Andre Campra. Edited
by Jean-Paul Montagnier.
Choir; stapled. Eulenburg
Orchestral Series. Mass;
Requiem; Baroque. Part.
12 pages. Duration 55'.
Breitkopf and Haertel
#EOS 8047-19. Published
by Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.EOS-8047-19).
ISBN
9790004789742. 8.5 x 11.5
inches.
Among
Campra's Latin works, the
,Messe de mort' is
perhaps one of the more
successful and today it
is one of the more
frequently performed. It
is also the most
enigmatic score of his
entire output. Despite
extensive researches, no
evidence of any sort has
yet been brought to light
to document its origin,
purpose, date of
composition, first
performance or reception.
A stylistic analysis
indubitably supports the
contention that the
,Messe de mort' is a late
work, composed perhaps
between 1722 and 1729.
The present edition
is based on the
manuscript from the
Bibliotheque Nationale de
France (Paris). It it the
oldest known source of
the work. The very few
errors have been
corrected. (Jean-Paul
Montagnier) Vokalensemble
Stuttgart und den
Kammerchor des
Kopernikus-Gymnasiums
Wasseralfingen. Fur diese
beiden ganz
unterschiedlichen
Chorformationen hat
Martin Smolka 2012 auch
gezielt seine Partitur
angelegt. Biografisch ist
das Agnus Dei eine Art
kleines Requiem fur
seinen kurz zuvor
verstorbenen Vater. Das
liturgische Agnus Dei
rahmt den deutschen Text
Eh das Madchen entschlief
... der bei Auffuhrungen
in anderen Landern durch
eine Ubersetzung ersetzt
werden soll.
Der
SWR-Redakteur Hans-Peter
Jahn schreibt dazu im
Programmheft: Die fur
Smolka typischen
minimalistischen
Taktzellen schaffen eine
archaische Sinnlichkeit.
Eine einfache und
zugleich streng gebaute
Vokalmusik mit
Tiefenwirkung.
Nac
h der Urauffuhrung war
die Esslinger Zeitung
hellauf begeistert:
Smolka ist ein Meister
der Stimmbehandlung und
der chorischen
Klanggestaltung. Im
Zentrum des Stucks gerat
die Musik zum Stillstand:
im leisen gleichmassigen
Summen uber dem plotzlich
fortissimo ein
tschechisches Kinderlied
erklingt eines das der
Vater seinen Kindern
haufig vorgesungen hat.
Das alles war sehr
beruhrend. Und eigentlich
noch mehr als das. My
father PhDr. Jaroslav
Smolka (1933-2011) was a
leading Czech
musicologist author of
books Czech Cantata and
Oratorium Fuga in Czech
Music Smetana's Orchestra
Music Smetana's Vocal
Music monography of Jan
Dismas Zelenka and many
others. He was a
legendary teacher of
Music History at Prague
Music Academy critic
recording producer
composer; for almost 50
years he was an important
and highly respected
personality of Prague
musical life. My
father devoted a lot of
time and energy to
musical education and
activities of my sister
and me using often quite
original methods such as
teaching of intervals and
counterpoint through
Bartok's Microcosmos ear
training filling all
imaginable moments of
everyday life or lessons
of harmony analysis
starting with Overture to
Tristan and Musorgsky's
Catacombs. The Martinu
song Wondering Maiden was
his solo number in our
home vocal productions
which he used to sing
with amazing devotion
while his huge voice was
audible in several
neighboring
streets. My Agnus Dei
is closely bound to all
this history e.g. by
using canon and
preferring beauty of
dissonant seconds like
Bartok or quoting Martinu
and his refined
neoclassical harmony.
Father would be probably
a bit critical about the
minimalistic monotony of
the main body of the
piece. Nevertheless
firstly he would
improvise a short lecture
of history of Agnus Dei
in Requiem in Czech Music
naming by heart many
dates and all examples of
changes of order of the
traditional text by
composers. Examples would
be sung
probably. (Martin
Smolka).
Requiem. Composed
by Andre Campra. Edited
by Jean-Paul Montagnier.
Choir; stapled. Eulenburg
Orchestral Series. Mass;
Requiem; Baroque. Part.
16 pages. Duration 55'.
Breitkopf and Haertel
#EOS 8047-26. Published
by Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.EOS-8047-26).
ISBN
9790004789766. 8.5 x 11.5
inches.
Among
Campra's Latin works, the
,Messe de mort' is
perhaps one of the more
successful and today it
is one of the more
frequently performed. It
is also the most
enigmatic score of his
entire output. Despite
extensive researches, no
evidence of any sort has
yet been brought to light
to document its origin,
purpose, date of
composition, first
performance or reception.
A stylistic analysis
indubitably supports the
contention that the
,Messe de mort' is a late
work, composed perhaps
between 1722 and 1729.
The present edition
is based on the
manuscript from the
Bibliotheque Nationale de
France (Paris). It it the
oldest known source of
the work. The very few
errors have been
corrected. (Jean-Paul
Montagnier) Vokalensemble
Stuttgart und den
Kammerchor des
Kopernikus-Gymnasiums
Wasseralfingen. Fur diese
beiden ganz
unterschiedlichen
Chorformationen hat
Martin Smolka 2012 auch
gezielt seine Partitur
angelegt. Biografisch ist
das Agnus Dei eine Art
kleines Requiem fur
seinen kurz zuvor
verstorbenen Vater. Das
liturgische Agnus Dei
rahmt den deutschen Text
Eh das Madchen entschlief
... der bei Auffuhrungen
in anderen Landern durch
eine Ubersetzung ersetzt
werden soll.
Der
SWR-Redakteur Hans-Peter
Jahn schreibt dazu im
Programmheft: Die fur
Smolka typischen
minimalistischen
Taktzellen schaffen eine
archaische Sinnlichkeit.
Eine einfache und
zugleich streng gebaute
Vokalmusik mit
Tiefenwirkung.
Nac
h der Urauffuhrung war
die Esslinger Zeitung
hellauf begeistert:
Smolka ist ein Meister
der Stimmbehandlung und
der chorischen
Klanggestaltung. Im
Zentrum des Stucks gerat
die Musik zum Stillstand:
im leisen gleichmassigen
Summen uber dem plotzlich
fortissimo ein
tschechisches Kinderlied
erklingt eines das der
Vater seinen Kindern
haufig vorgesungen hat.
Das alles war sehr
beruhrend. Und eigentlich
noch mehr als das. My
father PhDr. Jaroslav
Smolka (1933-2011) was a
leading Czech
musicologist author of
books Czech Cantata and
Oratorium Fuga in Czech
Music Smetana's Orchestra
Music Smetana's Vocal
Music monography of Jan
Dismas Zelenka and many
others. He was a
legendary teacher of
Music History at Prague
Music Academy critic
recording producer
composer; for almost 50
years he was an important
and highly respected
personality of Prague
musical life. My
father devoted a lot of
time and energy to
musical education and
activities of my sister
and me using often quite
original methods such as
teaching of intervals and
counterpoint through
Bartok's Microcosmos ear
training filling all
imaginable moments of
everyday life or lessons
of harmony analysis
starting with Overture to
Tristan and Musorgsky's
Catacombs. The Martinu
song Wondering Maiden was
his solo number in our
home vocal productions
which he used to sing
with amazing devotion
while his huge voice was
audible in several
neighboring
streets. My Agnus Dei
is closely bound to all
this history e.g. by
using canon and
preferring beauty of
dissonant seconds like
Bartok or quoting Martinu
and his refined
neoclassical harmony.
Father would be probably
a bit critical about the
minimalistic monotony of
the main body of the
piece. Nevertheless
firstly he would
improvise a short lecture
of history of Agnus Dei
in Requiem in Czech Music
naming by heart many
dates and all examples of
changes of order of the
traditional text by
composers. Examples would
be sung
probably. (Martin
Smolka).
Guitar Solo SKU: IS.G6766EM Composed by Silvio Leopold Weiss. Arranged by...(+)
Guitar Solo
SKU:
IS.G6766EM
Composed
by Silvio Leopold Weiss.
Arranged by Ben Beuming.
Plucked - Guitar.
Metropolis Music
Publishers #G6766EM.
Published by Metropolis
Music Publishers
(IS.G6766EM).
Piano/Vocal/Chords. By LeAnn Rimes. This edition: Piano/Vocal/Chords. Artist/Per...(+)
Piano/Vocal/Chords. By
LeAnn Rimes. This
edition:
Piano/Vocal/Chords.
Artist/Personality;
Personality Book;
Piano/Vocal/Chords.
Contemporary Country,
Adult Contemporary and
Pop. Songbook. With vocal
melody, piano
accompaniment, lyrics,
chord names, guitar chord
diagrams, color photos
and black and white
photos. 74 pages. Alfred
Music #00-PFM0505.
Published by Alfred Music
(Very First Lessons for the Young Pianist). By Fanny Waterman and Marion Harewoo...(+)
(Very First Lessons for
the Young Pianist). By
Fanny Waterman and Marion
Harewood. For solo piano.
This edition: Revised.
Book; Method/Instruction;
Piano Method. Faber
Edition: The Waterman /
Harewood Piano Series.
Instructional.
Elementary. Book. 48
pages
Orchestra Orchestra SKU: PR.11641373S Composed by Peter Schickele. Full s...(+)
Orchestra Orchestra
SKU: PR.11641373S
Composed by Peter
Schickele. Full score.
Duration 24 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#116-41373S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.11641373S).
UPC:
680160680344.
The
concerto has always
seemed an especially
attractive medium to me,
not necessarily because
of its expectations of
virtuosity (although
flaunting it when you've
got it certainly has its
place), and emphatically
not because of the
perception of a concerto
as a contest, but because
so much of what I write
feels song-like; I'm very
much at home with the
age-old texture of melody
and accompaniment. I
hope, before I move on,
to have the opportunity
to write concertos for
all the major
instruments, and perhaps
some of the rarer ones as
well. The oboe is not
only one of the major
instruments, it is one of
my favorite instruments.
I've always loved its
sound, but since moving
to New York I have gotten
to hear and, in some
cases, know some
extremely fine oboists
who broadened my
appreciation of the
instrument's
possibilities. I
especially remember a
concert, probably in the
late 1960's, in which
Humbert Lucarelli played
a Handel concerto,
filling out large melodic
leaps with cascading
scale passages in a way
that raised the hair on
the back of your neck,
somewhat in the way that
John Coltrane's sheets of
sound did. The sweeping
scales in the second
movement of my concerto
were definitely inspired
by Bert Lucarelli's
performance. The first,
third and fifth movements
of the Concerto for Oboe
and Orchestra are
song-like, whereas the
second and fourth have
strong scherzo and dance
qualities, including a
couple of sections that
sound like out-and-out
pirate dances to me. The
hymn-like tune at the
beginning of the middle
movement was originally
begun as a vocal piece to
be sung by my wife, son
and daughter at my
brother's wedding, but I
couldn't come up with
good works for it, so it
ended up as an
instrumental chant. The
opening and closing of
the concerto make use of
the oboe's uniquely
soulful singing. I had
not heard Pamela Woods
Pecha's solo playing in
person when she
approached me about
writing a concerto, but I
had heard her fine
recording of chamber
music for oboe and
strings by the three B's
(English, that is: Bliss,
Bax and Britten) with the
Audubon Quartet. I
actually already had some
oboe concerto ideas in my
sketchbooks; although I
didn't end up using any
of those earlier ideas,
it's interesting that
most of them tended to
share the general feeling
and tonality of the
eventual opening of the
concerto. The work was
completed on October 13,
1994. I hate the
compromises involved in
making piano reductions
-- perhaps I would feel
differently if I were a
more accomplished pianist
-- so I often decide to
make piano reductions for
four hands rather than
two. My good friend Jon
Kimura Parker is a
terrific sight-reader,
and I roped him into
coming over to my place
on February 17, 1995, to
help me accompany Pamela
on the first read-through
of the piece. The first
performance of the work
took place on July 21,
1995, at the American
Music Festival in Duncan,
Oklahoma, with Mark
Parker conducting the
Festival Orchestra.
Orchestra Orchestra SKU: PR.11641373L Composed by Peter Schickele. Large ...(+)
Orchestra Orchestra
SKU: PR.11641373L
Composed by Peter
Schickele. Large Score.
Duration 24 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#116-41373L. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.11641373L).
UPC:
680160680337.
The
concerto has always
seemed an especially
attractive medium to me,
not necessarily because
of its expectations of
virtuosity (although
flaunting it when you've
got it certainly has its
place), and emphatically
not because of the
perception of a concerto
as a contest, but because
so much of what I write
feels song-like; I'm very
much at home with the
age-old texture of melody
and accompaniment. I
hope, before I move on,
to have the opportunity
to write concertos for
all the major
instruments, and perhaps
some of the rarer ones as
well. The oboe is not
only one of the major
instruments, it is one of
my favorite instruments.
I've always loved its
sound, but since moving
to New York I have gotten
to hear and, in some
cases, know some
extremely fine oboists
who broadened my
appreciation of the
instrument's
possibilities. I
especially remember a
concert, probably in the
late 1960's, in which
Humbert Lucarelli played
a Handel concerto,
filling out large melodic
leaps with cascading
scale passages in a way
that raised the hair on
the back of your neck,
somewhat in the way that
John Coltrane's sheets of
sound did. The sweeping
scales in the second
movement of my concerto
were definitely inspired
by Bert Lucarelli's
performance. The first,
third and fifth movements
of the Concerto for Oboe
and Orchestra are
song-like, whereas the
second and fourth have
strong scherzo and dance
qualities, including a
couple of sections that
sound like out-and-out
pirate dances to me. The
hymn-like tune at the
beginning of the middle
movement was originally
begun as a vocal piece to
be sung by my wife, son
and daughter at my
brother's wedding, but I
couldn't come up with
good works for it, so it
ended up as an
instrumental chant. The
opening and closing of
the concerto make use of
the oboe's uniquely
soulful singing. I had
not heard Pamela Woods
Pecha's solo playing in
person when she
approached me about
writing a concerto, but I
had heard her fine
recording of chamber
music for oboe and
strings by the three B's
(English, that is: Bliss,
Bax and Britten) with the
Audubon Quartet. I
actually already had some
oboe concerto ideas in my
sketchbooks; although I
didn't end up using any
of those earlier ideas,
it's interesting that
most of them tended to
share the general feeling
and tonality of the
eventual opening of the
concerto. The work was
completed on October 13,
1994. I hate the
compromises involved in
making piano reductions
-- perhaps I would feel
differently if I were a
more accomplished pianist
-- so I often decide to
make piano reductions for
four hands rather than
two. My good friend Jon
Kimura Parker is a
terrific sight-reader,
and I roped him into
coming over to my place
on February 17, 1995, to
help me accompany Pamela
on the first read-through
of the piece. The first
performance of the work
took place on July 21,
1995, at the American
Music Festival in Duncan,
Oklahoma, with Mark
Parker conducting the
Festival Orchestra.
Guitar - Intermediate SKU: MB.30919M Saddle-stitched. Folk. Book and onli...(+)
Guitar - Intermediate
SKU: MB.30919M
Saddle-stitched. Folk.
Book and online audio.
Mel Bay Publications, Inc
#30919M. Published by Mel
Bay Publications, Inc
(MB.30919M).
ISBN
9781513477145. 8.75x11.75
inches.
This
collection of 35
arrangements of early
music from Medieval and
Renaissance Europe
presents familiar pieces
like Greensleeves,
Canarios, WilsonÂ?s Wild
and KempÂ?s Jig, as well
as pieces that you have
probably heard but never
knew their origins. Then
too, the book includes
pieces that reach deep
into the repertoire and
are new to most listeners
and players.This volume
contains a mix of vocal
and instrumental
compositions, all treated
with the same melodic
emphasis, using both
traditional and modal
harmonic accompaniment.
When appropriate, the use
of polyphony to create
interesting harmonic
structures and modal
passing tones were
usedÂ?a common practice
in vocal music of the
era. While keeping these
arrangements within the
language of the period,
occasionally a harmonic
twist was added for
freshness and
interest.The arrangements
are in standard or
dropped-D tuning and are
suitable for both steel
and nylon-string guitar
performance. In addition,
the pieces appear in
standard notation and
tablature so are easily
accessible to the
intermediate guitarist.
To facilitate
performance, this book
includes access to online
audio of every tune,
expertly recorded by the
author.
The Bartok Performing Editions. Composed by Domenico Scarlatti (1685- 1757)...(+)
The Bartok Performing
Editions. Composed by
Domenico Scarlatti
(1685-
1757). Arranged by Bela
Bartok. EMB. Classical.
Softcover. 48 pages.
Editio
Musica Budapest #Z15083.
Published by Editio
Musica
Budapest
(For the Young Pianist). By Fanny Waterman and Marion Harewood. For solo piano. ...(+)
(For the Young Pianist).
By Fanny Waterman and
Marion Harewood. For solo
piano. This edition:
Revised. Book;
Method/Instruction; Piano
Method. Faber Edition:
The Waterman / Harewood
Piano Series. Elementary.
Book. 32 pages
(Suite for Guitar and Percussion). By Paul Lansky (1944-). For guitar, percussio...(+)
(Suite for Guitar and
Percussion). By Paul
Lansky (1944-). For
guitar, percussion
(vibraphone,
glockenspiel, bongos, 2
woods, 2 metals). Score
and part(s). 28 pages.
Duration 17 minutes, 25
seconds. Published by
Carl Fischer
Stand by Me Orchestre d'harmonie - Facile De Haske Publications
Concert Band/Harmonie/Fanfare Band - Grade 2 SKU: BT.DHP-1115114-015 Arra...(+)
Concert
Band/Harmonie/Fanfare
Band - Grade 2
SKU:
BT.DHP-1115114-015
Arranged by Roland
Kernen. Flexible 5
Series. Concert Piece.
Set (Score and Parts).
Composed 2011. De Haske
Publications #DHP
1115114-015. Published by
De Haske Publications
(BT.DHP-1115114-015).
9x12 inches.
English-German-French-Dut
ch.
Stand By
Me, perhaps Ben E.
Kingâ??s greatest hit
ever, was first released
in 1961 as the b-side of
a single, but as it soon
went to number one on the
RandB charts and to
number one of the pop
charts, the single was
released again with
Stand By Me as the
a-side. In 1986 it was
rereleased again, on the
release of the movie by
the same name, and it is
also well-known through
countless cover versions
by famous singers. Now,
Stand By Me is
available for a flexible
five part
instrumentation.
St
and By Me, Ben E.
Kings vielleicht
grö�ter Hit,
erschien erstmals im Jahr
1961 auf Schallplatte.
Zunächst nur als
B-Seite einer Single
verkauft, wendete sich
das Blatt schnell, als
Stand By Me binnen
kurzem auf Platz 1 der
RandB-Charts und Platz 4
der Popcharts schoss.
Nicht zuletzt durch den
gleichnamigen Film von
1986 und unzählige
Coverversionen ist das
Lied heute bei Jung und
Alt bekannt und beliebt.
Dieser Titel ist in der
Reihe Flexible Band 5
Seriesâ?? erschienen und
somit fu?nfstimmig
variabel
besetzbar.
Stand By
Me, del 1961, è
probabilmente il più
grande successo di Ben E.
King. Il brano è
basato su un gospel del
1955, riadattato a ritmi
più moderni. Stand
By Me ha raggiunto la
top ten dei singoli
più venduti negli
Stati Uniti per due
volte, nel 1961 e nel
1986, in occasione
dellâ??uscita del film.
Un evergreen ora
disponibile nella serie
â??Flexible Band 5
Seriesâ? per
strumentazione variabile
a cinque voci.
Composed by Camille
Saint-Saens. Edited by
Michael Stegemann. This
edition: Edition of
selected works, Urtext
edition. Linen.
Saint-Saens, Camille.
Oevres instrumentales
completes I/3. Edition of
selected works, Score.
Opus 78. Duration 39
minutes. Baerenreiter
Verlag #BA10303_01.
Published by Baerenreiter
Verlag (BA.BA10303-01).
ISBN 9790006559503. 33
x 26 cm inches. Key: C
minor. Preface: Michael
Stegemann.
The
third symphony by Camille
Saint-Saens, known as the
Organ Symphony, is the
first publication in a
complete
historical-critical
edition of the French
composer's instrumental
works.
I gave
everything I was able to
give in this work. [...]
What I have done here I
will never be able to do
again.Camille Saint-Saens
was rightly proud of his
third Symphony in C minor
Op.78, dedicated to the
memory of Franz Liszt.
Called theOrgan
Symphonybecause of its
novel scoring, the work
was a commission from the
Philharmonic Society in
London, as was
Beethoven's Ninth, and
was premiered there on 19
May 1886. The first
performance in Paris
followed on 9 January
1887 and confirmed the
composer's reputation
asprobably the most
significant, and
certainly the most
independent French
symphonistof his time, as
Ludwig Finscher wrote in
MGG. In fact the work
remains the only one in
the history of that genre
in France to the present
day, composed a good half
century after the
Symphonie fantastique by
Hector Berlioz and a good
half century before
Olivier Messiaen's
Turangalila
Symphonie.
You
would think that such a
famous, much-performed
and much recorded opus
could not hold any more
secrets, but far from it:
in the first
historical-critical
edition of the Symphony,
numerous inconsistencies
and mistakes in the
Durand edition in general
use until now, have been
uncovered and corrected.
An examination and
evaluation of the sources
ranged from two early
sketches, now preserved
in Paris and Washington
(in which the Symphony
was still in B minor!)
via the autograph
manuscript and a set of
proofs corrected by
Saint-Saens himself, to
the first and subsequent
editions of the full
score and parts. The
versions for piano duet
(by Leon Roques) and for
two pianos (by the
composer himself) were
also consulted. Further
crucial information was
finally found in his
extensive correspondence,
encompassing thousands of
previously unpublished
letters. The discoveries
made in producing this
edition include the fact
that at its London
premiere, the Symphony
probably looked quite
different from its
present appearance
...
No less
exciting than the work
itself is the history of
its composition and
reception, which are
described in an extensive
foreword. With his
Symphony, Saint-Saens
entered right into the
dispute which divided
French musical life into
pro and contra Wagner in
the 1880s and 1890s. At
the same time, the work
succeeded in preserving
the balance between
tradition and modernism
in masterly fashion, as a
contemporary critic
stated:The C minor
Symphony by Saint-Saens
creates a bridge from the
past into the future,
from immortal richness to
progress, from ideas to
their
implementation.
On
19 March 1886 Saint-Saens
wrote to the London
Philharmonic Society,
which commissioned the
work:
Work on the
symphony is in full
swing. But I warn you, it
will be terrible. Here is
the precise
instrumentation: 3 flutes
/ 2 oboes / 1 cor anglais
/ 2 clarinets / 1 bass
clarinet / 2 bassoons / 1
contrabassoon / 2 natural
horns / [3 trumpets /
Saint-Saens had forgotten
these in his listing.] 2
chromatic horns / 3
trombones / 1 tuba / 3
timpani / organ / 1 piano
duet and the strings, of
course. Fortunately,
there are no harps.
Unfortunately it will be
difficult. I am doing
what I can to mitigate
the
difficulties.
As
in my 4th Concerto [for
piano] and my [1st]
Violin Sonata [in D minor
Op.75] at first glance
there appear to be just
two parts: the first
Allegro and the Adagio,
the Scherzo and the
Finale, each attacca.
This fiendish symphony
has crept up by a
semitone; it did not want
to stay in B minor, and
is now in C
minor.
It would be
a pleasure for me to
conduct this symphony.
Whether it would be a
pleasure for others to
hear it? That is the
question. It is you who
wanted it, I wash my
hands of it. I will bring
the orchestral parts
carefully corrected with
me, and if anyone wants
to give me a nice
rehearsal for the
symphony after the full
rehearsal, everything
will be fine.
When
Saint-Saens hit upon the
idea of adding an organ
and a piano to the usual
orchestral scoring is not
known. The idea of adding
an organ part to a
secular orchestral work
intended for the concert
hall was thoroughly novel
- and not without
controversy. On the other
hand, Franz Liszt, whose
music Saint-Saens'
Symphony is so close to,
had already demonstrated
that the organ could
easily be an orchestral
instrument in his
symphonic poem
Hunnenschlacht (1856/57).
There was also a model
for the piano duet part
which Saint-Saens knew
and may possibly have
used quite consciously as
an exemplar: theFantaisie
sur la Tempetefrom the
lyrical monodrama Lelio,
ou le retour a la Vie op.
14bis (1831) by Berlioz.
The name of the organist
at the premiere ist
unknown, as,
incidentally, was also
the case with many of the
later performances; the
organ part is indeed not
soloistic, but should be
understood as part of the
orchestral
texture.
In fact
the subsequent success of
the symphony seems to
have represented a kind
of breakthrough for the
composer, who was then
over 50 years of age.My
dear composer of a famous
symphony, wrote
Saint-Saens' friend and
pupil Gabriel Faure:You
will never be able to
imagine what a pleasure I
had last Sunday [at the
second performance on 16
January 1887]! And I had
the score and did not
miss a single note of
this Symphony, which will
endure much longer than
we two, even if we were
to join together our two
lifespans!
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Chamber Music Flute, Piano, Viola SKU: PR.11440719S Composed by Nathan Cu...(+)
Chamber Music Flute,
Piano, Viola
SKU:
PR.11440719S
Composed
by Nathan Currier. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation. 44
pages. Duration 11
minutes, 30 seconds.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-40719S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.11440719S).
UPC:
680160011087. 8.5 x 11
inches.
Sambuca,
which most people know
today as a
licorice-flavored
liqueur, was the name the
Greeks gave to a kind of
sharp, shrill-sounding
harp, of Eastern,
possibly Jewish origin.
The Greeks then gave this
same name to a wooden
flute made from the elder
bush, and in the middle
ages it was also
associated with the viol,
at least to the extent
that the Hurdy-gurdy, an
instrument shaped like a
viol and played by means
of a rotating wheel, was
sometimes called a
Sambuca rotata. Thus, the
word Sambuca is tied up
with the ancestors - in
each case, ancestors of
ow birth, as it were - of
the modern harp, flute,
and viola. Somehow, the
present-day association
with alcohol seems very
meet, in that a certain
objectionable quality
seems to have gone with
the name - in 1545 one
George Ascham wrote, This
I am sure... all maner of
pypes, barbitons,
sambukes... be condemned
of Aristotle. The word
Sambucistria - for a
female Sambuca player -
was used by Plutarch and
others to evoke a feeling
of foreign-inspired
decadence [Grove's
Dictionary of Musical
Instruments, 1984].
Currier's work is truly a
Sambuca sonata. Written
for the three Sambuca
instruments, Currier has
first of all seemingly
endeavoured to make the
harp part particularly
Sambuca-like (i.e., sharp
and shrill) with its many
nail and xylophonic
effects, but more
importantly, has used
musical material that
corresponds to the
low-brow, somewhat
Dionysian, indeed, today
even Bacchanalian
implication of the name -
thus, rock music seems to
inspire a great deal
Currier's work [the
Samba, an appropriately
Bacchanalian Brazilian
Carnival dance, in duple
meter with syncopations,
while apparently having
no etymological
connection to Sambuca,
might seem to be
musically involved, too].
The Sambuca which lies
behind this rather
drunken piece is probably
the only musical
instrument which became a
model for an instrument
of war; one Craxton wrote
in 1489 that Sambuce is
an engyn whiche is made
in manere of a harpe able
to perce a walle. But
whether talking of the
modern liqueur or the
ancient instrument
condemned of Aristotle
and mentioned four times
in the Book of Daniel, it
is a shame that Debussy -
inspired by the Dionysian
side of classical culture
(as in Prelude a
l'apres-midi d'un faune)
- seems to have remained
ignorant Sambuca, a word
which to some extent must
lie behind all works for
this wonderful
instrumentation which he
invented, and which I
might seem to have
striven unconsciously,
equally ignorant, to make
the sole basis of
Currier's work - until,
having completed this
piece, written for
harpist Marie-Pierre
Langlamet, and rummaging
around for a title, I
chanced upon it in an old
dictionary.
Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). Edited by Clive Brown. This edit...(+)
Composed by Ludwig van
Beethoven (1770-1827).
Edited
by Clive Brown. This
edition:
urtext edition. Stapled.
Barenreiter Urtext.
Performance score,
Part(s)
(2). Opus 47.
Baerenreiter
Verlag #BA10938.
Published by
Baerenreiter Verlag
(KL) SKU: HL.49041045 Piano works. Composed by Peter Ilyich Tchaik...(+)
(KL)
SKU:
HL.49041045
Piano
works. Composed by
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
This edition: Full-cloth
binding. Sheet music.
Edition Schott. Score and
critical commentary,
complete edition.
Composed 1875-1878. 262
pages. Schott Music
#NCE1069-10. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49041045).
ISBN
9783795794453.
10.25x13.25x1.07
inches.
Petr
Iljitsch Tschaikowsky,
whom Igor Stravinsky
charakterized as being
'deeply national',
represents the
culmination of 'Russion
Classical music' of the
late-eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries.
Probably the most
versatile of Russian
composers, he made great
and lasting contributions
to all genres - operas,
ballets, incidental
music, symphonies and
other orchestral works,
chamber music, piano
music, sacred and secural
choral music, romances,
Lieder and folk-song
arrangements -
establishing a special
place for Russion music
within the European
tradition. Publications
of the first complete
edition of Tschaikowsky's
works was started in the
centenary year of his
birth, 1940. Publication
of a second edition will
begin in 1993, the
centenary of his death.
There are important
reason, both editorial
and in terms of content,
for a second edition to
follow so soon. In the
old edition, ideological
considerations meant that
some of the texts which
Tschaikowsky set to music
were arbitrarily altered.
Similarly, quotations of
the old Russian national
anthem were replaced by
other music. A number of
works, or independent
versions, werde
completely overlooked.
For example, the full
score of the opera
'Vakula the Smith' (the
first version of
Cerevicki) and the
unfinished Symphony in E
flat major werde not
standardized; in some
cases no textual analysis
was offered, and critical
apparatures were simply
dispensed with.The new
complete edition will
remedy these
shortcomings. In addition
to the composer's final
versions, it will include
alternative and earlier
versions of works, as
well as fragments and
incomplete works, all
reproduced faithfully
from the sources.
Documentation and
discussion will be
provided in Critical
Commentaries. Piano
reductions exist of the
stage works, concertos
and concertante pieces as
well as of some of the
cantatas and orchestral
works, either written by
Tschaikowsky himself, or
revised or authorized by
him. These are all to be
included in the edition
which, with its
historico-critical
approach, will address
the need both of scholars
and of practical
musicians.The edition of
musical works (Serie
I-IX) is supplemented by
a facsimile edition of
all of Tschaikowsky's
surviving sketches (Serie
X), the texts of his
diaries, writings and
letters, including the
three-volume
Tschaikowsky-Mekk
correspondence (Serie
XI), a two-volume
catalogue of works and a
single-volume
Tschaikowsky
Encyclopaedia (Series
XII).
Chorus (with soloists) and piano (solos: SAATBB - choir: SSAATB - 2rec.B-fl.2.0....(+)
Chorus (with soloists)
and piano (solos: SAATBB
- choir: SSAATB -
2rec.B-fl.2.0.0. -
0.2.0.0. - timp - str -
bc)
SKU:
BR.ED-10296
Hail!
Bright Cecilia.
Composed by Henry
Purcell. Edited by
Christopher Hogwood.
Choir; stapled.
Renaissance/early
Baroque; Baroque.
Piano/Vocal Score. 80
pages. Duration 60'.
Breitkopf and Haertel #ED
10296. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.ED-10296).
ISBN
9790220101977. 7.5 x 11
inches.
The Ode was
admirably set by Mr.
Henry Purcell, and
performed twice with
universal applause.
(The Gentlemen's
Journal, 1692)
The
popularity of Purcell's
setting is apparent from
the many sources that
survive and from the
printed extracts which
appeared almost
immediately after its
first performance. The
primary source for this
edition is the largely
autograph manuscript in
the Bodleian Library.
Rather to reduce the
orthography to a norm,
the capitalization of the
vocal text favours
Purcell's
preferences. (Christop
her Hogwood)
Vokalensemble Stuttgart
und den Kammerchor des
Kopernikus-Gymnasiums
Wasseralfingen. Fur diese
beiden ganz
unterschiedlichen
Chorformationen hat
Martin Smolka 2012 auch
gezielt seine Partitur
angelegt. Biografisch ist
das Agnus Dei eine Art
kleines Requiem fur
seinen kurz zuvor
verstorbenen Vater. Das
liturgische Agnus Dei
rahmt den deutschen Text
Eh das Madchen entschlief
... der bei Auffuhrungen
in anderen Landern durch
eine Ubersetzung ersetzt
werden soll.
Der
SWR-Redakteur Hans-Peter
Jahn schreibt dazu im
Programmheft: Die fur
Smolka typischen
minimalistischen
Taktzellen schaffen eine
archaische Sinnlichkeit.
Eine einfache und
zugleich streng gebaute
Vokalmusik mit
Tiefenwirkung.
Nac
h der Urauffuhrung war
die Esslinger Zeitung
hellauf begeistert:
Smolka ist ein Meister
der Stimmbehandlung und
der chorischen
Klanggestaltung. Im
Zentrum des Stucks gerat
die Musik zum Stillstand:
im leisen gleichmassigen
Summen uber dem plotzlich
fortissimo ein
tschechisches Kinderlied
erklingt eines das der
Vater seinen Kindern
haufig vorgesungen hat.
Das alles war sehr
beruhrend. Und eigentlich
noch mehr als das. My
father PhDr. Jaroslav
Smolka (1933-2011) was a
leading Czech
musicologist author of
books Czech Cantata and
Oratorium Fuga in Czech
Music Smetana's Orchestra
Music Smetana's Vocal
Music monography of Jan
Dismas Zelenka and many
others. He was a
legendary teacher of
Music History at Prague
Music Academy critic
recording producer
composer; for almost 50
years he was an important
and highly respected
personality of Prague
musical life. My
father devoted a lot of
time and energy to
musical education and
activities of my sister
and me using often quite
original methods such as
teaching of intervals and
counterpoint through
Bartok's Microcosmos ear
training filling all
imaginable moments of
everyday life or lessons
of harmony analysis
starting with Overture to
Tristan and Musorgsky's
Catacombs. The Martinu
song Wondering Maiden was
his solo number in our
home vocal productions
which he used to sing
with amazing devotion
while his huge voice was
audible in several
neighboring
streets. My Agnus Dei
is closely bound to all
this history e.g. by
using canon and
preferring beauty of
dissonant seconds like
Bartok or quoting Martinu
and his refined
neoclassical harmony.
Father would be probably
a bit critical about the
minimalistic monotony of
the main body of the
piece. Nevertheless
firstly he would
improvise a short lecture
of history of Agnus Dei
in Requiem in Czech Music
naming by heart many
dates and all examples of
changes of order of the
traditional text by
composers. Examples would
be sung
probably. (Martin
Smolka).
Choir; Orchestra; Early Music SKU: UT.TME-1 Composed by Giovanni Battista...(+)
Choir; Orchestra; Early
Music
SKU:
UT.TME-1
Composed by
Giovanni Battista
Bassani. Edited by
Elisabetta Pasquini.
Hardback (Cloth Hard
Cover). Tesori Musicali
Emiliani (Emilian Musical
Treasures). Classical. Ut
Orpheus #TME 1. Published
by Ut Orpheus (UT.TME-1).
ISBN 9790215316096. 9
x 12 inches.
P
erformance Material on
Hire
[S
olo: SAATB - Str -
Bc]
Thanks to its
patron the Duke Francesco
II, Modena became a
capital city worldwide
for the oratorio genre:
renowned maestro di
cappella in Ferrara, also
Bassani wished to offer
to the Duke his own work,
setting aside for him the
summit of his melodic and
dramaturgical
inventiveness. Accordi
ng to the documents that
we have, the performance
of Giona was
Bassani's debut at the
court of Francesco II.
Born in Padua around
1650, the composer
carried out the main part
of his activities in
Ferrara, where he was
organist (probably from
1667), and maestro di
cappella at the
Accademia della Morte
(from 1683), and
subsequently also at the
Cathedral (from 1686); he
also became a member of
the Accademia Filarmonica
of Bologna (in 1677) and
was committed to
Alessandro II Pico, Duke
of Mirandola and Marquis
of Concordia. In 1712 he
moved to Bergamo, where
he was maestro di
cappella at S. Maria
Maggiore; he died there
on 1st October 1716.
Before his commission in
Modena, the <> - as he was
often called at that time
- had already printed
seven instrumental and
vocal works as well as a
few operas and
oratorios.
Bist Du bei mir Orchestre d'harmonie [Conducteur et Parties séparées] - Facile De Haske Publications
Concert Band/Harmonie - Grade 2 SKU: BT.DHP-1053785-010 Composed by Johan...(+)
Concert Band/Harmonie -
Grade 2
SKU:
BT.DHP-1053785-010
Composed by Johann
Sebastian Bach. Arranged
by Jacob De Haan. Your
Favorite Classics. Set
(Score & Parts). Composed
2005. De Haske
Publications #DHP
1053785-010. Published by
De Haske Publications
(BT.DHP-1053785-010).
English-German-French-
Dutch.
The song
Bist du bei mir,
geh’ ich mit
Freuden zum Sterben und
zu meiner Ruh’
(BWV 508) was composed by
Johann Sebastian Bach for
his second wife Anna
Magdalena (1701-1760),
who he married in
1721.The popularity of
this song is probably due
to the magnificent,
sensitive melody that
fits wonderfully with the
text, in which a loved
one is told that even
death is beautiful
“as long as you are
there with me.â€
This beautiful
arrangement by Jacob de
Haan is suitable for use
in any
concert.
Het lied
Bist du bei mir,
geh’ ich mit
freuden zum Sterben und
zu meiner Ruh (BWV 508)
werd gecomponeerd door
Johann Sebastian Bach
voor zijn tweede vrouw
Anna Magdalena
(1701-1760), met wie hij
in 1721 trouwde. Dit lied
dankt
zijnongeëvenaarde
populariteit
waarschijnlijk aan de
schitterende, gevoelige
melodie die prachtig
aansluit bij de tekst,
waarin een geliefde te
horen krijgt dat zelfs de
dood mooi is
‘zolang jij bij me
bent’. Dit
prachtige arrangementvoor
blaasorkest, geschreven
door Jacob de Haan, is
geschikt voor vele
gelegenheden.
B
ist du bei mir
schrieb Johann Sebastian
Bach für seine zweite
Frau Anna Magdalena. Die
Melodie passt
vorzüglich zum Text
eines unbekannten
Dichters, der besagt,
dass selbst der Tod
keinen Schrecken mehr
birgt, solange nur der
geliebte Mensch da ist.
Jacob de Haan schuf aus
der beliebten,
besinnlichen Melodie eine
gefühlvolle
Bearbeitung für
Blasorchester.
Nel
1721 Johann Sebastian
Bach sposa in seconde
nozze Anna Magdalena
Wilcken. Le dedica
l’aria Bist du
bei mir BWV 508. La
notoriet di questa aria
è ineguagliabile per
la sua tenerezza che si
evolve in perfetta
armonia con un testo
potente nel quale il
poeta ci regala una bella
visione
dell’amore. Jacob
de Haan ha realizzato un
superlativo arrangiamento
per banda, adatto a tutte
le occasioni.
Bist Du bei mir Fanfare [Conducteur et Parties séparées] - Facile De Haske Publications
Fanfare Band - Grade 2 SKU: BT.DHP-1053785-020 Composed by Johann Sebasti...(+)
Fanfare Band - Grade 2
SKU:
BT.DHP-1053785-020
Composed by Johann
Sebastian Bach. Arranged
by Jacob De Haan. Your
Favorite Classics. Set
(Score & Parts). Composed
2005. De Haske
Publications #DHP
1053785-020. Published by
De Haske Publications
(BT.DHP-1053785-020).
English-German-French-
Dutch.
The song
Bist du bei mir,
geh’ ich mit
Freuden zum Sterben und
zu meiner Ruh’
(BWV 508) was composed by
Johann Sebastian Bach for
his second wife Anna
Magdalena (1701-1760),
who he married in
1721.The popularity of
this song is probably due
to the magnificent,
sensitive melody that
fits wonderfully with the
text, in which a loved
one is told that even
death is beautiful
“as long as you are
there with me.â€
This beautiful
arrangement by Jacob de
Haan is suitable for use
in any
concert.
Het lied
Bist du bei mir,
geh’ ich mit
freuden zum Sterben und
zu meiner Ruh (BWV 508)
werd gecomponeerd door
Johann Sebastian Bach
voor zijn tweede vrouw
Anna Magdalena
(1701-1760), met wie hij
in 1721 trouwde. Dit lied
dankt
zijnongeëvenaarde
populariteit
waarschijnlijk aan de
schitterende, gevoelige
melodie die prachtig
aansluit bij de tekst,
waarin een geliefde te
horen krijgt dat zelfs de
dood mooi is
‘zolang jij bij me
bent’. Dit
prachtige arrangementvoor
blaasorkest, geschreven
door Jacob de Haan, is
geschikt voor vele
gelegenheden.
B
ist du bei mir
schrieb Johann Sebastian
Bach für seine zweite
Frau Anna Magdalena. Die
Melodie passt
vorzüglich zum Text
eines unbekannten
Dichters, der besagt,
dass selbst der Tod
keinen Schrecken mehr
birgt, solange nur der
geliebte Mensch da ist.
Jacob de Haan schuf aus
der beliebten,
besinnlichen Melodie eine
gefühlvolle
Bearbeitung für
Blasorchester.
Nel 1721
Johann Sebastian Bach
sposa in seconde nozze
Anna Magdalena Wilcken.
Le dedica
l’aria Bist du
bei mir BWV 508. La
notoriet di questa aria
è ineguagliabile per
la sua tenerezza che si
evolve in perfetta
armonia con un testo
potente nel quale il
poeta ci regala una bella
visione
dell’amore. Jacob
de Haan ha realizzato un
superlativo arrangiamento
per banda, adatto a tutte
le occasioni.