Christmas Carols 4 Contrebasses [Conducteur et Parties séparées] Yorke Edition
Double Bass Quartet - Grade 8 SKU: BT.YE0075 Arranged by Robert Rohe. Cla...(+)
Double Bass Quartet -
Grade 8
SKU:
BT.YE0075
Arranged by
Robert Rohe. Classical.
Set (Score and Parts).
Yorke Edition #YE0075.
Published by Yorke
Edition (BT.YE0075).
Four Double
Basses. Eight well-known
Christmas carols in a new
guise. Score and
parts.
The
Programme of Christmas
Carols was first
performed in New Orleans
in 1976. In its original
version, the players were
required to wear
Dickensian costume and a
seasonal narrative
preceded each of the
carol arrangements. The
texts appear
below.
Duration
without text: c.20
minutes Duration with
text: c.45
minutes
Introduc
tion by Robert
Rohe
The
introductory text,
assembled with the kind
assistance of Father
Peacock of Loyola
University of New
Orleans, was designed for
use where the receptivity
of the audience warrants.
So little is known about
thebeloved Christmas
carols, it is fitting
that a brief sketch of
the carols' past be used
to enhance the familiar
music.
If
desired, the introductory
text may be omitted at
the discretion of the
performers.
The
brief text preceding each
carol should be used to
acquaint the audience
with what to expect, from
a quartet that will be
playing the unexpected.
The text also will pace
the program and will
extend performance time
to around 45
minutes.
In
performance, the bass
viol quartet of New
Orleans wore peaked caps,
and turtle necked
sweaters to simulate the
street performers of
Dickens' time. The choice
of four string basses for
this program was to bring
the closest relatives of
the true viol into
play.
History
and development of the
Christmas
Carol
The
celebration of the birth
of Jesus Christ has been
observed for nearly 2,000
years, through the ritual
of the Christian Church,
with part of that ritual
being devoted to
celebration in song. In
those early days, church
music was sung only, no
musical instruments
taking part in the
service.
The
type of song used by the
church had the name
'plain-song'. It was a
single line of melody,
plain and unadorned, sung
by one or more voices. By
the year 1660 A.D., it
had developed a second
name, 'The Gregorian
Chant', after Pope
Gregory, who encouraged
the use.
2nd Movement.
Composed by Johann
Sebastian Bach. Arranged
by Todd Parrish. Cas. Set
of Score and Parts.
Duration 3 minutes, 40
seconds. Carl Fischer
Music #CAS156. Published
by Carl Fischer Music
(CF.CAS156).
ISBN
9781491165010. UPC:
680160923922. Key: G
major.
This
energetic second movement
from Bach's famed
Brandenburg Concerto No.
3 has been skillfully
arranged to be more
accessible to the
developing string
ensemble. Remaining in
the key of G major, this
piece has been re-scored
from the original
compound meter of 12/8 to
simple 3/4 time, allowing
both conductor and
players to more easily
manage the pulse. All
instruments get moving
parts with vigorous
melodies and
countermelodies, while
the original solos have
been integrated into the
sections. An excellent
introduction to a classic
piece of Baroque
repertoire.
About Carl
Fischer Concert String
Orchestra
Series
Thi
s series of pieces (Grade
3 and higher) is designed
for advancing ensembles.
The pieces in this series
are characterized
by:
Expanded use
of rhythms, ranges and
keys but technical
demands are still
carefully
considered
More
comprehensive bowing
techniques
Viola
T.C.
included
Careful
selection of keys and
degree of difficulty for
advancing
musicians
2nd Movement.
Composed by Johann
Sebastian Bach. Arranged
by Todd Parrish. Cas.
Full score. Duration 3
minutes, 40 seconds. Carl
Fischer Music #CAS156F.
Published by Carl Fischer
Music (CF.CAS156F).
ISBN 9781491165416.
UPC: 680160924325. Key: G
major.
This
energetic second movement
from Bach's famed
Brandenburg Concerto No.
3 has been skillfully
arranged to be more
accessible to the
developing string
ensemble. Remaining in
the key of G major, this
piece has been re-scored
from the original
compound meter of 12/8 to
simple 3/4 time, allowing
both conductor and
players to more easily
manage the pulse. All
instruments get moving
parts with vigorous
melodies and
countermelodies, while
the original solos have
been integrated into the
sections. An excellent
introduction to a classic
piece of Baroque
repertoire.
About Carl
Fischer Concert String
Orchestra
Series
Thi
s series of pieces (Grade
3 and higher) is designed
for advancing ensembles.
The pieces in this series
are characterized
by:
Expanded use
of rhythms, ranges and
keys but technical
demands are still
carefully
considered
More
comprehensive bowing
techniques
Viola
T.C.
included
Careful
selection of keys and
degree of difficulty for
advancing
musicians
A violin method for children. Composed by Egon Saßmannshaus and Kurt Sassmann...(+)
A violin method for
children.
Composed by Egon
Saßmannshaus
and Kurt Sassmannshaus.
Stapled. With a Chinese
text
booklet. Performance
score.
Baerenreiter Verlag
#BA10754.
Published by Baerenreiter
Verlag
Orchestra; Violin (Study Score) SKU: HL.49045166 Study Score. Comp...(+)
Orchestra; Violin (Study
Score)
SKU:
HL.49045166
Study
Score. Composed by
Ryan Wigglesworth. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
String. Classical.
Softcover. Composed 2011.
72 pages. Duration 16'.
Schott Music #ED13695.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49045166).
ISBN
9790220135002. UPC:
888680724214.
8.25x11.75x0.276
inches.
Violin
Concerto is scored for a
Classical-sized
orchestra, with the
addition of a harp and
celeste, and lasts around
17 minutes. Although the
work sets out to explore
the lyrical
characteristics of the
solo instrument, it is
only gradually that the
violin finds its full,
lyric voice, and thence,
as the work progresses, a
more dominant role. This,
in one sense, is the
'journey' of the piece.
The work's
straightforward formal
scheme consists of three
movements (roughly
fast-slow-fast) framed by
a reflective introduction
and epilogue. However,
these formal divisions
exist within a single,
unbroken arc. Such an
overall symmetrical shape
places the slow Arioso
(itself divided into
three subsections) at the
midpoint, sandwiched
between the two Allegro
movements. The dramaturgy
of the piece centers on a
twofold search. First
there is the ongoing
pursuit to recapture the
simple melodic material
stated by the solo violin
- accompanied by thar
harp's bass register -
during the opening bars.
Whilst aspects of this
melody are invoked
frequently throughout
(especially in the violin
cadenza which closes the
Arioso movement), it is
only with the final and
most important climax of
the work that the melody
appears again in its
complete form, now
accompanied by violent,
orchestral stabs. The
second search is for a
tonal resting place, the
arrival of which is
delayed until the close
of the epilogue. The
original version of the
Violin Concerto,
commissioned by the
Netherlands Chamber
Orchestra, was premiered
in Amsterdam in February
2012 with Gordan Nikolic
as soloist. The present,
revised version was
created for Barnabas
Kelemen and the
Halle.
Amazing Grace (Full Set) Orchestre d'harmonie [Conducteur et Parties séparées] - Facile C.L. Barnhouse
Arranged by David Shaffer. For young concert band. Rising Band Series. Grade 2. ...(+)
Arranged by David
Shaffer. For young
concert band. Rising Band
Series. Grade 2. Score
and set of parts.
Duration 2 minutes, 17
seconds. Published by
C.L. Barnhouse
Cello; Orchestra (Study Score) SKU: HL.280392 Cello and Orchestra Stud...(+)
Cello; Orchestra (Study
Score)
SKU:
HL.280392
Cello
and Orchestra Study
Score. Composed by
Brian Elias. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Softcover. 68 pages.
Duration 1500 seconds.
Chester Music #CH83886.
Published by Chester
Music (HL.280392).
UPC: 888680971069.
8.5x11.75x0.281
inches.
The Cello
Concerto is in four main
sections that are played
without a break. As with
most of my work, the
music throughout is
generated from the ideas
presented in the fi rst
few bars, and these ideas
and their variants appear
freely in the different
sections. Recurring
material and references
to earlier sections are
used deliberately to
create not only a sense
of unity but also an
impression of familiarity
that aspires to induce a
dream-like perception of
the passing music, a kind
of spiral. The piece
opens with a slow
introduction that
gradually quickens into
the first main section,
an allegro. The form of
the second section, which
is in a lighter mood, is
based on an early 13th
century verse form, the
Sestina, which consists
of six stanzas of
sixlines each, followed
by an envoi. The words
that end each line in the
first stanza are rotated
in a strictly prescribed
pattern* to give the
line-endings of the
remaining stanzas; in
this adaptation, each
line consists of four
bars, and the repetitions
ensue according to the
plan. The intricate
repetition inherent in
this form can also be
seen as a form of spiral.
The third section is an
extended slow movement
interrupted by a quicker
episode that refers to
the fi rst section.
Generally lighter and in
a similar vein to the
second section, the final
section includes a
reference to the slow
movement before returning
to the lighter music that
ends the piece. This work
is dedicated to Natalie
Clein.
Strings String Quartet (Study Score) SKU: HL.51487183 Study Score....(+)
Strings String Quartet
(Study Score)
SKU:
HL.51487183
Study
Score. Composed by
Evgeny Kissin. Study
Score. Paperbound. Henle
Study Scores. Classical.
Softcover. G. Henle
#HN7183. Published by G.
Henle (HL.51487183).
ISBN 9790201871837.
UPC: 888680986568.
6.5x9.5x0.086
inches.
Redolent of
the work of Dmitri
Shostakovich in its
musical language, Evgeny
Kissin's String Quartet
op. 3 comprises four
strongly contrasting
movements: on the heels
of the stately
“Adagio
liberamente†comes
an extremely lively
“Allegro
inquieto†that
wanders between dynamic
extremes and bristles
with glissandi. The third
movement, marked
“Largo
drammatico,†is
sustained by an
insistent, heavily
rhythmic dotted motive,
while the final movement
shifts from the
introduction, marked
“Pensierosamente,
ma mantenendo
strettamente il ritmo
puntato,†into a
brilliant finale,
“Molto allegro e
sarcastico,†that
is suffused with elements
of fugato and,like all
movements, informed by
dodecaphonic harmonies.
This demanding
fifteen-minute work was
composed in 2015-16 and
recorded for the first
time on Nimbus Records by
the Kopelman Quartet.
Sanctus Chorale 3 parties SSA, Piano Alfred Publishing
Choir (Women's Choir) SKU: AP.47545 From Mass No. 4, D. 452...(+)
Choir (Women's Choir)
SKU: AP.47545
From Mass No.
4, D. 452.
Composed by Franz
Schubert. Edited by
Patrick M. Liebergen.
Arranged by Patrick M.
Liebergen. Performance
Music Ensemble; Single
Titles. Alfred Choral
Designs. Masterwork
Arrangement; Romantic;
Sacred. Choral Octavo. 12
pages. Alfred Music
#00-47545. Published by
Alfred Music (AP.47545).
UPC: 038081542386.
English.
A warm
adagio introduction
breaks into a joyous
Hosanna chorus in this
44-measure homophonic
masterwork. Taken from
Schubert's Mass No. 4,
this edition offers
sensible vocal ranges,
editorial dynamic and
metronome markings, plus
a complete IPA guide for
the brief Latin text. The
orchestral parts have
been reduced to a
playable piano
accompaniment while
preserving the Classical
characteristics of the
original work.
About Alfred
Choral
Designs
Th
e Alfred Choral Designs
Series provides student
and adult choirs with a
variety of secular choral
music that is useful,
practical, educationally
appropriate, and a
pleasure to sing. To that
end, the Choral Designs
series features original
works, folk song
settings, spiritual
arrangements, choral
masterworks, and holiday
selections suitable for
use in concerts,
festivals, and
contests.
SKU: HL.49012025 Einfuhrung und Kommentar. Composed by Wolfgang Am...(+)
SKU: HL.49012025
Einfuhrung und
Kommentar. Composed
by Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart. Edited by Kurt
Pahlen. This edition:
Paperback/Soft Cover.
Paperback. Serie Musik.
Classical. Text
book/libretto. Composed
1791. 270 pages. Schott
Music #SEM8008. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49012025).
ISBN
9783254080080. UPC:
888680891190.
4.75x7.5x0.658 inches.
German.
This
comprehensive
introduction to Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart's 'The
Magic Flute' contains the
complete libretto with
numerous music examples.
Kurt Pahlen comments on
the work with
music-related references
as well explanations on
the external and internal
plot. A summary of the
plot and a brief outline
of the genesis bring 'The
Magic Flute' into
relation with the
composer's entire oeuvre
and his life, thus
providing comprehensive,
richly illustrated
information on this
opera.
1991. Composed by
Richard Ayres. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Piano. This is the first
publication from Richard
Ayres, and provides an
ideal introduction to his
unusual and imaginative
sound world. Classical.
Softcover. Composed 1991.
14 pages. Duration 7'.
Schott Music #ED 12925.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49015546).
ISBN
9781423421009.
9.0x12.0x0.066
inches.
A quartet
of paintings by the
American Mark Tobey that
displays expanses of
white in various shades
provides the inspiration
for this solo piano work.
The images from the
paintings are translated
into music that plays off
static and dynamic
forces, interweaving with
sounds reminiscent of a
Javanese gamelan.
Sanctus Chorale 3 parties SAB, Piano Alfred Publishing
Choir (SAB choir/3-Part choir Mixed) SKU: AP.47544 From Mass No. 4,...(+)
Choir (SAB choir/3-Part
choir Mixed)
SKU:
AP.47544
From
Mass No. 4, D.
452. Composed by
Franz Schubert. Edited by
Patrick M. Liebergen.
Arranged by Patrick M.
Liebergen. Performance
Music Ensemble; Single
Titles. Alfred Choral
Designs. Masterwork
Arrangement; Romantic;
Sacred. Choral Octavo. 12
pages. Alfred Music
#00-47544. Published by
Alfred Music (AP.47544).
UPC: 038081542379.
English.
A warm
adagio introduction
breaks into a joyous
Hosanna chorus in this
44-measure homophonic
masterwork. Taken from
Schubert's Mass No. 4,
this edition offers
sensible vocal ranges,
editorial dynamic and
metronome markings, plus
a complete IPA guide for
the brief Latin text. The
orchestral parts have
been reduced to a
playable piano
accompaniment while
preserving the Classical
characteristics of the
original work.
About Alfred
Choral
Designs
Th
e Alfred Choral Designs
Series provides student
and adult choirs with a
variety of secular choral
music that is useful,
practical, educationally
appropriate, and a
pleasure to sing. To that
end, the Choral Designs
series features original
works, folk song
settings, spiritual
arrangements, choral
masterworks, and holiday
selections suitable for
use in concerts,
festivals, and
contests.
Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons), Op.8 Nos.1-4. (Transcribed for Piano). B...(+)
Le quattro stagioni (The
Four Seasons), Op.8
Nos.1-4. (Transcribed for
Piano). By Antonio
Vivaldi (1678-1741).
Piano. 48 pages. Ricordi
#R138995. Published by
Ricordi
Study Score Orchestra (3 (3. auch Picc.) * 2 * Engl. Hr. * 2 * Bassklar. * 2 - 4...(+)
Study Score Orchestra (3
(3. auch Picc.) * 2 *
Engl. Hr. * 2 * Bassklar.
* 2 - 4 * 3 * 3 * 1 - P.
S. (Vibr. * Trgl. * 3 hg.
Beck. * Sizzle-Beck. *
Gong * Tamt.) (2 Spieler)
- Hfe. - Str.)
SKU:
HL.49017992
Orchestra Study
Score. Composed by
Bertold Hummel. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Study Score. Classical.
Softcover. Composed 1977.
Op. 65. 32 pages.
Duration 8'. Schott Music
#ED20694. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49017992).
ISBN
9790001168977. UPC:
884088601867.
8.25x11.75x0.123
inches.
The brief
Fantasia gregoriana,
op.65, is based on the
Gregorian Easter
Hallelujah. Like a
mosaic, the individual
heterogenic episodes,
lyrical, dance-like,
hymnal and dramatic in
turn, are combined
through the permanent
presence of the theme
into a unified whole.The
Gregorian Hallelujah is
present as a type of mode
in every bar of the work.
The subdued introduction,
characterised by the
tritonically transposed
structure of the original
material, is followed by
a sharply accentuated
presentation of the theme
in the bass. Over the
partially engarlanded
resolved variants, a
first bitonal climax is
reached (F minor and D
major simultaneously).
The dramatic development
is repeated, interspersed
with arioso
interruptions, until the
main idea is brought to
culmination in brilliant
instrumentation. The
final chord consists of
all notes of the
theme.
Piano - Grade 4 SKU: FA.MFCD007PN By Nicolas Horvath. By Claude Debussy a...(+)
Piano - Grade 4
SKU:
FA.MFCD007PN
By
Nicolas Horvath. By
Claude Debussy and Robert
Orledge. Rediscoverd
Debussy. Classical,
Impressionistic. Score.
Musik Fabrik #MFCD007PN.
Published by Musik Fabrik
(FA.MFCD007PN).
8.27 x
11.69
inches.
Debussy's
friendship with the
versatile poet and
playwright Gabriel Mourey
began in 1899, and in
July 1907 Mourey offered
Debussy a libretto based
on Le roman de Tristan -
Joseph Bedier's
adaptation of a
twelfth-century Breton
romance by the
Anglo-Norman poet known
as Thomas - which had
recently been published
in Paris. Debussy
enthusiastically outlined
the four-act plot to
Victor Segalen that
October, and the main
differences from Wagner's
Tristan und Isolde are
that none of the action
takes place in Cornwall
and that Isolde of the
White Hands is found
guilty of cuckolding King
Marc with Tristan, who
has to rescue her from
the leper colony in which
she is abandoned in Act
1. She also betrays him
when he goes mad at the
end.
The idea of a
Tristan that restored its
'legendary character' and
had no connections with
Wagner, appealed to
Debussy, who was
extremely moved by the
circumstances of
Tristan's death. Even if
he thought that Mourey's
poetry was 'not very
lyrical and many passages
do not exactly invite
music', he did work on
the libretto and the
music that summer and
sent his publisher,
Jacques Durand, 'one of
the 363 themes for the
Roman de Tristan' in a
letter sent from
Pourville on 23 August,
1907. The present prelude
grows from this theme,
together with the
poignant Breton folksong
Le Faucon. After a short
atmospheric introduction,
Debussy's dance-like
theme (which is
definitely not a
leitmotif) gradually
gains momentum and after
it reaches its ecstatic
climax, representing the
transient happiness of
the lovers, it dissolves
into an expressive coda
and an elegiac close (all
growing from Debussy's
opening, off-stage
trumpet calls), leaving
us with the ultimate
tragedy of their
ill-fated
affair.
Unfortunat
ely, Mourey's actual
libretto has been lost
and the project
eventually foundered
because Bedier's cousin,
Louis Artus, wanted
Debussy to use the
scenario he had prepared
and copyrighted for the
stage, and would not
allow him to proceed with
Mourey's version.
Debussy, it need hardly
be said, would never have
dreamed of collaborating
with the author of the
vaudeville hit La culotte
(The pants)!
(Study Score) SKU: HL.50601627 Critical Edition Study Score. Compo...(+)
(Study Score)
SKU:
HL.50601627
Critical Edition Study
Score. Composed by
Giuseppe Verdi. Study
Score. Classical.
Softcover. Ricordi
#NR14165200. Published by
Ricordi (HL.50601627).
The Works of
Giuseppe Verdi is the
first critical edition of
the composer's oeuvre.
Together with his operas,
the series offers his
songs, choral music and
sacred pieces, and string
quartet and other
instrumental works. This
edition of Rigoletto is
based on Verdi's
autograph score and an
array of additional
sources, including
contemporary manuscript
copies, early editions,
and performing parts. It
also takes into
consideration the abbozzo
published in facsimile in
1941, an autograph
manuscript containing
sketch fragments and a
complete continuity draft
of the opera. The edition
identifies and resolves
numerous ambiguities of
harmony, melodic detail,
text, and phrasing that
have marred previous
scores. In addition, it
reinstates theoriginal
reading of several lines
of the libretto, which
had been censored prior
to the opera's first
performance in Venice in
1851.Martin Chusid's
extensive introduction
and critical commentary
to the score discuss this
and other matters of
censorship and shed light
on the genesis, sources,
and performance history
of Rigoletto.