Percussion (Percussion Parts)

SKU: HL.14028050

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. 8 pages. Music Sales #KP00033. Published by Music Sales (HL.14028050).

ISBN 9788759858387. UPC: 888680630478. 16.5x11.75 inches. International (more than one language).

Work for Solo Percussion dating from 1983. Ruders writes: The extraordinary title is a typical example of Poul Ruder's (b. 1949) peculiar and bizarre sense of humour - Ruders, together with Hans Abrahamsen and Bo Holten, being one of the most important names within new Danish music after the Nørgård-Holm green-Nørholm generation. Although Ruders is influenced by Holmgreen's absurd simplicity, he takes up an original place in new Danish music to which he has conveyed humour and liveliness as well as theatre and virtuosity. Quotations, 'found objects', play an important part in Ruders' music, for instance in his chamber work MEDIEVAL VARIATIONS (1974), but the old material is being varied with adequate audacity and liveliness so as to yield new qualities, not unlike Peter Maxwell Davies' 'music on music'. ALARM is 'a short shocker, a kind of film soundtrack without the pictures', based on the horror in victor Hugo's THE BELL RINGER OF NOTRE DAME. To produce the right atmosphere of uneasiness and nervousness Ruders uses, among other things, the Balinese cymbal-machine 'ching-ching' and the snore of the 'didjeridoo' from Australia.

Orchestra

SKU: HL.14027979

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Score. 111 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #KP00695. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14027979).

ISBN 9788759888780. English.

Corona - The Solar Trilogy No. 3 for Orchestra was composed by Poul Ruders in 1995. Programme note: CORONA makes the final part of the SOLAR-TRILOGY, a huge symphonic triptych about the life and behavior of the Sun. The first'panel' GONG depicts the birth, life and final collapse of our nearest star, the second ZENITH describes in its ultra-slow tempo the patient rise of the Sun toward midday ferocity and its subsequent setting. CORONA, then, is a symphonic 'portrait' of the phenomenally hot whispy brim encircling and radiating from the Sun, a sizzling halo of electrons and photons visible only during a total eclipse. Formally CORONA follows the process of such totalityin progress:the gradual eclipsing by the Moon - total darkness with thefierce, sparkling outer corona - the gradual 'rebirth' of the light toward the full gl.ory and warmth of the Sun.Besides the obvious astronomical narrative of the SOLAR-TRILOGY there's a metaphysical angle too, underlying each of the three compositions: GONG, in spite of its apparent energy, may be the most pessimistic of them all, epitomizing the death and ultimate annihilation of the prime source of Life itself. ZENITH is a hommage to human aspiration and spiritual endurance and CORONA ends with Hope and Glory after a journey from depression throughtotal despair. Super-structurally, the zenith of ZENITH makes the zenith of the entire trilogy, i.e. when the E- flat of the unisone horns in ZENITH is heard, we are exactly halfway through the collected work. Poul Ruders.

Orchestra (Score) - Grade 4

SKU: HL.14027994

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Set. 86 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH29830. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14027994).

ISBN 9788759864593.

New York is the city which fascinates and inspires Ruders. Time and again he goes back there to work. 'Manhattan Abstraction' (1982) subtitles - a symphonic skyline for large orchestra - was conceived there. Ruders' Brittish colleague Oliver Knussen defines the piece as: - a performance of an extraordinary Morden-Times-like construction. It is a sort of symphonic sculpture, which in the composer's own words words propels forth from one particular inspiration: the New York profile, as seen from Liberty Island, one icy cold January day with it's open, clear sky and dazzling sun light. 'Manhatten Abstraction' appears as an amalgam of some of the compositorical habits found in present pieces. For instance, are present here compositorical ideas and melodic loans from 'Capriccio Pian'e Forte', 2nd String Quartet(1979), 'Four Compositions' (1980), and 2nd Piano Sonata(1982). The question at hand is mainly concerned with the enhanced elaboration of Ruders' use of the classic English change-ringing system: a permuting method pre-determining the order of tone-appearances and /or tone groups; a serial technique in other words. In spite of the rigidly fixed material, Ruders somehow manages to chisel out a personal expression by way of emphasising contrasting elements already existing within the material itself. The spiky, repetitive sections form a counterpart to a more human violin-solo. This dialectical tension is - as hinted by the title - a symphonic abstraction of a fascinating metropolis; the most beautiful and the ugliest. The subtitle: a symphonic skyline reflects the musical erection of the Manhattan profile, which under the clear sky, materializes into the most powerful and compelling man-made sculpture on earth. Thus 'Manhattan Abstraction' is a homage to, as well as a vision of, this giant contraption of concrete, glass, and chrome.

Piano - Grade 4

SKU: HL.14028012

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Composed 2002. 12 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30604. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14028012).

ISBN 9788759811870. 8.25x11.75x0.097 inches. English.

Poul Ruders's Star Prelude And Love Fugue is a work for Piano dating from 1990.

Cello and Orchestra

SKU: HL.14028003

Cello Concerto No. 1. Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. Composed 2002. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30292. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14028003).

ISBN 9788759862896.

Poul Ruders Polydrama (Manyfold Event) for cello and orchestra, is the last part of a drama trilogy otherwise consisting of Dramaphonia for piano and 11 instruments and Monodrama for percussion and 32 instruments. In this abstract drama, the individual listener is left entirely to his own associations. The composer has compared polydrama with the gradual defoliation of a big tree: the vigorously growing organism is attacked by a swarm of locusts until, finally, nothing remains but bare branches in a landscape of long shadows; a solitary, singing bird remains, however, like a streak of hope in an increasingly dark and pessimistic universe.

Clarinet and Twin Orchestra

SKU: HL.14027974

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. 20th Century. Part. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #KP00083. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14027974).

English.

The B flat Solo Clarinet Part for Danish composer, Poul Ruders' fabulous concerto. Written between 1984 and 1985, this mysterious, majestic and expressive work for Clarinet and Twin Orchestra is quite a challenge but certainly an impressive and rewarding one! The full score is also available(KP00077).

Piano (Piano) - Grade 5

SKU: HL.14028025

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Composed 2007. 28 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30745. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14028025).

ISBN 9788759815076. 8.0x11.5x0.123 inches. English.

Poul Ruders ' collection of short solo pieces entitled 13 Postludes For Piano was written in 1989 for the Danish pianist Amalie Malling, right on the heels of the composer's first symphony 'Himmelhoch jauchzend - zum Tode betrubt', which was premiered in London during the 1990 Prom-season.

Full Score. Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Score Only. Composed 2017. 80 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH32201. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.232526).

Violin and Orchestra

SKU: HL.14028022

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Set. 80 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30180. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14028022).

ISBN 9788759861615. 12.0x16.5x0.52 inches.

Ruders writes: My second concerto for violin and orchestra is a 'reverse' cousin of Polydrama the cello concerto. The former starts out extremely slow and speeds up gradually and the latter progresses in exactly the opposite way, but whereas the cello concerto is composed as one, uninterrupted stretch, the violin concerto is formally completely different: there are 4 movements, each of them combined via a 'ritornello', a solo-cadenza which appears 4 times (the works conclude with a solo) in almost the shape, i.e. the length varies from time to time.

Guitar and Orchestra

SKU: HL.14028042

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. Composed 2002. 87 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30481. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14028042).

ISBN 9788759810668.

Rude rs writes: There's a solid tradition in the history of Western music of turning the theme of Nicolo Paganini's 24th Caprice for soloviolin into a set of variations endemic to the time and style of each individual composer; Liszt, Brahms, Rachmaninov and Lutoslawsky being the most prominent names. When asked by David Starobin to write a concerto for him, I though well, why not have a go at it? - bearing in mind, that not only is Paganini the most celebrated violin-wizard of all times, but he was also a more than accomplished guitarist. There are 22 variations in all, numbers 1 to 16 all adhering strictly to the 16-bar pattern, laid down by Paganini himself. From variation 17 though, the writing becomes more symphonic and the rigid 16-bar regime is being lossendes up a bit. However, the last variation 'Finale Prestisimo' is a 6 x 16 bars white-knuckle ride, in which the hitherto soloistic role of the guitar gives way to that of 'primus interpares', i.e. 'first among equals'. As with another set of variations of mine 'Concerto on Pieces' (based on a tune by Purcell), the nature and shape of the 'Pagannini-Variations' may be compared to a stroll through a hall of mirrors: the portrait - the theme is gradually being distorted out of all recognition - but it's still the same original walking by.

Guitar

SKU: HL.14028001

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. 20 pages. Music Sales #KP01286. Published by Music Sales (HL.14028001).

ISBN 9788759884188. Danish.

Poul Ruders.

Violin

SKU: HL.14028021

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. 20th Century. Book Only. Composed 2002. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30177. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14028021).

Ruders writes: This short piece 'Variations' for violin solo is composed of 57 bars, which you could call the theme. Each of the bars or musical units are then repeated, but in a reshuffled order, so to speak, and each of the original bars appears, not only in a different context, but in a slightly altered rhythmic guise.

Violin

SKU: HL.14027969

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Composed 2006. 8 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30574. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14027969).

ISBN 9788759859827. 9.5x14.5x0.046 inches.

Bel Canto by Poul Ruders for Violin Solo. Written in 2004.

Opera

SKU: HL.14027990

Composed by Paul Bentley and Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Libretto. Composed 2006. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30656. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14027990).

ISBN 9788759886465. International (more than one language).

This is the libretto to Poul Ruders' opera Kafka's Trial , written by Paul Bentley.

Orchestra

SKU: HL.14028044

For Large Orchestra. Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. 234 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #KP00693. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14028044).

ISBN 9788759850640. 12.0x16.5x0.605 inches. Danish.

The full score of Ruders' Solar Triology for large orchestra.

Clarinet and Piano

SKU: HL.14028056

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Book and Part(s). Edition Wilhelm Hansen #KP00190. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14028056).

ISBN 9788759861592. English.

Throne (1988) for Clarinet and Piano was composed on a commission from the Swedish clarinetist Hakon Rosenberg. Structurally it is organized in an arch form.
Although it begins in the piano, the work can be considered as one long clarinet solo, where the piano's role is that of extending and mirroring the clarinet, both in register and motif. As such the piano is treated as a monody throughout, until the last warm B Major chord embraces the final notes of the clarinet. On the title page the composer tells us that Throne is Elevation, Unity, Diamonds, Crown, Glory, Velvet, Frailty, Decline, Oblivion, Nothing.
In short Throne is and abstract tone-poem on the transitoriness of Life.
Poul Ruders 1988.

Score Orchestra

SKU: HL.14028045

Symphony and Transformation Score. Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. Composed 2002. 186 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30496. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14028045).

ISBN 9788759872574. UPC: 884088434403. 11.75x16.5x0.475 inches.

A second Symphony by Ruders, commissioned by the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress for the New York City based chamber orchestra, Riverside Symphony. The piece is subtitled Symphony And Transformation to express the formal symphonic nature of a piece that is otherwise in a state of constant musical and textural transformation.

Piano and Chamber Ensemble - Grade 4

SKU: HL.14027981

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. 20th Century. Score. Composed 2002. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30293. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14027981).

ISBN 9788759808368. English.

'Dramaphon ia' for piano solo and 11 instruments forms the first part of a trilogy of solo-concertos, the remaining two being one for percussion and smaller symphony orchestra ('Monodrama') and the last ('Polydrama') for violoncello and full orchestra. All three pieces are in one movement each and may be performed together, thus presenting a vast concerto grosso of the duration of one hour and a half. Each concerto, however, stands by itself, offering its own story: having employed the word drama in all three pieces, I naturally want to imply that something is going on, a series of hidden events created by each listener's own inner theatre which enables him to stage his own, personal associations, and in the case of 'Dramaphonia', the compositorical tension alters between action and frozen panoramas. In the percussion concerto, the rhythmical progression is being constantly intensified, whereas the metric proportions of Dramaphonia tighten and loosen, like a magnifying glass being wielded in and out of focus. 'Dramaphonia' is commissioned and dedicated to LONTANO and Poul Rosenbaum.

Orchestra

SKU: HL.14027967

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. Composed 2002. 108 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30603. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14027967).

ISBN 9788759811856.

Work for Ensemble dating from 2000.

Guitar

SKU: HL.14027983

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Composed 2002. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30346. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14027983).

ISBN 9788759860991. 8.25x12.0x0.087 inches. English.

Two Pieces for Solo Guitar.