Saxophone - Elementary

SKU: FH.WS1

Saxophone Series, 2013 Edition. Composed by The Royal Conservatory. Saxophone Series, 2013 Edition. Book/CD. 44/20 pages. The Frederick Harris Music Company #WS1. Published by The Frederick Harris Music Company (FH.WS1).

ISBN 978-1-55440-550-3.

Unparalleled in scope, this groundbreaking series for E_Alto and B_Tenor offers a single collection of Repertoire and supporting materials written or arranged specifically for saxophone. With Repertoire spanning from the Baroque to contemporary eras, Recordings, Etudes, Technique, and Orchestral Excerpts, this comprehensive series serves as a balanced and organized pedagogical resource from the beginner to advanced levels of study. Nine progressive volumes of Repertoire expose students to original works and arrangements of diverse styles from W.A. Mozart to Violet Archer, with selected works by notable jazz artist Paul Desmon (Take Five), and living composer Phil Woods. Each level provides opportunities to explore Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and contemporary works, with original, unaccompanied selections from Levels 5 through 8 that use extended techniques such as multiphonics, key clicks, and bisbigliando. Earlier works pre-dating the origin of the saxophone have been carefully arranged with consideration of the unique quality of the instrument. Exposure to these works help to develop musicianship and an understanding of tonality, creating well-rounded and versatile performers. Selections written for both E_Alto and B_Tenor include piano accompaniments that function with both instruments.
Eb Saxophone:

Rhythmi c Repertoire:
What Is Beauty but a Breath? - Thomas Greaves, arr. Kathleen Wood
Great Scott - Lennie Niehaus
Cielito Lindo - Quirino Mendoza y Cortes
Horseshoe Shuffle - Beverley Calland
Here Comes the Parade! - Nova Pon
Theme and Variations - Aleksandr Glazunov, arr. Mark Mrozinski
Galloping Across the Prairies - Sean Clarke
Lyrical Repertoire:
Ave Verum Corpus, K 618 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, arr. Jason Gray
Moonglow - Pam Wedgwood
Calm as the Night (Still wie die Nacht), op. 326, no. 27 - Carl Bohm, arr. Christine Donkin
Gymnopedie No. 2 - Erik Satie, arr. Jason Noble

Bb Saxophone:

Rhythmi c Repertoire:
The Sidewalks of New York - Charles B. Lawlor, arr. Forrest Kinney
Sweet Betsy from Pike - American folk song, arr. Christine Donkin
Minuet in D minor, BWV Anh. 132 - attr. Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. Jason Noble
Lyrical Repertoire:
A Joyous Tune - Sigurd Rascher
Londonderry Air - Irish folk song, arr. Forrest Kinney
Good News! (Nouvelle agreable!) - 18th-century French carol, arr. Akiko and Forrest Kinney.

Piano

SKU: BT.MUSM570364459

Composed by Robert Saxton. Classical. Book Only. 24 pages. University of York Music Press #MUSM570364459. Published by University of York Music Press (BT.MUSM570364459).

English.

Robert Saxton 's Hortus Musicae , Book 1 was commissioned by Ian Richie for the 2013 City of London Festival with funds provided by the John S. Cohen Foundation. The first performance was given by Clare Hammond on June 24th 2013 at the church of St Mary Le Bow. The title, less 'literal' in Latin than in the vernacular, refers to the idea of an allegorical/metaphysical garden (reference to a 'real', or existing, garden might be implied by Hortus Musicus) with various facets. The titles of the individual pieces/movements, with their respective garden image, are as follows: 1) Hortus Somniorum: a fleeting vision of a 'magical' garden 2) Hortus Temporis: a reflection of/on the floralclock described by Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) in his [metaphysical] poem The Garden: How well the skilful gardener drew Of flowers and herbs this dial new Where from above the milder sun Does through a fragrant zodiac run; And, as it works, the industrious bee Computes its time as well as we. How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckoned but with herbs and flowers! 3) Hortus Cantus: A garden in which nature 'sings' (praises), in the manner of a 'chorale prelude' and ending with the cantus firmus transformed into bells. 4) Hortus Infinitatis: A meditative/formal garden representing Time suspended, in the form of a palindromic prolation canon combined with a harmonic ground (chaconne). 5) Saltatio Hortensis: A (summer) garden of dancing, celebratory nature. Its essence (and that of the entire cycle, both metaphorically and structurally/formally) is summed up in words spoken by Miranda in WH Auden's 1944 Tempest [Shakespeare]-inspired poem The Sea And The Mirror; So, to remember our changing garden, we Are linked as children in a circle dancing. Duration: 15 minutes.

Chamber Music Viola 1, Viola 2, Violin 1, Violin 2, Violoncello

SKU: PR.11441690S

String Quartet No. 3. Composed by Shulamit Ran. Sws. Contemporary. Full score. With Standard notation. Composed March 9 2013. 32 pages. Duration 23 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41690S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.11441690S).

UPC: 680160626021. 9 x 12 inches.

Ran's third string quartet was written for the Pacifica Quartet, who are featuring it in numerous performances from May 2014 through February 2016, across the country and abroad. Their blog page dedicated to the work also features the composer's notes, for more indepth insight. ...impassioned solos emerge from ominous quiet, and high arpeggios in the violins quiver alongside the earthy cello. Ms. Ran skillfully deploys these extremes of color, volume and pitch, yet the overall somewhat chilly impression is one of poise. -- Zachary Woolfe, The New York Times.
My third string quartet was composed at the invitation of the Pacifica Quartet, whose music-making I have come to know closely and admire hugely as resident artists at the University of Chicago.  Already in our early conversations Pacifica proposed that this quartet might, in some manner, refer to the visual arts as a point of germination.  Probing further, I found out that the quartet members had special interest in art created during the earlier part of the 20th century, perhaps between the two world wars.  It was my good fortune to have met, a short while later, while in residence at the American Academy in Rome in the fall of 2011, art conservationist Albert Albano who steered me to the work of Felix Nussbaum (1904-1944), a German-Jewish painter who, like so many others, perished in the Holocaust at a young age, and who left some powerful, deeply moving art that spoke to the life that was unraveling around him. The title of my string quartet takes its inspiration from a major exhibit devoted to art by German artists of the period of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) titled “Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s”, first shown at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2006-07.  Nussbaum would have been a bit too young to be included in this exhibit.  His most noteworthy art was created in the last very few years of his short life.  The exhibit’s evocative title, however, suggested to me the idea of “Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory” as a way of framing a possible musical composition that would be an homage to his life and art, and to that of so many others like him during that era.  Knowing that their days were numbered, yet intent on leaving a mark, a legacy, a memory, their art is triumph of the human spirit over annihilation. Parallel to my wish to compose a string quartet that, typically for this genre, would exist as “pure music”, independent of a narrative, was my desire to effect an awareness in my listener of matters which are, to me, of great human concern.  To my mind there is no contradiction between the two goals.  As in several other works composed since 1969, this is my way of saying ‘do not forget’, something that, I believe, can be done through music with special power and poignancy.    The individual titles of the quartet’s four movements give an indication of some of the emotional strands this work explores. 1) “That which happened” (das was geschah) – is how the poet Paul Celan referred to the Shoah – the Holocaust.  These simple words served for me, in the first movement, as a metaphor for the way in which an “ordinary” life, with its daily flow and its sense of sweet normalcy, was shockingly, inhumanely, inexplicably shattered. 2) “Menace” is a shorter movement, mimicking a Scherzo.  It is also machine-like, incessant, with an occasional, recurring, waltz-like little tune – perhaps the chilling grimace we recognize from the executioner’s guillotine mask.  Like the death machine it alludes to, it gathers momentum as it goes, and is unstoppable. 3) â� ��If I must perish - do not let my paintings die”; these words are by Felix Nussbaum who, knowing what was ahead, nonetheless continued painting till his death in Auschwitz in 1944.  If the heart of the first movement is the shuddering interruption of life as we know it, the third movement tries to capture something of what I can only imagine to be the conflicting states of mind that would have made it possible, and essential, to continue to live and practice one’s art – bearing witness to the events.  Creating must have been, for Nussbaum and for so many others, a way of maintaining sanity, both a struggle and a catharsis – an act of defiance and salvation all at the same time. 4) “Shards, Memory” is a direct reference to my quartet’s title.  Only shards are left.  And memory.  The memory is of things large and small, of unspeakable tragedy, but also of the song and the dance, the smile, the hopes.  All things human.  As we remember, in the face of death’s silence, we restore dignity to those who are gone.—Shulamit Ran .

by William Bay. For Guitar (All). technique. All Styles. Level: Beginning. Book. Size 8.75x11.75. 48 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc.

String Quartet

SKU: PR.16400222S

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

UPC: 680160037841.

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

Book 1. By Christian Heinrich Hohmann. Arranged by Louis Bostelmann. (Violin). String Method. Size 9x12 inches. 64 pages. Published by G. Schirmer, Inc.

By Many. Arranged by Robert P. Manookin. -. For Organ Book. Prelude. Published by Jackman Music Corporation.
Level: Varied.

Saxophone Sextet

SKU: SU.90920031

Composed by Julius Hemphill. Woodwinds, Saxophone, Woodwinds, Woodwind Ensemble. Saxophone Sextet. Score & Parts. Subito Music Corporation #90920031. Published by Subito Music Corporation (SU.90920031).

Book 1 contains scores and parts to 10 compositions by jazz master and leader of the World Saxophone Quartet, Julius Hemphill. Newly engraved edition. Edited by Marty Ehrlich.Julius Hemphill formed his Saxophone Sextet in 1989, composing new music for concert performances and his celebrated dance and theatre collaborations. The wide history of African-American music is heard in these pieces, all shaped by Hemphill's rich imagination and compositional acumen. The instrumentation is three altos with soprano doubles, two tenors, and baritone sax. The two volumes presented here mirror each other in the range of musical worlds Hemphill evoked as he explores the rich harmony and counterpoint possible with the six- saxophone choir. Also available: Book 2 (Cat. #90920032) Book 1 - CONTENTS 1. Otis' Groove 2. Opening 3. The Moat and the Bridge 4. Sweet D 5. Anchorman 6. At Dr. King's table/Ascension 7. Flush 8. Mirrors 9. Headlines 10. Spiritual Chairs Saxophone Sextet Composed: 1992 Published by: Subito Music Publishing.

Performed by The Rolling Stones. Fakebook for voice and C instrument. With vocal melody, chord names, color photos, discography, selected riffs (guitar tab) and introductory text. 431 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

Brass Band - Grade 1.5

SKU: BT.DHP-1023167-030

Composed by Kees Vlak. Flexible 4 Series. Original Light Music. Set (Score & Parts). Composed 2002. De Haske Publications #DHP 1023167-030. Published by De Haske Publications (BT.DHP-1023167-030).

Five movements in techno-pop style. The work begins with Rock March with a few pithy chords over a driving percussion accompaniment. Feeling Free is a slow ballad. Rockarab is devoted to ‘the ship of the desert’, the camel. Little Chi Yan is a very charming, romantic song for a sweet little girl. In Disco Lights, we hear the stirring sounds of drums and bass guitar while the lights flash in the crowded discotheque.

Inter-Pop ist die Fortsetzung von Pre-Pop von Kees Vlak. Auch dieses Werk in fünf Sätzen ist im Techno-Pop-Stil geschrieben. Auf einen rockigen Marsch folgt eine langsame Ballade - auf einen dem Wüstenschiff, dem Kamel, gewidmeten Satz ein romantisches Lied an ein junges Mädchen. Zum Abschluss dieses schillernden Stückes dominieren aufpeitschende Schlagzeug- und Bassgitarrenklänge, die in die flirrende, glitzernde Atmosphäre einer Diskothek entführen.

Des accords puissants sur une rythmique mouvementée, une ballade lente, un rock moyen-oriental, une chanson délicieusement romantique, une rythmique explosive et des sons électriques faire palir les plus grands artistes de la vague disco, voici les ingrédients d’Inter-pop , une pièce en cinq mouvements, écrite dans le style de la musique technopop et signée Kees Vlak.

By Palmer Hughes. For Accordion. Accordion. Palmer-Hughes Accordion Course. Book. 32 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

Composed by Various. World's Favorite (Ashley). Classical. Softcover. 160 pages. Ashley Mark Publishing Company #AS10008. Published by Ashley Mark Publishing Company

50 Patriotic Favorites Arranged for Piano and Voice. For piano and voice. Patriotic. Book and 2 CDs. 136 pages. Published by Music Sales.

For Guitar. Essential Elements Guitar. Softcover. 96 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

By Wayne Fugate. For Mandolin. Other Instrument - Mandolin. Book & CD. Published by Alfred Publishing.