Concert Band (Score) SKU: HL.4002119 Full Score. Composed by Steve...(+)
Concert Band (Score)
SKU: HL.4002119
Full Score.
Composed by Steven
Bryant. Steve Bryant. 22
pages. Published by Hal
Leonard (HL.4002119).
UPC: 073999263251.
11x17 inches.
This
large-scale
three-movement work,
commissioned by Ray
Cramer and the Indiana
University Wind Ensemble,
embodies the
transformation of silence
into sound. The opening
movement is sparse,
utilizing mallet
percussion, harp, and
piano to create a
floating sense of
timelessness. Featuring
extensive solo flute,
this floating texture
gradually builds over
several minutes,
ultimately launching
itself into a grandiose,
warm, harmonically
consonant blanket of
sound. The second
movement continues the
focus on solo flute, and
again opens slowly,
gradually gaining
momentum, but at a faster
pace than in the first
movement. The music
spirals upward and
outward, but instead of
reaching a plateau, winds
itself out and comes to a
grinding halt in the
upper range of the
ensemble. Five brief,
solemn chords conclude
the movement, which
immediately erupts into
Movement III, music of
unceasing, unsettling,
motion, propelled by a
driving ostinato which is
repeatedly interrupted by
bittersweet moments of
lyricism, all the while
pushing toward an
unforgiving climax. The
movements may also be
performed separately.
There is no explicit
narrative to the piece,
though many particular
elements do have personal
quasi-biographical
significance. Ultimately,
this is music of both
personal and musical
transformation.
NO
TE: This work is
available as a rental
item directly from the
composer. For details,
e-mail
rental@stevenbryant.com.
The score is also
available separately for
purchase from Hal
Leonard.
Soprano voice, tenor voice and piano or piano alone (SGST/KL) SKU: HL.4903039...(+)
Soprano voice, tenor
voice and piano or piano
alone (SGST/KL)
SKU:
HL.49030396
Version for two voices
and piano or piano
alone. Composed by
Percy Aldridge Grainger.
This edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Edition Schott. Score.
Composed 1905/1911. 12
pages. Duration 6'.
Schott Music #ED 12525.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49030396).
ISBN
9790220122743.
9.0x12.0x0.067 inches.
Vocalise.
No
traditional tunes of any
kind are made use of in
this piece, in which I
have wished to express my
personal feelings about
my own country
(Australia) and people,
and also to voice a
certain kind of emotion
that seems to me not
untypical of native-born
Colonials in
general.Perhaps it is not
unnatural that people
living more or less
lonelily in vast virgin
countries and struggling
against natural and
climatic hardships
(rather than against the
more actively and
dramaticly exciting
counter wills of their
fellow men, as in more
thickly populated lands)
should run largely to
that patiently yearning,
inactive sentimental
wistfulness that we find
so touchingly expressed
in much American art; for
instance in Mark Twains
Huckleberry Finn, and
Stephen C. Foster's
adorable songs, My Old
Kentucky Home, Old Folks
at Home, etc. I have also
noticed curious, almost
Italian-like, musical
tendencies in brass band
performances and ways of
singing in Australia
(such as a preference for
richness and intensity of
tone and soulful breadth
of phrasing over more
subtly and sensitively
varied delicacies of
expression) which are
also reflected here.Percy
Aldridge Grainger.
Mixed choir SKU: FG.55011-857-7 Composed by ŽibuoklÄ— MartinaitytÄ...(+)
Mixed choir
SKU:
FG.55011-857-7
Composed by
Žibuoklė
MartinaitytÄ—.
Classical, contemporary.
Book. Fennica Gehrman
#55011-857-7. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-857-7).
Žibuoklė
MartinaitytÄ— tells
about the background of
Aletheia (2022) for mixed
choir (SSSSAAAATTTTBBBB):
Aletheia is variously
translated from Greek as
unconcealedness,
revealing or
unclosedness. It is
uncovering of the Truth -
the one we are afraid to
face, the truth that can
only be expressed
directly through the
pre-verbal communication.
How do you find words for
the horrors of the war,
for all unimaginable
global atrocities? How do
you even allow yourself
to feel it out? Solely
through art, through
music that offer a safe
space and a formalized
framework for processing
these accumulated complex
emotions and sharing them
with others in a moment.
This piece has no verbal
text and it is based on
various combinations of
vowels and consonants,
thus connecting us on a
deeper level through the
immediate emotional
experience.
The
war in Ukraine in spring
of 2022 had an impact on
all of us and shattered
my deeply rooted
Lithuanian identity. When
the freedom is threatened
and innocent people are
dying, it is hard to make
sense out of the reality.
Yet there is poetry even
in the worst nightmares.
I was imagining that the
only instrument people
have even in situations
of destruction, in the
midst of the war, is
their VOICE. It brought
back memories of my youth
when Singing revolution
was taking place in the
Baltic countries. Human
voice was the only weapon
that people used to
express their
determination for freedom
and independence. Voice
is our first and the very
last instrument we have
in our lifetime. Thinking
in these terms brings
almost a sacred dimension
to the voice as an
expression of the life
itself - from the very
first baby's scream until
the last breath and
whisper.
Duration
c. 15'
The works
of New York -based
Lithuanian composer
Žibuoklė
MartinaitytÄ— (b.
1973) have been lauded as
breathtaking and
profoundly moving. Her
stimulating music
bristles with energy and
tension and revolves
often around the subject
of beauty, which she
calls both a guiding
principle and an
aesthetic measure for
sonic quality.
All My Trials Chorale SATB SATB, Piano [Octavo] Schirmer
Composed by Gwyneth W. Walker (1947-). For SATB choir and piano. General, Secula...(+)
Composed by Gwyneth W.
Walker (1947-). For SATB
choir and piano. General,
Secular, 21st Century.
Moderately Easy. Octavo.
Published by E.C.
Schirmer Publishing
Vere languores Chorale SATB SATB A Cappella CanticaNOVA Publications
Composed by Mark Siebert. A mainly homophonic setting of the text Vere languores...(+)
Composed by Mark Siebert.
A mainly homophonic
setting of the text Vere
languores ( Surely he
hath borne our
infirmities ) which uses
a variety of dynamics to
portray the drama of the
lyrics. This is an
effective contemporary
addition to any SATB
choir's Holy Week
repertoire! Lent,
Triduum. Published by
CanticaNOVA Publications
(C5.5026).