Clarinet

SKU: HL.14005667

Composed by Charles Camilleri. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Music Sales #NOV120774. Published by Music Sales (HL.14005667).

ISBN 9780853604105.

The Sonatina Folkloristica for Clarinet Solo explores both native music forms - Tarantella and Cantilena - and the 'atomisation of the beat' in the untimed beginning of the Cantilena. This short three-movement work is demanding with playful moments.Charles Camilleri was one of the very few Maltese composers to gain international recognition. He was largely self-taught and was fascinated with the traditional music of his own country. Years spend in Australia and London led him to a successful career in light music and he later created a celebrated music programme for the Canadian Broadcasting System. Later in life he studied music of Africa and Asia and developed a systemhe termed 'atomisation of the beat' to accommodate the shifting rhythms and accents of more folkloric music.

Composed by Claude Debussy (1862-1918). Edited by Thomas Kabisch. This edition: urtext edition. Paperback. Barenreiter Urtext. 2me Livre. Performance score. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA10819. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag

Voice (female choir, men's choir, mixed choir), strings and other instruments ad libitum

SKU: HL.49019746

(In Praise of Music). Composed by Paul Hindemith. Edited by Luitgard Schader. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. String. Softcover. Composed 1943. 8 pages. Schott Music #ED20447-14. Published by Schott Music (HL.49019746).

ISBN 9790001169257.

We owe it to Paul Hindemith's interest in education, which, in turn, was owed not only to the professional musicians and composers, that he composed for children and amateur musicians as well. Dame Music stands for this dialogue to make contemporary music for amateurs accessible not only in theory but also in practice. Dame Music was composed during his stay in the USA after he had been asked for an American edition of his composition Frau Musica. Musik zum Singen und Spielen auf Instrumenten nach einem Text von Luther, Op. 45 No. 1 from 1928. In 1942 he wrote the successful American version Dame Music for which Hindemith also revised some instrumental parts. The vocal setting was adopted without any changes and its text translated into English. With great success: Within just a few years, Dame Music had been included in the repertoire of amateur musicians in the United States.

String quartet

SKU: M7.DOHR-88815

Variations for String Quartet. Composed by Adrian Connell. Sheet music. Score and parts. 48 pages. Duration 15'. MDS (Music Distribution Services) #DOHR 88815. Published by MDS (Music Distribution Services) (M7.DOHR-88815).

ISBN 9790202098158.

On the workFor many years I was the director of festive music at our local church in Orpington. I always carried a little music notebook on me for use during the sermons. I remember writing a series of notes, as a challenge to use as a melody when I got home, then I realised it used all twelve notes of the scale. Having been penned during a sermon, I decided to use this as a structure. The tone row became the sermon and the following variations the reactions to this sermon. As a clue to the ideas behind the music, I added sectional headings to each variation. While this is a serious work musically, it is actually meant to be a piece of fun! (Adrian Connell)Duration: 15 minutes.

Piano - Grade 5

SKU: ET.PNO103

Composed by Richard Lane. Contemporary. Editions BIM #PNO103. Published by Editions BIM (ET.PNO103).

ISBN 9790207009777.

A bold and invigorating first movement, a mysterious and tender second movement and a third movement with several mood shifts from lyrical to highly rhythmical.
In 1971, Lane wrote his Piano Sonata 3 for piano. For whom this piece was intended remains unknown. Karl Tricomi, a student of Lane’s and also a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, performed its world premiere five years later in 1976 at Carnegie Hall (NY), in an all-Lane piano recital. This is the only documented performance of this piece. In 1971, Lane only composed another three pieces which were for tenor saxophone and wind band, soprano voice and piano and a trio for violin, cello and piano, which was dedicated to Paul Van Ness, the dedicatee of Piano Sonata 2.

Cello and Piano

SKU: HL.14016246

Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Arranged by Hugo Cole. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Music Sales #NOV120308. Published by Music Sales (HL.14016246).

8.25x11.75x0.054 inches.

It is a surprising fact of Beethoven's life that of all the categories of pieces he composed, there are more settings of Irish songs than of any other type of music. Scottish poet Robert Burns convinced a Scottish music publisher to commission Beethoven to set his own words to Irish airs. The death of Burns in 1796 ended the project, but Beethoven went on to harmonise and arrange the songs in 1814 through 1816, mainly, and they were published, though never achieved as great a popularity as a rival set by Thomas Moore.This simplified version for easy Cello and Piano was arranged by composer Hugo Cole, an accomplished cellist who was for many years a music critic for theGuardian newspaper.

Score and Parts Soprano; String Quartet (Score & Parts)

SKU: HL.48024678

String Quartet and Soprano Score and Parts. Composed by Martin Christoph Redel. Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music. Classical. Softcover. 104 pages. Duration 900 seconds. Bote & Bock #M202535141. Published by Bote & Bock (HL.48024678).

ISBN 9781540058546. UPC: 888680952525.

40 years lie between the composer's multiple award-winning String Quartet No. 2 and this new contribution to the genre. Martin Christoph Redel was motivated by the world's current political situation: by the violation of human rights, by war, torture, violence and expulsion. He includes a soprano part and responds to texts of the Tunisia-born poetess Najet Adouani who had to flee her home country several times herself because she had advocated human rights and freedom of speech there. In my throat nests the pain of all those to whom I lend a voice, is one of her statements that was set to music.

Alto Saxophone; Piano Accompaniment (Alto Sax) - Grade 3

SKU: HL.4008610

E-Flat Alto Saxophone and Piano. Composed by Nico Samitz. Symphonic Dimensions. Classical. Softcover. Duration 235 seconds. Hal Leonard #SDP212-23. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.4008610).

ISBN 9798350112597. UPC: 196288183204.

Nico Samitz has been composing for chamber ensembles since his school days. For over ten years he has been writing works in a wide variety of genres for the “BlechReiz BrassQuintett” ensemble, in which he himself plays trumpet and piano. His field of expertise ranges from classical pieces to jazz and meditative music—and even to pop-oriented compositions. While honing his skills in ear-training and composition at the Mozarteum, Salzburg, Nico became acquainted with a wide repertoire of works as a trumpet player with the Munich Symphony Orchestra, The Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Bavarian State Opera, all of which have influenced his writing style. The driving force behind his creative work is a winning combination of passion, the fun of music-making and a desire to express, through the medium of music, feelings that are difficult to put into words. Like many of his works, Nico composedThe Joy of Freedom for the “BlechReiz BrassQuintet”. The catchy tune is reworked in a variety of styles throughout the entire work, giving it the quality of a true 'earworm'.

Viola

SKU: CA.3123213

Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Edited by Ulrich Leisinger. This edition: urtext. Stuttgart Urtext Edition: Bach vocal; Carus sheet music series: Vocal scores XL. Viola. Innovative practice aids, Masses, Latin, Lent and Passiontide. Individual part. BWV 232. 24 pages. Duration 100 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 31.232/13. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.3123213).

ISBN 9790007211028. Language: Latin.

Bach's B minor Mass is among the greatest and most ambitious works of all time. The various stages of composition of the Mass occupied the composer for over two decades: beginning with the Sanctus (1724), by way of the Missa of 1733, to the remaining movements of the Ordinary, which were composed during his last years. Thus the Mass, in its wealth of forms with arias, duets, as well as concertante and fugal choruses, displays the essence of Bach's skill and personal style. The greatest musical work of art of all times and all peoples (to quote the enthusiastic Hans Georg Nageli, who first edited the Mass in 1818) and one of the most demanding choral works in the repertoire is presented by Frieder Bernius, the Kammerchor Stuttgart and the Barockorchester Stuttgart in a stellar recording based on the principles of historical performance practice (Carus 83.211). Awarded the Gramophone - Editor's Choice. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3123200.

SATB vocal soli, SATB choir, 2 english horn, 2 horns, 2 violins, cello/contrabass, organ solo, [2 clarinos/trumpets, timpani]

SKU: CA.4060319

Missa in honorem Beatissimae Virginis Mariae. Composed by Franz Joseph Haydn. Edited by Christoph Grosspietsch. This edition: urtext. Stuttgart Urtext Edition: Joseph Haydn, Sacred vocal music. HAYDN: GROssE ORGELSOLOMESSE IN ES XXII:4. Sacred vocal music, Masses, Latin. Set of Orchestra Parts. Hob. XXII:4. Duration 40 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 40.603/19. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.4060319).

ISBN 9790007133207. Key: E flat major. Language: Latin.

Haydn's so-called Great Organ Solo Mass in E flat major is among those works by Joseph Haydn which early in its history enjoyed widespread dissemination. The E flat major Mass, with an unusual scoring including two English horns in the orchestra, was composed around 1770 during the first years of Haydn's tenure as Music Director for the Court of Esterhazy. Despite the readily playable, effective part for organ, employed prominently as a solo instrument in the piece, the Missa in honorem Beatissimae Virginis Mariae, which was composed for a Feast to the Blessed Virgin Mary, is seldom performed today. The new critical edition hopes to stimulate new interest in this work. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.4060300.

SSATB vocal soli, SSATB choir, 2 clarinos/trumpets, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, 2 violins, 3 viola, basso continuo (cello/bassoon/contrabass , organ)

SKU: CA.4067616

Composed by Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber. Edited by Armin Kircher. Arranged by Paul Horn. Sacred music from Salzburg. Missa Sti Henrici. Sacred vocal music, Masses, Latin. Single Part, Cello/Double Bass. Composed 1696. 12 pages. Carus Verlag #CV 40.676/16. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.4067616).

ISBN 9790007220143. Language: Latin.

The Missa Sancti Henrici is a work of Biber's later years. It is one of his largest and most mature pieces of church music. With the skillful alternation of the stile antico and the stile moderno, as well as the contrast between Solo and Tutti, Biber attained a structure within the individual movements rich in variety. In its original architectural conception, Salzburg Cathedral had four galleries, each with its own organ, on the piers supporting the dome at the crossing. This conception created the spatial prerequisite for double- and polychoral performance tradition on the Venetian model. Biber's magnificent sacred music brought this tradition to a point of culmination in a ,,colossal style that was unique in transalpine Europe. Score and part available separately - see item CA.4067600.

Orchestra Piano

SKU: PR.11641861SP

Composed by William Kraft. Part. 35 pages. Duration 21 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #116-41861SP. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.11641861SP).

UPC: 680160685202.

What? ! - my composer colleagues said - A concerto for the piano? It's a 19th century instrument! Admittedly we are in an age when originally created timbres and/or musico-technological formulations are often the modus operandi of a piece. Actually, this Concerto began about two years ago when, during one of my creative jogs, the sound of the uppermost register of the piano mingled with wind chimes penetrated my inner ear. The challenge and fascination of exploring and developing this idea into an orchestral situation determined that some day soon I would be writing a work for piano and orchestra. So it was a very happy coincidence when Mona Golabek phoned to tell me she would like discuss the Ford Foundation commission. After covering areas of aesthetics and compositional styles, we found that we had a good working rapport, and she asked if I would accept the commission. The answer was obvious. Then began the intensive thought process on the stylistic essence and organization of the work. Along with this went a renewed study of idiomatic writing for the piano, of the kind Stravinsky undertook with the violin when he began his Violin Concerto. By a stroke of great fortune, the day in February 1972 that I received official notice from the Ford Foundation of the commission, I also received a letter from the Guggenheim Foundation informing me I had been awarded my second fellowship. With the good graces of Zubin Mehta and Ernest Fleischmann, masters of my destiny as a member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, I was relieved of my orchestral duties during the Hollywood Bowl season. Thus I was able to go to Europe to work and to view the latest trends in music concentrating in London (the current musical melting pot and showcase par excellence), Oslo, Norway, for the Festival of Scandinavian Music called Nordic Days, and Warsaw, Poland, for its prestigious Autumn Festival. Over half the Concerto was completed in that summer and most of the rest during the 72-73 season with the final touches put on during a month as Resident Scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation's Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, Italy. So much for the external and environmental influences, except perhaps to mention the birds of Sussex in the first movement, the bells of Arhus (Denmark) in the second movement and the bells of Bellagio at the end of the Concerto. Primary in the conception was the personality of Miss Golabek: she is a wonderfully vital and dynamic person and a real virtuoso. Therefore, the soloist in the Concerto is truly the protagonist; it is she (for once we can do away with the generic he) who unfolds the character and intent of the piece. The first section is constructed in the manner of a recitative - completely unmeasured - with letters and numbers by which the conductor signals the orchestra for its participation. This allows the soloist the freedom to interpret the patterns and control the flow and development of the music. The Concerto is actually in one continuous movement but with three large divisions of sufficiently contrasting character to be called movements in themselves. The first 'movement' is based on a few timbral elements: 1) a cluster of very low pitches which at the beginning are practically inaudibly depressed, and sustained silently by the sostenuto pedal, which causes sympathetic vibrating pitches to ring when strong notes are struck; 2) a single powerful note indicated by a black note-head with a line through it indicating the strongest possible sforzando; 3) short figures of various colors sometimes ominous, sometimes as splashes of light or as elements of transition; 4) trills and tremolos which are the actual controlling organic thread starting as single axial tremolos and gradually expanding to trills of increasingly larger and more powerful scope. The 'movement' begins in quiescent repose but unceasingly grows in energy and tension as the stretching of a string or rubber band. When it can no longer be restrained, it bursts into the next section. The second 'movement,' propelled by the released tension, is a brilliant virtuosic display, which begins with a long solo of wispy percussion, later joined in duet with the piano. Not to be ignored, the orchestra takes over shooting the material throughout all its sections like a small agile bird deftly maneuvering through nothing but air, while the piano counterposes moments of lyricism. The orchestra reaches a climax, thrusting us into the third 'movement' which begins with a cadenza-like section for the piano. This moves gently into an expressive section (expressive is not a negative term to me) in which duets are formed with various instruments. There are fleeting glimpses of remembrances past, as a fragmented recapitulation. One glimpse is hazily expressed by strings and percussion in a moment of simultaneous contrasting levels of activity, a technique of which I have been fond and have utilized in various fixed-free relationships, particularly in my Percussion Concerto, Contextures and Games: Collage No. 1. The second half of the third 'movement; is a large coda - akin to those in Beethoven - which brings about another display of virtuosity, this time gutsy and driving, raising the Concerto to a final climax, the soloist completing the fragmented recapitulation concept as well as the work with the single-note sforzando and low cluster from the very opening of the first movement.

SATB choir and keyboard, with optional string quartet - Intermediate

SKU: MN.56-0009

Composed by Howard Goodall. 21st Century. Choral score. MorningStar Music Publishers #56-0009. Published by MorningStar Music Publishers (MN.56-0009).

UPC: 688670220098. English.

This seven-minute SATB setting of a section of the 1640 text from the Bay Psalm Book takes wing like the birds it first mentions. What would normally be a somber litany of affliction is set to music that hints at eternal things and the saving power of God. The middle section “I said, ‘In the middle of my days, O my God, do not take away me” is set, amazingly, in Latin, which gives a wonderful contrast to the more lyrical beginning. The beginning material returns as the Latin text is now sung in English, concluding “Thy years throughout all ages are.” This music is sublime and transcendent.

SB vocal soli, recorder, oboe, viola d'amore, viola da gamba, basso continuo

SKU: CA.3115219

Cantata for the Sunday after Christmas. Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Edited by Peter Thalheimer. Arranged by Paul Horn. This edition: urtext. Stuttgart Urtext Edition: Bach vocal. Complete orchestral parts. Sacred vocal music, Cantatas, Epiphany. Set of Orchestra Parts. Composed 1714. BWV 152. Duration 21 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 31.152/19. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.3115219).

ISBN 9790007164584. Text language: German/English. Text: Franck, Salomo.

For his cantata BWV 152 Bach chose a remarkable chamber music scoring which still sounds very colorful and lively today: the two solo voices are accompanied by recorder, oboe, viola d'amore, viola da gamba and organ. The cantata was written for the Sunday after Christmas and was performed for the first time on 30 December 1714 in the Schlosskirche Weimar. Nowadays the last aria is often performed during weddings. Exactly 300 years later, it is now being published in a practical Urtext edition. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.3115200.

Solo Soprano voice, SATB Choir, 3 Oboes, basson, 2 trumpets, 2 Violin, Viola, Basso continuo

SKU: CA.3105221

Cantata for the 23rd Sunday after Trinity. Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Edited by Ulrich Leisinger. Stuttgart Urtext Edition: Bach vocal. Oboe 1. Cantatas, End of the church year, Trinity. Single Part, Oboe 1. Composed 1726. BWV 52. 8 pages. Duration 18 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 31.052/21. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.3105221).

Language: German/English. Text: Birkmann, Christoph.

It only became apparent a few years ago that the text of the soprano cantata Falsche Welt, dir trau ich nicht came from the collection Gott-geheiligten Sabbaths-Zehnden by the Leipzig theology student and Bach pupil Christoph Birkmann, printed in 1728 in Nuremberg. Birkmann was probably therefore the author of the text. The cantata was written for the 23rd Sunday after Trinity, which fell on 24 November 1726 in the year of its first performance. As in other cantatas in the first annual cycle, Bach chose an instrumental sinfonia as the opening movement - here the first movement of the 1st Brandenburg Concerto. The soprano soloist has two recitatives and two arias, in which the falsehood of the world is juxtaposed with trust in God. The cantata text is rounded off with the first verse of the chorale In dich hab ich gehoffet, scored for four-part chorus, as is usual with Bach. With the use of two horns and three oboes added to the string ensemble, the cantata has colorful and varied orchestration. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3105200.

Solo Soprano voice, SATB Choir, 3 Oboes, basson, 2 trumpets, 2 Violin, Viola, Basso continuo

SKU: CA.3105222

Cantata for the 23rd Sunday after Trinity. Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Edited by Ulrich Leisinger. Stuttgart Urtext Edition: Bach vocal. Oboe 2. Cantatas, End of the church year, Trinity. Single Part, Oboe 2. Composed 1726. BWV 52. 8 pages. Duration 18 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 31.052/22. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.3105222).

Language: German/English. Text: Birkmann, Christoph.

It only became apparent a few years ago that the text of the soprano cantata Falsche Welt, dir trau ich nicht came from the collection Gott-geheiligten Sabbaths-Zehnden by the Leipzig theology student and Bach pupil Christoph Birkmann, printed in 1728 in Nuremberg. Birkmann was probably therefore the author of the text. The cantata was written for the 23rd Sunday after Trinity, which fell on 24 November 1726 in the year of its first performance. As in other cantatas in the first annual cycle, Bach chose an instrumental sinfonia as the opening movement - here the first movement of the 1st Brandenburg Concerto. The soprano soloist has two recitatives and two arias, in which the falsehood of the world is juxtaposed with trust in God. The cantata text is rounded off with the first verse of the chorale In dich hab ich gehoffet, scored for four-part chorus, as is usual with Bach. With the use of two horns and three oboes added to the string ensemble, the cantata has colorful and varied orchestration. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3105200.

By Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. For Orch. (SA with SA Soli). Choral Worship Cantata. Kalmus Edition. Masterwork; Sacred. Book. 44 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

By Johann Sebastian Bach. Arranged by David Marlatt. For Brass Quintet and Soprano. Brass Ensemble - Quintet. Baroque. Level: Medium-Difficult. Duration 00:03:05. Published by Eighth Note Publications.