Piano/Keyboard SKU: HL.327506 By Various. Easy Piano Songbook. Pop. Softc...(+)
Piano/Keyboard
SKU:
HL.327506
By Various.
Easy Piano Songbook. Pop.
Softcover. 192 pages.
Published by Hal Leonard
(HL.327506).
ISBN
9781540081520. UPC:
888680989743.
9.0x12.0x0.416
inches.
If you're
anxious to put those
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here are 50 calming
pieces to play while you
continue your studies!
Songs are arranged for
easy piano with lyrics
and include: Bella's
Lullaby • Blowin'
in the Wind •
Brian's Song •
Chariots of Fire •
(They Long to Be) Close
to You • Dawn
• Fields of Gold
• Gabriel's Oboe
• Imagine •
Longer • Mia &
Sebastian's Theme •
New York State of Mind
• Over the Rainbow
• Tears in Heaven
• Time After Time
• The Wind Beneath
My Wings •
Yesterday • You've
Got a Friend • and
more!
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50
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Looking Up Chorale SATB SATB, Piano St Rose Music Publishing
Choir, Piano Accompaniment (SATB Choir) SKU: HL.277282 SATB and Piano ...(+)
Choir, Piano
Accompaniment (SATB
Choir)
SKU:
HL.277282
SATB and
Piano Vocal Score.
Composed by Nico Muhly.
Music Sales America.
Classical. Softcover. 60
pages. St. Rose Music
#SRO10015201. Published
by St. Rose Music
(HL.277282).
UPC:
840126915006. 6.75x10.5
inches.
Program
note:
Looking Up
is a piece for large
chorus and orchestra, and
is in three sections,
played without pause. In
the 16th century, a
variety of psalters in
meter were printed in
England, with the idea of
making psalm-singing
something that could
happen easily at home,
with the rhyming meter
being an aid to
memorization. These
translations are
wonderful exercises in
brevity and sometimes
clumsy rhymemaking, and
were usually prefaced by
a lengthy explanation as
to their merits; the
title of one of the first
such volumes in English
is: The Psalter of Dauid
newely translated into
Englysh metre in such
sort that it maye the
more decently, and wyth
more delyte of the mynde,
be reade and songe of al
men. I thought it would
be appropriate to set one
of these introductions,
and the first section of
Looking Up sets the
preface to Thomas
Ravenscroft's psalter
(1621), in which he
writes: “The
singing of Psalmes (assay
the Doctors) comforteth
the sorrowfull, pacifieth
the angry, strengtheneth
the weake, humbleth the
proud, gladdeth the
humble, stirres up the
slow, reconcileth
enemies, lifteth up the
heart to heavenly things,
and uniteth the Creature
to his
Creator.”
It
begins meditatively, but
eventually grows agitated
and fervent, with a
vision of the
“quire of Angels
and Saints”
“redoubling
anddescanting” - an
ecstatic and terrifying
vision of the skies
opening up. Ravenscroft
then encourages the use
of instrumental musicfor
worship, at which point,
a long, acrobatic
orchestral interlude with
jagged edges antagonizes
the choir, who sing a
kind of private, anxious
meditation on two
pitches.
One of
the most delicious
biblical texts is an
Apocryphal prayer known
as the Benedicite or the
Prayer of the Three
Children (the same who
were rescued by an angel
after King Nebuchadnezzar
tried to have them burnt
in an oven for not bowing
to his image). The text
is repetitive, obsessive,
and a gift to composers -
each line is an
invocation of an element
of the natural world,
followed by the phrase,
“blesse ye the
Lord, praise him &
magnify him for
ever.” In Looking
Up, the setting begins
with three solo voices,
and then grows to include
the whole choir,
itemizing the whole of
creation. The idea that
these boys are spared
from the furnace and then
five minutes later are
saying, “O ye the
fire and warming heate,
blesse ye the
Lord...” has always
felt very loaded to me,
and the orchestra plays
with this conflict
between joyful praise and
a more terrible (in the
16th-century sense)
awefor the
divine.
The text
for the third, and
shortest, section is
taken from Christopher
Smart's (1722-1771) A
Song to David,
purportedly written
during his confinement in
a mental asylum. This ode
to King David points out
how David, as the author
of some of the Psalms,
observes the whole world
from the
“clustering
spheres” to the
“nosegay in the
vale.&rdquo.
Composed
by Alexander Goehr. This
edition: Paperback/Soft
Cover. Sheet music.
Edition Schott.
Commissioned by the
Aldeburgh Festival with
financial assistance from
the Arts Council of Great
Britain. Classical.
Score. Composed
1989-1990. Op. 51. 160
pages. Duration 45'.
Schott Music #ED 12451.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49003206).
ISBN
9790220118609.
8.25x11.75x0.499 inches.
English.
W.H.
Auden: Sing, Ariel, sing
* Spenser: He ceast * E.
Pound: Tell her that
sheds * Milton: Such a
sacred and home-felt
delight * Th. Campion:
Rose-cheeked Laura, come
* Milton: Such sober
certainty * Shakespeare:
O you are well-tun'd now!
* W.B. Yeats: Old lecher
with a love on every wind
* J. Hollander: Across
the street a tenor whine
* Collins: With woeful
measures wan Despair *
Th. Hardy: Thus I,
faltering forward * W.H.
Ausen: ... rebuke * C.
Raine: There is so much
to celebrate * Coleridge:
I see them all *
Hollander: ... my
unground grain * W.
Stevens: The time of year
has grown indifferent *
W.H. Auden: ... unanxious
one, sing * P. larkin: I
squeezed up the last
stair to the room in the
roof * Shakespeare: Thou
hast nor youth nor age *
W. Stevens: The palm at
the end of the mind * W.
Stevens: Without human
meaning * H. Vaughan:
All's in deep sleep and
night * W. Stevens: The
rock of autumn,
glittering * W.H. Auden:
... brillantly,
lightly.