Oboe Solo SKU: IS.O6029EM Composed by Charles Camilleri. Woodwinds - Oboe...(+)
Oboe Solo
SKU:
IS.O6029EM
Composed
by Charles Camilleri.
Woodwinds - Oboe.
Metropolis Music
Publishers #O6029EM.
Published by Metropolis
Music Publishers
(IS.O6029EM).
ISBN
9790365060290.
Char
les Camilleri (1931 -
2009) was a Maltese
composer. As a teenager,
he composed a number of
works based on folk music
and legends of his native
Malta. He moved from his
early influences by
Maltese folk music to a
musical form in which
nothing is fixed and his
compositions evolve from
themselves with a sense
of fluency and
inevitability. He
composed over 100 works
for orchestra, chamber
ensemble, voice and solo
instruments. Camilleri's
work has been performed
throughout the world and
his research of folk
music and improvisation,
the influences of the
sounds of Africa and
Asia, together with the
academic study of
European music, helped
him create a universal
style. Camilleri is
recognized in Malta as
one of the major
composers of his
generation. He died on 3
January 2009 at the age
of 77. His funeral took
place two days later at
Naxxar, his long-time
town of residence. Flags
across Malta were flown
at half-mast in tribute
to him.
11 Duets for Flute 2 Flûtes traversières (duo) [Partition + CD] - Intermédiaire Mel Bay
For 2 Flutes or Clarinet and Flute. Composed by Matthias Petzold. Clarinet, ...(+)
For 2 Flutes or Clarinet
and
Flute. Composed by
Matthias
Petzold. Clarinet, Flute,
Fife and Oboe, Music
Styles and
Regions, Classical, Jazz,
Solos and Duets. Book and
Insert with CD. 52 pages.
Published by Mel Bay
Publications, Inc
Score (Study Score) SKU: HL.49045775 Study Score. Composed by Kurt...(+)
Score (Study Score)
SKU: HL.49045775
Study Score.
Composed by Kurt Weill.
Study Score. Classical.
Softcover. Universal
Edition #UE35538.
Published by Universal
Edition (HL.49045775).
ISBN 9783702471132.
UPC: 803452068235.
7.0x10.0x0.436
inches.
Kurt Weill
developed his creative
energies mainly within
the world of musical
theater, where he proved
to be an immensely
productiveand imaginative
innovator, but he also
left behind a small body
of work for the concert
hall. The Concerto for
Violin and Wind Orchestra
op. 12 dates from the
spring of 1924. Scored
for two flutes,
clarinets, bassoons,
horns, one oboe and
trumpet, percussion and
four contrabasses, the
concerto comprises three
movements. While
composing the work, Weill
informed his publisher:
'I am workingon a
concerto for violin and
wind orchestra that I
hope to finish within two
or three weeks. The work
is inspired by the idea -
one never carried out
before - of juxtaposing a
single violin with a
chorus of winds.' The
specific character of
Weill's concerto as music
written for chamber
orchestra (with an often
soloistic treatment of
instruments) leads to a
transparency that
requires utmost precision
in the ensemble playing.
In the quest for an
overall sonic balance,
the coarser-sounding wind
instruments need to
explore all dynamic
nuances. The solo part is
challenging not only from
a technical standpoint
but also from an acoustic
one (it is crucial to
make the violin 'sound').
In spite of these
challenges - or precisely
because of them - critics
in the 1920s called the
solo parthighly idiomatic
and extremely rewarding.
Since then the concerto
has become a 'modern
classic' in concert halls
around the world. (Elmar
Juchem, August 2010). The
score is based on the
critical text of the Kurt
Weill Edition Ser. II,
Vol. 2.
Oboe, clarinet, viola, harp SKU: OU.9780193588769 Composed by Howard Skem...(+)
Oboe, clarinet, viola,
harp
SKU:
OU.9780193588769
Composed by Howard
Skempton. Mixed Ensemble.
44 pages. Duration 8'.
Oxford University Press
#9780193588769. Published
by Oxford University
Press (OU.9780193588769).
ISBN 9780193588769. 12
x 8 inches.
For
oboe, clarinet, viola,
harp The opening movement
of this five-movement
work features the oboe,
being a setting of a solo
piece written by the
composer in memory of
Barbara Hepworth. The
second is a lyrical canon
for oboe, clarinet, and
viola, the third and
fourth movements are
formal and chorale-like
whilst, the last is a
sprightly, rather quirky
march.
Mixed Trios. By Various. Arranged by Daniel Kelley. For Flute or Oboe or Violin....(+)
Mixed Trios. By Various.
Arranged by Daniel
Kelley. For Flute or Oboe
or Violin. Trios. Music
for Three. Classical /
Baroque. Level:
Intermediate/Advanced.
Part 1. Published by Last
Resort Music Publishing.
(Chorale cantata). Composed by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn (1809-1847). Edited b...(+)
(Chorale cantata).
Composed by Felix
Bartholdy Mendelssohn
(1809-1847). Edited by
Oswald Bill. For SATB
choir, 2 violins, viola,
cello/contrabass, [flute
or oboe or clarinet].
Stuttgart Urtext Edition.
German title: Christe, du
Lamm Gottes. Cantatas,
Mass sections, Lent and
Passiontide, Holy Week,
Eucharist, Communion.
Complete orchestral
parts. Language:
German/English. Composed
1827. A 5. Duration 7
minutes. Published by
Carus Verlag
Choralkantate. By Felix Mendelssohn. Edited by Bill, Oswald. For SATB Choir, 2 V...(+)
Choralkantate. By Felix
Mendelssohn. Edited by
Bill, Oswald. For SATB
Choir, 2 Violins, Viola,
Cello/Contrabass, [Flute
or Oboe or Clarinet].
Cantatas, Mass Sections;
Stuttgart Urtext
editions; Occasions:
Eucharist, Communion; Use
during church year: Lent
and Passiontide, Holy
Week. Score. Language:
German/English. Composed
1827. 20 pages. Duration
7 min. Published by Carus
Verlag (German import).
Choralkantate. By Felix Mendelssohn. Edited by Bill, Oswald. For SATB Choir, 2 V...(+)
Choralkantate. By Felix
Mendelssohn. Edited by
Bill, Oswald. For SATB
Choir, 2 Violins, Viola,
Cello/Contrabass, [Flute
or Oboe or Clarinet].
Full score available
separately - see item
CA.4018400. Cantatas,
Mass Sections; Stuttgart
Urtext editions;
Occasions: Eucharist,
Communion; Use during
church year: Lent and
Passiontide, Holy Week.
Organ reduction.
Language: German/English.
Composed 1827. 12 pages.
Duration 7 min. Published
by Carus Verlag (German
import).
(Based on the Etudes of Franz Whilhelm Ferling). By John Walker, Franz Wilhelm F...(+)
(Based on the Etudes of
Franz Whilhelm Ferling).
By John Walker, Franz
Wilhelm Ferling. Edited
by Amy Porter. Arranged
by Cyrille Rose. For
flute and piano. Carl
Fischer Classic Studies.
Book and CD. 44 pages.
Published by Carl Fischer
Orchestra SKU: BA.BA06861 Sinfonie (1923-1928). Composed by Leos J...(+)
Orchestra
SKU:
BA.BA06861
Sinfonie
(1923-1928). Composed
by Leos Janacek. Arranged
by Leoš Faltus and
Miloš Štedron. This
edition: complete
edition, urtext edition.
Linen. Complete Critical
Edition of the Works of
Leos Janacek H/3.
Complete edition, Score,
Set of parts. Duration 40
minutes. Baerenreiter
Verlag #BA06861_00.
Published by Baerenreiter
Verlag (BA.BA06861).
ISBN 9790260104211.
34.3 x 27 cm
inches.
Leoš
Janácek’s
symphonic fragment Dunaj
(The Danube) dates from
the period of the
composition of
“Katya
Kabanovaâ€. The
composer was not
concerned with a
musical-picturesque
description of a river
landscape, but with the
mythical link between
women’s destinies
and
water.
“Pale
green waves of the
Danube! There are so many
of you, and one followed
by another. You remain
interlocked in a
continuous flow. You
surprise yourselves where
you ended up – on
the Czech shores! Look
back downstream and you
will have an impression
of what you have left
behind in your haste. It
pleases you here. Here I
will rest with my
symphony.†Thus
Leoš Janácek
described the idea behind
the composition project
which occupied him in
1923/24. However, after
further work, it remained
incomplete in 1926. His
“symphonyâ€
entitled Dunaj has
survived as a
continuously-notated,
four-movement bundle of
sketches in score form.
It is one of the works
which occupied him until
his death. The scholarly
reconstruction by the two
Brno composers Miloš
Štedron and Leoš
Faltus closely follows
the original
manuscript.
A
whole conglomeration of
motifs stands behind the
incomplete work. What at
first seems like a
counterpart to
Smetana’s Vltava,
in fact doesn’t
turn out to be a musical
depiction of the Danube.
On the contrary, the
fateful link between the
destiny of women, water
and death permeates the
range of motifs found in
the work. It seems to be
no coincidence that
Janácek, whilst
working on the opera
Katya Kabanova, in which
the Volga, as the river
bringing death plays an
almost mythical role,
planned a Danube
symphony, and that its
content was linked with
the destiny of women: in
the sketches, two poems
were found which may have
provided the stimulus for
several movements of the
symphony. He copied a
poem by Pavla
Kriciková into the
second movement, in which
a girl remarks that
whilst bathing in a pond,
she was observed by a
man. Filled with shame,
the young naked woman
jumps into the water and
drowns. The outer
movements likewise draw
on the poem
“Lola†by the
Czech writer Sonja
Špálová,
published under the
pseudonym Alexander
Insarov. This is about a
prostitute who asks for
her heart’s
desire: she is given a
palace, but then goes on
a long search for it and
is finally no longer
wanted by anyone. She
suffers, feels cold and
just wants a warm fire.
Janácek adds his
remark “she jumps
into the Danube†to
the inconclusive
ending.
To these
tangible literary models
is added Adolf
Veselý’s verbal
account which reports
that the composer wanted
to portray “in the
Danube, the female sex
with all its passions and
driving forcesâ€.
The third movement is
said to characterise the
city of Vienna in the
form of a
woman.
It is
evident that in his
composition, Janácek
was not striving for a
simple, natural lyricism.
The River Danube is
masculine in the Slavic
language –
“ten Dunajâ€
– and assumes an
almost mythical
significance in the
national character,
indeed often also a role
bringing death. The four
movements are motivically
conceived. Elements of
sound painting, small
wave-like figures in the
first movement, motoric,
driving movements in the
third are obvious
evocations of water. And
the content and the
literary level are easy
to discover. The
“tremolo of the
four timpaniâ€,
which was amongst
Janácek’s first
inspirations, appears in
the second movement. It
is not difficult to
retrace in it the fate of
the drowning bather. The
oboe enters lamentoso
towards the end of the
movement over timpani
playing tremolo, its
descending figure is
taken over by the flute,
then upper strings and
intensified considerably.
The motif of drowning
– Lola’s
despair – returns
again in the fourth
movement in the clarinet,
before the work ends
abruptly and
dramatically.
One
special effect is the use
of a soprano voice in the
motor-driven third
movement. The singer
vocalises mainly in
parallel with the solo
oboe, but also in
dialogue with other parts
such as the viola
d’amore, which
Janácek used in
several late works as a
sort of “voice of
loveâ€.
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24 pieces for piano. Composed by Peter Wolf. Contemporary Music. EMB. Classic...(+)
24 pieces for piano.
Composed by Peter Wolf.
Contemporary Music. EMB.
Classical. Softcover.
Composed 2019. 128 pages.
Editio Musica Budapest
#EMBZ15087. Published by
Editio Musica Budapest
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By Duane Funderburk. Arranged by Duane Funderburk. For violin, piano, optional o...(+)
By Duane Funderburk.
Arranged by Duane
Funderburk. For violin,
piano, optional oboe and
strings quintet. Organ
with Instruments.
General. Moderately
Difficult. Score and solo
part. 8 pages. Published
by MorningStar Music
Publishers
Composed by Muzio
Clementi. Arranged by
Douglas Townsend. Carl
Fischer Young String
Orchestra Series.
Classical. Full score.
With Standard notation.
12 pages. Carl Fischer
Music #YAS13F. Published
by Carl Fischer Music
(CF.YAS13F).
ISBN
9780825848339. UPC:
798408048334. 8.5 X 11
inches. Key: G
major.
IApart from
some of his Sonatinas,
Opus 36, Clementi's life
and music are hardly
known to the piano
teachers and students of
today. For example, in
addition to the above
mentioned Sonatinas,
Clementi wrote sixty
sonatas for the piano,
many of them unjustly
neglected, although his
friend Beethoven regarded
some of them very highly.
Clementi also wrote
symphonies (some of which
he arranged as piano
sonatas), a substantial
number of waltzes and
other dances for the
piano as well as sonatas
and sonatinas for piano
four-hands.In addition to
composing, Clementi was a
much sought after piano
teacher, and included
among his students John
Field (Father of the
'Nocturne'), and
Meyerbeer.In his later
years, Clementi became a
very successful music
publisher, publishing
among other works the
first English edition of
Beethoven's Violin
Concerto, in the great
composer's own
arrangement for the
piano, as well as some of
his string quartets.
Clementi was also one of
the first English piano
manufacturers to make
pianos with a metal frame
and string them with
wire.The Sonatina in C,
Opus 36, No. 1 was one of
six such works Clementi
wrote in 1797. He must
have been partial to
these little pieces (for
which he also provided
the fingerings), since
they were reissued
(without the fingering)
by the composer shortly
after 1801. About 1820,
he issued ''the sixth
edition, with
considerable improvements
by the author;· with
fingerings added and
several minor changes,
among which were that
many of them were written
an octave higher.IIIt has
often been said,
generally by those
unhampered by the facts,
that composers of the
past (and, dare we add,
the present?), usually
handled their financial
affairs with their public
and publishers with a
poor sense of business
acumen or common sense.
As a result they
frequently found
themselves in financial
straits.Contrary to
popular opinion, this was
the exception rather than
the rule. With the
exception of Mozart and
perhaps a few other
composers, the majority
of composers then, as
now, were quite
successful in their
dealings with the public
and their publishers, as
the following examples
will show.It was not
unusual for 18th- and
19th-century composers to
arrange some of their
more popular compositions
for different
combinations of
instruments in order to
increase their
availability to a larger
music-playing public.
Telemann, in the
introduction to his
seventy-two cantatas for
solo voice and one melody
instrument (flute, oboe
or violin, with the usual
continua) Der Harmonische
Gottesdienst, tor
example, suggests that if
a singer is not available
to perform a cantata the
voice part could be
played by another
instrument. And in the
introduction to his Six
Concertos and Six Suites
for flute, violin and
continua, he named four
different instrumental
combinations that could
perform these pieces, and
actually wrote out the
notes for the different
possibilities. Bach
arranged his violin
concertos for keyboard,
and Beethoven not only
arranged his Piano Sonata
in E Major, Opus 14, No.
1 for string quartet, he
also transposed it to the
key of F. Brahm's
well-known Quintet in F
Minor for piano and
strings was his own
arrangement of his
earlier sonata for two
pianos, also in F
Minor.IIIWe come now to
Clementi. It is well
known that some of his
sixty piano sonatas were
his own arrangements of
some of his lost
symphonies, and that some
of his rondos for piano
four-hands were
originally the last
movements of his solo
sonatas or piano trios.In
order to make the first
movement of his
delightful Sonatina in C,
Opus 36, No. 1 accessible
to young string players,
I have followed the
example established by
the composer himself by
arranging and transposing
one of his piano
compositions from one
medium (the piano) to
another. (string
instruments). In order to
simplify the work for
young string players, in
the process of adapting
it to the new medium it
was necessary to
transpose it from the
original key of C to G,
thereby doing away with
some of the difficulties
they would have
encountered in the
original key. The first
violin and cello parts
are similar to the right-
and left-hand parts of
the original piano
version. The few changes
I have made in these
parts have been for the
convenience of the string
players, but in no way do
they change the nature of
the music.Since the
original implied a
harmonic framework in
many places, I have added
a second violin and viola
part in such a way that
they not only have
interesting music to
play, but also fill in
some of the implied
harmony without in any
way detracting from the
composition's musical
value. Occasionally, it
has been necessary to
raise or lower a few
passages an octave or to
modify others slightly to
make them more accessible
for young players.It is
hoped that the musical
value of the composition
has not been too
compromised, and that
students and teachers
will come to enjoy this
little piece in its new
setting as much as
pianists have in the
original one. This
arrangement may also be
performed by a solo
string quartet. When
performed by a string
orchestra, the double
bass part may be
omitted.- Douglas
TownsendString editing by
Amy Rosen.
About Carl
Fischer Young String
Orchestra
Series
Thi
s series of Grade 2/Grade
2.5 pieces is designed
for second and third year
ensembles. The pieces in
this series are
characterized
by: --Occasionally
extending to third
position --Keys
carefully considered for
appropriate
difficulty --Addition
of separate 2nd violin
and viola
parts --Viola T.C.
part
included --Increase
in independence of parts
over beginning levels
(Trumpet Feature). Composed by Gary Ziek. For Soloist(s) with Concert Band (Solo...(+)
(Trumpet Feature).
Composed by Gary Ziek.
For Soloist(s) with
Concert Band (Solo
Trumpet, Piccolo, Flute
1-2, Oboe 1-2, Clarinet
in Bb 1-3, Bass Clarinet,
Bassoon 1-2, Alto
Saxophone 1-2, Tenor
Saxophone, Baritone
Saxophone, Trumpet in Bb
1-3, Horn in F 1-4,
Trombone 1-3, Euphonium,
Tuba, Timpani (brake
drum, cabasa, wind
chimes)). Grade 5. Score
and parts. Duration
15:00. Published by C.
Alan Publications
Flute, oboe and bassoon (Solo instrument, Orchestra) SKU: BA.BA04589-01 C...(+)
Flute, oboe and bassoon
(Solo instrument,
Orchestra)
SKU:
BA.BA04589-01
Composed by Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart. Edited by
Franz Giegling. This
edition: complete
edition, urtext edition.
Linen. New Mozart Edition
(Neue Mozart Ausgabe -
NMA) Series V, Volume 14,
No. 3. Musikwissenschaft,
Klassik (Critical
Commentary, Classical).
Complete edition, Score,
anthology. Baerenreiter
Verlag #BA04589_01.
Published by Baerenreiter
Verlag (BA.BA04589-01).
ISBN 9790006451272.
33.1 x 26 cm
inches.
Urtext der
Neuen Mozart-Ausgabe.
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discrepancies and
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Oboe SKU: HL.14047797 Oboe Part. Composed by John Tavener. Music S...(+)
Oboe
SKU:
HL.14047797
Oboe
Part. Composed by
John Tavener. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Softcover. 15 pages.
Chester Music #CH7108201.
Published by Chester
Music (HL.14047797).
UPC: 888680642815.
9.5x14 inches.
John
Tavener 's Kaleidoscopes
is a tribute to Mozart
for Solo Oboe, Percussion
and four String Quartets,
lasting approximately 30
minutes. The work was
commissioned by the
Britten Sinfonia, and
first performed by them
with soloist Nicholas
Daniel on 6th November
2006 at the Queen
Elizabeth Hall, London.
This is the Solo Oboe
part. In the composer's
note, Tavener
explains his high
regard for Mozart, and
how in Kaleidoscopes
he attempts to take
Mozart's music and
meditate upon it in four
main cycles. He states
that all the music has
its source in Mozart,
whether it be rhythmic,
harmonic or
contrapuntal. .
Orchestra Orchestra SKU: PR.11641373S Composed by Peter Schickele. Full s...(+)
Orchestra Orchestra
SKU: PR.11641373S
Composed by Peter
Schickele. Full score.
Duration 24 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#116-41373S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.11641373S).
UPC:
680160680344.
The
concerto has always
seemed an especially
attractive medium to me,
not necessarily because
of its expectations of
virtuosity (although
flaunting it when you've
got it certainly has its
place), and emphatically
not because of the
perception of a concerto
as a contest, but because
so much of what I write
feels song-like; I'm very
much at home with the
age-old texture of melody
and accompaniment. I
hope, before I move on,
to have the opportunity
to write concertos for
all the major
instruments, and perhaps
some of the rarer ones as
well. The oboe is not
only one of the major
instruments, it is one of
my favorite instruments.
I've always loved its
sound, but since moving
to New York I have gotten
to hear and, in some
cases, know some
extremely fine oboists
who broadened my
appreciation of the
instrument's
possibilities. I
especially remember a
concert, probably in the
late 1960's, in which
Humbert Lucarelli played
a Handel concerto,
filling out large melodic
leaps with cascading
scale passages in a way
that raised the hair on
the back of your neck,
somewhat in the way that
John Coltrane's sheets of
sound did. The sweeping
scales in the second
movement of my concerto
were definitely inspired
by Bert Lucarelli's
performance. The first,
third and fifth movements
of the Concerto for Oboe
and Orchestra are
song-like, whereas the
second and fourth have
strong scherzo and dance
qualities, including a
couple of sections that
sound like out-and-out
pirate dances to me. The
hymn-like tune at the
beginning of the middle
movement was originally
begun as a vocal piece to
be sung by my wife, son
and daughter at my
brother's wedding, but I
couldn't come up with
good works for it, so it
ended up as an
instrumental chant. The
opening and closing of
the concerto make use of
the oboe's uniquely
soulful singing. I had
not heard Pamela Woods
Pecha's solo playing in
person when she
approached me about
writing a concerto, but I
had heard her fine
recording of chamber
music for oboe and
strings by the three B's
(English, that is: Bliss,
Bax and Britten) with the
Audubon Quartet. I
actually already had some
oboe concerto ideas in my
sketchbooks; although I
didn't end up using any
of those earlier ideas,
it's interesting that
most of them tended to
share the general feeling
and tonality of the
eventual opening of the
concerto. The work was
completed on October 13,
1994. I hate the
compromises involved in
making piano reductions
-- perhaps I would feel
differently if I were a
more accomplished pianist
-- so I often decide to
make piano reductions for
four hands rather than
two. My good friend Jon
Kimura Parker is a
terrific sight-reader,
and I roped him into
coming over to my place
on February 17, 1995, to
help me accompany Pamela
on the first read-through
of the piece. The first
performance of the work
took place on July 21,
1995, at the American
Music Festival in Duncan,
Oklahoma, with Mark
Parker conducting the
Festival Orchestra.
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Orchestra Orchestra
SKU: PR.11641373L
Composed by Peter
Schickele. Large Score.
Duration 24 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#116-41373L. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.11641373L).
UPC:
680160680337.
The
concerto has always
seemed an especially
attractive medium to me,
not necessarily because
of its expectations of
virtuosity (although
flaunting it when you've
got it certainly has its
place), and emphatically
not because of the
perception of a concerto
as a contest, but because
so much of what I write
feels song-like; I'm very
much at home with the
age-old texture of melody
and accompaniment. I
hope, before I move on,
to have the opportunity
to write concertos for
all the major
instruments, and perhaps
some of the rarer ones as
well. The oboe is not
only one of the major
instruments, it is one of
my favorite instruments.
I've always loved its
sound, but since moving
to New York I have gotten
to hear and, in some
cases, know some
extremely fine oboists
who broadened my
appreciation of the
instrument's
possibilities. I
especially remember a
concert, probably in the
late 1960's, in which
Humbert Lucarelli played
a Handel concerto,
filling out large melodic
leaps with cascading
scale passages in a way
that raised the hair on
the back of your neck,
somewhat in the way that
John Coltrane's sheets of
sound did. The sweeping
scales in the second
movement of my concerto
were definitely inspired
by Bert Lucarelli's
performance. The first,
third and fifth movements
of the Concerto for Oboe
and Orchestra are
song-like, whereas the
second and fourth have
strong scherzo and dance
qualities, including a
couple of sections that
sound like out-and-out
pirate dances to me. The
hymn-like tune at the
beginning of the middle
movement was originally
begun as a vocal piece to
be sung by my wife, son
and daughter at my
brother's wedding, but I
couldn't come up with
good works for it, so it
ended up as an
instrumental chant. The
opening and closing of
the concerto make use of
the oboe's uniquely
soulful singing. I had
not heard Pamela Woods
Pecha's solo playing in
person when she
approached me about
writing a concerto, but I
had heard her fine
recording of chamber
music for oboe and
strings by the three B's
(English, that is: Bliss,
Bax and Britten) with the
Audubon Quartet. I
actually already had some
oboe concerto ideas in my
sketchbooks; although I
didn't end up using any
of those earlier ideas,
it's interesting that
most of them tended to
share the general feeling
and tonality of the
eventual opening of the
concerto. The work was
completed on October 13,
1994. I hate the
compromises involved in
making piano reductions
-- perhaps I would feel
differently if I were a
more accomplished pianist
-- so I often decide to
make piano reductions for
four hands rather than
two. My good friend Jon
Kimura Parker is a
terrific sight-reader,
and I roped him into
coming over to my place
on February 17, 1995, to
help me accompany Pamela
on the first read-through
of the piece. The first
performance of the work
took place on July 21,
1995, at the American
Music Festival in Duncan,
Oklahoma, with Mark
Parker conducting the
Festival Orchestra.
Orchestra SKU: PR.11641867S Composed by William Kraft. Full score. Durati...(+)
Orchestra
SKU:
PR.11641867S
Composed
by William Kraft. Full
score. Duration 16
minutes, 25 seconds.
Theodore Presser Company
#116-41867S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.11641867S).
UPC:
680160683208.
Conte
xtures: Riots -Decade '60
was commissioned by Zubin
Mehta and the Southern
California Symphony
Association after the
successful premiere of
the Concerto for Four
Percussion Soloists and
Orchestra. It was written
during the spring and
summer months of 1967.
Riots stemming from
resentment against the
racial situation in the
United States and the war
in Vietnam were occurring
throughout the country
and inevitably invaded
the composer's creative
subconscious.
Contextures, as the title
implies, was intended to
exploit various and
varying textures. As the
work progressed the
correspondence between
the fabric of music and
the fabric of society
became apparent and the
allegory grew in
significance. So I found
myself translating social
aspects into musical
techniques. Social
stratification became a
polymetric situation
where disparate groups
function together. The
conflict between the
forces of expansion and
the forces of containment
is expressed through and
opposition of tonal
fluidity vs. rigidity.
This is epitomized in the
fourth movement, where
the brass is divided into
two groups - a muted
group, encircled by the
unmuted one, which does
its utmost to keep the
first group within a
restricted pitch area.
The playful jazzy bits
(one between the first
and second movements and
one at the end of the
piece) are simply saying
that somehow in this age
of turmoil and anxiety
ways of having fun are
found even though that
fun may seem
inappropriate. The piece
is in five movements,
with an interlude between
the first and second
movements. It is scored
for a large orchestra,
supplemented by six
groups of percussion,
including newly created
roto-toms (small tunable
drums) and some original
devices, such as muted
gongs and muted
vibraphone. There is also
an offstage jazz quartet:
bass, drums, soprano
saxophone and trumpet.
The first movement begins
with a solo by the first
clarinetist which is
interrupted by
intermittent heckling
from his colleagues
leading to a
configuration of large
disparate elements. The
interlude of solo violin
and snare-drum follows
without pause. The second
movement, Prestissimo, is
a display piece of
virtuosity for the entire
orchestra. The third
movement marks a period
of repose and reflection
and calls for some
expressive solos,
particularly by the horn
and alto saxophone. The
fourth movement opens
with a rather lengthy
oboe solo, which is
threatened by large
blocks of sound from the
orchestra, against an
underlying current of
agitated energy in the
piano and percussion.
This leads to a section
in which large orchestral
forces oppose one
another, ultimately
bringing the work to a
climax, if not to a
denouement. Various
thematic elements are
strewn all over the
orchestra, resulting in
the formation of a
general haze of sound. A
transition leads to the
fifth movement without
pause. The musical haze
is pierced gently by the
offstage jazz group as if
they were attempting to
ignore and even dispel
the gloom, but a legato
bell sound enters and
hovers over both the jazz
group and the orchestra,
the latter making
statements of disquieting
finality. Two films were
conceived to accompany
portions of Contextures.
The first done by Herbert
Kosowar, was a
chemography film
(painting directly into
the film using dyes and
various implements) with
fast clips of riot
photographs. The second
was a film collage made
by photographically
abstracting details from
paintings of Reginald
Pollack. The purpose was
to invoke a non-specific
response - as in music -
but at the same time to
define the subject matter
of the piece. The films
were constructed to
correspond with certain
developments in the piece
and in no way affect the
independence and musical
flow of the piece, having
been made after the piece
was completed.
Contextures: Riots -
Decade '60 is dedicated
to Mehta, the Southern
California Symphony
Association and the Los
Angeles Philharmonic
Orchestra. The news of
the assassination of Dr.
Martin Luther King came
the afternoon of the
premiere, April 4, 1968.
That evening's
performances, and also
the succeeding ones, were
dedicated to him and a
special dedication to Dr.
King has been inserted
into he score. All the
music that follows the
jazz group - beginning
with the legato bell
sound playing the first 2
notes to We shall
overcome constitutes a
new ending to commemorate
Dr. King's death.