Guitar

SKU: BT.PB1271

Jazz. Book with CD. 62 pages. Paul Beuscher #PB1271. Published by Paul Beuscher (BT.PB1271).

French.

All Blues - Black Magic Woman - Blouse du dentiste - Chienne d'Idée - Cross Road Blues - Faut que j'me tire ailleurs - Hoochie Coochie Man - Lili voulait aller danser - Mirza - Mustang Sally - Now's the Time - Saint Louis Blues - Sweet Home Chicago - The Thrill is gone - What'd I Say (Est-ce que tu le sais).

By Various. Arranged by Gale, Nagle And Thomas. Saxophone Quartet. For Part 1: Soprano Saxophone. Individual part. Published by Music Express.

Composed by Fred Ebb, music by John Kander. Arranged by Kirby Shaw. Choir Secular. Women's Choir. Choral Octavo. Pop Choral. Broadway; Jazz; Secular. 12 pages. Published by Alfred Music

By Nestor Taylor. For SSBB soli, SATB Choir divisi (Mixed Voices). Secular. Choral. Moderately Difficult (for divisi writing). 12 pages

Composed by David Conte (1955-). Vocal Anthology/Vocal Solo. Secular, 21st century. Vocal score. 35 pages. Published by E.C. Schirmer Publishing (EC.8455).

Chamber Music String Quartet

SKU: PR.164002720

Cassatt. Composed by Dan Welcher. Spiral and Saddle. Premiere: Cassatt Quartet, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL. Contemporary. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. Composed 2007. WRT11142. 52+16+16+16+16 pages. Duration 24 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #164-00272. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.164002720).

UPC: 680160573042. 8.5 x 11 inches.

My third quartet is laid out in a three-movement structure, with each movement based on an early, middle, and late work of the great American impressionist painter Mary Cassatt. Although the movements are separate, with full-stop endings, the music is connected by a common scale-form, derived from the name MARY CASSATT, and by a recurring theme that introduces all three movements. I see this theme as Mary's Theme, a personality that stays intact while undergoing gradual change.   I The Bacchante (1876) [Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]   The painting shows a young girl of Italian or Spanish origin, playing a small pair of cymbals. Since Cassatt was trying very hard to fit in at the French Academy at the time, she painted a lot of these subjects, which were considered typical and universal. The style of the painting doesn't yet show Cassatt's originality, except perhaps for certain details in the face. Accordingly the music for this movement is Spanish/Italian, in a similar period-style but using the musical signature described above. The music begins with Mary's Theme, ruminative and slow, then abruptly changes to an alla Spagnola-type fast 3/4 - 6/8 meter. It evokes the Spanish-influenced music of Ravel and Falla.   Midway through, there's an accompanied recitative for the viola, which figures large in this particular movement, then back to a truncated recapitulation of the fast music. The overall feeling is of a well-made, rather conventional movement in a contemporary Spanish/Italian style. Cassatt's painting, too, is rather conventional.   II At the Opera (1880) [Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts]   This painting is one of Cassatt's most well known works, and it hangs in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The painting shows a woman alone in a box at the opera house, completely dressed (including gloves) and looking through opera glasses at someone or something that is NOT on the stage. Across the auditorium from her, but exactly at eye level, is a gentleman with opera glasses intently watching her - though it is not him that she's looking at. It's an intriguing picture.   This movement is far less conventional than the first movement, as the painting is far less conventional. The music begins with a rapid, Shostakovich-type mini-overture lasting less than a minute, based on Mary's Theme. My conjecture is that the woman in the painting has arrived late to the opera, busily stumbling into her box. What happens next is a kind of collage, a kind of surrealistic overlaying of two different elements: the foreground music, at first is a direct quotation of Soldier's Chorus from Gounod's FAUST (an opera Cassatt would certainly have heard in the brand-new Paris Opera House at that time), played by Violin II, Viola, and Cello. This music is played sul ponticello in the melody and col legno in the marching accompaniment. On top of this, the first violin hovers at first on a high harmonic, then descends into a slow melody, completely separate from the Gounod. It's as if the woman in the painting is hearing the opera onstage but is not really interested in it. Then the cello joins the first violin in a kind of love-duet (just the two of them, at first). This music isn't at all Gounod-derived; it's entirely from the same scale patterns as the first movement and derives from Mary's Theme and its scale. The music stays in a kind of dichotomy feeling, usually three-against-one, until the end of the movement, when another Gounod melody, Valentin's aria Avant de quitter ce lieux reappears in a kind of coda for all four players. It ends atmospherically and emotionally disconnected, however. The overall feeling is a kind of schizophrenic, opera-inspired dream.   III Young Woman in Green, Outdoors in the Sun (1909) [Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts]   The painting, one of Cassatt's last, is very simple: just a figure, looking sideways out of the picture. The colors are pastel and yet bold - and the woman is likewise very self-assured and not in the least demure. It is eight minutes long, and is all about melody - three melodies, to be exact (Young Woman, Green, and Sunlight). No angst, no choppy rhythms, just ever-unfolding melody and lush harmonies. I quote one other French composer here, too: Debussy's song Green, from Ariettes Oubliees. 1909 would have been Debussy's heyday in Paris, and it makes perfect sense musically as well as visually to do this.   Mary Cassatt lived her last several years in near-total blindness, and as she lost visual acuity, her work became less sharply defined - something akin to late water lilies of Monet, who suffered similar vision loss. My idea of making this movement entirely melodic was compounded by having each of the three melodies appear twice, once in a pure form, and the second time in a more diffuse setting. This makes an interesting two ways form: A-B-C-A1-B1-C1.   String Quartet No.3 (Cassatt) is dedicated, with great affection and respect, to the Cassatt String Quartet, whose members have dedicated themselves in large measure to the furthering of the contemporary repertoire for quartet.

(E-Z Play Today #216). By Frank Sinatra. For Organ, Piano/Keyboard, Electronic Keyboard. E-Z Play Today. Softcover. 256 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

Ars Antiqua Choralis, Volume II. Composed by Richard Proulx. Sacred. CD. GIA Publications #299. Published by GIA Publications (GI.G-CD-299).

By Fred Ebb, John Kander. Arranged by John Wasson. Esprit (Marching Band). Published by Hal Leonard.

Composed by John Philip Sousa (1854-1932). Arranged by Frank Byrne. Concert Band Music. Concert Band Series. Concert March. Full score. Published by Wingert-Jones Publications (WJ.3010022).

By Various. Guitar Method. Blues. Softcover Audio Online. With guitar tablature. 64 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

Composed by Paul J. Sifler. Fredonia Press #FRD103. Published by Fredonia Press

By Bugs Bower. For All treble clef instruments. Book. Published by Bugs Bower's Nancy Music Co.

Ten Years of Popular Hits Arranged for EASY PIANO. Arranged by Dan Coates. For Piano. Piano - Easy Piano Collection. Decade by Decade. Nostalgia; Pop. Level: Easy Piano. Book. 144 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

Composed by Fred Ebb, music by John Kander. Arranged by Kirby Shaw. Choir Secular. This edition: SoundTrax CD. CD; Choral Octavo. Pop Choral. Broadway; Jazz; Secular. Published by Alfred Music

by Peter Cooper. For fiddle. Complete. Celtic/Irish. Level: Multiple Levels. Book. Solos. Size 8.75x11.75. 160 pages. Published by Mel Bay Pub., Inc.

(Guitar Play-Along Volume 146). By Robert Johnson. For Guitar. Guitar Play-Along. Softcover with CD. Guitar tablature. 80 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

Performed by Robert Johnson. Piano/Vocal/Chords Songbook (Arrangements for piano and voice with guitar chords). Size 9x12 inches. 216 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

(for percussion octet). By David Reeves. Percussion Ensemble. For glockenspiel, chimes, xylophone, 2 vibraphones, 2 marimbas (low A), 4 timpani, 2 bongos, 2 congas, 4 log drums, 4 cowbells, 4 brake drums, temple blocks, 4 concert toms, 3 double-headed tom

Band concert band - Grade 5

SKU: KJ.WB139

Composed by Christopher Salerno. Conservatory Editions. Score and set of parts. Neil A. Kjos Music Company #WB139. Published by Neil A. Kjos Music Company (KJ.WB139).

The Puckish Poltergeist, a programmatic work based on the pranks of a devious poltergeist, contrasts the terrifying and the comical. Through the use of rapid meter changes, simultaneous duple and triple rhythmic patterns, and contrasting textural scoring, the composer vividly conjures to mind frightened castle dwellers as they run from varied assortments of flying furniture and kitchen utensils, and the slightly bent puck, as he plays his little 'pranks.' Composed in the spring of 1991, The Pucking Poltergeist was premiered in Chicago at the 45th Mid-West International Band and Orchestra Clinic by the VanderCook College of Music Symphonic Band under the direction of Roger Rocco. It subsequently received a performance by the United States Military Band at West Point Acadamy. In February of 1993, it was featured as one of five works selected for the Symposium XVII for New Band Music at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.

Composed by Fred Ebb, music by John Kander. Arranged by Kirby Shaw. Choir Secular. 3-Part Mixed Choir (SAB). Choral Octavo. Pop Choral. Broadway; Jazz; Secular. 12 pages. Published by Alfred Music

By Howard Helvey. For SATB choir, a cappella. General, Communion. Moderately Difficult. Octavo. Published by MorningStar Music Publishers

Vocal Score. (score). Vocal Score. Size 9x12 inches. 164 pages. Published by G. Schirmer, Inc.

By Various. Arranged by Gale, Nagle And Thomas. Clarinet Quartet. For Part 1: Bb Clarinet 1. Individual part. Published by Music Express.

Jazz Play-Along Volume 81. By Frank Sinatra. Jazz Play Along. Softcover with CD. Published by Hal Leonard.