By Marty Funderburk and Scott Wilemon. Arranged by Mike Speck and Cliff Duren. For SATB choir and piano. Mike Speck Music. Sacred. Moderate. Octavo. 20 pages. Published by Lillenas Publishing Company

By Frank Ticheli. Concert band. Suitable for middle school and high school bands. Grade 2. Conductor score and set of parts. Duration 2:15. Published by Manhattan Beach Music

(C Edition) For voice and C instrument. Format: fakebook. With vocal melody, lyrics and chord names. Series: Hal Leonard Fake Books. 856 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Hal Leonard.

Fakebook for Eb instrument. With vocal melody, lyrics and chord names. Series: Hal Leonard Fake Books. 864 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

(folk hymns and spirituals for piano). By Douglas E. Wagner. For Piano. Sacred. Level 2. Parts. Published by Lorenz Publishing Company

For voice and C instrument. Format: fakebook. With vocal melody, lyrics, chord names and guitar chord chart. Gospel and worship. Series: Hal Leonard Fake Books. 295 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Hal Leonard.

Performed by The Beatles. For voice(s), guitar(s), bass guitar, drum set and keyboard. Format: full score. With vocal melody, lyrics, standard guitar notation, guitar tablature, standard bass notation, bass tablature, chord names and drum notation. Classic rock, pop rock and psychedelic rock. Popular boxed gift set. Includes complete transcriptions of all instrumental and vocal parts. Series: Hal Leonard Transcribed Scores. 1136 pages. 7.25x10.88 inches. Published by Hal Leonard.

Performed by The Beatles. Piano/Vocal/Chords (Arrangements for piano and voice with guitar chords). Size 9.5x12.7 inches. 896 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

The Praise and Worship Fake Book (B Flat Edition). By Various. For Bb Instruments. Fake Book. Softcover. 432 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

By George Frideric Handel. For SATB Choir, Piano Accompaniment. Baroque, Sacred, Choral, Religious. Sheet Music. 264 pages. Published by Novello and Co Ltd.

(A sacred oratorio). By George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). Edited by Watkins Shaw. For soprano solo voice, alto solo voice, tenor solo voice, bass solo voice, SATB choir and piano accompaniment. Novello Handel Edition. Baroque, Choral, Christmas and Easter. Difficulty: medium. Vocal score (paperback). Choral notation and piano reduction. 257 pages. Published by Novello and Co Ltd

((1932) SATB and Piano, Complete Edition). By Benjamin Britten (1913-1976). For Choral (SATB). BH Secular Choral. 24 pages. Boosey and Hawkes #M051481941. Published by Boosey and Hawkes

Orchestra - Grade 4

SKU: HL.14000916

Composed by Hans Abrahamsen. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. Composed 2002. 55 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH29689. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14000916).

ISBN 9788759859179. 12.0x16.5x0.538 inches. English.

Stratifica tions was composed by Hans Abrahamsen in 1973-75 and was premiered in the summer 1977 by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra at the Young Nordic Music Festival in Reykjavik. Programme note: The stratifications referred to in the title unfold two different levels. There is the stratification of the time dimension produced by the opposition of contrasting parts, at the same time the polyphony, the presence of several simultaneously sounding layers, is of great importance to the music. By garish colours and clear-cut outlines a polyrhythmic simultaneousness of simple melodies is produced with more gestic music and other material which give a peculiar set piece-like effect inthe sound picture. The new simplicity details are here woven together in a new kind of complex whole. Stratifications begins with a series of concretistic masklike pictures of the music. It is like seeing lantern slides. But this fictive form crackles and the music gets attentive and real. The music is in a night-mare condition, where it is not getting anywhere in spite of a great dynamic display. But finally is liberating itself and rising in triumph.

Low Voice. By Various. Fake Book (Includes melody line and chords). 368 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

C Edition. By Various. Fake Book (Includes melody line and chords). 368 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

Composed by Jascha Heifetz. Edited by Endre Granat. LKM Music. Softcover. 64 pages. Lauren Keiser Music Publishing #S510010. Published by Lauren Keiser Music Publishing

Chamber Music Bass Clarinet, Bassoon, Clarinet, English Horn, Oboe, alto Saxophone, soprano Saxophone

SKU: PR.114419980

Composed by Stacy Garrop. Sws. Set of Score and Parts. 32+16+16+16+16+16 pages. Duration 16 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41998. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114419980).

UPC: 680160681723. 9 x 12 inches.

The ancient Egyptian empire began around 3100 B.C. and continued for over 3000 years until Alexander the Great conquered the country in 332 B.C. Over the centuries, the Egyptian empire grew and flourished into a highly developed society. They invented hieroglyphics, built towering pyramids (including the Great Pyramid of Giza, the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the World), and the created many household items we still use today, including toothbrushes, toothpaste, eyeliner, black ink, and the forerunner of modern-day paper. Included among their achievements were a series of highly developed funerary practices and beliefs in the Afterlife. As the average lifespan of an Egyptian hovered around 30 years, living past the death of oneAs physical body was a legitimate concern. Egyptians believed that upon death, their souls would undertake a harrowing journey through the Netherworld. If they survived the horrific creatures and arduous trials that awaited them, then their souls would be reunified with their bodies (hence the need to preserve the body through mummification) and live forever in a perfect version of the life they had lived in Egypt. To achieve this, Egyptians devised around 200 magical spells and incantations to aid souls on the path to the Afterlife. These spells are collectively called The Book of the Dead. Particular spells would be chosen by the family of the deceased and inscribed on the tombAs walls and scrolls of papyrus, as well as on a stone scarab placed over the deceasedAs heart. Subsequent collections of spells and mortuary texts, such as The Book of Gates, assisted a soul in navigating the twelve stages of the Netherworld. Not only did these spells protect and guide the soul on this dangerous path, but they also served as a safeguard against any unbecoming behavior an Egyptian did while alive. For instance, if a person had robbed another while alive, there was a spell that would prevent the soulAs heart from revealing the truth when in the Hall of Judgment. Rites for the Afterlife follows the path of a soul to the Afterlife. In Inscriptions from the Book of the Dead (movement 1), the soul leaves the body and begins the journey, protected by spells and incantations written on the tombAs walls. In Passage though the Netherworld (movement 2), the soul is now on a funerary barque, being towed through the Netherworld by four of the regionAs inhabitants. We hear the soul slowly chanting incantations as the barque encounters demons, serpents, crocodiles, lakes of fire, and other terrors. The soul arrives at The Hall of Judgment in movement 3. Standing before forty-two divine judges, the soul addresses each by name and gives a A!negative confessionA(r) connected to each judge (i.e. A!I did not rob,A(r) A!I did not do violence,A(r) and so on). Afterwards, the soulAs heart is put on a scale to be weighed against a feather of MaAat, the goddess of truth. If the heart weighs more than the feather, it will be eaten by Ammut, a hideous creature that lies in wait below the scale, and the soul will die a second and permanent death (this was the worst fear of the Egyptians). But if the heart is in balance with the feather, the soul proceeds onward. The final stage of the journey is the arrival at The Field of Reeds (movement 4), which is a perfect mirror image of the soulAs life in ancient Egypt. The soul reunites with deceased family members, makes sacrifices to the Egyptian gods and goddess, harvests crops from plentiful fields of wheat under a brilliant blue sky, and lives forever next to the abundant and nourishing waters of the Nile. Rites for the Afterlife was commissioned by the Barlow Endowment on behalf of the Akropolis Reed Quintet, Calefax Reed Quintet, and the Brigham Young University Reed Quintet. -S.G.