Composed by Various. For Piano/Keyboard. Hal Leonard Fake Books. Classical. Diff...(+)
Composed by Various. For
Piano/Keyboard. Hal
Leonard Fake Books.
Classical. Difficulty:
medium to
medium-difficult.
Fakebook. Melody line,
chord names and lyrics
(on some songs). 413
pages. Published by Hal
Leonard
Tenor Sax. Arranged by Various. Instrumental Series; Play-Along; Solo. Instru...(+)
Tenor Sax. Arranged by
Various. Instrumental
Series;
Play-Along; Solo.
Instrumental Solos
Series.
Masterwork Arrangement.
Book;
CD. 40 pages. Alfred
Music
#00-47053. Published by
Alfred Music
Alto Sax. Arranged by Various. Instrumental Series; Play-Along; Solo. Instrum...(+)
Alto Sax. Arranged by
Various. Instrumental
Series;
Play-Along; Solo.
Instrumental Solos
Series.
Masterwork Arrangement.
Book;
CD. 40 pages. Alfred
Music
#00-47050. Published by
Alfred Music
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
Cello. Arranged by Various. Play-Along; Solo; String Series. Instrumental Solo...(+)
Cello. Arranged by
Various.
Play-Along; Solo; String
Series. Instrumental
Solos
Series. Masterwork
Arrangement. Book; CD. 40
pages. Alfred Music #00-
47071. Published by
Alfred
Music
Violin. Arranged by Various. Play-Along; Solo; String Series. Instrumental Sol...(+)
Violin. Arranged by
Various.
Play-Along; Solo; String
Series. Instrumental
Solos
Series. Masterwork
Arrangement. Book; CD. 40
pages. Alfred Music #00-
47065. Published by
Alfred
Music
(Easy Piano). For Piano. This edition: Easy Piano. Book; Masterworks; Piano - Ea...(+)
(Easy Piano). For Piano.
This edition: Easy Piano.
Book; Masterworks; Piano
- Easy Piano Collection.
The Giant Book of Sheet
Music. Masterwork
Arrangement; Recital.
Easy Piano. 296 pages.
Published by Alfred Music
Viola. Arranged by Various. Play-Along; Solo; String Series. Instrumental So...(+)
Viola. Arranged by
Various.
Play-Along; Solo; String
Series. Instrumental
Solos
Series. Masterwork
Arrangement. Book; CD. 40
pages. Alfred Music #00-
47068. Published by
Alfred
Music
Clarinet. Arranged by Various. Instrumental Series; Play-Along; Solo. Instrument...(+)
Clarinet. Arranged by
Various. Instrumental
Series; Play-Along; Solo.
Instrumental Solos
Series. Masterwork
Arrangement. Book; CD. 40
pages. Alfred Music
#00-47047. Published by
Alfred Music
Trombone. Arranged by Various. Instrumental Series; Play-Along; Solo. Inst...(+)
Trombone. Arranged by
Various. Instrumental
Series;
Play-Along; Solo.
Instrumental Solos
Series.
Masterwork Arrangement.
Book;
CD. 40 pages. Alfred
Music
#00-47062. Published by
Alfred Music
Flute. Arranged by Various. Book; CD; Instrumental Series; Play-Along; So...(+)
Flute. Arranged by
Various. Book; CD;
Instrumental Series;
Play-Along; Solo.
Instrumental Solos
Series. Masterwork
Arrangement. 40 pages.
Published by Alfred Music
(AP.47044).
Horn in F. Arranged by Various. Instrumental Series; Play-Along; Solo. Instru...(+)
Horn in F. Arranged by
Various. Instrumental
Series;
Play-Along; Solo.
Instrumental Solos
Series.
Masterwork Arrangement.
Book;
CD. 40 pages. Alfred
Music
#00-47059. Published by
Alfred Music
arranged by Simon Lasky. For Saxophone (All). solos. Kevin Mayhew Ltd. Classic. ...(+)
arranged by Simon Lasky.
For Saxophone (All).
solos. Kevin Mayhew Ltd.
Classic. Level:
Intermediate. Book. Size
9x12. 40 pages. Published
by Kevin Mayhew Ltd.
Trumpet. Arranged by Various. Instrumental Series; Play- Along; Solo. Instrum...(+)
Trumpet. Arranged by
Various.
Instrumental Series;
Play-
Along; Solo. Instrumental
Solos Series. Masterwork
Arrangement. Book; CD. 40
pages. Alfred Music #00-
47056. Published by
Alfred
Music
Piano (Piano Solo) SKU: HL.354338 For Solo Piano. Composed by Rich...(+)
Piano (Piano Solo)
SKU: HL.354338
For Solo Piano.
Composed by Richard
Wilson. Peermusic
Classical. Classical.
Softcover. Duration 600
seconds. Peermusic
Classical #70303-501.
Published by Peermusic
Classical (HL.354338).
ISBN 9781705107669.
UPC: 840126936964.
9.0x12.0x0.109
inches.
Richard
Wilson was born in
Cleveland on May 15,
1941. He studied piano
with Roslyn Pettibone,
Egbert Fischer, and
Leonard Shure, andcello
with Robert Ripley and
Ernst Silberstein. After
beginning composition
studies with Roslyn
Pettibone and Howard
Whittaker, he went on in
1959 to Harvard, studying
with Randall Thompson,
G.W. Woodworth, and
principally with Robert
Moevs, and graduating in
1963 magna cum laude.
Awarded the Frank
Huntington Beebe Award
for study abroad, he
continued studying piano
with Friedrich Wührer
in Munich, and
composition, again with
Moevs, in Rome, where he
also gave piano recitals.
Wilson joined the faculty
of Vassar College in
1966. He was appointed to
the Mary Conover Mellon
Professorship of Music
there in 1988, and he has
served three times as
chairman of the
Department of Music.
Wilson has been
commissioned by the San
Francisco Symphony, the
American Symphony, the
New Juilliard Ensemble,
the Koussevitzky
Foundation, the Fromm
Foundation, Chamber Music
America, the Chicago
Chamber Musicians, the
Walter W. Naumburg
Foundation, and the
Library of Congress. His
works have been heard in
such American musical
centers as New York,
Philadelphia, Washington,
Boston, Cleveland, and
Los Angeles and at the
Aspen Music Festival, but
also in London, Berlin,
Frankfurt, Zurich, Milan,
Amsterdam, Graz,
Leningrad, Stockholm,
Tokyo, Bogota, and a
number of Australian
cities. The recipient in
1992 of a Guggenheim
Fellowship, he was
awarded the Elise L.
Stoeger Prize of the
Chamber Music Society of
Lincoln Center in 1994,
the Academy Award from
the American Academy of
Arts and Letters in 2004,
and has served as
composer in residence
with the American
Symphony Orchestra since
1992. Wilson has been
praised by 21st Century
Music as a
“splendidly
talented and highly
accomplished composer
whose music rewards
seeking out†and by
the New York Sun as
“possessed of a
hard-won idiom that has
grown and developed over
the years into a probing
blend of wit, classic
form, modern harmony, and
impressionistic
color.†Writing in
the New Yorker, Andrew
Porter called his String
Quartet No. 3 a
“richly wrought and
unusual
composition,†while
the New York Times called
it “a work of
substance and
expressivity ... [that]
merits a place in the
active
repertory.â€.
(12 Works from the 20th Century Cello and Piano and Solo Cello). Composed by Var...(+)
(12 Works from the 20th
Century Cello and Piano
and Solo Cello). Composed
by Various. For Cello,
Piano Accompaniment.
String Solo. Softcover.
72 pages. G. Schirmer #ED
4550. Published by G.
Schirmer
Cello and piano SKU: M7.SAE-2-01 Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Arran...(+)
Cello and piano
SKU:
M7.SAE-2-01
Composed
by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Arranged by Lucian
Moraru. Sheet music.
Piano reduction with solo
part. SonArt Edition #SAE
2-01. Published by SonArt
Edition (M7.SAE-2-01).
ISBN
9790707665299.
This
is a unique arrangement
for cello and piano, a
work that preserves the
beauty of the original
work, an icon for
classical music
repertoire, but at the
same time different in
essence due to the
creative and innovative
flavour that was
introduced in
orchestration on this
occasion. The piece has
been carefully adapted to
suit the technical needs
of each instrument, being
a smart choice for the
players that want to
achieve the acclaim from
the audience. This piece
of music is suitable both
for concerts given by
professionals and for
auditions in schools,
colleges, conservatories
or can be used in various
other private events.
(Piano Trio). Composed by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897). Edited by Johannes Umbrei...(+)
(Piano Trio). Composed by
Johannes Brahms
(1833-1897). Edited by
Johannes Umbreit, Michael
Struck, Frank Peter
Zimmermann, and Heinrich
Schiff. For Piano Trio.
Henle Music Folios.
Softcover. G. Henle
#HN715. Published by G.
Henle
Composed by Carl
Strommen. First-Plus
String Orchestra (FAS).
Set of Score and Parts.
With Standard notation.
8+2+8+5+5+5+2+8 pages.
Duration 2 minutes, 54
seconds. Carl Fischer
Music #FAS92. Published
by Carl Fischer Music
(CF.FAS92).
ISBN
9781491142967. UPC:
680160900466. 9x12
inches. Key: G
major.
This lovely
original ballad for
strings sounds like it
was based on a
traditional folk song.
Carl Strommen has a way
of writing memorable
melodies and lush
harmonies. Lonestar
sounds like an American
cowboy song, and will
stretch the musicianship
of your young
students. The
plaintive opening in
Violin 1 (optional solo)
then joined with Violin 2
(optional solo) at m. 9
suggests an early morning
sunrise on the vast
Western prairie. With
each new section, the sun
slowly emerges and rises
in full glory at m. 41.
The performance of
Lonestar will be most
effective when played
broadly, with expression,
observing all dynamics
and tempo changes. To
present this musical
portrait more clearly,
the conductor is
encouraged to take
advantage of the
interpretive
opportunities that
Lonestar provides. For
more information, please
visit
carlstrommen.com.
Violin and orchestra (solo: vl - str - bc) SKU: BR.PB-5297 Composed by Fr...(+)
Violin and orchestra
(solo: vl - str - bc)
SKU: BR.PB-5297
Composed by Franz Joseph
Haydn. Edited by Walter
Heinz Bernstein.
Orchestra; stapled.
Partitur-Bibliothek
(Score Library).
Haydn's C major
Concerto now in a new,
up-to-date
edition
EB 8634
(edition for violin and
piano) with cadenzas by
Thomas Zehetmair
Solo
concerto; Classical. Full
score. 24 pages. Duration
24'. Breitkopf and
Haertel #PB 5297.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.PB-5297).
ISBN 9790004211755. 10
x 12.5
inches.
Haydn's
Violin Concerto in C
major has always been
closely linked to
Breitkopf & Hartel,
which began selling
copies of the work back
in 1769. The first
edition came out in 1909
and helped secure the
work a broad
dissemination and lasting
popularity. Strangely
enough, this first
edition is one of the
most important sources
today, since its own
source a copy of Haydn's
autograph, perhaps the
autograph itself was lost
at the end of World War
II. Although other copies
from Haydn's time were
made, they are textually
less reliable. Walter
Heinz Bernstein has
created an easily
playable and
pleasant-sounding piano
score on the basis of the
first edition, whereby he
has respected the early
classical continuo
practice. As he did
earlier in the G major
Concerto (EB 8606),
Thomas Zehetmair has once
again accepted the
challenging task of
embellishing the solo
part with stylistically
accurate cadenzas and
flourishes. This
delightful concerto is
thus now available in a
modern edition.The
piano-harpsichord part by
Walter Heinz Bernstein
features a continuo part
in keeping with the late
Baroque performing
tradition and offers a
much cleaner, unfettered
realization.(Stringendo)<
br> Haydn's C major
Concerto now in a new,
up-to-date edition.