Book and CD. Composed by Bela Bartok (1881-1945). Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music. Classical, Hungarian. Softcover with CD. 40 pages. Boosey & Hawkes #M060132421. Published by Boosey & Hawkes

Level Two - Etudes. By Christopher Norton, Scott McBride-Smith. This edition: APPE-02. NOVUS VIA MUSIC GROUP. 72 pages. Published by Novus Via Music Group.

By Claude Debussy (1862-1918). Arranged by Jonathan Robbins. For easy piano. Late Beginner - Early Intermediate. Book and accompaniment CD

Basso (cello/double bass) (solos: SAATBB - choir: SSAATB - 2rec.B-fl.2.0.0. - 0.2.0.0. - timp - str - bc)

SKU: BR.EOS-8063-26

Hail! Bright Cecilia. Composed by Henry Purcell. Stapled. Eulenburg Orchestral Series. Renaissance/early Baroque; Baroque. Part. 20 pages. Duration 60'. Breitkopf and Haertel #EOS 8063-26. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.EOS-8063-26).

ISBN 9790004789810. 8.5 x 11.5 inches.

The Ode was admirably set by Mr. Henry Purcell, and performed twice with universal applause.
(The Gentlemen's Journal, 1692)

The popularity of Purcell's setting is apparent from the many sources that survive and from the printed extracts which appeared almost immediately after its first performance. The primary source for this edition is the largely autograph manuscript in the Bodleian Library. Rather to reduce the orthography to a norm, the capitalization of the vocal text favours Purcell's preferences.
(Christop her Hogwood) Vokalensemble Stuttgart und den Kammerchor des Kopernikus-Gymnasiums Wasseralfingen. Fur diese beiden ganz unterschiedlichen Chorformationen hat Martin Smolka 2012 auch gezielt seine Partitur angelegt. Biografisch ist das Agnus Dei eine Art kleines Requiem fur seinen kurz zuvor verstorbenen Vater. Das liturgische Agnus Dei rahmt den deutschen Text Eh das Madchen entschlief ... der bei Auffuhrungen in anderen Landern durch eine Ubersetzung ersetzt werden soll.

Der SWR-Redakteur Hans-Peter Jahn schreibt dazu im Programmheft: Die fur Smolka typischen minimalistischen Taktzellen schaffen eine archaische Sinnlichkeit. Eine einfache und zugleich streng gebaute Vokalmusik mit Tiefenwirkung.

Nac h der Urauffuhrung war die Esslinger Zeitung hellauf begeistert: Smolka ist ein Meister der Stimmbehandlung und der chorischen Klanggestaltung. Im Zentrum des Stucks gerat die Musik zum Stillstand: im leisen gleichmassigen Summen uber dem plotzlich fortissimo ein tschechisches Kinderlied erklingt eines das der Vater seinen Kindern haufig vorgesungen hat. Das alles war sehr beruhrend. Und eigentlich noch mehr als das. My father PhDr. Jaroslav Smolka (1933-2011) was a leading Czech musicologist author of books Czech Cantata and Oratorium Fuga in Czech Music Smetana's Orchestra Music Smetana's Vocal Music monography of Jan Dismas Zelenka and many others. He was a legendary teacher of Music History at Prague Music Academy critic recording producer composer; for almost 50 years he was an important and highly respected personality of Prague musical life.
My father devoted a lot of time and energy to musical education and activities of my sister and me using often quite original methods such as teaching of intervals and counterpoint through Bartok's Microcosmos ear training filling all imaginable moments of everyday life or lessons of harmony analysis starting with Overture to Tristan and Musorgsky's Catacombs. The Martinu song Wondering Maiden was his solo number in our home vocal productions which he used to sing with amazing devotion while his huge voice was audible in several neighboring streets.
My Agnus Dei is closely bound to all this history e.g. by using canon and preferring beauty of dissonant seconds like Bartok or quoting Martinu and his refined neoclassical harmony. Father would be probably a bit critical about the minimalistic monotony of the main body of the piece. Nevertheless firstly he would improvise a short lecture of history of Agnus Dei in Requiem in Czech Music naming by heart many dates and all examples of changes of order of the traditional text by composers. Examples would be sung probably.
(Martin Smolka).

Chorus (with soloists) and piano (solos: SAATBB - choir: SSAATB - 2rec.B-fl.2.0.0. - 0.2.0.0. - timp - str - bc)

SKU: BR.ED-10296

Hail! Bright Cecilia. Composed by Henry Purcell. Edited by Christopher Hogwood. Choir; stapled. Renaissance/early Baroque; Baroque. Piano/Vocal Score. 80 pages. Duration 60'. Breitkopf and Haertel #ED 10296. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.ED-10296).

ISBN 9790220101977. 7.5 x 11 inches.

The Ode was admirably set by Mr. Henry Purcell, and performed twice with universal applause.
(The Gentlemen's Journal, 1692)

The popularity of Purcell's setting is apparent from the many sources that survive and from the printed extracts which appeared almost immediately after its first performance. The primary source for this edition is the largely autograph manuscript in the Bodleian Library. Rather to reduce the orthography to a norm, the capitalization of the vocal text favours Purcell's preferences.
(Christop her Hogwood) Vokalensemble Stuttgart und den Kammerchor des Kopernikus-Gymnasiums Wasseralfingen. Fur diese beiden ganz unterschiedlichen Chorformationen hat Martin Smolka 2012 auch gezielt seine Partitur angelegt. Biografisch ist das Agnus Dei eine Art kleines Requiem fur seinen kurz zuvor verstorbenen Vater. Das liturgische Agnus Dei rahmt den deutschen Text Eh das Madchen entschlief ... der bei Auffuhrungen in anderen Landern durch eine Ubersetzung ersetzt werden soll.

Der SWR-Redakteur Hans-Peter Jahn schreibt dazu im Programmheft: Die fur Smolka typischen minimalistischen Taktzellen schaffen eine archaische Sinnlichkeit. Eine einfache und zugleich streng gebaute Vokalmusik mit Tiefenwirkung.

Nac h der Urauffuhrung war die Esslinger Zeitung hellauf begeistert: Smolka ist ein Meister der Stimmbehandlung und der chorischen Klanggestaltung. Im Zentrum des Stucks gerat die Musik zum Stillstand: im leisen gleichmassigen Summen uber dem plotzlich fortissimo ein tschechisches Kinderlied erklingt eines das der Vater seinen Kindern haufig vorgesungen hat. Das alles war sehr beruhrend. Und eigentlich noch mehr als das. My father PhDr. Jaroslav Smolka (1933-2011) was a leading Czech musicologist author of books Czech Cantata and Oratorium Fuga in Czech Music Smetana's Orchestra Music Smetana's Vocal Music monography of Jan Dismas Zelenka and many others. He was a legendary teacher of Music History at Prague Music Academy critic recording producer composer; for almost 50 years he was an important and highly respected personality of Prague musical life.
My father devoted a lot of time and energy to musical education and activities of my sister and me using often quite original methods such as teaching of intervals and counterpoint through Bartok's Microcosmos ear training filling all imaginable moments of everyday life or lessons of harmony analysis starting with Overture to Tristan and Musorgsky's Catacombs. The Martinu song Wondering Maiden was his solo number in our home vocal productions which he used to sing with amazing devotion while his huge voice was audible in several neighboring streets.
My Agnus Dei is closely bound to all this history e.g. by using canon and preferring beauty of dissonant seconds like Bartok or quoting Martinu and his refined neoclassical harmony. Father would be probably a bit critical about the minimalistic monotony of the main body of the piece. Nevertheless firstly he would improvise a short lecture of history of Agnus Dei in Requiem in Czech Music naming by heart many dates and all examples of changes of order of the traditional text by composers. Examples would be sung probably.
(Martin Smolka).

Piano (Piano solo) - x, x, x

SKU: HL.51481404

Piano Solo. Composed by Bela Bartok. Edited by Lá, Somfai, and szló. Arranged by Denes Varjon. Sheet music. Paperbound. Henle Music Folios. Classical, Folk, Multicultural. Softcover. 32 pages. G. Henle #HN1404. Published by G. Henle (HL.51481404).

ISBN 9790201814049. UPC: 888680738020. 9.0x12.0x0.105 inches.

In a note for the planned first edition of his Hungarian Peasant Songs in 1914, Bartók wrote that “the melodies published here are folksongs in the truest sense of the word; more precisely, peasant songs.” Bartók initially withdrew this work from publication, however, and added new pieces to it using folk music he had collected in the meantime. The first edition was only finally published in 1920. The Bartók scholar László Somfai explains the work's complicated genesis in his preface. The comments at the close of this edition include important indications regarding performance practice derived from the two recordings that the composer made of several of its pieces in 1927 and 1936. The musical text here follows that of the corresponding volume of the Bartók Complete Edition that is currently in preparation. This is yet another highly popular Bartók work from G. Henle Publishers!

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Piano

SKU: AY.PN3099PM

Composed by F. Taverna-Bech. Keyboards - Piano. Sheet music. Duration 10'. Periferia Publishing #PN3099PM. Published by Periferia Publishing (AY.PN3099PM).

ISBN 9790543573550.

This four pieces group can be considered as a study of style. Somehow, one wonders the capacity to assimilate some musical languages that that appeared at the beginning of the XX century, in a very permissive tone concept. The music in each of them is explicit enough to expose this purpose. Stravinski should be, then, understood as an approach to the personal features of Stavinski and polytonality from an ironic and portrait perspective. The Nocturne is inspired on the spirit of the pieces of the Mikrokosmos of Bartok, at the same time that counts on the poetical contributions of the composer John Field for his contributions to the nocturne pianist genre. The Song for Anna seeks protection in the bright and transparent harmonies of Ravel, and the popular song Au claire de la lune is developed in a pentatonical scale and reminds of the harmonical treatment.

Composed by David Saperstein. For solo viola. Engraved by Peter Jarvis. Score. Published by Calabrese Brothers Music, LLC

Edited by Steven Osborne. Classical. Textbook. Trinity College London #TCL024091. Published by Trinity College London

Piano - grade 1

SKU: HL.50511408

For piano. Composed by Rezso Sugar. This edition: Z6896. EMB. Classical. Book [Softcover]. 36 pages. Editio Musica Budapest #Z6896. Published by Editio Musica Budapest (HL.50511408).

ISBN 9790080068960. UPC: 073999114089. 9.0x12.0x0.123 inches. Hungarian, English, German.

As source of the melodies has served the volume 1 of the Collection of Hungarian Folk Music (Corpus Musicae Popularis Hungaricae) - Children's Games'' edited by Bartok and Kodaly, prepared for the press by Dr. Gyorgy Kerenyi.

Concert Band; Orchestra 4(3&4dPicc).3(2&3dEH).3(3 dEb/BCl)+BCl(dEb).4(4dCBs n): 4.4(AlldCrnt).4.1: Timp.Perc(2): Clst.Hp(2).Pno(4-Hands): Str (9-8-7-6-5 in set)

SKU: AP.36-A932601

Composed by Bela Bartok. Full Orchestra; Performance Music Ensemble. Kalmus Orchestra Library. Score. LudwigMasters Publications #36-A932601. Published by LudwigMasters Publications (AP.36-A932601).

ISBN 9781638879831. UPC: 676737768577. English.

Béla Bartók's (1881-1945) Four Orchestra Pieces, Op. 12 premiered in January 1922 in Budapest, but did not become one of Bartók's best-known works until its popularity was revived by Pierre Boulez in the 1970s. Bartók's influences are on display in these pieces, including that of Debussy in the first movement Preludio, and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in the Scherzo. Four Orchestra Pieces is considered a bridge stylistically between Bartók's early works like Duke Bluebeard's Castle and his mature works like The Miraculous Mandarin. Instrumentation: 4(3&4dPicc).3(2&3dEH).3(3 dEb/BCl)+BCl(dEb).4(4dCBs n): 4.4(AlldCrnt).4.1: Timp.Perc(2): Clst.Hp(2).Pno(4-Hands): Str (9-8-7-6-5 in set). Reprint edition.

These products are currently being prepared by a new publisher. While many items are ready and will ship on time, some others may see delays of several months.

Concert Band; Orchestra 4(3&4dPicc).3(2&3dEH).3(3 dEb/BCl)+BCl(dEb).4(4dCBs n): 4.4(AlldCrnt).4.1: Timp.Perc(2): Clst.Hp(2).Pno(4-Hands): Str (9-8-7-6-5 in set)

SKU: AP.36-A932690

Composed by Bela Bartok. Full Orchestra; Performance Music Ensemble. Kalmus Orchestra Library. Score and Part(s). LudwigMasters Publications #36-A932690. Published by LudwigMasters Publications (AP.36-A932690).

UPC: 676737521530. English.

Béla Bartók's (1881-1945) Four Orchestra Pieces, Op. 12 premiered in January 1922 in Budapest, but did not become one of Bartók's best-known works until its popularity was revived by Pierre Boulez in the 1970s. Bartók's influences are on display in these pieces, including that of Debussy in the first movement Preludio, and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in the Scherzo. Four Orchestra Pieces is considered a bridge stylistically between Bartók's early works like Duke Bluebeard's Castle and his mature works like The Miraculous Mandarin. Instrumentation: 4(3&4dPicc).3(2&3dEH).3(3 dEb/BCl)+BCl(dEb).4(4dCBs n): 4.4(AlldCrnt).4.1: Timp.Perc(2): Clst.Hp(2).Pno(4-Hands): Str (9-8-7-6-5 in set). Reprint edition.

These products are currently being prepared by a new publisher. While many items are ready and will ship on time, some others may see delays of several months.

Piano

SKU: BT.EMBZ934

Composed by Bela Bartok. Educational Tool. Book Only. Composed 1953. 48 pages. Editio Musica Budapest #EMBZ934. Published by Editio Musica Budapest (BT.EMBZ934).

English-German-Hungari an.

'This is one of Bartók's most famous series of piano pieces, whose fame is probably greater than either its popularity with pianists, or the frequency with which it occurs on concert programmes. When it was written in 1908, it triggered sensation and scandal in musical circles. The series as a whole is not a true cyclic composition that can only be played in its entirety with movements in the original order. Rather, it is a more loosely-ordered collection, although some of the pieces belong together. However, the varied succession of tempos and characters and general succession from technically easy to more difficult could also be a reason for the volume's ordering.'(HCD32524 Bartók New Series Vol. 24, István G. Németh).