Boy
Soprano, Soprano, Tenor,
Flugelhorn, Mixed Chorus,
and Chamber Orchestra
Study Score. Composed
by Harald Weiss. This
edition: Paperback/Soft
Cover. Sheet music. Study
Score. Classical.
Softcover. Composed
2008/2009. 188 pages.
Duration 100'. Schott
Music #ED20619. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49018099).
ISBN
9790001158428. UPC:
884088567347.
8.25x11.75x0.457 inches.
Latin - German.
On
letting go(Concerning the
selection of the texts)
In the selection of the
texts, I have allowed
myself to be motivated
and inspired by the
concept of 'letting go'.
This appears to me to be
one of the essential
aspects of dying, but
also of life itself. We
humans cling far too
strongly to successful
achievements, whether
they have to do with
material or ideal values,
or relationships of all
kinds. We cannot and do
not want to let go,
almost as if our life
depended on it. As we
will have to practise the
art of letting go at the
latest during our hour of
death, perhaps we could
already make a start on
this while we are still
alive. Tagore describes
this farewell with very
simple but strikingly
vivid imagery: 'I will
return the key of my
door'. I have set this
text for tenor solo. Here
I imagine, and have
correspondingly noted in
a certain passage of the
score, that the
protagonist finds himself
as though 'in an ocean'
of voices in which he is
however not drowning, but
immersing himself in
complete relaxation. The
phenomenon of letting go
is described even more
simply and tersely in
Psalm 90, verse 12: 'So
teach us to number our
days, that we may apply
our hearts unto wisdom'.
This cannot be expressed
more plainly.I have begun
the requiem with a solo
boy's voice singing the
beginning of this psalm
on a single note, the
note A. This in effect
says it all. The work
comes full circle at the
culmination with a repeat
of the psalm which
subsequently leads into a
resplendent 'lux
aeterna'. The
intermediate texts of the
Requiem which highlight
the phenomenon of letting
go in the widest spectrum
of colours originate on
the one hand from the
Latin liturgy of the
Messa da Requiem (In
Paradisum, Libera me,
Requiem aeternam, Mors
stupebit) and on the
other hand from poems by
Joseph von Eichendorff,
Hermann Hesse,
Rabindranath Tagore and
Rainer Maria Rilke.All
texts have a distinctive
positive element in
common and view death as
being an organic process
within the great system
of the universe, for
example when Hermann
Hesse writes: 'Entreiss
dich, Seele, nun der
Zeit, entreiss dich
deinen Sorgen und mache
dich zum Flug bereit in
den ersehnten Morgen'
['Tear yourself way , o
soul, from time, tear
yourself away from your
sorrows and prepare
yourself to fly away into
the long-awaited
morning'] and later: 'Und
die Seele unbewacht will
in freien Flugen
schweben, um im
Zauberkreis der Nacht
tief und tausendfach zu
leben' ['And the
unfettered soul strives
to soar in free flight to
live in the magic sphere
of the night, deep and
thousandfold']. Or Joseph
von Eichendorff whose
text evokes a distant
song in his lines: 'Und
meine Seele spannte weit
ihre Flugel aus. Flog
durch die stillen Lande,
als floge sie nach Haus'
['And my soul spread its
wings wide. Flew through
the still country as if
homeward bound.']Here a
strong romantically
tinged occidental
resonance can be detected
which is however also
accompanied by a
universal spirit going
far beyond all cultures
and religions. In the
beginning was the sound
Long before any sort of
word or meaningful phrase
was uttered by vocal
chords, sounds,
vibrations and tones
already existed. This
brings us back to the
music. Both during my
years of study and at
subsequent periods, I had
been an active
participant in the world
of contemporary music,
both as percussionist and
also as conductor and
composer. My early scores
had a somewhat
adventurous appearance,
filled with an abundance
of small black dots: no
rhythm could be too
complicated, no register
too extreme and no
harmony too dissonant. I
devoted myself intensely
to the handling of
different parameters
which in serial music
coexist in total
equality: I also studied
aleatory principles and
so-called minimal music.I
subsequently emigrated
and took up residence in
Spain from where I
embarked on numerous
travels over the years to
India, Africa and South
America. I spent repeated
periods during this time
as a resident in
non-European countries.
This meant that the
currents of contemporary
music swept past me
vaguely and at a great
distance. What I instead
absorbed during this
period were other
completely new cultures
in which I attempted to
immerse myself as
intensively as possible.I
learned foreign languages
and came into contact
with musicians of all
classes and styles who
had a different cultural
heritage than my own: I
was intoxicated with the
diversity of artistic
potential.Nevertheless,
the further I distanced
myself from my own
Western musical heritage,
the more this returned
insistently in my
consciousness.The scene
can be imagined of
sitting somewhere in the
middle of the Brazilian
jungle surrounded by the
wailing of Indians and
out of the blue being
provided with the
opportunity to hear
Beethoven's late string
quartets: this can be a
heart-wrenching
experience, akin to an
identity crisis. This
type of experience can
also be described as
cathartic. Whatever the
circumstances, my
'renewed' occupation with
the 'old' country would
not permit me to return
to the point at which I
as an audacious young
student had maltreated
the musical parameters of
so-called contemporary
music. A completely
different approach would
be necessary: an
extremely careful
approach, inching my way
gradually back into the
Western world: an
approach which would
welcome tradition back
into the fold, attempt to
unfurl the petals and
gently infuse this
tradition with a breath
of contemporary
life.Although I am aware
that I will not unleash a
revolution or scandal
with this approach, I am
nevertheless confident
as, with the musical
vocabulary of this
Requiem, I am travelling
in an orbit in which no
ballast or complex
structures will be
transported or intimated:
on the contrary, I have
attempted to form the
message of the texts in
music with the naivety of
a 'homecomer'. Harald
WeissColonia de San
PedroMarch 2009.
Choir SKU: HP.1755 Composed by Carl P. Daw, Jr. This edition: Complete. A...(+)
Choir
SKU: HP.1755
Composed by Carl P. Daw,
Jr. This edition:
Complete. Author
Collections. General
Worship, Sacred. Hymn
Collection. 128 pages.
Hope Publishing Company
#1755. Published by Hope
Publishing Company
(HP.1755).
UPC:
763628117559.
As
the title indicates,
there are 13 new hymn
texts based on Psalms, 12
as hymns and 24 as new
spiritual songs. All are
set to tunes ancient and
modern, and all have been
written since the
publication of A Year of
Grace (1990) and To Sing
God's Praise (1992).
Composed by Grey E. Larsen. Saddle-stitched. First Lessons. Folk. Book and ...(+)
Composed by Grey E.
Larsen.
Saddle-stitched. First
Lessons. Folk. Book and
online audio/video/pdf.
40
pages. Mel Bay
Publications,
Inc #30043M. Published by
Mel
Bay Publications, Inc
Choral (ShowTrax CD) SKU: HL.302319 Composed by Bernie Taupin and Elton J...(+)
Choral (ShowTrax CD)
SKU: HL.302319
Composed by Bernie Taupin
and Elton John. Arranged
by Mac Huff. Pop Choral
Series. Collection,
Medley, Movies, Pop,
Pop/Rock, Rock. CD.
Duration 635 seconds.
Published by Hal Leonard
(HL.302319).
UPC:
888680966935.
5.0x5.0x0.185
inches.
Elton John
ruled the pop charts in
the 1970s--and moviegoing
audiences in 2019 finally
got a chance to see why.
The rave-reviewed biopic
Rocketman chronicled
John's fruitful
songwriting partnership
with lyricist Bernie
Taupin, with the movie
letting their seemingly
never-ending catalog of
classics speak (or sing)
for themselves. Includes:
Rocket Man, Bennie and
the Jets, Your Song,
Crocodile Rock and Don't
Let the Sun Go Down on
Me.
Piano SKU: HL.14010480 Piano Solo. Composed by Per Norgard. Music ...(+)
Piano
SKU:
HL.14010480
Piano
Solo. Composed by Per
Norgard. Music Sales
America. Classical. Book
[Softcover]. 7 pages.
Music Sales #KP00717.
Published by Music Sales
(HL.14010480).
ISBN
9788759870082.
Danish.
Esperanza -
Eremitkrebs-Tango (1997)
Hermit Crab Tango,
Esperanza is part of
Norgard's Animals in
Concert, a suite of piano
pieces, so far comprised
of: 1. A Tortoise's
Tango (1984) - dur.:
4' 2. Light of a
Night - Paul meets bird
(1989) - dur.: 6'
3. Hermit Crab Tango -
Esperanza (1997) - dur.:
5' The pieces can
be performed together or
one by one. In
the1980s, quite a few
“finds”
turned up in Per
Norgard's music. The
material could be, say, a
number of song birds'
equilibrist melodic
lines, the overtones of
the ocean surf, or
waltzing themes by the
schizophrenic artist
Adolf Wolfli (1864-1930).
Or again, as heard here,
it can be the rhythms and
motifs of the tango and a
Beatles song (with bird),
explored in three
independent piano pieces
that form the Animals in
Concert suite, about
which the composer
writes: Programme
note for Animals in
Concert: 1. A
Tortoise's Tango (1984) -
dur.: 4' 2. Light
of a Night - Paul meets
bird (1989) - dur.:
6' 3. Hermit Crab
Tango - Esperanza (1997)
- dur.: 5' The
pieces can be performed
together or one by
one. In the1980s,
quite a few
“finds”
turned up in Per
Norgard's music. The
material could be, say, a
number of song birds'
equilibrist melodic
lines, the overtones of
the ocean surf, or
waltzing themes by the
schizophrenic artist
Adolf Wolfli (1864-1930).
Or again, as heard here,
it can be the rhythms and
motifs of the tango and a
Beatles song (with bird),
explored in three
independent piano pieces
that form the Animals in
Concert suite, about
which the composer
writes: “A
Tortoise's Tango”:
The tortoise as tango
dancer must presumably
possess certain rhythmic
peculiarities, which I
have chosen to express by
letting the tune of the
tortoise shuffle broadly,
tripartite through the
strict four partite time
of tango. Tortoise
Tango was the original
title of this piece,
“written for
Achilles” (the
pianist Yvar Mikhashoff),
for his so called tango
project”, including
new tangos for piano by
composers from all over
the world.
“Light of a Night
(Paul meets bird)”
was commissioned by
pianist Aki Takahashi. It
is a
“reworked”
arrangement for piano of
the Beatles song
”Blackbird”.
As some of us will
recall, the Beatles on
“The White
Album” let the
beautiful song to the
blackbird be accompanied
by an (apparently) live
blackbird song. It is
this authentic bird-motif
world that in
“Light of a
Night” weaves
itself into the Beatles
melody and in turn is
gradually infected by it,
so that a completely new
third entity ensues: a
kind of Bird-rock ballad
(or maybe it is a
Beatle-bird?).
“Hermit Crab Tango
(Esperanza)”: The
tango situation is quite
special for a Hermit
Crab. It is a well-known
fact that the hermit crab
- this soft animal - must
run the gauntlet among
the many perils at the
bottom of the sea when it
must move hose. I have
chosen to express the
angers by a.
Easy Piano SKU: BT.MUSAM1010647 Really Easy Piano. Pop and Rock. Book wit...(+)
Easy Piano
SKU:
BT.MUSAM1010647
Really Easy Piano. Pop
and Rock. Book with
Online Audio. Composed
2015. 48 pages. Wise
Publications
#MUSAM1010647. Published
by Wise Publications
(BT.MUSAM1010647).
ISBN 9781783059812.
English.
The Really
Easy Piano Playalong
series provides you with
Easy Piano arrangements
of hit songs by the most
popular artists of today,
with online audio that
gives you demonstration
and playalong tracks for
each tune. With this
edition of the
bestselling series, you
can learn 17 Chart Hits
then play along to
professionally-recorded
backing tracks. Featuring
many of the top tunes of
today, Chart Hits
 includes simplified
arrangements for solo
Piano, so these massively
famous songs can be
played by all abilities.
With songs like Best Song
Ever by One Direction,
Happy by Pharrell
Williams, Roar by Katy
Perry and Ed Sheeran's
Thinking Out Loud , these
pop chart-topperswill
impress anyone and
everyone when played on
the Piano. Each tune is
arranged for Easy Piano,
meaning the chords and
tune can be picked up by
beginners to the Piano,
letting them play famous
songs quickly and easily.
Using the accompanying
download card, you can
get instant online access
to demonstration and
backing tracks of each
song, letting you first
hear how it's meant to be
played, then learn the
song using the sheet
music, and finally play
along to a
professionally-recorded
backing track, ensuring
you sound great and just
like the original! Also
included in this Really
Easy Piano Playalong
 sheet music songbook
is some very helpful and
useful fingering tips, as
well as lyrics,
fascinating background
information and
invaluable performance
hints, all contributing
to make this a really
great way for beginning
pianists to learn all the
best tunes of today.Â
With songs by Miley
Cyrus, Passenger,
Coldplay, Adele, Taylor
Swift and Rihanna, Really
Easy Piano Playalong
presents a great number
of today's bestselling,
radio-conquering Chart
Hits  along with some
demonstrations and
backing tracks that will
enable beginning pianists
to play 17 brilliant pop
songs with ease. The
Really Easy Piano
Playalong series
provides you with Easy
Piano arrangements of hit
songs by the most popular
artists of today, with a
unique download card that
gives you demonstration
and playalong tracks
foreach tune. With this
edition of the
bestselling series, you
can learn 17
Chart
Hits then play
along to
professionally-recorded
backing tracks.
Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse, music by Frank Wildhorn. For voice and piano. Format:...(+)
Lyrics by Leslie
Bricusse, music by Frank
Wildhorn. For voice and
piano. Format:
piano/vocal/chords
songbook. With vocal
melody, piano
accompaniment, lyrics,
chord names and
introductory text.
Broadway. 80 pages. 9x12
inches. Published by
Cherry Lane Music.
Piano - easy to intermediate SKU: M7.ART-42140 Romantische und gefü...(+)
Piano - easy to
intermediate
SKU:
M7.ART-42140
Romantische und
gefühlvoll-moderne
Klavierstücke.
Composed by Renate
Hartnagel. Score with
online audio files. 60
pages. MDS (Music
Distribution Services)
#ART 42140. Published by
MDS (Music Distribution
Services) (M7.ART-42140).
ISBN 9783866421400.
German.
Die in
'Traumhafte Klaviermusik'
enthaltenen 22
mittelleichten bis
mittelschweren
Klavierstücke
erzählen kurze
Geschichten aus dem
Leben, vermitteln
Stimmungen von heiter bis
bewölkt und verweben
bekannte und neue
Klangassoziationen mit
spannenden Harmonien,
Rhythmen und Motiven. Sie
eignen sich sehr gut, um
das expressive Spielen zu
entwickeln. Ziel ist es,
die Stimmung des
Stückes durch leichte
Veränderungen des
Anschlags, der Dynamik
und des Tempos
gefühlvoll und
ausdrucksstark
wiederzugeben. Zu den
Melodien der rechten Hand
spielt die linke Hand
wiederkehrende
Begleitmuster, welche
oftmals in traditioneller
und moderner
Klavierliteratur zu
finden sind und so dem
Lernenden eine gute
technische Grundlage
vermitteln. Die rechte
Hand ist betonter und
bewegter und übernimmt
die Rolle des
Erzählers.
Stilelemente aus der
klassischen und modernen
Musik, aus Filmmusik und
romantischen Pop-Balladen
sind kunstvoll verwoben,
um neue Klangerlebnisse
zu schaffen. Ton- und
Taktarten sind so
gewählt, dass die
Stücke leicht zu
erlernen sind und der
Spieler sich auf die
Interpretation der Musik,
sowie auf ein
flüssiges und
unabhängiges Spielen
beider Hände
konzentrieren kann. Das
spielerische Erlernen von
schnellen Läufen,
Synkopen und Sprüngen
wird zudem moderat
gefördert. Die
Fingersätze sind
sorgfältig gesetzt, um
ein flüssiges und
müheloses Legatospiel
zu ermöglichen. Der
Einsatz des Haltepedals
wird bei allen Stücken
empfohlen, jedoch klingen
die Kompositionen durch
das Legato auch ohne
diesen vollständig.
Viel Freude beim
Träumen!
Piano, Vocal and Guitar SKU: BT.MUSAM1011307 The Ultimate Collection(+)
Piano, Vocal and Guitar
SKU:
BT.MUSAM1011307
The Ultimate
Collection.
TV-Film-Musical-Show.
Book Only. Composed 2015.
160 pages. Wise
Publications
#MUSAM1011307. Published
by Wise Publications
(BT.MUSAM1011307).
ISBN 9781785582028.
English.
The
Ultimate Collection of
James Bond theme tunes
features songs from all
24 films, including the
most recent
‘Writing’s
On The Wall’ by
Sam Smith, for the
upcoming film Spectre.
Arranged for piano, vocal
and guitar, every theme
song from Dr. No right up
to Skyfall and Spectre is
included here, letting
you learn these classic,
instantly-recognisable
tunes with lyrics, guitar
chord boxes and some
fascinating background
information and
photographs from the
films.
SKU: GI.G-9884 A Collection of Songs by Rob Galea. Composed by Rob...(+)
SKU: GI.G-9884
A Collection of Songs
by Rob Galea.
Composed by Rob Galea.
Sacred. Collection. 156
pages. GIA Publications
#9884. Published by GIA
Publications (GI.G-9884).
UPC: 785147988427.
English.
Songs of
Hope is a new
collection of printed
music containing titles
from Coming
Home plus favorite
songs from previous
commercial recordings,
including Something
About You, Reach Out,
What a Day, and Divine
Mercy Chaplet. Fr. Rob
uses these songs in his
ministry all across the
world. They are songs of
hope about Jesus and
about life—and the
joys and hardships that
are part of life.
Contents:Â Alive
• Coming
Back • Draw
Me • Fill Us
Up • Foot of the
Cross • Gift
Given • Here We
Are • I
Am • I Surrender
to You • I Will
Trust • Let Us
Arise • Letting
Go • More of
You • No
Greater Love â€
Only by
Grace • Our
Father • Our God
Will Reign •
Reach Out •
Something About
You • Song of
Love • To the
Ends of the
Earth • We
Exalt • You Draw
Us In.
Folk Harp; Harp SKU: HL.131541 Arranged for Harp. By A. Great Big ...(+)
Folk Harp; Harp
SKU:
HL.131541
Arranged
for Harp. By A. Great
Big World. Arranged by
Sylvia Woods. Harp. Pop.
Softcover. 4 pages.
Published by Hal Leonard
(HL.131541).
ISBN
9780936661667. UPC:
888680025564.
8.5x11.0x0.031
inches.
Say
Something is an original
song by the American duo
A Great Big World. The
lyrics are about letting
go when a relationship
ends. It became an
international hit when
Christina Aguilera joined
A Great Big World on a
re-recorded version in
2013. Sylvia Woods has
made a 4-page advanced
beginner to intermediate
arrangement, playable on
either lever or pedal
harp. This music features
a pedal point (also
called a pedal note or
pedal tone), which is a
sustained or continually
repeated note that is
held constant while
harmonies change in other
parts. A pedal point is
usually found in the
bass, but here it is in
the middle register.
Virtually every measure
includes a middle C note
on the downbeat.
Sometimes it is played
with the right hand, and
at other times with the
left. But it is almost
always there. This pedal
point harmony is what
originally drew me into
this beautiful piece of
music the first time I
heard it on the radio.
The music is in the key
of C, and no sharping
levers are required, as
there are no lever
changes. Fingerings,
lyrics and chord symbols
are included. The harp
range required is 24
strings from a low C up
to an E. It can be played
on 24-string to 26-string
harps with a C as the
lowest string if you play
both hands an octave
higher than written.
(2013 Revival). By Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse. For Piano/Keyboard, Vocal...(+)
(2013 Revival). By Frank
Wildhorn and Leslie
Bricusse. For
Piano/Keyboard, Vocal,
Piano/Vocal/Guitar. Vocal
Selections. Softcover.
104 pages. Published by
Hal Leonard
From The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical. Composed by Abigail Barlow and Emily B...(+)
From The Unofficial
Bridgerton
Musical. Composed by
Abigail
Barlow and Emily Bear.
Arranged by Mac Huff. Pop
Choral Series. Ballad,
Musicals, Pop, Tv.
Octavo. 8
pages. Duration 140
seconds.
Published by Hal Leonard
From The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical. Composed by Abigail Barlow and Emily B...(+)
From The Unofficial
Bridgerton
Musical. Composed by
Abigail
Barlow and Emily Bear.
Arranged by Mac Huff. Pop
Choral Series. Ballad,
Musicals, Pop, Tv.
Octavo. 8
pages. Duration 140
seconds.
Published by Hal Leonard
From The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical. Composed by Abigail Barlow and Emily B...(+)
From The Unofficial
Bridgerton
Musical. Composed by
Abigail
Barlow and Emily Bear.
Arranged by Mac Huff. Pop
Choral Series. Ballad,
Musicals, Pop, Tv.
Octavo. 8
pages. Duration 140
seconds.
Published by Hal Leonard
15 Gentle Arrangements by Phillip Keveren. Composed by Various. Arranged by Ph...(+)
15 Gentle Arrangements by
Phillip Keveren. Composed
by
Various. Arranged by
Phillip
Keveren. Piano Solo
Songbook.
Children, Lullaby.
Softcover.
40 pages. Published by
Hal
Leonard
Piano SKU: FG.55011-542-2 Composed by Kirmo Lintinen. Fennica Gehrman #55...(+)
Piano
SKU:
FG.55011-542-2
Composed by Kirmo
Lintinen. Fennica Gehrman
#55011-542-2. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-542-2).
ISBN
9790550115422.
In
his work Palindrome for
piano (2000), Kirmo
Lintinen has chosen a
predetermined form:
perfectly mirrored
symmetry, and he makes it
work wonderfully!
Lintinen is not
interested in hidden
structures and working
with minutiae, but rather
lets the palindromic
qualities of the
palindrome be clearly
visible and audible.
Rather than using
abstract tonerows,
Lintinen mirrors a
three-tiered musical
characteristics, adding
and then letting go
suspension: Cantabile
semplice/Giocoso/Fuocoso
e flessibile - Fuocoso e
flessibile/Giocoso/Cantab
ile semplice. The
duration of the work, 180
seconds, is divided into
six segments:
45sec:30sec:15sec:15sec:3
0sec:45sec (3:2:1:1:2:3).
The shorter the segment,
the more raucuous the
material.
By Celtic Woman. By David Downes. Arranged by Cristi Cary Miller. Pop Choral ...(+)
By Celtic Woman. By David
Downes. Arranged by
Cristi
Cary Miller. Pop Choral
Series. Celtic, Concert,
Female Voices, Festival.
Octavo. 20 pages.
Published
by Hal Leonard