Chamber Music Bass Clarinet, Bassoon, Clarinet, English Horn, Oboe, alto Saxopho...(+)
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.
Composed by Harl
Mcdonald. This edition:
Study Score.
Contemporary. Full score.
With Standard notation.
84 pages. Duration 15
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #466-41177.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.466411770).
UPC:
680160640850. 9 x 12
inches.
Mississippi
I. Father of Waters: born
of the Highlands and the
Lakes; the Glaciers, the
Mountains, and the
Prairies. The picture of
your birth is clounded in
the ice and mists of
ancient ages but your
spirit remains our life
stream. II. The Red Man
knew your bountiful gifts
and gave thanks to the
Great Spirit on your
banks. -- The Spanish and
French Fathers brought
the glory of Christianity
to America on
Mississippi. But all men,
white and dark; --
Indian, Spaniard, and
Negro; Bourbon and
Yankee, combined to make
Mississippi the heart of
America. Saga of the
Mississippi Harl McDonald
Born near Boulder,
Colorado, July 27, 1899
Now living in
Philadelphia The original
suggestion for a
symphonic work on the
subject of the
Mississippi came
indirectly from the late
Booth Tarkington who saw
in it color and movement
and atmosphere
translatable into the
terms of music. In the
course of time, by the
mysterious processes of
composers' chemistry, it
took shape as a tone-poem
of two sections, one
representing the rise of
the great stream from its
primeval geologic
sources, the other the
human history of the
river. Mr. McDonald
devised the following
verbal outline of the
general scheme of his
diptych: I. Father of
Waters: born of the
Highlands and the Lakes;
the Glaciers, the
Mountains, and the
Prairies. The picture of
your birth is clounded in
the ice and mists of
ancient ages but your
spirit remains our life
stream. II. The Red Man
knew your bountiful gifts
and gave thanks to the
Great Spirit on your
banks. -- The Spanish and
French Fathers brought
the glory of Christianity
to America on
Mississippi. But all men,
white and dark; --
Indian, Spaniard, and
Negro; Bourbon and
Yankee, combined to make
Mississippi the heart of
America. The first of the
two movements, beginning
molto andante, is vaguel
modal to hint at
antiquity. It is built
upon the conventional two
themes, with an episode,
poco piu mosso,
misterioso, for
prehistoric murk and
muck. There are various
changes of pace and mood.
The second, Allegro ma
vigorosamente, prefigures
an Indian ceremony. A
theme presented by flute,
clarinet and bassoon is a
Canadian Indian fishing
call collected by the
late J.B. Beck. A later
passage of
quasi-Gregorian chant
identifies the French and
Spanish priests who made
the great river their
highway. The fishing-call
is altered in rhythm and
harmony to represent
Negro field hands and
roustabous. A turbulent
close brings all these
elemts together in the
muddy swirling currents
of the Mississippi. The
work was begun in the
summer of 1945, and was
revised and completed in
the summer of 1947. Harl
McDonald, who is the
manager of The
Philadelphia Orchestra,
has concerned himself
with music as an art, as
a science and as a
business in course of his
career. He was born on a
cattle ranch in the
Rockies, but since his
was a musical family, his
up-bringing combined
piano lessons with ranch
life. Years of study and
professional experience
followed in Los Angeles
and in Germany. In 1927
he was appointed lecuter
in composition at the
University of
Pennsylvania and he has
since then made is home
in Philadelphia. In 1933
under a grant of the
Rockefeller FOundation he
collaborated with
physicists in research
dealing with the
measurement of
instrumental and vocal
tone, new scale divisions
and the resultant
harmonies. In that same
year he was named head of
the University's music
faculty and conductor of
its choral organizations.
In 1939, having been a
member of the Board of
Directors for five years,
he was appointed manager
of The Philadelphia
Orchestra. He continus to
write, but otherwise his
entire attention is now
devoted to managerial
duties. Chief items in
the catalogue of his
compositions are four
symphonies, three
orchestra suites, a
half-dozen tone-poems,
three concertos and
considerable quantity of
choral music.
Chamber Music violin, viola SKU: PR.114419730 For violin and Viola...(+)
Chamber Music violin,
viola
SKU:
PR.114419730
For
violin and Viola.
Composed by Chen Yi. Sws.
Set of Score and Parts.
8+2+2 pages. Duration
2:30. Theodore Presser
Company #114-41973.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114419730).
ISBN
9781491132333. UPC:
680160681686. 9 x 12
inches.
Chen Yi
describes the cheery
interplay of HAPPY TUNE
as: “When one
instrument plays a
livelymelody, the other
plays a vivid rhythmic
pattern in the
accompaniment. The pair
of string
instrumentsimitates the
sound of primitive
Chinese folk song
singing, as well as the
Chinese traditional
windinstrument sheng, a
mouth pipe organ.â€
Published as a shared
score and extracted
parts, and writtenas a
celebration piece
honoring the 25th
anniversary of the Great
Lakes Chamber Music
Festival. Composed to
celebrate the 25th
Anniversary of the Great
Lakes Chamber Music
Festival, my violin and
viola duet HAPPY TUNE was
written for Kim
Kashkashian and Tien-Hsin
Cindy Wu, and premiered
at the festival on June
16, 2018.I fondly
remember being invited by
the GLCMF (directed by
Prof. James Tocco) to be
the dual Stone
Composers-in-Residence
with my husband Zhou
Long, along with the
Stone Composer Fellow
Nicholas Omiccioli in
2011. We had a dozen of
our chamber works
performed excellently by
the outstanding chamber
ensembles and musicians
during the week, meeting
enthusiastic audiences
and supporters of new
music in various venues
at the festival. The
experience was truly
inspiring, and I created
HAPPY TUNE to honor the
GLCMF, with hopes to
carry on the high spirit
in our new music
society.In this duet,
when one instrument plays
a lively melody, the
other plays a vivid
rhythmic pattern in the
accompaniment. The pair
of string instruments
imitates the sound of
primitive Chinese folk
song singing, as well as
the Chinese traditional
wind instrument sheng, a
mouth pipe organ.
(7 of Her Original Piano Solos). Composed by Melody Bober. For Piano. Book; Pian...(+)
(7 of Her Original Piano
Solos). Composed by
Melody Bober. For Piano.
Book; Piano Collection;
Piano Supplemental.
Intermediate; Late
Intermediate. 24 pages.
Published by Alfred Music
Jazz Ensemble - Grade 5 SKU: KN.62270S Composed by Fred Sturm. Jazz Summi...(+)
Jazz Ensemble - Grade 5
SKU: KN.62270S
Composed by Fred Sturm.
Jazz Summit. Kendor Music
Inc #62270S. Published by
Kendor Music Inc
(KN.62270S).
UPC:
822795622706.
Commi
ssioned by the Northern
Michigan University Jazz
Ensemble, this jubilant
tone poem portrays the
Great Northern Railway
that ran for a century
from the Great Lakes to
the Pacific Ocean.
Beginning quietly in the
distance, the chart
builds steadily through a
series of colorful
variations and roars by
at full throttle five
minutes later. The fast
swing train groove drops
a beat every four
measures (4-4-4-3) from
start to finish. This is
truly a marvel of modern
jazz ensemble writing for
proficient groups by one
of the nation's most
innovative composers.
Duration 6:00.
Great Northern Express Ensemble Jazz [Conducteur et Parties séparées] - Intermédiaire Kendor Music Inc.
Jazz Ensemble standard jazz ensemble - Grade 5 SKU: KN.62270 Jazz Summit....(+)
Jazz Ensemble standard
jazz ensemble - Grade 5
SKU: KN.62270
Jazz
Summit. Fast Swing. Score
and set of parts.
Duration 6 minutes.
Kendor Music Inc #62270.
Published by Kendor Music
Inc (KN.62270).
UPC:
822795622706.
Commi
ssioned by the Northern
Michigan University Jazz
Ensemble, this jubilant
tone poem portrays the
Great Northern Railway
that ran for a century
from the Great Lakes to
the Pacific Ocean.
Beginning quietly in the
distance, the chart
builds steadily through a
series of colorful
variations and roars by
at full throttle five
minutes later. The fast
swing train groove drops
a beat every four
measures (4-4-4-3) from
start to finish. This is
truly a marvel of modern
jazz ensemble writing for
proficient groups by one
of the nation's most
innovative composers.
Duration 6:00.
Dancing Lights Orchestre d'harmonie [Conducteur] - Facile FJH
Concert Band Concert Band - Grade 2 SKU: FJ.B1822S Score Only. Com...(+)
Concert Band Concert Band
- Grade 2
SKU:
FJ.B1822S
Score
Only. Composed by
Randall Standridge.
Concert Band. FJH Young
Band. Score. The FJH
Music Company Inc
#98-B1822S. Published by
The FJH Music Company Inc
(FJ.B1822S).
English.
This
new work for young band
draws inspiration from a
park in the Great Lakes
Region where an annual
display of dancing lights
brightens the winter
skies. Active percussion,
staccato rhythms, and
careful scoring ensure
that this work is a fun,
yet achievable piece that
would be appropriate for
winter celebrations or
any concert throughout
the year.
About FJH
Young
Band
Appro
priate for middle school
and smaller high school
groups. Second clarinets
usually stay below the
break. Parts are written
with more independence,
and instrumentation
increases slightly. There
is still adequate
doubling in the lower
voices. Grades 2 -
2.5
Concert Band Concert Band - Grade 2 SKU: FJ.B1822 Composed by Randall Sta...(+)
Concert Band Concert Band
- Grade 2
SKU:
FJ.B1822
Composed by
Randall Standridge.
Concert Band. FJH Young
Band. Score and Part(s).
The FJH Music Company Inc
#98-B1822. Published by
The FJH Music Company Inc
(FJ.B1822).
UPC:
241444423110.
English.
This new
work for young band draws
inspiration from a park
in the Great Lakes Region
where an annual display
of dancing lights
brightens the winter
skies. Active percussion,
staccato rhythms, and
careful scoring ensure
that this work is a fun,
yet achievable piece that
would be appropriate for
winter celebrations or
any concert throughout
the year.
About FJH
Young
Band
Appro
priate for middle school
and smaller high school
groups. Second clarinets
usually stay below the
break. Parts are written
with more independence,
and instrumentation
increases slightly. There
is still adequate
doubling in the lower
voices. Grades 2 -
2.5
Shore to Shore Fanfare [Conducteur] - Facile Curnow Music
Fanfare Band - Grade 2 SKU: BT.CMP-0029-95-120 Composed by Paul Curnow. P...(+)
Fanfare Band - Grade 2
SKU:
BT.CMP-0029-95-120
Composed by Paul Curnow.
Passport Series. March.
Score Only. Composed
1995. Curnow Music #CMP
0029-95-120. Published by
Curnow Music
(BT.CMP-0029-95-120).
In the early
days of the United
States, a main source of
transportation was the
many waterways, rivers
and the Great Lakes. From
this focal point of
commerce and social
activity came many
wonderful folk songs.
Shore to Shore uses two
of these sailing songs.
Blow ye winds blow and
Leave her no more.
Shore to Shore Fanfare [Conducteur et Parties séparées] - Facile Curnow Music
Fanfare Band - Grade 2 SKU: BT.CMP-0029-95-020 Composed by Paul Curnow. P...(+)
Fanfare Band - Grade 2
SKU:
BT.CMP-0029-95-020
Composed by Paul Curnow.
Passport Series. March.
Set (Score & Parts).
Composed 1995. Curnow
Music #CMP 0029-95-020.
Published by Curnow Music
(BT.CMP-0029-95-020).
In the early
days of the United
States, a main source of
transportation was the
many waterways, rivers
and the Great Lakes. From
this focal point of
commerce and social
activity came many
wonderful folk songs.
Shore to Shore uses two
of these sailing songs.
Blow ye winds blow and
Leave her no more.
Michigan Images Piano seul - Intermédiaire Alfred Publishing
By Marilynn Ham. For Piano. Piano Suite. Recital Suite Series. Level: Late Inter...(+)
By Marilynn Ham. For
Piano. Piano Suite.
Recital Suite Series.
Level: Late Intermediate
to Early Advanced. Suite.
12 pages. Published by
Alfred Publishing.
(High Voice (63 Songs)). By Benjamin Britten (1913-1976). Arranged by Richard Wa...(+)
(High Voice (63 Songs)).
By Benjamin Britten
(1913-1976). Arranged by
Richard Walters. For
Vocal. Boosey and Hawkes
Voice. 320 pages. Boosey
and Hawkes #M051933976.
Published by Boosey and
Hawkes
Piano - Elementary; Late Elementary SKU: FJ.FJH2341 1. Composed by...(+)
Piano - Elementary; Late
Elementary
SKU:
FJ.FJH2341
1.
Composed by Kevin
Costley. Piano
Collection; Piano
Supplemental. The Best
Of. Book. The FJH Music
Company Inc #98-FJH2341.
Published by The FJH
Music Company Inc
(FJ.FJH2341).
ISBN
9781619282957. UPC:
241444413906.
English.
We've
chosen the most popular,
pedagogical pieces from
Kevin's elementary level
compositions. This book
includes 16 pieces
arranged in order of
difficulty. You will find
various styles; most are
one to two pages long.
Some titles are: The
Graceful Swan; Goin' to
the Rodeo; The Funny
Chimpanzee; Softly
Whisper; Little Cloud and
Lost Star. Contains great
teaching material that
will motivate your
students!