Composed
by Sam Gelfer. Sws. Cas.
Full score. 16 pages.
Carl Fischer Music
#CAS130F. Published by
Carl Fischer Music
(CF.CAS130F).
ISBN
9781491157480. UPC:
680160916061. 9 x 12
inches.
This
energetic composition,
written in the style of
traditional fiddle-tunes,
gradually modulates from
B minor to D Major.
Players will encounter
authentic fiddle
techniques such as
shuffle-bowing, chops,
and double-stops at a
brisk tempo. The chop is
accomplished by dropping
the bow firmly on the D
and A strings at the
frog, sinking and
stopping with slight
motion toward the scroll.
Players should straighten
their fingers on the frog
and the bow hair should
be tilted toward the
bridge when performing
this technique. A
syncopated bass
accompaniment and
relentless pace depict a
stormy winter season,
melting into spring. Each
section is given
interesting melodic and
accompaniment lines, with
exciting accented rhythms
that require all players
to match bow placement,
internalize a common
tempo, and listen across
the ensemble for a
precise, focused
sound.
About Carl
Fischer Concert String
Orchestra
Series
Thi
s series of pieces (Grade
3 and higher) is designed
for advancing ensembles.
The pieces in this series
are characterized
by:
Expanded use
of rhythms, ranges and
keys but technical
demands are still
carefully
considered
More
comprehensive bowing
techniques
Viola
T.C.
included
Careful
selection of keys and
degree of difficulty for
advancing
musicians
Composed by
Sam Gelfer. Folio. Cas.
Set of Score and Parts.
16+16+2+10+10+10+16
pages. Duration 2
minutes, 37 seconds. Carl
Fischer Music #CAS130.
Published by Carl Fischer
Music (CF.CAS130).
ISBN 9781491157664.
UPC: 680160916245. 9 x 12
inches.
This
energetic composition,
written in the style of
traditional fiddle-tunes,
gradually modulates from
B minor to D Major.
Players will encounter
authentic fiddle
techniques such as
shuffle-bowing, chops,
and double-stops at a
brisk tempo. The chop is
accomplished by dropping
the bow firmly on the D
and A strings at the
frog, sinking and
stopping with slight
motion toward the scroll.
Players should straighten
their fingers on the frog
and the bow hair should
be tilted toward the
bridge when performing
this technique. A
syncopated bass
accompaniment and
relentless pace depict a
stormy winter season,
melting into spring. Each
section is given
interesting melodic and
accompaniment lines, with
exciting accented rhythms
that require all players
to match bow placement,
internalize a common
tempo, and listen across
the ensemble for a
precise, focused
sound.
About Carl
Fischer Concert String
Orchestra
Series
Thi
s series of pieces (Grade
3 and higher) is designed
for advancing ensembles.
The pieces in this series
are characterized
by:
Expanded use
of rhythms, ranges and
keys but technical
demands are still
carefully
considered
More
comprehensive bowing
techniques
Viola
T.C.
included
Careful
selection of keys and
degree of difficulty for
advancing
musicians
Level 1, Complete Blues Harmonica Lesson Series. By David Barrett. For Harmonica...(+)
Level 1, Complete Blues
Harmonica Lesson Series.
By David Barrett. For
Harmonica (Diatonic).
Method. Harmonica
Masterclass Lesson.
Blues. Level: Beginning.
DVD. Size 5.38x7.5. 70
pages. Published by Mel
Bay Publications, Inc.
Vocal Score.
Composed by Sir Michael
Tippett. This edition:
Paperback/Soft Cover.
Sheet music. Edition
Schott. Classical. Piano
reduction. Composed
1947-1952. 413 pages.
Duration 150'. Schott
Music #ED 10778.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49002518).
ISBN
9790220120466. UPC:
073999913347.
9.0x12.0x1.015 inches.
English.
Like few
other theatre worksThe
Magic Flute, A Midsummer
Night's DreamTippett's
first opera creates a
wholly other place, one
where human actions can
be seen as in a tilted
mirror. Since this is
indeed an opera, the
place, or dreamspace, is
conjured by music: by
luminescent music that,
in its flowing abundance,
radiant harmonies and
evocative wind
colourings, represents
the natural world within
which the characters have
to integrate themselves.
The central couple, those
whose marriage is at
first subverted and then
gloriously celebrated,
are Mark and Jenifer: he
a young man of the earth
and the senses, she a
young woman of lofty
spirituality. Each is
only half a person, and
before they can be united
they have to be made
whole, have to find
within themselves an
understanding of the
other. Overseeing their
mythic initiation and
psychic healing are two
Ancients, votaries of a
temple on a wooded
hilltop.As in the Mozart
precedent, which the
composer certainly had in
mind, there is also a
more workaday couple,
Jack and Bella. The other
principals are Jenifer's
businessman father King
Fisher, who wants to stop
the wedding for reasons
of his own, and an
Erda-like seer. There is
also a dancer, Strephon,
leading the exuberant
ballet in which the
orchestra completes the
story of enlightenment
and passion. It is
ultimately a victory of
love and, before love,
self-knowledge.(Paul
Griffiths).
Clarinet (Clarinet) SKU: HL.50511769 Konzertstuck. Composed by Gyu...(+)
Clarinet (Clarinet)
SKU: HL.50511769
Konzertstuck.
Composed by Gyula Csapo.
Contemporary Music. EMB.
Contemporary Hungarian
Works. Book Only. Editio
Musica Budapest #Z14471.
Published by Editio
Musica Budapest
(HL.50511769).
ISBN
9790080144718. Bach (23 x
30,2 cm) inches.
Hungarian, English. Gyula
Csapo.
The composer
writes the following
about this work: 'As if
we could only walk
sideways in a tilted
force field,
Petruska-Harlequin in my
piece evokes waltz
fragments on a capsized
'Titanic', or Berlioz's
Romeo und Juliet.
Vertiginous chromatic
martellato-staccato
sequences keep tearing
apart the clarinet's
virtuosic aerial
gymnastics interspersed
among the fragments and
half-heard wisps of
sound. We suddenly find
ourselves now in the
depths, now in the
highest regions,
sidelong, as if all these
fragments of musical
memories were dancing on
the edge of the
event-horizon of a black
hole...' This work,
dedicated to the
clarinettist Csaba
Klenyan, was composed in
2002 in Saskatoon
(Canada).
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.114414250 Composed by Lowell Lieberm...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.114414250
Composed
by Lowell Liebermann.
Contemporary. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard Notation. Op.
103. 28+9+8+9+8 pages.
Duration 25 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-41425. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.114414250).
UPC:
680160607846.
Lowel
l Liebermann's 4th String
Quartet was commissioned
by the Canandaigua Lake
Chamber Music Festival
and the Wood Library,
Canandaigua, NY, for the
Orion Quartet in
celebration of their 20th
Anniversary. The quartet
was premiered by the
Orions at the Canandaigua
Lake Chamber Music
Festival in Rochester, NY
on February 9th, 2008. To
quote the writer Mark
Greenberg: It's a
remarkable piece. The
mood is elegiacal and
meditative, the melodic
lines sinuous and
searching, the harmonies
rich and astonishingly
beautiful. Liebermann
works within the
traditions of Western
tonality, but that is a
mansion with many rooms.
Liebermann inhabits all
of them as his expressive
purposes require, and he
doesn't mind knocking
down a wall to create new
harmonic spaces. The
Fourth Quartet doesn't
exactly fit the
neoromantic niche into
which Liebermann is
sometimes placed. Much of
the music, especially
near the beginning, is a
highly advanced and fluid
chromatic expressionism
with modernist
tendencies. Sometimes
this roiling cloudscape
breaks open to allow a
patch of near-classical
harmony and
almost-resolution. Near
the midpoint the clouds
lift in leaping
modulations. Several
chordal passages recall
Russian Orthodox chant.
Suddenly, when you've
begun to think the
somber, deliberate pace
has gone on a bit too
long, Liebermann
introduces a kind of
hobbled, stilted jazz
idiom. The piece dies in
pensive quiet.