Chamber Music Clarinet, Flute, Narrator, Percussion, Trumpet, Violoncello, sopra...(+)
Chamber Music Clarinet,
Flute, Narrator,
Percussion, Trumpet,
Violoncello, soprano
voice
SKU:
PR.161000820
A
Musical Fable for
Children. Composed by
Dan Welcher. Original
story by Santiago
Vaquera-Vasquez; Lyrics
by Dan Welcher. Premiered
by faculty from Texas A&M
Kingsville, Kingsville,
TX. Folk. Set of Score
and Parts. With Standard
notation. Composed July
30 2012.
51+30+12+12+12+16+20
pages. Duration 20
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #161-00082.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.161000820).
UPC:
680160610822. 9 x 12
inches. Text: Santiago
Vaquera-Vasquez; Dan
Welcher. Santiago
Vaquera-Vasquez, Dan
Welcher. Original story
by Santiago
Vaquera-Vasquez; Lyrics
by Dan
Welcher.
Commission
ed for the Kingsville
(TX) Independent School
District and its thriving
music department, Welcher
has created A Musical
Fable for Children, based
upon a story by Santiago
Vaquera-Vasquez. A
narrator tells the tale
of two children on
opposite sides of the
border and the magical
creatures who allowed
them to see as the other
sees. Welcher uses
musical themes and
instruments to help
identify the characters
for the audience. The
musical play was
performed at the
Kingsville campus, as
well as six other
elementary schools in the
district. The Need to
See is a theater piece
for children, featuring a
narrator/singer and five
instrumentalists.
Designed to show children
(aged 8-10) a fable about
acceptance and diversity,
the work also exposes
children to live
musicians in a highly
portable,
suitable-for-classroom
theater piece.The
narrator/singer begins by
teaching the children a
well-known Mexican folk
tune, “Naranja
Dulceâ€, which leads
directly into the
story. The fable
concerns two figures from
folklore: Don Conejo (the
rabbit god) and Don
Coyote (the coyote
god). These two
trickster/adversaries
take on the task of
helping Isabella, an
American girl, and
Tomà s, a Mexican boy,
understand each
other’s
culture—by means
of a trick. The two
children, living on
opposite sides of the Rio
Grande in Texas and
Mexico, have been taught
to fear el otro lado
(“the other
sideâ€), and to stay
away from the river.Â
This causes both children
to be nervous and afraid,
and Conejo and Coyote
decide to do something
about that.Borrowing from
another well-known tale,
writer Santiago
Vaquera-VÃ squez has
the two trickster-deities
perform a bit of
hocus-pocus, exchanging
the two childrens’
eyes for one day, so they
can “seeâ€
through someone
else’s
perspective. The
result, told in two
languages with narration,
song, and constant music,
allows the children in
the audience to
participate as singers,
and also as spectators to
a tale that has relevance
and contemporary
meaning. Â
Employing three familiar
songs from Latin American
culture (“Naranja
Dulceâ€,
“Tengo una
Muñecaâ€, and
“Mambru se fue a la
Guerraâ€), the piece
takes its audience on a
journey both familiar and
new—and ultimately
enlightening.
Mixed choir (SSSAAATTTBBB) - difficult SKU: HL.49043945 For mixed choi...(+)
Mixed choir
(SSSAAATTTBBB) -
difficult
SKU:
HL.49043945
For
mixed choir. Composed
by Steve Martland. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Choral. Softcover.
Composed 2011-2012. 106
pages. Duration 23'.
Schott Music #ED13369.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49043945).
ISBN
9790220133503.
8.25x12.0x0.3 inches.
English.
Sea Songs,
commissioned jointly by
Ars Nova Copenhagen and
Glasgow Concert Halls, is
a kind of sequel to
Martland's Street Songs
(originally written for
the Kings Singers and
Evelyn Glennie). As with
the earlier piece,
Martland made use of to
the library of the
English Folk Song and
Dance Society at Cecil
Sharp House in north
London.I wanted
specifically to find
texts that were not just
the usual nautical
heave-ho sort of thing,
but instead explored the
dangers and hardships
still being experienced
by sailors as recently as
the early 19th century. I
was also very happy to
see in these texts the
sense of camaraderie and
mutual support that
existed between the
sailors. (Steve
Martland)Dance to your
Daddy sets the scene of a
sailor's wife at home,
dandling her baby son and
singing to him about his
daddy away fishing, and
about the future. Both
the tune and the words
come from the
Northumberland area
around Newcastle. This
song is very well known
in the UK and gave the
title to a famous
television series When
the boat comes in.Fire
Down Below is about the
effects of fire - a
constant danger on board
wooden ships. At the end
of this song the words
take on an extended
meaning: Fire in our
hearts for the friends
that we love.The Dead
Horse is about the
initial month of work
without pay in which all
seamen had to take part.
They referred to it as
the dead horse - hence
the expression to flog a
dead horse when something
is a waste of time. The
seamen resented this
unpaid time, and the text
expresses their
frustrations
metaphorically by listing
what they would do to the
horse! The music's
frantic gallop alludes to
the horse's
desperation.Although The
Sea Martyrs presents
itself as a ballad, this
text has a more literary
feel, and unlike the
other songs it doesn't
include a chorus refrain.
It concerns the sailors'
lack of pay, the
consequences of asking
for pay (being hanged!),
and the poverty of their
families at home. The
poem portrays the
sailors' deaths as an
almost religious
sacrifice to help future
seamen.At the end of the
work, the opening of
Dance to your Daddy
returns as a kind of
descant, sung by an angel
calling to the hanged
men. Paul Hillier,
2012.
(Low Voice). Edited by Sally K. Albrecht. For Voice (Low voice (Medium-Low)). Bo...(+)
(Low Voice). Edited by
Sally K. Albrecht. For
Voice (Low voice
(Medium-Low)). Book; CD;
Vocal; Vocal Collection;
Worship Resources. For
Solo Singers. Christmas;
Sacred; Secular; Winter.
64 pages. Published by
Alfred Music Publishing
(High Voice). Edited by Sally K. Albrecht. For Voice (High voice (Medium-High))....(+)
(High Voice). Edited by
Sally K. Albrecht. For
Voice (High voice
(Medium-High)). Book;
Vocal; Vocal Collection;
Worship Resources. For
Solo Singers. Christmas;
Sacred; Secular; Winter.
64 pages. Published by
Alfred Music Publishing
(10 Seasonal Favorites Arranged for Solo Voice and Piano for Recitals and Concer...(+)
(10 Seasonal Favorites
Arranged for Solo Voice
and Piano for Recitals
and Concerts (Medium Low
Voice)). Edited by Sally
K. Albrecht. For Voice
(Low voice (Medium-Low)).
Book; Vocal; Vocal
Collection; Worship
Resources. For Solo
Singers. Christmas;
Sacred; Winter. 64 pages.
Published by Alfred Music
Publishing
(High Voice). Edited by Sally K. Albrecht. For Voice (High voice (Medium-High))....(+)
(High Voice). Edited by
Sally K. Albrecht. For
Voice (High voice
(Medium-High)). Book; CD;
Vocal; Vocal Collection;
Worship Resources. For
Solo Singers. Christmas;
Sacred; Secular; Winter.
64 pages. Published by
Alfred Music Publishing
Opera in 3 Acts.
Composed by Siegfried
Matthus. Choir;
Softcover. Deutscher
Verlag.
World
premiere: Netzeband, July
12, 1997
Opera; Music
theatre; Music post-1945;
New music (post-2000).
Choral score. Composed
1996/97. 20 pages.
Deutscher Verlag fur
Musik #DV 7969-02.
Published by Deutscher
Verlag fur Musik
(BR.DV-7969-02).
ISBN
9790200471618. 7.5 x 10.5
inches.
Duration:
full evening Text by the
composer using a text by
Walter Jens Place and
time: Chamber of the King
Philip V. of Spain,
Middle of the 18th
Century Characters:
Farinelli
(Countertenor/alto) -
King Philip V. of Spain
(baritone) - Nicola
Porpora (baritone) - The
Kings Personal Physician,
also Barber (tenor) - The
Kings Confessor, also
Impresario and Priest
(bass) - Maria (Bellino),
later Anna Maria Strada
(soprano) - Georg
Friedrich Handel
(baritone) - Jenny, Jim,
John, English Opera
Troupe (soprano, tenor,
baritone) - The young
Carlo Broschi (boy
treble) The dramaturgical
constellation of the
subject forced me to use
multifaceted and
stylistic means. I have
used melodic segments
from the Farinelli arias
that are still extant
today, as well as other
Baroque vocal and formal
elements, models inspired
by the Singspiel and the
musical, and even a rap
piece over a techno
rhythm. The musical
center of the opera
consists of song and the
human voice. Farinelli is
a bel canto opera.
(Siegfried Matthus) Carlo
Broschi, known as
Farinelli, was the
brightest star among the
castrato tenors of the
18th century. Handels
enemies brought him to
London so that he could
outshine Handels singers.
Here, Matthus depicts
Farinelli at the Spanish
court, ruled by the
pathologically melancholy
King Philip V. In a
review of his life, we
relive important stages
in the career of the
singer, who lived outside
of the norm and found his
home in the fascinating
twilight world between
art and
artificiality.
Ave Maria Chorale SATB SATB divisi, A Cappella - Intermédiaire Laurendale Associates
SATB choir divisi (a cappella) - Late Intermediate SKU: MN.CH-1296 Compos...(+)
SATB choir divisi (a
cappella) - Late
Intermediate
SKU:
MN.CH-1296
Composed
by Andrew Bonacci.
Catholic Year A
Immaculate Conception.
21st Century. Choral
score. Laurendale
Associates #CH-1296.
Published by Laurendale
Associates (MN.CH-1296).
UPC:
765844005764.
Ave
Maria was composed for
the University of Kansas
Choirs, and dedicated
with appreciation to
Simon Carrington (Kings
Singers). It was
premiered by the Oread
Consort at Edington
Priori Church in
Wiltshire, England in May
of 1997. The Gregg Smith
Singers brought new life
to this work at the 2000
Adirondack Festival of
American Music in Saranac
Lake, and followed with a
recording on the Living
Artist series. This piece
was inspired by Gyorgy
Ligeti's setting of Lux
Aeterna (1966), as well
as by Giuseppe Verdi's
Ave Maria, the scala
enigmatica armonizzata a
Quattro voci (1898). It
is shaped by a series of
breath-like harmonic
swells leading to
climactic homophonic
statements of the text,
with strident voice
pairings yearning for
resolution. New York
writer Watson Bosler
describes the work as an
iridescent wash of color
as an intricate web of
interrelated melodic and
rhythmic themesThis Ave
hymns not the sugar-water
Virgin of Gounod or
Scott, but rather the
powerful Goddess Yeats
depicts: The Roman Empire
stood appalled:/ It
dropped the reins of
peace and war/ When that
fierce virgin and her
Star/ Out of the fabulous
darkness called.
SSAATTBB Chorus, Oboe & Harp SKU: SU.80400260 For SSAATTBB Chorus, Obo...(+)
SSAATTBB Chorus, Oboe &
Harp
SKU:
SU.80400260
For
SSAATTBB Chorus, Oboe &
Harp. Composed by
Stephen Paulus.
Vocal/Choral, Sacred
Choral, Woodwinds,
Oboe/English Horn, Harp,
Harp with Other
Instruments. Accompanied
by harp, Christmas.
Choral Octavo. Subito
Music Corporation
#80400260. Published by
Subito Music Corporation
(SU.80400260).
SSAATTBB
Chorus, Oboe &
HarpDuration: 5:00
Dedication: For The Dale
Warland Singers Premiered
by: Dale Warland Singers,
Dale Warland, conductor
Copyright 1983 Text
author: John H. Hopkins
Published by: Paulus
Publications (SP315)
Minimum order quantity: 8
copies. To order
quantities fewer than
8.
Choral (SSAB choir) SKU: HL.292928 Composed by Mark Clark. Arranged by Ma...(+)
Choral (SSAB choir)
SKU: HL.292928
Composed by Mark Clark.
Arranged by Mark Clark
and Steve Rue. Gentry
Publications. Christmas
Sacred. Octavo. 8 pages.
Gentry Publications
#JG2507. Published by
Gentry Publications
(HL.292928).
UPC:
888680932909. 6.75x10.5
inches.
This could
be the most charming
piece of the year –
the We Three Kings carol
in 50's Doo Wop style.
You will start smiling
from the first measure of
music. The voicing
choices are many, as the
solo (melody) line could
be several singers. The
biggest decision will be
deciding what wardrobe
choices are best!
SKU: LO.99-4022MD Composed by Jay Rouse. Choral. Sacred Anthem, Christmas...(+)
SKU: LO.99-4022MD
Composed by Jay Rouse.
Choral. Sacred Anthem,
Christmas.
Performance/accompaniment
CD (split-track).
Medallion Music
#99/4022MD. Published by
Medallion Music
(LO.99-4022MD).
UPC:
000308154184.
Perfo
rmance/accompaniment CD
plus Split-track for
10/5318MD Jay Rouse
combines “We Three
King of Orient
Are,â€
“Pat-a-Panâ€
and “Sing We Now of
Christmas†in this
refreshing, stand-out
medley. The first two
songs lead brilliantly to
the latter and to a grand
and glorious conclusion.
Perfect for Christmas
services and programs,
this one will fill
singers and listeners
alike with festive joy
and spirit!
SATB choir, piano SKU: LO.10-5318MD Composed by Jay Rouse. Choral. Sacred...(+)
SATB choir, piano
SKU:
LO.10-5318MD
Composed
by Jay Rouse. Choral.
Sacred Anthem, Christmas.
Octavo. Medallion Music
#10/5318MD. Published by
Medallion Music
(LO.10-5318MD).
ISBN
9780787766726.
Jay
Rouse combines “We
Three King of Orient
Are,â€
“Pat-a-Panâ€
and “Sing We Now of
Christmas†in this
refreshing, stand-out
medley. The first two
songs lead brilliantly to
the latter and to a grand
and glorious conclusion.
Perfect for Christmas
services and programs,
this one will fill
singers and listeners
alike with festive joy
and spirit!
Full orchestra SKU: LO.30-3710MD Composed by Jay Rouse. Choral. Sacred An...(+)
Full orchestra
SKU:
LO.30-3710MD
Composed
by Jay Rouse. Choral.
Sacred Anthem, Christmas.
Orchestral score and CD
with printable parts.
Medallion Music
#30/3710MD. Published by
Medallion Music
(LO.30-3710MD).
UPC:
000308155044.
Orche
stral Score and CD with
Printable Parts for
10/5318MD Jay Rouse
combines “We Three
King of Orient
Are,â€
“Pat-a-Panâ€
and “Sing We Now of
Christmas†in this
refreshing, stand-out
medley. The first two
songs lead brilliantly to
the latter and to a grand
and glorious conclusion.
Perfect for Christmas
services and programs,
this one will fill
singers and listeners
alike with festive joy
and spirit!
The Willamette Master
Chorus Series.
Composed by John Henry
Hopkins Jr. Arranged by
David Schmidt. Pavane
Choral. Christmas Sacred,
Christmas/Advent Sacred.
Octavo. Pavane Publishing
#P1649. Published by
Pavane Publishing
(HL.291968).
UPC:
888680928834.
6.75x10.5x0.029
inches.
The
Williamette Choral Series
is joyfully introduced
with three carols, each
capturing the Big Band
swing sound. This Big
Band flavor adds a classy
element to the swing
sound and is the charm
that brings a smile to
one's face. The writing
is intelligent and
musical. All three carols
will delight singers and
listeners alike can be
presented as a set or
individually. Optional
parts for trumpet, tenor
sax, string bass, and
percussion also
included.