John Casken

(Piano). By John Casken (1949-). Piano Solo. Softcover. 8 pages. Schott Music #ED13555. Published by Schott Music

Piano

SKU: HL.49046269

Piano. Composed by John Casken. Piano Solo. Classical. Softcover. 28 pages. Duration 840 seconds. Schott Music #ED14023. Published by Schott Music (HL.49046269).

ISBN 9781540064660. UPC: 842819104353. 0.139 inches.

In spite of having written many works including piano, before composing my new suite of pieces there were only two for solo piano: The Haunting Bough and Pleasure Ground. I decided to incorporate these in a new set of pieces extending the theme of trees and wood (I cut The Haunting Bough into two pieces which frame the suite as the first and last movements; Pleasure Ground is renamed SwingingBough), and further developing my interest in the poetry, history and appearance of landscape and its features as extra-musical sources. John Casken Difficult.

Cello; Piano

SKU: HL.49045179

For Cello and Piano Reduction. Composed by John Casken. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. String. Classical. Softcover. Composed 2015. 38 pages. Duration 15'. Schott Music #ED13864. Published by Schott Music (HL.49045179).

ISBN 9790220136801. UPC: 841886027442. 9.0x12.0x0.115 inches.

Stolen Airs takes as its starting point an episode from Sylvie and the Songman, an opera I am writing in collaboration with the novelist Tim Binding. The Songman has developed the technique of stealing the voices and songs of birds and animals, and eventually humans. Slowly stealing Sylvie's voice, the Songman offers to give back her song if she will tell him the secret of a group of instruments invented by her father that have produced an all-powerful single sonority. Using this scenario, the music of Stolen Airsmoves from a dark place towards three simple airs, with a distant, different air as a quiet coda. -John Casken.

Variation on a Theme by Rameau. By John Casken. Schott. 9 pages. Published by Schott.