By Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904). Edited by Antonin Pokorny; Karel Solc. For Piano/...(+)
By Antonin Dvorak
(1841-1904). Edited by
Antonin Pokorny; Karel
Solc. For
Piano/Violin/Viola/Violon
cello. This edition:
Stapled. Performance
score, Set of parts. Opus
87. 84/12/12/12 pages.
Published by Baerenreiter
Verlag
By Traditional. Arranged by Neil Harmon. For SATB choir, piano (or harp) & oboe;...(+)
By Traditional. Arranged
by Neil Harmon. For SATB
choir, piano (or harp) &
oboe; or optional
woodwind quartet. Choral,
Christmas, Sacred.
Octavo. 10 pages.
Duration c. 3 minutes 20
seconds. Published by
Hinshaw Music Inc.
(Cello and Piano). Composed by Edward Gregson. For Cello, Piano Accompaniment. M...(+)
(Cello and Piano).
Composed by Edward
Gregson. For Cello, Piano
Accompaniment. Music
Sales America. 52 pages.
Novello and Co Ltd.
#NOV958089. Published by
Novello and Co Ltd.
Parts. Composed by
Simon Holt. Music Sales
America. Classical,
Contemporary. Softcover.
Chester Music #CH8277501.
Published by Chester
Music (HL.14043782).
8.5x11.75x0.3
inches.
Simon Holt
's 3rd Quartet is the
third of six pieces which
make up a cycle with the
overall title 'Terrain'.
Lasting around 23
minutes, this wonderful
work is arranged for
String Quartet and was
co-commissioned by The
Radcliffe Trust, NMC
Recordings,
Internationales
Musikfestival
Heidelberger Fruhling and
Wigmore Hall. The
premiere was performed on
19th January
2015. This is the
set of parts for 2
Violins, Viola and Cello.
The six different
compositions, of which
3rd Quartet is
the third, are for
different combinations of
stringed instruments,
featuring Piano in the
second piece. The music
that comprises 3rd
Quartet is drawn
from the other parts
ofthe cycle as a whole,
yet in a reverse order.
In this way the piece
develops what has come
before, foreshadows
what's to come, all the
while encompassing the
entire cycle in a single
piece.
Score. Composed by
Simon Holt. Music Sales
America. Classical,
Contemporary. Softcover.
44 pages. Chester Music
#CH82775. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.14043783).
8.25x11.75
inches.
Simon Holt
's 3rd Quartet is the
third of six pieces which
make up a cycle with the
overall title 'Terrain'.
Lasting around 23
minutes, this wonderful
work is arranged for
String Quartet and was
co-commissioned by The
Radcliffe Trust, NMC
Recordings,
Internationales
Musikfestival
Heidelberger Fruhling and
Wigmore Hall. The
premiere was performed on
19th January 2015. The
six different
compositions, of which
3rd Quartet is
the third, are for
different combinations of
stringed instruments,
featuring Piano in the
second piece. The music
that comprises 3rd
Quartet is drawn
from the other parts of
the cycle as a whole, yet
in a reverse order. In
this way the
piecedevelops what has
come before, foreshadows
what's to come, all the
while encompassing the
entire cycle in a single
piece.
Chamber Music Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Piano SKU: PR.11441123S C...(+)
Chamber Music Violin 1,
Violin 2, Viola, Cello,
Piano
SKU:
PR.11441123S
Composed
by Samuel Adler. Score.
With Standard notation.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-41123S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.11441123S).
UPC:
680160016303. 8.5 x 11
inches.
The Quintet
for Piano and String
Quartet was written for
the American String
Quartet in the summer of
2000. It is in one
movement but has two
distinct parts. The first
is a slow movement
characterized by dotted
rhythms. It is a fantasy
with some long flowing
lines interrupted by
short fragments usually
in the piano. After a
rather agitated section
in 6/8 time, this section
comes to a quiet close on
a G-sharp major chord.
The second section of
this thirteen-minute work
is marked Fast and
Energetic. It begins with
chords that recur
throughout the movement
and after two measures a
long main theme is
introduced which is
developed and altered
during the rest of the
fast portion of the work.
One could call this
second part a sort of
rondo form since this
long lyrical theme
returns always after
contrasts. When it does
return, it is treated
often by means of
imitation, but at the
climax returns played in
unison by the strings
while the piano renders
an energetic sixteenth
note background. The work
ends on an E-flat major
chord though the piece is
certainly not in any one
key, but rather features
quick modulations. One
might call this non-tonal
music which nevertheless
always feels like it has
a tonal center. --Samuel
Adler.
Piano Quintet (Score & Parts) - difficult SKU: HL.49045531 For string ...(+)
Piano Quintet (Score &
Parts) - difficult
SKU: HL.49045531
For string quartet and
piano. Composed by
Pierre Jalbert. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Edition Schott.
Classical. Softcover.
Composed 2017. 84 pages.
Duration 19'. Schott
Music #ED31291. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49045531).
ISBN
9781495094767. UPC:
888680685058.
9.0x12.0x0.401
inches.
My Piano
Quintet consists of four
contrasting movements.
The first movement,
entitled Mannheim Rocket,
is a modern take on the
18th-century musical
technique in which a
rising figure speeds up
and grows louder. Marked
'Furioso', the movement
is gradually filled with
rising scalar figures
which build in volume and
finally 'launch' into
space with ethereal
string harmonics. At this
point, the music becomes
almost static, though the
inner rhythm
continues.The second
movement, entitled Kyrie,
is marked 'Still,
chant-like'. The
principal idea, stated
between first violin and
viola, is a chromatically
transformed chant-like
motive. It also features
a long, lyrical cello
line, made up exclusively
of natural harmonics,
emphasizing the
non-tempered ('out of
tune') 7th and 11th
partials.The third
movement is a scherzo in
which the strings and
piano sometimes alternate
and imitate each other,
reacting to each other's
gestures, and at other
times, combine and
synchronize to produce a
more blended sound. A
short Trio-like section
appears before the return
of the scherzo music.The
last movement, Pulse, is
made up of perpetually
moving 8th notes,
sometimes harmonically
static, but always
pushing forward. The work
is interrupted twice with
short, freer sections,
but always returns to its
pulse-oriented nature.-
Pierre Jalbert.
Composed by Muzio
Clementi. Arranged by
Douglas Townsend. Carl
Fischer Young String
Orchestra Series.
Classical. Full score.
With Standard notation.
12 pages. Carl Fischer
Music #YAS13F. Published
by Carl Fischer Music
(CF.YAS13F).
ISBN
9780825848339. UPC:
798408048334. 8.5 X 11
inches. Key: G
major.
IApart from
some of his Sonatinas,
Opus 36, Clementi's life
and music are hardly
known to the piano
teachers and students of
today. For example, in
addition to the above
mentioned Sonatinas,
Clementi wrote sixty
sonatas for the piano,
many of them unjustly
neglected, although his
friend Beethoven regarded
some of them very highly.
Clementi also wrote
symphonies (some of which
he arranged as piano
sonatas), a substantial
number of waltzes and
other dances for the
piano as well as sonatas
and sonatinas for piano
four-hands.In addition to
composing, Clementi was a
much sought after piano
teacher, and included
among his students John
Field (Father of the
'Nocturne'), and
Meyerbeer.In his later
years, Clementi became a
very successful music
publisher, publishing
among other works the
first English edition of
Beethoven's Violin
Concerto, in the great
composer's own
arrangement for the
piano, as well as some of
his string quartets.
Clementi was also one of
the first English piano
manufacturers to make
pianos with a metal frame
and string them with
wire.The Sonatina in C,
Opus 36, No. 1 was one of
six such works Clementi
wrote in 1797. He must
have been partial to
these little pieces (for
which he also provided
the fingerings), since
they were reissued
(without the fingering)
by the composer shortly
after 1801. About 1820,
he issued ''the sixth
edition, with
considerable improvements
by the author;· with
fingerings added and
several minor changes,
among which were that
many of them were written
an octave higher.IIIt has
often been said,
generally by those
unhampered by the facts,
that composers of the
past (and, dare we add,
the present?), usually
handled their financial
affairs with their public
and publishers with a
poor sense of business
acumen or common sense.
As a result they
frequently found
themselves in financial
straits.Contrary to
popular opinion, this was
the exception rather than
the rule. With the
exception of Mozart and
perhaps a few other
composers, the majority
of composers then, as
now, were quite
successful in their
dealings with the public
and their publishers, as
the following examples
will show.It was not
unusual for 18th- and
19th-century composers to
arrange some of their
more popular compositions
for different
combinations of
instruments in order to
increase their
availability to a larger
music-playing public.
Telemann, in the
introduction to his
seventy-two cantatas for
solo voice and one melody
instrument (flute, oboe
or violin, with the usual
continua) Der Harmonische
Gottesdienst, tor
example, suggests that if
a singer is not available
to perform a cantata the
voice part could be
played by another
instrument. And in the
introduction to his Six
Concertos and Six Suites
for flute, violin and
continua, he named four
different instrumental
combinations that could
perform these pieces, and
actually wrote out the
notes for the different
possibilities. Bach
arranged his violin
concertos for keyboard,
and Beethoven not only
arranged his Piano Sonata
in E Major, Opus 14, No.
1 for string quartet, he
also transposed it to the
key of F. Brahm's
well-known Quintet in F
Minor for piano and
strings was his own
arrangement of his
earlier sonata for two
pianos, also in F
Minor.IIIWe come now to
Clementi. It is well
known that some of his
sixty piano sonatas were
his own arrangements of
some of his lost
symphonies, and that some
of his rondos for piano
four-hands were
originally the last
movements of his solo
sonatas or piano trios.In
order to make the first
movement of his
delightful Sonatina in C,
Opus 36, No. 1 accessible
to young string players,
I have followed the
example established by
the composer himself by
arranging and transposing
one of his piano
compositions from one
medium (the piano) to
another. (string
instruments). In order to
simplify the work for
young string players, in
the process of adapting
it to the new medium it
was necessary to
transpose it from the
original key of C to G,
thereby doing away with
some of the difficulties
they would have
encountered in the
original key. The first
violin and cello parts
are similar to the right-
and left-hand parts of
the original piano
version. The few changes
I have made in these
parts have been for the
convenience of the string
players, but in no way do
they change the nature of
the music.Since the
original implied a
harmonic framework in
many places, I have added
a second violin and viola
part in such a way that
they not only have
interesting music to
play, but also fill in
some of the implied
harmony without in any
way detracting from the
composition's musical
value. Occasionally, it
has been necessary to
raise or lower a few
passages an octave or to
modify others slightly to
make them more accessible
for young players.It is
hoped that the musical
value of the composition
has not been too
compromised, and that
students and teachers
will come to enjoy this
little piece in its new
setting as much as
pianists have in the
original one. This
arrangement may also be
performed by a solo
string quartet. When
performed by a string
orchestra, the double
bass part may be
omitted.- Douglas
TownsendString editing by
Amy Rosen.
About Carl
Fischer Young String
Orchestra
Series
Thi
s series of Grade 2/Grade
2.5 pieces is designed
for second and third year
ensembles. The pieces in
this series are
characterized
by: --Occasionally
extending to third
position --Keys
carefully considered for
appropriate
difficulty --Addition
of separate 2nd violin
and viola
parts --Viola T.C.
part
included --Increase
in independence of parts
over beginning levels
Quintet Piano et Orchestre EMB (Editio Musica Budapest)
String Orchestra and Piano SKU: BT.EMBZ6338 Composed by Bela Bartok. Set ...(+)
String Orchestra and
Piano
SKU:
BT.EMBZ6338
Composed
by Bela Bartok. Set
(Score & Parts). Composed
1970. 304 pages. Editio
Musica Budapest
#EMBZ6338. Published by
Editio Musica Budapest
(BT.EMBZ6338).
Orchestra Orchestra SKU: PR.11641373S Composed by Peter Schickele. Full s...(+)
Orchestra Orchestra
SKU: PR.11641373S
Composed by Peter
Schickele. Full score.
Duration 24 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#116-41373S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.11641373S).
UPC:
680160680344.
The
concerto has always
seemed an especially
attractive medium to me,
not necessarily because
of its expectations of
virtuosity (although
flaunting it when you've
got it certainly has its
place), and emphatically
not because of the
perception of a concerto
as a contest, but because
so much of what I write
feels song-like; I'm very
much at home with the
age-old texture of melody
and accompaniment. I
hope, before I move on,
to have the opportunity
to write concertos for
all the major
instruments, and perhaps
some of the rarer ones as
well. The oboe is not
only one of the major
instruments, it is one of
my favorite instruments.
I've always loved its
sound, but since moving
to New York I have gotten
to hear and, in some
cases, know some
extremely fine oboists
who broadened my
appreciation of the
instrument's
possibilities. I
especially remember a
concert, probably in the
late 1960's, in which
Humbert Lucarelli played
a Handel concerto,
filling out large melodic
leaps with cascading
scale passages in a way
that raised the hair on
the back of your neck,
somewhat in the way that
John Coltrane's sheets of
sound did. The sweeping
scales in the second
movement of my concerto
were definitely inspired
by Bert Lucarelli's
performance. The first,
third and fifth movements
of the Concerto for Oboe
and Orchestra are
song-like, whereas the
second and fourth have
strong scherzo and dance
qualities, including a
couple of sections that
sound like out-and-out
pirate dances to me. The
hymn-like tune at the
beginning of the middle
movement was originally
begun as a vocal piece to
be sung by my wife, son
and daughter at my
brother's wedding, but I
couldn't come up with
good works for it, so it
ended up as an
instrumental chant. The
opening and closing of
the concerto make use of
the oboe's uniquely
soulful singing. I had
not heard Pamela Woods
Pecha's solo playing in
person when she
approached me about
writing a concerto, but I
had heard her fine
recording of chamber
music for oboe and
strings by the three B's
(English, that is: Bliss,
Bax and Britten) with the
Audubon Quartet. I
actually already had some
oboe concerto ideas in my
sketchbooks; although I
didn't end up using any
of those earlier ideas,
it's interesting that
most of them tended to
share the general feeling
and tonality of the
eventual opening of the
concerto. The work was
completed on October 13,
1994. I hate the
compromises involved in
making piano reductions
-- perhaps I would feel
differently if I were a
more accomplished pianist
-- so I often decide to
make piano reductions for
four hands rather than
two. My good friend Jon
Kimura Parker is a
terrific sight-reader,
and I roped him into
coming over to my place
on February 17, 1995, to
help me accompany Pamela
on the first read-through
of the piece. The first
performance of the work
took place on July 21,
1995, at the American
Music Festival in Duncan,
Oklahoma, with Mark
Parker conducting the
Festival Orchestra.
Orchestra Orchestra SKU: PR.11641373L Composed by Peter Schickele. Large ...(+)
Orchestra Orchestra
SKU: PR.11641373L
Composed by Peter
Schickele. Large Score.
Duration 24 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#116-41373L. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.11641373L).
UPC:
680160680337.
The
concerto has always
seemed an especially
attractive medium to me,
not necessarily because
of its expectations of
virtuosity (although
flaunting it when you've
got it certainly has its
place), and emphatically
not because of the
perception of a concerto
as a contest, but because
so much of what I write
feels song-like; I'm very
much at home with the
age-old texture of melody
and accompaniment. I
hope, before I move on,
to have the opportunity
to write concertos for
all the major
instruments, and perhaps
some of the rarer ones as
well. The oboe is not
only one of the major
instruments, it is one of
my favorite instruments.
I've always loved its
sound, but since moving
to New York I have gotten
to hear and, in some
cases, know some
extremely fine oboists
who broadened my
appreciation of the
instrument's
possibilities. I
especially remember a
concert, probably in the
late 1960's, in which
Humbert Lucarelli played
a Handel concerto,
filling out large melodic
leaps with cascading
scale passages in a way
that raised the hair on
the back of your neck,
somewhat in the way that
John Coltrane's sheets of
sound did. The sweeping
scales in the second
movement of my concerto
were definitely inspired
by Bert Lucarelli's
performance. The first,
third and fifth movements
of the Concerto for Oboe
and Orchestra are
song-like, whereas the
second and fourth have
strong scherzo and dance
qualities, including a
couple of sections that
sound like out-and-out
pirate dances to me. The
hymn-like tune at the
beginning of the middle
movement was originally
begun as a vocal piece to
be sung by my wife, son
and daughter at my
brother's wedding, but I
couldn't come up with
good works for it, so it
ended up as an
instrumental chant. The
opening and closing of
the concerto make use of
the oboe's uniquely
soulful singing. I had
not heard Pamela Woods
Pecha's solo playing in
person when she
approached me about
writing a concerto, but I
had heard her fine
recording of chamber
music for oboe and
strings by the three B's
(English, that is: Bliss,
Bax and Britten) with the
Audubon Quartet. I
actually already had some
oboe concerto ideas in my
sketchbooks; although I
didn't end up using any
of those earlier ideas,
it's interesting that
most of them tended to
share the general feeling
and tonality of the
eventual opening of the
concerto. The work was
completed on October 13,
1994. I hate the
compromises involved in
making piano reductions
-- perhaps I would feel
differently if I were a
more accomplished pianist
-- so I often decide to
make piano reductions for
four hands rather than
two. My good friend Jon
Kimura Parker is a
terrific sight-reader,
and I roped him into
coming over to my place
on February 17, 1995, to
help me accompany Pamela
on the first read-through
of the piece. The first
performance of the work
took place on July 21,
1995, at the American
Music Festival in Duncan,
Oklahoma, with Mark
Parker conducting the
Festival Orchestra.
Composed by Greg Bartholomew. For "trumpet, timpani & string orches...(+)
Composed by Greg
Bartholomew.
For "trumpet,
timpani & string
orchestra". Pathways
Series.
Level 4. Score and set of
parts. Duration "3
minutes, 40
seconds". Published
by Imagine
Music
Composed by Greg Bartholomew. For "trumpet, percussion & string orc...(+)
Composed by Greg
Bartholomew.
For "trumpet,
percussion &
string orchestra".
Pathways
Series. Level 4. Score
and set
of parts. Duration
"3 minutes,
40 seconds".
Published by
Imagine Music
Orchestra SKU: PR.11641867S Composed by William Kraft. Full score. Durati...(+)
Orchestra
SKU:
PR.11641867S
Composed
by William Kraft. Full
score. Duration 16
minutes, 25 seconds.
Theodore Presser Company
#116-41867S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.11641867S).
UPC:
680160683208.
Conte
xtures: Riots -Decade '60
was commissioned by Zubin
Mehta and the Southern
California Symphony
Association after the
successful premiere of
the Concerto for Four
Percussion Soloists and
Orchestra. It was written
during the spring and
summer months of 1967.
Riots stemming from
resentment against the
racial situation in the
United States and the war
in Vietnam were occurring
throughout the country
and inevitably invaded
the composer's creative
subconscious.
Contextures, as the title
implies, was intended to
exploit various and
varying textures. As the
work progressed the
correspondence between
the fabric of music and
the fabric of society
became apparent and the
allegory grew in
significance. So I found
myself translating social
aspects into musical
techniques. Social
stratification became a
polymetric situation
where disparate groups
function together. The
conflict between the
forces of expansion and
the forces of containment
is expressed through and
opposition of tonal
fluidity vs. rigidity.
This is epitomized in the
fourth movement, where
the brass is divided into
two groups - a muted
group, encircled by the
unmuted one, which does
its utmost to keep the
first group within a
restricted pitch area.
The playful jazzy bits
(one between the first
and second movements and
one at the end of the
piece) are simply saying
that somehow in this age
of turmoil and anxiety
ways of having fun are
found even though that
fun may seem
inappropriate. The piece
is in five movements,
with an interlude between
the first and second
movements. It is scored
for a large orchestra,
supplemented by six
groups of percussion,
including newly created
roto-toms (small tunable
drums) and some original
devices, such as muted
gongs and muted
vibraphone. There is also
an offstage jazz quartet:
bass, drums, soprano
saxophone and trumpet.
The first movement begins
with a solo by the first
clarinetist which is
interrupted by
intermittent heckling
from his colleagues
leading to a
configuration of large
disparate elements. The
interlude of solo violin
and snare-drum follows
without pause. The second
movement, Prestissimo, is
a display piece of
virtuosity for the entire
orchestra. The third
movement marks a period
of repose and reflection
and calls for some
expressive solos,
particularly by the horn
and alto saxophone. The
fourth movement opens
with a rather lengthy
oboe solo, which is
threatened by large
blocks of sound from the
orchestra, against an
underlying current of
agitated energy in the
piano and percussion.
This leads to a section
in which large orchestral
forces oppose one
another, ultimately
bringing the work to a
climax, if not to a
denouement. Various
thematic elements are
strewn all over the
orchestra, resulting in
the formation of a
general haze of sound. A
transition leads to the
fifth movement without
pause. The musical haze
is pierced gently by the
offstage jazz group as if
they were attempting to
ignore and even dispel
the gloom, but a legato
bell sound enters and
hovers over both the jazz
group and the orchestra,
the latter making
statements of disquieting
finality. Two films were
conceived to accompany
portions of Contextures.
The first done by Herbert
Kosowar, was a
chemography film
(painting directly into
the film using dyes and
various implements) with
fast clips of riot
photographs. The second
was a film collage made
by photographically
abstracting details from
paintings of Reginald
Pollack. The purpose was
to invoke a non-specific
response - as in music -
but at the same time to
define the subject matter
of the piece. The films
were constructed to
correspond with certain
developments in the piece
and in no way affect the
independence and musical
flow of the piece, having
been made after the piece
was completed.
Contextures: Riots -
Decade '60 is dedicated
to Mehta, the Southern
California Symphony
Association and the Los
Angeles Philharmonic
Orchestra. The news of
the assassination of Dr.
Martin Luther King came
the afternoon of the
premiere, April 4, 1968.
That evening's
performances, and also
the succeeding ones, were
dedicated to him and a
special dedication to Dr.
King has been inserted
into he score. All the
music that follows the
jazz group - beginning
with the legato bell
sound playing the first 2
notes to We shall
overcome constitutes a
new ending to commemorate
Dr. King's death.