By Selah. Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook. Softcover. 144 pages. Word Music #080689536281. Published by Word Music

(Celebrating our Faith and Freedom). By Marty Parks. For piano. Patriotic. Moderately easy. Published by Lillenas Publishing Company

Soloists, Mixed choir, Orchestra

SKU: BA.BA04025-01

Composed by George Frideric Handel. Edited by Georg-Friedrich-Händel -Gesellschaft e. V. Risinger and Mark. This edition: Complete edition. Linen. Complete edition, Score. HWV 58. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA04025-01. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BA04025-01).

ISBN 9790006443222. 33 x 26 cm inches. Text Language: English.

Handelâ?? s â??Semeleâ?, which premiered in February 1744, is based on an adapted version of William Congreveâ??s opera libretto titled â??The Story of Semeleâ?, originally published in 1706. However, neither Handel nor his librettist referred to â??Semeleâ? as an opera or an oratorio, which, according to the understanding at the time, would have required a biblical and/or Christian subject matter. Contemporary audiences also disagreed on the genre. The problematic classification as an oratorio has persisted into the present day, likely due to the edition labeled as such by Chrysander. The â??Halle Handel Editionâ? (HHA) distances itself from this classification and, considering the available sources, refrains from assigning a genre label.

Congreve deviates from the mythological source multiple times in order to create tensions among the characters. The desired marriage between Semele and Athamas, whom she does not love, is an addition by Congreve to provoke the envy of her sister Ino, who desires Athamas herself. Therefore, Ino sees her own advantage in Semeleâ??s abduction by Jupiter. While Jupiterâ??s wife Juno decides to destroy Semele out of jealousy for his relationship with her, Jupiter brings Ino to his palace to console Semele. The vengeful Juno takes advantage of Inoâ??s presence and transforms into her likeness, persuading Semele to carry out a plan that later proves fatal. In the end, Ino emerges as the winner, as she is able to convince their father, Cadmus, to marry her to Athamas. The appearance of Apollo in the final scene to announce that Semeleâ??s immortal son Bacchus was saved from her ashes provides little consolation. However, this twist allows the drama to conclude with exuberant joy and a magnificent final chorus after the tragic scenes in the third act, culminating in the death of the protagonist.

Hande lâ??s autograph score shows significant deviations from and numerous revisions of the original version premiered. All surviving early versions, the musical movements deleted before the premiere, and the version of the December 1744, are given in the appendix to the HHA.

Pointer System Piano Education. Size 4.5x12 inches. 32 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

Composed by Don Besig. For SATB choir, piano (with optional flute). Sacred Anthem, General, Lent. Octavo. Lorenz Publishing Company #10/4705L. Published by Lorenz Publishing Company

SAB choir and piano

SKU: LO.10-5379L

Composed by Don Besig. Choral. Singable Solutions. Sacred Anthem. Octavo. Lorenz Publishing Company #10/5379L. Published by Lorenz Publishing Company (LO.10-5379L).

ISBN 9780787767532.

Don Besig and Nancy Price weave the Swedish “Children of the Heavenly Father” melody with a remarkably fresh text. This inspiring selection includes a flute countermelody that soars above the flowing piano accompaniment and serves as a powerful reminder that God’s guidance and strength give us the faith to carry on.

SKU: HL.48186455

Composed by Eugene Bozza. Leduc. Post-1900. Softcover. 5 pages. Alphonse Leduc #AL30697. Published by Alphonse Leduc (HL.48186455).

UPC: 888680828639. 9x12 inches.

“Born to an Italian father and a French mother, Eugène Bozza (1905-1991) divided his music studies between the Academia Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Conservatoire de Paris, where he was taught by Henri Büsser and Henri Rabaud. His chamber music compositions reveal a marked predilection for wind instruments, as reflected in Fantaisie pastorale for oboe and piano (1939) and New-Orléans for bass saxhorn and piano (1944). During his stay a few years earlier at the Villa Medici in Rome (1936), Bozza had written his Aria Pour Saxophone Alto Et Piano ' a free adaptation of the third movement of Johann Sebastian Bach's Organ Pastorale in F major BWV 590. This expansive and nostalgic melody, which unfolds over a regular meter, has become one of the most widely played SaxoEphone pieces in the world. Having enjoyed such success, Éditions Leduc has decided to supplement its republication with an audio version that will enable saxoEphonists to carry out 'full-scale' practice.&rdquo.

Vocal

SKU: HL.49002726

Vocal Score. Composed by Sir Michael Tippett. This edition: Paperback/Soft Cover. Sheet music. Edition Schott. Classical, Opera. Piano reduction. Composed 1973-1976. 358 pages. Duration 70'. Schott Music #ED 11253. Published by Schott Music (HL.49002726).

ISBN 9781495076602. UPC: 073999930863. 8.75x11.5x1.128 inches. English - German.

Splintered and rich in reference as Tippett's operas are in their music and in their text, they carry at their heart a glowing confidence in the power ofhuman beings to find a centre and, from that centre, to sing. In The Ice Break that confidence has a global reach. The settings are anonymous: an airportlounge, a hospital, the street. For the first time since The Midsummer Marriage, Tippett uses a chorus, here to represent the mass of humanity, whose divisions are pointed in the central cast: divisions between generations, between sexes, between races, between exile and native. Lev arrives in a new world to join his wife Nadia, who had emigrated with their baby son, Yuri. Also at the airport are Yuri's girlfriend Gayle and her friend Hannah, there to meet the black 'champion', Olympion together with his fans. Out of a series of violent tensions, individual and collective, there develops a riot in which Olympion and Gayle are killed and Yuri is near-fatally wounded. Nadia dies peacefully. During an interlude in which a group attempts a psychadelic 'trip', the messenger, Astron, is mistaken for God - a claim he dismisses ironically. Yuri is operated on by Luke, a young doctor, and, released from the cracking plaster, he finds reconciliation with his father.(Paul Griffiths)

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By Many. Arranged by Compiled And Arranged By Brent Jorgensen. Text: Many. For Easy Songbook. Published by Jackman Music Corporation.
Level: Easy.

Performed by Gloria Gaither, Bill Gaither. Piano/Vocal/Chords Songbook (Arrangements for piano and voice with guitar chords). Softcover. Size 9x12 inches. 128 pages. Published by PraiseGathering Music Group.

For Trumpet in B-flat. Includes a high-quality printed music score and a compact disc containing a complete performance with soloist; then a second version with the accompaniment, minus you, the soloist. Published by Music Minus One.

(23 Praise and Worship Favorites). By Tim Conyers. For piano. Sacred. Moderate. Published by Lillenas Publishing Company