By Jay Althouse. For SATB choir. Communion, Lent/Holy Week, Lord's Supper, Maundy Thursday, General, Sacred. Octavo. 8 pages. Published by Hope Publishing Company

String Orchestra (Score)

SKU: HL.50600898

For String Orchestra. Composed by Bella, Má, and té. Contemporary Music. EMB. Classical. Softcover. 86 pages. Duration 16'. Editio Musica Budapest #Z14933. Published by Editio Musica Budapest (HL.50600898).

ISBN 9790080149331. 10.25x14.25x0.41 inches. Mate Bella.

The title of the piece refers to Lethe, one of the rivers of Hades, known from Greek mythology. The meaning of the world is 'oblivion'; the dead souls were drinking from it in order to forget about their earthly life, whose memories might have poisoned their eternal life. According to tradition, river Lethe also the symbol of time as a dynamically moving, flowing, changing entity. Mate Bella's composition follows this ancent symbolic structure, the flow of this mythical river and its waves in the acoustic space created by the music. The composer prescribes an unusual arrangement of the string orchestra, reminiscent of the polychoral technique of composition of the early Baroque, with larger and smaller groups of performers. To the right and left of the podium sit string quintets (two violins, a viola, a cello and a double bass), while the center is held by a larger string ensemble (eight violins, two violas and two cellos). The musical materials for the quintets are somewhat solistic, but the parts diverge and reunite repeatedly, while becoming shorter or eventually fading out into oblivion. The workings of these resemble the waves of a river, followed by ever smaller ripples and whirls of the surface.The piece was commissioned by the Musica Viva concert series of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. (Janos Malina).

Bass Clarinet and Piano

SKU: IS.BCP6012EM

Composed by Johan Favoreel. Woodwinds - Bass Clarinet / Basset Horn. Jan Gans Series. Metropolis Music Publishers #BCP6012EM. Published by Metropolis Music Publishers (IS.BCP6012EM).

ISBN 9790365060122.

Joha n Favoreel studied at the Royal Music Academy in Brussels. Being producer with the Belgian Broadcasting Company since 1982, he made several CD-recordings with a.o. the BRTN-Filharmonic orchestra and choir. Other projects include CD-recordings for various chambermusic ensembles, the ‘Proms’, opera,... As a composer and arranger, Johan Favoreel writes regularly for symphonic orchestra, wind ensembles, voices,... . His favourite instrument is the clarinet. This charming miniature for bass clarinet and piano pictures an imaginary ancient heavy-weight Greek God Zebus (the warm mild and mellow sound of a heavy-weight clarinet), enjoying life sitting in the sun while eating and drinking wine. The idea to take part in a hunting party (the faster tempo) excites him, but because he is so tired everything stays calm and nice. Life continues as it was.

Choir Secular

SKU: AP.48280

Composed by Various. This edition: SoundTrax CD. Choral Octavo; Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles. Alfred Choral Designs. Secular. CD. Alfred Music #00-48280. Published by Alfred Music (AP.48280).

UPC: 038081551036. English.

PianoTrax 12 CD contains accompaniment tracks for the following choral publications: Are You Proud of Me? * The Bicycle * Carnival of the Animals: Choral Set I * Clap Your Hands! * The Cloud * Dandelion Child * Desperta Ferro! * Dixit Dominus * Dona Nobis Pacem * Enter with Song! * Follow the Drinking Gourd * Friendship Canon * Gaudeamus Hodie * Gloria in Excelsis Deo * Grow Your Garden * Hava Nagila (Let Us Rejoice) * Hodie * I Lift My Lamp * In the Bleak Midwinter * Lovely Rainbow * Marvelous, Magical World * Music Is . . . * O Wind * One Can Hear the Falling Snow * Out of the Silence * The Road Not Taken * Ständchen * Tuba Mirum * The Turtle Dove * Twilight * Un Poquito Cantas * Vanitas Canon * Words of Wisdom.

About Alfred Choral Designs

Th e Alfred Choral Designs Series provides student and adult choirs with a variety of secular choral music that is useful, practical, educationally appropriate, and a pleasure to sing. To that end, the Choral Designs series features original works, folk song settings, spiritual arrangements, choral masterworks, and holiday selections suitable for use in concerts, festivals, and contests.