Chamber Music Bassoon, Piano SKU: PR.114423350 Composed by Amanda Harberg...(+)
Chamber Music Bassoon,
Piano
SKU:
PR.114423350
Composed
by Amanda Harberg. Set of
Score and Parts. 32+12
pages. Duration 16
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-42335.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114423350).
ISBN
9781491135112. UPC:
680160686339.
This
stunning addition to the
bassoon repertory
features dramatic outer
movements framing a slow
and plaintive aria.
Harberg’s program
notes put the drama and
its crying-out high notes
in the context of writing
in 2021: “The
composition was deeply
influenced by disruptive
forces unfolding around
us. While this unrest
made writing difficult at
times and brought me to
uncomfortable places
within myself, the
process was also full of
unexpected discoveries
and musical solutions I
never would have found in
less troubled
times.â€. Connect
ions are all around us. I
first met bassoonist
Adrian Morejon while
writing my Suite for Wind
Quintet for the Dorian
Wind Quintet in 2017. He
and I quickly became fast
friends and decided to
collaborate on a new
piece. Over the next two
years, Adrian assembled a
phenomenal group of 28
bassoonists from around
the world to be
co-commissioners. Adrian
and I premiered the
resulting sonata at the
International Double Reed
Society’s 2021
Virtual Symposium.The
SONATA was composed
between January and June
2021. In composing it, my
goal was to offer
bassoonists a substantial
work that would show off
the instrument’s
remarkable strengths
including its athletic
agility, gorgeous singing
qualities, and enormous
range. While I generally
avoid being programmatic,
this composition was
deeply influenced by the
disruptive forces
unfolding around us.
While this unrest made
writing difficult at
times and often brought
me to uncomfortable
places within myself, the
process was also full of
unexpected discoveries
and musical solutions I
never would have found in
less troubled times.I am
deeply grateful to Adrian
for our collaboration,
and to everyone in the
consortium for making the
SONATA possible.
Piano - Grade 4 SKU: FA.MFRO001P Composed by Claude Debussy and Robert Or...(+)
Piano - Grade 4
SKU:
FA.MFRO001P
Composed
by Claude Debussy and
Robert Orledge.
Rediscoverd Debussy.
Classical :
Impressionistic. Score.
Musik Fabrik #MFRO001P.
Published by Musik Fabrik
(FA.MFRO001P).
8.27 x
11.69 inches.
Over
the years 1908-16,
Debussy had produced a
viable scenario for Usher
on his third attempt.
Butwhen he came to making
a complete draft of the
music, he seems to have
lost interest during
Roderick Usher's long
monologue, even though he
was setting his own text.
As in No-ja-li he jumped
to the next passage that
interested him, in this
case the exciting final
melodrama and the
collapse of the Usher
house itself. In the
process of completing the
missing half of the
score, I discovered that
by reusing Debussy's
material for similar
psychological situations
across the opera, and by
metamorphosing existing
ideas (as Debussy does
with Melisande's theme in
his opera Pelleas et
Melisande), the only
things I really needed to
add were linking material
and any passages where
fast music was required.
So the 'nightmare
scherzo', and Lady
Madeline's escape from
her coffin and her final
bloody revenge on her
brother are all mine, but
most of the rest is
existing Debussy in
changing contexts (in
which the Russian
technique of 'changing
backgrounds', both
harmonic and textural,
proved extremely useful,
as it did to Debussy in
his Prelude a
l'apres-midi d'un faune).
Eventually, both my
completed ballet No-ja-li
and the House of Usher
were successfully
premiered in 2006 and the
latter soon began to find
its way into the
established repertoire in
Europe and the US. To
further support this, I
transcribed some of the
highlights of Debussy's
score as A Night in the
House of Usher for organ,
and subsequently
piano--with a focus on
Scene 2 and the final,
horrific and maca-bre
melodrama. This climaxes
in the double deaths of
Roderick Usher and his
Sister Madeline, together
with the disintegration
of the ill-fated House of
Usher into the stagnant
lake-all beneath a
blood-red moon.In this
form it was first
performed by Ian Buckle
in the Howard Assembly
Rooms, Leeds in 2010.