Composed by Monika Mandelartz. For Folk Harp and Pedal Harp. Saddle-stitched. ...(+)
Composed by Monika
Mandelartz. For Folk Harp
and
Pedal Harp.
Saddle-stitched.
Intermediate-Advanced.
Book.
28 pages. Published by
Mel
Bay Publications, Inc
Harp SKU: HL.234540 Harp Solo. Composed by John Luther Adams. Musi...(+)
Harp
SKU:
HL.234540
Harp
Solo. Composed by
John Luther Adams. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Softcover. Composed 2017.
14 pages. Chester Music
#CH86295. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.234540).
9.0x12.0x0.09 inches.
English.
'This set
of miniatures is based on
traditional dance songs
of the Yupik Eskimo
people of Western Alaska.
In their original forms,
these melodies would be
sung in unison. The
first, third and fifth
songs would be
accompanied by frame
drums. The second and
fourth are game songs,
for jumping rope and
juggling pebbles. Aside
from the obvious
difference in
instrumentation, my
settings of these songs
differ from the Yup'ik
originals in other
respects. I have extended
and varied the melodies,
and added
countermelodies, ostinato
figurations,
introductions, interludes
and codas. The first four
melodies are drawn from
the collection Yup'ik
Eskimo songs, compiled by
Thomas F. Johnston, and
Tupou L. Pulu, and
published by the
University Of Alaska. The
fifth was 'loaned' to me
by Yup'ik singer and
dancer Chuna McIntyre,
who learned it in his
village of Eek, Alaska.
The poems preceding each
piece are rough
translations of the words
to the songs. These
verses are often cryptic
and enigmatic. Their
obscurity is increased
because some of the words
or their meanings have
been lost, over time.' -
John Luther Adams.
Choir Secular Harp SKU: AP.12-0571520634 A Homage to Britten. Comp...(+)
Choir Secular Harp
SKU:
AP.12-0571520634
A
Homage to Britten.
Composed by Anthony
Bolton. Choral Extended
Work; Larger Works;
Performance Music
Ensemble. Faber Edition.
Christmas; Sacred;
Winter. Part(s). Faber
Music #12-0571520634.
Published by Faber Music
(AP.12-0571520634).
ISBN 9780571520633.
English.
A Garland
of Carols is a homage to
Benjamin Britton's
Ceremony of Carols.
Written by Anthony
Bolton, best known as one
of the UK's most
successful fund managers,
it includes a translation
of the traditional
Portuguese carol Beijai o
menino, as well as
original works such as
Lanterns which evokes a
barren winter landscape
from which we are
transported to a more
mystical land in the
middle section. Though
originally written for
trebles, the carols work
equally well for female
voices.
Harp (Harp) SKU: HL.50511754 Solo. Composed by Laszlo Tihanyi. Con...(+)
Harp (Harp)
SKU:
HL.50511754
Solo. Composed by
Laszlo Tihanyi.
Contemporary Music. EMB.
Contemporary Hungarian
Works. Book Only. Editio
Musica Budapest #Z14358.
Published by Editio
Musica Budapest
(HL.50511754).
ISBN
9790080143582. B/4 quer
inches. Hungarian,
English. Laszlo
Tihanyi.
Greek
mythology seems
spontaneously to have
offered the figure of
linos as the central
character in a work for
solo harp. (Linos was a
poet, believed to be the
brother of Orpheus, and
according to Greek
tradition no greater
musician ever appeared
among mankind.) The
musical material,
conforming to the
characteristics of the
harp, consits of two
interesting seven-degree
note rows incorporating
all the possible pedal
combinations, their
mirror inversions and the
five-degree noterows that
fit between them. The
nine-section composition
is made up of scenes from
the imagined life of
Linos, an imagined
'Linos's hymn', and
laments played in his
honour.