String Orchestra (Score) - Level 3.5 SKU: HL.35011049 Composed by Ken Bai...(+)
String Orchestra (Score)
- Level 3.5
SKU:
HL.35011049
Composed
by Ken Baird. Shawnee
Press. Shawnee Press
#JC0588. Published by
Shawnee Press
(HL.35011049).
Invention is an
exciting work for high
school or college
orchestra that features
an accented,
multi-metered main theme,
contrapuntal writing, a
fugue, a reflective
melodic interlude, and an
optional extended violin
cadenza. The title refers
to the process undertaken
by great inventors such
as Thomas Edison and
Leonardo Da Vinci. In
this work, the composer
reflects the many
emotions and processes an
inventor might experience
as he is working on his
creation: the spark of
inspiration, the
excitement of a new
project, trial and error,
frustration and anger,
intensity, and, at last,
success!
For
orchestra. Composed
by Ryan Wigglesworth.
This edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Edition Schott.
Softcover. Composed 2010.
60 pages. Duration 9'.
Schott Music #ED13471.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49019158).
ISBN
9790220133206.
8.25x11.75x0.222
inches.
Written in
2010 for the Royal
Liverpool Philharmonic,
Wigglesworth's
nine-minute work explores
the idea of perpetuum
mobile (continuous
movement) in seven
connected, miniature
inventions. A regular
pulse forms the work's
core, with elaborations
of the central musical
idea shifting constantly
around it in jagged
rhythms and sumptuous
orchestration. The
composer writes, The
seven sections can very
briefly be described
thus: 1) an active,
miniature 'theme and
variations'; 2) the
juxtaposition of various
fragmentary two-part
inventions; 3) a tremolo
string ostinato with
woodwind interjections,
building towards the
first climax; 4) an
ostinato passing between
horns and muted trumpets
together with a dialogue
for high woodwind and low
strings; 5) a very slow
canon for string
harmonics and pizzicato
double basses; 6) a fast,
one-part invention
beginning with solo
piccolo, and gradually
leading to the second
climax; 7) chorale.This
is a lively orchestral
miniature which gives the
impression of a
kaleidoscope, with short
musical ideas cutting
across each other in
quick succession.
Orchestra (Study Score) SKU: HL.49046988 Lyric Trilogy After Maurice M...(+)
Orchestra (Study Score)
SKU: HL.49046988
Lyric Trilogy After
Maurice Maeterlinck Study
Score, French.
Composed by Aribert
Reimann. Edition Schott.
Classical. Softcover. 280
pages. Duration 5400
seconds. Schott Music
#ED23491. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49046988).
ISBN
9781705174333. UPC:
842819115281.
8.25x11.75x0.695
inches.
SYNOPSIS
Aribert Reimann's
'Trilogie lyrique' is
based on three plays by
Maurice Maeterlinck: In
L'Intruse, a family is
sitting at the table with
their blind grandfather.
They are waiting for the
doctor to arrive and tend
to his daughter who is
lying ill in bed after
having given birth: her
new-born son has not yet
made a single sound. The
old man senses that
something is wrong due to
the uneasy atmosphere in
the room. Who is sitting
in our midst? he asks. He
is the only one who
cansee the presence of
death. Interieur: Once
again a family is
gathered round the table
in the evening, but this
time we observe the
action from outside,
looking through the
window with the
grandfather and a
stranger: no sound can be
heard. Outside the house,
the stranger reports that
the eldest daughter has
drowned and that he has
pulled her out of the
river. Although the
corpse is already being
carried through the
village to the family,
the grandfather cannot
bring himself to destroy
this idyll. La Mort de
Tintagiles: The young
Tintagiles is told a
story about a mysterious
castle and the aged queen
who has all potential
heirsto the throne
murdered. His siblings
sense that Tintagiles has
been summoned to the
castle to be murdered,
but nobody openly
expresses this fact. It
is the sinister
messengers of death from
the interludes, now
visible as the queens
servants, who ful?l her
demand and snatch the
sleeping boy from his
sisters'arms. Commentary
'In comparison with his
Medea for example with
its stormy outbreaks of
emotion and violence,
Reimann's score is worked
in an impressive
refinement of sound. It
begins with rumbling,
hesitating and expressive
music in the first
section, demanding highly
ingenious sound effects
from the lower strings
including tapping and
faltering glissandos in
its noisy expression of
mortal fear. Inthe second
part, the woodwind
formation plays at times
almost in chamber music
fashion and is then
suddenly painfully
shrill. The third part
luxuriates and rages in
its rich, full
orchestration. The manner
in which Reimann displays
his mastery in textural
shading, the invention of
sounds welling up and
fading away, the rhythmic
and melodic capacity of
suffering and the music's
inner violence are all
utterly
compelling.'(Wolfgang
Schreiber, Opernwelt,
November 2017).