Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). Edited by Helmut Hell. Henle Study Scores. Study score (paperbound). 40 pages. G. Henle #HN9043. Published by G. Henle (HL.51489043).

Orchestra

SKU: PE.EP72293A

Composed by James Dillon. Score. Peters Contemporary Library. Living Composer. Score. 94 pages. Edition Peters #98-EP72293A. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP72293A).

ISBN 9790577003856.

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Orchestra

SKU: PR.11641867S

Composed by William Kraft. Full score. Duration 16 minutes, 25 seconds. Theodore Presser Company #116-41867S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.11641867S).

UPC: 680160683208.

Conte xtures: Riots -Decade '60 was commissioned by Zubin Mehta and the Southern California Symphony Association after the successful premiere of the Concerto for Four Percussion Soloists and Orchestra. It was written during the spring and summer months of 1967. Riots stemming from resentment against the racial situation in the United States and the war in Vietnam were occurring throughout the country and inevitably invaded the composer's creative subconscious. Contextures, as the title implies, was intended to exploit various and varying textures. As the work progressed the correspondence between the fabric of music and the fabric of society became apparent and the allegory grew in significance. So I found myself translating social aspects into musical techniques. Social stratification became a polymetric situation where disparate groups function together. The conflict between the forces of expansion and the forces of containment is expressed through and opposition of tonal fluidity vs. rigidity. This is epitomized in the fourth movement, where the brass is divided into two groups - a muted group, encircled by the unmuted one, which does its utmost to keep the first group within a restricted pitch area. The playful jazzy bits (one between the first and second movements and one at the end of the piece) are simply saying that somehow in this age of turmoil and anxiety ways of having fun are found even though that fun may seem inappropriate. The piece is in five movements, with an interlude between the first and second movements. It is scored for a large orchestra, supplemented by six groups of percussion, including newly created roto-toms (small tunable drums) and some original devices, such as muted gongs and muted vibraphone. There is also an offstage jazz quartet: bass, drums, soprano saxophone and trumpet. The first movement begins with a solo by the first clarinetist which is interrupted by intermittent heckling from his colleagues leading to a configuration of large disparate elements. The interlude of solo violin and snare-drum follows without pause. The second movement, Prestissimo, is a display piece of virtuosity for the entire orchestra. The third movement marks a period of repose and reflection and calls for some expressive solos, particularly by the horn and alto saxophone. The fourth movement opens with a rather lengthy oboe solo, which is threatened by large blocks of sound from the orchestra, against an underlying current of agitated energy in the piano and percussion. This leads to a section in which large orchestral forces oppose one another, ultimately bringing the work to a climax, if not to a denouement. Various thematic elements are strewn all over the orchestra, resulting in the formation of a general haze of sound. A transition leads to the fifth movement without pause. The musical haze is pierced gently by the offstage jazz group as if they were attempting to ignore and even dispel the gloom, but a legato bell sound enters and hovers over both the jazz group and the orchestra, the latter making statements of disquieting finality. Two films were conceived to accompany portions of Contextures. The first done by Herbert Kosowar, was a chemography film (painting directly into the film using dyes and various implements) with fast clips of riot photographs. The second was a film collage made by photographically abstracting details from paintings of Reginald Pollack. The purpose was to invoke a non-specific response - as in music - but at the same time to define the subject matter of the piece. The films were constructed to correspond with certain developments in the piece and in no way affect the independence and musical flow of the piece, having been made after the piece was completed. Contextures: Riots - Decade '60 is dedicated to Mehta, the Southern California Symphony Association and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. The news of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King came the afternoon of the premiere, April 4, 1968. That evening's performances, and also the succeeding ones, were dedicated to him and a special dedication to Dr. King has been inserted into he score. All the music that follows the jazz group - beginning with the legato bell sound playing the first 2 notes to We shall overcome constitutes a new ending to commemorate Dr. King's death.

(Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun). By Claude Debussy (1862-1918). Edited by Douglas Woodfull-Harris. For orchestra (3 flutes/2 oboes/english horn/2 clarinets/2 bassoons/4 horns/cymbal/2 harps/2 violins/viola/cello/doubl e bass). This edition: Stapled, Urtext edition. Score. Text Language: English/French/German. 44 pages. Duration 10'. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag

Orchestra (Study Score)

SKU: HL.51489817

Orchestra Study Score. Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Edited by Ernst Herttrich. Henle Study Scores. Classical. Softcover. 120 pages. G. Henle #HN9817. Published by G. Henle (HL.51489817).

UPC: 840126932782. 6.75x9.5x0.341 inches.

The premiere of this work in December 1813 ranks among the greatest successes Beethoven ever celebrated in public as a composer. One reviewer wrote at the time that in its themes the new symphony was “so favourable and easily comprehensible that every music lover falls for the powerful allure of its beauty.” The incisiveness of the themes is fundamentally related to the basic ostinato rhythms, which help shape each movement’s distinctive character. Richard Wagner even called the composition, with its ecstatic finale, an “apotheosis of the dance.” Based on the musical text of the Beethoven Complete Edition and furnished with a new preface, this recently prepared edition reflects the latest in Beethoven scholarship. Now, in this study edition, it is available to everyone at a reasonable price and in a handy format.

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(Orchestra). By John Adams (1947-). For Orchestra (Full Score). Boosey and Hawkes Scores/Books. 128 pages. Boosey and Hawkes #M051096275. Published by Boosey and Hawkes

Orchestra

SKU: BT.ALHE31554

Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Classical. Study Score. 42 pages. Heugel & Cie #ALHE31554. Published by Heugel & Cie (BT.ALHE31554).

French.

Followin g nearly 4 years without having composed a new symphony, although still writing opera overtures and works from orchestral serenades, Mozart composed the _x001A_Paris_x001A_ Symphony. Mozart received the commission from Joseph Legros,when him and his mother were in Paris in 1778.Mozart composed the work for the largest orchestra he_x001A_d written for until then in a symphony, marking the first time which he had used Clarinets in one of his symphonies. Mozart hadtaken pains to write the work in a style that would appeal to the French and, despite a dismal rehearsal, the first performance was well received.Available here is a study score of Mozart_x001A_s Symphony No.31 in D _x001A_Paris_x001A_ K.297, whichis ideal for study and perusal usage.

Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). Edited by Jens Dufner. For Orchestra (Study Score). Henle Study Scores. Softcover. 119 pages. G. Henle #HN9816. Published by G. Henle

(study score). By Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). Edited by Peter Hauschild. For orchestra. Breitkopf Full Scores. Parts, Urtext. 104 pages

Soprano, tenor, Knabensoprano, flugelhorn, mixed choir and chamber orchestra (Study Score)

SKU: HL.49018099

Boy Soprano, Soprano, Tenor, Flugelhorn, Mixed Chorus, and Chamber Orchestra Study Score. Composed by Harald Weiss. This edition: Paperback/Soft Cover. Sheet music. Study Score. Classical. Softcover. Composed 2008/2009. 188 pages. Duration 100'. Schott Music #ED20619. Published by Schott Music (HL.49018099).

ISBN 9790001158428. UPC: 884088567347. 8.25x11.75x0.457 inches. Latin - German.

On letting go(Concerning the selection of the texts) In the selection of the texts, I have allowed myself to be motivated and inspired by the concept of 'letting go'. This appears to me to be one of the essential aspects of dying, but also of life itself. We humans cling far too strongly to successful achievements, whether they have to do with material or ideal values, or relationships of all kinds. We cannot and do not want to let go, almost as if our life depended on it. As we will have to practise the art of letting go at the latest during our hour of death, perhaps we could already make a start on this while we are still alive. Tagore describes this farewell with very simple but strikingly vivid imagery: 'I will return the key of my door'. I have set this text for tenor solo. Here I imagine, and have correspondingly noted in a certain passage of the score, that the protagonist finds himself as though 'in an ocean' of voices in which he is however not drowning, but immersing himself in complete relaxation. The phenomenon of letting go is described even more simply and tersely in Psalm 90, verse 12: 'So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom'. This cannot be expressed more plainly.I have begun the requiem with a solo boy's voice singing the beginning of this psalm on a single note, the note A. This in effect says it all. The work comes full circle at the culmination with a repeat of the psalm which subsequently leads into a resplendent 'lux aeterna'. The intermediate texts of the Requiem which highlight the phenomenon of letting go in the widest spectrum of colours originate on the one hand from the Latin liturgy of the Messa da Requiem (In Paradisum, Libera me, Requiem aeternam, Mors stupebit) and on the other hand from poems by Joseph von Eichendorff, Hermann Hesse, Rabindranath Tagore and Rainer Maria Rilke.All texts have a distinctive positive element in common and view death as being an organic process within the great system of the universe, for example when Hermann Hesse writes: 'Entreiss dich, Seele, nun der Zeit, entreiss dich deinen Sorgen und mache dich zum Flug bereit in den ersehnten Morgen' ['Tear yourself way , o soul, from time, tear yourself away from your sorrows and prepare yourself to fly away into the long-awaited morning'] and later: 'Und die Seele unbewacht will in freien Flugen schweben, um im Zauberkreis der Nacht tief und tausendfach zu leben' ['And the unfettered soul strives to soar in free flight to live in the magic sphere of the night, deep and thousandfold']. Or Joseph von Eichendorff whose text evokes a distant song in his lines: 'Und meine Seele spannte weit ihre Flugel aus. Flog durch die stillen Lande, als floge sie nach Haus' ['And my soul spread its wings wide. Flew through the still country as if homeward bound.']Here a strong romantically tinged occidental resonance can be detected which is however also accompanied by a universal spirit going far beyond all cultures and religions. In the beginning was the sound Long before any sort of word or meaningful phrase was uttered by vocal chords, sounds, vibrations and tones already existed. This brings us back to the music. Both during my years of study and at subsequent periods, I had been an active participant in the world of contemporary music, both as percussionist and also as conductor and composer. My early scores had a somewhat adventurous appearance, filled with an abundance of small black dots: no rhythm could be too complicated, no register too extreme and no harmony too dissonant. I devoted myself intensely to the handling of different parameters which in serial music coexist in total equality: I also studied aleatory principles and so-called minimal music.I subsequently emigrated and took up residence in Spain from where I embarked on numerous travels over the years to India, Africa and South America. I spent repeated periods during this time as a resident in non-European countries. This meant that the currents of contemporary music swept past me vaguely and at a great distance. What I instead absorbed during this period were other completely new cultures in which I attempted to immerse myself as intensively as possible.I learned foreign languages and came into contact with musicians of all classes and styles who had a different cultural heritage than my own: I was intoxicated with the diversity of artistic potential.Nevertheless, the further I distanced myself from my own Western musical heritage, the more this returned insistently in my consciousness.The scene can be imagined of sitting somewhere in the middle of the Brazilian jungle surrounded by the wailing of Indians and out of the blue being provided with the opportunity to hear Beethoven's late string quartets: this can be a heart-wrenching experience, akin to an identity crisis. This type of experience can also be described as cathartic. Whatever the circumstances, my 'renewed' occupation with the 'old' country would not permit me to return to the point at which I as an audacious young student had maltreated the musical parameters of so-called contemporary music. A completely different approach would be necessary: an extremely careful approach, inching my way gradually back into the Western world: an approach which would welcome tradition back into the fold, attempt to unfurl the petals and gently infuse this tradition with a breath of contemporary life.Although I am aware that I will not unleash a revolution or scandal with this approach, I am nevertheless confident as, with the musical vocabulary of this Requiem, I am travelling in an orbit in which no ballast or complex structures will be transported or intimated: on the contrary, I have attempted to form the message of the texts in music with the naivety of a 'homecomer'. Harald WeissColonia de San PedroMarch 2009.

(Featuring: Lily's Theme / A New Headmaster / Statues / Voldemort's End / A New Beginning (with Hedwig's Theme)). By Alexandre Desplat and John Williams. Arranged by Douglas E. Wagner. Orchestra. Full Orchestra; Part(s); Score. Pop Intermediate Full Orchestra. Form: Medley. Light Concert; Movie. Grade 3. 244 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing

(Featuring: Lily?s Theme / Underworld / Dragon Flight / Neville / A New Headmaster / The Resurrection Stone / Showdown / A New Beginning with Hedwig's Theme). By Alexandre Desplat and John Williams. Arranged by Jerry Brubaker. Orchestra. Full Orchestra; Part(s); Score. Pop Concert Full Orchestra. Form: Medley. Light Concert; Movie; Pop. Grade 4. 226 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing

(Featuring: Lily's Theme / A New Headmaster / Statues / Voldemort's End / A New Beginning (with Hedwig's Theme)). By Alexandre Desplat and John Williams. Arranged by Douglas E. Wagner. Orchestra. Full Orchestra; Score. Pop Intermediate Full Orchestra. Form: Medley. Light Concert; Movie. Grade 3. 24 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing

(Featuring: Lily?s Theme / Underworld / Dragon Flight / Neville / A New Headmaster / The Resurrection Stone / Showdown / A New Beginning with Hedwig's Theme). By Alexandre Desplat and John Williams. Arranged by Jerry Brubaker. Orchestra. Full Orchestra; Score. Pop Concert Full Orchestra. Form: Medley. Light Concert; Movie; Pop. Grade 4. 28 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing

(Score and Sound Masterworks). By Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904). Study Score. Study Score with CD. Softcover with CD. 88 pages. Published by Hal Leonard . Sheet music CD.

Featuring Theme from New York, New York, Forty-Second Street, Lullaby of Broadway, and New York, New York. Arranged by Calvin Custer. Arr. Calvin Custer. For Full Orchestra. Full Orchestra. Pop Intermediate Full Orchestra. Conductor Score and Parts. 264 pages. Duration 6:48. Published by Alfred Publishing.
Level: 2.5 (grade 2.5).

Opera. Composed by Henry Purcell (1659-1695). Edited by Michael Burden. This edition: Paperback/Soft Cover. Sheet music. Eulenburg Miniature Scores. Classical, Opera. Study score. 388 pages. Eulenburg Edition #ETP 8027. Published by Eulenburg Edition

Orchestra (Score)

SKU: HL.50512014

Score. Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag. Contemporary Music. EMB. Softcover. Composed 2013. Op. 34/a. 40 pages. Duration cca 15'. Editio Musica Budapest #Z14261. Published by Editio Musica Budapest (HL.50512014).

ISBN 9790080142615. 12.0x16.5x0.5 inches. Gyorgy Kurtag.

Arranged by Calvin Custer. Arr. Calvin Custer. For Full Orchestra. Full Orchestra. Pop Intermediate Full Orchestra. Conductor Score. 52 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.
Level: 2.5 (grade 2.5).

Eulenburg Audio Score Series. By Ludwig van Beethoven. This edition: EAS150. Eulenburg Audio Score (Pocket Scores CD). Study score and CD. 295 pages. Published by Eulenburg.

Eulenburg Audio Score Series. By Antonin Dvorak. This edition: EAS112. Eulenburg Audio Score (Pocket Scores CD). Study score and CD. 168 pages. Published by Eulenburg.

Orchestra (picc.2.2.2.2. - 2.0.0.0. - str(without vl))

SKU: BR.PB-16106

Urtext from the new Brahms Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag). Composed by Johannes Brahms. Edited by Michael Musgrave. Orchestra; Softbound. Partitur-Bibliothek (Score Library).

The study score (,,Studien-Edition) is available at G. Henle Verlag.

Serenade/divertimento; Romantic. Full score. 92 pages. Duration 30'. Breitkopf and Haertel #PB 16106. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.PB-16106).

ISBN 9790004214336. 10 x 12.5 inches.

Classical ReminiscencesDuring his time as conductor of the Detmold court orchestra, the young Brahms was inspired by the local wind ensemble to compose two serenades. Serenade No. 2, scored for five pairs of winds, violas, cellos, and string basses (leaving out the violins) is strongly reminiscent in sound of Mozart's wind serenades. The expressive Adagio is the heart of the five-movement work. Quite untypical of Brahms, he acquired a liking for the work from the outset, still undertaking a revision scarcely 15 years after the premiere of 1860; this has now been made available in a new practical edition based on the Johannes Brahms Complete Edition (JBG).

By Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Edited by Van Ragsdale. Arranged by V. F. Safranek. Concert Band. For Piccolo, Flute I, Flute II, Oboe I, Oboe II, Clarinet I, Clarinet II, Clarinet III, Bass Clarinet, Bassoon I, Bassoon II, Alto Saxophone I, Alto Saxophone II, Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, Trumpet I, Trumpet II, Trumpet III, Trumpet IV, Horn I, Horn II, Horn III, Horn IV, Tenor I, Tenor II, Tenor III, Baritone (Bass Clef), Tuba, Contrabass, Timpani, Snare Drum, Triangle, Bass Drum. Carl Fischer Classic Band Editions. Classical. Score and Set of Parts. 60 pages. Published by Carl Fischer.

(5 Orchestral Pieces Eulenburg Audio Score). By Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn (1809-1847). Edited by Boris von Haken. For Orchestra (Study Score). Eulenberg Audio plus Score. Softcover with CD. 120 pages. Hal Leonard #EAS161. Published by Hal Leonard