A Beginner's Guide for Group or Private Instruction. Modern Band. Method, Teacher Resource. Softcover. 256 pages. Published by Little Kids Rock

Orchestra

SKU: BA.BA06861

Sinfonie (1923-1928). Composed by Leos Janacek. Arranged by Leoš Faltus and Miloš Štedron. This edition: complete edition, urtext edition. Linen. Complete Critical Edition of the Works of Leos Janacek H/3. Complete edition, Score, Set of parts. Duration 40 minutes. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA06861_00. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BA06861).

ISBN 9790260104211. 34.3 x 27 cm inches.

Leoš Janácek’s symphonic fragment Dunaj (The Danube) dates from the period of the composition of “Katya Kabanova”. The composer was not concerned with a musical-picturesque description of a river landscape, but with the mythical link between women’s destinies and water.

“Pale green waves of the Danube! There are so many of you, and one followed by another. You remain interlocked in a continuous flow. You surprise yourselves where you ended up – on the Czech shores! Look back downstream and you will have an impression of what you have left behind in your haste. It pleases you here. Here I will rest with my symphony.” Thus Leoš Janácek described the idea behind the composition project which occupied him in 1923/24. However, after further work, it remained incomplete in 1926. His “symphony” entitled Dunaj has survived as a continuously-notated, four-movement bundle of sketches in score form. It is one of the works which occupied him until his death. The scholarly reconstruction by the two Brno composers Miloš Štedron and Leoš Faltus closely follows the original manuscript.

A whole conglomeration of motifs stands behind the incomplete work. What at first seems like a counterpart to Smetana’s Vltava, in fact doesn’t turn out to be a musical depiction of the Danube. On the contrary, the fateful link between the destiny of women, water and death permeates the range of motifs found in the work. It seems to be no coincidence that Janácek, whilst working on the opera Katya Kabanova, in which the Volga, as the river bringing death plays an almost mythical role, planned a Danube symphony, and that its content was linked with the destiny of women: in the sketches, two poems were found which may have provided the stimulus for several movements of the symphony. He copied a poem by Pavla Kriciková into the second movement, in which a girl remarks that whilst bathing in a pond, she was observed by a man. Filled with shame, the young naked woman jumps into the water and drowns. The outer movements likewise draw on the poem “Lola” by the Czech writer Sonja Špálová, published under the pseudonym Alexander Insarov. This is about a prostitute who asks for her heart’s desire: she is given a palace, but then goes on a long search for it and is finally no longer wanted by anyone. She suffers, feels cold and just wants a warm fire. Janácek adds his remark “she jumps into the Danube” to the inconclusive ending.

To these tangible literary models is added Adolf Veselý’s verbal account which reports that the composer wanted to portray “in the Danube, the female sex with all its passions and driving forces”. The third movement is said to characterise the city of Vienna in the form of a woman.

It is evident that in his composition, Janácek was not striving for a simple, natural lyricism. The River Danube is masculine in the Slavic language – “ten Dunaj” – and assumes an almost mythical significance in the national character, indeed often also a role bringing death. The four movements are motivically conceived. Elements of sound painting, small wave-like figures in the first movement, motoric, driving movements in the third are obvious evocations of water. And the content and the literary level are easy to discover. The “tremolo of the four timpani”, which was amongst Janácek’s first inspirations, appears in the second movement. It is not difficult to retrace in it the fate of the drowning bather. The oboe enters lamentoso towards the end of the movement over timpani playing tremolo, its descending figure is taken over by the flute, then upper strings and intensified considerably. The motif of drowning – Lola’s despair – returns again in the fourth movement in the clarinet, before the work ends abruptly and dramatically.

One special effect is the use of a soprano voice in the motor-driven third movement. The singer vocalises mainly in parallel with the solo oboe, but also in dialogue with other parts such as the viola d’amore, which Janácek used in several late works as a sort of “voice of love”.

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Orchestra (Full Score)

SKU: HL.244904

For Orchestra. Composed by Bryce Dessner. Music Sales America. Classical. Softcover. Composed 2017. 64 pages. Duration 1020 seconds. Chester Music #CH83985. Published by Chester Music (HL.244904).

8.25x12.0x0.508 inches.

Quilting, co-commissioned by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, is my first stand alone work for orchestraand is loosely inspired by the American tradition of quilt making. I composed Quilting while living most of last year in Paris.During my time there, I thought a lot about what it means to compose symphonic music as a young American in the 21st century, when so many of the many masterworks which are programmed year in and out by orchestras across the country are European. I considered which artistic traditions defined the American 19th-century. I began to think of the American crafts-tradition of quilting as a foilto the high-art tradition of European orchestral composition. As the score for my new work began to take shape, I started thinking about the manuscript itself as an object, its vertical and horizontal planes create a kind of patterned geometry of their own. Visually the way a musical score is woven together like patchwork brought to mind quilts and the great American tradition of quilting. I imagined about how conducting an orchestra can feellike stitching a piece together, or sewing together a large number of musical ideas and musicians into a coherent and transcendent whole. Quilting was an integral part of American vernacular in the 18th and 19th centuries, the African-American quilting tradition is especially fascinating, and the quilts tell the stories of the women and communities who made them. The names of the quilt patterns themselves can have their own sense of narrative: 'jacobs ladder', 'drunkards path', 'solomon's puzzle', and (my favorite for its relevance to this piece) 'the road to California. - Bryce Dessner.

(study score). By Johannes Brahms (1833-1897). Edited by Hans Gal. For orchestra. Breitkopf Full Scores. Parts, Urtext. 104 pages

Orchestra - Grade 2

SKU: AP.49050

Featuring Sinfonia in D. Composed by Johann Stamitz. Arranged by Bob Phillips. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Sound Innovations for String Orchestra. Light Concert. Score and Part(s). 132 pages. Duration 2:05. Alfred Music #00-49050. Published by Alfred Music (AP.49050).

ISBN 9781470645625. UPC: 038081564128. English.

A fun novelty piece that, without the script, becomes a perfect concert or festival selection! Two for one! This parody of a virtual rehearsal/concert can be performed live or virtually and is equally effective in providing humor or a way to frame a community-building discussion of the current learning situation for students. Feel free to adapt the script to your students. The energetic Stamitz arrangement features the first violins yet lies well for all sections and will go together well. It is a great review of chromatic alterations with a few in each part. Zoomies, a Virtual Concert featuring Sinfonia in D by Johann Stamitz and arranged by Bob Phillips is sure to be musically satisfying and fun!

For additional arrangements of Stamitz symphonies by Bob Phillips, visit alfred.com: Symphony in No.8 (00-23354), Sinfonia in G (00-29721), and Symphony No.3 (00-43823).

Correlated to Sound Innovations for String Orchestra, Book 2, Level 2. (2:05).

Orchestra - Grade 2

SKU: AP.49050S

Featuring Sinfonia in D. Composed by Johann Stamitz. Arranged by Bob Phillips. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Sound Innovations for String Orchestra. Light Concert. Score. 12 pages. Duration 2:05. Alfred Music #00-49050S. Published by Alfred Music (AP.49050S).

ISBN 9781470645632. UPC: 038081564135. English.

A fun novelty piece that, without the script, becomes a perfect concert or festival selection! Two for one! This parody of a virtual rehearsal/concert can be performed live or virtually and is equally effective in providing humor or a way to frame a community-building discussion of the current learning situation for students. Feel free to adapt the script to your students. The energetic Stamitz arrangement features the first violins yet lies well for all sections and will go together well. It is a great review of chromatic alterations with a few in each part. Zoomies, a Virtual Concert featuring Sinfonia in D by Johann Stamitz and arranged by Bob Phillips is sure to be musically satisfying and fun!

For additional arrangements of Stamitz symphonies by Bob Phillips, visit alfred.com: Symphony in No.8 (00-23354), Sinfonia in G (00-29721), and Symphony No.3 (00-43823).

Correlated to Sound Innovations for String Orchestra, Book 2, Level 2. (2:05).

Full orchestra

SKU: LO.30-3608MD

Composed by Marty Parks. Choral. Sacred Anthem, Christmas. Orchestral score and parts. Medallion Music #30/3608MD. Published by Medallion Music (LO.30-3608MD).

UPC: 000308150919.

Orche stral Score and Parts for Gloria! Oh, Gloria! (10/5179MD) With an African rhythm feel, this Christmas selection is easy to learn and fun to sing. In addition to traditional lyrics from Charles Wesley’s “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,” it incorporates original lyrics and music by Marty Parks. The optional orchestra parts will provide extra excitement for your worship service or concert.

Orchestra - Grade 1

SKU: AP.49928S

Composed by Bob Phillips. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Sound Innovations for String Orchestra. Light Concert. Score. Duration 1:55. Alfred Music #00-49928S. Published by Alfred Music (AP.49928S).

ISBN 9781470657871. UPC: 038081575735. English.

Feel the momentum and excitement in this very easy piece that will come together nicely! All sections get a chance at the quarter-note melody and the repeated eighth-note pattern that drives the work. Speed Force, an original by Bob Phillips, will become a standard for your orchestras at the end of their first year of instruction or early in the second year. Spark a challenge to see if the orchestra can play faster than the director can conduct! Correlated to Sound Innovations for String Orchestra, Book 1, Level 4. (1:55).

Orchestra - Grade 1

SKU: AP.49928

Composed by Bob Phillips. MakeMusic Cloud; Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Sound Innovations for String Orchestra. Light Concert. Score and Part(s). Alfred Music #00-49928. Published by Alfred Music (AP.49928).

ISBN 9781470657864. UPC: 038081575728. English.

Feel the momentum and excitement in this very easy piece that will come together nicely! All sections get a chance at the quarter-note melody and the repeated eighth-note pattern that drives the work. Speed Force, an original by Bob Phillips, will become a standard for your orchestras at the end of their first year of instruction or early in the second year. Spark a challenge to see if the orchestra can play faster than the director can conduct! (1:55) Correlates to Sound Innovations, Book 1, Level 4.