Orchestra - Grade 3.5

SKU: AP.41259S

Composed by Richard Meyer. MakeMusic Cloud; Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Highland/Etling String Orchestra. Novelty. Score. 24 pages. Highland/Etling #00-41259S. Published by Highland/Etling (AP.41259S).

ISBN 9781470664718. UPC: 038081480688. English.

The word steampunk refers to a genre of science fiction that features steam-powered machinery. Works of fiction in this style are most often set in the 19th century British Victorian era or the American Wild West. Machines and technology found in the works of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells would be good examples of steampunk-style inventions. The piece itself follows no specific narrative, but rather is meant to capture the spirit and mood of this hearty, highly imaginative, industrial-based movement. This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.

Orchestra

SKU: BT.MUSM570366699

Composed by Ed Hughes. Score Only. 62 pages. University of York Music Press #MUSM570366699. Published by University of York Music Press (BT.MUSM570366699).

English.

Le Voyage Dans La Lune is a continuous orchestral score of approximately 14 minutes comprising two outer fast sections and a slower inner section of a dream-like character. The work is directly inspired by the film Le Voyage Dans La Lune (1902), written and directed by the pioneering French film-maker, Georges Méliès. Méliès was influenced by 19th century interests in science and discoveries, as well as the science fiction of Jules Verne. At the same time his work seems fantastic, surreal and satirical. Some critics point out an underlying critique of colonial adventuring. The plot centres on a group of astronomers who decide to launch a rocket to the moon containing a handful of their number. They reach the moon (famously landing on the moon’s face) and then encounter a strange race of aliens, whom they battle and destroy. The return to earth involves a dramatic descent, a plunge into the ocean and then celebratory dancing. The film inhabits a surreal and dream-like space, and uses an idiosyncratic visual language which transforms reality. This inspired an active musical response in my own score, which is by turns abrupt, smooth, lyrical and violent, and expresses something of the strange shifting surfaces and multiple and layered tempos evident in the film. The canons in the horns in the first scene reflect the intense arguments of the astronomers as they consider the project. The slower inner section is inspired by the scenes of the industrial City viewed from its rooftops by the astronomers. It also expresses the wonder of the astronomers as they see the earth rise from the perspective of the moon after their arrival there. The music of the final section is in places conflicted, reflecting the violent encounters with the moon’s inhabitants. It moves into a more harmonious phase at the close to match the celebrations upon the astronomers’ return from their adventuring. The music could be considered to be a surreal mini-opera without voices, voicing instead the characters of the silent screen. - Ed Hughes.

Orchestra

SKU: BT.MUSM570366712

Composed by Ed Hughes. Classical. Study Score. 62 pages. University of York Music Press #MUSM570366712. Published by University of York Music Press (BT.MUSM570366712).

English.

Le Voyage Dans La Lune is a continuous orchestral score of approximately 14 minutes comprising two outer fast sections and a slower inner section of a dream-like character. The work is directly inspired by the film Le Voyage Dans La Lune (1902), written and directed by the pioneering French film-maker, Georges Méliès. Méliès was influenced by 19th century interests in science and discoveries, as well as the science fiction of Jules Verne. At the same time his work seems fantastic, surreal and satirical. Some critics point out an underlying critique of colonial adventuring. The plot centres on a group of astronomers who decide to launch a rocket to the moon containing a handful of their number. They reach the moon (famously landing on the moon’s face) and then encounter a strange race of aliens, whom they battle and destroy. The return to earth involves a dramatic descent, a plunge into the ocean and then celebratory dancing. The film inhabits a surreal and dream-like space, and uses an idiosyncratic visual language which transforms reality. This inspired an active musical response in my own score, which is by turns abrupt, smooth, lyrical and violent, and expresses something of the strange shifting surfaces and multiple and layered tempos evident in the film. The canons in the horns in the first scene reflect the intense arguments of the astronomers as they consider the project. The slower inner section is inspired by the scenes of the industrial City viewed from its rooftops by the astronomers. It also expresses the wonder of the astronomers as they see the earth rise from the perspective of the moon after their arrival there. The music of the final section is in places conflicted, reflecting the violent encounters with the moon’s inhabitants. It moves into a more harmonious phase at the close to match the celebrations upon the astronomers’ return from their adventuring. The music could be considered to be a surreal mini-opera without voices, voicing instead the characters of the silent screen. - Ed Hughes.

A Galactic Journey. Composed by Anthony Granata. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Belwin Intermediate String Orchestra. Part(s); Score. Alfred Music #00-49031. Published by Alfred Music

Orchestra - Grade 2

SKU: AP.49031S

A Galactic Journey. Composed by Anthony Granata. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Belwin Intermediate String Orchestra. Score. 12 pages. Duration 1:45. Belwin Music #00-49031S. Published by Belwin Music (AP.49031S).

ISBN 9781470645472. UPC: 038081564012. English.

Written by Anthony Granata, Into the Stars: A Galactic Journey is an exciting space-themed adventure piece that will captivate your developing orchestras and have them feeling and playing confidently in 6/8 time. With an epic and memorable sounding main theme, your students will be transported into a world of simple and compound meters as they dig into their strings for this fun programmatic piece of music. Students will feel as though they have stepped into the sound stage for a film score of a Hollywood science fiction movie. (1:45).