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.
Full
Score. Composed by
Per Norgard. Music Sales
America. 20Th Century,
Classical. Softcover. 188
pages. Edition Wilhelm
Hansen #KP00865.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14032192).
ISBN
9788759858394.
12.0x16.5x0.78 inches.
International (more than
one
language).
Symphony
No. 6 for orchestra,
1997-99. Preface /
Program Note:... with the
Lord a day is like a
thousand years, and a
thousand years is like a
day(New Testament, 2
Peter 3:8)My SYMPHONY NO.
6 was commissioned by the
Danish National Radio
Symphony Orchestra, the
Gteborg Symphony
Orchestra and the Oslo
Philharmonic Orchestra,
to be premiered at the
millenium 2000.The
subtitle AT THE END OF
THE DAY can be understood
literally or it can mean
when all is added up.
However, in my opinion,
nothing ever quite adds
up, there is always
something missing, any
ending will be
provisional ...This
symphony appears to end
only a few minutes into
the first movement, the
first passage, as the
music fades away to
almost-silence, after a
start of flying colours.
But then there is still
something, a small motive
(first heard in the
initial sound-waves)
which reappears,
hesitant, but persistent,
and this embryo is what
leads on the musical
progression. An agitated
section of many
instrumental voices comes
next, until all the
voices become obsessed
with the same phrase, a
see-saw motive based on
thirds. This section
evolves into almost
martial ferocity, when
broken off by a tutti
descent into an extreme
bass-world (a bass-world
which actually permeates
the whole symphony,
emplyoing instruments
that I have never used
before: double-bass tuba,
double-bass trombone,
double-bass clarinet, and
bass flute).The second
movement, the second
passage, apparently takes
off where the first
passage ended, but now
the events are more
ambiguous, and the same
music may be perceived as
fast-moving one moment
and slow-moving the next.
This section is a kind of
passacaglia, the
characteristic baroque
bass-variation.Without a
break follows the third
and last passage, in a
contrasting high
register. The music is
rhythmically knotty as
well as freely flowing.
As in the beginning of
the symphony, a
never-ending descent or
fall breaks off the
events, and at the very
end a delta of new
beginnings, of other
worlds, is revealed
....The symphony is
dedicated to Helle, my
wife. - Per Norgard.
Tempus Fugit Orchestre [Conducteur d'étude / Miniature] Boosey and Hawkes
Orchestra (Study Score) SKU: HL.48024683 Orchestra Study Score. Co...(+)
Orchestra (Study Score)
SKU: HL.48024683
Orchestra Study
Score. Composed by
Magnus Lindberg. Boosey &
Hawkes Scores/Books.
Classical. Softcover. 144
pages. Boosey & Hawkes
#M060135880. Published by
Boosey & Hawkes
(HL.48024683).
ISBN
9781784545062. UPC:
888680952570. 8.25x11.75
inches.
TEMPUS
FUGIT was commissioned to
celebrate the centenary
of Finnish independence
on 6 December 2017 and it
received its first
performance in Helsinki
on that day, given by the
Finnish Radio Symphony
Orchestra.
The
composer says that
“if you translate
TEMPUS FUGIT as 'Time
Flies', you could say
that Finland has
travelled a long way
already -but 100 years is
a short time-span, and
living as a human in this
part of the world started
long ago and, we hope,
will continue
formillennia to come.
This relates to my
fascination with Bernd
Alois Zimmermann's
concept of spherical time
- that the past, the
present and the future
are continuously linked
and within reach. You can
also examine the
inter-connection of
musical time in the
earlier works of
Stockhausen such as
Kontakte and Gruppen
which had a big impact on
me as a young composer. A
translation of TEMPUS
FUGIT that I prefer is
'Time in Flight',
offering the idea that
time escapes from us but
bequeaths a tangible
residue, rather like
aplane travelling towards
the distance but leaving
a visible vapour
trail.” This
30-minute score is a
major addition to the
orchestral repertory.
Orchestra SKU: HL.49044904 Composed by Robert Schumann. Edited by Ute Sch...(+)
Orchestra
SKU:
HL.49044904
Composed
by Robert Schumann.
Edited by Ute Scholz.
This edition: Full-cloth
binding. Sheet music.
Edition Schott.
Hardcover. Op. 120. 344
pages. Schott Music
#RSA1004. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49044904).
ISBN
9783795793388.
10.0x13.25x1.3
inches.
The New
Robert Schumann Edition
(RSA) is intended as a
historico-critical
edition of the collected
works. They will be
carefully studied and
prepared according to
present-day musicological
and editorial techniques
and presented in their
entirety. Drafts,
sketches and fragments,
in short, everything that
has come down to us as
being authentically by
Schumann and which, in
most cases, has been
deliberately preserved by
him, will be brought
together, evaluated as to
its importance and
documented in some form
or other in the edition
of the complete works.It
is the aim of the edition
to reproduce authentic
texts which - having
corrected scribal,
copying and printing
errors and eradicated
later additions and other
textual corruptions -
will approach as closely
as is possible the
intention of the
originals.The critical
edition will form the
basis of accurate
performance material for
Robert Schumann's
work.
Orchestra - Grade 1.5 SKU: AP.46720S Composed by Susan H. Day. MakeMusic ...(+)
Orchestra - Grade 1.5
SKU: AP.46720S
Composed by Susan H. Day.
MakeMusic Cloud;
Performance Music
Ensemble; Single Titles;
String Orchestra.
Highland/Etling String
Orchestra. Score. 8
pages. Highland/Etling
#00-46720S. Published by
Highland/Etling
(AP.46720S).
UPC:
038081532882.
English.
This
stately grade 1.5 piece,
Coronation of the Queen
by Susan H. Day, uses
easy rhythms, features
interesting harmonies and
memorable melodies, and
reinforces low 2nd finger
on D and A strings.
Imagine a royal
procession and
celebration with crowds
cheering as their beloved
Queen passes by. You can
hear the rhythmical chant
Here Comes the Queen, and
that
quarter--eight--eight--ha
lf-note rhythm is found
throughout the rest of
the piece in all parts.
Visualizing the story
will bring this music to
life! This title is
available in MakeMusic
Cloud.
Full orchestra SKU: LO.30-3586L Composed by Lloyd Larson. Arranged by Ed ...(+)
Full orchestra
SKU:
LO.30-3586L
Composed
by Lloyd Larson. Arranged
by Ed Hogan. Choral,
cantatas. Advent,
Christmas, Sacred.
Instrumental parts.
Lorenz Publishing Company
#30/3586L. Published by
Lorenz Publishing Company
(LO.30-3586L).
UPC:
000308150292.
The
glory of Christmas comes
to life in this inspiring
musical by Lloyd Larson.
Through a blend of
familiar carols and
original songs, choirs
and congregations alike
will experience the
beauty of the incarnation
story as if
they’re
experiencing it for the
first time. This
versatile work may be
presented in multiple
segments over the Sundays
of Advent or as a single
presentation, and will be
equally effective with
piano accompaniment or
the full orchestra option
(live instruments or
accompaniment track). The
script for two narrators
is scripturally based and
seamlessly weaves in and
out of the music to
provide an inspiring
worship experience.
Opportunities for the
congregation to sing
familiar carols as well
as the availability of
both SATB and SAB
editions ensure that this
resource is suitable for
choirs large or
small.
Orchestra SKU: LO.30-2792L Composed by Pepper Choplin. Arranged by Stan P...(+)
Orchestra
SKU:
LO.30-2792L
Composed
by Pepper Choplin.
Arranged by Stan Pethel.
Choral. Sacred Anthem,
Holy Week,
Palm/Palm-Passion Sunday.
Orchestral score and CD
with printable parts.
Lorenz Publishing Company
#30/2792L. Published by
Lorenz Publishing Company
(LO.30-2792L).
UPC:
000308130836.
Peppe
r Choplin dramatically
captures the emotion of
Holy Week with this
mesmerizing choral round
that vividly describes
the removal of Christ
from the cross and His
burial in the tomb. Based
on the timeless American
hymn By the Waters of
Babylon by William
Billings, this piece
features multiple
accompaniment options
that lend to a truly
moving performance. (From
the cantata Come Walk
With Me, SATB--55/1148L;
SAB--55/1149L)
Instrumentaiton: Fl, Eng
Hn, 2 Tpt, 2 Tbn, Gtr, 2
Perc, Timp, Piano, 2 Vln,
Vla, Cello, Bass.
Orchestra SKU: LO.30-2779L Composed by Pepper Choplin. Arranged by Stan P...(+)
Orchestra
SKU:
LO.30-2779L
Composed
by Pepper Choplin.
Arranged by Stan Pethel.
Choral. Sacred Anthem,
Holy Week,
Palm/Palm-Passion Sunday.
Orchestral score and
parts. Lorenz Publishing
Company #30/2779L.
Published by Lorenz
Publishing Company
(LO.30-2779L).
UPC:
000308130645.
Peppe
r Choplin dramatically
captures the emotion of
Holy Week with this
mesmerizing choral round
that vividly describes
the removal of Christ
from the cross and His
burial in the tomb. Based
on the timeless American
hymn By the Waters of
Babylon by William
Billings, this piece
features multiple
accompaniment options
that lend to a truly
moving performance. (From
the cantata Come Walk
With Me, SATB--55/1148L;
SAB--55/1149L)
Instrumentaiton: Fl, Eng
Hn, 2 Tpt, 2 Tbn, Gtr, 2
Perc, Timp, Piano, 2 Vln,
Vla, Cello, Bass.