By Elizabeth Alexander. For Women's Chorus and Piano (SSA choir (women's choir),...(+)
By Elizabeth Alexander.
For Women's Chorus and
Piano (SSA choir (women's
choir), flute, violin and
piano). Collegiate
Repertoire, Community
Chorus, Concert Music.
Darkness & Light,
Secular, Choral.
Moderately Advanced.
Octavo. Text language:
English. Duration 7
minutes. Published by
Seafarer Press
Piano Accompaniment; Violin (Score and Solo Part) SKU: HL.50600469 For...(+)
Piano Accompaniment;
Violin (Score and Solo
Part)
SKU:
HL.50600469
For
Violin and Piano.
Composed by Krzysztof
Meyer. String. Classical,
Contemporary. Softcover.
48 pages. Sikorski
#SIK1496. Published by
Sikorski (HL.50600469).
8.25x11.75x0.14
inches.
“I
belong to that group of
people who appropriate
Debussy's wonderfully
formulated philosophy
according to which music
begins where words end.
Contrary to a view that
has become widespread
during the past 100
years, I am convinced
that the task of the
composer is to write
music, not to talk about
it. Even if my technical
and aesthetic
commentaries on one of my
compositions were to have
a certain value for
listeners, such a
commentary would have the
effect that I were more
or less forcing my own
vision of the work onto
the listener. The power
of music is, however, a
gift that makes it
capable of calling forth
different reactions in
listeners. I shall
therefore limit myself to
saying that the
'Imaginary Variations'
were inspired by the
wonderful recordings of
Janet Packer that I
listened to with the
greatest pleasure prior
to the beginning of my
work. The title is
derived from the fact
that this composition is
structured similarly to
the classical variation
form and that the
audience can listen to
the constant changes of
the musical ideas. In
truth, however, the
twelve short sections of
the work are not true
variations even though
they reveal some
connections and
similarities.â€
(Krzysztof Meyer).
Violin and Piano. By Hilary Hahn. By Various. Boosey and Hawkes Chamber M...(+)
Violin and Piano.
By Hilary Hahn. By
Various. Boosey and
Hawkes Chamber Music.
Classical, Contemporary.
Softcover. 340 pages.
Boosey and Hawkes
#M051107933. Published by
Boosey and Hawkes
(HL.48023059).
Violin and Piano SKU: HL.14030977 Composed by Bent Sorensen. Music Sales ...(+)
Violin and Piano
SKU:
HL.14030977
Composed
by Bent Sorensen. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover]. Music
Sales #KP00906. Published
by Music Sales
(HL.14030977).
ISBN
9788759862148.
Work
for Violin and Piano
dating from 1999. The
composer writes: 'Sieben
Sehnsuchte was written in
1999 for David Alberman
and Rolf Hind. As the
title suggests, it is in
seven movements - each
more insanely difficult
and bothersome than the
other. All sorts of
possible and impossible
playing techniques have
been used, and the
performers have to both
whistle and sing.
However, it is not the
intention that the
slightly more unusual
sound should be heard as
effects. Everything is
supposed to fuse together
into something that is in
itself a little opera - a
'chamber piece'. It was
written in a period when
I was waiting impatiently
for the libretto for
Under the Sky, and I see
it as a meeting (or seven
meetings) between two
people - two instruments
- longing for each other;
longing to merge
together. The piece is a
kind of sister work to
Roses are Falling.'.
Violin and Piano. Composed by James Macmillan. Boosey & Hawkes Chamber M...(+)
Violin and Piano.
Composed by
James Macmillan. Boosey
&
Hawkes Chamber Music.
Classical. Softcover. 46
pages. Boosey &
Hawkes
#M060136221. Published by
Boosey & Hawkes
Chamber Music Cello, Piano, Violin SKU: PR.114422690 Composed by Stacy Ga...(+)
Chamber Music Cello,
Piano, Violin
SKU:
PR.114422690
Composed
by Stacy Garrop. Sws. Set
of Score and Parts. 8+2+2
pages. Duration 5
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-42269.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114422690).
UPC:
680160684809. 9 x 12
inches.
In 2014, I
enjoyed a wonderful
residence at the Ucross
Foundation in
Clearmont, Wyoming.
Ucross is an artist
colony that gives
writers, composers, and
visual artists
the gift of time,
space, and support to
follow their artistic
pursuits; we are provided
with studio space,
housing, and meals so
that we can work
continuously on our
projects. I have been
in residence at numerous
artist colonies; however,
nothing in my
previous experiences
prepared me for living in
such isolated, wild
country. Ucross is
situated on
a 20,000-acre cattle
ranch at nearly 4,000
feet in elevation with
fewer than 150
people living within
the town. But what
Clearmont lacks in
population, it makes up
for abundantly and
spectacularly in
wilderness and wildlife.
I composed the sextet
Postcards from Wyoming
to offer three glimpses
of what I found to be the
most striking aspects
of my residence. The
Solitude of Stars, the
third and final movement
of the original
sextet, was inspired
by the stunning nightly
display of the heavens
above. Without city
lights dimming the
night sky, countless
stars shone brightly over
the vast expanse of the
prairie. This edition
is part of The Solitude
of Stars Project that I
undertook during the
2020 COVID-19
pandemic, which consists
of a series of
arrangements that I made
for colleagues and
friends. In 2014, I
enjoyed a wonderful
residence at the Ucross
Foundation in Clearmont,
Wyoming. Ucross is an
artist colony that gives
writers, composers, and
visual artists the gift
of time, space, and
support to follow their
artistic pursuits; we are
provided with studio
space, housing, and meals
so that we can work
continuously on our
projects. I have been in
residence at numerous
artist colonies; however,
nothing in my previous
experiences prepared me
for living in such
isolated, wild country.
Ucross is situated on a
20,000-acre cattle ranch
at nearly 4,000 feet in
elevation with fewer than
150 people living within
the town. But what
Clearmont lacks in
population, it makes up
for abundantly and
spectacularly in
wilderness and wildlife.
I composed the sextet
Postcards from Wyoming to
offer three glimpses of
what I found to be the
most striking aspects of
my residence. The
Solitude of Stars, the
third and final movement
of the original sextet,
was inspired by the
stunning nightly display
of the heavens above.
Without city lights
dimming the night sky,
countless stars shone
brightly over the vast
expanse of the prairie.
This edition is part of
The Solitude of Stars
Project that I undertook
during the 2020 COVID-19
pandemic, which consists
of a series of
arrangements that I made
for colleagues and
friends. In 2014, I
enjoyed a wonderful
residence at the Ucross
Foundation in
Clearmont,Wyoming. Ucross
is an artist colony that
gives writers, composers,
and visual artists
thegift of time, space,
and support to follow
their artistic pursuits;
we are provided
withstudio space,
housing, and meals so
that we can work
continuously on our
projects. I havebeen in
residence at numerous
artist colonies; however,
nothing in my
previousexperiences
prepared me for living in
such isolated, wild
country. Ucross is
situated on a20,000-acre
cattle ranch at nearly
4,000 feet in elevation
with fewer than 150
peopleliving within the
town. But what Clearmont
lacks in population, it
makes up forabundantly
and spectacularly in
wilderness and wildlife.
I composed the sextet
Postcardsfrom Wyoming to
offer three glimpses of
what I found to be the
most striking aspects
ofmy residence. The
Solitude of Stars, the
third and final movement
of the original
sextet,was inspired by
the stunning nightly
display of the heavens
above. Without city
lightsdimming the night
sky, countless stars
shone brightly over the
vast expanse of the
prairie.This edition is
part of The Solitude of
Stars Project that I
undertook during the
2020COVID-19 pandemic,
which consists of a
series of arrangements
that I made forcolleagues
and friends.
Chamber Music Clarinet, Piano, Violin SKU: PR.164002390 Composed by Dan W...(+)
Chamber Music Clarinet,
Piano, Violin
SKU:
PR.164002390
Composed
by Dan Welcher. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed 1995. 26+14+14
pages. Duration 14
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #164-00239.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.164002390).
UPC:
680160038091.
I
became interested in the
work of Plato through my
friend and collaborator,
the writer and
philosopher Paul
Woodruff. Paul's new
translation, with
Alexander Nehamas, of the
Symposium gave me
insights into ancient
Greek ways of thinking
about Love, Beauty, and
Wisdom -- and managed to
keep the earthy, and
often bawdy side of it
all in full view. But
their new translation of
Plato's later dialogue
Phaedrus went even
further: the beauty of
the speeches is
breathtaking, and the
discourse itself is
enough to keep one awake
at night. Basically the
Great Speech of Socrates
in the Phaedrus dialogue
has to do with the place
of Eros in the world, and
with the conflict in the
soul between fleshly
pleasure and philosophic
discovery. I will not
attempt to encapsulate
this brilliant discourse
in a program note:
suffice it to say that
reading it gave rise to
my two-sided work for
clarinet, violin, and
piano, Phaedrus. The
first movement represents
the Philosophic life, and
is thus subtitled
Apollo's Lyre (Invocation
and Hymn). It begins with
an unaccompanied melody
for the clarinet, which
(after a pair of
harp-like flourishes for
the piano, expands into
an accompanied canon. The
voices in the dialogue
(clarinet and violin)
follow each other by a
prescribed number of
beats, but the music is
totally devoid of any
meter at all. The piano,
representing the lyre,
accompanies this lyric
love-feast with repeated
strummed chords. The
canon has three large
sections, and ends with
violin echoing the
unaccompanied clarinet
invocation as the sound
of the lyre fades. The
second movement, called
Dionysus' Dream-Orgy
(Ritual Dance) presents,
after a brief
introduction, another
kind of unmetered music.
Rather than long lyric
flights of philosophic
song, however, this time
we hear a unison dance of
unbridled energy and
sensual transport. The
piece soon forms itself
into a loose arch form,
with contrasting metered
dance sections divided by
the unison unmetered orgy
tune. Midway through the
movement, Apollo's melody
returns from the first
movement, but it is a
temporary reminiscence.
The orgiastic dance
returns, reaches a
climax, and ends with a
stomping of feet. While
Plato asserts that a
proper balance between
lust and reason is
necessary in all men, he
(naturally) gives the nod
to Philosophy as the
better choice in which to
live. Not so in my music:
the two sides are meant
to coexist and to
complement each other. No
sides are taken. Phaedrus
was commissioned of the
Verdehr Trio by Michigan
State University. It is
dedicated to the Vedehr
Trio with great affection
and admiration.