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.
Violin and Piano SKU: AP.36-60710007 (Rumanische Volkstanze). Arra...(+)
Violin and Piano
SKU:
AP.36-60710007
(Rumanische
Volkstanze). Arranged
by Bela Bartok and
ed./arr. Zoltan Szekely.
Violin. Master String
Series. Book.
LudwigMasters
Publications
#36-60710007. Published
by LudwigMasters
Publications
(AP.36-60710007).
ISBN
9798888521687. UPC:
676737816278.
English.
In the
years preceding World War
I, Hungarian composer,
pianist, and
ethnomusicologist Béla
Bartók (1881-1945) took
trips to the
Transylvanian region to
explore the musical
traditions of the
Romanian population.
Following a two-year
depression caused by the
war, as well as some
professional setbacks, he
returned to composition.
The Romanian Folk Dances,
Sz. 56, emerged in 1915,
bearing a strong
influence from his
experiences as an
ethnomusicologist. They
comprise 6 dances, all
based on folk tunes that
Bartók had recorded and
transcribed. In 1917, he
arranged a version for
full orchestra. Hungarian
violinist and composer
Zoltán Székely
(1903-2001) transcribed
these six short movements
for violin and piano in
1926, which are offered
here in this reprint
edition. Movements: 1.
Joc cu bâta (Stick
Dance), 2. Brâul (Sash
Dance), 3. Topogó /
Pê-loc (In One Spot), 4.
Bucsumí tánc /
Buciumeana (Dance from
Bucsum), 5. Poarga
româneasca (Romanian
Polka), 6. Aprózó /
Maruntel (Fast
Dance).
These products
are currently being
prepared by a new
publisher. While many
items are ready and will
ship on time, some others
may see delays of several
months.
Chamber Music Cello, Piano, Violin SKU: PR.414411630 Composed by Shulamit...(+)
Chamber Music Cello,
Piano, Violin
SKU:
PR.414411630
Composed
by Shulamit Ran. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
28+28+20+24+20+24 pages.
Duration 20 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#414-41163. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.414411630).
ISBN
9781491114551. UPC:
680160089956. 9.5 x 13
inches.
EXCURSIONS
is a one-movement work
exploring two
“characters.â€
A rhapsodic, descending
passage is introduced by
the cello, followed by
a static,
chorale-like phrase for
the violin and cello.
Their individual
developments are
separated by a slow,
contrasting middle
section. The composer has
written: “This is
analogous to situations
in life: we stand by a
crossroad, choosing one
option and forfeiting the
other. But in art, the
realm of the imagination,
we can perhaps afford to
pursue more than one
route to its ultimate
destination… or can
we? It is symbolic that
in this work both roads
eventually lead to the
same
place.â€. Excursi
ons for violin, cello and
piano, is a one-movement
work of tripartite
structure in which
materials explored in the
first of three large
sections are brought back
in the last section.Â
The traditional
statement-contrast-restat
ement form, which is
readily suggested by such
a description, is,
however, not at all in
the mold in which the
work is cast. Rather,
my aim was to subject the
essential materials of
the piece (two
“charactersâ€
–the rhapsodic,
descending passage played
by the cello in the very
opening and, later, a
static, slow moving,
chorale-like phrase for
the violin and cello) to
two entirely different
developments separated by
a slow, contrasting
middle section. This
is analogous to an
exploration of the
ramifications that two
divergent choices made by
the same person might
lead to. In life, as
we stand by a crossroad,
choosing one option
usually means having to
forfeit the other.Â
But in art, the realm of
the imagination, we can
perhaps afford to pursue
more than one route to
its ultimate
destination…or can
we? It is, I believe,
symbolic that in this
work both roads
eventually lead to the
same place: in composing
Excursions, it seemed
absolutely inescapable
that at the end the slow,
contrasting middle
sections – both
more resigned and
peaceful than the
battling spirits of the
outer parts –
should return briefly to
end the work. The
piano trio combination
(once highly favored, but
to this composer still as
challenging today) is
approached here as a
collaborative effort of
three equal soloists
– partners. Of
the available pairings,
the two strings find
themselves occasionally
approached as a team
pitted against the
piano. The
cello-piano combination
is also not uncommon
here, and there is an
extended violin cadenza
toward the end of the
piece. The writing
for the three instruments
is closely and at times
interlinked, but the
players are all
instructed to play from
scores. Excursions was
first performed at
Brandeis University in
1982.
By Various. Edited by John Bowden. For Violin and Piano. Educational. Instrument...(+)
By Various. Edited by
John Bowden. For Violin
and Piano. Educational.
Instrumental Collection.
Classical. Level:
Advanced. Book and Solo
Part. 36+16 pages.
Duration 29 minutes.
Published by Digital
Music Print (Belgian
import).