Voice and Piano. By Richard Johnston. (resource book). Vocal Collection. Size 8.5x11 inches. 400 pages. Published by E.c. Kerby.

By Douglas E. Wagner. For 2-part choir voices and piano (with optional concert band). New Horizons Series. Concert. Octavo. Published by Heritage Music Press

Piano - Grade 4

SKU: HL.233151

Solo Piano Part. Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Softcover. Composed 2017. 20 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH32201C. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.233151).

ISBN 9788759886427. 10.0x14.5 inches. English.

Piano solo part for Paganini Variations - Piano Concerto No.3 by Poul Ruders (2014). Score available: WH32201 Programme note: In 1999 my friend, American guitar virtuoso David Starobin, wanted me to write a concerto for guitar and orchestra. It quickly dawned on me, that this commission presented a golden opportunity to contribute to the time-honoured tradition of composing a series of variations on Nicolo Paganini's famous 24th Caprice for violin solo, a work which itself is a set of variations. The 16 bar (with the first 4 bars repeated) theme is not particularly sophisticated or intricate, but its inherent simplicity and logic just grow on you, almost to the point ofdistraction - and the secret behind it being hauled through the wringer by composers as disparate as Liszt, Brahms, Rachmaninoff and Lutoslawski is perhaps found in its - what I'll call, with a quick nervous look over my shoulder: brilliant banality. You can do anything with that tune, it'll always be recognizable and just there, however much you maul it. The piece (subtitled Guitar Concerto no 2) was written pretty quickly, premiered and subsequently recorded for Bridge Records with David and the Odense Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jan Wagner, and everybody was happy. But the story didn't end there, and it must be the ultimate proof of the durability of the theme, not to mention the flexibility and far-sightedness of David Starobin , when he 14 years later suggested why not transcribe the solo part for piano?. The idea appealed to me immediately. One thing was clear from the beginning: the new version could in no way sound like a transcription. My aim was to end up with a solo-part sounding like were it the one-and-only, the real thing, if you like. The orchestral score remains exactly the same in both cases. Both versions, the two Paganini Variations, are comparable to a set of twins, not quite identical, but almost. And both each others's equal. Poul Ruders.

(33 Works by 25 Composers from the 20th and 21st Centuries). By Various. For Piano. Piano Collection. 240 pages. Published by G. Schirmer

Chamber Music Piano

SKU: PR.140401330

Composed by R. Nathaniel Dett. Edited by Lara Downes. 32 pages. Duration 18 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #140-40133. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.140401330).

ISBN 9781491134412. UPC: 680160684939.

Natha niel Dett was among America’s leading composers in the early 20th century, and MAGNOLIA SUITE is a beautiful example of his rich, hybrid style. Deeply inspired by the music and mission of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Dett’s piano music springs from the late Romantic traditions of florid texture and embellishment, along with programmatic titles and raw emotion. It is notable for melody writing inspired by and paraphrasing African-American song. The 18-minute MAGNOLIA SUITE contains five movements, any of which may also be performed separately. This edition by Lara Downes provides a clean, new engraving that corrects the many errors and unclear indications appearing in the historical printing.
Robert Nathaniel Dett was born in a place that was built on freedom. The little village of Drummondville, Ontario was founded by enslaved Africans – Dett’s ancestors among them – who traveled the Underground Railroad out of the American South into Canada. Their journey brought them to a safe haven, a place where fortunes and futures could be transformed in the span of one generation, to lives full of new possibilities. You could call it “the place where the rainbow ends,” which is the title of the last movement of Dett’s Magnolia Suite.When Dett wrote these pieces, he was a young teacher at Lane College in Tennessee, a historically Black college that had been founded in 1882, the year of his birth. A place built on freedom, with the purpose of educating newly-emancipated slaves – a place designed to nurture the blossoming of ideas, the vibrant flowering of minds set free. This music is inspired by the gorgeous splendor of the magnolia blooms on that college campus, and also by the shared histories, experiences, and aspirations of the community that Dett found there.These five pieces pay affectionate tribute to lineage and legacy. They express gratitude for the bittersweet beauties of the present; nostalgia for the past (a bit romanticized, as the past always is); and an effervescent optimism for the future that awaits us in the place where the rainbow ends.

( Barbara Allen ). Arranged by Joseph Kreines. Concert Band. Concert Band; Part(s); Score. Alfred Debut Series. Form: Variations. Folk. Grade 2. 122 pages. Published by Alfred Music

( Skip to My Lou ). Arranged by Joseph Kreines. Concert Band. Concert Band; Score. Alfred Debut Series. Form: Variations. Grade 1.5. 16 pages. Published by Alfred Music

( Skip to My Lou ). Arranged by Joseph Kreines. Concert Band. Concert Band; Part(s); Score. Alfred Debut Series. Form: Variations. Grade 1.5. 124 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing

Concert Band - Grade 1.5

SKU: AP.31704

Billy Boy. Arranged by Joseph Kreines. Concert Band; Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles. Alfred Debut Series. Folk. Score and Part(s). 234 pages. Alfred Music #00-31704. Published by Alfred Music (AP.31704).

UPC: 038081356211. English.

In his American Song Settings, No. 1, Joseph Kreines has created a delightful theme and variations on the well-known traditional melody, Billy Boy. Every instrument in the band has the melody at some point in this outstanding arrangement done in a distinctly early 20th century British style, providing opportunities for young players to play in 4/4, 3/4 and 2/4 time.

Concert Band - Grade 1.5

SKU: AP.31704S

Billy Boy. Composed by Joseph Kreines. Concert Band; Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles. Alfred Debut Series. Score. 16 pages. Alfred Music #00-31704S. Published by Alfred Music (AP.31704S).

UPC: 038081356228. English.

In his American Song Settings, No. 1, Joseph Kreines has created a delightful theme and variations on the well-known traditional melody, Billy Boy. Every instrument in the band has the melody at some point in this outstanding arrangement done in a distinctly early 20th century British style, providing opportunities for young players to play in 4/4, 3/4 and 2/4 time.

Taught by John Fahey. For Guitar (Fingerpicking). Solos. Grossman Audio. American. Level: Intermediate. Book/CD Set. Size 8.5x11. 56 pages. Published by Grossman's Guitar Workshop.

Chamber Music String Quartet

SKU: PR.164002720

Cassatt. Composed by Dan Welcher. Spiral and Saddle. Premiere: Cassatt Quartet, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL. Contemporary. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. Composed 2007. WRT11142. 52+16+16+16+16 pages. Duration 24 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #164-00272. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.164002720).

UPC: 680160573042. 8.5 x 11 inches.

My third quartet is laid out in a three-movement structure, with each movement based on an early, middle, and late work of the great American impressionist painter Mary Cassatt. Although the movements are separate, with full-stop endings, the music is connected by a common scale-form, derived from the name MARY CASSATT, and by a recurring theme that introduces all three movements. I see this theme as Mary's Theme, a personality that stays intact while undergoing gradual change.   I The Bacchante (1876) [Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]   The painting shows a young girl of Italian or Spanish origin, playing a small pair of cymbals. Since Cassatt was trying very hard to fit in at the French Academy at the time, she painted a lot of these subjects, which were considered typical and universal. The style of the painting doesn't yet show Cassatt's originality, except perhaps for certain details in the face. Accordingly the music for this movement is Spanish/Italian, in a similar period-style but using the musical signature described above. The music begins with Mary's Theme, ruminative and slow, then abruptly changes to an alla Spagnola-type fast 3/4 - 6/8 meter. It evokes the Spanish-influenced music of Ravel and Falla.   Midway through, there's an accompanied recitative for the viola, which figures large in this particular movement, then back to a truncated recapitulation of the fast music. The overall feeling is of a well-made, rather conventional movement in a contemporary Spanish/Italian style. Cassatt's painting, too, is rather conventional.   II At the Opera (1880) [Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts]   This painting is one of Cassatt's most well known works, and it hangs in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The painting shows a woman alone in a box at the opera house, completely dressed (including gloves) and looking through opera glasses at someone or something that is NOT on the stage. Across the auditorium from her, but exactly at eye level, is a gentleman with opera glasses intently watching her - though it is not him that she's looking at. It's an intriguing picture.   This movement is far less conventional than the first movement, as the painting is far less conventional. The music begins with a rapid, Shostakovich-type mini-overture lasting less than a minute, based on Mary's Theme. My conjecture is that the woman in the painting has arrived late to the opera, busily stumbling into her box. What happens next is a kind of collage, a kind of surrealistic overlaying of two different elements: the foreground music, at first is a direct quotation of Soldier's Chorus from Gounod's FAUST (an opera Cassatt would certainly have heard in the brand-new Paris Opera House at that time), played by Violin II, Viola, and Cello. This music is played sul ponticello in the melody and col legno in the marching accompaniment. On top of this, the first violin hovers at first on a high harmonic, then descends into a slow melody, completely separate from the Gounod. It's as if the woman in the painting is hearing the opera onstage but is not really interested in it. Then the cello joins the first violin in a kind of love-duet (just the two of them, at first). This music isn't at all Gounod-derived; it's entirely from the same scale patterns as the first movement and derives from Mary's Theme and its scale. The music stays in a kind of dichotomy feeling, usually three-against-one, until the end of the movement, when another Gounod melody, Valentin's aria Avant de quitter ce lieux reappears in a kind of coda for all four players. It ends atmospherically and emotionally disconnected, however. The overall feeling is a kind of schizophrenic, opera-inspired dream.   III Young Woman in Green, Outdoors in the Sun (1909) [Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts]   The painting, one of Cassatt's last, is very simple: just a figure, looking sideways out of the picture. The colors are pastel and yet bold - and the woman is likewise very self-assured and not in the least demure. It is eight minutes long, and is all about melody - three melodies, to be exact (Young Woman, Green, and Sunlight). No angst, no choppy rhythms, just ever-unfolding melody and lush harmonies. I quote one other French composer here, too: Debussy's song Green, from Ariettes Oubliees. 1909 would have been Debussy's heyday in Paris, and it makes perfect sense musically as well as visually to do this.   Mary Cassatt lived her last several years in near-total blindness, and as she lost visual acuity, her work became less sharply defined - something akin to late water lilies of Monet, who suffered similar vision loss. My idea of making this movement entirely melodic was compounded by having each of the three melodies appear twice, once in a pure form, and the second time in a more diffuse setting. This makes an interesting two ways form: A-B-C-A1-B1-C1.   String Quartet No.3 (Cassatt) is dedicated, with great affection and respect, to the Cassatt String Quartet, whose members have dedicated themselves in large measure to the furthering of the contemporary repertoire for quartet.

Concert Band - Grade 2

SKU: AP.36703S

Barbara Allen. Arranged by Joseph Kreines. Concert Band; Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles. Alfred Debut Series. Form: Variations. Folk. Score. 12 pages. Alfred Music #00-36703S. Published by Alfred Music (AP.36703S).

UPC: 038081417615. English.

This lovely setting of the beloved American folk song Barbara Allen is presented for developing bands as a series of variations in which all sections of the band have an opportunity to play the melody. This arrangement, third in a series of wind band settings of familiar melodies, was written for and is dedicated to the Independence Middle School Band in Jupiter, Florida and their director, Randy Sonntag.

This is attractive teaching material . . .
- The Instrumentalist

Bb Edition. Fake Book (Includes melody line and chords). Size 9x12 inches. 816 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

2-part Treble, organ

SKU: SU.80300195

For 2-part Treble, organ. Composed by Katherine Dienes. Vocal/Choral, Sacred Choral. Accompanied by organ. Choral Octavo. Treble Clef Music Press #80300195. Published by Treble Clef Music Press (SU.80300195).

These new settings of the traditional Evensong canticles were sung at the Washington National Cathedral by the Norwich Cathedral (UK) Girls’ Choir on their American tour in 2000. With ostinato organ accompaniment for manuals only, their extended solos and soaring, imitative choral parts are understated but effective. English. 2-pt. treble with organ. Medium. 2-part treble, organ Published by: Treble Clef Music Minimum order quantity: 8 copies.

Six Hymn Settings for Piano and Organ Duet. Composed by Darwin Wolford. This edition: 2 copies required. Organ Ensemble - Organ and Piano. H. W. Gray. Sacred. Sheet. 52 pages. Jubilate Music Group #00-GOPDM0201. Published by Jubilate Music Group

By Barry Solomon. For Guitar: Flatpicking. Saddle-stitched, methods. Grossman Audio. Jazz and Contemporary. Intermediate-Advanced. Book/3- CD Set. 40 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc

Level/Grade 2. ABRSM JAZZ. Size 9x12 inches. 24 pages. Published by ABRSM Publishing.

Composed by Amy Marcy Beach (1867-1944). Arranged by Ralph Sauer. For Tuba or Bass Trombone and Piano. 20th Century American. Moderately advanced. Solo part and piano score. Published by Cherry Classics

Composed by Amy Marcy Beach (1867-1944). Arranged by Ralph Sauer. 20th Century American. Solo part and piano score. Published by Cherry Classics (CY.CC2548).

Choir Secular (2-Part choir)

SKU: AP.48993

Arranged by Andy Beck. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles. Alfred Choral Designs. Folk; Secular. Choral Octavo. 12 pages. Alfred Music #00-48993. Published by Alfred Music (AP.48993).

UPC: 038081563176. English. American Folk Song.

Thoughtfully crafted to make your 2-part singers sound their best, this Andy Beck arrangement reads like a solid choral lesson plan, with built-in teaching tools. The lyrical tune is sung first in unison, then in canon, a gentle call and response bridge introduces a new key, eventually some parallel harmonies arrive, and an optional middle note at the end offers one three-part chord. Adapted lyrics honor the bond of friend to friend.

About Alfred Choral Designs

Th e Alfred Choral Designs Series provides student and adult choirs with a variety of secular choral music that is useful, practical, educationally appropriate, and a pleasure to sing. To that end, the Choral Designs series features original works, folk song settings, spiritual arrangements, choral masterworks, and holiday selections suitable for use in concerts, festivals, and contests.

Choir Secular (2-Part choir)

SKU: AP.48917

Arranged by Greg Gilpin. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles. Alfred Choral Designs. Folk; Secular. Choral Octavo. 12 pages. Alfred Music #00-48917. Published by Alfred Music (AP.48917).

UPC: 038081562414. English. American Folk Song.

All aboard for a bouncy rendition of the authentic American train song, a song that has been recorded by many folk artists through the generations. The largely pentatonic tune truly chugs along and includes a few blue notes, adding to the fun. Greg's perky arrangement offers independent voice parts, engaging rhythmic counterpoint, and even a few vocal train whistles---woo woo! No matter which voicing suits your group, be sure to consider adding choreography (available free online), and the toe-tapping SoundTrax accompaniment.

About Alfred Choral Designs

Th e Alfred Choral Designs Series provides student and adult choirs with a variety of secular choral music that is useful, practical, educationally appropriate, and a pleasure to sing. To that end, the Choral Designs series features original works, folk song settings, spiritual arrangements, choral masterworks, and holiday selections suitable for use in concerts, festivals, and contests.