A Christmas Mini-Musical for Unison and 2-part Voices. By Sally K. Albrecht, Jay...(+)
A Christmas Mini-Musical
for Unison and 2-part
Voices. By Sally K.
Albrecht, Jay Althouse.
Children's Musicals and
Programs. Christmas and
Choral. Level: K-6.
Score. 48 pages.
Published by Alfred
Publishing.
The Granny Awards Voix d'Enfants [Teacher Editions|Director Score|Director Editions|CD] Alfred Publishing
(Performance Pack w. CD). By Janet Gardner. This edition: Performance Pack w. CD...(+)
(Performance Pack w. CD).
By Janet Gardner. This
edition: Performance Pack
w. CD(Director's Score,
10 Singer's Editions and
SoundTrax CD). Book; CD;
Classroom/Pre-School;
Musicals; Musicals and
Programs; Score.
Published by Alfred Music
Publishing
By Sally K. Albrecht, Jay Althouse, And Lois Brownsey. Children's Musicals and P...(+)
By Sally K. Albrecht, Jay
Althouse, And Lois
Brownsey. Children's
Musicals and Programs.
Christmas and Choral.
Director's Score and 10
Singer's Editions.
Published by Alfred
Publishing.
Study Score Choral SKU: HL.402076 For Soprano Solo, Children's Choir a...(+)
Study Score Choral
SKU: HL.402076
For Soprano Solo,
Children's Choir and
Orchestra. Composed
by Nico Muhly. Choral.
Classical. Softcover. 72
pages. Duration 1500
seconds. St. Rose Music
#SRO100186. Published by
St. Rose Music
(HL.402076).
ISBN
9781705160077. UPC:
196288056812.
9.0x12.0x0.167
inches.
The Right
of Your Senses is a set
of nine songs for
children's voices, solo
soprano, and orchestra
written for the National
Children's Chorus,
American Youth Symphony
and Los Angeles
Philharmonic Association.
The texts are primarily
17th-century, by Thomas
Traherne and George
Herbert, but two of them
come from the
11th-century Enchiridion
by Byrhtferth. The
overarching theme is the
story of creation, but
not just the list of
objects created: the
texts deal with the
emotional resonances of
the sun, the sea, the
air, and the moon with
all their mysterious,
bright, and dark
potential. There is a
recurring gesture in the
strings, introduced at
the very top: a simple
descending pattern which
binds many of the
movements together, even
when hidden in the more
tumultuous sections. The
first two movements are
bright, whereas the
middle three movements
are violent and deal with
the angrier natural
elements. The seventh
movement is the most
abstract and playful, and
here a direct nod to
Benjamin Britten's A
Ceremony of Carols, with
a fast three-part canon
depicting the behavior of
the atom. The eighth
movement, Night, is the
slowest, and depicts the
night sky. The final
movement is calm, and
encourages us: Be
faithful in a little, and
you shall be master over
much. The piece ends with
five strokes of high
bells. x Nico Muhly.
By Sally K. Albrecht, Jay Althouse, And Lois Brownsey. Children's Musicals and P...(+)
By Sally K. Albrecht, Jay
Althouse, And Lois
Brownsey. Children's
Musicals and Programs.
Christmas and Choral. 5
Singer's Editions.
Published by Alfred
Publishing.
By Sally K. Albrecht, Jay Althouse, and Lois Brownsey. Children's Musicals and P...(+)
By Sally K. Albrecht, Jay
Althouse, and Lois
Brownsey. Children's
Musicals and Programs.
Christmas and Choral. 48
pages. Published by
Alfred Publishing.
Choral (Vocal Score) SKU: HL.402077 For Soprano Solo, Children's Choir...(+)
Choral (Vocal Score)
SKU: HL.402077
For Soprano Solo,
Children's Choir and
Orchestra. Composed
by Nico Muhly. Choral.
Classical. Octavo.
Duration 1500 seconds.
St. Rose Music
#SRO100186-01. Published
by St. Rose Music
(HL.402077).
ISBN
9781705160084. UPC:
196288056829.
9.0x12.0x0.276
inches.
The Right
of Your Senses is a set
of nine songs for
children's voices, solo
soprano, and orchestra
written for the National
Children's Chorus,
American Youth Symphony
and Los Angeles
Philharmonic Association.
The texts are primarily
17th-century, by Thomas
Traherne and George
Herbert, but two of them
come from the
11th-century Enchiridion
by Byrhtferth. The
overarching theme is the
story of creation, but
not just the list of
objects created: the
texts deal with the
emotional resonances of
the sun, the sea, the
air, and the moon with
all their mysterious,
bright, and dark
potential. There is a
recurring gesture in the
strings, introduced at
the very top: a simple
descending pattern which
binds many of the
movements together, even
when hidden in the more
tumultuous sections. The
first two movements are
bright, whereas the
middle three movements
are violent and deal with
the angrier natural
elements. The seventh
movement is the most
abstract and playful, and
here a direct nod to
Benjamin Britten's A
Ceremony of Carols, with
a fast three-part canon
depicting the behavior of
the atom. The eighth
movement, Night, is the
slowest, and depicts the
night sky. The final
movement is calm, and
encourages us: Be
faithful in a little, and
you shall be master over
much. The piece ends with
five strokes of high
bells. x Nico Muhly.
(Piano/Vocal). By Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. For Keyboard; Piano; Voice. ...(+)
(Piano/Vocal). By Lynn
Ahrens and Stephen
Flaherty. For Keyboard;
Piano; Voice. This
edition: Piano/Vocal.
Piano/Vocal/Chords; Vocal
Score. Broadway. Vocal
Score. 416 pages
Children of the Night Quintette à Vent: flûte, Hautbois, basson, clarinette, Cor Seesaw Music Corp
Woodwind Quintet SKU: SU.50013300 For Woodwind Quintet. Composed b...(+)
Woodwind Quintet
SKU:
SU.50013300
For
Woodwind Quintet.
Composed by Arthur
Gottschalk. Chamber
Music, Woodwind
Quartet/Quintet. Score &
Parts. Seesaw Music Corp
#50013300. Published by
Seesaw Music Corp
(SU.50013300).
By Various. Arranged by Daniel Kelley. For Score (parts 1-4 in C). Quartets. Int...(+)
By Various. Arranged by
Daniel Kelley. For Score
(parts 1-4 in C).
Quartets. Intermediate
Music for Four.
Classical. Intermediate.
Score. Published by Last
Resort Music Publishing
Composed by Wendy Hodge. Text: Laura Galvin. A little musical play honoring the ...(+)
Composed by Wendy Hodge.
Text: Laura Galvin. A
little musical play
honoring the Knights of
Columbus founder. Musical
play. Published by
CanticaNOVA Publications
(C5.8800).
Chamber Music Piano, soprano Saxophone SKU: PR.164002950 Fantasy after...(+)
Chamber Music Piano,
soprano Saxophone
SKU:
PR.164002950
Fantasy after
Mendelssohn. Composed
by Dan Welcher. Sws. Set
of Score and Parts. 20+8
pages. Duration 10
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #164-00295.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.164002950).
ISBN
9781491114568. UPC:
680160633449. 9 x 12
inches.
Dan
Welcher’s
fascinating work for
soprano sax is both a
refraction of
Mendelssohn’s
music for A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, and
his own incidental music
to Shakespeare’s
comedy. The work’s
title, AS LIGHT AS BIRD
FROM BRIER, quotes from
Oberon (King of the
Fairies) invoking revelry
at the play’s
climactic wedding scene.
Welcher’s fantasy
skips among the most
beloved themes of
Mendelssohn’s
Midsummer – giving
the saxophonist quite a
workout, and the listener
a midsummer
delight. AS LIGHT AS
BIRD FROM BRIER is
loosely based on
Shakespeare’s play
A Midsummer
Night’s Dream,
which has haunted me
since I was nine years
old. My parents
subscribed me to The
Children’s Record
Guild, and every month a
new 78rpm vinyl record
would arrive in the mail.
They were mostly fairy
tales and “kids
lit,†but in this
case it was a very
condensed performance of
the actual play, with
Mendelssohn’s
music. I loved it
immediately, and still do
– I saw a
performance in 2014 at
the Stratford Festival
that literally stalks my
dreams.When I was
commissioned by
saxophonist Stephen Page
to compose a work for
soprano saxophone and
piano two years later, I
channeled Mendelssohn as
an inspiration:
specifically, the
Overture, the Scherzo,
the Intermezzo, the
fairy’s song
“You spotted snakes
with double
tongue,†and the
Rustics’ Dance.
But it’s not a
pastiche – most of
the music is completely
my own, though attentive
listeners will detect
snatches of
Mendelssohn’s
haunting score
throughout.This piece
joins MILL SONGS and
FLORESTAN’S FALCON
among works honoring my
favorite 19th-century
composers (in those
cases, Schubert and
Schumann) without ripping
them off. As Stravinsky
did in his ballet
Pulcinella, I have
borrowed fragments of
melody from a much-loved
composer, and made a
fabric of harmonies and
scales that are
genetically related to
Mendelssohn, but
unmistakably Welcher.In
this work, the
saxophonist is Puck
– skittish,
dazzlingly fast, and
brilliant in the outer
parts, and a mischievous
Cupid in the long,
central Love Song.
(Remember how Puck
anoints Titania’s
eyes with the juice from
a magic flower, which
causes her to fall in
love with Bottom the
weaver, who has been
bewitched and wears a
donkey’s head?)
The music traces
Puck’s magic
flight, the finding of
the flower,
Titania’s
love-scene with Bottom
and her fairies, and the
rustic players –
whose rehearsal of the
funniest
play-within-the-play in
literature is interrupted
by Puck’s dirty
tricks.I greatly enjoyed
the process of writing
this piece, and often
found myself quite moved
even as I was writing
it... which rarely
happens. Stephen Page,
who commissioned the
work, is a consummate
artist (and a bit of a
Puck himself). The title
comes from
Oberon’s final
speech in the
play:Through the house,
give glimmering light,By
the dead and drowsy
fire.Every elf and fairy
spriteHop as light as
bird from brier,And this
ditty, after me,Sing, and
dance it trippingly.
A New Service of Lessons and Carols. By Point of Grace, Michael W. Smith, Ch...(+)
A New Service of Lessons
and
Carols. By Point of
Grace,
Michael W. Smith, Christy
Nockels, Keith and
Kristyn
Getty, Hillsong, and
Lauren
Daigle. Arranged by
Joseph M.
Martin and Heather
Sorenson.
PraiseSong Christmas
Series.
Advent, Cantata,
Christmas,
Epiphany, Sacred.
Softcover.
142 pages. Published by
PraiseSong
Junior String Orchestra SKU: BT.EMBZ14401 For children's string orches...(+)
Junior String Orchestra
SKU: BT.EMBZ14401
For children's string
orchestra. Composed
by Lajos Papp. EMB
Leggierissimo.
Educational Tool. Set
(Score & Parts). Composed
2004. 56 pages. Editio
Musica Budapest
#EMBZ14401. Published by
Editio Musica Budapest
(BT.EMBZ14401).
Hungarian-English-Germ
an-French.
Lajos
Papp, the author of
innumerable popular
pedagogical works, this
time offers the youngest
string players
technically really easy
little orchestral pieces
that can nevertheless be
successful concert items
for more advanced
students. The cycle of
eight short pieces can be
performed not only as a
whole but in any kind of
selection or grouping.
The title refers both to
the medieval knights'
tournaments, which always
stimulate children's
imagination, and also to
children's games that
imitate them and bring
them back to life. The
work is based not on a
single coherent story but
the knights' life in
general, with its
traditional accoutrements
and characters. The
titles of thepieces are:
Knighting Ceremony in the
Castle Chapel - The Lord
of the Castle - The Black
Knight - The Beautiful
Damsel of the Castle, by
the Well - Page's Dance -
The Scarlet Steed - The
Battle of the Noble
Knights - Festive
Procession.
For Recorder (soprano). Includes a high-quality printed music score and a compac...(+)
For Recorder (soprano).
Includes a high-quality
printed music score and a
compact disc containing
the accompaniments for
each piece. Published by
Music Minus One.
String Orchestra (STRING ORCHE) SKU: HL.50511759 Composed by Lajos Papp. ...(+)
String Orchestra (STRING
ORCHE)
SKU:
HL.50511759
Composed
by Lajos Papp. EMB.
Pedagogical performance
pieces. Score and parts.
Editio Musica Budapest
#Z14401. Published by
Editio Musica Budapest
(HL.50511759).
ISBN
9790080144015. Bach (23 x
30,2 cm) inches.
Hungarian, English,
German, French. Lajos
Papp.
Lajos Papp,
the author of innumerable
popular pedagogical
works, this time offers
the youngest string
players technically
really easy little
orchestral pieces that
can nevertheless be
successful concert items
for more advanced
students. The cycle of
eight short pieces can be
performed not only as a
whole but in any kind of
selection or grouping.
The title refers both to
the medieval knights'
tournaments, which always
stimulate children's
imagination, and also to
children's games that
imitate them and bring
them back to life. The
work is based not on a
single coherent story but
the knights' life in
general, with its
traditional accoutrements
and characters. The
titles of the pieces are:
Knighting Ceremony in the
Castle Chapel - The Lord
of the Castle - The Black
Knight - The Beautiful
Damsel of the Castle, by
the Well - Page's Dance -
The Scarlet Steed - The
Battle of the Noble
Knights - Festive
Procession.