SKU: BR.EB-3938

ISBN 9790004162057. 12 x 9 inches.

Antoine Brumel (ca. 1460-ca. 1520) Um 1460 in den franzosischen Niederlanden geboren, wirkte Antoine Brumel 1483 als Vorsanger an der Kathedrale zu Chartres, spater in Laon. 1498-1500 war er Chormeister an Notre-Dame in Paris. Uber Lyon kam er 1505 als Nachfolger Josquins an den Hof Alfonsos I. von Ferrara und starb wahrscheinlich um 1520. Brumel gilt als einer der bedeutendsten ,,Niederlander der Josquin-Generation. Er schrieb uberwiegend Kirchenmusik: Messen (u.a. die 12stimmige Missa ,,Et ecce terrae motus, die noch 1570 in Munchen unter der Leitung Orlando di Lassos aufgefuhrt wurde), Motetten, Magnificat-Vertonungen und Bicinien, ferner einige Chansons. Brumel ist ein Meister des polyphonen Satzes; gelegentlich treten homophone Partien auf (Missa ,,Dringhs). Hans Buchner (1483-1538) Buchner wurde am 26. Oktober 1483 in Ravensburg (Wurttemberg) geboren. Bereits in jungen Jahren kam er nach Augsburg und Innsbruck, wo er Schuler Paul Hofhaimers war. In Wien lernte er in der kaiserlichen Hofkantorei wahrscheinlich Heinrich Isaac und Ludwig Senfl kennen. 1506 wurde Buchner Organist in Konstanz. Er starb im Jahre 1538. Von ihm sind zahlreiche Kompositionen (Orgelwerke, Motetten, Lieder, Tanze) erhalten. Buchners Hauptwerk ist das ,,Fundamentum, ein theoretisch-praktisches Lehrbuch der Orgelspielkunst. Es enthalt Anweisungen zur Improvisation, zum Orgelspiel und zur lntavolierung sowie 145 Orgelkompositionen. Heinrich Finck (1444/45-1527) Finck stammt wahrscheinlich aus Bamberg, wo er um 1444/45 geboren wurde. Uber sein Leben ist wenig bekannt. Er wirkte an der koniglich-polnischen Hofkapelle in Krakau und Warschau, war aber daneben viel auf Reisen. 1510 wurde er Kapellmeister am Hof des Herzogs von Wurttemberg, wirkte spater am erzbischoflichen Hof in Salzburg und erhielt im hohen Alter die Stelle des Hofkapellmeisters Ferdinands I. in Wien, wo er am 9. Juni 1527 starb. Von Heinrich Fincks Kompositionen ist nur ein kleiner Teil uberliefert. An erster Stelle sind seine deutschen Lieder zu nennen; ausserdem schrieb Finck Messen (Missa in summis) und Motetten. Der Komponist gilt als der erste deutsche Grossmeister der Musik. Seine Fruhwerke zeigen zum Teil noch eine karge Dreistimmigkeit mit harten Zusammenklangen; spater wird sein Satz vollklingender, wahrscheinlich unter dem Einfluss der ,,Niederlander (Isaac). Josquin Desprez (ca.1440-1521/24) Josquin ist der beruhmteste Meister seiner Epoche, die nach ihm als Joaquin-Zeit bezeichnet wird. Er wurde um 1440 wahrscheinlich in der Picardie geboren und soll Schuler Ockeghems gewesen sein. 1459-1472 war Josquin Sanger der Mailander Domkantorei, 1473-1479 Mitglied der Kapelle am Hof der Sforza in Mailand. 1486-1494 wird Josquin als Mitglied der papstlichen Sangerkapelle in Rom genannt. Seine Tatigkeit als Chordirektor am Dom zu Cambrai 1495-1499 ist urkundlich nicht gesichert. Er komponierte fur den Hof Konig Ludwigs XII. von Frankreich und fur den Hof der Este in Ferrara. 1502 wurde Josquin von Ercole I. als Kapellmeister nach Ferrara berufen, wo er bis zum Tode des Herzogs (1505) blieb. Sein Nachfolger wurde Brumel. Joaquin kehrte in seine Heimat zuruck und wurde zum Probst der Kirche Notre-Dame in Conde (Hennegau) ernannt. wo er am 27. August 1521 starb. Als Komponist gelangte Josquin bereits zu Lebzeiten zu europaischer Beruhmtheit. Sein Stil beeinflusste das gesamte musikalische Schaffen in Europa bis in die Palestrina-Zeit. Unter seinen Werken sind an erster Stelle die Messen zu nennen (darunter ,,L' homme arme, Missa sine nomine, sein Meisterwerk ,,La sol fa re mi, die zart-lyrische Messe ,,Ave maris stella, die Reprasentationsmesse ,,Hercules Dux Ferrariae und die Spatwerke ,,De beata virgine, ,,Pange lingua und ,,Da pacem); weiterhin schrieb er Motetten (u. a. ,,Stabat mater, ,,Miserere mei, ,,Memor esto verbi tui, ,,De profundis, ,,In exitu Israel, ,,Laudate pueri Dominum) und Chansons (die bekanntesten sind ,,Adieu mes amours, ,,Mille regretz und ,,J' ay bien cause). Josquin ist einer der genialsten Musiker aller Zeiten. Sein streng polyphoner Satz fuhrt konsequent den Stil Ockeghems weiter. Josquin erreicht in seinen Werken die hochste Meisterschaft im konstruktiv-imitatorische n Stil der ,,Niederlander. Gleichzeitig uberwindet er jedoch das nur Artistische dieser Kunst; sein subjektiv gefarbtes, von individuellem Ausdruckswillen bestimmtes Wort-Ton-Verhaltnis wird zum Ideal der Renaissancemusik. Josquins Kompositionslehre wurde 1552 von seinem Schuler Adrian Petit Coclico im ,,Compendium musicae aufgezeichnet. Heinrich Isaac (ca. 1450-1517) Isaac wurde kurz vor 1450 in den Niederlanden geboren. Er war wahrscheinlich Schuler Squarcialupis in Florenz und wirkte in Ferrara und am Hof Lorenzos de' Medici in Florenz. 1484 weilte er gleichzeitig mit Paul Hofhaimer in Innsbruck, war danach bis 1494 wieder in Florenz und wurde 1496 Hofkomponist Maximilians I. in Augsburg und Wien. Er unternahm zahlreiche Reisen (u.a. 1497-1500 an den Hof Friedrichs des Weisen nach Torgau, 1503-1505 zu Ercole I. nach Ferrara). Spater lebte Isaac in Konstanz, wo er sein Motettenwerk ,,Chorale Constantinum (1550 von seinem Schuler Ludwig Senfl herausgegeben) schuf; von 1514 bis zu seinem Tode 1517 lebte er wieder in Florenz. Isaac ist einer der vielseitigsten Musiker seiner Zeit. Er ist in allen musikalischen Nationalstilen sattelfest. Der Bogen seines Schaffens spannt sich vom Konstruktivismus der niederlandischen Polyphonie bis zur anmutigen Intimitat des schlichten Renaissance-Satzes. Isaac schrieb Messen (u. a. die beruhmte ,,Missa carminum), Motetten (,,Chorale Constantinum), Chorlieder und Chorsatze auf deutsche, franzosische und italienische Texte (sein Satz ,,Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen wurde weltberuhmt) sowie Instrumentalsatze. Johannes Martini (1430/40-ca.1500) Der um 1430/40 in Flandern geborene Komponist wirkte 1474 neben Josquin und Compere an der Mailander Hofkapelle. 1475 wurde er Mitglied der Hofkapelle zu Ferrara, wo er noch 1492 tatig war. Sein Todesjahr ist unbekannt. Nach 1500 wird Martini nicht mehr in den Listen bekannter Komponisten gefuhrt. Von Martini sind Messen, Motetten und Chansons uberliefert, die stilistisch von Dufay und Ockeghem beeinflusst sind. Eine gewisse Erstarrung des Stils ist unverkennbar. Gregor Meyer (ca. 1510-1576) Meyer wurde um 1510 in Sackingen geboren und wirkte um 1535 bis 1558 als Organist in Solothurn, 1561 bis zu seinem Tode 1576 am Munster zu Basel. Auf Veranlassung Glareans schrieb Meyer fur dessen ,,Dodekachordon (1547) zahlreiche Kompositionsbeispiele; ausserdem sind in anderen Sammlungen einige Kanons, Motetten, einzelne Messsatze und kirchliche und weltliche Lieder erhalten. Jacob Obrecht (1450/51-1505) Als einziger der grossen ,,Niederlander stammt Obrecht aus dem nordniederlandischen Raum; er wurde wahrscheinlich am 22. November 1450 in Bergen op Zoom geboren. 1476-1478 war er Chormeister in Utrecht, 1479-1484 in seiner Heimatstadt. 1484/85 wirkte er als Kapellmeister an der Kathedrale in Cambrai und anschliessend in Brugge. 1487/88 besuchte Obrecht den Hof Ercoles I. von Ferrara. 1492 finden wir ihn als Chormeister an Notre-Dame zu Antwerpen, 1496 in Bergen op Zoom, 1498 in Brugge. 1500 schied er krankheitshalber aus dem Dienst und lebte bis 1504 in Antwerpen. Auf einer Reise nach Ferrara starb er im Jahre 1505 (angeblich an der Pest). Von Obrechts Kompositionen sind etwa 25 Messen (darunter ,,Maria zart, ,,L' homme arme, ,,Caput, ,,Je ne demande, ,,Fortuna desperata), Motetten und Chansons auf niederlandische, franzosische und italienische Texte uberliefert. Obrecht gehort mit Josquin, lsaac und Pierre de la Rue zu den Grossmeistern der Josquin-Zeit. Er setzt die Polyphonie Dufays und Ockeghems fort, doch spielen bei ihm die Durchimitation wie auch das bei Josquin stark ausgepragte Wort-Ton-Verhaltnis eine geringe Rolle. Obrechts Musik ist durch ihre vitale Kraft, Spontaneitat des Ausdrucks, klare Periodenbildung, den Hang zum vollen harmonischen Satz und ein neues Tonalitatsbewusstsein gekennzeichnet. Im Spatwerk ist der Einfluss des volkstumlichen italienischen Liedes festzustellen. Obrechte ausgepragter Penonalstil ist so unnachahmlich, dass er keine Fortsetzer fand. Nicht zu Unrecht wird Obrecht als der grosse ,,Aussenseiter zwischen den Perioden Dufay-Ockeghem und Josquin-Isaac bezeichnet. Marbrianus de Orto (ca. 1450-1529) Orto stammt moglicherweise ebenfalls aus Flandern; sein Geburtsjahr ist nicht bekannt. 1484-1494 war er gleichzeitig mit Josquin papstlicher Kapellsanger in Rom, spater (1505) am Hofe Philipps des Schonen von Burgund. Orto starb 1529 in Nivelles. Von ihm sind Messen, Motetten und Chansons erhalten. Vermutlich redigierte er wahrend seines romischen Aufenthaltes gemeinsam mit Josquin die Bearbeitung Duf'ayscher Hymnen. Ortos Messen reichen nicht an die Spitzenleistungen seiner Zeit (Josquin, Obrecht) heran; bedeutender sind seine Motetten, wie etwa die Motette ,,Ave Maria, die Petrucci 1501 an die Spitze seines ,,Odhecaton stellte, und die Vergil-Motette ,,Dulces exuviae.

SKU: HL.49032655

ISBN 9783795703127. German. Joachim Schuster.

Dass Oper nicht immer eine todernste Sache sein muss, zeigen diese heiteren Opernerzahlungen im Mainzer Dialekt. Die Ur-Meenzerin Eleonore Gierlichs hat dem Volk aufs Maul geschaut und jede Geschichte in eine hubsche Rahmenhandlung eingebettet. So kommen auch diejenigen auf ihre Kosten, die noch nie ein Theater von innen gesehen haben. In einem Glossar werden zudem - fur alle Nicht-Mainzer - typische Mainzer Ausdrucke erlautert.

SKU: PR.16500101F

ISBN 9781491131725. UPC: 680160680252.

Ever since the success of my series of wind ensemble works Places in the West, I've been wanting to write a companion piece for national parks on the other side of the north American continent. The earlier work, consisting of GLACIER, THE YELLOWSTONE FIRES, ARCHES, and ZION, spanned some twenty years of my composing life, and since the pieces called for differing groups of instruments, and were in slightly different styles from each other, I never considered them to be connected except in their subject matter. In their depiction of both the scenery and the human history within these wondrous places, they had a common goal: awaking the listener to the fragile beauty that is in them; and calling attention to the ever more crucial need for preservation and protection of these wild places, unique in all the world. With this new work, commissioned by a consortium of college and conservatory wind ensembles led by the University of Georgia, I decided to build upon that same model---but to solidify the process. The result, consisting of three movements (each named for a different national park in the eastern US), is a bona-fide symphony. While the three pieces could be performed separately, they share a musical theme---and also a common style and instrumentation. It is a true symphony, in that the first movement is long and expository, the second is a rather tightly structured scherzo-with-trio, and the finale is a true culmination of the whole. The first movement, Everglades, was the original inspiration for the entire symphony. Conceived over the course of two trips to that astonishing place (which the native Americans called River of Grass, the subtitle of this movement), this movement not only conveys a sense of the humid, lush, and even frightening scenery there---but also an overview of the entire settling-of- Florida experience. It contains not one, but two native American chants, and also presents a view of the staggering influence of modern man on this fragile part of the world. Beginning with a slow unfolding marked Heavy, humid, the music soon presents a gentle, lyrical theme in the solo alto saxophone. This theme, which goes through three expansive phrases with breaks in between, will appear in all three movements of the symphony. After the mood has been established, the music opens up to a rich, warm setting of a Cherokee morning song, with the simple happiness that this part of Florida must have had prior to the nineteenth century. This music, enveloping and comforting, gradually gives way to a more frenetic, driven section representative of the intrusion of the white man. Since Florida was populated and developed largely due to the introduction of a train system, there's a suggestion of the mechanized iron horse driving straight into the heartland. At that point, the native Americans become considerably less gentle, and a second chant seems to stand in the way of the intruder; a kind of warning song. The second part of this movement shows us the great swampy center of the peninsula, with its wildlife both in and out of the water. A new theme appears, sad but noble, suggesting that this land is precious and must be protected by all the people who inhabit it. At length, the morning song reappears in all its splendor, until the sunset---with one last iteration of the warning song in the solo piccolo. Functioning as a scherzo, the second movement, Great Smoky Mountains, describes not just that huge park itself, but one brave soul's attempt to climb a mountain there. It begins with three iterations of the UR-theme (which began the first movement as well), but this time as up-tempo brass fanfares in octaves. Each time it begins again, the theme is a little slower and less confident than the previous time---almost as though the hiker were becoming aware of the daunting mountain before him. But then, a steady, quick-pulsed ostinato appears, in a constantly shifting meter system of 2/4- 3/4 in alteration, and the hike has begun. Over this, a slower new melody appears, as the trek up the mountain progresses. It's a big mountain, and the ascent seems to take quite awhile, with little breaks in the hiker's stride, until at length he simply must stop and rest. An oboe solo, over several free cadenza-like measures, allows us (and our friend the hiker) to catch our breath, and also to view in the distance the rocky peak before us. The goal is somehow even more daunting than at first, being closer and thus more frighteningly steep. When we do push off again, it's at a slower pace, and with more careful attention to our footholds as we trek over broken rocks. Tantalizing little views of the valley at every switchback make our determination even stronger. Finally, we burst through a stand of pines and----we're at the summit! The immensity of the view is overwhelming, and ultimately humbling. A brief coda, while we sit dazed on the rocks, ends the movement in a feeling of triumph. The final movement, Acadia, is also about a trip. In the summer of 2014, I took a sailing trip with a dear friend from North Haven, Maine, to the southern coast of Mt. Desert Island in Acadia National Park. The experience left me both exuberant and exhausted, with an appreciation for the ocean that I hadn't had previously. The approach to Acadia National Park by water, too, was thrilling: like the difference between climbing a mountain on foot with riding up on a ski-lift, I felt I'd earned the right to be there. The music for this movement is entirely based on the opening UR-theme. There's a sense of the water and the mysterious, quiet deep from the very beginning, with seagulls and bell buoys setting the scene. As we leave the harbor, the theme (in a canon between solo euphonium and tuba) almost seems as if large subaquatic animals are observing our departure. There are three themes (call them A, B and C) in this seafaring journey---but they are all based on the UR theme, in its original form with octaves displaced, in an upside-down form, and in a backwards version as well. (The ocean, while appearing to be unchanging, is always changing.) We move out into the main channel (A), passing several islands (B), until we reach the long draw that parallels the coastline called Eggemoggin Reach, and a sudden burst of new speed (C). Things suddenly stop, as if the wind had died, and we have a vision: is that really Mt. Desert Island we can see off the port bow, vaguely in the distance? A chorale of saxophones seems to suggest that. We push off anew as the chorale ends, and go through all three themes again---but in different instrumentations, and different keys. At the final tack-turn, there it is, for real: Mt. Desert Island, big as life. We've made it. As we pull into the harbor, where we'll secure the boat for the night, there's a feeling of achievement. Our whale and dolphin friends return, and we end our journey with gratitude and celebration. I am profoundly grateful to Jaclyn Hartenberger, Professor of Conducting at the University of Georgia, for leading the consortium which provided the commissioning of this work.

SKU: PR.16500104F

ISBN 9781491132159. UPC: 680160681082.

Ever since the success of my series of wind ensemble works Places in the West, I've been wanting to write a companion piece for national parks on the other side of the north American continent. The earlier work, consisting of GLACIER, THE YELLOWSTONE FIRES, ARCHES, and ZION, spanned some twenty years of my composing life, and since the pieces called for differing groups of instruments, and were in slightly different styles from each other, I never considered them to be connected except in their subject matter. In their depiction of both the scenery and the human history within these wondrous places, they had a common goal: awaking the listener to the fragile beauty that is in them; and calling attention to the ever more crucial need for preservation and protection of these wild places, unique in all the world. With this new work, commissioned by a consortium of college and conservatory wind ensembles led by the University of Georgia, I decided to build upon that same model---but to solidify the process. The result, consisting of three movements (each named for a different national park in the eastern US), is a bona-fide symphony. While the three pieces could be performed separately, they share a musical theme---and also a common style and instrumentation. It is a true symphony, in that the first movement is long and expository, the second is a rather tightly structured scherzo-with-trio, and the finale is a true culmination of the whole. The first movement, Everglades, was the original inspiration for the entire symphony. Conceived over the course of two trips to that astonishing place (which the native Americans called River of Grass, the subtitle of this movement), this movement not only conveys a sense of the humid, lush, and even frightening scenery there---but also an overview of the entire settling-of- Florida experience. It contains not one, but two native American chants, and also presents a view of the staggering influence of modern man on this fragile part of the world. Beginning with a slow unfolding marked Heavy, humid, the music soon presents a gentle, lyrical theme in the solo alto saxophone. This theme, which goes through three expansive phrases with breaks in between, will appear in all three movements of the symphony. After the mood has been established, the music opens up to a rich, warm setting of a Cherokee morning song, with the simple happiness that this part of Florida must have had prior to the nineteenth century. This music, enveloping and comforting, gradually gives way to a more frenetic, driven section representative of the intrusion of the white man. Since Florida was populated and developed largely due to the introduction of a train system, there's a suggestion of the mechanized iron horse driving straight into the heartland. At that point, the native Americans become considerably less gentle, and a second chant seems to stand in the way of the intruder; a kind of warning song. The second part of this movement shows us the great swampy center of the peninsula, with its wildlife both in and out of the water. A new theme appears, sad but noble, suggesting that this land is precious and must be protected by all the people who inhabit it. At length, the morning song reappears in all its splendor, until the sunset---with one last iteration of the warning song in the solo piccolo. Functioning as a scherzo, the second movement, Great Smoky Mountains, describes not just that huge park itself, but one brave soul's attempt to climb a mountain there. It begins with three iterations of the UR-theme (which began the first movement as well), but this time as up-tempo brass fanfares in octaves. Each time it begins again, the theme is a little slower and less confident than the previous time---almost as though the hiker were becoming aware of the daunting mountain before him. But then, a steady, quick-pulsed ostinato appears, in a constantly shifting meter system of 2/4- 3/4 in alteration, and the hike has begun. Over this, a slower new melody appears, as the trek up the mountain progresses. It's a big mountain, and the ascent seems to take quite awhile, with little breaks in the hiker's stride, until at length he simply must stop and rest. An oboe solo, over several free cadenza-like measures, allows us (and our friend the hiker) to catch our breath, and also to view in the distance the rocky peak before us. The goal is somehow even more daunting than at first, being closer and thus more frighteningly steep. When we do push off again, it's at a slower pace, and with more careful attention to our footholds as we trek over broken rocks. Tantalizing little views of the valley at every switchback make our determination even stronger. Finally, we burst through a stand of pines and----we're at the summit! The immensity of the view is overwhelming, and ultimately humbling. A brief coda, while we sit dazed on the rocks, ends the movement in a feeling of triumph. The final movement, Acadia, is also about a trip. In the summer of 2014, I took a sailing trip with a dear friend from North Haven, Maine, to the southern coast of Mt. Desert Island in Acadia National Park. The experience left me both exuberant and exhausted, with an appreciation for the ocean that I hadn't had previously. The approach to Acadia National Park by water, too, was thrilling: like the difference between climbing a mountain on foot with riding up on a ski-lift, I felt I'd earned the right to be there. The music for this movement is entirely based on the opening UR-theme. There's a sense of the water and the mysterious, quiet deep from the very beginning, with seagulls and bell buoys setting the scene. As we leave the harbor, the theme (in a canon between solo euphonium and tuba) almost seems as if large subaquatic animals are observing our departure. There are three themes (call them A, B and C) in this seafaring journey---but they are all based on the UR theme, in its original form with octaves displaced, in an upside-down form, and in a backwards version as well. (The ocean, while appearing to be unchanging, is always changing.) We move out into the main channel (A), passing several islands (B), until we reach the long draw that parallels the coastline called Eggemoggin Reach, and a sudden burst of new speed (C). Things suddenly stop, as if the wind had died, and we have a vision: is that really Mt. Desert Island we can see off the port bow, vaguely in the distance? A chorale of saxophones seems to suggest that. We push off anew as the chorale ends, and go through all three themes again---but in different instrumentations, and different keys. At the final tack-turn, there it is, for real: Mt. Desert Island, big as life. We've made it. As we pull into the harbor, where we'll secure the boat for the night, there's a feeling of achievement. Our whale and dolphin friends return, and we end our journey with gratitude and celebration. I am profoundly grateful to Jaclyn Hartenberger, Professor of Conducting at the University of Georgia, for leading the consortium which provided the commissioning of this work.

SKU: BR.BV-215