Solo piano - Grade 5-6

SKU: B7.B495

Composed by Howard J. Buss. 21st Century. Score. Brixton Publications #B495. Published by Brixton Publications (B7.B495).

8.5x11 inches.

La Sonata modello The Template Sonata for solo piano by Howard J. Buss is dedicated to pianist James Helton. The music traverses a wide rage of moods and sonic atmospheres. The composer designed a template of meter changes derived from the numerical series in mathematics codified by the medieval Italian mathematician, Leonardo Fibonacci. In this adaptation of the Fibonacci sequence each number represents a quarter note and is expressed in the succession of meters 4/4, 3/4, 5/4, 4/4, 4/4, 5/4, 3/4, 5/4, 4/4, 4/4, 4/4, 4/4, and 5/4. This series of measures is repeated throughout the work. While each 13-bar segment implies that the music fits into a particular metrical scheme, the composer exerts independence in a variety of ways, such as with phrasing that sometimes ignores the underlying structure. Buss states: This metrical template was at times useful, but often seemed arbitrary and counter to the thrust and development of the musical material. My challenge was to find a way to work with the template while using its rigidity to spark creative solutions. Although the music evolves within the template, my ultimate goal was that the listener be unaware of the structural underpinnings and simply enjoy the beauty of the music..

Violin, piano

SKU: FG.55011-754-9

Viulusonaatti. By Walter Wolff. By Yrjö Kilpinen. Classical. Book. Fennica Gehrman #55011-754-9. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-754-9).

ISBN 9790550117549.

Yrjà ƒÂ¶ Kilpinen (1892-1959) is most known for his hundreds of lieds and song cycles. His instrumental compositions have been less know, ie. the six piano sonatas and suite for gamba and piano. Large-scale Sonata for violin and piano is dated in 1935 with opus number 87. The work was never finished, and National Library in Helsinki holds several sketches and versions in its Kilpinen collection.

In 2015 violinist Frida Backman commissioned a completion of the Sonata from composer Walter Wolff. Wolff worked on the sketches and versions until 2018, when the work was completed and the Sonata premiered.

The present publication is the first publication of the Sonata. It sheds light to Kilpinen as an instrumental composer.

The movements are: Allegro - Andante - Andante Moderato - Allegro

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Yrjö Kilpinen (1892-1959) tunnetaan lähinnä lied-sävellyksistäà ƒÂ¤n, joita aktiivisina sävellysvuosina syntyikin satoja. Vähemmälle huomiolle ovat jääneet hänen instrumentaalisävellyk sensä, mm. kuusi pianosonaattia, sellosonaatti, sarja gamballe ja pianolle sekä muutamat pikkukappaleet.

Vuodelle 1935 päivätty neliosainen, laajamuotoinen sonaatti viululle ja pianolle (op. 87) jäi keskeneräiseksi. Suomen Kansalliskirjaston Kilpinen-kokoelmassa oli useita luonnoksia ja eri versioita. Sonaatin osista neljäs oli keskeneräisin.

Viulutaiteilija Frida Backman tilasi konserttiaan varten sonaatin täydennöksen säveltäjä Walter Wolffilta. Hän sai työnsä päätöksen 2018, jonka jälkeen sonaatti kantaesitettiin.

Fennica Gehrmanin julkaisu on sonaatin ensipainos, ja siten laajentaa kuvaamme Yrjö Kilpisestä instrumenttiteosten säveltäjänä.

Teoksen osat: Allegro - Andante - Andante Moderato - Allegro.

Marimba - intermediate

SKU: HL.44005498

24 Classical Masterpieces. Arranged by Ivo Weijmans. De Haske Play-Along Book. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Composed 2005. 46 pages. De Haske Publications #1053787. Published by De Haske Publications (HL.44005498).

ISBN 9789043122214. UPC: 073999370744. 9.0x12.0x0.221 inches. English-German-French-Dut ch.

This book contains a selection of famous classical pieces that have been carefully adapted for the marimba. Composers such as Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Rimsky Korsakov and Clementi are all included. The book enables marimba players with reasonable playing experience to perform these splendid masterpieces. The pieces are ordered by difficulty and, with the exception of a few pieces at the end of the book which require four mallets, are all playable with two mallets. Musical style and good technique are essential for a good performance. In addition to making wonderful concert pieces the exciting arrangements in this book will also make a most useful teaching tool.

Dit boek bevat een aantal meesterwerken uit de klassieke muziek die zorgvuldig zijn bewerkt voor marimba. Componisten als Bach, Mozart, Beethoven maar ook Vivaldi, Rimsky-Korsakov en Clementi komen aan bod. Enigszins geoefende marimbaspelerszullen prima met deze juweeltjes uit de voeten kunnen. Daarbij zijn stijl en een goede uitvoering belangrijk. De meeste werken zijn speelbaar met twee mallets, maar achter in het boek zijn ook enkele stukken bewerkt voorvier mallets. De werken zijn gerangschikt naar moeilijkheidsgraad. Een must voor de ambitieuze muzikant en een ideaal hulpmiddel voor de les- en uitvoeringspraktijk.
< br>Masters on Marimba enthalt eine Auswahl an beruhmten klassischen Stucken, die sorgfaltig fur das Marimbaphon bearbeitet wurden. Komponisten wie Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Rimski-Korsakow und Clementi sind hier vertreten. Mit diesem Buch bekommen Spieler mit etwas Erfahrung die Gelegenheit, diese Meisterwerke zu spielen. Die Stucke sind nach Schwierigkeitsgrad geordnet und konnen - bis auf einige Stucke am Ende des Buches, die vier Schlagel erfordern - mit zwei Schlageln gespielt werden. Stilistisch und technisch gutes Spiel ist entscheidend fur einen guten Vortrag.

Master s on Marimba une selection de celebres œuvres classiques de compositeurs tels que Marais, Senaille, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Rimski-Korsakov et Clementi. La plupart des compositions se jouent avec deux baguettes, a l'exception de quelques oeuvres qui ont ete arrangees pour quatre baguettes.

Masters on Marimba e una selezione di celebri opere classiche di compositori quali Marais, Senaille, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Rimski-Korsakov e Clementi. La maggior parte delle composizioni e da suonare con due bacchette, ad eccezione di brani arrangiati per quattro bacchette. Con Masters of Marimba affronterete uno specifico repertorio che vi permettera di affinare la vostra musicalita, il vostro tocco e la precisione ritmica. Potrete poi esibirvi in pubblico dimostrando come anche la marimba possa suonare da solista al pari di altri strumenti, per intensita di suono e morbidezza d'espressione.

Choir Secular Double Choir and Violoncello

SKU: PE.EP73479

Composed by Francis Pott. Choral Works (inc. Oratorios). Edition Peters. Living Composer. Vocal Score. 164 pages. Edition Peters #98-EP73479. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP73479).

ISBN 9790577019888. 297 x 210mm inches. English.

At First Light was commissioned by Eric Bruskin, a resident of Philadelphia, USA, in memory of his mother. Eric had a longstanding enthusiasm for my work, and I was touched to be the person he approached for a task which is both a privilege and a daunting responsibility. In a sense, no music can ever measure up to the weight of love or the hope of consolation vested in it under such circumstances - but in memory I carry the deaths of both my own parents, and I was able to draw upon that. Eric's fondness for my Cello Sonata (itself written in memoriam) led him to ask that I include a solo 'cello part in the new work - but his attachment also to my polyphonic sacred choral writing meant that he wanted a centrepiece which would be both a showcase of that approach and the celebration of a life well lived. Therefore, the seven movements of At First Light arrange themselves as a series of slow meditations surrounding an exuberant 9-minute motet in which the lamenting cello falls temporarily silent.

Eric's Jewish faith meant that approaching an agnostic humanist brought up within the Anglican tradition was hardly free of problems! Gradually, though, I was able to win his approval for a collated mosaic of texts. This embraces some liturgical Latin (necessary for the motet) as the shared preserve of broad western culture in general, but balances it with a secular approach to loss, celebration, remembrance and the many shades of our mourning those whom we see no longer. Eric was adamant that he did not want the title Requiem; but what has emerged is still a form of semi-secular Requiem in all but name, taking its title instead from a phrase in the poem by Thomas Blackburn set as the third movement. This seemed to suggest succinctly how the loss of one very close to us is an awakening into an unfamiliar world where everything is changed. Following the exuberant central movement, the texts by the Lebanese-born Kahlil Gibran and the US, Kentuckian poet Wendell Berry first address the departed loved one directly, then place us within an imaginary funeral cortege, where the perennial and universal in human experience become personal without subscribing explicitly to any particular faith (or lack of it). The final text of all is a translation of a Hebraic prayer, requested and provided by Eric Bruskin, which serves to mirror its Latin counterpart heard at the outset.

Throughout , the lamenting cello represents a commentary on the experience articulated in the text. It evokes and, in a sense, tries to embrace and sanctify the individual existential journeys of the bereft, as they in turn seek to make their own sense of what the short-lived Second World War poet Alun Lewis called 'the unbearable beauty of the dead' (movement 5).

In a modern world hostage to ever greater menace, displacement, bloodshed and anguish, I hope fervently that this music not only brings a measure of solace to the person who commissioned it, but also makes its own small contribution to bailing out the sinking ship of humanity.

By ABRSM. For piano. Published by ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music).