SKU: CL.023-4620-00

Your beginning band students will sound mature beyond their years with this marvelous work from the pen of Japanese composer Naoya Wada. Bold and powerful, Impulse Power is the perfect overture for beginning musicians, using just the first six notes learned in band instruction. While the ranges, rhythms and performance demands are limited, there’s no musical compromise with this masterfully scored work. Impulse Power is sure to captivate your students and audiences alike.

SKU: CL.023-4620-01

Your beginning band students will sound mature beyond their years with this marvelous work from the pen of Japanese composer Naoya Wada. Bold and powerful, Impulse Power is the perfect overture for beginning musicians, using just the first six notes learned in band instruction. While the ranges, rhythms and performance demands are limited, there’s no musical compromise with this masterfully scored work. Impulse Power is sure to captivate your students and audiences alike.

SKU: PR.140400670

UPC: 680160023271.

Secre t Geometry can be heard as a short piano sonata, with the movements forming a typical fast--slow--fast pattern. The electronic sounds on tape are tightly interworven with the piano, often serving to extend and transform the piano's sound. The goal is to create a hybrid sound world. The phrase secret geometry is used to describe the play of forms in certain paintings, referring to structural patterns that are used to organize the pictorial elements. Since the electronic medium permits a composer to focus on the micro-structure of individual sounds, as well as more customary concerns with patterns of pitch and rhythm, it seemed appropriate to choose a title that emphasizes the careful shaping of every compositional element. But this is not to neglect the spiritual impulse of the work. After all, the obscure motion of the Holy Spirit herself describes a secret geometry, what Thomas Merton called a hidden wholeness. Written for the distinguished pianist Aleck Karis, Secret Geometry was composed with the assistance of a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. The tape was realized in the Presser Electronic Music Studio of the University of Pennsylvania.

SKU: HL.1105208

UPC: 663961058666. 17.5x18.5x30.0 inches.

SRT212 - 12″ 1600W Professional Powered Loudspeaker SRT™ Professional Powered Loudspeakers are designed for real-world working musicians, DJs, events, venues, and beyond. The latest acoustic processing technology, powerful amplifiers, and the ultra-versatile SRT Mix Control™ means easy setup, incredible sound, and unbeatable reliability. Built-Like-A-Tank™ construction features rugged molded cabinets and tough steel grilles that are built to last. As the larger gigs come rolling in, your audience gets bigger, and your needs demand better sound and flexibility, SRT is YOUR Next Big Thing. • A True Workhorse for Gigging Professionals • Powerful 1600W Class-D amplifiers designed for ultra-reliable, consistent performance • Custom high-efficiency transducers ensure maximum clarity and accuracy • Built-Like-A-Tank™ to conquer every gig while lightweight for easy loading • Universal Power Supply (100-240VAC) with Power Factor Correction for stable operation even with unstable AC power • Advanced Impulse™ DSP - Proprietary Acoustic Tuning • Crystal clear sound across the entire dispersion zone means the whole room is the sweet spot • Custom Sym-X™ Horn • Allows for total efficiency from the HF transducer minimizing distortion and increasing output • Creates a perfectly symmetrical, flat response at the crossover point for exceptionally smooth midrange • The horn-loading frequency is set below the HF drivers' LF capability allowing for maximum efficiency and optimal performance at the crossover point • Transparent System Limiting and Protection • Dedicated processing module monitors and protects the amplifier in real time • Sound quality and tonal balance is maintained even under heavy limiting • Utilizing powerful multi-band compression, the amplifier can target specific frequency ranges to prevent the system from being overloaded rather than turn everything down at the expense of overall output • Input limiting keeps your source signal in check so if you're sending audio that's a bit too hot, the speaker will cool it down • SRT Mix Control™ Built-in 4-Channel Digital Mixer with Bluetooth® • Dual independent channels that support mic, line, and instrument signals • Dedicated 1/8″ stereo aux channel • Stream music from any Bluetooth® enabled device • Complete Wireless Control via the SRT Connect™ App • Wirelessly link SRT speakers together for music streaming applications plus complete control over both speakers • Versatile configuration options • Step up your low-end with the SR18S Powered Subwoofer.

SKU: HL.1105207

UPC: 663961058741. 15.25x17.25x25.25 inches.

SRT210 - 10″ 1600W Professional Powered Loudspeaker SRT™ Professional Powered Loudspeakers are designed for real-world working musicians, DJs, events, venues, and beyond. The latest acoustic processing technology, powerful amplifiers, and the ultra-versatile SRT Mix Control™ means easy setup, incredible sound, and unbeatable reliability. Built-Like-A-Tank™ construction features rugged molded cabinets and tough steel grilles that are built to last. As the larger gigs come rolling in, your audience gets bigger, and your needs demand better sound and flexibility, SRT is YOUR Next Big Thing. • A True Workhorse for Gigging Professionals • Advanced Impulse™ DSP - Proprietary Acoustic Tuning • Custom Sym-X™ Horn • Transparent System Limiting and Protection • SRT Mix Control™ Built-in 4-Channel Digital Mixer with Bluetooth® •�Complete Wireless Control via the SRT Connect™ App • Wirelessly link SRT speakers together for music streaming applications plus complete control over both speakers • Versatile configuration options • Step up your low-end with the SR18S Powered Subwoofer.

SKU: BR.OB-3210-15

ISBN 9790004300695. 10 x 12.5 inches.

Johannes Brahms' first Piano Concerto was the fruit of a complex, protracted, and extremely trying creative process. Its origin goes back to a sonata in D minor for two pianos conceived in spring 1854. The impulse for the creation of the main subject was however a shocking event: According to Joseqph Joachim, the theme originated after hearing about Schumanns suicide attempt. A few months earlier, Schumann had revealed Brahms to the musical world in his essay New Paths. In this article, Brahms is extolled as the musician who is called to give expression to the feeling of his times in an ideal fashion. The unusually rapid genesis of the D-minor sonata and its prevailingly dark, monumental mood can be interpreted as an impassioned compositional response to Schumann's suicide attempt. However, the year-long struggle to arrive at the final form of the work should perhaps also be seen in the context of the resounding praise of Schumann's prophetic article. Brahms undoubtly felt a growing inner pressure to live up to the expectations aroused therein.Together with Clara Schumann, Brahms played the three so far existing movements of the sonata, but he was very self-critical. He felt that he had not been able to realize the monumentality he had envisioned, and which Clara Schumann felt, by merely doubling the piano sound. He soon decided to transform the sonata into a symphony (his first orchestral project). However, this idea did not seem to fit his vision either. Only in spring 1855 did he strike upon the definitive solution: a piano concerto. With Brahms as soloist, this concerto premiered in 1859, though he initially had little success. He wrote to Joachim about one of the first performances that the concerto was a brilliant and unmistakable - failure. This hardly surprised Brahms, for he was undoubtedly aware of the newness of the work, which surpassed the expectations of the audience. The work's complex structure and symphonic dimensions, the solo part's rejection of showy, elegant brilliance, and the uniquely Brahmsian orchestral density it maintains throughout; all of these qualities inevitably exasperated audiences at first - until they raised this work to the ranks of the most celebrated concertos of all time.

SKU: BR.OB-3210-30

ISBN 9790004300749. 10 x 12.5 inches.

Johannes Brahms' first Piano Concerto was the fruit of a complex, protracted, and extremely trying creative process. Its origin goes back to a sonata in D minor for two pianos conceived in spring 1854. The impulse for the creation of the main subject was however a shocking event: According to Joseqph Joachim, the theme originated after hearing about Schumanns suicide attempt. A few months earlier, Schumann had revealed Brahms to the musical world in his essay New Paths. In this article, Brahms is extolled as the musician who is called to give expression to the feeling of his times in an ideal fashion. The unusually rapid genesis of the D-minor sonata and its prevailingly dark, monumental mood can be interpreted as an impassioned compositional response to Schumann's suicide attempt. However, the year-long struggle to arrive at the final form of the work should perhaps also be seen in the context of the resounding praise of Schumann's prophetic article. Brahms undoubtly felt a growing inner pressure to live up to the expectations aroused therein.Together with Clara Schumann, Brahms played the three so far existing movements of the sonata, but he was very self-critical. He felt that he had not been able to realize the monumentality he had envisioned, and which Clara Schumann felt, by merely doubling the piano sound. He soon decided to transform the sonata into a symphony (his first orchestral project). However, this idea did not seem to fit his vision either. Only in spring 1855 did he strike upon the definitive solution: a piano concerto. With Brahms as soloist, this concerto premiered in 1859, though he initially had little success. He wrote to Joachim about one of the first performances that the concerto was a brilliant and unmistakable - failure. This hardly surprised Brahms, for he was undoubtedly aware of the newness of the work, which surpassed the expectations of the audience. The work's complex structure and symphonic dimensions, the solo part's rejection of showy, elegant brilliance, and the uniquely Brahmsian orchestral density it maintains throughout; all of these qualities inevitably exasperated audiences at first - until they raised this work to the ranks of the most celebrated concertos of all time.

SKU: BR.OB-3210-16

ISBN 9790004300701. 10 x 12.5 inches.

Johannes Brahms' first Piano Concerto was the fruit of a complex, protracted, and extremely trying creative process. Its origin goes back to a sonata in D minor for two pianos conceived in spring 1854. The impulse for the creation of the main subject was however a shocking event: According to Joseqph Joachim, the theme originated after hearing about Schumanns suicide attempt. A few months earlier, Schumann had revealed Brahms to the musical world in his essay New Paths. In this article, Brahms is extolled as the musician who is called to give expression to the feeling of his times in an ideal fashion. The unusually rapid genesis of the D-minor sonata and its prevailingly dark, monumental mood can be interpreted as an impassioned compositional response to Schumann's suicide attempt. However, the year-long struggle to arrive at the final form of the work should perhaps also be seen in the context of the resounding praise of Schumann's prophetic article. Brahms undoubtly felt a growing inner pressure to live up to the expectations aroused therein.Together with Clara Schumann, Brahms played the three so far existing movements of the sonata, but he was very self-critical. He felt that he had not been able to realize the monumentality he had envisioned, and which Clara Schumann felt, by merely doubling the piano sound. He soon decided to transform the sonata into a symphony (his first orchestral project). However, this idea did not seem to fit his vision either. Only in spring 1855 did he strike upon the definitive solution: a piano concerto. With Brahms as soloist, this concerto premiered in 1859, though he initially had little success. He wrote to Joachim about one of the first performances that the concerto was a brilliant and unmistakable - failure. This hardly surprised Brahms, for he was undoubtedly aware of the newness of the work, which surpassed the expectations of the audience. The work's complex structure and symphonic dimensions, the solo part's rejection of showy, elegant brilliance, and the uniquely Brahmsian orchestral density it maintains throughout; all of these qualities inevitably exasperated audiences at first - until they raised this work to the ranks of the most celebrated concertos of all time.

SKU: ST.Y228

ISBN 9790220221712.

Shards of Light is dedicated to Gyorgy Pauk, and is of Grade 8 to diploma standard. The contrast between its atmospheric main idea of fleet, ethereal figurations high on the E-string and more spiky and aggressive material suggests the image of its title, in music contemporary in sound yet accessible in feeling.

Like other instrumental works by Rhian Samuel, Shards of Light combines exciting instrumental virtuosity with a strongly poetic impulse, and is a most effective addition to the repertoire of new violin music, whether as an examination test-piece or as recital material.

SKU: CF.PL1025

ISBN 9780825850752. UPC: 798408050757. 9 X 12 inches.

Gramercy Square is a beautiful collection of intermediate level pieces in a lyrical style, with strong, memorable melodies and simple left hand accompaniments. The music is an atmospheric look at the sights, sounds and memories produced by urban life in and around a New York landmark. This is music shaped and propelled by the melodic impulse and will be very satisfying for young pianists to play. The book’s pieces are titled Come October, Gramercy Square, Letter from Home, Public Transportation, Sand Pebble, Secrets and Summer’s End.

SKU: HL.49019767

SKU: PR.11440744S

UPC: 680160011490. 9.5 x 13 inches.

The sextet was written for flute (doubling alto flute), clarinet doubling bass clarinet), violin, cello, piano and percussion (triangle, 3 temple blocks, 2 wood blocks, side drum, cymbal, 4 tom-toms, vibraphone, small tam-tam, median tam-tam and big tam-tam). It presents the composer lost in thought about ancient culture and modern civilization and her thinking about the parallels and contrasts between the East and the West. Near Distance takes us through a journey that covers thousands of miles and thousands of years. Contrasting moments of dense, busy activity with sparse, haunting lines the composer bridges the gap between the timeless history of her homeland and the ever-changing, energetic life in the modern society. The work was originally written under the request of Prof. Jacob Druckman, for a composition workshop at the Aspen Music Festival. It is dedicated to his memory with admiration and respect. Near Distance has been featured in Sound and Silence, a series of ten documentary films on contemporary music, which has been broadcast on the European TV network since 1989, produced by the ISCM, Adamov Films and the Polish TV. It has also been recorded on CRI, released in 1999, under the title Sparkle: Chamber Music of Chen Yi. [now available through New World Records] --Chen Yi   Her piece... generates a vivid and wholly radiant color scheme. Harmonically, too, it seems to float enchantingly, its occasional ventures into microtones gracefully bending away from traditional tonality. Gorgeous music, this; one longs to hear more. --Alan Rich, LA Weekly 'Near Distance' evinced some delicate, dramatic sonorities in its fusion of East Asian and Western musical impulses. --John von Rhein, Chicago Tribune.

SKU: BR.EB-9240

ISBN 9790004185407. 9 x 12 inches.

Belcanto is a term for the Italian art of singing which took its development from the richly ornamented solo vocalism of the early 17th century (nobile maniera di cantare) and dominated European operatic singing until the first half of the 19th century. Complete control over the voice meant not only legato and messa di voce, but also appoggiatura and portamento, as well as virtuoso ornamentation by means of coloratura (canto fiorito). This development towards utmost virtuosity, emulating instrumental playing techniques, led to a mannered, artificial style on the one hand, but on the other also emphasized the physical aspects of interpretation (castrati were considered the ideal belcanto singers). And today? In his essay The Grain of the Voice, Roland Barthes writes: The grain is the body in the voice as it sings, the hand as it writes and the limb as it performs. Initially, he refers to the friction between language and voice in singing, but then transfers his thoughts to the physicality of instrumental music. In this spirit, I went in search of beautiful singing, a beauty which perhaps results in the very place where the grain, the roughness, meaning also physical resistance, are not smoothed over. The oboe seemed very suitable to me for singing with such a physical expressivity, as a very unruly instrument! The backbone of my piece is one single, quasi endless melodic line, consisting of intervals that are constantly pulled apart and contracted again (breathing). Many different actions attach themselves to these notes: coloratura, trills, chords (multiphonics), double flageolets. However, there are not only sound types, but also impulses, repetitions, rhythmic figures and other elements: composed elements of belcanto. In the opera tradition described above, these were improvised ornaments or additions; here they become composed figures which originate with the notes of the melody, but also pull on them, bend them, and charge them with physicality. (Jorg Birkenkotter).

SKU: HL.49018144

ISBN 9790001170079. 9.0x12.0x0.21 inches.

The image of a landscape in April, freed from winter's hold, with its mixture of barrenness and still dull colours, characterises the basic tone of this piece. Melodic elements and fast virtuoso figurations cannot be found, instead the piece is dominated by subtle nuances of just a few sounds and textures. The harmony is based almost entirely on a single chord type. Occasionally, short chains of repetitions and oscillating impulses emerge from this string of sounds.Ambitious performers can use this demanding and varied piece to try out modern playing techniques.