| Classical Fake Book - 2nd Edition
Fake Book [Fake Book] - Facile Hal Leonard
(Over 850 Classical Themes and Melodies in the Original Keys) For C instrument. ...(+)
(Over 850 Classical
Themes and Melodies in
the Original Keys) For C
instrument. Format:
fakebook (spiral bound).
With vocal melody
(excerpts) and chord
names. Lassical. Series:
Hal Leonard Fake Books.
646 pages. 9x12 inches.
Published by Hal Leonard.
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Violin with Piano Accompaniment (no CD). Arranged by Colin Cowles. Fentone Play ...(+)
Violin with Piano
Accompaniment (no CD).
Arranged by Colin Cowles.
Fentone Play Along Books.
Play Along. Size 9x12
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| Keyboard Strategies Piano seul Schirmer
Master Text II. By Various. Piano Collection. 432 pages. Published by G. Schirme...(+)
Master Text II. By
Various. Piano
Collection. 432 pages.
Published by G. Schirmer,
Inc.
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| Classics For Trombone Quartet - 1st Trombone (opt. Baritone B.C.) Quatuor de cuivres: 4 trombones - Intermédiaire Kendor Music Inc.
Quartet 4 Trombones or 3 Baritones & Bass Trombone/Tuba - Grade 4 SKU: KN.176...(+)
Quartet 4 Trombones or 3
Baritones & Bass
Trombone/Tuba - Grade 4
SKU: KN.17692
Composed by Various.
Arranged by Mike Forbes.
Ensemble. Trombone
Quartet. Kendor Music Inc
#17692. Published by
Kendor Music Inc
(KN.17692). UPC:
822795176926. This
collection of 16
well-known works from the
classical repertoire for
trombone quartet are
persented here for grade
3-5 groups. This
collection was
specifically arranged to
allow for flexible low
brass instrumentation.
The 4th part may be
played on bass trombone
or tuba, and the upper
three trombone parts can
easily be exchanged for
baritones (b.c.) to the
extent that these could
be played solely by a
baritone-tuba
quartet.
Contents:
Swing Low, Sweet
Chariot; Londonderry Air;
Drink To Me Only With
Thine Eyes; Rule,
Britannia (Arne);
Greensleeves; All Through
The Night; New World
Symphony (Dvorak); Minuet
(Bach); Arioso (Bach);
Deep River; Lo, How A
Rose E'er Blooming; Air
On The G String (Bach);
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
(Mozart); Sheep May
Safely Graze (Bach);
Hornpipe (Handel); and
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| Eine kleine Nachtmusik Piano seul [Partition] - Facile Schott
(60 Classical Masterpieces in Easy Piano Arrangements). By Various. Edited by Ha...(+)
(60 Classical
Masterpieces in Easy
Piano Arrangements). By
Various. Edited by
Hans-Günter Heumann.
Piano Collection.
Softcover. 184 pages.
Schott Music #ED20764.
Published by Schott Music
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| Magical Mozart (Violin) Violon et Piano [Partition + CD] Fentone Music
Eighteen Easy Pieces for Violin and Piano. By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Arranged ...(+)
Eighteen Easy Pieces for
Violin and Piano. By
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Arranged by Andrew
Watkin. Fentone Play
Along Books. Softcover
with CD. 66 pages.
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| Sonatina Orchestre à Cordes [Conducteur] - Facile Carl Fischer
Orchestra String Orchestra - Grade 2-2.5 SKU: CF.YAS13F Composed by Muzio...(+)
Orchestra String
Orchestra - Grade 2-2.5
SKU: CF.YAS13F
Composed by Muzio
Clementi. Arranged by
Douglas Townsend. Carl
Fischer Young String
Orchestra Series.
Classical. Full score.
With Standard notation.
12 pages. Carl Fischer
Music #YAS13F. Published
by Carl Fischer Music
(CF.YAS13F). ISBN
9780825848339. UPC:
798408048334. 8.5 X 11
inches. Key: G
major. IApart from
some of his Sonatinas,
Opus 36, Clementi's life
and music are hardly
known to the piano
teachers and students of
today. For example, in
addition to the above
mentioned Sonatinas,
Clementi wrote sixty
sonatas for the piano,
many of them unjustly
neglected, although his
friend Beethoven regarded
some of them very highly.
Clementi also wrote
symphonies (some of which
he arranged as piano
sonatas), a substantial
number of waltzes and
other dances for the
piano as well as sonatas
and sonatinas for piano
four-hands.In addition to
composing, Clementi was a
much sought after piano
teacher, and included
among his students John
Field (Father of the
'Nocturne'), and
Meyerbeer.In his later
years, Clementi became a
very successful music
publisher, publishing
among other works the
first English edition of
Beethoven's Violin
Concerto, in the great
composer's own
arrangement for the
piano, as well as some of
his string quartets.
Clementi was also one of
the first English piano
manufacturers to make
pianos with a metal frame
and string them with
wire.The Sonatina in C,
Opus 36, No. 1 was one of
six such works Clementi
wrote in 1797. He must
have been partial to
these little pieces (for
which he also provided
the fingerings), since
they were reissued
(without the fingering)
by the composer shortly
after 1801. About 1820,
he issued ''the sixth
edition, with
considerable improvements
by the author;· with
fingerings added and
several minor changes,
among which were that
many of them were written
an octave higher.IIIt has
often been said,
generally by those
unhampered by the facts,
that composers of the
past (and, dare we add,
the present?), usually
handled their financial
affairs with their public
and publishers with a
poor sense of business
acumen or common sense.
As a result they
frequently found
themselves in financial
straits.Contrary to
popular opinion, this was
the exception rather than
the rule. With the
exception of Mozart and
perhaps a few other
composers, the majority
of composers then, as
now, were quite
successful in their
dealings with the public
and their publishers, as
the following examples
will show.It was not
unusual for 18th- and
19th-century composers to
arrange some of their
more popular compositions
for different
combinations of
instruments in order to
increase their
availability to a larger
music-playing public.
Telemann, in the
introduction to his
seventy-two cantatas for
solo voice and one melody
instrument (flute, oboe
or violin, with the usual
continua) Der Harmonische
Gottesdienst, tor
example, suggests that if
a singer is not available
to perform a cantata the
voice part could be
played by another
instrument. And in the
introduction to his Six
Concertos and Six Suites
for flute, violin and
continua, he named four
different instrumental
combinations that could
perform these pieces, and
actually wrote out the
notes for the different
possibilities. Bach
arranged his violin
concertos for keyboard,
and Beethoven not only
arranged his Piano Sonata
in E Major, Opus 14, No.
1 for string quartet, he
also transposed it to the
key of F. Brahm's
well-known Quintet in F
Minor for piano and
strings was his own
arrangement of his
earlier sonata for two
pianos, also in F
Minor.IIIWe come now to
Clementi. It is well
known that some of his
sixty piano sonatas were
his own arrangements of
some of his lost
symphonies, and that some
of his rondos for piano
four-hands were
originally the last
movements of his solo
sonatas or piano trios.In
order to make the first
movement of his
delightful Sonatina in C,
Opus 36, No. 1 accessible
to young string players,
I have followed the
example established by
the composer himself by
arranging and transposing
one of his piano
compositions from one
medium (the piano) to
another. (string
instruments). In order to
simplify the work for
young string players, in
the process of adapting
it to the new medium it
was necessary to
transpose it from the
original key of C to G,
thereby doing away with
some of the difficulties
they would have
encountered in the
original key. The first
violin and cello parts
are similar to the right-
and left-hand parts of
the original piano
version. The few changes
I have made in these
parts have been for the
convenience of the string
players, but in no way do
they change the nature of
the music.Since the
original implied a
harmonic framework in
many places, I have added
a second violin and viola
part in such a way that
they not only have
interesting music to
play, but also fill in
some of the implied
harmony without in any
way detracting from the
composition's musical
value. Occasionally, it
has been necessary to
raise or lower a few
passages an octave or to
modify others slightly to
make them more accessible
for young players.It is
hoped that the musical
value of the composition
has not been too
compromised, and that
students and teachers
will come to enjoy this
little piece in its new
setting as much as
pianists have in the
original one. This
arrangement may also be
performed by a solo
string quartet. When
performed by a string
orchestra, the double
bass part may be
omitted.- Douglas
TownsendString editing by
Amy Rosen.
About Carl
Fischer Young String
Orchestra
Series Thi
s series of Grade 2/Grade
2.5 pieces is designed
for second and third year
ensembles. The pieces in
this series are
characterized
by: --Occasionally
extending to third
position --Keys
carefully considered for
appropriate
difficulty --Addition
of separate 2nd violin
and viola
parts --Viola T.C.
part
included --Increase
in independence of parts
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| Classical Music from Three Films of Stanley Kubrick for Intermediate Piano Piano seul - Intermédiaire Carl Fischer
Featuring Music from 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange and Barry Lyndo...(+)
Featuring Music from
2001: A
Space Odyssey, A
Clockwork
Orange and Barry Lyndon.
Composed by Antonio
Vivaldi
(1678-1741), Giovanni
Paisiello (1740-1816),
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756-1791), Ludwig van
Beethoven (1770-1827),
Gioachino Rossini (1792-
1868), Franz Schubert
(1797-
1828), Edward Elgar
(1857-
1934), and George
Frideric
Handel (1685-1759).
Edited
by Nicholas Hopkins.
Arranged by Nicholas
Hopkins. Carl Fischer
Music
#PL1064. Published by
Carl
Fischer Music
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| Classics For Trombone Quartet - 3rd Trombone (opt. Baritone B.C.) Quatuor de cuivres: 4 trombones - Intermédiaire Kendor Music Inc.
Quartet 4 Trombones or 3 Baritones & Bass Trombone/Tuba - Grade 4 SKU: KN.176...(+)
Quartet 4 Trombones or 3
Baritones & Bass
Trombone/Tuba - Grade 4
SKU: KN.17694
Composed by Various.
Arranged by Mike Forbes.
Ensemble. Trombone
Quartet. Kendor Music Inc
#17694. Published by
Kendor Music Inc
(KN.17694). UPC:
822795176940. This
collection of 16
well-known works from the
classical repertoire for
trombone quartet are
persented here for grade
3-5 groups. This
collection was
specifically arranged to
allow for flexible low
brass instrumentation.
The 4th part may be
played on bass trombone
or tuba, and the upper
three trombone parts can
easily be exchanged for
baritones (b.c.) to the
extent that these could
be played solely by a
baritone-tuba
quartet.
Contents:
Swing Low, Sweet
Chariot; Londonderry Air;
Drink To Me Only With
Thine Eyes; Rule,
Britannia (Arne);
Greensleeves; All Through
The Night; New World
Symphony (Dvorak); Minuet
(Bach); Arioso (Bach);
Deep River; Lo, How A
Rose E'er Blooming; Air
On The G String (Bach);
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
(Mozart); Sheep May
Safely Graze (Bach);
Hornpipe (Handel); and
Tango (Albeniz). $7.50 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 24 hours - In Stock | | |
| World Famous Classics Violon [Partition + CD] Fentone Music
(Violin). Arranged by Colin Cowles. For Violin. Fentone Instrumental Books. Play...(+)
(Violin). Arranged by
Colin Cowles. For Violin.
Fentone Instrumental
Books. Play Along. Book
with CD. 24 pages.
Fentone Music #F831.
Published by Fentone
Music . Sheet music +
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| World Famous Classics Hautbois [Partition + CD] Fentone Music
Oboe - easy-intermediate SKU: HL.44004829 Oboe. By Peter Manning. ...(+)
Oboe - easy-intermediate
SKU: HL.44004829
Oboe. By Peter
Manning. Arranged by
Colin Cowles. Fentone
Instrumental Books. Play
Along. Book with CD.
Composed 2003. 24 pages.
Fentone Music #F811.
Published by Fentone
Music (HL.44004829).
UPC: 073999048292.
International (more than
one language). This
book contains sixteen
classical melodies known
throughout the world. The
volume comes with a CD
which includes a piano
accompaniment as well as
performances of the
melodies by various
instruments. Includes:
Pastime with Good Company
* Largo * Bist du bei mir
* Mozart 40 * Theme from
William Tell Overture *
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Recorder with Piano Accompaniment (no CD). By Peter Manning. Arranged by C...(+)
Recorder with Piano
Accompaniment (no CD). By
Peter Manning. Arranged
by
Colin Cowles. Fentone
Instrumental Books.
Classical.
Book Only. Composed 2003.
44
pages. Fentone Music
#F838.
Published by Fentone
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Colin Cowles. For French
Horn. Fentone
Instrumental Books. Play
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pages. Fentone Music
#F815. Published by
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by Colin Cowles. Fentone
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Along. Softcover with CD.
24 pages. Fentone Music
#F813. Published by
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or TC)). Arranged by
Colin Cowles. For
Trombone, Euphonium.
Fentone Instrumental
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#F816. Published by
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Colin Cowles. For
Clarinet. Fentone
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pages. Fentone Music
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Fentone Music #F810.
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inches. 22 pages.
Published by Fentone
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| Easy Keyboard Library -- Popular Classics - Facile Faber Music Limited
(23 Classic Pieces for Keyboard). For Keyboard. Book; Piano - Easy Piano Collect...(+)
(23 Classic Pieces for
Keyboard). For Keyboard.
Book; Piano - Easy Piano
Collection; Piano
Supplemental. Faber
Edition: Easy Keyboard
Library. Classic Pop.
Easy Piano; Elementary.
Published by Faber Music
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| Accent On The Classics Orchestre [Conducteur et Parties séparées] - Débutant Kendor Music Inc.
String Orchestra - Grade 1.5 SKU: KN.8102 Composed by Various. Arranged b...(+)
String Orchestra - Grade
1.5 SKU: KN.8102
Composed by Various.
Arranged by Lorie
Gruneisen. Accent String
Orchestra. Score and set
of parts. Kendor Music
Inc #8102. Published by
Kendor Music Inc
(KN.8102). UPC:
822795081022. Chall
enge your young players
with the melodies from
the famous works of Haydn
and Mozart featured in
this piece. The accent
will be on the students'
motivation to learn these
familiar themes and on
the audience's enjoyment
of their performance!
Titles in this grade 1+
work include: Surprise
Symphony, Mvt. 2 (Haydn),
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik,
Mvt. 1 (Mozart), Symphony
No. 40, Mvt. 1 (Mozart),
and String Quartet, Hob
III/74, Mvt. 4 (Haydn).
Each set includes three
copies of the 3rd
Violin/Viola T.C. and
piano parts. Duration
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| Accent On The Classics (Full Score) - Débutant Kendor Music Inc.
String Orchestra Score - Grade 1.5 SKU: KN.08102S Composed by Various. Ar...(+)
String Orchestra Score -
Grade 1.5 SKU:
KN.08102S Composed by
Various. Arranged by
Lorie Gruneisen. Accent
String Orchestra. Kendor
Music Inc #08102S.
Published by Kendor Music
Inc (KN.08102S). UPC:
822795081022. Chall
enge your young players
with the melodies from
the famous works of Haydn
and Mozart featured in
this piece. The accent
will be on the students'
motivation to learn these
familiar themes and on
the audience's enjoyment
of their performance!
Titles in this grade 1+
work include: Surprise
Symphony, Mvt. 2 (Haydn),
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik,
Mvt. 1 (Mozart), Symphony
No. 40, Mvt. 1 (Mozart),
and String Quartet, Hob
III/74, Mvt. 4 (Haydn).
Each set includes three
copies of the 3rd
Violin/Viola T.C. and
piano parts. Duration
2:55. $7.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| Zephyrus Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music SKU: PR.164002120 Composed by Dan Welcher. Set of Score and...(+)
Chamber Music SKU:
PR.164002120 Composed
by Dan Welcher. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
32+16+12+12+12 pages.
Duration 16 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#164-00212. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.164002120). UPC:
680160037582. Works
of chamber music
including flute and
strings are not nearly as
numerous as those for
clarinet, or even the
oboe. Probably the reason
for this is the less
assertive, more pure tone
the flute possesses - it
can't compete for volume
or range with the
clarinet, except in its
top octave, and the
oboe's tone is more
penetrating and easily
discerned from within a
string texture.
Consequently, composers
who have written for
flute and strings have
done so in lightweight
divertimento works:
compare, for instance,
the delicate flute
quartets of Mozart with
his monumental quintet
for clarinet and strings.
When Karl and Joan
Karber approached me with
the ideas of writing a
work for flute and string
trio, I originally
thought it would be best
to write a humorous,
rather offhand piece -
but a look at their
repertoire (mostly
comprised of smaller
works of the Rococo
period) convinced me that
it was the last thing
they needed. In spite of
the challenge (or maybe
because of it?), I
determined to write a
large work, and a serious
work. Zephyrus (named for
the God of the West Wind,
in deference to the
flute) is a
three-movement work, with
each movement cast in a
very different form, but
all three being built of
the same twelve-note
series. There is also a
rhythmic motive and a
pair of themes that
appear in all three
movements. The
first movement plays with
the idea of contrast and
persuasion. The flute, at
the outset, is the
hell-for-leather
protagonist, charging and
swooping around the
strings - who seem oddly
unconcerned by his
passion. Indeed, they
have a more somber song
to sing - and as the
movement unfolds, the
flute becomes less and
less active, while the
strings become
increasingly enlivened.
By the midpoint, when all
four instruments are
finally in the same meter
and the same tempo, the
flute's energy has
finally infected the
other three players, and
this energy does not let
up until the movement's
abrupt final cadence.
The second
movement begins with a
tag from the first - as
if the energy left over
was too great to simply
stop. At length, though,
a very poignant flute
melody appears over an
almost bluesy harmony in
the strings. After this
has been fully exposed, a
slight increase in
motion, marked gently
rocking in triplets,
features a theme-fragment
from Leonard Bernstein's
Symphony No. 2 (Kaddish).
Bernstein died as I was
writing this work, and it
seemed quite natural to
encourage what was
already implicit in the
music, and create an
Elegy for L.B. The music
rises and peaks, then in
the recapitulation of the
opening the Kaddish theme
reappears, as the
ensemble suggests a
gentle song of sleep.
The final movement
is a Rondo-Variations
form, with the slight
alteration of adding the
main theme of the second
movement in what would be
the trio of the form. The
ritornello theme is a
kind of ethnic dance
music, almost an allusion
to the Klezmer ensembles
of Eastern Europe. The
successive episodes
between the ritornelli
are loosely organized
variations on the basic
theme, but always
beginning with a metric
modulation, a rhythmic
changing of gears. The
movement reaches and apex
of speed and furious
pulsing, then abruptly
pirouttes, and finishes.
Zephyrus was
written between April and
November of 1990 in
Austin, Aspen, and
Honolulu, and is
dedicated to Karl Kraber
and The Chamber Soloists
of Austin. --Dan
Welcher. $85.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Zephyrus Theodore Presser Co.
SKU: PR.16400212S Composed by Dan Welcher. With Standard notation. Durati...(+)
SKU: PR.16400212S
Composed by Dan Welcher.
With Standard notation.
Duration 16 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#164-00212S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.16400212S). UPC:
680160037605. Works
of chamber music
including flute and
strings are not nearly as
numerous as those for
clarinet, or even the
oboe. Probably the reason
for this is the less
assertive, more pure tone
the flute possesses - it
can't compete for volume
or range with the
clarinet, except in its
top octave, and the
oboe's tone is more
penetrating and easily
discerned from within a
string texture.
Consequently, composers
who have written for
flute and strings have
done so in lightweight
divertimento works:
compare, for instance,
the delicate flute
quartets of Mozart with
his monumental quintet
for clarinet and strings.
When Karl and Joan
Karber approached me with
the ideas of writing a
work for flute and string
trio, I originally
thought it would be best
to write a humorous,
rather offhand piece -
but a look at their
repertoire (mostly
comprised of smaller
works of the Rococo
period) convinced me that
it was the last thing
they needed. In spite of
the challenge (or maybe
because of it?), I
determined to write a
large work, and a serious
work. Zephyrus (named for
the God of the West Wind,
in deference to the
flute) is a
three-movement work, with
each movement cast in a
very different form, but
all three being built of
the same twelve-note
series. There is also a
rhythmic motive and a
pair of themes that
appear in all three
movements. The
first movement plays with
the idea of contrast and
persuasion. The flute, at
the outset, is the
hell-for-leather
protagonist, charging and
swooping around the
strings - who seem oddly
unconcerned by his
passion. Indeed, they
have a more somber song
to sing - and as the
movement unfolds, the
flute becomes less and
less active, while the
strings become
increasingly enlivened.
By the midpoint, when all
four instruments are
finally in the same meter
and the same tempo, the
flute's energy has
finally infected the
other three players, and
this energy does not let
up until the movement's
abrupt final cadence.
The second
movement begins with a
tag from the first - as
if the energy left over
was too great to simply
stop. At length, though,
a very poignant flute
melody appears over an
almost bluesy harmony in
the strings. After this
has been fully exposed, a
slight increase in
motion, marked gently
rocking in triplets,
features a theme-fragment
from Leonard Bernstein's
Symphony No. 2 (Kaddish).
Bernstein died as I was
writing this work, and it
seemed quite natural to
encourage what was
already implicit in the
music, and create an
Elegy for L.B. The music
rises and peaks, then in
the recapitulation of the
opening the Kaddish theme
reappears, as the
ensemble suggests a
gentle song of sleep.
The final movement
is a Rondo-Variations
form, with the slight
alteration of adding the
main theme of the second
movement in what would be
the trio of the form. The
ritornello theme is a
kind of ethnic dance
music, almost an allusion
to the Klezmer ensembles
of Eastern Europe. The
successive episodes
between the ritornelli
are loosely organized
variations on the basic
theme, but always
beginning with a metric
modulation, a rhythmic
changing of gears. The
movement reaches and apex
of speed and furious
pulsing, then abruptly
pirouttes, and finishes.
Zephyrus was
written between April and
November of 1990 in
Austin, Aspen, and
Honolulu, and is
dedicated to Karl Kraber
and The Chamber Soloists
of Austin. --Dan
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