Choral SATB Choir

SKU: PR.UE034186

Composed by Richard Filz. Rhythm Voices. Part. With Standard notation. Composed 2008. Universal Edition #UE034186. Published by Universal Edition (PR.UE034186).

ISBN 9783702466800. UPC: 803452063995.

As part of the Rhythm Voices series, German drummer/composer Richard Filz gives us Airdrummers of Tombalesi, a lively piece for choir or four-part voices written in a percussive style. Each voice part imitates the drum with consonant and vowel sounds, resulting in unique and tangible tone color. For intermediate to advanced singers.

Soprano voice, soprano saxophone, piano

SKU: P2.50010

Composed by Lori F. Ardovino. Chamber music, 20th century. Published by Potenza Music (P2.50010).

Between Walls is a group of songs on the poems of William Carlos Williams for soprano voice, soprano saxophone and piano. Within each movement, the music helps describe the text or set the mood of each of the movements. The first movement, Between Walls, is solemn, without joy or humor, quiet in nature and thoughtful. In the text, where nothing will grow, the last pitch on grow is much higher than the previous pitches, as if it were to grow. The soprano and the saxophone are unison on In which and then move apart a step and a third on shine the ending with a dissonant minor 2nd on the word broken, playing upon the text. Young Woman at a Window is for soprano and piano alone. This movement is also quite dissonant and the piano sustains that tonality by using pedal through out. The soprano sings in the lower tessitura while the piano moves slowly between major thirds and minor seconds to minor thirds and tritones to the end of the piece, suggesting the sadness of the women, with tears on her cheeks. The listener is left to wonder what she and the child are looking at. The Nightingales is a contrast to the first two movements. The tonality is more consonant, lyrical in the saxophone line and arpeggiated chords sustained with pedal throughout most of the piano line, promoting a poetic and expressive premise. In The Thing, the lines move more independently and do not come together as one until the text bitterly together, which is unison, to the last line moving apart to the M3rd. As the Cat is sprightly and jaunty, the piano and saxophone placing the beats in an unexpected manner, the soprano a bit disjunctive at times, just as how a cat might work it's way carefully over obstacles to find it's way to it's final destination.

Orchestra

SKU: HL.14035756

Composed by Per Norgard. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. 16 pages. Music Sales #KP00298. Published by Music Sales (HL.14035756).

ISBN 9788759868294. English.

Wenn Die Rose Sich Selbst Schmückt, Schmückt Sie Auch Den Garten (When The Rose Beautifies Itself, It Beautifies The Garden ) was composed by Per Nørgård in 1971.

Chamber Cantata for four performers

Scored for Soprano, Alto Flute, Double Bass and Percussion (all playing also Crotales).

Composed for and dedicated to Dorothy Dorrow.

Parts available: KP01092

Preface / Programme Note

The title of the work is borrowed from a fragment by the German poet Friedrich Rückert.
This fragment, this short sentence (which Rückert apparently neverelaborated upon) is the entire basis of the work. I was inspired by the meaning as well as the sound of these words.
I perceive the meaning of the sentence as being a defence for the refinement of an individual’s personal gifts - far from the present hostility toward individuality and the senseless praise of impersonal success in society. Personal refinement can, so the fragment in my interpretation, at its best be accompanied by a deep sense of responsibility, and become an active and positive influence in society.
The sound, the timbre, of the individual words and characters is employed both in
straightforward text-sequences, as well as in the exploration of individual vowels and consonants as pure sounds. The soprano is often used purely instrumentally, echoing and pre-echoing discreetly the notes of the flute and the harmonics of the double bass, often imperceptably stealing their notes and altering them into human sounds, which then yet
again are absorbed into the instrumental tapestry.

Per Nørgård, 1971

Music for Two Guitarists - Revised New Edition 2020. Composed by Helmut Lachenmann. World premiere: Baden-Baden, December 3, 1977. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB 9389. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel

(A Step-by-Step Guide to Better Rhyming for Poets and Lyricists). Berklee Press. Softcover. 136 pages. Published by Berklee Press

String Quartet

SKU: AY.CM3180PM

Composed by Eddie Mora. Ensembles - Chamber Music. Score & Parts. Duration 9'11. Periferia Publishing #CM3180PM. Published by Periferia Publishing (AY.CM3180PM).

ISBN 9790543573345.

This work is part of a series for different chamber and symphonic ensembles. The Retrato V for string quartet is divided in two setions. In the first one the dissonant setcions ineract with the consonants creating a musical linear discourse. As far as the work is concerned, it conludes with a fast and light movement where the clear and festive sonorities predominate. We can clearly distinguish two themes.

Composed by Libby Larsen (1950-). Choral octavo. 16 pages. Duration 4'. Published by Oxford University Press (OU.9780193868885).

SA choir, organ, flute/C instrument/B-flat instrument - Beginning

SKU: MN.50-1402

Composed by Dale Grotenhuis. Christmas. Choral score. MorningStar Music Publishers #50-1402. Published by MorningStar Music Publishers (MN.50-1402).

UPC: 688670514029.

Conso nant, functional setting of Polish carol, W ZLOBIE LEZY. Charming Flute obbligato.

String quartet - difficult

SKU: HL.49044143

For string quartet. Composed by Detlev Mueller-Siemens. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. String Ensemble. Softcover. Composed 2011. 96 pages. Duration 12'. Schott Music #ED21351. Published by Schott Music (HL.49044143).

ISBN 9790001187237.

...c alled dusk II for string quartet draws its inspiration from a line in Samuel Beckett's short story Lessness: 'Figment dawn dispeller of figments and the other called dusk'.The work is a kind of double Chaconne, each part of which contains 26 chords based on specific permutations of fundamental notes and their harmonics. Each of the parts pass through alternating, harmonically contrasted planes, becoming entwined in the manner of a chimera through their rhythmic structure and dynamics. This intermittently produces a sort of 'inner voice' which runs through all four instruments. The fundamental notes and harmonics separate during the progress of the composition, becoming independent and then disintegrating. The consonant harmony resulting from the amalgamation of the two planes ultimately collapses into a rigid motor-like linearity. Detlev Muller-Siemens.

Choir Secular (2-Part choir)

SKU: AP.48827

Composed by Katie O'Connor-Ballantyne. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles. Alfred Choral Designs. Novelty; Secular. Choral Octavo. 12 pages. Alfred Music #00-48827. Published by Alfred Music (AP.48827).

UPC: 038081561516. English.

Have you ever heard of a bear with wings? Or a biffalo-buffalo-bison? How about a wallaboo? A. A. Milne, best-known as the author of Winnie the Pooh, penned this playful poem about amusing animals, both real and imagined, at a zany zoo. This clever children's choral offers plenty of musical moments (including independent counterlines and logical 2-part harmonies) in between giggles. Perform with a light, bright tone and crisp consonants on the patter-like words. Two likely results: hilarious rehearsals and a roaring crowd!

About Alfred Choral Designs

Th e Alfred Choral Designs Series provides student and adult choirs with a variety of secular choral music that is useful, practical, educationally appropriate, and a pleasure to sing. To that end, the Choral Designs series features original works, folk song settings, spiritual arrangements, choral masterworks, and holiday selections suitable for use in concerts, festivals, and contests.

Brass Ensemble, Brass Instruments, SATB

SKU: HL.14028037

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. 20th Century. Score. Music Sales #KP00435. Published by Music Sales (HL.14028037).

ISBN 9788759871799.

Rude rs writes: gl0rIA is subtitled: a relique for large chorus and 12 brass-instruments. At the same time it is an exercise for chorus because only vowels do occur, or virtually no consonants are heard. The second part of the Missa Ordinarium, the Gloria in Exelcis Deo makes the literary basis of g10rIA, but I employ only the vowels, which in their full context form a non-language, - fragments of a tradition. A less dim vision of the severed body appears in the center of the piece, where the Domini Fili-section surfaces in its original shape. gl0rIA is a 20th century composer's hommage to the innocent faith of bygone days and a fanfare in honour of Claudio Monteverdi; thus the ever present elaborations of the introduction to the Vespro Della Beate Vergine. Superimposed on the torso of Latin, I wedge in a quotation from the Spanish renaissance poet Gonzalo de Berceo's Duelo de la Virgen, a surrealistic Lamento, in which the Jews, sent by Pilate to stand guard at the tomb of Christ, mock and ridicule Maria, Jesu mother. Thus a shadow has been cast over the jubilant religious appraisal of the past, which today's knowledge of atrocities and enormities engineered by Mankind, has - alas - made so hard to repeat.

Composed by Ruth Elaine Schram. For unison/2-part voices with piano. Sacred anthem. General. Octavo. Published by Chorister's Guild

(45 Accompanied Vocal Warm-Ups That Teach Technique). By and arr. Andy Beck. Choir Secular. Book; CD; Choral Method; Method/Instruction; Reproducible. 120 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing

Composed by Z. Randall Stroope. Music Education. Octavo. 24 pages. Published by Walton Music (GI.WW1536).

(for solo vibraphone). Composed by Rod Kosterman. Percussion Solos. For vibraphone (1 player). Difficulty: Medium-Advanced. Folio. 8 pages. Duration 6:00. Published by Tapspace Publications

SATB/Treble Choirs Choral (SATB Choir/Treble Choir) - Grade 3

SKU: HL.14015573

Composed by John Hoybye. Arranged by Martin Allwood. Music Sales America. Classical, Danish, English. Vocal Score. Composed 2005. 16 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH29443. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14015573).

ISBN 9788774554837. 8.25x11.75x0.08 inches. International (more than one language). Lyrics by Tom Kristensen; Translated by Martin Allwood.

The Slow Spring is a short and unusual choral setting of the writing of Tom Kristensen, impatiently yearning for the coming of Spring. Kristensen's evocative and stirring poetry, translated to English by Martin Allwood, are employed as both song and accompaniment as the choral group is split into two factions. An set of SATB soloists are set against an SSAA chorus to provide a compelling variety of textures, and the plosive possibilities of the words themselves are fully explored with whispers, held vowels and dramatic percussive consonants.

By Greg Jasperse. For SATB choir unaccompanied (SATB A Cappella). Shawnee Press. Choral. 20 pages

2-part choir and piano

SKU: LO.45-1638H

Choral collection. Educational, Choral. Heritage Music Press #45/1638H. Published by Heritage Music Press (LO.45-1638H).

ISBN 9780787766405.

As a one-stop-shopping, budget-stretching collection, Let's Sing! brings together five diverse two-part selections for use throughout the school year. You’ll find easily learned, tried-and-true titles for several occasions, all written by arrangers who consistently create effective music for the developing voice. So with deep breaths, tall vowels, and crisp consonants, let's sing!

(The Boosey Voice Coach). By Various. Edited by Mary King. Medium Low Voice. BH Voice. Softcover. 128 pages

Composed by Urmas Sisask. For mixed choir. Octavo. Published by Fennica Gehrman

Mixed choir

SKU: FG.042-08988-0

Composed by Mikko Heinio. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.042-08988-0).

ISBN 979-0-042-08988-0.

Heinio's Non-Stop (1995) is in two movements, Non and Stop, followed by a coda. In them the choir goes through the words non and stop letter by letter, using only words beginning with the letter in question in English, German and Italian. The choral sound thus consists of the chosen letters, percussive consonants and vowels. Published in the Chorus series (Ch. 114).

SATB choir

SKU: CA.965400

Composed by Ko Matsushita. Edited by Stefan Schuck. Contemporary Choir Music. Sacred vocal music, Praise and thanks. Full score. Composed 2014. 8 pages. Duration 4 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 09.654/00. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.965400).

ISBN 9790007164898. Language: Latin.

Reflecting the psalm text, the composer Matsushita constantly finds new ways of expressing the praise of God. In the swinging rhythm of the 6/8 meter, with its dotted rhythms full of brio and binary pulse in counterpoint, with flashing dissonances through the almost oriental use of chromatic intervals, with sharply juxtaposed bitonal chords, and with the consonant-rich text, rapidly sung, the composer achieves an impressive, virtuoso showpiece which accomplished choirs can use to show off the full range of their abilities. Along the way Matsushita never writes unnecessarily complicated music, but music which is always based on his own practical experience as a choral director. In a rondo-like form he finds a parallel for the repetitions of unceasing praise. Matsushita sets the text syllabically throughout, but uses its tonal colors to give character to the individual sections. For example, the fanfare-like opening motif alternates with a crescendo section, which draws its energy from the contrast between declamatory vocal parts over a pedal point in diminished and augmented leaps of a third, fourth and fifth. Voice range: S: c' - b'' / A: asdeg - e'' / T: cdeg - gis' / B: F- e'.

Building Beautiful Voices - Singers Edition. (A concise, yet comprehensive study of vocal technique for the choral rehearsal or private instruction). By Paul Nesheim. Singers score. Published by Roger Dean Publishing