String Quartet

SKU: HL.14008374

Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. Composed 2006. 24 pages. Chester Music #CH68629. Published by Chester Music (HL.14008374).

ISBN 9781846096150. UPC: 884088435202. 8.25x11.75x0.105 inches.

The Full Score for Peter Maxwell Davies' fourth in a series of ten string quartets commissioned by the Naxos Recording company, first performed by the Maggini Quartet on 20th August 2004 at the Chapel of the Royal Palace, Oslo, Norway, as part of the Olso Chamber Music Festival. Composer Note: The fourth Naxos quartet was written in January and February of 2004, with the intention of producing something lighter and much less fierce than its predecessor, an unpremeditated and spontaneous reaction to the illegal invasion of Iraq. I returned to the well-known Brueghel picture of children's games (1560, now in Vienna), which had been the inspiration for my sixth Strathclyde Concerto, for flute and orchestra. These illustrations liberated my musical imagination, but I feel it would limit the listener's perception to be too specific about which game relates to exactly which section of the work. Suffice it to say that there is vigorous play - leap-frog, bind the devil with a cord, truss, wrestling - alongside quieter pastimes - masks, guess whom I shall choose, courting, odds and evens. The single movement juxtaposes these activities as abruptly and intimately as they occur in Brueghel. Rather as the eye is taken into different perspectives and proportions of scale within the picture, taking liberties which would never be present in, for instance, Brunelleschi architectural drawings, so here, with a constant sequence of transformation processes, I have distorted the neat, precise implications of modal progression, expressed in the unison opening phrase (from F to B through A sharp/B flat), so that the ear is led, en route, into the sound equivalents of strange passageways and closed rooms: sicut exposition ludus. As work on the quartet progressed I became aware that I was reading into, and behind the games, adult motives and implications, concerning aggression and war, with their consequences. It was impossible to escape into innocent childhood fantasy. The nature of the F to B progression underlying the whole construction derives from a passage in the development of the first movement of Mahler's Third Symphony, and the opening of Schoenberg's Second String Quartet. However, unlike in these models, here a real - if temporary - sense of resolution occurs at the close of the quartet: as when the curtain falls on the reconciled Count and Countess in 'Figaro' one wonders how long the F/B truce will hold, and games break out again. The quartet is dedicated to Giuseppe Rebecchini, Roman architect, and friend since the nineteen-fifties.

By John Prine. Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook. Bluegrass, Country, Folk. Softcover. Published by Hal Leonard

15 Songs Transcribed in Standard Notation and Tab. By John Prine. Guitar Collection. Folk. Softcover. With guitar tablature. 80 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

By Steve Winogradsky. Book; Reference Textbooks; Textbook - General. 408 pages. Published by Alfred Music

By John Prine. Ukulele. Bluegrass, Country, Folk. Softcover. 56 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

Performed by Genesis. For voice, piano and guitar chords. Format: piano/vocal/chords songbook. With vocal melody, piano accompaniment, lyrics, chord names and guitar chord diagrams. Progressive rock and classic rock. 352 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Hal Leonard.

By John Prine. Artist/Personality; Personality Book; Piano/Vocal/Chords. Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook. Contemporary Folk and Folk. Songbook (softcover). With vocal melody, piano accompaniment, lyrics, chord names and guitar chord diagrams. 96 pages. Alfred Music #VF0157. Published by Alfred Music

Down By The Riverside by Traditional. Arranged by Oliver Nelson. For jazz ensemble (5-4-4-4). Oliver Nelson Big Band Series. Swing. Grade 4-5. Score and set of parts. Published by Sierra Music

By Jamey Aebersold. For singers, vocalists, drums, bass, guitar, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, piano, keyboard, organ, saxophone, trombone, trumpet, harmonica. Play-Along series with accompaniment CD. Learn the secrets to memorize ANY tune!. Play-Along Categories: Improvisation. Level: intermediate, advanced. Book with CD. Published by Jamey Aebersold Jazz.

Piano Solo

SKU: IS.PN7295EM

Composed by Guy Van Nueten. Keyboards - Piano. Metropolis Music Publishers #PN7295EM. Published by Metropolis Music Publishers (IS.PN7295EM).

ISBN 9790365072958.

Ligh t the fire, James. We’ll take our digestive by the crackling of the hearth. Such were the thoughts that came to mind as I started listening to Guy Van Nueten’s new record. Because, yes, there is a certain aristocracy to this music. There’s the feeling of autumn and you immediately long to warm yourself on the sounds that issue from Van Nueten's bony fingers. But it could just as well be a car ride through soft rain at nightfall, where trees become freakish phantoms, and here and there a villa looms like a light beacon. Pacman is a record that makes you hunt for images, films you have seen before, feelings you have known and wish to relive, like a somewhat forbidden fruit, a secret pleasure. Melancholy? Absolutely. A vague sadness to make a person purr like a contented cat? Certainly. Yet at the same time, Van Nueten is cunning. While ensuring that his music pleases you, at the end of some compositions he’ll suddenly come up with a theme that he’ll stop abruptly, so that the notes remain hanging like snapshots of aerial acrobats in action. It is also investigative music as if Guy himself does not wish to know just where he will finish up. There is a stubbornness to it, an elegant fight perhaps between composer and pianist. It pursues you – exactly like a Pacman, in fact, chomping away at digital pieces of your heart. Yet it never seems to dissolve into thin air: time and again, right from the first listen, he makes you long to hear more. It is music that should protect a person like a secret, like an illegal fire in a forest that warms your hands and fills your head with dreams. It smells like cedar, this piano music. Or like a nice cigar offered to you by the imaginary James, who whispers: The fire is crackling, sir. Just as you like it. At which point the enchantment begins all over again.

Bassoon & Piano

SKU: SU.50020831

For Bassoon & Piano. Composed by David Macbride. Woodwinds, Bassoon. Accompanied by piano. Performance Score. Seesaw Music Corp #50020831. Published by Seesaw Music Corp (SU.50020831).

Copyright 1972. Published by: Seesaw Music.

Piano Accompaniment; Soprano

SKU: HL.49044796

Soprano and Piano. Composed by Peter Eö, s, and tvö. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Vocal. Classical. Softcover. Composed 2014. 20 pages. Duration 8'. Schott Music #ED 22296. Published by Schott Music (HL.49044796).

ISBN 9790001203852. UPC: 196288056539. 9.0x12.0x0.109 inches. German - English.

The Long Journey, the final monologue of the opera The Golden Dragon based on the eponymous play by Roland Schimmelpfennig, has been given the air of a ballad. A young Chinese works illegally in an Asian restaurant of Anytown. Not having a health insurance, he bleeds to death after a botched dental operation. His colleagues throw his body into the river which runs through the town and carries the body to the sea. He floats back to his home country - this last journey is the theme of the monologue.