Orchestra Cello, Contrabass, Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2 - Grade 3

SKU: CF.CAS156

2nd Movement. Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Arranged by Todd Parrish. Cas. Set of Score and Parts. Duration 3 minutes, 40 seconds. Carl Fischer Music #CAS156. Published by Carl Fischer Music (CF.CAS156).

ISBN 9781491165010. UPC: 680160923922. Key: G major.

This energetic second movement from Bach's famed Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 has been skillfully arranged to be more accessible to the developing string ensemble. Remaining in the key of G major, this piece has been re-scored from the original compound meter of 12/8 to simple 3/4 time, allowing both conductor and players to more easily manage the pulse. All instruments get moving parts with vigorous melodies and countermelodies, while the original solos have been integrated into the sections. An excellent introduction to a classic piece of Baroque repertoire.

About Carl Fischer Concert String Orchestra Series

Thi s series of pieces (Grade 3 and higher) is designed for advancing ensembles. The pieces in this series are characterized by:

• Expanded use of rhythms, ranges and keys but technical demands are still carefully considered
• More comprehensive bowing techniques
• Viola T.C. included
• Careful selection of keys and degree of difficulty for advancing musicians

Orchestra Cello, Contrabass, Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2 - Grade 3

SKU: CF.CAS156F

2nd Movement. Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Arranged by Todd Parrish. Cas. Full score. Duration 3 minutes, 40 seconds. Carl Fischer Music #CAS156F. Published by Carl Fischer Music (CF.CAS156F).

ISBN 9781491165416. UPC: 680160924325. Key: G major.

This energetic second movement from Bach's famed Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 has been skillfully arranged to be more accessible to the developing string ensemble. Remaining in the key of G major, this piece has been re-scored from the original compound meter of 12/8 to simple 3/4 time, allowing both conductor and players to more easily manage the pulse. All instruments get moving parts with vigorous melodies and countermelodies, while the original solos have been integrated into the sections. An excellent introduction to a classic piece of Baroque repertoire.

About Carl Fischer Concert String Orchestra Series

Thi s series of pieces (Grade 3 and higher) is designed for advancing ensembles. The pieces in this series are characterized by:

• Expanded use of rhythms, ranges and keys but technical demands are still carefully considered
• More comprehensive bowing techniques
• Viola T.C. included
• Careful selection of keys and degree of difficulty for advancing musicians

A violin method for children. Composed by Egon Saßmannshaus and Kurt Sassmannshaus. Stapled. With a Chinese text booklet. Performance score. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA10754. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag

Score

SKU: HL.254194

The Works of Mieczyslaw Karlowicz - Volume VI. Composed by Mieczyslaw Karlowicz. PWM. Classical. Hardcover. 116 pages. Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne #8651010. Published by Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne (HL.254194).

9.5x12.25 inches.

Introductio n presented in Polish, German, and English. The form of Returning Waves, in accordance with its poetic design, is created after the fashion of a many-stranded 'stream of consciousness.' The fluent succession of contrasting musical pictures permeated by the primary process of development and rising tension. The first subject, which is particularly prominent, recurs in various forms in the course of the composition, often being reduced to its introductory motif. The successive subjects and their evolutionary groupings are integrated into certain primary musical wholes. [Leszek Polony].

Orchestra; Violin (Study Score)

SKU: HL.49045166

Study Score. Composed by Ryan Wigglesworth. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. String. Classical. Softcover. Composed 2011. 72 pages. Duration 16'. Schott Music #ED13695. Published by Schott Music (HL.49045166).

ISBN 9790220135002. UPC: 888680724214. 8.25x11.75x0.276 inches.

Violin Concerto is scored for a Classical-sized orchestra, with the addition of a harp and celeste, and lasts around 17 minutes. Although the work sets out to explore the lyrical characteristics of the solo instrument, it is only gradually that the violin finds its full, lyric voice, and thence, as the work progresses, a more dominant role. This, in one sense, is the 'journey' of the piece. The work's straightforward formal scheme consists of three movements (roughly fast-slow-fast) framed by a reflective introduction and epilogue. However, these formal divisions exist within a single, unbroken arc. Such an overall symmetrical shape places the slow Arioso (itself divided into three subsections) at the midpoint, sandwiched between the two Allegro movements. The dramaturgy of the piece centers on a twofold search. First there is the ongoing pursuit to recapture the simple melodic material stated by the solo violin - accompanied by thar harp's bass register - during the opening bars. Whilst aspects of this melody are invoked frequently throughout (especially in the violin cadenza which closes the Arioso movement), it is only with the final and most important climax of the work that the melody appears again in its complete form, now accompanied by violent, orchestral stabs. The second search is for a tonal resting place, the arrival of which is delayed until the close of the epilogue. The original version of the Violin Concerto, commissioned by the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, was premiered in Amsterdam in February 2012 with Gordan Nikolic as soloist. The present, revised version was created for Barnabas Kelemen and the Halle.

Orchestra Cello, Contrabass, Piano, Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2, Violin 3 - Grade 2.5

SKU: CF.YAS171

Composed by Larry Clark. SWS FS. Young String Orchestra. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. 16+16+4+10+10+10+4+12 pages. Duration 4 minutes, 38 seconds. Carl Fischer Music #YAS171. Published by Carl Fischer Music (CF.YAS171).

ISBN 9781491146514. UPC: 680160904013. 9 x 12 inches. Key: G major.

Dream Engine has all of the compositional thumb prints that have made the music of Larry Clark so popular for string orchestras. It is a concert overture in classic ABA form. The opening section has a tuneful melody over spiccato accompaniments that weaves throughout the ensemble. The middle B section is slow, lyrical, lush, and beautiful as a contrast to the lighter A section. Another piece from Larry Clark to showcase your ensemble at contest/festival.
One of the types of pieces I like to write for orchestra are pieces that use a contrast between staccato playing and more marcato melodic material.  Dream Engine is the result. The piece is set in a concert overture form with two fast sections based on the same theme and a slow lyrical second section in the middle.The piece begins right off with a short introduction of the spiccato accompaniment figures before it leads to the first statement of the main theme. Quarter notes in the main theme should be played full bow in contrast to the lilting staccato eighth notes. The bass line should be long as well. After a full ensemble statement of the theme, the piece moves to a bridge theme that is sort of an inversion of the main theme and is taken up by the cello; then the viola is added on a harmony part to the melody. Transition material is presented next that is used throughout the piece to connect all of the sections of the piece together. The main theme returns once more before the piece transitions into the slow and lyrical B-section. The B-section should be lush and as legato as possible to be in complete contrast to the A-section. This will be an excellent chance to work on the players’ expressive playing. Make sure to have a lot of rubato and generous rises and falls to the lines to make it as musical aspossible.At the completion of the B-section, the A-material returns with different orchestration for variety. This is followed by the transition material that leads to an aggressive coda that includes a brief quote from the B-section material. If you so chose, a slight increase in the tempo at the coda is acceptable to add to excitement of the ending.It has been my pleasure to have the opportunity to write this piece. I hope you and your students enjoy it and find it useful for your program.—Larry ClarkLakeland, FL 2017.

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 over beginning levels

Arranged by David Shaffer. For young concert band. Rising Band Series. Grade 2. Score and set of parts. Duration 2 minutes, 17 seconds. Published by C.L. Barnhouse

Arranged by Chuck Israels. For little big band. Swing, Jazz. Difficult. Score and parts. Published by Jazz Lines Publications

Strings String Quartet (Study Score)

SKU: HL.51487183

Study Score. Composed by Evgeny Kissin. Study Score. Paperbound. Henle Study Scores. Classical. Softcover. G. Henle #HN7183. Published by G. Henle (HL.51487183).

ISBN 9790201871837. UPC: 888680986568. 6.5x9.5x0.086 inches.

Redolent of the work of Dmitri Shostakovich in its musical language, Evgeny Kissin's String Quartet op. 3 comprises four strongly contrasting movements: on the heels of the stately “Adagio liberamente” comes an extremely lively “Allegro inquieto” that wanders between dynamic extremes and bristles with glissandi. The third movement, marked “Largo drammatico,” is sustained by an insistent, heavily rhythmic dotted motive, while the final movement shifts from the introduction, marked “Pensierosamente, ma mantenendo strettamente il ritmo puntato,” into a brilliant finale, “Molto allegro e sarcastico,” that is suffused with elements of fugato and,like all movements, informed by dodecaphonic harmonies. This demanding fifteen-minute work was composed in 2015-16 and recorded for the first time on Nimbus Records by the Kopelman Quartet.

Choir (Women's Choir)

SKU: AP.47545

From Mass No. 4, D. 452. Composed by Franz Schubert. Edited by Patrick M. Liebergen. Arranged by Patrick M. Liebergen. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles. Alfred Choral Designs. Masterwork Arrangement; Romantic; Sacred. Choral Octavo. 12 pages. Alfred Music #00-47545. Published by Alfred Music (AP.47545).

UPC: 038081542386. English.

A warm adagio introduction breaks into a joyous Hosanna chorus in this 44-measure homophonic masterwork. Taken from Schubert's Mass No. 4, this edition offers sensible vocal ranges, editorial dynamic and metronome markings, plus a complete IPA guide for the brief Latin text. The orchestral parts have been reduced to a playable piano accompaniment while preserving the Classical characteristics of the original work.

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.

SKU: HL.49012025

Einfuhrung und Kommentar. Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Edited by Kurt Pahlen. This edition: Paperback/Soft Cover. Paperback. Serie Musik. Classical. Text book/libretto. Composed 1791. 270 pages. Schott Music #SEM8008. Published by Schott Music (HL.49012025).

ISBN 9783254080080. UPC: 888680891190. 4.75x7.5x0.658 inches. German.

This comprehensive introduction to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 'The Magic Flute' contains the complete libretto with numerous music examples. Kurt Pahlen comments on the work with music-related references as well explanations on the external and internal plot. A summary of the plot and a brief outline of the genesis bring 'The Magic Flute' into relation with the composer's entire oeuvre and his life, thus providing comprehensive, richly illustrated information on this opera.

Piano; Piano/Keyboard - difficult

SKU: HL.49015546

1991. Composed by Richard Ayres. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Piano. This is the first publication from Richard Ayres, and provides an ideal introduction to his unusual and imaginative sound world. Classical. Softcover. Composed 1991. 14 pages. Duration 7'. Schott Music #ED 12925. Published by Schott Music (HL.49015546).

ISBN 9781423421009. 9.0x12.0x0.066 inches.

A quartet of paintings by the American Mark Tobey that displays expanses of white in various shades provides the inspiration for this solo piano work. The images from the paintings are translated into music that plays off static and dynamic forces, interweaving with sounds reminiscent of a Javanese gamelan.

SKU: HL.49012030

Einfuhrung und Kommmentar. Composed by Giuseppe Verdi. Edited by Kurt Pahlen. This edition: Paperback/Soft Cover. Paperback. Serie Musik. Diese umfassende Einfuhrung in Giuseppe Verdis Don Carlos enthalt das vollstandige Libretto mit zahlreichen Notenbeispielen. Kurt Pahlen kommentiert das Werk durch musikbezogene Hinweise sowie Erlauterungen zur inneren und ausseren Handlung. Mit ausfuhrli. Classical. Text book/libretto. 318 pages. Schott Music #SEM 8020. Published by Schott Music (HL.49012030).

ISBN 9783254080202. Italian - German.

This comprehensive introduction to Giuseppe Verdi's 'Don Carlos' contains the complete libretto with numerous music examples. Kurt Pahlen comments on the work with music-related references as well explanations on the external and internal plot. A summary of the plot and a brief outline of the genesis bring 'Don Carlos' into relation with the composer's entire oeuvre and his life, thus providing comprehensive, richly illustrated information on this opera.

Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons), Op.8 Nos.1-4. (Transcribed for Piano). By Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741). Piano. 48 pages. Ricordi #R138995. Published by Ricordi

Flute and Piano

SKU: BT.ALHE32122

Composed by Andre Jolivet. Classical. Book Only. 32 pages. Heugel & Cie #ALHE32122. Published by Heugel & Cie (BT.ALHE32122).

English.

Andr� � Jolivet (1905-1974) composed this Concerto for Flute and Strings in 1949. Initially written for Flute and String Orchestra, this version contains the scores for the Flute and the Piano and lasts 12 minutes. Thisstrong>Concerto for Flute and Strings is quite unusual as it was only created in two movements, each divided into a slow introduction and a fast main part. Used as one of the main pieces of the Geneva music contest _x001A_Concours deGenève_x001A_ in 2014, this concerto requires advanced skills. André Jolivet is a French composer who was really inspired by the Antiquity and had a strong interest for atonality. He also wrote many chamber music pieces, elevenconcertos, some orchestral and some vocal music.

Study Score Orchestra (3 (3. auch Picc.) * 2 * Engl. Hr. * 2 * Bassklar. * 2 - 4 * 3 * 3 * 1 - P. S. (Vibr. * Trgl. * 3 hg. Beck. * Sizzle-Beck. * Gong * Tamt.) (2 Spieler) - Hfe. - Str.)

SKU: HL.49017992

Orchestra Study Score. Composed by Bertold Hummel. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Study Score. Classical. Softcover. Composed 1977. Op. 65. 32 pages. Duration 8'. Schott Music #ED20694. Published by Schott Music (HL.49017992).

ISBN 9790001168977. UPC: 884088601867. 8.25x11.75x0.123 inches.

The brief Fantasia gregoriana, op.65, is based on the Gregorian Easter Hallelujah. Like a mosaic, the individual heterogenic episodes, lyrical, dance-like, hymnal and dramatic in turn, are combined through the permanent presence of the theme into a unified whole.The Gregorian Hallelujah is present as a type of mode in every bar of the work. The subdued introduction, characterised by the tritonically transposed structure of the original material, is followed by a sharply accentuated presentation of the theme in the bass. Over the partially engarlanded resolved variants, a first bitonal climax is reached (F minor and D major simultaneously). The dramatic development is repeated, interspersed with arioso interruptions, until the main idea is brought to culmination in brilliant instrumentation. The final chord consists of all notes of the theme.

Clarinet and Piano (Clarinet)

SKU: HL.14008425

Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Composed 1999. 64 pages. Chester Music #CH60876. Published by Chester Music (HL.14008425).

ISBN 9780711933545.

Davi es's feeling for the potency and bravura of the clarinet goes back to works of the 1960s; his concerto for the instrument is predictably a big, ranging piece, in two linked movements. The first, fast with a brief slow introduction, has the soloist in propulsive melodic flights slipping over into florid runs, but it is a virtuoso piece for the orchestra, especially for the marimba and pair of horns. The Adagio that follows is in the spare, cold, birdcall-riven style of other recent Davies slow movements, exploiting first the clarinet's low register and then, at its climax, the instrument's high extremes. A cadenza leads to the coda, where Davies introduces a Scots tune, previously hinted at, with which he brings the work to an end in F sharp major. Clarinet part with piano reduction of the orchestral score.

Treble Recorder and Harpsichord (or Piano) - Intermediate-Advanced

SKU: FP.FLD03

Composed by David Lord. Sheet Music and Books. This rare foray into recorder composition by David Lord, a noted record producer and composer, is a work of real melodic charm. Each movement is introduced by the solo recorder, with the theme then developed by the piano accompaniment. Suitable for the in. Classical. Collection. Forsyths Publications #FLD03. Published by Forsyths Publications (FP.FLD03).

ISBN 9790570504039.

Mini ature Suite was written for David Munrow in 1969, receiving its first performance with harpsichordist Christopher Hogwood in London's Purcell Room that year. The material of each of its five movements is drawn from the recorder's solo introduction. Following the enthusiasm of recorder virtuosi John Turner it was revised in 2011, and the revised version was first performed by John Turner and Ian Thompson in Casterton Church on April 3rd 2011. The works has been recorded by the same artists for the Prima Facie label (Recorder Fireworks PFCD0010).

David Lord was born in Oxford in 1944 and studied under Richard Rodney Bennett at the Royal Academy of Music. As a young composer he received many commissions, including works for Julian Bream, Janet Baker, George Malcolm, Imogen Holst, the London Symphony and Northern Sinfonia Orchestras and the Bath, Cheltenham and Aldeburgh Festivals. More recent years have seen him active as a record producer (XTC, Peter Gabriel, Echo and the Bunnymen, the Korgis, Tears for Fears, Jean Michel Jarre) and writer/arranger for film and TV (Cracker, Inspector Rebus etc).

Piano - Grade 4

SKU: FA.MFCD007PN

By Nicolas Horvath. By Claude Debussy and Robert Orledge. Rediscoverd Debussy. Classical, Impressionistic. Score. Musik Fabrik #MFCD007PN. Published by Musik Fabrik (FA.MFCD007PN).

8.27 x 11.69 inches.

Debussy's friendship with the versatile poet and playwright Gabriel Mourey began in 1899, and in July 1907 Mourey offered Debussy a libretto based on Le roman de Tristan - Joseph Bedier's adaptation of a twelfth-century Breton romance by the Anglo-Norman poet known as Thomas - which had recently been published in Paris. Debussy enthusiastically outlined the four-act plot to Victor Segalen that October, and the main differences from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde are that none of the action takes place in Cornwall and that Isolde of the White Hands is found guilty of cuckolding King Marc with Tristan, who has to rescue her from the leper colony in which she is abandoned in Act 1. She also betrays him when he goes mad at the end.

The idea of a Tristan that restored its 'legendary character' and had no connections with Wagner, appealed to Debussy, who was extremely moved by the circumstances of Tristan's death. Even if he thought that Mourey's poetry was 'not very lyrical and many passages do not exactly invite music', he did work on the libretto and the music that summer and sent his publisher, Jacques Durand, 'one of the 363 themes for the Roman de Tristan' in a letter sent from Pourville on 23 August, 1907. The present prelude grows from this theme, together with the poignant Breton folksong Le Faucon. After a short atmospheric introduction, Debussy's dance-like theme (which is definitely not a leitmotif) gradually gains momentum and after it reaches its ecstatic climax, representing the transient happiness of the lovers, it dissolves into an expressive coda and an elegiac close (all growing from Debussy's opening, off-stage trumpet calls), leaving us with the ultimate tragedy of their ill-fated affair.

Unfortunat ely, Mourey's actual libretto has been lost and the project eventually foundered because Bedier's cousin, Louis Artus, wanted Debussy to use the scenario he had prepared and copyrighted for the stage, and would not allow him to proceed with Mourey's version. Debussy, it need hardly be said, would never have dreamed of collaborating with the author of the vaudeville hit La culotte (The pants)!

(Study Score)

SKU: HL.50601627

Critical Edition Study Score. Composed by Giuseppe Verdi. Study Score. Classical. Softcover. Ricordi #NR14165200. Published by Ricordi (HL.50601627).

The Works of Giuseppe Verdi is the first critical edition of the composer's oeuvre. Together with his operas, the series offers his songs, choral music and sacred pieces, and string quartet and other instrumental works. This edition of Rigoletto is based on Verdi's autograph score and an array of additional sources, including contemporary manuscript copies, early editions, and performing parts. It also takes into consideration the abbozzo published in facsimile in 1941, an autograph manuscript containing sketch fragments and a complete continuity draft of the opera. The edition identifies and resolves numerous ambiguities of harmony, melodic detail, text, and phrasing that have marred previous scores. In addition, it reinstates theoriginal reading of several lines of the libretto, which had been censored prior to the opera's first performance in Venice in 1851.Martin Chusid's extensive introduction and critical commentary to the score discuss this and other matters of censorship and shed light on the genesis, sources, and performance history of Rigoletto.

Piano - Grade 5

SKU: FA.MFCD014PN

Composed by Claude Debussy and Robert Orledge. Rediscoverd Debussy. Classical, Impressionistic. Score. Musik Fabrik #MFCD014PN. Published by Musik Fabrik (FA.MFCD014PN).

8.27 x 11.69 inches.

Fetes galantes was actually planned as a hybrid opera-ballet to a libretto by Debussy's friend Louis Laloy. For this, Laloy arranged selected poetry by Paul Verlaine into three tableaux, replacing an earlier (unstarted) Debussyan project with Charles Morice entitled Crimen amoris. During his last productive summer of 1915, Debussy set a sequence from the start of the first tableau, 'Les Masques', involving stanzas 1 and 3 of the opening song for Mezzetin in Verlaine's comedy Les Uns et les autres. The action is set in a park a la Watteau late one summer afternoon as Mezzetin attempts to entertain a group of nonchalant masqueraders with only the aid of his voice and a mandolin.

This appears to have been prefaced by a slower, elegiac introduction reminiscent of the opening of the comtemporary Cello Sonata and it leads to a danced minuet by the masqued dancers which has clear echoes of the piano piece L'Isle Joyeuse (1904). Following Laloy's scenario, the mas-queraders then sing extracts from Verlaine's 'A la promenade' (from Fetes galantes itself). The minuet returns at greater length before being cut short by a chilly gust of wind, after which the park returns to its orginal state (and music) as though nothing had really happened.

Grade 3

SKU: CL.012-3415-00

Composed by Shaffer. Concert Band. Heritage of the March Series. Audio recording available separately (item CL.WFR335). Overture. Score and set of parts. Composed 2005. Duration 5 minutes, 26 seconds. Opus III Wind Orchestra Publications #012-3415-00. Published by Opus III Wind Orchestra Publications (CL.012-3415-00).

Not hard, but very impressive, this David Shaffer original is perfect concert or contest material for mid-level bands. It starts with a stately fanfare introduction which leads directly into the furious section. This section features a fast tempo where several playable yet independent melody lines are intertwined to create a very busy yet pleasing musical landscape. An adagio section follows before a reprise of the furious section leads to a big finish. A rewarding work that is a welcome addition to any performance!

About Heritage of the March

Full -sized concert band editions of the greatest marches of all time. Each has been faithfully re-scored to accommodate modern instrumentation and incorporate performance practices of classic march style

Grade 3

SKU: CL.012-3415-01

Composed by Shaffer. Concert Band. Heritage of the March Series. Audio recording available separately (item CL.WFR335). Extra full score. Composed 2005. Duration 5 minutes, 26 seconds. Opus III Wind Orchestra Publications #012-3415-01. Published by Opus III Wind Orchestra Publications (CL.012-3415-01).

Not hard, but very impressive, this David Shaffer original is perfect concert or contest material for mid-level bands. It starts with a stately fanfare introduction which leads directly into the furious section. This section features a fast tempo where several playable yet independent melody lines are intertwined to create a very busy yet pleasing musical landscape. An adagio section follows before a reprise of the furious section leads to a big finish. A rewarding work that is a welcome addition to any performance!

About Heritage of the March

Full -sized concert band editions of the greatest marches of all time. Each has been faithfully re-scored to accommodate modern instrumentation and incorporate performance practices of classic march style