For C instrument. Music Theory. All Styles. Difficulty: easy-medium. Fakebook. Standard notation and chord names. 48 pages. Published by Kevin Mayhew Publishers

Performed by Jerry Garcia. Guitar/vocal songbook for guitar and voice. With vocal melody, lyrics, chord names, guitar chord diagrams, strum and pick patterns, introductory text and black and white photos. 200 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

Composed by Colin Gibson. This edition: Complete. Author's Collections. Sacred, General. Collection. Published by Hope Publishing Company

Tenor & String Quartet

SKU: PE.EP72822

Composed by Jonathan Dove. Voice(s) & Various Instruments. Edition Peters. Living Composer. Score and Part(s). 164 pages. Duration 00:30:00. Edition Peters #98-EP72822. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP72822).

ISBN 9790577011769. 232 x 303mm inches. English.

I have only visited Damascus once, twenty years ago, on the way to Palmyra.  I had a purpose (I was writing music for a play about Palmyra’s Queen Zenobia) but essentially I was a tourist.  Like any visitor, I was thrilled to step out of the noisy modern city into the magical ancient world of the walled Old City, its vibrant souk leading to the magnificent mosque, and a labyrinth of winding, narrow streets filled with the smell of unleavened bread.

In Palmyra, I was met with extraordinary kindness everywhere.  On one occasion, a little Bedouin boy noticed that I was risking sunstroke wandering bare-headed among the spectacular ruins: he showed me how to tie a turban, then took me to have tea with his family in their tent.

Since then, I have watched helplessly as these places of wonder have been devastated and their inhabitants scattered and killed.  When the Sacconi Quartet suggested that I might choose a Syrian poet for our collaboration, I welcomed the idea.

I searched for a long time to find a contemporary poet whose work might gain from any music I could imagine.  I felt it was important to find first-hand accounts of the Syrian experience – but, of course, I was always reading them in translation.  In an anthology called Syria Speaks, I was astonished to read something that looked like prose, but was full of poetry.  It was Anne-Marie McManus’s fine translation of Ali Safar’s A Black Cloud in a Leaden White Sky – an eloquent, thoughtful, contained yet vivid account of life in a war-torn country, all the more moving for its restraint.

In setting these words, I have not attempted to imitate Syrian music.  However, there is what might be called a linguistic accommodation in my choice of scale, or mode.  Several movements are in a mode that I first discovered while writing a cantata commemorating the First World War: it has a tuning that I associate with war, its violence and desolation.  This eight-note mode is similar to scales found in Syrian music.  I did not choose it in the abstract: it emerged from the harmonies I was exploring in the earlier work, and emerged again as I was looking for the right musical colours to set Ali Safar’s words.  In this work, its Arabic aspect is more prominent. - Jonathan Dove

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Choral (ShowTrax CD)

SKU: HL.346713

From Miss Americana. By Taylor Swift. By Joel Little and Taylor Swift. Arranged by Mark A. Brymer. Pop Choral Series. Anthem, Choral, Pop, Television Reference. CD. Duration 150 seconds. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.346713).

UPC: 840126925029. 5.0x5.0x0.15 inches.

The 2020 Netflix documentary Miss Americana, chronicling several years of superstar Taylor Swift's personal and public life, received rave reviews when it debuted in 2020. This song, which plays over the end credits of the film, was praised for raising awareness of the prevalence of gun violence in America.

(A Collection for Young Voices). Arranged by Tom Anderson. Performance/Accompaniment CD. Expressive Art (Choral). CD only

By Frank Ticheli. Concert band. Suitable for the most advanced high school bands, community, college, university, and professional bands. Level: Grade 5. Conductor score and set of parts. Duration 10:00. Published by Manhattan Beach Music.

By Rebecca Groom te Velde and David Blackwell. For organ. Collection. Published by Oxford University Press

Composed by Guy Van Nueten. Keyboards - Piano. Metropolis Music Publishers #PN7320EM. Published by Metropolis Music Publishers

For All Instruments with Guitar Chords. By Robert Bielefeld. For All Instruments. Tune Book. Early Music/Renaissance. Level: Beginning-Intermediate. Book/CD Set. Size 9x11.75. 152 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc.

(A Collection for Young Voices). Arranged by Tom Anderson. PIANO VOCAL COLLECTION. Expressive Art (Choral). 32 pages

By Lisa Bastien. Edited by Lori Bastien, Jane Bastien. (Bastien Piano For Adults). Bastien Piano. Method. Level: Book A,1. Music Book. Size 232. Published by Neil A. Kjos Music Company.

By Randy Newman. Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook. Softcover. 74 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

Orchestra (2(2picc).2.cor ang.2.Bb-clar.2 - 4.3.3.1 - timp.perc - hp - str)

SKU: BR.PB-5576

4 Legends - Urtext based on the Complete Edition Jean Sibelius Works (JSW). Composed by Jean Sibelius. Edited by Tuija Wicklund. Orchestra; Softcover. Partitur-Bibliothek (Score Library). Suite; Early modern. Study Score. Duration 50'. Breitkopf and Haertel #PB 5576. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.PB-5576).

ISBN 9790004213865. 6.5 x 9 inches.

Little is known about the actual composition process of Lemminkainen, and the performance and publication history is rather complex, resulting in a first complete printing of all four movements en suite through the complete edition of Jean Sibelius Works only in 2013.In summer 1894 Sibelius went to Central Europe, carrying among others a plan for an opera freely based on the Kalevala in his mind. But during this trip he reassessed his composing: I think I have found my old self again, musically speaking. I think I really am a tone painter and a poet. As a result he abandoned his opera plans, but musical parts may have found their way into the Lemminkainen pieces which he started composing during that time. Definitely the overture had, it is now known and loved as The Swan of Tuonela.Lemminkainen became popular from the beginning and has attained a fixed position in the concert repertoire.On Lemminkainen and the Maidens on the Island a critic opined: We do not hesitate to award this tone painting of Lemminkainen's erotic emotional world the first prize among all the young composer's works. Sibelius himself said about Lemminkainen in Tuonela: The cradle song at the end of the work is maternal love, which rakes the pieces of Lemminkainen together from the River Tuonela. and commented on Lemminkainen's Return: I would like to see more pride in us Finns. Why should we be ashamed? This is the underlying thought in Lemminkainen's Return. Lemminkainen is just as good as the noblest of earls. He is an aristocrat, without question an aristocrat!.

By Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco (1895-1968) and Mario Castelnuovo-tedesco (1895-1968). For keyboard. Published by Noten Roehr