(The best in contemporary jazz from Europe). Composed by Various. Edited by Chuc...(+)
(The best in contemporary
jazz from Europe).
Composed by Various.
Edited by Chuck Sher. For
Eb instruments. This
edition: spiral-bound.
Fake book. 423 pages.
Published by Sher Music
Company
Cassatt. Composed
by Dan Welcher. Premiere:
Cassatt Quartet,
Northeastern Illinois
University, Chicago, IL.
Contemporary. Full score.
With Standard notation.
Composed 2007. WRT11142.
52 pages. Duration 24
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #164-00272S.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.16400272S).
UPC:
680160588442. 8.5 x 11
inches.
My third
quartet is laid out in a
three-movement structure,
with each movement based
on an early, middle, and
late work of the great
American impressionist
painter Mary Cassatt.
Although the movements
are separate, with
full-stop endings, the
music is connected by a
common scale-form,
derived from the name
MARY CASSATT, and by a
recurring theme that
introduces all three
movements. I see this
theme as Mary's Theme, a
personality that stays
intact while undergoing
gradual change. I
The Bacchante (1876)
[Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania] The
painting shows a young
girl of Italian or
Spanish origin, playing a
small pair of cymbals.
Since Cassatt was trying
very hard to fit in at
the French Academy at the
time, she painted a lot
of these subjects, which
were considered typical
and universal. The style
of the painting doesn't
yet show Cassatt's
originality, except
perhaps for certain
details in the face.
Accordingly the music for
this movement is
Spanish/Italian, in a
similar period-style but
using the musical
signature described
above. The music begins
with Mary's Theme,
ruminative and slow, then
abruptly changes to an
alla Spagnola-type fast
3/4 - 6/8 meter. It
evokes the
Spanish-influenced music
of Ravel and Falla.
Midway through,
there's an accompanied
recitative for the viola,
which figures large in
this particular movement,
then back to a truncated
recapitulation of the
fast music. The overall
feeling is of a
well-made, rather
conventional movement in
a contemporary
Spanish/Italian style.
Cassatt's painting, too,
is rather conventional.
II At the Opera
(1880) [Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston,
Massachusetts]
This painting is one of
Cassatt's most well known
works, and it hangs in
the Museum of Fine Arts
in Boston. The painting
shows a woman alone in a
box at the opera house,
completely dressed
(including gloves) and
looking through opera
glasses at someone or
something that is NOT on
the stage. Across the
auditorium from her, but
exactly at eye level, is
a gentleman with opera
glasses intently watching
her - though it is not
him that she's looking
at. It's an intriguing
picture. This
movement is far less
conventional than the
first movement, as the
painting is far less
conventional. The music
begins with a rapid,
Shostakovich-type
mini-overture lasting
less than a minute, based
on Mary's Theme. My
conjecture is that the
woman in the painting has
arrived late to the
opera, busily stumbling
into her box. What
happens next is a kind of
collage, a kind of
surrealistic overlaying
of two different
elements: the foreground
music, at first is a
direct quotation of
Soldier's Chorus from
Gounod's FAUST (an opera
Cassatt would certainly
have heard in the
brand-new Paris Opera
House at that time),
played by Violin II,
Viola, and Cello. This
music is played sul
ponticello in the melody
and col legno in the
marching accompaniment.
On top of this, the first
violin hovers at first on
a high harmonic, then
descends into a slow
melody, completely
separate from the Gounod.
It's as if the woman in
the painting is hearing
the opera onstage but is
not really interested in
it. Then the cello joins
the first violin in a
kind of love-duet (just
the two of them, at
first). This music isn't
at all Gounod-derived;
it's entirely from the
same scale patterns as
the first movement and
derives from Mary's Theme
and its scale. The music
stays in a kind of
dichotomy feeling,
usually
three-against-one, until
the end of the movement,
when another Gounod
melody, Valentin's aria
Avant de quitter ce lieux
reappears in a kind of
coda for all four
players. It ends
atmospherically and
emotionally disconnected,
however. The overall
feeling is a kind of
schizophrenic,
opera-inspired dream.
III Young Woman in
Green, Outdoors in the
Sun (1909) [Worcester Art
Museum, Massachusetts]
The painting, one
of Cassatt's last, is
very simple: just a
figure, looking sideways
out of the picture. The
colors are pastel and yet
bold - and the woman is
likewise very
self-assured and not in
the least demure. It is
eight minutes long, and
is all about melody -
three melodies, to be
exact (Young Woman,
Green, and Sunlight). No
angst, no choppy rhythms,
just ever-unfolding
melody and lush
harmonies. I quote one
other French composer
here, too: Debussy's song
Green, from Ariettes
Oubliees. 1909 would have
been Debussy's heyday in
Paris, and it makes
perfect sense musically
as well as visually to do
this. Mary Cassatt
lived her last several
years in near-total
blindness, and as she
lost visual acuity, her
work became less sharply
defined - something akin
to late water lilies of
Monet, who suffered
similar vision loss. My
idea of making this
movement entirely melodic
was compounded by having
each of the three
melodies appear twice,
once in a pure form, and
the second time in a more
diffuse setting. This
makes an interesting two
ways form:
A-B-C-A1-B1-C1.
String Quartet No.3
(Cassatt) is dedicated,
with great affection and
respect, to the Cassatt
String Quartet, whose
members have dedicated
themselves in large
measure to the furthering
of the contemporary
repertoire for
quartet.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.164002720 Cassatt. Composed b...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.164002720
Cassatt. Composed
by Dan Welcher. Spiral
and Saddle. Premiere:
Cassatt Quartet,
Northeastern Illinois
University, Chicago, IL.
Contemporary. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed 2007. WRT11142.
52+16+16+16+16 pages.
Duration 24 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#164-00272. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.164002720).
UPC:
680160573042. 8.5 x 11
inches.
My third
quartet is laid out in a
three-movement structure,
with each movement based
on an early, middle, and
late work of the great
American impressionist
painter Mary Cassatt.
Although the movements
are separate, with
full-stop endings, the
music is connected by a
common scale-form,
derived from the name
MARY CASSATT, and by a
recurring theme that
introduces all three
movements. I see this
theme as Mary's Theme, a
personality that stays
intact while undergoing
gradual change. I
The Bacchante (1876)
[Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania] The
painting shows a young
girl of Italian or
Spanish origin, playing a
small pair of cymbals.
Since Cassatt was trying
very hard to fit in at
the French Academy at the
time, she painted a lot
of these subjects, which
were considered typical
and universal. The style
of the painting doesn't
yet show Cassatt's
originality, except
perhaps for certain
details in the face.
Accordingly the music for
this movement is
Spanish/Italian, in a
similar period-style but
using the musical
signature described
above. The music begins
with Mary's Theme,
ruminative and slow, then
abruptly changes to an
alla Spagnola-type fast
3/4 - 6/8 meter. It
evokes the
Spanish-influenced music
of Ravel and Falla.
Midway through,
there's an accompanied
recitative for the viola,
which figures large in
this particular movement,
then back to a truncated
recapitulation of the
fast music. The overall
feeling is of a
well-made, rather
conventional movement in
a contemporary
Spanish/Italian style.
Cassatt's painting, too,
is rather conventional.
II At the Opera
(1880) [Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston,
Massachusetts]
This painting is one of
Cassatt's most well known
works, and it hangs in
the Museum of Fine Arts
in Boston. The painting
shows a woman alone in a
box at the opera house,
completely dressed
(including gloves) and
looking through opera
glasses at someone or
something that is NOT on
the stage. Across the
auditorium from her, but
exactly at eye level, is
a gentleman with opera
glasses intently watching
her - though it is not
him that she's looking
at. It's an intriguing
picture. This
movement is far less
conventional than the
first movement, as the
painting is far less
conventional. The music
begins with a rapid,
Shostakovich-type
mini-overture lasting
less than a minute, based
on Mary's Theme. My
conjecture is that the
woman in the painting has
arrived late to the
opera, busily stumbling
into her box. What
happens next is a kind of
collage, a kind of
surrealistic overlaying
of two different
elements: the foreground
music, at first is a
direct quotation of
Soldier's Chorus from
Gounod's FAUST (an opera
Cassatt would certainly
have heard in the
brand-new Paris Opera
House at that time),
played by Violin II,
Viola, and Cello. This
music is played sul
ponticello in the melody
and col legno in the
marching accompaniment.
On top of this, the first
violin hovers at first on
a high harmonic, then
descends into a slow
melody, completely
separate from the Gounod.
It's as if the woman in
the painting is hearing
the opera onstage but is
not really interested in
it. Then the cello joins
the first violin in a
kind of love-duet (just
the two of them, at
first). This music isn't
at all Gounod-derived;
it's entirely from the
same scale patterns as
the first movement and
derives from Mary's Theme
and its scale. The music
stays in a kind of
dichotomy feeling,
usually
three-against-one, until
the end of the movement,
when another Gounod
melody, Valentin's aria
Avant de quitter ce lieux
reappears in a kind of
coda for all four
players. It ends
atmospherically and
emotionally disconnected,
however. The overall
feeling is a kind of
schizophrenic,
opera-inspired dream.
III Young Woman in
Green, Outdoors in the
Sun (1909) [Worcester Art
Museum, Massachusetts]
The painting, one
of Cassatt's last, is
very simple: just a
figure, looking sideways
out of the picture. The
colors are pastel and yet
bold - and the woman is
likewise very
self-assured and not in
the least demure. It is
eight minutes long, and
is all about melody -
three melodies, to be
exact (Young Woman,
Green, and Sunlight). No
angst, no choppy rhythms,
just ever-unfolding
melody and lush
harmonies. I quote one
other French composer
here, too: Debussy's song
Green, from Ariettes
Oubliees. 1909 would have
been Debussy's heyday in
Paris, and it makes
perfect sense musically
as well as visually to do
this. Mary Cassatt
lived her last several
years in near-total
blindness, and as she
lost visual acuity, her
work became less sharply
defined - something akin
to late water lilies of
Monet, who suffered
similar vision loss. My
idea of making this
movement entirely melodic
was compounded by having
each of the three
melodies appear twice,
once in a pure form, and
the second time in a more
diffuse setting. This
makes an interesting two
ways form:
A-B-C-A1-B1-C1.
String Quartet No.3
(Cassatt) is dedicated,
with great affection and
respect, to the Cassatt
String Quartet, whose
members have dedicated
themselves in large
measure to the furthering
of the contemporary
repertoire for
quartet.
By Various. For voice and C instrument. Hal Leonard Paperback Songs. Folk. Diffi...(+)
By Various. For voice and
C instrument. Hal Leonard
Paperback Songs. Folk.
Difficulty: easy-medium.
Fakebook (leadsheet
notation). Vocal melody,
lyrics, leadsheet
notation and chord names.
255 pages. Published by
Hal Leonard fakebook
(leadsheet notation) Folk
By Cari Fuchs. For acoustic instruments. Songbook. Celtic/Irish. Level: Beginnin...(+)
By Cari Fuchs. For
acoustic instruments.
Songbook. Celtic/Irish.
Level:
Beginning-Intermediate.
Book. Size 8.75x11.75.
128 pages. Published by
Mel Bay Publications,
Inc.
Guitar - Intermediate SKU: MB.WBM76M Saddle-stitched. Country. Book and o...(+)
Guitar - Intermediate
SKU: MB.WBM76M
Saddle-stitched. Country.
Book and online audio.
Mel Bay Publications, Inc
#WBM76M. Published by Mel
Bay Publications, Inc
(MB.WBM76M).
ISBN
9781736363096. 8.75x11.75
inches.
This
comprehensive book
contains the solos found
in five William Bay
guitar solo
collections.á The
solos range from colorful
foot tapping reels,
breakdowns, hornpipes,
jigs, fiddle tunes and
sea chanteys to country
and Celtic ballads and
waltzes.á Also
included are numerous
original guitar
solos.á All 143 solos
in this collection are
recorded by the author
and online access to the
recordings is included.
All solos are presented
in notation and
tablature.
Chamber Music flute, piano SKU: CF.WF228 Philippe Gaubert. Compose...(+)
Chamber Music flute,
piano
SKU:
CF.WF228
Philippe
Gaubert. Composed by
Philippe Gaubert. Edited
by Amy Porter. Arranged
by Amy Porter. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
104+1+32 pages. Carl
Fischer Music #WF228.
Published by Carl Fischer
Music (CF.WF228).
Chamber Music Flute(s) SKU: CF.WF230 The Art of Staying in Shape. ...(+)
Chamber Music Flute(s)
SKU: CF.WF230
The Art of Staying in
Shape. Composed by
Robert Stallman. With
Standard notation. 144
pages. Carl Fischer Music
#WF230. Published by Carl
Fischer Music (CF.WF230).
Books and Journals SKU: UT.APS-10 Edited by Giuseppe Montemagno and Miche...(+)
Books and Journals
SKU: UT.APS-10
Edited by Giuseppe
Montemagno and Michela
Niccolai. Paperback (Soft
Cover). Ad Parnassum
Studies. Classical. Books
and Journals. Ut Orpheus
#APS 10. Published by Ut
Orpheus (UT.APS-10).
ISBN 9788881095056.
6.5 x 9.5
inches.
Essays
by Marie-Helene
Benoit-Otis,
Jean-Christophe Branger,
Michel Duchesneau,
Stephan Etcharry, Sarah
Gutsche-Miller, Jacinthe
Harbec, Karen Henson,
Mara Lacche, Ralph P.
Locke, Anne Monjaret,
Michela Niccolai, Luca
Levi Sala
The
crisis of dramaturgical
systems in the age of
European modernism,
between the end of the
nineteenth century and
the First World War,
provoked the creation of
a range of original
artistic solutions until
the 1930s which broke
apart traditional musical
genres. The quest for new
forms of expression thus
becomes a defining
feature in modernist art.
Composers, riding the
wave of momentum built
first in literature and
the fine arts, blurred
the boundaries between
high and low styles, and
it is in this
co-existence,
inherent to the new
forms, that musical
production found new
life. Theatre studies
have pinpointed this
desire for artistic
experimentation with
Paris at its centre, the
city of light,
that cultural meeting
ground and formidable
catalyst of artistic
trends. The visual
spectacle produced during
the forty years
(approximately 1890-1930)
covered in this volume
has therefore been
analysed in a number of
different ways, deriving
from the vast panorama of
cultural history,
interrogating theatrical
materials not only from
the standpoint of the
<>, but also
by investigating the
links between high and
low, mediatised culture.
Musicological research
applied to high art
genres (song, opera, all
genres of instrumental
music) does not yet seem
to have taken these
hybrid spectacles which
modify forms and genres
in search of new musical
and dramatic solutions
into consideration,
except in a few rare
cases. On the other hand,
new impetus has been
given by a renewed
interest in popular
chanson and ballet. In
this current volume, we
have chosen to
interrogate the
spectacular element, that
is to say the
performance, as 'a
text', equal in status to
the music and the
literary text. Therefore,
the different subject
areas proposed in the
following chapters reveal
a lesser importance of
the subject material set
to music by composers but
a greater willingness, at
the centre of this
aesthetic renewal, to try
out new musical forms or
to adapt traditional
structures to new
dramatic ends.
By Nicolas Horvath. By Robert Orledge and Claude Debussy (1862-1918). Redi...(+)
By Nicolas Horvath. By
Robert Orledge and Claude
Debussy (1862-1918).
Rediscoverd Debussy.
Christmas. Score. Musik
Fabrik #MFCD017A.
Published
by Musik Fabrik
Nightlife in Paris Orchestre d'harmonie - Intermédiaire De Haske Publications
Concert Band/Harmonie/Fanfare Band - Grade 3.5 SKU: BT.DHP-1216333-015 Co...(+)
Concert
Band/Harmonie/Fanfare
Band - Grade 3.5
SKU:
BT.DHP-1216333-015
Composed by Peter Kleine
Schaars. Peter's Compact
Collection. Original
Light Music. Set (Score &
Parts). Composed 2021. De
Haske Publications #DHP
1216333-015. Published by
De Haske Publications
(BT.DHP-1216333-015).
English-German-French-
Dutch.
The
magnificent shows at the
Moulin Rouge have left
their mark on the
collective imagination of
all who read about them.
For decades, a small but
spectacular band formed
one of the basic
ingredients in this
internationally
famedcabaret theatre.
With the first sounds of
this composition by Peter
Kleine Schaars, the
exciting Parisian
nightlife immediately
comes to mind. The
musette takes us to
quartier Pigalle, the
red-light district of
Paris, and when thedoors
of the Moulin Rouge open,
we hear the recognizable
rhythms of a contemporary
disco: a combination of
the rhythmic cells 8 / 4
and 3 / 14. In addition,
the composition has been
highlighted with a
plentiful and varied use
of rhythmic cell 5.
Naturally, the themes and
accompaniments have been
divided equally among all
parts.
Die
großartigen Shows im
Moulin Rouge prägten
das kollektive
Bewusstsein all jener,
die sich damit
beschäftigt haben.
Jahrzehntelang war eine
kleine, aber fantastische
Band Bestandteil dieses
international
bekanntenKabaretttheaters
. Mit den ersten
Klängen der
Komposition von Peter
Kleine Schaars fühlt
man sich sofort in das
aufregende Pariser
Nachtleben versetzt. Die
Musette führt uns ins
Quartier Pigalle, das
Rotlichtviertel von
Paris, undwenn sich die
Türen des Moulin Rouge
öffnen, erklingen die
bekannten Rhythmen einer
modernen Disco: eine
Kombination der
Rhythmus-Einheiten 8 / 4
und 3 / 14. Darüber
hinaus ist die
Komposition durch eine
vielfältige Verwendung
derRhythmus-Einheit 5
geprägt. Die Themen
und Begleitungen
verteilen sich dabei
gleichmäßig auf
alle Stimmen.
Nightlife in Paris Orchestre d'harmonie - Intermédiaire De Haske Publications
Concert Band/Harmonie/Fanfare Band - Grade 3.5 SKU: BT.DHP-1216333-215 Co...(+)
Concert
Band/Harmonie/Fanfare
Band - Grade 3.5
SKU:
BT.DHP-1216333-215
Composed by Peter Kleine
Schaars. Peter's Compact
Collection. Original
Light Music. Score Only.
Composed 2021. 26 pages.
De Haske Publications
#DHP 1216333-215.
Published by De Haske
Publications
(BT.DHP-1216333-215).
English-German-French-
Dutch.
The
magnificent shows at the
Moulin Rouge have left
their mark on the
collective imagination of
all who read about them.
For decades, a small but
spectacular band formed
one of the basic
ingredients in this
internationally
famedcabaret theatre.
With the first sounds of
this composition by Peter
Kleine Schaars, the
exciting Parisian
nightlife immediately
comes to mind. The
musette takes us to
quartier Pigalle, the
red-light district of
Paris, and when thedoors
of the Moulin Rouge open,
we hear the recognizable
rhythms of a contemporary
disco: a combination of
the rhythmic cells 8 / 4
and 3 / 14. In addition,
the composition has been
highlighted with a
plentiful and varied use
of rhythmic cell 5.
Naturally, the themes and
accompaniments have been
divided equally among all
parts.
Die
großartigen Shows im
Moulin Rouge prägten
das kollektive
Bewusstsein all jener,
die sich damit
beschäftigt haben.
Jahrzehntelang war eine
kleine, aber fantastische
Band Bestandteil dieses
international
bekanntenKabaretttheaters
. Mit den ersten
Klängen der
Komposition von Peter
Kleine Schaars fühlt
man sich sofort in das
aufregende Pariser
Nachtleben versetzt. Die
Musette führt uns ins
Quartier Pigalle, das
Rotlichtviertel von
Paris, undwenn sich die
Türen des Moulin Rouge
öffnen, erklingen die
bekannten Rhythmen einer
modernen Disco: eine
Kombination der
Rhythmus-Einheiten 8 / 4
und 3 / 14. Darüber
hinaus ist die
Komposition durch eine
vielfältige Verwendung
derRhythmus-Einheit 5
geprägt. Die Themen
und Begleitungen
verteilen sich dabei
gleichmäßig auf
alle Stimmen.
(Based on the Etudes of Franz Whilhelm Ferling). By John Walker, Franz Wilhelm F...(+)
(Based on the Etudes of
Franz Whilhelm Ferling).
By John Walker, Franz
Wilhelm Ferling. Edited
by Amy Porter. Arranged
by Cyrille Rose. For
flute and piano. Carl
Fischer Classic Studies.
Book and CD. 44 pages.
Published by Carl Fischer