(SSA Chorus, Harp or Piano). By Benjamin Britten (1913-1976). For Choral (SSA). Boosey and Hawkes Sacred Choral. 12 pages. Boosey and Hawkes #M051481644. Published by Boosey and Hawkes

SATB and Harp (Piano). By Benjamin Britten. Arranged by Julius Harrison. (SATB). Boosey and Hawkes Sacred Choral. Size 6.8x10.5 inches. 8 pages. Published by Boosey and Hawkes.

Piano

SKU: BT.BWH005079

Composed by P. Nightingale. Method. Book Only. Bosworth & Co. #BWH005079. Published by Bosworth & Co. (BT.BWH005079).

English.

Soprano voice solo, SATB choir, 2 violins, viola, basso continuo - Level 3

SKU: CA.3949219

Kantate zum 2. Weihnachtstag. Composed by Georg Philipp Telemann. This edition: urtext. Stuttgart Urtext Edition: Telemann-Archiv. Complete orchestral parts. Sacred vocal music, Cantatas, Advent, Christmas. Set of Orchestra Parts. TVWV 1:1200. Duration 15 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 39.492/19. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.3949219).

ISBN 9790007144227. Text language: German/English.

Two straightforward four-part choral movements frame three solo movements. The tonal language of this easily performable work, taken from a cantata publication of 1748, combines baroque pictorial quality and playfulness with rococo grace and sensitivity. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.3949200.

(Score)

SKU: HL.49008111

Score. Composed by Carl Orff. This edition: Half-leather binding. Sheet music. Edition Schott. Classical. Score, Faksimile. 176 pages. Schott Music #ED 8653. Published by Schott Music (HL.49008111).

ISBN 9783795753474. 13.25x17.0x1.154 inches. German - English.

Carl Orff's Carmina Burana is amongst the most important compositions of the 20th century. Orff was fascinated by the original power and pictorial imagination of this medieval song collection, compiled in the 13th century in the German monastery of Benediktbeuern. ' The “Carmina Burana” are our Middle Ages', Orff said in 1970 in an interview. 'With “Carmina Burana” being played all over the world, it is not my music that's important but to comprehend the occidental power of this body of poetry and to let it work on our imagination.' According to the medieavalist Wolfgang Maaz it is Orff who, besides Umberto Eco, had the most signifant influence on the perception of the Middle Ages in the 20th century.. The autograph score is a fair copy written in blue ink throughout. Additional entries in pencil and coloured pencil turn this into a source of extraordinary significance for musicologists and amateurs alike.

Piano

SKU: BO.J.1001

Composed by Frederic Wort. Published by Editorial de Musica Boileau (BO.J.1001).

Soprano voice solo, SATB choir, 2 violins, viola, basso continuo - Level 3

SKU: CA.3949212

Kantate zum 2. Weihnachtstag. Composed by Georg Philipp Telemann. This edition: urtext. Stuttgart Urtext Edition: Telemann-Archiv. German title: O Jesu Christ, dein Kripplein ist. Sacred vocal music, Cantatas, Advent, Christmas. Single Part, Violin 2. TVWV 1:1200. 4 pages. Duration 15 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 39.492/12. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.3949212).

ISBN 9790007056322. Language: German/English.

Two straightforward four-part choral movements frame three solo movements. The tonal language of this easily performable work, taken from a cantata publication of 1748, combines baroque pictorial quality and playfulness with rococo grace and sensitivity. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3949200.

By Rob Grice. For concert band. Concert Band. Level: Grade 3. Score and set of parts. Published by C.L. Barnhouse.

Bass clarinet, percussion, piano

SKU: P2.30082

Composed by Ethan Wickman. Chamber music, 20th century. Published by Potenza Music (P2.30082).

Angles of Repose draws the inspiration for its title from Wallace Stegner's novel about an itinerant mining engineer and his family as they struggle to prosper in the American West. In Stegner's work, the title refers simultaneously to the angle at which granular materials achieve stability on a slope and the forces of fortune and consequence that ultimately shape the lives of its protagonists. I have become increasingly interested in the way that physical forces create analogues for social, emotional, interpersonal and even musical ones. While this piece does not pictorially narrate the physical phenomenon, it aspires to translate the interplay of these forces into musical ones.

Piano

SKU: HL.48024694

Die Lehrzeit Des Jungen Sudhana Piano. Composed by Wolfgang-Andreas Schultz. Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music. Classical. Softcover. 52 pages. Duration 1320 seconds. Bote & Bock #M221122414. Published by Bote & Bock (HL.48024694).

ISBN 9783923051564. UPC: 888680953881.

The young Sudhana, protagonist of several Asian writings, meets nine teachers on his journey. After each encounter, he processes theexperienced and learned. In the process, all of the figures that have appeared so far remain present - a weaving that finds its pictorial equivalent in the beaded net, which adorns the heavenly palace of the god Indra: every pearl is an individual that simultaneously mirrors all other pearls. Wolfgang-Andreas Schultz's piano cycle makes the Buddhist concept dynamic in a series of theme variations.

((from A Ceremony of Carols) SATB and Harp or Piano, New Edition). Composed by Benjamin Britten (1913-1976). For Choral (SATB). Boosey and Hawkes Sacred Choral. 12 pages. Boosey and Hawkes #M051481613. Published by Boosey and Hawkes

German

SKU: HL.49047041

Book in German. Choral Collection. Classroom Resources. Softcover. Schott Music #ED23336. Published by Schott Music (HL.49047041).

UPC: 196288110965.

Choir Class! - Traffic light file Chorus: great! is a concept for musical focus classes in elementary school. The traffic light index offers pictorial suggestions for children's voice training. The topics posture, breathing and voice are treated. The material includes 102 cards with illustrations. A booklet with exercises and games is available for this file (ED 23292). Book in German.

Orchestra (Score)

SKU: HL.14000908

Composed by Hans Abrahamsen. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. 126 pages. Music Sales #KP00206. Published by Music Sales (HL.14000908).

ISBN 9788759854648. 12.0x16.0x0.677 inches. English.

The title Marchenbilder, or Fairy-tale Pictures, borrowed from Schumann, awakens notions of music which in itself has a pictorial quality. In all, the score comprises six Fairytale Pictures, the first three of which form the first movement, the next two the second, whilst the sixth forms the last movement which is linked with the second without a break. The first two pictures have the same duration - one minute each - whilst the remainder hesitantly inerease in length until the final picture is almost five minutes long. For 14 instruments.

(The Pictorial Biography). Composed by Robert Simon. Music Education. Book. Text language: English. 166 pages. Published by GIA Publications

Grade 3

SKU: CL.012-3701-01

Composed by Grice. Concert Band. Gems of the Concert Band Series. Audio recording available separately (item CL.WFR357). Extra full score. Composed 2008. Duration 3 minutes, 33 seconds. Opus III Wind Orchestra Publications #012-3701-01. Published by Opus III Wind Orchestra Publications (CL.012-3701-01).

Rob Grice's Portrait of an Old Country Town is a programmatic work depicting images of an early American community. The beauty of the countryside, the work involved in taming the great outdoors, and a small town festival celebration are all pictorial elements of the piece. Accessible to bands of modest experience, sounds much harder than it is. An exceptionally nice work!

About Gems of the Concert Band

A series of transcriptions and other works in varying styles, representative of the programming of the Great American Classic Concert Band era of a century ago, as exemplified by John Phillip Sousa, Edwin Franko Goldman, Karl L. King, and Leonard B. Smith

Piano

SKU: HL.14023007

Composed by P. Nightingale. Music Sales America. Method. Book Only. Bosworth & Co. #BOE005082. Published by Bosworth & Co. (HL.14023007).

(SSA and Harp or Piano, New Edition). Composed by Benjamin Britten (1913-1976). For Choral (SSA). Boosey and Hawkes Sacred Choral. 12 pages. Boosey and Hawkes #M051481590. Published by Boosey and Hawkes

Chamber Music Piano, Tape

SKU: PR.140400670

Composed by James Primosch. Performance Score. With Standard notation. 18 pages. Duration 15 minutes. Merion Music #140-40067. Published by Merion Music (PR.140400670).

UPC: 680160023271.

Secre t Geometry can be heard as a short piano sonata, with the movements forming a typical fast--slow--fast pattern. The electronic sounds on tape are tightly interworven with the piano, often serving to extend and transform the piano's sound. The goal is to create a hybrid sound world. The phrase secret geometry is used to describe the play of forms in certain paintings, referring to structural patterns that are used to organize the pictorial elements. Since the electronic medium permits a composer to focus on the micro-structure of individual sounds, as well as more customary concerns with patterns of pitch and rhythm, it seemed appropriate to choose a title that emphasizes the careful shaping of every compositional element. But this is not to neglect the spiritual impulse of the work. After all, the obscure motion of the Holy Spirit herself describes a secret geometry, what Thomas Merton called a hidden wholeness. Written for the distinguished pianist Aleck Karis, Secret Geometry was composed with the assistance of a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. The tape was realized in the Presser Electronic Music Studio of the University of Pennsylvania.

String Ensemble

SKU: HL.14021105

Composed by John McCabe. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. 30 pages. Music Sales #NOV121099. Published by Music Sales (HL.14021105).

ISBN 9780711997950. UPC: 884088433307. 8.25x11.75x0.088 inches.

The composer writes: Pilgrim was inspired, it will be no surprise to learn, by reading Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress - Vaughan Williams's great opera on the subject had fascinated me from its first performance, yet it was a long time before I caught up with this essential item in any well-stocked library of English classics. It made a great impression, not least because of its theme of a journey of self-discovery, and a rediscovery or renewal of faith. These are ideas which have a strong interest for me, not in religious terms but in their application to every aspect of human life (including great journeys), and this piece reflects my response in musical terms to this concern. The tempo of the whole piece, which lasts about 18 minutes, is basically slow. There are two quick episodes, but these act somewhat like the trio sections of a classical scherzo, save that the tempo relationships are inverted (the classical trios would have been slower, not quicker) and the canvas is much larger, being that of a single, substantial, slow movement. The form of the whole is perhaps fantasia-like rather than having any relationship to classical forms such as sonata or rondo - some motifs and themes are varied as the work develops, and the opening chords are of primary importance throughout the work. There has been no attempt to convey any pictorial elements deriving from Bunyan's great book. There is, however, one feature which, upon completion of the score, struck me with some force, which is that almost all the thematic material is essentially striving upwards - there is a constant upward movement (sometimes over a lengthy period) throughout the work. Pilgrim was commissioned by the Luton Music Club for the Raphael Ensemble with funds provided by the Eastern Arts Board and Bedfordshire County Council, and is dedicated to the Luton Music Club. The first performance was given in Luton on February 10th 1997 and followed, as part of a joint scheme, by performances in the same week at the Music Clubs of Bedford and Leighton Buzzard.

Composed by Connor J. Koppin. School, Concert. Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series. Octavo. Walton Music #WJMS1186. Published by Walton Music

SKU: HL.48024898

His Life and Work in Pictures. Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books. Classical Reference. Hardcover. 304 pages. Bote & Bock #M202581032. Published by Bote & Bock (HL.48024898).

UPC: 840126930672. 9.75x13.0 inches.

This book is the first pictorial monograph about the Korean-German composer Isang Yun, who was born in southern Korea in 1917 and died in Berlin in 1995. It was first in Germany, with influence from what around 1960 was then the avant-garde that he developed an individual musical language of his own. A little later Yun was drawn into the field of tension between political advocacy motivated by humanitarian, societal concerns and responding to ideological incitement, between imprisonment, torture, and reparation. It was in his compositional work that he found a place of refuge. His music proceeds from the primacy of melody and the sustained tone, which he found preformed in the traditional music of his native Korea and then succeeded in developing heterophonically and spatially. The resultant works were characterized by unusual intensity and rich tone colors.

String Quartet & Percussion

SKU: ST.Y298

Composed by Rhian Samuel. Chamber music. Score and Parts. Score and parts. Stainer & Bell Ltd. #Y298. Published by Stainer & Bell Ltd. (ST.Y298).

ISBN 9790220223570.

Comm issioned by the Mavron Quartet for its tenth anniversary, with funds from the PRS for Music foundation's Women Make Music award, Rhian Samuel's Threaded Light presents a novel take on the string-quartet genre. Two of its movements include a percussive element played by members of the ensemble, with an optional percussion part for a fifth player. In addition, the unusual seven-movement structure arises from two elements: the idea of a thread, continuous, stretched or broken; and, contrasting with this notion, the influence of pictorial imagery in the slow, evocative second and sixth movements ('Late Sun' and 'Estuary by Moonlight') inspired by the impression of light passing through clouds near the composer's home on the hills above Aberdyfi in mid-Wales. Deriving from shared material, three abstract, prelude-like movements entitled 'Twine' (Nos. 1, 4 and 7) act as the 'thread' that binds the work into a whole, placing the cloudscapes and the similarly luminous percussion-based inventions, No. 3, 'Glinting Stars' and No. 5, 'Foxtrot Gleam', within the framework of an overall and satisfying symmetry.

Concert Band Bass Clarinet, Bassoon 1, Bassoon 2, Clarinet, Clarinet 1, Clarinet 2, Clarinet 3, Contrabassoon, English Horn, Euphonium, Flute 1, Flute 2, Flute 3, Horn 1, Horn 2, Horn 3, Horn 4, Oboe 1, Oboe 2, Percussion 1, Percussion 2, Percussion 3 and more.

SKU: PR.16500092L

For Concert Band. Composed by Dan Welcher. Spiral. Contemporary. Large Full Score. With Standard notation. Composed 1994. 76 pages. Duration 10 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #165-00092L. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.16500092L).

UPC: 680160039531. 11 x 17 inches.

Zion is the third and final installment of a series of works for Wind Ensemble inspired by national parks in the western United States, collectively called Three Places in the West. As in the other two works (The Yellowstone Fires and Arches), it is my intention to convey more an impression of the feelings I've had in Zion National Park in Utah than an attempt at pictorial description. Zion is a place with unrivalled natural grandeur, being a sort of huge box canyon in which the traveler is constantly overwhelmed by towering rock walls on every side of him -- but it is also a place with a human history, having been inhabited by several tribes of native Americans before the arrival of the Mormon settlers in the mid-19th century. By the time the Mormons reached Utah, they had been driven all the way from New York State through Ohio and, with tragic losses, through Missouri. They saw Utah in general as a place nobody wanted, but they were nonetheless determined to keep it to themselves. Although Zion Canyon was never a Mormon Stronghold, the people who reached it and claimed it (and gave it its present name) had been through extreme trials. It is the religious fervor of these persecuted people that I was able to draw upon in creating Zion as a piece of music. There are two quoted hymns in the work: Zion's Walls (which Aaron Copland adapted to his own purposes in both is Old American Songs and the opera The Tender Land) and Zion's Security, which I found in the same volume in which Copland found Zion's Walls -- that inexhaustible storehouse of 19th-century hymnody called The Sacred Harp. My work opens with a three-verse setting of Zion's Security, a stern tune in F-sharp minor which is full of resolve. (The words of this hymn are resolute and strong, rallying the faithful to be firm, and describing the city of our God they hope to establish). This melody alternates with a fanfare tune, whose origins will be revealed in later music, until the second half of the piece begins: a driving rhythmic ostinato based on a 3/4-4/4 alternating meter scheme. This pauses at its height to restate Zion's Security one more time, in a rather obscure setting surrounded by freely shifting patterns in the flutes, clarinets, and percussion -- until the sun warms the ground sufficiently for the second hymn to appear. Zion's Walls is set in 7/8, unlike Copland's 9/8-6/8 meters (the original is quite strange, and doesn't really fit any constant meter), and is introduced by a warm horn solo. The two hymns vie for attention from here to the end of the piece, with the glowingly optimistic Zion's Walls finally achieving prominence. The work ends with a sense of triumph and unbreakable spirit. Zion was commissioned in 1994 by the wind ensembles of the University of Texas at Arlington, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Oklahoma. It is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Copland.