SKU: BT.MUSM570368327

George Nicholson's Launch for Bass Clarinet, String Quartet and Piano. Composed May 2018.

Duration: 1 minute

Premiered 26 April, 2018 by Sarah Watts, Jonathan Ayerst and the LigetiQuartet.

Programme Note:

This piece was composed to mark the inauguration of the Centre for New Music at Sheffield (CeNMaS). It was one of several 'microcosmic' pieces written by postgraduatestudents and staff composers of the University of Sheffield for that occasion, to be presented as a continuous sequence of very brief instrumental and electroacoustic works.

The beginning of any new venture impliespotentialand possibility; borne of optimism it invokes hope for the future. It was with these thoughts in mind that I set out in Launch to fill a minute of playing time with as much activity as possible.

SKU: CF.FAS43

ISBN 9780825863387. UPC: 798408063382. 8.5 X 11 inches. Key: E minor.

Titled by the students of J. T. Lambert Middle School in East Stroudsburg, PA, which commissioned the original version for band, this brilliant, heavily accented piece emphasizes rhythmic alertness and attention to dynamic contrasts. Bold fanfare writing alternates with lyrical writing of considerable warmth and the spiccato style of playing is introduced.
The title for Dance of the Thunderbolts was suggested by students at J. T. Lambert Middle School in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. This piece was originally commissioned for the sixth-grade band at the school in 2003 and has now been transcribed for string orchestra. The students specifically asked for the piece to be “a strong powerful piece with lots of accents and a strong abrupt ending.” As you can see and hear, the piece contains many of these aspects. After the title was suggested I came up with the thunderbolt dance section of the piece first stated at m. 24. Later during the compositional process I decided to frame this theme with a more lyrical theme, but one that still contains the sparkle of the staccato ostinato that is layered together with the elongated theme. Following the thunderbolt dance at m.24 is a short interlude to soften the sound before a return of the theme in fragments traded between different sections and in different tessituras. The lyrical theme returns and is followed by “a strong abrupt ending” as suggested by the students. As with all of my pieces at this level, the tempo is merely a suggestion and should be adjusted slower or faster to fit the needs of your students and the performance situation.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 2007.

SKU: MB.95422

ISBN 9780786603435. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.

A landmark book written by one of the greatest guitarists of the 20th Century, this text contains George M. Smith's own systematic study of chord technique, harmony and progressions. A large number of unique chord charts along with accompanying exercises makes this book unlike any other. The guitarist who works systematically through this book will develop the chord technique necessary for modern rhythm playing and will gain harmonic knowledge essential to the art of chord improvising. An excellent chord substitution chart is provided as a supplement to this text. Written in standard notation only with chord symbols and diagrams.

SKU: AP.44667

SKU: FT.FM876

ISBN 9790570487752. 21 x 30 cm inches.

This is not a funeral march for a dead hero, nor for a lost soul. It's traditional in my homeland of Puglia during Easter week, to hear and see through streets bustling with people, various marching bands, playing sad melodies, tragic marches and some popular songs. This funeral march is a distant childhood memory of that music. The tempo shouldn't be too fast, but the melodies and harmonies must connect themselves slowly and without any harshness.

SKU: CA.210500

ISBN 9790007188801.

Mehr Klang - this versatile choral collection developed from practical use for practical use is aimed at all church choirs and instrumental ensembles who want to achieve more variety and different sounds when playing together in worship, for parish festivals, and on other occasions. In keeping with established choral practice, the selected arrangements are presented to enable beautiful-sounding music to be created with the resources available and with flexibility in scoring. Performance tips give suggestions for different scoring possibilities, reflected in the performance material in the choral collection. The choral director's volume (a full score) and eight instrumental books are included in the set, a choral edition is available separately. The editors have chosen 49 compositions for this, including new compositions for choir and instruments, arrangements of attractive choral works for smaller choirs, and lots of new songs in modern settings for choir and individual instruments. Many of the choral settings contain just one male voice part, or the writing is kept to a simple four-part texture. The styles range from 16th century hymn settings to klezmer and Latin. Well-known hymns are included alongside new worship songs and short motets and liturgical pieces. The most important festivals in the church year, the seasons, psalms, songs of praise, thanksgiving, and commemoration are included. for voices and instruments, often ad lib. suitable for small choirs with tips for performance flexible scorings.

SKU: CA.1820300

ISBN 9790007143428.

The second volume continues with 43 compositions for the time of Holy Lent and Easter. For this time of year the new hymnal Gotteslob contains a great number of new songs. Therefore more than 20 pieces are commissioned renditions for this edition - for many songs they are even the first chorale arrangements overall. The collection presents some previously unknown pieces between baroque and present times. The pieces are quite easy to learn and take between two and five minutes playing time and are particularly suitable for the recessional and for the communion.

SKU: CA.216510

ISBN 9790007145941.

Scor e available separately - see item CA.216500.

SKU: CA.218510

ISBN 9790007172398.

SKU: UT.CH-157

ISBN 9790215320369. 9 x 12 inches.

Vals d'la Masca; Il racconto della Montagna; Sequenze sotterranee

Th e Alpinia Suite was commissioned and composed for the festival <> and is dedicated to my friend and colleague Elio Galvagno. It was performed for the first time on August 30, 2011, in the Church of San Giovanni in Saluzzo, by an ensemble of professional and student guitarists from all over Europe. This piece was written to commemorate the first ascent of mount Monviso, by William Mathews, Frederick Jacomb, Jean Baptiste Croz and Michel Croz, exactly 150 years before, on August 30, 1861.
The first movement is a small Waltz. I imagined a Masca (a sort of alpine pixie, a teasing sprite), dancing all around the house and playing tricks, mostly harmless and funny. The Masca is a legendary and very important character in the folklore of my valleys, and all rationally inexplicable events of everyday life are ascribed to her - such as objects that cannot be found anymore, holes in flour sacks, salt in sugar bowls...
The next two movements are a homage to the Mountains. The Tale is a sort of journal, a bright and peaceful chronicle of a hike uphill, in which the beauty of the place is highlighted by an easy harmony and a sweet melody. After this, Underground sequences evokes that same world in a darker and nocturnal way; the faster pace and the choice of repeated and varying patterns are meant to show the transformation of the former environment into something more complex and tormented. Here mountains are a metaphor of human life, warts and all: their sundrenched slopes and their green pasture grasslands, but also their icy and dangerous northern sides, which demand calm, training and caution.
(G. Signorile).

SKU: HL.50603675

ISBN 9781705128138. UPC: 840126952919.

The original music Walk for one dancer and violinist was commissioned by Compagnie Trans. The four pieces that compose this sonata are from the performance piece Laurence Marthouret choreographed for a dancer and a violinist, entitled Walk, and interpreted by Sona Khochafian in 2001. The project originated from a shared conception of the two art forms, an equal collaboration between choreographic and musical composition. Its central idea was to utilize Laban's choreographic notation system, which accompanies and parallels the musical notation, allowing for an extreme precision in the playing out of the dance-music relationship. Largely cut and recomposed to arrive at this concert version, Walk-Sonata still maintains its four discreet parts, the four sides of a square of the choreographic composition and is therefore strongly linked to the original choreography. This is discernible not only in the formal four movement structure, but also in the music's multiple rhythms, dynamics and phrasing, which are consistently, if not tightly, joined to the dance gesture. Walk-Sonata is dedicated to Sona Khochafian and Laurence Marthouret.

SKU: GH.CG-6242

ISBN 9790070040105. Text: Peter Dass / Jan Arvid Hellstrom (Swedish).

SKU: GH.WC6016

ISBN 9790070037495. A4 inches. Text: Hjalmar Gullberg.