SKU: BR.EB-9253

World premiere of the orchestral version: Stuttgart, January 1, 2018World premiere of the piano version: Mito, June 17, 2017

Have a look into EB 9283.

ISBN 9790004185537. 9 x 12 inches.

Marche fatale is an incautiously daring escapade that may annoy the fans of my compositions more than my earlier works, many of which have prevailed only after scandals at their world premieres. My Marche fatale has, though, little stylistically to do with my previous compositional path; it presents itself without restraint, if not as a regression, then still as a recourse to those empty phrases to which modern civilization still clings in its daily utility music, whereas music in the 20th and 21st centuries has long since advanced to new, unfamiliar soundscapes and expressive possibilities. The key term is banality. As creators we despise it, we try to avoid it - though we are not safe from the cheap banal even within new aesthetic achievements.Many composers have incidentally accepted the banal. Mozart wrote Ein musikalischer Spass [A Musical Jape], a deliberately amateurishly miscarried sextet. Beethoven's Bagatellen op. 119 were rejected by the publisher on the grounds that few will believe that this minor work is by the famous Beethoven. Mauricio Kagel wrote, tongue in cheek, so to speak, Marsche, um den Sieg zu verfehlen [Marches for being Unvictorious], Ligeti wrote Hungarian Rock; in his Circus Polka Stravinsky quoted and distorted the famous, all too popular Schubert military march, composed at the time for piano duet. I myself do not know, though, whether I ought to rank my Marche fatale alongside these examples: I accept the humor in daily life, the more so as this daily life for some of us is not otherwise to be borne. In music, I mistrust it, considering myself all the closer to the profounder idea of cheerfulness having little to do with humor. However: Isn't a march with its compelling claim to a collectively martial or festive mood absurd, a priori? Is it even music at all? Can one march and at the same time listen? Eventually, I resolved to take the absurd seriously - perhaps bitterly seriously - as a debunking emblem of our civilization that is standing on the brink. The way - seemingly unstoppable - into the black hole of all debilitating demons: that can become serene. My old request of myself and my music-creating surroundings is to write a non-music, whence the familiar concept of music is repeatedly re-defined anew and differently, so that derailed here - perhaps? - in a treacherous way, the concert hall becomes the place of mind-opening adventures instead of a refuge in illusory security. How could that happen? The rest is - thinking.(Helmut Lachenmann, 2017)CD (Version for Piano):Nicolas Hodges CD Wergo WER 7393 2 Bibliography:Ich bin nicht ,,pietistisch verformt. Ein Gesprach [von Jan Brachmann] mit dem Komponisten Helmut Lachenmann, in: FAZ vom 7. Juni 2018, p. 15.

World premiere of the piano version: Mito/Japan, June 17, 2017, World premiere of the orchestral version: Stuttgart, January 1, 2018, World premiere of the ensemble version: Frankfurt, December 9, 2020.

SKU: BR.CHB-3145-02

ISBN 9790004403501. 7.5 x 10.5 inches.

Palestrina' s Missa Paternoster is one of the masses by this composer that were published neither during his lifetime nor after his death. The work has come down to us in one single manuscript source from the collections of the Cappella Sistina in Rome, a copy transcribed by D. Brancadore in 1618.The mass is written on motifs from the ancient plainchant Pater noster melody from the mass liturgy, which underlays the movements in an admirable multiplicity of melodic forms. New counterpoints are repeatedly intertwined with the themes of the title melody over the course of the mass. Certain idiosyncrasies in the voice-leading and the austere sonorities that recall the late Netherlandish tradition give rise to the hypothesis that this is a relatively early work of Palestrina.Several decades ago, the Missa Paternoster was published by Breitkopf & Hartel in a performance edition prepared by Hermann Bauerle. The present edition is based on the copy of the work printed in the Choirbook 68 (Cappella Sistina) of the Biblioteca Vaticana in Rome. The poor condition of the source made it necessary to compare it with Haberl's Complete Edition as weil, after which two errors have to be corrected. Our edition cannot pretend to offer a definitive reading of the accidentals, since they are difficult to distinguish in the original. The work was transposed, as this seemed more appropriate to present-day choral practice. Finally, the note values were reduced by a half and the closing notes reproduced uniforrnly as longae. Palestrina's Missa ,,Pater noster occupies a distinguished position next to its better known, four-part fellow works. lt deserves this rank thanks to its dignified and broadly sweeping themes, the archaic loftiness of its sound, and the wealth of motivic work contained within it. We sincerely hope that this new edition will stimulate choirs to turn their attention once again to this rarely sung mass by the great Roman master.Rudolf Ewerhart,January 1962, Munster (Westf.).

SKU: BR.EB-9383

ISBN 9790004188538. 9 x 12 inches.

Two years ago in Rome, I encountered a murmuration of starlings and I was amazed with its overwhelming beauty, changing shape as it moved. Moving of a fish school that you can watch in an aquarium, has the same beauty and the energy. According to the scientists, their fine movement in a flock is based on the following three simple rules: - steer to avoid crowding local flockmates - steer towards the average heading of local flockmates - steer to move towards the average position (center of mass) of local flockmates The word Boids refers to bird-like objects (bird-oids), representing the beauty of their movements in a flock which is a result of balancing out with each other, following the principle of least effort. I wonder if these rules can be applied to the way a string quartet is shaped. Boids again has been written as a sequel to the piece Boids (2017), a 4 minute study for string quartet in the frame of the Kronos Quartet's educational project 50 for the Future. (Misato Mochizuki)

World premiere: Osaka, International Chamber Music Competition, February 12, 2021 Commissioned by Osaka International Chamber Music Competition and Festa Commission.

SKU: BR.EB-9384

ISBN 9790004188545. 9 x 12 inches.

Two years ago in Rome, I encountered a murmuration of starlings and I was amazed with its overwhelming beauty, changing shape as it moved. Moving of a fish school that you can watch in an aquarium, has the same beauty and the energy. According to the scientists, their fine movement in a flock is based on the following three simple rules: - steer to avoid crowding local flockmates - steer towards the average heading of local flockmates - steer to move towards the average position (center of mass) of local flockmates The word Boids refers to bird-like objects (bird-oids), representing the beauty of their movements in a flock which is a result of balancing out with each other, following the principle of least effort. I wonder if these rules can be applied to the way a string quartet is shaped. Boids again has been written as a sequel to the piece Boids (2017), a 4 minute study for string quartet in the frame of the Kronos Quartet's educational project 50 for the Future. (Misato Mochizuki)

World premiere: Osaka, International Chamber Music Competition, February 12, 2021 Commissioned by Osaka International Chamber Music Competition and Festa Commission.

SKU: BR.PB-5432

World premiere of the orchestral version: Stuttgart, January 1, 2018World premiere of the piano version: Mito, June 17, 2017

Have a look into EB 9283.

ISBN 9790004212790. 10 x 12.5 inches.

Marche fatale is an incautiously daring escapade that may annoy the fans of my compositions more than my earlier works, many of which have prevailed only after scandals at their world premieres. My Marche fatale has, though, little stylistically to do with my previous compositional path; it presents itself without restraint, if not as a regression, then still as a recourse to those empty phrases to which modern civilization still clings in its daily utility music, whereas music in the 20th and 21st centuries has long since advanced to new, unfamiliar soundscapes and expressive possibilities. The key term is banality. As creators we despise it, we try to avoid it - though we are not safe from the cheap banal even within new aesthetic achievements.Many composers have incidentally accepted the banal. Mozart wrote Ein musikalischer Spass [A Musical Jape], a deliberately amateurishly miscarried sextet. Beethoven's Bagatellen op. 119 were rejected by the publisher on the grounds that few will believe that this minor work is by the famous Beethoven. Mauricio Kagel wrote, tongue in cheek, so to speak, Marsche, um den Sieg zu verfehlen [Marches for being Unvictorious], Ligeti wrote Hungarian Rock; in his Circus Polka Stravinsky quoted and distorted the famous, all too popular Schubert military march, composed at the time for piano duet. I myself do not know, though, whether I ought to rank my Marche fatale alongside these examples: I accept the humor in daily life, the more so as this daily life for some of us is not otherwise to be borne. In music, I mistrust it, considering myself all the closer to the profounder idea of cheerfulness having little to do with humor. However: Isn't a march with its compelling claim to a collectively martial or festive mood absurd, a priori? Is it even music at all? Can one march and at the same time listen? Eventually, I resolved to take the absurd seriously - perhaps bitterly seriously - as a debunking emblem of our civilization that is standing on the brink. The way - seemingly unstoppable - into the black hole of all debilitating demons: that can become serene. My old request of myself and my music-creating surroundings is to write a non-music, whence the familiar concept of music is repeatedly re-defined anew and differently, so that derailed here - perhaps? - in a treacherous way, the concert hall becomes the place of mind-opening adventures instead of a refuge in illusory security. How could that happen? The rest is - thinking.(Helmut Lachenmann, 2017)CD (Version for Piano):Nicolas Hodges CD Wergo WER 7393 2 Bibliography:Ich bin nicht ,,pietistisch verformt. Ein Gesprach [von Jan Brachmann] mit dem Komponisten Helmut Lachenmann, in: FAZ vom 7. Juni 2018, p. 15.

World premiere of the piano version: Mito/Japan, June 17, 2017, World premiere of the orchestral version: Stuttgart, January 1, 2018, World premiere of the ensemble version: Frankfurt, December 9, 2020.

SKU: HL.35007834

UPC: 747510051954. 7.0x10.5x0.016 inches. French.

Avoir une bonne oreille musicale fait indéniablement partie des éléments requis pour être ou devenir un bon pianiste. C’est bien simple... tout part de là ! Et tout passe par là !Mais à l’instar des doigts qui sont au contact du clavier, l’oreille doit aussi être formée et entraînée pour devenir performante. Et cela passe inévitablement par des exercicesspécifiqu es, tels que ceux qui vous sont proposés dans cette méthode. Savoir reconnaître les intervalles entre les notes est la base de la formation auditive (ear training, en anglais). C’estpourquoi un premier grand chapitre est consacré ici à leur étude approfondie. Dans les suivants, vous serez alors en mesure d’aborder, pas à pas, les arpèges et accords de 3 et 4 sons,ainsi que les gammes... qui sont autant d’outils indispensables pour identifier à l’oreille les mélodies et accompagnements joués par le piano. Chaque étape de l’apprentissage estponctuée d’un quiz musical, permettant d’évaluer vos acquis, vos progrès... mais aussi votre aptitude à passer à la suite. Vous trouverez sur le disque MP3 joint tous lesenregistrements audios (au format mp3) correspondant aux multiples exercices et autres quiz de la méthode.

SKU: BR.CHB-3069-02

ISBN 9790004403099. 7.5 x 10.5 inches.

Palestrinas Missa ,,Dies sanctificatus steht in den ,,Missae ... Liber Sextus, dem sechsten Messenbuch, das 1594 in Rom erstmals gedruckt wurde. Die sechs Messen dieses Druckes sind dem kunstliebenden Kardinal Pietro Aldobrandini gewidmet, dem Neffen des Papstes Clemens VIII.Als Modell fur diese Messe diente Palestrina seine gleichnamige, vierstimmige Weihnachtsmotette, welche er im Jahre 1563 in den ,,Motecta festorum anni hatte veroffentlichen lassen. Die Themen dieser Motette bestimmen das melodische und harmonische Gefuge der Messe: fast alle Satzanfange sind vom Initialthema der Motette gespeist, und der jubelnde Dreiertakt des ,,Exultemus et laetemur beschliesst Gloria und Credo sowie das funfstimmige Agnus Dei, das nach Palestrinas Gewohnheit einen Kanon durchfuhrt, hier im Intervall der Oberquart zwischen Tenor und Alt 2.Bereits vor mehreren Jahrzehnten war die Missa ,,Dies sanctificatus in einer praktischen Ausgabe von Hermann Bauerle im Verlag Breitkopf & Harte! veroffentlicht worden. Unsere Ausgabe geht auf den Druck von 1594 zuruck, der in den Exemplaren des Liceo Musicale in Bologna (Cantus) und der Proske-Bibliothek in Regensburg (Altus, Tenor, Bassus) vorlag. Durch die Transposition des hochgeschlusselten Satzes wird die Ausfuhrung durch einen gemischten Chor moglich. Die Notenwerte wurden auf die Halfte gekurzt; der Dreiertakt ist im Originaldruck durch Schwarzung angezeigt. Einige Druckfehler, so der Schluss des Alt im Credo, wurden verbessert. Die schwungvolle, von der freudigen Grundstimmung der Weihnachtsmotette inspirierte Messe zahlt zu den Werken des romischen Meisters, die auch fur verhaltnismassig einfache Chorverhaltnisse erreichbar, in der Praxis aber weniger bekannt sind. Unsere Neuausgabe, die das Original in einer moglichst getreuen Form ohne Zusatze bietet, mochte dieser Messe in weiteren Kreisen Freunde gewinnen.Rudolf Ewerhart, im Dezember 1959, Munster (Westf.).

SKU: BR.EB-9067

World premiere: Stuttgart, March 10, 1990The 5 Haikai can be performed individually or in groups.

ISBN 9790004179420. 9 x 12 inches.

Ich schrieb Lo-Shu VI auf der Suche nach einer weiteren Verknappung meiner musikalischen Sprache. Die Form der klassischen japanischen Haiku-Dichtung wird hier - wie schon in fruheren Werken - in folgendem Sinn ubernommen: Die 17 Silben des Haiku entsprechen 17 Grosstakten eines musikalischen Satzes; jeder dieser Takte ist im Sinn von Tempo und Harmonik eine autonome musikalische Einheit, vergleichbar der ,,Phrase unserer klassischen Musik (er dauert zwischen 6 und ca. 12 Sekunden). Die Gliederung 5-7-5 des Haiku wird durch zwei lange Pausen deutlich; die Takte selber sind nicht im Sinne einer Entwicklungsform aneinander gefugt, sondern tragen ihr Zentrum in sich selbst. Ich arbeitete nur zum Teil logisch-konstruktiv; ebenso stark sind informelle, verwischende Elemente zu finden. Die Zeit wird in diesem Stuck im dramatischen, vorwarts drangenden Sinn dauernd negiert, ja aufgehoben; es entsteht ein Schwebe-Zustand um eine Art Nullpunkt herum. Die Musik tritt immer wieder in den Zustand des Schweigens ein, in dem die rezeptive Aufmerksamkeit sich regenerieren kann. Die 5 Haikai bilden keinen Zyklus; sie konnen deswegen auch einzeln oder in beliebigen Kombinationen gespielt werden. Die Metronomangaben dienen nur der Orientierung. Die Stucke sollen wie in tiefer Versunkenheit improvisiert klingen. Die Pausen sollen so lange gehalten werden, dass die Abschnitte der einzelnen Haikai nicht im Sinne ,,logischer Kontinuitat verbunden erscheinen. Spielt man einen Zyklus, ist darauf zu achten, dass die Pause zwischen zwei Haikai langer als eine grosse Fermate im Innern des Haiku ist. (Hans Zender) Bibliography : Class , Oliver: La flute dans le cycle ,,Lo-Shu de Hans Zender, in: Unite - Pluralite. La musique de Hans Zender. Colloque Strasbourg 2012, hrsg. von Pierre Michel, Marik Froidefond und Jorn Peter Hiekel, Paris: Hermann 2015, pp. 55-73.

World premiere: Stuttgart, March 10, 1990 The 5 Haikai can be performed individually or in groups.

SKU: M7.AV-5851

ISBN 9790203917168.

SKU: PR.114418900

ISBN 9781491129517. UPC: 680160668632.

A welcome addition to the bass flute repertoire, Dorff’s 14-minute sonata is designed as two pairs of slow-fast movements. While composed as a complete 4-movement sonata, either half may be performed alone as a 7-minute recital work. The movement titles are: I. Sprawling, burbling; II. Sparkling, glistening; III. Under Winter; and IV. Spring Spirits.
When Peter Sheridan commissioned me to write a piece for bass flute and piano, his only requests were a sonata-like multi-movement work, and some kind of reference to New York, where we both grew up. Just the thought of a bass flute, with its broad and mighty airstream, already reminded me of the mighty Hudson River: from the dense woods of upstate New York, through the beautiful landscapes of New Paltz and Poughkeepsie, down through the celebrated Manhattan waterway.As I daydreamed how to build a sonata inspired by the Hudson, I thought of its deep primal nature carved by the Ice Age, and the life within the river and on its shores long before humans arrived. I thought of how the river’s magnetism drew Native Americans who honored and built their lives around it. I thought of beautiful trees and wildlife, the annual cycles of ecosystems, and the natural symbiosis between the river itself, the life within, and the life on land spawned by the river’s resources.I wondered what if Thoreau had sat by the Hudson rather than by Walden Pond; I wondered what if Hesse had set Siddhartha in the Hudson Valley with this river as his metaphor for the flow of life and time.I wondered whether the sonata should flow from north to south, or have chronological references. I wondered if I should allude to the many poets and painters who have drawn inspiration from the mighty Hudson. Every thought led to the river’s essence, its own spirit and life — flowing through raw nature, from skinny trickles to mightiness spawning cities; supporting subtle life, and becoming a central commons for human societies.The subtitle Spirit of the Hudson brings it all together.* * *The sonata is built in 4 movements, with formal inspiration from the Baroque: A slow Mvt. 1 “Sprawling, burbling” leads directly to the rapid Mvt. 2 “Sparkling, glistening,” followed by another slow-fast pair: Mvt. 3 “Under Winter” which leads directly into Mvt. 4 “Spring Spirits.” In addition to performances of the complete sonata, either pair of movements may be performed on its own for a shorter concert segment.SONATA (SPIRIT OF THE HUDSON) was premiered at the International Low Flutes Festival in April 2018 by its commissioner, bass flutist Peter Sheridan, with Hyeeun Hahm as pianist.

SKU: BA.BA04672-78

ISBN 9790006498321. 32.5 x 25.5 cm inches. Key: C major.

Urtext from the G. Henle Complete Edition of the Works of Joseph Haydn.

SKU: BA.BA04672-74

ISBN 9790006493517. 32.5 x 25.5 cm inches. Key: C major.

Urtext from the G. Henle Complete Edition of the Works of Joseph Haydn.

SKU: BA.BA00462

ISBN 9790006402564. 27 x 19.1 cm inches.

SKU: BR.EB-9078

World premiere: Hannover, October 7, 1990Dedicated to the pianist Catherine Vickers

ISBN 9790004179536. 9 x 12 inches.

In ,,Beds and Brackets gibt es ein Stuck im Stuck: Statement zu einem Faustschlag Nonos. Kurz vor seinem Tod war ich mit Nono zusammen in einer Kompositionswettbewerbs-J ury. Wahrend dieser Tage schlug er manchmal mit der Faust schwere, massige Rhythmen elementarster Proportion auf den Tisch. Vierfaches Forte. Diese Befreiungsschlage hafteten die ganze Zeit wahrend der Arbeit an Statement in meinem Gedachtnis. Sie waren ganz aus dem Nahbereich des Machens und Wahrnehmens geboren. Solcher Nahbereich menschlicher Sinnenwelt ist auch musikalisches Ausfuhrungs- und Hormodell des ubrigen Stuckes. Die jeweiligen Tone werden aus der 88-tastigen Klaviatur aufgrund von Bewegungsentwurfen abgerufen, deren Streckenmasse und Geschwindigkeiten, multipliziert mit den jeweils zu bewegenden Organ(gewicht)en, Ton und Harmonik charakterisieren. Der horizontale, zeitliche Verlauf des Stuckes verwirrt zeitweise die Nahbereichswahrnehmung durch Wiederholung. In der Partitur zeigen numerierte Klammern das jeweilige Notentextfragment an, das an einer anderen Stelle in den musikalischen Verlauf eingeschoben werden soll, und zwar so, als wurde es zum ersten Mal erklingen. Es geht also nicht um psychisch-dynamische Weiterspinnung, sondern um eine live simulierte Wiederholung von Vergangenem, als ware es gar nicht vergangen. Derartige horizontale Bewegungsentwurfe betonen an Wiederholung eher das Fremde, Sprengende, nicht das Zusammenhangschaffende. Gegen Ende argumentiert der korperliche Nahbereich, schlagt um in ,,Umgebung: Lauft da nicht ein Radio, ein Fernseher, ein Kuhlschrank? Geht da nicht ein Wind draussen? Fahrt nicht ein Auto? Spielen da nicht Kinder? Tonbander sind nur eine schwache Simulation! Im Optimalfall sollen Fenster und Turen des Konzertsaales geoffnet und wieder geschlossen werden. (Nicolaus A. Huber, 1990) CDs: Kristine Scholz CD Alice musicproduction ALCD 011 Catherine Vickers CD col legno AU 31821 CD Koch Aulos 3-1817-2 Bibliography : Birkenkotter , Jorg: Keine Kleinigkeiten: ,,Bagatellen, ,,Shrugs, ,,Statement ... Kurze Stucke im Werk Nicolaus A. Hubers, in: Nicolaus A. Huber, hrsg. von Ulrich Tadday (= Musik-Konzepte. Neue Folge 168/169), Munchen: edition text + kritik 2015, pp. 153-175. Schat , Peter W.: Didaktische Brucken. Ein Kommmentar zu Nicolaus A. Hubers Beds and Brackets, Musik & Bildung 5/1995, pp. 49-51.

World premiere: Hannover, October 7, 1990Dedicated to the pianist Catherine Vickers.