Chamber Music Clarinet, Flute, Narrator, Percussion, Trumpet, Violoncello, sopra...(+)
Chamber Music Clarinet,
Flute, Narrator,
Percussion, Trumpet,
Violoncello, soprano
voice
SKU:
PR.161000820
A
Musical Fable for
Children. Composed by
Dan Welcher. Original
story by Santiago
Vaquera-Vasquez; Lyrics
by Dan Welcher. Premiered
by faculty from Texas A&M
Kingsville, Kingsville,
TX. Folk. Set of Score
and Parts. With Standard
notation. Composed July
30 2012.
51+30+12+12+12+16+20
pages. Duration 20
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #161-00082.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.161000820).
UPC:
680160610822. 9 x 12
inches. Text: Santiago
Vaquera-Vasquez; Dan
Welcher. Santiago
Vaquera-Vasquez, Dan
Welcher. Original story
by Santiago
Vaquera-Vasquez; Lyrics
by Dan
Welcher.
Commission
ed for the Kingsville
(TX) Independent School
District and its thriving
music department, Welcher
has created A Musical
Fable for Children, based
upon a story by Santiago
Vaquera-Vasquez. A
narrator tells the tale
of two children on
opposite sides of the
border and the magical
creatures who allowed
them to see as the other
sees. Welcher uses
musical themes and
instruments to help
identify the characters
for the audience. The
musical play was
performed at the
Kingsville campus, as
well as six other
elementary schools in the
district. The Need to
See is a theater piece
for children, featuring a
narrator/singer and five
instrumentalists.
Designed to show children
(aged 8-10) a fable about
acceptance and diversity,
the work also exposes
children to live
musicians in a highly
portable,
suitable-for-classroom
theater piece.The
narrator/singer begins by
teaching the children a
well-known Mexican folk
tune, “Naranja
Dulceâ€, which leads
directly into the
story. The fable
concerns two figures from
folklore: Don Conejo (the
rabbit god) and Don
Coyote (the coyote
god). These two
trickster/adversaries
take on the task of
helping Isabella, an
American girl, and
Tomà s, a Mexican boy,
understand each
other’s
culture—by means
of a trick. The two
children, living on
opposite sides of the Rio
Grande in Texas and
Mexico, have been taught
to fear el otro lado
(“the other
sideâ€), and to stay
away from the river.Â
This causes both children
to be nervous and afraid,
and Conejo and Coyote
decide to do something
about that.Borrowing from
another well-known tale,
writer Santiago
Vaquera-VÃ squez has
the two trickster-deities
perform a bit of
hocus-pocus, exchanging
the two childrens’
eyes for one day, so they
can “seeâ€
through someone
else’s
perspective. The
result, told in two
languages with narration,
song, and constant music,
allows the children in
the audience to
participate as singers,
and also as spectators to
a tale that has relevance
and contemporary
meaning. Â
Employing three familiar
songs from Latin American
culture (“Naranja
Dulceâ€,
“Tengo una
Muñecaâ€, and
“Mambru se fue a la
Guerraâ€), the piece
takes its audience on a
journey both familiar and
new—and ultimately
enlightening.
Performed by Bill Gaither, Gloria Gaither. For voice and keyboard. Format: easy ...(+)
Performed by Bill
Gaither, Gloria Gaither.
For voice and keyboard.
Format: easy
piano/vocal/chords
songbook. With vocal
melody, lyrics, chord
names and big note
notation. Gospel. Series:
Hal Leonard E-Z Play
Today. 160 pages. 9x12
inches. Published by Hal
Leonard.
For C instrument and voice. Format: fakebook (spiral bound). With chord names, v...(+)
For C instrument and
voice. Format: fakebook
(spiral bound). With
chord names, vocal melody
and lyrics. Jazz. Series:
Hal Leonard Fake Books.
448 pages. 9x12 inches.
Published by Hal Leonard.
Fakebook for Eb instrument and voice. With vocal melody, lyrics and leadsheet no...(+)
Fakebook for Eb
instrument and voice.
With vocal melody, lyrics
and leadsheet notation.
Series: Hal Leonard Fake
Books. 448 pages.
Published by Hal Leonard.
Edited by Amy Appleby. Collection and examples CD for easy solo piano. Over 200 ...(+)
Edited by Amy Appleby.
Collection and examples
CD for easy solo piano.
Over 200 best-loved
Christian hymns that have
inspired praise and
worship for over four
centuries. Series: Piano
Treasury Series. 392
pages. Published by Music
Sales.
The Definitive Paul Simon Songbook by Paul Simon. For Melody Line, Lyrics and Ch...(+)
The Definitive Paul Simon
Songbook by Paul Simon.
For Melody Line, Lyrics
and Chords. Music Sales
America. Folk Rock.
Softcover. 560 pages.
Paul Simon Music
#PS11594. Published by
Paul Simon Music
The Best of the Phillip Keveren Series. Composed by Various. Arranged by Phill...(+)
The Best of the Phillip
Keveren Series. Composed
by
Various. Arranged by
Phillip
Keveren. Piano Solo
Songbook.
General Worship, Hymns,
Solos. Softcover. 148
pages.
Duration 285 seconds.
Published by Hal Leonard
By Robert King. Arranged by John Rutter. For SATB choir with keyboard/unaccompan...(+)
By Robert King. Arranged
by John Rutter. For SATB
choir with
keyboard/unaccompanied/ba
sso continuo. Mixed
Voices. Oxford Choral
Classics Collections.
Sacred, Choral
Collection. Vocal score.
384 pages. Published by
Oxford University Press
(253 of the finest praise and worship songs). Composed by Various. For voice, pi...(+)
(253 of the finest praise
and worship songs).
Composed by Various. For
voice, piano and guitar
(chords only). Sacred
Folio. Gospel and
Worship. Difficulty:
medium. Songbook (spiral
bound). Vocal melody,
piano accompaniment,
lyrics and chord names.
420 pages. Hal Leonard
#080689006395. Published
by Hal Leonard
Hymns
for Wind Ensemble.
Composed by Dan Welcher.
Folio. Set of Score and
Parts.
4+24+24+16+8+4+4+24+12+12
+8+4+4+4+4+8+8+8+8+4+4+4+
4+8+8+8+8+8+8+8+8+4+16+4+
8+4+8+8+4+4+4+48 pages.
Duration 10 minutes, 41
seconds. Theodore Presser
Company #165-00100.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.165001000).
ISBN
9781491129241. UPC:
680160669776. 9 x 12
inches.
Commissione
d for a consortium of
high school and college
bands in the north Dallas
region, FOR THEMYSTIC
HARMONY is a 10-minute
inspirational work in
homage to Norwood and
Elizabeth Dixon,patrons
of the Fort Worth
Symphony and the Van
Cliburn Competition.
Welcher draws melodic
flavorfrom five American
hymns, spirituals, and
folk tunes of the 19th
century. The last of
these sources toappear is
the hymn tune For the
Beauty of the Earth,
whose third stanza is the
quatrain: “For the
joy of earand eye, For
the heart and
mind’s delight,
For the mystic harmony,
Linking sense to sound
and sight,â€giving
rise to the work’s
title. This work,
commissioned for a
consortium of high school
bands in the north Dallas
area, is my fifteenth
maturework for wind
ensemble (not counting
transcriptions). When I
asked Todd Dixon, the
band director
whospearheaded this
project, what kind of a
work he most wanted, he
first said
“something
that’s basically
slow,†butwanted to
leave the details to me.
During a long subsequent
conversation, he
mentioned that his
grandparents,Norwood and
Elizabeth Dixon, were
prime supporters of the
Fort Worth Symphony,
going so far as to
purchase anumber of high
quality instruments for
that orchestra. This
intrigued me, so I asked
more about his
grandparentsand was
provided an 80-page
biographical sketch.
Reading that article,
including a long section
about theirdevotion to
supporting a young man
through the rigors of the
Van Cliburn International
Piano Competition fora
number of years, moved me
very much. Norwood and
Elizabeth Dixon
weren’t just
supporters of the arts;
theywere passionate
lovers of music and
musicians. I determined
to make this work a
testament to that love,
and tothe religious faith
that sustained them both.
The idea of using extant
hymns was also suggested
by Todd Dixon,and this
10-minute work is the
result.I have employed
existing melodies in
several works, delving
into certain kinds of
religious music more than
a fewtimes. In seeking
new sounds, new ways of
harmonizing old tunes,
and the contrapuntal
overlaying of one
tunewith another, I was
able to make works like
ZION (using 19th-century
Revivalist hymns) and
LABORING SONGS(using
Shaker melodies) reflect
the spirit of the
composers who created
these melodies, without
sounding likepastiches or
medleys. I determined to
do the same with this new
work, with the added
problem of
employingmelodies that
were more familiar. I
chose five tunes from the
19th century: hymns,
spirituals, and
folk-tunes.Some of these
are known by differing
titles, but they all
appear in hymnals of
various Christian
denominations(with
various titles and
texts). My idea was to
employ the tunes without
altering their notes,
instead using aconstantly
modulating sense of
harmony —
sometimes leading to
polytonal harmonizations
of what are
normallysimple four-chord
hymns.The work begins and
ends with a repeated
chime on the note C: a
reminder of steeples,
white clapboard
churchesin the country,
and small church organs.
Beginning with a
Mixolydian folk tune of
Caribbean origin
presentedtwice with
layered entrances, the
work starts with a
feeling of mystery and
gentle sorrow. It
proceeds, after along
transition, into a second
hymn that is sometimes
connected to the sea
(hence the sensation of
water andwaves throughout
it). This tune, by John
B. Dykes (1823-1876), is
a bit more chromatic and
“shifty†than
mosthymn-tunes, so I
chose to play with the
constant sensation of
modulation even more than
the original does. Atthe
climax, the familiar
spiritual “Were you
there?†takes over,
with a double-time
polytonal feeling
propelling itforward at
“Sometimes it
causes me to
tremble.â€Trumpets
in counterpoint raise the
temperature, and the
tempo as well, leading
the music into a third
tune (ofunknown
provenance, though it
appears with different
texts in various hymnals)
that is presented in a
sprightlymanner. Bassoons
introduce the melody, but
it is quickly taken up by
other instruments over
three
“verses,â€cons
tantly growing in
orchestration and volume.
A mysterious second tune,
unrelated to this one,
interrupts it inall three
verses, sending the
melody into unknown
regions.The final melody
is “For the Beauty
of the Earth.†This
tune by Conrad Kocher
(1786-1872) is commonly
sung atThanksgiving
— the perfect
choice to end this work
celebrating two people
known for their
generosity.Keeping the
sense of constant
modulation that has been
present throughout, I
chose to present this
hymn in threegrowing
verses, but with a twist:
every four bars, the
“key†of the
hymn seems to shift
— until the
“Lord of all,
toThee we praiseâ€
melody bursts out in a
surprising compound
meter. This, as it turns
out, was the
“mystery
tuneâ€heard earlier
in the piece. After an
Ivesian, almost polytonal
climax, the Coda begins
over a long B( pedal. At
first,it seems to be a
restatement of the first
two phrases of “For
the Beauty†with
long spaces between them,
but it soonchanges to a
series of
“Amenâ€
cadences, widely
separated by range and
color. These, too, do not
conform to anykey, but
instead overlay each
other in ways that are
unpredictable but
strangely comforting.The
third verse of “For
the Beauty of the
Earth†contains
this quatrain:“For
the joy of ear and eye,
–For the heart and
mind’s delightFor
the mystic harmonyLinking
sense to sound and
sightâ€and it was
from this poetry that I
drew the title for the
present work. It is my
hope that audiences and
performerswill find
within it a sense of
grace: more than a little
familiar, but also quite
new and unexpected.
Band Bass Clarinet, Bass
Drum, Bassoon 1, Bassoon
2, Bongos, Castanets,
Celesta, Clarinet,
Clarinet 1, Clarinet 2,
Clarinet 3, Contrabass
Clarinet, Contrabassoon,
English Horn, Euphonium,
Euphonium T.C., Flute 1,
Flute 2, Horn 1, Horn 2,
Horn 3 and more.
SKU:
PR.16500100F
Hymns
for Wind Ensemble.
Composed by Dan Welcher.
Sws. Full score. 48
pages. Duration 10
minutes, 41 seconds.
Theodore Presser Company
#165-00100F. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.16500100F).
ISBN
9781491114421. UPC:
680160669783. 9 x 12
inches.
Commissione
d for a consortium of
high school and college
bands in the north Dallas
region, FOR THEMYSTIC
HARMONY is a 10-minute
inspirational work in
homage to Norwood and
Elizabeth Dixon,patrons
of the Fort Worth
Symphony and the Van
Cliburn Competition.
Welcher draws melodic
flavorfrom five American
hymns, spirituals, and
folk tunes of the 19th
century. The last of
these sources toappear is
the hymn tune For the
Beauty of the Earth,
whose third stanza is the
quatrain: “For the
joy of earand eye, For
the heart and
mind’s delight,
For the mystic harmony,
Linking sense to sound
and sight,â€giving
rise to the work’s
title. This work,
commissioned for a
consortium of high school
bands in the north Dallas
area, is my fifteenth
maturework for wind
ensemble (not counting
transcriptions). When I
asked Todd Dixon, the
band director
whospearheaded this
project, what kind of a
work he most wanted, he
first said
“something
that’s basically
slow,†butwanted to
leave the details to me.
During a long subsequent
conversation, he
mentioned that his
grandparents,Norwood and
Elizabeth Dixon, were
prime supporters of the
Fort Worth Symphony,
going so far as to
purchase anumber of high
quality instruments for
that orchestra. This
intrigued me, so I asked
more about his
grandparentsand was
provided an 80-page
biographical sketch.
Reading that article,
including a long section
about theirdevotion to
supporting a young man
through the rigors of the
Van Cliburn International
Piano Competition fora
number of years, moved me
very much. Norwood and
Elizabeth Dixon
weren’t just
supporters of the arts;
theywere passionate
lovers of music and
musicians. I determined
to make this work a
testament to that love,
and tothe religious faith
that sustained them both.
The idea of using extant
hymns was also suggested
by Todd Dixon,and this
10-minute work is the
result.I have employed
existing melodies in
several works, delving
into certain kinds of
religious music more than
a fewtimes. In seeking
new sounds, new ways of
harmonizing old tunes,
and the contrapuntal
overlaying of one
tunewith another, I was
able to make works like
ZION (using 19th-century
Revivalist hymns) and
LABORING SONGS(using
Shaker melodies) reflect
the spirit of the
composers who created
these melodies, without
sounding likepastiches or
medleys. I determined to
do the same with this new
work, with the added
problem of
employingmelodies that
were more familiar. I
chose five tunes from the
19th century: hymns,
spirituals, and
folk-tunes.Some of these
are known by differing
titles, but they all
appear in hymnals of
various Christian
denominations(with
various titles and
texts). My idea was to
employ the tunes without
altering their notes,
instead using aconstantly
modulating sense of
harmony —
sometimes leading to
polytonal harmonizations
of what are
normallysimple four-chord
hymns.The work begins and
ends with a repeated
chime on the note C: a
reminder of steeples,
white clapboard
churchesin the country,
and small church organs.
Beginning with a
Mixolydian folk tune of
Caribbean origin
presentedtwice with
layered entrances, the
work starts with a
feeling of mystery and
gentle sorrow. It
proceeds, after along
transition, into a second
hymn that is sometimes
connected to the sea
(hence the sensation of
water andwaves throughout
it). This tune, by John
B. Dykes (1823-1876), is
a bit more chromatic and
“shifty†than
mosthymn-tunes, so I
chose to play with the
constant sensation of
modulation even more than
the original does. Atthe
climax, the familiar
spiritual “Were you
there?†takes over,
with a double-time
polytonal feeling
propelling itforward at
“Sometimes it
causes me to
tremble.â€Trumpets
in counterpoint raise the
temperature, and the
tempo as well, leading
the music into a third
tune (ofunknown
provenance, though it
appears with different
texts in various hymnals)
that is presented in a
sprightlymanner. Bassoons
introduce the melody, but
it is quickly taken up by
other instruments over
three
“verses,â€cons
tantly growing in
orchestration and volume.
A mysterious second tune,
unrelated to this one,
interrupts it inall three
verses, sending the
melody into unknown
regions.The final melody
is “For the Beauty
of the Earth.†This
tune by Conrad Kocher
(1786-1872) is commonly
sung atThanksgiving
— the perfect
choice to end this work
celebrating two people
known for their
generosity.Keeping the
sense of constant
modulation that has been
present throughout, I
chose to present this
hymn in threegrowing
verses, but with a twist:
every four bars, the
“key†of the
hymn seems to shift
— until the
“Lord of all,
toThee we praiseâ€
melody bursts out in a
surprising compound
meter. This, as it turns
out, was the
“mystery
tuneâ€heard earlier
in the piece. After an
Ivesian, almost polytonal
climax, the Coda begins
over a long B( pedal. At
first,it seems to be a
restatement of the first
two phrases of “For
the Beauty†with
long spaces between them,
but it soonchanges to a
series of
“Amenâ€
cadences, widely
separated by range and
color. These, too, do not
conform to anykey, but
instead overlay each
other in ways that are
unpredictable but
strangely comforting.The
third verse of “For
the Beauty of the
Earth†contains
this quatrain:“For
the joy of ear and eye,
–For the heart and
mind’s delightFor
the mystic harmonyLinking
sense to sound and
sightâ€and it was
from this poetry that I
drew the title for the
present work. It is my
hope that audiences and
performerswill find
within it a sense of
grace: more than a little
familiar, but also quite
new and unexpected.
Chamber Music Cello, Piano, Violin SKU: PR.114423360 Composed by Stacy Ga...(+)
Chamber Music Cello,
Piano, Violin
SKU:
PR.114423360
Composed
by Stacy Garrop. Set of
Score and Parts. 24+12+12
pages. Duration 8:30.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-42336. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.114423360).
UPC:
680160686285.
When
the Newport Music
Festival commissioned me
for a piano trio in honor
of their 2021 season, I
looked for a topic that
would celebrate an aspect
of the Newport community.
While researching the
area, I was struck by the
nine lighthouses situated
around the island. The
dual nature of
lighthouses was
particularly appealing to
me: not only do they
serve a vital role in the
navigation of ships
around rocks and land,
but they are also a
beautiful sight,
particularly at night
when their blinking
beacons are clearly
visible to the eye. It
occurred to me that
lighthouses link the past
with the present, and
will endure long into the
future, with their
beacons serving the same
purpose for every
generation.I became
fascinated with the
lighthouse on the
property of Castle Hill
Inn, located at the
opening of the East
Passage of the
Narragansett Bay. This
squat thirty-four foot
granite structure was
erected in 1890 on a very
picturesque spot, right
at the water’s
edge. Its
“characteristic,â
the nautical term
for each
lighthouse’s
unique light sequence
that allows ships to
identify the lighthouse,
is to alternate on for
three seconds, then off
for three seconds. The
lighthouse has also
served as the starting
and finish line for
numerous high profile
yacht races, as well as
survived a massive
hurricane in 1938, though
the lighthouse
keeper’s nearby
residence wasn’t
so lucky. American
novelist Thornton Wilder
wrote much of his 1973
novel Theophilus North
while staying at the
Castle Hill Inn; a
passage from the book
perfectly captures the
dual nature of
lighthouses:“At a
later visit I was able to
engage the pentagonal
room in a turret above
the house; from that
magical room I could see
at night the beacons of
six lighthouses and hear
the booming and chiming
of as many sea
buoys.â€In Beacon of
the Bay, we first hear
the lighthouse’s
characteristic as its
ruby light blinks on and
off. This is followed by
a simple theme that
represents the lighthouse
performing its solitary
duty. As the piece
progresses, we hear waves
playfully lapping around
its base, then yachts
gracefully floating by;
this is followed by a
violent storm that churns
the waves with so much
force that they crash
against the
lighthouse’s
granite body. But the
steadfast lighthouse
holds firm to the rocks,
grandly blinking its ruby
light. The music quiets
back down to its simple
theme, with yachts
sailing by once more as
the piece concludes.
(Easy Piano). Arranged by Dan Coates. For Piano. This edition: Easy Piano. B...(+)
(Easy Piano). Arranged by
Dan
Coates. For Piano. This
edition: Easy Piano.
Book;
Piano - Easy Piano
Collection.
The Giant Book of Sheet
Music.
Movie; TV. Easy Piano.
168
pages. Published by
Alfred
Music
(Leadsheets for Performance and Personal Enjoyment). Composed by David Mcdonald....(+)
(Leadsheets for
Performance and Personal
Enjoyment). Composed by
David Mcdonald. For voice
solo. Sacred Vocal.
Published by Lillenas
Publishing Company
SATB Choir (Mixed Choir) SKU: HL.14063892 Composed by John Tavener. Chora...(+)
SATB Choir (Mixed Choir)
SKU: HL.14063892
Composed by John Tavener.
Choral. Hymns & Chorals.
General Merchandise.
Composed 2013. 96 pages.
Duration 240 seconds.
Chester Music #CH81246R.
Published by Chester
Music (HL.14063892).
ISBN 9781785588341.
UPC: 840126939231.
6.75x9.75x0.304
inches.
This
album features 16
of John
Tavener's
anthems for SATB
choir.
Contents
include: 'A Christmas
Round', 'Advent
Antiphon', 'Agnus Dei',
'As one who has slept',
'Exhortation and Kohima',
'TheFounder’s
Prayer', 'God is with us
(A Christmas
Proclamation)', 'A Hymn
to the Mother of God',
'The Lamb', 'Mother of
God, here I stand', 'Nunc
dimittis', 'O that we
were there', 'Rocking',
'Song for Athene', 'Today
theVirgin' and 'What
God is, we do not
know'.
From A Consort of Choral Christmas Carols. By PDQ Bach. Arranged by Peter Schick...(+)
From A Consort of Choral
Christmas Carols. By PDQ
Bach. Arranged by Peter
Schickele. Text by Peter
Schickele. For SATB. S.
359. Duration 2:30.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company.