By Abram Chasins. For Piano. Book; Masterworks; Piano Solo; Solo. Alfred Masterwork Edition. Form: Suite. 20th Century; Contemporary; Masterwork. Advanced. 20 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing

Chamber Music Saxophone(s)

SKU: PR.114423500

Composed by Chen Yi. Performance Score. Duration 3 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-42350. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114423500).

ISBN 9781491137758. UPC: 680160691531.

Commi ssioned by The Juilliard School’s Music Advancement Program, IMPRESSIONS FROM THE CHINESE ZODIAC is a suite of three characteristic pieces within reach of advanced pre-college saxophonists, and introducing advanced techniques. The work is equally satisfying and impressive for top-level performers. The movements are titled:1. Rooster Singing Out in the Morning2. Monkey Jumping Around in the Forest3. Tiger Walking Down from the Mountain.
Commissioned by The Juilliard School for Juilliard’s Music Advancement Program, Impressions from the Chinese Zodiac was composed for any size saxophone in 2022. It consists of three independent movements featuring different musical characteristics with various performing techniques. The inspiration for the music came from impressions of three animal signs (rooster, monkey, and tiger), from the twelve in the Chinese Zodiac.The first piece begins with a repeated phrase imitating a rooster’s loud singing in the morning; the pitch with fluttertongue sounds like the noise from the rooster’s throat), followed by phrases of a pentatonic melody drawn from The Sun Is Rising With Our Joy, a Chinese folk song from Sichuan province. There are descending passages, simulating the dropping-down sound of the singing. Each passage is different from others, each of which should be played accurately and smoothly. The melody is moved up a step with variation, followed by an echo of the rooster singing at the end of the piece. Now the sky is bright, so the rooster call returns up four scale steps!The second piece includes two Chinese folk songs: Thinking of My Darling (from Shanxi province) and Guessing (from Yunnan province). Both songs have large interval skips spanning different registers, as well as microtonal intervals in their original singing, which show the characteristics of the regional musical languages respectively. The tone colors should be matched when registers are changed. The microtonal pitches (quarter-tone flat or three-quarter-tone flat) may be done by bending the tone with one’s lips. The image is the monkey jumping around lively, and the music is played humorously. The high and long pitch with a yelling-down effect at the end of the piece brings the music to an exciting peak.The third piece features the strong and brave tiger, with accented tones in the lowest register. The first 3-pitch motive is developed throughout the piece, while peristaltic chromatic material is formed in various shapes and directions, to show the gestures of a mighty and fierce image.Getting accustomed to special fingerings for the chromatic passages and trills, along with precisely notated articulations, and the techniques of tongue slap and key clicks, are the basic goals to achieve in this piece.

Piano Solo - Intermediate-Advanced

SKU: FP.FSC05

Composed by Cyril Scott. Sheet Music and Books. Three pieces for piano by Cyril Scott, one of the most influential composers of the early 20th century. Classical. Collection. Forsyths Publications #FSC05. Published by Forsyths Publications (FP.FSC05).

ISBN 9790570504169.

Cyri l Scott’s music is currently the subject of major revival, having lain largely ignored for much of the 20th Century. Once described as 'the father of modern British music' by Eugene Goossens, and admired by Claude Debussy, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky and his lifelong friend Percy Grainger, he composed four hundred works including: four Symphonies, three Operas, two Piano Concertos, four Oratorios, Concertos for Violin, Cello, Oboe and Harpsichord, several Overtures, Tone Poems, many Chamber works and innumerable songs.

There is a story that when Bernard Shaw commented to Elgar on the (then) daring harmonies of his Second Symphony Elgar replied 'You mustn’t forget, it was Cyril Scott started all that!'.

'a pioneer of British piano music, producing more piano works in the period 1903-1914 than any other British composer and any other international one, with the exception of Scriabin... (He) was a key figure before World War I in helping Britain to break away from musical conservatism and the prevailing Germanic influences.' (Lisa Hardy, The British Piano Sonata 1870-1945).

Chamber Music Clarinet in Bb, Clarinet in Eb

SKU: PR.114424630

Composed by Chen Yi. Sws. Score and parts. Theodore Presser Company #114-42463. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114424630).

UPC: 680160693627. 18 x 12 inches.

Chen Yi's THREE DUO-BAGATELLES FROM CHINA WEST is a suite of Chinese folk songs. Originally written for flute and piano, many soloists and ensembles have requested transcriptions of these pieces for their own instruments—the sign of a true addition to the repertoire. The Duo-Bagatelle versions of this suite treat the instruments as equal partners, trading the melodic material freely back and forth.Chen was inspired by authentic folk music from China West, and this work consists of exploratory compositions drawn from folk songs such as “Shange Diao,” written for a wind instrument called the Lerong, “Nai Guo Hou,” written for a different wind instrument called the Bawu, and “Dou Duo,” a folk song meant to evoke the sounds of Lusheng ensemble playing of the Miao People. For advanced players.

By Various Composers. Arranged by Jonathan Stock. Schott. Size 9x12 inches. 33 pages. Published by Schott.

Edited by Keith Snell. For Trombone. Brass - Trombone and Baritone Method or Collection. Belwin Master Solos. Level: Easy. Book. 48 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

Edited by Keith Snell. For Trombone. Brass - Trombone and Baritone Method or Collection. Belwin Master Solos. Level: Easy. Book. 160 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

By Denes Agay. Book. Published by Music Sales. (YK21053) Designed for use as a method book, this book allows the teacher to vary the approach according to the needs of the student. The book can also be used as a source of carefully graded pieces, for use with any first-year method.

Edited by Denes Agay. For piano. Music For Millions: Volume 27. Format: piano solo book. With fingerings. Baroque, Classical Period, Romantic Period and 20th Century. 160 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Music Sales.