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[Karchin] Four Songs on Poems of Seamus Heaney (Orchestral)
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[Karchin] Four Songs on Poems
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Chamber Orchestra - Digital Download SKU: A0.953010 Composed by Louis Karchin. Contemporary. Score and parts. 65 pages. American Composers Alliance Inc. ...
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Chamber Orchestra - Digital Download SKU: A0.953010 Composed by Louis Karchin. Contemporary. Score and parts. 65 pages. American Composers Alliance Inc. #4632231. Published by American Composers Alliance Inc. (A0.953010). A chamber orchestration of the four songs from Karchin's Ancient Scenes on texts by Seamus Heaney. Includes: Lightenings iv, The Rain Stick, Lightenings i, Settings xxiv.Instrumentation: 2121 - 2211 - 2 perc, hp - soprano solo - strings.PDF download includes score - contact sales@composers.com for any inquiries into part sales or rental.
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Potpourri of three children's songs for Junior Strings with piano / Piano Quintet
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Lauri Hämäläinen
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.885866 Composed by Traditional children's music from America, France and Germany. Arranged by Laur...
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.885866 Composed by Traditional children's music from America, France and Germany. Arranged by Lauri Hämäläinen. Children,Concert,Instructional,Standards. Score and parts. 19 pages. Suomi Music #6679227. Published by Suomi Music (A0.885866). Are you searching for music for junior string orchestra with piano soloist or piano quintet?The arrangements of 11 Children's Songs for Piano Quintet gives young string students the chance to play rhythmical variations of famous children's songs. The level is suitable for students who have basic understanding of tone production and can play in tune in the 1st position.The Potpourri includes the melodies of Mary Had a Little Lamb, Frère Jaques and Haschen in der Grübe.The music can be used in concerts where there will be kids in the audience, for example to get in new students for your own music school.Level of the music: easy, first positionDuration: 3 minThe music has been originally written for the music institutes in Espoo (Avonia Music Institute) and Helsinki (North-Western Music Insititute) where it has been used with concerts for the local kindergartens and projects with combined orchestras during the school year.
$9.99
The Joyce Cycle, for voice and orchestra
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Chamber Orchestra
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.944034 Composed by Music and James Joyce, Ofer Ben-Amots, and Poetry (our of Chamber Music). Conte...
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.944034 Composed by Music and James Joyce, Ofer Ben-Amots, and Poetry (our of Chamber Music). Contemporary. Score and parts. 127 pages. The Composer's Own Press #4615369. Published by The Composer's Own Press (A0.944034). Ben-Amots: The Joyce Cycle (1986) James Joyce's collection of 36 love poems titled Chamber Music has been a source of inspiration to many composers. From these, Ben-Amots has set nine for medium voice and piano (later orchestrated--see below), in a style he characterizes as neo-romantic to match the deliberate archaicism of Joyce's language. The songs are meant to be sung as a complete cycle, but these complex and beautiful settings may be performed independently. Shortly after composing the cycle, Ben-Amots orchestrated it, and he now considers the orchestral version to have priority. Deftly and lightly scored (winds in pairs, no heavy brass), this version sounds strikingly Mahlerian in places. 1. O Sweetheart... The lover finds solace in love when friends him fail. 2. My love is in a light attire... He admires the sight of his love walking through an orchard. 3. My dove my beautiful one... In language reminiscent of the Song of Songs, he bids her arise. 4. Rain has fallen... They seek shelter on a rainy day. 5. Sleep Now, O Sleep Now... The lover's unquiet heart is calmed with a kiss. 6. It was out by Donnycarney... A cheerful folksong, sealed with another kiss. 7. Winds of May... By the turbulent sea, the loved one has disappeared. 8. I Hear an Army... Giving way to despair the lover dreams of an army ferociously charging up out of the depths. But... 9. From Dewy dreams... It was just a dream, after all. For part and performance materials please contact thecomposerspress@gmail.com * The poems, out of James Joyce’s Chamber Music, are in the public domain.Duration: ~ 25 min.Performance material by rental only! For demo recording, questions, or any additional information please e-mail Ofer Ben-Amots at: thecomposerspress@gmail.com
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Galadriel's Song of Eldamar, Orchestral Version
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Charles McCreery
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1007141 Composed by Charles McCreery. 20th Century,Children,Contemporary. Score and parts. 46 page...
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1007141 Composed by Charles McCreery. 20th Century,Children,Contemporary. Score and parts. 46 pages. St Maur Music #5024433. Published by St Maur Music (A0.1007141). This song is an orchestral version of one of a series of ‘Fourteen Tolkien Songs’. A comment on the collection by an Oxford piano teacher: ‘For those who only know Tolkien via the recent blood-and-thunder films, this song-cycle by Charles McCreery will give a very different angle on the classic saga. Here we find a gentle and ethereal world, where rhythms lilt and words echo. The twelve songs, suitable for choir, evoke a dreamy, water-colour landscape with no harsh sounds, the tunes are singable and in a traditional style that Tolkien would surely have approved. Dr Julia Gasper, LGSM A general comment on Charles McCreery’s music by a violinist and composer in the USA: ‘Charles McCreery’s beautifully melodic, intricately textured compositions are infused with classical, romantic and folk idioms.’ Samantha Gillogly ‘Galadriel’s Song’ is appropriate for either women’s or children’s voices, and is potentially of interest to anyone who is familiar with the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. The three vocal parts and the individual orchestral parts can all be printed out separately at the end of the full score. The MP3 which plays from this page is of a version of the song which can be heard on the stmaurmusic channel on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/user/stmaurmusic). On the front cover is a photograph of leaves in Wytham Woods, Oxford, and at the end of the full score is a photograph of the sea off Treyarnon Bay, Cornwall .
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Samba Lele for Junior Strings or Piano Quintet
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Traditional children's music f
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Lauri Hämäläinen
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Samba Lele for Junior Strings
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.885869 Composed by Traditional children's music from Brazil. Arranged by Lauri Hämäläinen...
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.885869 Composed by Traditional children's music from Brazil. Arranged by Lauri Hämäläinen. Children,Folk,Instructional,Standards. Score and parts. 19 pages. Suomi Music #6679235. Published by Suomi Music (A0.885869). Are you searching for music for junior string orchestra with piano soloist or piano quintet?The arrangements of 11 Children's Songs for Piano Quintet gives young string students the chance to play rhythmical variations of famous children's songs. The level is suitable for students who have basic understanding of tone production and can play in tune in the 1st position.The music can be used in concerts where there will be kids in the audience, for example to get in new students for your own music school.Level of the music: easy, first positionDuration: 2.05 minThe music has been originally written for the music institutes in Espoo (Avonia Music Institute) and Helsinki (North-Western Music Insititute) where it has been used with concerts for the local kindergartens and projects with combined orchestras during the school year.
$9.99
Rati riti ralla for Junior String Orchestra or Piano Quintet
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Lauri Hämäläinen
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Rati riti ralla for Junior Str
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.885873 Composed by Traditional children's music from Finland. Arranged by Lauri Hämäläine...
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.885873 Composed by Traditional children's music from Finland. Arranged by Lauri Hämäläinen. Children,Instructional,Standards. Score and parts. 19 pages. Suomi Music #6679259. Published by Suomi Music (A0.885873). Are you searching for music for junior string orchestra with piano soloist or piano quintet?The arrangements of 11 Children's Songs for Piano Quintet gives young string students the chance to play rhythmical variations of famous children's songs. The level is suitable for students who have basic understanding of tone production and can play in tune in the 1st position.The music can be used in concerts where there will be kids in the audience, for example to get in new students for your own music school.Level of the music: easy, first positionDuration: 1.50 minThe music has been originally written for the music institutes in Espoo (Avonia Music Institute) and Helsinki (North-Western Music Insititute) where it has been used with concerts for the local kindergartens and projects with combined orchestras during the school year.
$9.99
Metamorphosis for solo flute, solo pedal or lever harp, and strings
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Adrienne Inglis
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Metamorphosis for solo flute,
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Adrienne Inglis
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.953627 Composed by Adrienne Inglis (ASCAP). Contemporary. Score and parts. 51 pages. Adrienne Ingl...
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.953627 Composed by Adrienne Inglis (ASCAP). Contemporary. Score and parts. 51 pages. Adrienne Inglis (ASCAP) #6383557. Published by Adrienne Inglis (ASCAP) (A0.953627). Celebrate women scientists!Metamorphosis (2019) by Adrienne Inglis (ASCAP) for flute, harp, and string orchestra, commissioned by Balcones Community Orchestra, celebrates the life and work of Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717), pioneering entomologist, naturalist, and artist.Duration 5:30 minutes.Commissioned by the Balcones Community Orchestra of Austin, Texas, Metamorphosis (2019) by Adrienne Inglis for solo flute, solo harp, and string orchestra, honors the life and work of pioneering entomologist, naturalist, and artist Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717). As she carefully documented in illustrated detail the life cycle of so many insects, Metamorphosis musically follows a butterfly from adult, egg, larva, pupa, and adult. The piece opens with an ostinato pattern in the strings over which the flute and harp play fluttering modal melodies. The strings and harp represent the egg stage with minimalistic layers of a single pitch. To recognize Merian’s time in Suriname and her discovery of many insect species there, a cheerful tune fashioned after traditional Arawak folk songs informs the busy larvae in the caterpillar canon. A bit of contemplative dorian polyphony laced with metamorphic machinations demonstrate the remarkable transformation of the pupa as well as Merian’s time at a devout Labadist religious commune. The butterfly emerges from the pupa with a flute/harp cadenza and then the strings underscore the adult butterfly with a return of the ostinato. The piece ends with the same ostinato as the beginning such that the piece could loop seamlessly as in a true life cycle.This performance does not include the revisions made in this version of the music: https://youtu.be/GIjQpkXl6Uc
$9.99
Canticum Canticorum for Krzysztof Penderecki
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Chamber Orchestra
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MohammadHadi Ayanbod
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Canticum Canticorum for Krzysz
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Rimorarte Edition
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1027777 Composed by MohammadHadi Ayanbod. 20th Century,A Cappella,Contemporary,Sacred. Score and p...
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1027777 Composed by MohammadHadi Ayanbod. 20th Century,A Cappella,Contemporary,Sacred. Score and parts. 32 pages. Rimorarte Edition #5996921. Published by Rimorarte Edition (A0.1027777). Canticum Canticorum, for Grand String Orchestra & Mixed Choir, is a musical piece based on the old text with the same name from Vulgate. The Canticum Canticorum text also known as Song of Songs, the Song of Solomon, the Canticle of Canticles, (Old Greek: Άσμα Ασμάτων, same meaning as song of songs). As David Berlo once beautifully put this into words: Meanings are in people … not in the messages …. The elements and structure of a language … are only symbols …. Meanings are not transmittable … Only messages are transmittable, and meanings are not in the message, they are in the message-users! Therefore, I needed to understand and interpret the text itself, even before I wanted to try setting it to the music. However, in order to understand the text correctly, one should comprehend the origin of the text and get to know its author(s), at first. In the case of Canticum Canticorum, both the author and the origin of the text are obscure. Furthermore, even the approximate date/century/era of the birth and the cultural context in which the text was created, are far from clear. According to the scholars, the creation of the text ranges from the tenth century B.C.; the era of Solomon, up to the first century B.C., and the origin of it considers from Indian, Tamil, or Ethiopic literature to Palestinian one. Because of these vast spectra of dates and cultures, I had to read and understand the text, compare with other sources, find similarities in other languages and cultures, hermeneutically interpret it and search for those non-written or metaphorical clues that may lead to unfasten the mystery has been attached to the text. In order to achieve the most accurate and faithful interpretation of the text I also had to answer few questions regarding the style, structure, medium, architecture and techniques of the music in relation to the text. I have used string orchestra and mixed choir to render the ideas, since that is among highly versatile instrumentations capable of providing small and delicate whispers, heavenly voices, and intonation changes that is hardly-reproducible by other mediums as well as thunderous sounds. Although Canticum Canticorum is single-movement work, but still possible to distinguish three different sections: the beginning choral part that is a long fugue in 5 voices with the material of serial music which helps orchestra to enter and grow, the a-capella middle section consists of two contrasting but invisibly related atmospheres and the third section – the recapitulation of the ideas already presented, in both the text and the music. The culmination of the work; 11-parts choral, takes place in the third section, somewhere near the end of the piece. Canticum Canticorum, for Grand String Orchestra & Mixed Choir, is dedicated to the genius composer of our time, Maestro Prof. dr. h.c. Krzysztof Penderecki.
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