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Tchaikovsky - Russian Autumn (for Wind Quintet) -1.Hunters Song 2. Autumn Song-
Bassoon,Clarinet,Flute,Horn,Oboe - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.832757 Compos…
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Bassoon,Clarinet,Flute,Horn,Oboe - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.832757 Composed by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Arranged by Ryuichi Horikoshi. Romantic Period. 37 pages. R1音楽ä¼ç”»å®¤ #6589505. Published by R1音楽ä¼ç”»å®¤ (A0.832757). The Seasons, Op.37 is a collection of piano pieces composed by Tchaikovsky. In this songbook, I arranged the songbook The Seasons Op.37, which depicts Russia's annual tradition with 12 piano pieces every month, into a wind quintet, expressing autumn in September (Hunters Song), and October (Autumn Song). I summarized his two songs. Ryuichi Horikoshi Enjoy the Russian summer landscape.
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Tchaikovsky - Russian Autumn
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Autumn tableau
Orchestra
Full Orchestra - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1080608 By Dario Duarte. By Dar…
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Full Orchestra - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1080608 By Dario Duarte. By Dario Duarte. Classical,Contemporary,Folk,Multicultural,World. Score and parts. 45 pages. Dario Duarte #684825. Published by Dario Duarte (A0.1080608). The piece consists of a description of a small tableau with an autumn theme in an idyllic town. In the region of the Latin American Andes, more precisely the tableau called ayacuchano is an art form very representative of the folklore of the region. Taking this idea of micro-stories, the work narrates four scenes of a day that begins at dawn and ends with the town's festival. Each story corresponds to the four sections of the music, which are performed successively. First tableau: Autumn morning lights. The change of season is perceived in the ashen morning lights of the autumn season, the sun rises lightly with a slight warmth, giving the ochre color that dominates the landscape a sense of tranquility and reflectiveness. The mood of this piece is one of contemplation. Second tableau: Noon in the town The tableau opens. It is midday. The whole town is busy with preparations for the harvest festival celebration. The music goes by with the sounds of the town and the joy of the inhabitants for the important festivity they are about to share as a community. The whole town is a great hustle and bustle. You hear barrel organs, feel the excitement of hanging banners and decorating the houses for the main parade. Third tableau. Little song for siesta time. A nostalgic voice sings an old folk song to lull the children to sleep. The voices of other adults of the town intertwine to sing a song to the sleeping children. It is a tender song that recovers the stillness and tranquility of the town at the hour when everyone returns to their homes to rest. Fourth tableau: Night of celebration. Harvest Festival The first chords of the town band can be heard in the distance, a melody invites to enter with enthusiasm to the place where the festival will take place. The dance begins, the band plays energetically and everyone participates in a dance of joy. In the most important moment of the party, the town's hymn is played, everyone joins in one voice to sing the song that distinguishes them. And now: the announcement of the winners of the harvest contest. Someone is honored and everyone applauds vigorously. Then the dancing continues again. Everyone occupies the center of the dance floor and enjoys being part of a colorful celebration of unity for the town. Instragram (to be contacted by the instrumental parts): @darioduartenunez.
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Autumn tableau
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Portrait of Autumn Accompaniment
Piano Accompaniment
Piano Accompaniment - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1264817 By Andrea May Jenk…
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Piano Accompaniment - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1264817 By Andrea May Jenkins. By Andrea May Jenkins. Arranged by Andrea May Jenkins. Contemporary,Instructional. Accompaniment. Duration 165. JenkinsVMAstudio LLC. #839475. Published by JenkinsVMAstudio LLC. (A0.1264817). Portrait of Autumn is about a master artist setting out to paint a landscape of turning leaves as fall arrives. The poem goes through the process that this artist takes setting up and the joy of painting and completing his work. The melody is upbeat, easy to learn, and moves the poem forward.  This beautiful vocal arrangement is one of many pieces written from poems by Fairy Walker Lane. Fairy Walker Lane 1890-1985 and the great aunt of Andrea JenkinsAndrea had always loved her aunt Fairy's poems, from when she was a little girl and her mom showed her the original pieces of work on old manuscript paper typed by a typewriter.  Fairy was more than a poetry writer. She lived in Tucumcari, New Mexico, and her family was responsible for establishing one of the original schoolhouses where Andrea's great-grandmother was a schoolteacher. Fairy was also an entrepreneur and owned a business selling hats in Tucumcari.Andrea lives in Maricopa, AZ, and is a teacher for middle school choir and drama.
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Portrait of Autumn Accompaniment
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Autumn in Door County (mp3) - Piano Solo by Eric Carlson
Soprano Saxophone and Piano
Piano,Soprano Saxophone - Digital Download SKU: A0.1071418 Composed by Eric L. Carl…
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Piano,Soprano Saxophone - Digital Download SKU: A0.1071418 Composed by Eric L. Carlson (ASCAP). Contemporary,Jazz,New Age,World. Full Performance. Duration 200. Eric Carlson, dba Uplifting Music #3234437. Published by Eric Carlson, dba Uplifting Music (A0.1071418). Close your eyes and imagine beautiful Northern Wisconsin, with its Fall colors covering the landscape as far as you can see. This music was inspired by many family trips to Forestville, Sturgeon Bay, Fish Creek, and all the other beautiful towns in Door County, WI.This recording was performed by Eric Carlson (piano) and Donald Carlson (saxophone), and sheet music may also be purchased/downloaded by clicking this link: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/autumn-in-door-county-piano-solo-by-eric-carlson-digital-sheet-...Please Like Eric's Facebook page to receive notifications of new music releases: http://www.Facebook.com/EricCarlsonMusicSimilar to George Winston, Jim Brickman, David Lanz, David Nevue, Michele McLaughlin, Kenny G, David Sanborn, Branford Marsalis.
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Autumn in Door County
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Portrait of Autumn
Piano, Voice
Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1264831 By Andrea May Jenkin…
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Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1264831 By Andrea May Jenkins. By Andrea May Jenkins. Arranged by Andrea May Jenkins. Contemporary,Instructional. Score. 4 pages. JenkinsVMAstudio LLC. #839453. Published by JenkinsVMAstudio LLC. (A0.1264831). Portrait of Autumn is about a master artist setting out to paint a landscape of turning leaves as fall arrives. The poem goes through the process that this artist takes setting up and the joy of painting and completing his work. The melody is upbeat, easy to learn, and moves the poem forward. This beautiful vocal arrangement is one of many pieces written from poems by Fairy Walker Lane. Fairy Walker Lane 1890-1985 and the great aunt of Andrea JenkinsAndrea had always loved her aunt Fairy's poems, from when she was a little girl and her mom showed her the original pieces of work on old manuscript paper typed by a typewriter.  Fairy was more than a poetry writer. She lived in Tucumcari, New Mexico, and her family was responsible for establishing one of the original schoolhouses where Andrea's great-grandmother was a schoolteacher. Fairy was also an entrepreneur and owned a business selling hats in Tucumcari.Andrea lives in Maricopa, AZ, and is a teacher for middle school choir and drama.
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MacDowell: Woodland Sketches Op.51 No.4 "In Autumn" - wind quintet
Woodwind Quintet: flute, oboe, bassoon, clarinet, horn
Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Bassoon,Clarinet,Flute,Horn,Oboe - Level 4 - Digital Do…
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Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Bassoon,Clarinet,Flute,Horn,Oboe - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.553350 Composed by Edward MacDowell. Arranged by Ray Thompson. 20th Century,Holiday,Wedding. 10 pages. RayThompsonMusic #2081725. Published by RayThompsonMusic (A0.553350). Edward Alexander MacDowell (December 18, 1860 – January 23, 1908) was an American composer and pianist of the late Romantic period. He was best known for his second piano concerto and his piano suites Woodland Sketches, Sea Pieces and New England Idylls. Woodland Sketches, Op. 51, is a suite of ten short piano pieces . It was written during an 1896 stay at MacDowell's summer retreat in Peterborough, New Hampshire, where each piece was inspired by a different aspect of the surrounding nature and landscape.The best known piece is no.1 To a Wild RoseThis is No.4 In Autumn. It begins with a brisk, staccato theme followed by chromatic runs. The music shifts to a mysterious and questioning tone in the middle section before returning to the joyous opening theme.Arranged wind quintet.... Clarinet in Bb provided also.
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Autumn landscape (CM 2020)
Cello, Guitar (duet)
Instrumental Duet Cello,Guitar,Instrumental Duet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1…
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Instrumental Duet Cello,Guitar,Instrumental Duet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1012946 Composed by Carmelo Mantione. 20th Century,Contemporary,Standards,World. Score and parts. 15 pages. Carmelo Mantione #5802045. Published by Carmelo Mantione (A0.1012946).
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Autumn landscape
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October Dawn - Choral Song (SSAATB)
Choral SATB
Choral Choir (SATB divisi) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.841250 Composed by …
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Choral Choir (SATB divisi) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.841250 Composed by Chris Gordon. Contemporary. Octavo. 18 pages. Cool Wind Music Digital #3029087. Published by Cool Wind Music Digital (A0.841250). A setting of a very powerful poem by English poet, Ted Hughes, about the onset of autumn in an English (Yorkshire) garden and the surrounding countryside. It is full of pathos and passion, harmony and dissonance, chaos and peace - just like English weather!This is a very individual and innovative choral setting of Hughes' poem which is, itself, rich in 'meaty' metaphor and colour - and the composer is a vegetarian! It evokes a savage Nature within a savage landscape where humans and animals compete for space and for food. It is October, the fields and woods and gardens of rural Yorkshire are readying themselves for the cold and desolation (and despair) of winter which isn't far away in time. 'A glass, half-filled with wine, left out(side) To the dark heaven all night, by dawn Has dreamed a premonition of ice across its eye as if the ice-age had begun its heave.' That is only two and a half stanzas but you see from these lines that there are veiled threats of (Nature's) violence in the heavy tread of the poet's slowly-building angst over what is happening in the surrounding countryside - and his fear grows, and his awe grows, with every line. There is even fear underlining the very last line: 'And now it is about to start.' Winter is creeping closer and closer towards the house and it will not be pleasant to experience!I have tried to instil a little of this in the music which keeps skidding from consonance to dissonance and back to consonance. Sometimes the dissonance piles up, like snow driven by the wind piles up into deep banks; sometimes the music relaxes into stillness and calm (painted in tonal music) like a crisp, mild late autumn or early winter's day when the sun warms the landscape and life appears bearable, tolerable. I hope this adds to the song's 'charm'. It wasn't easy to write: sometimes the right music was elusive. The music ends with the word 'October' repeated three times, with voices overlapping in a little canon. This conjures up the wistful feelings of the poet as he looks out onto a peaceful scene, soon to be filled with all manner of 'natural violence', while his inner peace will soon be shattered by the mayhem about to be unleashed around him.Setting Ted Hughes is no easy task. It is for choirs and choirmasters to judge if I have succeeded in conveying the 'sense and sensibility' of a classic 20th century English poem.The price is for one copy: please purchase a sufficient number of scores if you intend to perform this work. SMP Press offers discounts for multiple-copy purchases.
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Zaļa ainava
Piano solo
Piano - difficult - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q11759 (Green Scenery (Summer))…
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Piano - difficult - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q11759 (Green Scenery (Summer)). Composed by Peteris Vasks. This edition: Sheet music. Downloadable. Duration 8 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q11759. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q11759). Zala ainava (Green Landscape) is the final part of the cycle Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons), a collection for piano with the pieces Rudens muzika (Autumn Music), Balta ainava (White Landscape) and Pavasara muzika (Spring Music). Nature in all its forms and the relation of man to nature play a major role in Peteris Vasks' music. The sound spectrum in Zala ainava ranges from soft pianissimo to eruptive chord clusters. Thus, acoustic images describing nature in summer are created within the listener. For the widely noticed world premiere of the entire cycle by the Latvian pianist Vestard Shimkus, Vasks composed an encore, Vasaras vakara muzika, which can also be performed alone - evocative music for a mild summer evening.
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Zaļa ainava
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5 Vignettes from Norwegian Nature (for Alto Saxophone and Piano)
Alto Saxophone and Piano
Instrumental Duet Alto Saxophone,Instrumental Duet,Piano - Digital Download SKU: A0.942…
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Instrumental Duet Alto Saxophone,Instrumental Duet,Piano - Digital Download SKU: A0.942498 Composed by Nikolai Clavier. 20th Century,Contemporary,Folk,World. Score and parts. 58 pages. Nikolai Clavier #6039345. Published by Nikolai Clavier (A0.942498). I was asked to write this piece for a Norwegian saxophonist studying in Copenhagen. He was looking for new music from each of the Scandinavian countries, and I decided to make my contribution a homage to the beautiful nature that Norway has to offer. Thus I drew inspiration from traditional folk music, as well as the majestic images of mountains, fjords and valleys across the Norwegian landscape. This piece has five movements and each has an illustrating title, creating a narrative sequence of movements. A vignette is a brief evocative description, account or episode. This produced a challenge in the sense that I had to be musically brief and technically concrete withing the span of a short movement. This in addition to the challenge of creating appropriate soundscapes and colors. The five movements are:I. Views over the FjordII. Winter sceneryIII. Nora at the farmIV. The Midnight Sun over the Finnmark HighlandsV. Autumn rain at the southern coastAn other interesting fact to note is the fact that the last four movements has rather specific seasons attached to themselves. Second movement is a winter movement with the original title Snow covered mountains and icy waters, and then follows a spring movement, a clear summer movement and autumn at last.
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Alto Saxophone and Piano
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Nikolai Clavier
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5 Vignettes from Norwegian Nature
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Nikolai Clavier
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Seasons for piano solo
Piano solo
Piano Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.938737 Composed by Dana Richardson.…
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Piano Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.938737 Composed by Dana Richardson. Contemporary. Score. 24 pages. Dana Richardson #36343. Published by Dana Richardson (A0.938737). Seasons is a four-movement work inspired by the seasons. I. Summer of Joy and Regret II. Autumn Light III. The Winter Landscape of My Desire IV. The Awakening heart of Spring.
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Carson Cooman: Waiting for October (2004) for flute and guitar
Flute and Guitar
Instrumental Duet Flute,Guitar,Instrumental Duet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.5…
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Instrumental Duet Flute,Guitar,Instrumental Duet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.533626 Composed by Carson Cooman. Concert,Contemporary,Standards. Score and parts. 7 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #3033825. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.533626). Waiting for October (2004) for flute and guitar was commissioned for and is dedicated to theHeim Duo (Annette Heim, flute and Bret Heim, guitar).The work was inspired by the season of autumn and harvest in western New York State --particularly the colors of the foliage and landscape.The opening section of the work is rhapsodic, as each instrument explores a series of soloisticgestures. This leads directly into a lyrical aria sung first by the flute over a guitaraccompaniment -- then briefly by the guitar. Suddenly, a joyous harvest-dance erupts. Thisends rather abruptly and a rhapsodic coda emerges, but a bit of the harvest-dance returns for aenergetic finish.This is a score for two performers. Two copies should be printed.
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Carson Cooman
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Pavasara mūzika
Piano solo
Piano - difficult - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q5771 (Spring Music). Composed …
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Piano - difficult - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q5771 (Spring Music). Composed by Peteris Vasks. This edition: single sheet. Downloadable, Separate edition. Duration 19 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q5771. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q5771). Spring Music - The Seasons II (1995) This Spring music forms part of the cycle The Seasons, a collection for piano containing the previously published pieces Balta ainava (White Landscape) and Rudens musika (Autumn music). Nature in all its shapes and the relationship of humans to nature play an important role in Vask’s works. Many of his works have programmatic titles associated with this theme, such as landscapes of burnt earth and music for migrating birds.
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Balta ainava
Piano solo
Piano - intermediate - Digital Download (White Scenery (Winter)). Composed by Peteris…
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Piano - intermediate - Digital Download (White Scenery (Winter)). Composed by Peteris Vasks (1946-). This edition: single sheet. Downloadable. Duration 7 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q12485. Published by Schott Music - Digital
Peteris Vasks occupies a special position in the circle of Baltic composers. He is not only the most significant and popular composer ever to come out of Latvia. he always speaks to his listeners with a fervent intensity that seems to point to something higher. This higher aspect is without a doubt something that stands above the world of humanity but is also present within each person: divine nature.<br> <br> "I am deeply rooted in nature, in the nature of the North. It influences all of my music. The nature we know is also quite various. we have four very distinct seasons. The winter is very long, the summer very short and therefore all the more beautiful and longed for. The seasons in between are quite dramatic."<br> <br> The first of Peteris Vasks's Seasons pieces was not written with the intention of forming a complete cycle. For his friend, Talivaldis Deksnis, he composed in 1980 Balta ainava - White Landscape (Winter), in 1981 Rudens muzika - Autumn Music, and in 1995 the Pavasara muzika - Spring Music. In 2008, Zala ainava - Green Landscape (Summer) came into being, the piece which completed the cycle.<br> <br> In 2009, as a kind of "encore", Vasks wrote Vasaras vakara muzika - Music for a Summer Evening based on old sketches. this, of all the pieces, is the one most anchored in tradition. Only the two newest pieces - both of which have to do with summer - have a fixed metrical structure. The three earlier works are metrically free, notated without bar lines, which gives them an improvisatory character.<br> <br> Vasks says of the individual pieces in the cycle: "In Balta ainava everything is white. A new year begins. It is a quiet meditation, a new beginning, with only two themes.<br> <br> Pavasara muzika. Quasi una Sonata - the most demanding piece in this cycle - is intense, an impressive development. Spring comes slowly, with much drama. It is like a battle, until it is simply there. This multi-faceted piece, with its bird songs, lives from conflicts and dramatic intensification and ends in ecstatic rapture. Zala ainava is based on two themes. Our summer is very brief and offers a respite after the battles. And it is so beautiful! The music reflects joy and contentment. The first theme brings a kind of pure energy. the second is more devoted to tone painting. At the end, a five-note quotation from a well-known Latvian folksong about a drunkard is heard.<br> <br> Rudens muzika begins pianissimo on a quiet September day, in a peaceful, sunny atmosphere. Now the autumn storms sweep over the land. a gentle sadness settles on the people and on nature, which surrenders its splendor. After a last great storm, the snow comes again as a symbol of purified conclusion and a new beginning. Vasaras vakara muzika takes place at the quiet end of a summer day. The sun sets. Slowness. Memories of previous experiences surface. With the memories' appearance comes an increase in intensity. Towards the end, a kind of folksong is heard: 'We have survived the time of tyranny and retained our identity'. The ending is quiet, everything is asleep."<br> <br> Christoph Schluren<br> <br> Translation: John Patrick Thomas and W. Richard Rieves
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Balta ainava
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