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Compulsive Anxiety
Piano solo
Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1125663 By Isadar. By Isadar. 20th …
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Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1125663 By Isadar. By Isadar. 20th Century,Contemporary,Jazz,New Age. Score. 8 pages. Mainya Music Publishing (BMI) #726392. Published by Mainya Music Publishing (BMI) (A0.1125663). Contains:Compulsive Anxiety - taken from the Isadar solo piano collection, The Purple Heart (improvisational solo piano) (available soon on SMP)
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Compulsive Anxiety
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Mainya Music Publishing
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Compulsion
Melody line, (Lyrics) and Chords
Digital Download SKU: HX.469946 By Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins. Jazz. Real Book -…
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Digital Download SKU: HX.469946 By Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins. Jazz. Real Book - Melody/Chords. 1 pages. Published by Hal Leonard - Digital (HX.469946).
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Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins
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Compulsion
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Hal Leonard - Digital
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Compulsion
Tenor Saxophone
Tenor Saxophone Transcription - Digital Download SKU: HX.402211 By Miles Davis and …
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Tenor Saxophone Transcription - Digital Download SKU: HX.402211 By Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins. This edition: scorch. Jazz. Score. 4 pages. Hal Leonard - Digital #289456. Published by Hal Leonard - Digital (HX.402211).
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Tenor Saxophone
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Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins
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Compulsion
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SheetMusicPlus
Each Of You
Piano, Voice
Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.841477 Composed by Andrew Mc…
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Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.841477 Composed by Andrew Mc Donald. Christian,Gospel,Pop. Score. 6 pages. Andrew Mc Donald (Macka Records) #3470993. Published by Andrew Mc Donald (Macka Records) (A0.841477). Each of you is a song about giving and tithing. We should give from our heart and not under compulsion. If we sow generously then we will reap generously.
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Each Of You
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Andrew Mc Donald
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Telemensch for solo clarinet (mp3)
Clarinet
Clarinet - Digital Download SKU: A0.1103918 By József Dávid. By David Warin S…
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Clarinet - Digital Download SKU: A0.1103918 By József Dávid. By David Warin Solomons. Chamber,Classical,Jewish. Full Performance. Duration 256. David Warin Solomons #707202. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1103918). This work is based on 4 melodies by Telemann but with many additional augmented-second twists, in Jewish music style, and various decorations. The original melodies are: Herr wie lange (Lord, how long) This is a canon for two voices based on the psalm text and forms the beginning and end of the work Herr, wie lange willst du mein so gar vergessen, wie lange verbirgest du dein Antlitz vor mir! Lord, how long you forget me how long will you hide your face from me The other pieces are based on Telemann's settings for voice and keyboard of poems by his contemporary Daniel Stoppe Glück - (Happiness) Das glücke kömmt selten per posta, zu pferde es geht zu fusse, schritt vor schritt; sein eigensinn ist nicht zu zwingen; Happiness seldom comes by post or on horseback It goes on foot step by step It does not demand compulsion Jeder sein eigener Richter (Each his own judge) Ich will vor meiner thüre kehren; ich habe gnug für mich zu thun; ich kenne mich, ich bin kein engel; ein jeder mensch hat seine mängel, wer diese tilgen will, darf lebenslang nicht ruhn. I will turn from my doors I have enough for myself to do I know myself, I am no angel Every person has his faults Anyone who wishes to wipe them out Can never be at at peace all his life Wind (Wind) Wind macht aus thoren kluge leute; durch wind verdient der narr sein brodt: The wind makes fools into clever folk The fool earns his bread by the wind.
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Telemensch for solo clarinet
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David Warin Solomons
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Telemensch (The isolated one) for Cello Solo (mp3)
Cello
Cello - Digital Download SKU: A0.1103919 By Mády-Szabó Eszter. By David Warin…
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Cello - Digital Download SKU: A0.1103919 By Mády-Szabó Eszter. By David Warin Solomons. Baroque,Chamber,Classical,Jewish. Full Performance. Duration 258. David Warin Solomons #707203. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1103919). This work is based on 4 melodies by Telemann but with many additional augmented-second twists, in Jewish music style, and various decorations. The original melodies are: Herr wie lange (Lord, how long) This is a canon for two voices based on the psalm text and forms the beginning and end of the work Herr, wie lange willst du mein so gar vergessen, wie lange verbirgest du dein Antlitz vor mir! Lord, how long you forget me how long will you hide your face from me The other pieces are based on Telemann's settings for voice and keyboard of poems by his contemporary Daniel Stoppe Glück - (Happiness) Das glücke kömmt selten per posta, zu pferde es geht zu fusse, schritt vor schritt; sein eigensinn ist nicht zu zwingen; Happiness seldom comes by post or on horseback It goes on foot step by step It does not demand compulsion Jeder sein eigener Richter (Each his own judge) Ich will vor meiner thüre kehren; ich habe gnug für mich zu thun; ich kenne mich, ich bin kein engel; ein jeder mensch hat seine mängel, wer diese tilgen will, darf lebenslang nicht ruhn. I will turn from my doors I have enough for myself to do I know myself, I am no angel Every person has his faults Anyone who wishes to wipe them out Can never be at at peace all his life Wind (Wind) Wind macht aus thoren kluge leute; durch wind verdient der narr sein brodt: The wind makes fools into clever folk The fool earns his bread by the wind Performed by Mády-Szabó Eszter of Budapest Scoring Cellos.
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Telemensch
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Petite Suite Antique [recorder / any melodic instrument]
Large Ensemble Alto Recorder,Alto Saxophone,Baritone Recorder,Baritone Saxophone,Clarinet,…
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Large Ensemble Alto Recorder,Alto Saxophone,Baritone Recorder,Baritone Saxophone,Clarinet,English Horn,Flute,Oboe,Soprano Recorder,Soprano Saxophone,Tenor Recorder,Tenor Saxophone,Trumpet,Violin - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.596529 Composed by Juan MarÃa Solare. 20th Century,Baroque,Concert,Standards. Score and parts. 12 pages. Juan Maria Solare #3662953. Published by Juan Maria Solare (A0.596529). Petite Suite Antiquefor recorder (or any other melodic instrument)1 Prélude 0:452 Rondeau 1:003 Air 0:454 Cueca 1:205 Gavotte 0:456 Ecossaise 1:007 Gigue post-antique 1:15Total Time: 6:50A Suite is originally a succession of dances. In this case, the usual dances of the European Baroque (such as Allemande or Courante) were generally avoided, and a dance and musical genre of Chile, the Cueca, could be integrated. The title of the last piece (Gigue post-antique) is a wink: an inverted allusion to the concept of Postmodernity - i.e. to that mindset which opposes itself critically to the scale of values of Modernity, particularly against compulsion towards innovation, and which for that refers to past styles (partially in an ironic way).The degree of difficulty of this work has been intentionally kept low.The Petite Suite Antique was originally composed for recorder; however, it can be played with any other melodic instrument, such as, for example, flute, oboe or violin. Transposing instruments (clarinet, trumpet, horn) can play directly from the same score.You can listen the Petite Suite Antique in Spotify ( and all usual streaming plataformsfrom 5 October 2018, in the recoding of Gonzalo Ariel Juan. And already before in BandCamp: https://juanmariasolare.bandcamp.com/album/petite-suite-antique
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Juan Maria Solare
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Por Una Cabeza
Woodwind Quintet: flute, oboe, bassoon, clarinet, horn
Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Bassoon,Clarinet,Flute,Horn,Oboe - Level 3 - Digital Do…
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Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Bassoon,Clarinet,Flute,Horn,Oboe - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1422444 By Carlos Gardel. By Carlos Gardel. Arranged by Trevor Wharton. 20th Century,Film/TV,Latin. 14 pages. Bumpmusic Editions #1003783. Published by Bumpmusic Editions (A0.1422444). Por Una Cabeza ids a Tango song written in 1935 by Composer and singer Carlos Gardel with Lyrics by Alfedo Le Pera. The title is a Spanish horse-racing phrase meaning by a head, which refers to a horse winning (or losing) a race narrowly – by just the length of its head. The lyrics speak of a compulsive horse-track gambler who compares his addiction for horses with his attraction to women. The tango was used inthe films 'Scent of a Woman' (1992), 'Schindler's List' (1993) and 'True Lies' (1994).This arrangement for Woodwind Quintet see the main theme shared across the ensemble with continuously flowing contrapuntal counter melodies.. It is important for players to listen to ensure balance between parts. Some dynamics have been provided as a guide but the ensemble should shape the piece as they feel fit.
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Carlos Gardel
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Por Una Cabeza
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Homer Collyer Blind
Bass clarinet & bassoon - Digital Download SKU: IZ.IMS173 Composed by Kyle Hovatter…
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Bass clarinet & bassoon - Digital Download SKU: IZ.IMS173 Composed by Kyle Hovatter. Score and Parts. 27 pages. Imagine Music - Digital #IMS173. Published by Imagine Music - Digital (IZ.IMS173). 9 x 12 in inches.In E. L. Doctorow's novel Homer and Langley, based on Manhattan's notorious Fifth Avenue compulsivelyhoarding Collyer brothers, Doctorow i!rst introduces his character Homer as he is losing his sight. Homer is keen tonotice the gradual fade out. Individual details are lost, then whole images are distorted, and i!nally he is completelyblind. In the darkness he can hear a sound made by an ice skater that was always present but never noticed: a softsound though full of intention, a deeper tone than you'd expect made by the skate blades, perhaps for havingsounded the resonant basso under the ice, scoot scut, scoot scut.My deepest thanks to Lara Mitofsky Neuss and Justin Cummings for commissioning this three movement work.
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Homer Collyer Blind
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Passacaglia
Cello, Piano
Violin, cello and piano - difficult - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q6048 Composed by Jo…
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Violin, cello and piano - difficult - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q6048 Composed by Joerg Widmann. This edition: score and parts. Downloadable, score and parts. Duration 30 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q6048. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q6048). This Piano Trio Passacaglia is the “junior†companion piece to my Cello Concerto Dunkle Saiten [Dark Strings], or more precisely to the concerto’s large-dimensional introductory section with the indication “Feierlich, schreitend†[solemnly, striding]. What in the Cello concerto then inescapably culminates in a catastrophe remains in this composition ostensibly largely conflict-free. This is in fact perhaps one of my most peaceful and conflict-free compositions; it consists of half an hour of almost exclusively tonal progressions. Here, passacaglia (stepping dance!) is taken literally: the step progressions themselves become the subject of the work. This also includes pausing, not being able to progress, feeling one’s way, stumbling and taking compulsive steps forward.As familiar as the harmonic surface of the structure appears, for me the natural adaptation of the musical flow was new to a similar degree. This is my attempt to produce a linear tonal band (a horizontal) exclusively with the aid of harmonic – i.e. vertical – progressions.- Jörg Widmann.
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Pour Una Cabeza
Orchestra
Full Orchestra - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1193450 Composed by Mahamed Ami…
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Full Orchestra - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1193450 Composed by Mahamed Amine Bouguenna. Arranged by Marek Czekala. Film/TV,Latin. Score and Parts. 33 pages. Marek Czekala #792913. Published by Marek Czekala (A0.1193450). Por una Cabeza is a tango song written in 1935 with music by Carlos Gardel and lyrics by Alfredo Le Pera. The name is a Spanish horse-racing phrase meaning by a head, which refers to a horse winning a race narrowly – by just the length of its head. The lyrics speak of a compulsive horse-track gambler who compares his addiction for horses with his attraction to women. Alfredo Le Pera was born in Brazil, son of Italian immigrants. Le Pera and Gardel died in an aeroplane crash in MedellÃn, on Monday, June 24, 1935. Por Una Cabeza is featured in a famous tango scene in Martin Brest's film Scent of a Woman (1992), in the opening scene of Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List (1993) and in James Cameron's True Lies (1994). Wikipedia.
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Pour Una Cabeza
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Marek Czekala
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Miles Davis: Compulsion - voice & other instruments (real book)
Melody line, (Lyrics) and Chords
Instantly printable sheet music by Miles Davis for voice & other instruments (real boo…
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Instantly printable sheet music by Miles Davis for voice & other instruments (real book) of MEDIUM skill level. / jazz
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Virtualsheetmusic
Sonny Rollins: Compulsion - tenor saxophone solo (transcription)
Tenor Saxophone
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Instantly printable sheet music by Sonny Rollins for tenor saxophone solo (transcription) of MEDIUM skill level. / jazz
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Debussy Inconnu: Album of works for the piano by Claude Debussy completed by Robert Orledge, Vol. 2
Piano solo
Piano Solo - Advanced Intermediate - Digital Download Composed by Claude Debussy/Ro…
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Piano Solo - Advanced Intermediate - Digital Download Composed by Claude Debussy/Robert Orledge. 20th Century, Impressionistic, Repertoire. Score. 76 pages. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing
Contains Le Roi Lear: Prélude,Première Fanfare, and La Mort de Cordélia,Toomai des éléphants, Rodrigue et Chimène: Prélude à l’acte 1p. Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien: La Passion , and No-ja-li ou Le Palais du Silence<br> <br> From Robert Orledge's notes:<br> <br> My interest in the wonderful music of Claude Debussy began in the 1980s when I researched and published a book with Cambridge University Press entitled Debussy and the Theatre. During the course of my studies in Paris, I was amazed to discover that Debussy planned over 50 theatrical works but only finished two of these entirely by himself (the opera Pelléas et Mélisande in 1893–1902 and the ballet Jeux for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in 1912–13). Of the rest, many were never started musically (like Siddartha and Orphée-roi with the Oriental scholar Victor Segalen, 1907); some had a few tantalising sketches (like the Edgar Allan Poe opera Le Diable dans le beffroi, 1902–03); some were half-finished (like his other Poe opera La Chute de la Maison Usher, 1908–17); while others were musically complete but had their orchestrations completed by other composers (like Khamma, by Charles Koechlin, 1912–13; or Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien and La Boîte à joujoux by his ‘angel of corrections’ [‘l’ange des Corrections’] André Caplet in 1911 and 1919 respectively).<br> <br> For it has to be admitted that what some scholars call Debussy’s ‘compulsive achievement’ could equally well be viewed as laziness, especially as far as the minute detail required for calligraphing his orchestral scores was concerned. It was as if creating the music itself was of greater importance than controlling its final sound, even if Debussy was an imaginative orchestrator when he found the time and energy to do it. It also seems true that Debussy also preferred inventing ideas to turning them into complete pieces. However, despite the lack of detail in many of his sketches (missing clefs, key signatures, dynamics, phrasing, etc.) the notes themselves are surprisingly accurate, whether or not they can be compared with a later draft. Thus, a large number of sketches exist for his Chinese ballet No-ja-li ou Le Palais du Silence and it is not too difficult to see which parts of Georges de Feure’s 1913 scenario (see below) inspired which ideas. But Debussy hardly made any attempt to join them together after the first few bars.<br> <br> It was usually up to his publisher, Jacques Durand, to find solutions when Debussy risked a breach of contract. Debussy was supposed to supervise the orchestrations completed by others, but this supervision was usually very light and restricted to quiet, sensitive moments in which problems were easier to spot. Far from jealously guarding every one of his created notes, as Ravel did, Debussy once even went as far as to ask Koechlin to ‘write a ballet for him that he would sign’ on 26 March 1914 when he was hard-pressed to fulfil his lucrative contract for No-ja-li with André Charlot at the Alhambra Theatre in London. In the end, Debussy (through Durand) sent Charlot the symphonic suite Printemps instead, whose orchestration had been completed by Henri Busser in the Spring of 1912.<br> <br> So, when I was offered early retirement as Professor of Music at Liverpool University in 2004, I seized the opportunity it would give me to spend time trying to reconstruct some of Debussy’s lost potential masterpieces from his existing sketches and drafts—then orchestrating them in Debussy’s style when this was appropriate. I had begun this mission in 2001 with the most promising project, the missing parts of Scene 2 of La Chute de la Maison Usher and the sheer joy it gave me at every stage persuaded me to tackle other projects, especially when Debussy experts were unable to identify exactly where I took over from Debussy (and vice versa) in Usher.
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Piano solo
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Debussy Inconnu: Album of works for the piano by Claude Debussy completed by Robert Orledge, Vol. 2
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Debussy Inconnu: Album of works for the piano by Claude Debussy completed by Robert Orledge, Vol. 1
Piano solo
Piano Solo - Advanced Intermediate - Digital Download Composed by Claude Debussy/Ro…
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Piano Solo - Advanced Intermediate - Digital Download Composed by Claude Debussy/Robert Orledge. 20th Century, Impressionistic, Repertoire, Recital. Score. 71 pages. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing
Contains A Night in the House of Usher Un Jour affreux avec Le Diable dans le beffroi, Les accords de septième regrettent!!!, Petite Valse,Fêtes galantes, and Prélude à ‘L’Histoire de Tristan’<br> <br> From Robert Orledge's notes:<br> <br> My interest in the wonderful music of Claude Debussy began in the 1980s when I researched and published a book with Cambridge University Press entitled Debussy and the Theatre. During the course of my studies in Paris, I was amazed to discover that Debussy planned over 50 theatrical works but only finished two of these entirely by himself (the opera Pelléas et Mélisande in 1893–1902 and the ballet Jeux for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in 1912–13). Of the rest, many were never started musically (like Siddartha and Orphée-roi with the Oriental scholar Victor Segalen, 1907); some had a few tantalising sketches (like the Edgar Allan Poe opera Le Diable dans le beffroi, 1902–03); some were half-finished (like his other Poe opera La Chute de la Maison Usher, 1908–17); while others were musically complete but had their orchestrations completed by other composers (like Khamma, by Charles Koechlin, 1912–13; or Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien and La Boîte à joujoux by his ‘angel of corrections’ [‘l’ange des Corrections’] André Caplet in 1911 and 1919 respectively).<br> <br> For it has to be admitted that what some scholars call Debussy’s ‘compulsive achievement’ could equally well be viewed as laziness, especially as far as the minute detail required for calligraphing his orchestral scores was concerned. It was as if creating the music itself was of greater importance than controlling its final sound, even if Debussy was an imaginative orchestrator when he found the time and energy to do it. It also seems true that Debussy also preferred inventing ideas to turning them into complete pieces. However, despite the lack of detail in many of his sketches (missing clefs, key signatures, dynamics, phrasing, etc.) the notes themselves are surprisingly accurate, whether or not they can be compared with a later draft. Thus, a large number of sketches exist for his Chinese ballet No-ja-li ou Le Palais du Silence and it is not too difficult to see which parts of Georges de Feure’s 1913 scenario (see below) inspired which ideas. But Debussy hardly made any attempt to join them together after the first few bars.<br> <br> It was usually up to his publisher, Jacques Durand, to find solutions when Debussy risked a breach of contract. Debussy was supposed to supervise the orchestrations completed by others, but this supervision was usually very light and restricted to quiet, sensitive moments in which problems were easier to spot. Far from jealously guarding every one of his created notes, as Ravel did, Debussy once even went as far as to ask Koechlin to ‘write a ballet for him that he would sign’ on 26 March 1914 when he was hard-pressed to fulfil his lucrative contract for No-ja-li with André Charlot at the Alhambra Theatre in London. In the end, Debussy (through Durand) sent Charlot the symphonic suite Printemps instead, whose orchestration had been completed by Henri Busser in the Spring of 1912.<br> <br> So, when I was offered early retirement as Professor of Music at Liverpool University in 2004, I seized the opportunity it would give me to spend time trying to reconstruct some of Debussy’s lost potential masterpieces from his existing sketches and drafts—then orchestrating them in Debussy’s style when this was appropriate. I had begun this mission in 2001 with the most promising project, the missing parts of Scene 2 of La Chute de la Maison Usher and the sheer joy it gave me at every stage persuaded me to tackle other projects, especially when Debussy experts were unable to identify exactly where I took over from Debussy (and vice versa) in Usher.
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Piano solo
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Claude Debussy/Robert Orledge
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Debussy Inconnu: Album of works for the piano by Claude Debussy completed by Robert Orledge, Vol. 1
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Musik Fabrik Music Publishing
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