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David Conte

High voice and piano - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8454-2E Composed by David Conte. Secular, 21st century. Instrument part. 6 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8454-2E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8454-2E). English.American Death Ballads was composed especially for tenor Brian Thorsett. We have been frequent collaborators since 2011, when he premiered the complete set of my Three Settings of W. B. Yeats for string quartet and tenor. At his urging, I transcribed and published my Three Poems of Christina Rossetti (originally for medium voice) for high voice, which he premiered at the San Francisco Conservatory in 2014. American Death Ballads was premiered by him at the San Francisco Conservatory, November 1, 2015, with pianist John Churchwell, and at the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Conference in Chicago, July 10, 2016, with pianist Warren Jones.The choice of texts for my American Death Ballads was inspired partly by Copland’s Old American Songs, which I deeply admire, but more by my dear friend and colleague the late Conrad Susa’s Two Murder Ballads. The ingenuity of Susa’s accompaniments for his ballads in imagining anew the original source material owes a great deal to Copland’s accompaniment for his songs. Though the content of my songs is completely original and not based on preexisting melodies, I have tried to expand on this further, as the texts are much longer, and go through many different moods and characters. The four texts I chose include stories about murder, death, and dying. Though two of the texts were written in England, they traveled to the colonies almost immediately. The subjects of the texts had spent time in America, and their stories were well known to Americans.Wicked Polly is a cautionary tale. Polly has lived a dissolute and immoral life, saying, 'I'll turn to God when I grow old.' Suddenly taken ill, she realizes that it is too late to repent. She dies in agony and is presumably sent to hell; young people are advised to heed. My musical setting is stately and preacherly in character for the narrator; for Polly it becomes pleading and remorseful. The Unquiet Grave was brought to the attention of Alan Lomax, the great American field collector of folk music, by English folk singer Shirley Collins. The text is taken from an English folk song dating from 1400. In The Unquiet Grave, a young man mourns his dead lover too fervently and prevents her from obtaining peace. The dead woman complains that his weeping is keeping her from peaceful rest. He begs a kiss; she tells him it would kill him. When he persists, wanting to join her in death, she explains that once they were both dead their hearts would simply decay, and that he should enjoy life while he has it. My setting is in a flowing Andante with a rocking accompaniment. Three voices are delineated here: the narrator, the mournful lover, and the dead lover speaking from the grave. The Dying Californian first appeared in the New England Diadem in 1854. Its lyrics are based on a letter from a New Englander’s sailor to his brother who is dying at sea while on the way to California to seek his fortune in the California gold fields. He implores his brother to impart his message to his father, mother, wife, and children. My setting opens with the singer alone in a moderate dirge tempo, then, joined by the piano, moves through many tonalities and moods before ending with supreme confidence as the speaker 'gained a port called Heaven/Where the gold will never rust.'Captain Kidd was a Scottish sailor who was tried and executed for piracy and murder in 1701. The American connection to this ballad is that Kidd escaped to America and for a time lived in New York and Boston, though he was a wanted criminal by the British authorities and was extradited to Britain, where he was hung at 'Executioner’s Dock.' The lyric was printed in Britain in 1701, traveling to the colonies almost immediately. Though the didactic tone of the text is similar to Wicked Polly, it expresses no regret until the final lines: 'Take warning now by me, and shun bad company, / Lest you come to hell with me, for I must die.' My setting is fast and spirited, expressing the confidence of a man who lived life as he wanted. -David Conte.

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The Composer (Downloadable) Choral SATB

SATB choir - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.6076-E Composed by Dav…(+)

SATB choir - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.6076-E Composed by David Conte. 10 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #6076-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.6076-E). Composed to a text by John Stirling Walker, The Composer was commissioned by the Walden School, Dublin, New Hampshire, in celebration of its thirtieth anniversary, and was written for Patricia Plude, Director of the Walden School, and for Leo Wanenchak, Conductor of the Walden School Chorus.Appropriate for: concerts, skilled school, community, professional chorusesc. 4:30“The Composer speaks to the nature of an artist’s inspiration as something that can transcend personal will or earth-bound concerns. [I] had in mind Beethoven as an example of this quality of receptivity to a heaven-sent creative impulse. Mr. Conte’s music captures the spirit of the text with the usual inimitable accuracy of feeling.” -John Stirling WalkerThe Composer is included on the album Facing West: Choral Music of Conrad Susa and David Conte.
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Soprano voice and tenor voice soli, SATB choir unaccompanied - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8323-E Composed by David Conte. Advanced/Collegiate. Secular, 21st Century, Americana, Children, Creation/Nature, Hope/Assurance. Instrument part. 9 pages. Duration 5 minutes, 42 seconds. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8323-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8323-E). UPC: 600313483233. English. The three a cappella choral pieces that comprise “A Whitman Triptych” were composed between 2012 and 2014. O Setting Sun was commissioned by the Madison Chamber Choir, Madison, Wisconsin, Anthony Cao, conductor, and was premiered on April 20th, 2012. “What is the Grass” was composed for Cappella SF, Ragnar Bohlin, conductor, and is being premiered on tonight’s concert. Facing West was commissioned in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge by the International Orange Chorale, Zane Fiala, conductor, and was premiered on May 27th, 2012. I first set Whitman to music in 1986,when I adapted part of “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed” as the basis for my composition “Invocation and Dance.” I went on to set “Good-Bye, My Fancy” for Male Chorus and Soprano Saxophone in 1992, and “Song of the Open Road” for Mixed Chorus and Piano in 2004. Like so many composers, I have found the visionary quality of Whitman’s verse inspiring; the vigor and intensity of the poetry seem naturally to draw out music. Facing West is drawn from the Children of Adam book from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. The full title of the poem is Facing West From California's Shores. Though Whitman never visited California, his biographer Justin Kaplan made the insightful observation that he imagined California's shores to be the starting point for a journey through time and culture. Here was Walt, 'a child, very old,' facing home again, looking over to it, joyous, as after long travel, growth, and sleep, asking: 'But where is what I started for, so long ago?/And why is it yet unfound?' The invitation from the International Orange Chorale to compose a piece in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge led me easily and naturally to this great poem. The tone of Facing West is rich and complex, and draws on one of Whitman's favorite themes of using travel to distant lands as a metaphor for spiritual development. In his poem, Whitman strikes notes of reflection, of longing for adventure, and ultimately ends with a question. The continuing relevance of this question is for me beautifully addressed by the contemporary American writer Edmund White in his 1980 book States of Desire. To paraphrase somewhat, White writes: California is where dreams may come true, and the problem it presents is whether, after all, we wanted these particular dreams to be fulfilled - or would we have preferred others? Did we know what price these dreams would exact? Did we anticipate the ways in which they would unsuit us for the business of daily life? Or should our notion of daily life itself be transformed? For Americans, California's coast is as far as one can go in establishing new roots and new ways of living. As a transplanted Midwesterner who has made California his home for nearly three decades, I experience the Golden Gate Bridge as a beautiful monument to the aspirations and dreams of a restless and inventive people, qualities that Whitman's poem captures perfectly. -David ConteDuration: 5:42

Tenor voice solo, SATB choir unaccompanied - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8322-E Composed by David Conte. Advanced/Collegiate. Secular, 21st Century, Americana, Children, Creation/Nature, Hope/Assurance. Instrument part. 15 pages. Duration 5 minutes, 42 seconds. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8322-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8322-E). UPC: 600313483226. English. The three a cappella choral pieces that comprise “A Whitman Triptych” were composed between 2012 and 2014. O Setting Sun was commissioned by the Madison Chamber Choir, Madison, Wisconsin, Anthony Cao, conductor, and was premiered on April 20th, 2012. “What is the Grass” was composed for Cappella SF, Ragnar Bohlin, conductor, and is being premiered on tonight’s concert. Facing West was commissioned in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge by the International Orange Chorale, Zane Fiala, conductor, and was premiered on May 27th, 2012. I first set Whitman to music in 1986,when I adapted part of “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed” as the basis for my composition “Invocation and Dance.” I went on to set “Good-Bye, My Fancy” for Male Chorus and Soprano Saxophone in 1992, and “Song of the Open Road” for Mixed Chorus and Piano in 2004. Like so many composers, I have found the visionary quality of Whitman’s verse inspiring; the vigor and intensity of the poetry seem naturally to draw out music. “What is the Grass?” is also an adaptation of a much longer poem, one of Whitman’s deepest, and most mysterious. The poem begins as a child-like meditation on grass; as hope, as an embodiment of new life and new growth in the plant world. Then suddenly there is a somber turn with the line “And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves.” Here Whitman enters an extended mediation on how grass connects life and death, informed by his experiences in the Civil War. Hope returns with the line: “They are alive and well somewhere,” leading to the mysterious final line: “And to die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier…” Here Whitman affirms that death can be an initiation into a broader participation of existence. In the words of poet Ivan M. Granger, Whitman offers a “Zen-like riddle that doesn’t offer an answer so much as a pathway of questioning.” My musical setting follows Whitman’s exploration, first taking a child’s point of view, expressed with lilting melodies set in a lively compound meter. The entry of the tenor soloist indicates a change of mood to the serious. The first mood returns, leading to a climax on the words “And led forward life…”, set in 9-part harmony. The mood turns reverent, as the tenor soloist intones: “All goes onward and outward; nothing collapses.” The piece ends with a tone of gentle, slightly ironic questioning. -David ConteDuration: 5:42

Missa Brevis (Downloadable) Choral SATB

SATB choir, organ - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8067-E Composed…(+)

SATB choir, organ - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8067-E Composed by David Conte. 23 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8067-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8067-E). Latin.This is the third work David Conte has composed for them; the others are Elegy for Matthew in memory of Matthew Shepard (2000), and September Sun in memory of 9/11/2001 (2002). Missa Brevis was composed for both liturgical and concert use. The Kyrie is slow, solemn, and chromatic. The Gloria provides a marked contrast with its fast and lively music with many changing meters and syncopations. The Sanctus is broad and expressive, followed by the faster Hosanna in compound meter. The Benedictus is built over a ground bass and features canonic duets among the four voices. The Agnus Dei returns to the more solemn and chromatic mood of the Kyrie, and ends with an exact recapitulation of the Kyrie music.
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I Love the Lord (Downloadable) Choral SATB

SATB choir, organ - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.7370-E Composed…(+)

SATB choir, organ - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.7370-E Composed by David Conte. Easter. 9 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #7370-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.7370-E). Psalms 116:1-4, 7-9.A setting of Psalm 116: 1-4, 7-9, it is especially appointed for the Friday of Easter Week, but appropriate to the weeks after Easter. David Conte provides a lyrical and compelling setting, quietly affirmingI will walk before the Lord in the land of the living at the end. Psalms 116:1-4,7-9 Duration 3'20''.
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Invocation and Dance (Downloadable Choral Score) Choral SATB

SATB choir, chamber orchestra or piano - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: M…(+)

SATB choir, chamber orchestra or piano - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.4378-E Composed by David Conte. 32 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #4378-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.4378-E). Based on a text drawn from Walt Whitman's When Lilacs Last at the Dooryard Bloom'd. A hymn to nature and the place of death within the cycle of life on earth. Invocation and Dance is included on the album Facing West: Choral Music of Conrad Susa and David Conte. Duration: 13:00.
$3.35 3.13 € #Choral SATB #David Conte #Invocation and Dance #E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #SheetMusicPlus

La Llorona (Choral Score)

SA choir and piano, with optional guitar, 2 violins, and double bass (Instrumental parts i…(+)

SA choir and piano, with optional guitar, 2 violins, and double bass (Instrumental parts include: Guitar, Violin I and II, Double Bass) - Moderately Easy - Digital Download SKU: MQ.9210-E Composed by David Conte. Instrument parts. 8 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #9210-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.9210-E). Spanish.This is a new voicing of David Conte's arrangement of the popular Mexican folksong and is accessible for all treble choirs.
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Marian Variations (Downloadable)

Harp solo - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.6535-E Composed by David Conte. Secul…(+)

Harp solo - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.6535-E Composed by David Conte. Secular, 21st century. Score & instrument part. 15 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #6535-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.6535-E). Marian Variations for harp solo was written for and is dedicated to harpist Ruth Inglefield, Professor of Harp at the Peabody Conservatory. In 1975, I was a student in Dr. Inglefield's Music History class at Bowling Green State University, where I was pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Composition. Dr. Inglefield arranged for me to study in Paris with Nadia Boulanger, which I did from 1975-78, making me one of her last composition students and utterly changing my life. This piece is written in gratitude for Dr. Inglefield's vision and generosity.The work is based on my own Ave Maria for SATB chorus which was commissioned in 1991 by the San Francisco male vocal ensemble Chanticleer. Each of the four variations is based on the main melody of the Ave Maria and is separated by interludes built of contrasting material, all leading to a literal statement of the motet after the fourth variation. Thus, though the piece is largely intended for use in solo recitals, it could be played as part of a liturgical service where the motet is also sung. I am grateful to Sonja Inglefield for her expert and detailed editing of the score. Harpists Steve Main and Michael Rado also offered valuable suggestions. -David Conte.
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Sonata for Violoncello and Piano (Downloadable) Cello, Piano

Cello and piano - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8052-E Composed b…(+)

Cello and piano - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8052-E Composed by David Conte. Score & instrument part. 67 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8052-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8052-E). Sonata for Violoncello and Piano was written especially for cellist Emil Miland. As a performer, Mr. Miland has frequently appeared with many of the world’s finest singers, and his playing for me has always embodied many features of vocal technique, including a special kind of portamento, and varying speeds of vibrati. To that end, I fashioned in this piece long, arching melodies that are unabashedly lyrical and romantic in character.The first movement, marked Allegro Moderato Appassionato, is cast in an expansive sonata-allegro form, and its trajectory unfolds with bold, sweeping gestures. Though firmly in D Major, the entire melodic and harmonic texture of the movement is highly chromatic, giving the musical character a sense of heightened inflection and intensity. -David ConteIncludes score and part.
$20.00 18.67 € #Cello, Piano #David Conte #Sonata for Violoncello and Piano #E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #SheetMusicPlus

Aria and Fugue (Downloadable) Violin and Piano

Violin and piano - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.7941-E Composed …(+)

Violin and piano - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.7941-E Composed by David Conte. Secular, 21st century. Score & instrument part. 13 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #7941-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.7941-E). UPC: 600313479410.The Aria features a lyrical, somewhat melancholy melody in the solo instrument which is continually supported by rich, regularly pulsating chords in the accompaniment. Contrasting sections are faster and mysterious in character, with a return to the opening idea. The Fugue is based on a subject, both lively and melancholy, in compound meter. This subject is treated with standard devices of development, including inversion and augmentation. - David Conte
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Alleluia for SSAATTBB Chorus Unaccompanied (Downloadable)

SSAATTBB Unaccompanied - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.7425-E Com…(+)

SSAATTBB Unaccompanied - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.7425-E Composed by David Conte. Easter. Instrument parts. 21 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #7425-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.7425-E). The invitation to compose an anthem for Easter Sunday from my home parish of St. Dominic's Catholic Church in San Francisco, Simon Berry, conductor, was for me an opportunity to fulfill a long-desired wish: to respond to Randall Thompson's 'Alleluia,' which I have known by heart since I was 15 years old. I have long admired the expressive lyricism and immensely satisfying formal unfolding of Thompson's masterpiece. My setting is for mixed chorus divisi in 8 parts, and is based on two contrasting melodic motives which are continually developed and move through many tonalities before returning to the bright opening tonality of A major. -David Conte.
$2.90 2.71 € #David Conte #Alleluia for SSAATTBB Chorus Unaccompanied #E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #SheetMusicPlus

Cantate Domino (Downloadable)

SATB/SATB choir - Digital Download SKU: MQ.4184-E Composed by David Conte. 19 pages…(+)

SATB/SATB choir - Digital Download SKU: MQ.4184-E Composed by David Conte. 19 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #4184-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.4184-E). Latin. Psalms 149.A joyful work for antiphonal double chorus. Mr. Conte is one of the more serious and gifted musicians of the younger generation. -Aaron Copland.
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Love Songs (Downloadable Full/Vocal Score)

Tenor voice, violoncello, and piano - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8…(+)

Tenor voice, violoncello, and piano - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8548-E Composed by David Conte. 31 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8548-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8548-E). English, French, Latin.A set of three love poems in three different languages; Latin, French, and English. In all three pieces, the violoncello represents the very soul of the speaker of these three texts, as it moves through many emotions, including passion, suffering, vulnerability, and joy. Levis exsurgit zephirus is taken from the eleventh century volume titled Cambridge Songs. The music has a gentle undulating quality, as the speaker is “possessed by deep sighs in the midst of all this beauty,” for his soul languishes. After several climaxes, the opening music returns in the minor mode, accompanied by “sighs” in the piano and violoncello. Duration: 5:00D’Anne qui me jetta de la neige describes a young man suddenly hit by what Italians poetically call the “Thunderbolt,” a burning moment where one falls suddenly and passionately in love. Duration: 4:00Theodore Roethke's poem, The Moment, is both subtly and unabashedly erotic, and indeed “ends in joy.” Duration: 6:00Contents:1. Levis exsurgit zephirus2. D’Anne qui me jetta de la neige3. The Moment.
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Viola Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1010650 Composed by Rhett Jaramillo. Concert,Contemporary. Individual part. 7 pages. Rhett Jaramillo #1925889. Published by Rhett Jaramillo (A0.1010650). This work explores free performance and extended technique in the first movement, titled Fog. It takes advantages of many different sounds and colors that the viola can produce. The second movement is a repetitive and serene movement, titled Meditation. The third movement, titled Supersonic, surges on after opening with an intense pizzicato on all four strings. Hailed by David Conte as rewarding for players and audiences, The City Muses On is a great addition to any recital as an exciting and impressive addition to the repertoire. Other works by Rhett Jaramillo can be found at his website, http://rjaramillomusic.wix.com/rjaramillo. He also has other works which can be accessed at his Soundcloud, https://soundcloud.com/rhett-jaramillo. Rhett Jaramillo is a composer from Temecula, CA and based out of the San Francisco Bay Area. His musical interests span far and wide from classical to classic rock, from world music to jazz, from musical theater to EDM. He began playing the piano at the age of 15 and his interest in musical performance and composition began. He graduated from Brigham Young University - Idaho in Rexburg, Idaho with a Bachelor of Musical Arts in Music Composition in 2014. He studied Composition with Darrell Brown, Piano with Stephen Thomas, and Conducting with Dallin Hansen. He currently attends the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he is receiving his Master of Music in Music Composition. He currently studies Composition with Elinor Armer. His music explores the extent to which tonality can be stretched and feature playful, artistic score layouts that result in a free-flowing form, often relying on the performer to interpret the result of the musical ideas. If you are interested in purchasing any works for performance, he can be contacted at r.jaramillomusic@gmail.com.