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Two Little Fugues
2 Guitars (duet)
Guitar,Instrumental Duet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1302822 By Domenico Z…
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Guitar,Instrumental Duet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1302822 By Domenico Zipoli. By Domenico Zipoli. Arranged by Derek Hasted. Baroque. 9 pages. Derek Hasted #892427. Published by Derek Hasted (A0.1302822). TWO LITTLE ZIPOLI FUGUES - accessible GUITAR DUETSFor Classical or Acoustic Guitar - sometimes it's erroneously listed here as Electric GuitarDerek Hasted writes Many guitarists will know Zipoli’s “Little Fugue”, though maybe not his Fughetta in Em.In this edition I have changed the key of both fugues to land on the “sweet spot” of the guitar’s neck, and to allow players to segue neatly from the Fughetta (in Am with a Tierce de Picardie ending in A major) to the Little Fugue (in A major).The music is laid out so that players can stay with the same part on both pieces, or swap seamlessly to the other part with no loss of continuity and no page turns.Guitar 1 is intermediate, Guitar 2 is easier - ideal for a student/teacher duo or (by swapping parts between pieces) a lovely performance item for a well-matched duo.There is a little left hand fingering, but no dynamics - please feel free to add your own dynamics and articulation to make the performance “yours”.I hope you enjoy playing these charming little miniatures!This is one of a large and growing range of accessible ensembles from experienced arranger Derek Hasted, and is supplied as full score and parts. Derek's website at www.derek-hasted.co.uk/smp lists all his arrangements by title and by number of instruments, with links to soundclips and sample score.
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Two Little Fugues
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Bach Mashup (Double Fugue Little G minor and Contrapunctus 1)
Piano solo
Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1370450 Composed by David W. Barber…
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Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1370450 Composed by David W. Barber. Baroque,Classical. Score. 2 pages. David W. Barber #954828. Published by David W. Barber (A0.1370450). This one was tricky, a mashup of two Bach fugues, in honor of Bach's birthday. The subject is from the Little G minor BWV 578, answered by a different fugue, the Contrapunctus 1 from The Art of Fugue BWV 1080. The entries follow the fugal clock. At one point in the development the first half of the G-minor subject plays with the second half. There's some augmentation and inversion. (But no retrograde inversion because – you know, math is hard.) This piece and more of my music is available for download and purchase from SheetMusicPlus and SheetMusicDirect via ArrangeMe. Find my music books and my new mystery novel, Hedshot, at IndentPublishing.com Read my author/composer blog at DavidWBarber.com Contact me at dbarber@indentpublishing.com.
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Bach Mashup
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Bach - Fugue in G minor BWV 578 for Piano
Piano solo
Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.517648 Composed by Bach Johann Seba…
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Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.517648 Composed by Bach Johann Sebastian. Arranged by Santino Cara. Baroque. Score. 4 pages. Santino Cara #6342827. Published by Santino Cara (A0.517648). Fugue in G minor BWV 578 for Piano. Composed in 1709 by Johann Sebastian Bach. Transcribed in 2019 by Santino Cara.Other Bach's piano works:Bach - 16 Little Fugues for Piano - Complete scoresBach - 14 Preludes and Fugues Book 1 for Harpsichord or PianoBach - 14 Preludes and Fugues - Book 2 - for PianoBach - 8 Little Preludes (Kleine Präludien) BWV 553-560 for PianoBach - 6 Little Preludes (Kleine Präludien) BWV 933-938 for PianoBach - 5 Little Preludes (Kleine Präludien) BWV 939-943 for PianoBach - 9 Chorales Neumeister BWV 1090 - 1098 for Harpsichord or PianoBach - 6 Preludes (Fantasia) BWV 917-922 for PianoBach's Toccatas BWV 910-916 for Harpsichord or Piano - Complete scoresBach - Five Toccatas and Fugues for Piano - Complete scoresBach - English and French Suites BWV 806-817 for Harpsichord (or Piano)Six Bach's Piano PartitasSeven Bach's Piano Sonatas - Complete scoresBach - Inventions and Symphonies to 'Two and Three Parts' for Piano - Full scores
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Bach - Fugue in G minor BWV 578 for Piano
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Santino Cara
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Twelve Pieces for two Cellos, containing National Airs & Fugues, Op. 156
2 Cellos (duet)
Cellos - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1109067 Composed by Johann Justus Fried…
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Cellos - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1109067 Composed by Johann Justus Friedrich Dotzauer. Arranged by Michele Galvagno. 19th Century,Chamber,Children,Instructional,Romantic Period. Educational Exercises. 64 pages. Artistic Score Engraving di Galvagno Michele #711611. Published by Artistic Score Engraving di Galvagno Michele (A0.1109067). The Twelve Pieces for Two Cellos, containing National Songs & Fugues, Op. 156 by J. J. F. Dotzauer (1783—1860) are possibly the most enjoyable duet collection of the five. Six pieces are fugues, and six are national airs, masterfully arranged for two cellos. Among them we even find the French national anthem, labelled “La Marseillaise ou la Caramagnole”, whose story I had a lot of fun unearthing. All duets are written in bass clef, even if one of them goes up to the sixth position. They are perfect for student concerts or just for learning a few beautiful popular songs, all while travelling the world. From Ireland to Boemia, from France to Scotland, it will be an unforgettable journey! This edition is offered in two versions, Original & Collector’s Edition. The Original version is available in either of the following variants: score only, parts only, and score & parts. It is based on the first edition published by Dotzauer at Breitkopf & Härtel in 1839. The Collector’s Edition adds the new edition of these pieces appeared in the 1890s under the revision of Carl Hüllweck (1852—1910), as well as the first duet as it appears in the 57 Little Duets compiled by Johannes Klingenberg (1852—1905). Catalogue: https://adobe.ly/3A574Eg Mailing list (newsletter, discounts, gifts): https://bit.ly/3ujFa4j.
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Twelve Pieces for two Cellos, containing National Airs & Fugues, Op. 156
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Bach: Eight Little Preludes & Fugues, BWV 553-560, for Saxophone Choir - Score Only
Woodwind Ensemble - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1402994 Composed by Johann S…
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Woodwind Ensemble - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1402994 Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Arranged by James M. Guthrie. Baroque,Chamber,Contest,Festival,Historic,Standards. 64 pages. Jmsgu3 #986193. Published by jmsgu3 (A0.1402994). J. S. Bach's Eight Little Preludes & Fugues, BWV 553-560, are organ pieces composed between 1720 and 1723. They are written in the Baroque style and show Bach's mastery of the form. The pieces consist of a prelude followed by a fugue and are short and compact. The preludes are mainly in a two-part contrapuntal style, with occasional triplets and dotted rhythms adding variety and interest. The fugues are more complex and show Bach's ability to write complex counterpoint and intricate contrapuntal textures. These pieces are great for teaching and performing and provide an excellent introduction to Bach's music.
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Bach: Eight Little Preludes & Fugues, BWV 553-560, for Saxophone Choir - Score Only
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Bach: Eight Little Preludes & Fugues, BWV 553-560, for Saxophone Choir
Saxophone Ensemble,Woodwind Ensemble Alto Saxophone,Baritone Saxophone,Bass Saxophone,Sopr…
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Saxophone Ensemble,Woodwind Ensemble Alto Saxophone,Baritone Saxophone,Bass Saxophone,Soprano Saxophone - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1403268 Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Arranged by James M. Guthrie. Baroque,Chamber,Contest,Festival,Historic,Standards. 116 pages. Jmsgu3 #986459. Published by jmsgu3 (A0.1403268). J. S. Bach's Eight Little Preludes & Fugues, BWV 553-560, are organ pieces composed between 1720 and 1723. They are written in the Baroque style and show Bach's mastery of the form. The pieces consist of a prelude followed by a fugue and are short and compact. The preludes are mainly in a two-part contrapuntal style, with occasional triplets and dotted rhythms adding variety and interest. The fugues are more complex and show Bach's ability to write complex counterpoint and intricate contrapuntal textures. These pieces are great for teaching and performing and provide an excellent introduction to Bach's music.
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Bach: Eight Little Preludes & Fugues, BWV 553-560, for Saxophone Choir
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Bach: Eight Little Preludes & Fugues BWV 553-560 for String Quartet
String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1…
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String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1126644 Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Arranged by James M. Guthrie. Baroque,Chamber,Classical,Contest,Festival,Wedding. 145 pages. Jmsgu3 #727289. Published by jmsgu3 (A0.1126644). Score: 42 pages. Duration: ca. 22:45J.S. Bach's Eight Little Preludes & Fugues, BWV 553-560, are a set of organ pieces composed between 1720 and 1723. They are composed in the Baroque style and show Bach's mastery of the form. The pieces consist of a prelude followed by a fugue, and are short and compact in form. The preludes are mostly in a two-part contrapuntal style, with occasional triplets and dotted rhythms adding variety and interest. The fugues are more complex and show Bach's ability to write complex counterpoint and intricate contrapuntal textures. These pieces are great for both teaching and performing, and provide a wonderful introduction to Bach's music.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
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Bach: Eight Little Preludes & Fugues BWV 553-560 for String Quartet
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Twenty-four Exercises for Two Cellos, Op. 159
2 Cellos (duet)
Cellos - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1042144 Composed by Johann Justus Fried…
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Cellos - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1042144 Composed by Johann Justus Friedrich Dotzauer. Arranged by Carl Hüllweck. Children,Classical,Instructional,Romantic Period. Educational Exercises. 112 pages. Artistic Score Engraving di Galvagno Michele #646942. Published by Artistic Score Engraving di Galvagno Michele (A0.1042144). The Twenty-four Exercises for Two Cellos, Op. 159, by Johann Justus Friedrich Dotzauer, continue and conclude the series dedicated to the neck positions. These, alongside the just published Twelve Original Pieces, Op. 58, cover the first four positions in all possible variations, using an incredible richness of forms, melody, harmony, and rhythm. After these thirty-six little gems, your students will be able to face much greater challenges with renewed strength and assertiveness. While Op. 58 focused mostly on Theme with Variations, Op. 159’s most used form is the rounded binary one, while no less than three full-fledged fugues enrich the practicing landscape. Due to the lack of the original manuscript, lost during Steiner & Bell’s acquisition of Augener & Co., this edition is based on two surviving editions, by Carl Hüllweck and Johannes Klingenberg, both published in the first decade of the XX century, about 40 years after Dotzauer’s passing. To provide you with the greatest flexibility and choice possibilities, this edition comes in several versions (only C available here, others available on Gumroad): - A: a score only one, based on Hüllweck; - B: two separate sets of parts, one per editor; - C: a score & parts bundle, based once more on Hüllweck; - D: finally, a Collector’s Edition, containing all this, plus a long chapter comparing all differences between Hüllweck’s and Klingenberg’s versions, and an interactive PDF where, at the press of a button, you will be able to switch to the other version of the current part! All PDFs have been optimised to be of the highest Press Quality and lightweight. I truly hope you are going to enjoy this beautiful music and that your cello playing will reach new heights thanks to it!
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Twenty-four Exercises for Two Cellos, Op. 159
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Twelve Original Pieces for two cellos, Op. 63
2 Cellos (duet)
Cellos - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1125668 Composed by Johann Justus Fried…
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Cellos - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1125668 Composed by Johann Justus Friedrich Dotzauer. Arranged by Michele Galvagno. 19th Century,Children,Instructional,Opera,Romantic Period. Educational Exercises. 66 pages. Artistic Score Engraving di Galvagno Michele #726403. Published by Artistic Score Engraving di Galvagno Michele (A0.1125668). The Twelve Original Pieces for Two Cellos, dedicated to beginners, Op. 63, by J. J. F. Dotzauer (1783—1860) is a most colourful collection, containing a spicy mix of arias from famous operas, original themes, and fugues. The arias are mostly from W. A. Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito, and G. Rossini’s Tancredi, with a theme and variation from The Magic Flute crowning them all. Even without employing the thumb, these pieces are challenging, and should not be underestimated. They explore all seven positions, making this the most well-rounded collection of the five (Opp. 52, 58, 156, 159), and a must-have for all cello students. This edition comes in two versions, Original & Collectors’ Edition. The Original version is available in either of the following variants: score only, parts only, and score & parts. It is based on the first edition published by Dotzauer at Breitkopf & Härtel in 1823. The Collector’s Edition adds the new edition of these pieces appeared in the 57 Little Duets compiled by Johannes Klingenberg (1852—1905), and in the early XX century edition by Alwin Schöder (1855—1928). Catalogue: https://adobe.ly/3A574Eg Mailing list (newsletter, discounts, gifts): https://bit.ly/3ujFa4j.
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Twelve Original Pieces for two cellos, Op. 63
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Little Organ Fugue in G minor
Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon
Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quartet Bassoon,Clarinet,Flute,Oboe - Level 4 - Digital Downloa…
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Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quartet Bassoon,Clarinet,Flute,Oboe - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1161768 Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Arranged by Stephen Tanner. Baroque,Chamber. 21 pages. Stephentannermusic #761912. Published by stephentannermusic (A0.1161768). J.S.Bach's Little Organ Fugue in G minor was written during his years at Arnstadt (1703-1707) and is one of his most popular fugues. The four voices are here arranged for Wind Quintet - flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon and is transposed into C minor.This arrangement is also available for Clarinet Quartet - 2 B flat clarinets and two B flat bass clarinets and for String Quartet - violin 1, violin 2, viola and cello.An MP£ demonstration track is available.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
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Little Organ Fugue in G minor
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First Love - 1st Movement
Piano Trio: piano, violin, cello
Piano Trio,String Ensemble Cello,Piano,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1047…
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Piano Trio,String Ensemble Cello,Piano,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1047344 By Blaze Scheuerman. By Blaze Scheuerman. 20th Century,Classical,Contemporary,Romantic Period. Score and parts. 29 pages. Blaze Scheuerman #651902. Published by Blaze Scheuerman (A0.1047344). First love is inspired by my experience with the first partner I ever loved. It is also slightly inspired by Johann Sebastian Bach’s fugues from the Well Tempered Clavier and Muse’s song “Butterflies and Hurricanes” from the album “Absolution”. It is meant to show the ups and downs of the relationship, especially how the more developed it got the more problems arose. It starts with a cloud-like scene meant to depict mild attraction. It then develops into infatuation in measure 21 as the main character gets to enjoy his experiences with his partner. It lasts for a little while as he finds newer and newer aspects of his partner that he enjoys. He then returns to a moment of stability with the restatement of the opening theme, and then tries again to get back into those moments of bliss. But this time something goes wrong. The character doesn’t quite realize it until it is too late, but a rift appears in the relationship. This is shown in the D Minor section, as the main character is sad and longing for things to go back to how they were, but is just stuck. After a while of trying different things, a settlement is reached and the two get closer again in the relationship, seen in measure 174. Except this time things are different, they are close to the bond shown earlier, except not quite there. This can be seen with the rearrangement of voices in regards to the melody, such as the cello having the melody except the violin in measure 190. Although the two try their best, the relationship once again reaches a rift between the two, seen with the reemergence of the D Minor section. They try once again to patch things up, but end up becoming unsuccessful and breaking apart. The final sections starting at measure 246 depict the sadness and anger that follow, before eventually reaching a resolution back into the home key of F Major.
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First Love - 1st Movement
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Blaze Scheuerman
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A Billings Triptych - for 8-Part Brass Choir
Brass quartet : 2 trumpets, trombone, tuba
Brass Ensemble Horn,Trombone,Trumpet,Tuba - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1030615
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Brass Ensemble Horn,Trombone,Trumpet,Tuba - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1030615 Composed by William Billings. Arranged by Mike Allsen. Classical,Praise & Worship,Renaissance,Sacred,Spiritual. Score and parts. 41 pages. Aaron Hettinga #636010. Published by Aaron Hettinga (A0.1030615). William Billings (1746-1800) was North America’s first great choral composer. He spent most of his life in Boston, working at various times as a tanner or as minor civic official, and occasionally as a church musician. Billings seems to have had little formal music training, but when he was just 22, he also set himself up as an itinerant singing-master, teaching “singing-schools,” where children and adults could learn the rudiments of musical notation and solfege. To feed the market he and other singing-masters had helped to create, Billings published six collections of music, mostly for SATB voices, The first of these, The New England Psalm-Singer (1770) featured a frontispiece engraved by his friend Paul Revere. Billings was fairly prosperous by 1780s, but his good fortune faded in the 1790s. His final collection of music, The Continental Harmony of 1794, was published for his benefit by a group of Boston friends. Billings died destitute in 1800. Billings composed some 340 pieces, mostly collected in his printed editions. This music has a rough-edged and sturdy beauty that is distinctly different from anything in contemporary Europe. The vast majority of Billings’s works were hymns or “psalm tunes.” He was particularly attracted to the great English hymn-writer Isaac Watts (1674-1748), though Billings himself wrote verses for many of his hymns. One of the most famous Billings “psalm tunes,” Chester is not a Christian hymn, but rather a patriotic song of defiance directed against the British. Billings spent nearly all of the Revolutionary War in Boston and made no secret of his patriot sentiments. Chester was first published in 1770, but when he republished it in his The Singing-Master’s Assistant during the height of the war in 1778, Billings added a verse calling out the “infernal league” of the leading British generals Howe, Burgoyne, Clinton, Prescot and Cornwallis. Many brass-players will know Chester from the finale of William Schuman’s 1957 band piece A New England Triptych. Billings also composed over 50 “fuging-tunes”—a genre that usually included a short introduction and a repeated contrapuntal section. (These fuging sections usually begin with imitation, but they are otherwise not at all like classical fugues written in Europe at the time.) The fuging-tune Creation is one of his later works, published in The Continental Harmony of 1794, and experiments with the form. It sets two verses of the Watts hymn “When I With Pleasing Wonder Stand” though final line of verse 1 is repeated in a striking phrase that suddenly moves twice as fast (m.15). The fuging section begins in m.30, and rather than the usual exact repeat, Billing writes an entirely new and more elaborate second section beginning at m.44. Billings first published the simple but beautiful Africa in 1770, and published a revised version in 1778; the later version appearing with the Isaac Watts hymn “Now Shall My Inward Joys Arise.” I first arranged Africa in 1995, for the Glenwood Moravian Trombone Choir (Madison, WI), and I edited it for this publication. Phrasing and articulations marked here reflect the original vocal texts. Africa has long been a favorite of the Glenwood group. Chester and Creation were arranged in 2022. Mike Allsen February 2022.
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