PARTITIONS GRATUITES : ALTO, BASSE, ORGUE

Organ - Advanced

SKU: MN.12-128

Composed by Harold Stover. Non Hymn-Based, Recital Music. General. Instrumental part. MorningStar Music Publishers #12-128. Published by MorningStar Music Publishers (MN.12-128).

UPC: 688670121289.

The three movements that make up Nocturnes, Book I are programmatic pieces that take as their points of departure a painting, the rhythms of a great city, and a poem. 1. The Starry Night is a written down improvisation based on Vincent van Goghs famous picture of the same name. The tonal material is a quite literal transformation of the visual elements of the painting: the melismatic cadenzas mirror van Goghs swirling starlight, and the powerful chords were suggested by the sinister trees that shoot upward to puncture the skys patterns. 2. Stovers Rag is a product of the ragtime revival of the early 1970s, when many composers tried their hand at writing concert rags. The New York night, which was not without its sinister element in those days, is expressed in an updating of the classic ragtime format. The piece looks backward as well, with the old French Baroque basse de trompette making an appearance in the trio section. 3. The Song of Shadows taps the nostalgic mood typical of the poetry of Walter de la Mare. The poem of the same name pictures a lone musician on a winter night, an dog sleeping before a sinking fire, and, at the end, the spirits that are summoned by music. The opening melody, played on an 8 flute with tremulant, suggests the blues-tinged sound of an alto saxophone, and throughout the movement the organs capacity for sustained tone is used to suggest and atmosphere of dreamy timelessness. The pieces were written in 1971 and first performed on July 2, 1972 at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC, with the composer at the console.

SATB choir, SATB, SATB, organ

SKU: CA.739300

Composed by Kay Johannsen. Sacred vocal music. Full score. Composed 2015. 12 pages. Carus Verlag #CV 07.393/00. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.739300).

ISBN 9790007172268. Text language: Latin.

Veni was composed by Kay Johannsen in November 2015. Similar to his 2010 work Et vidimus gloriam eius for four choral groups (SSA, TTB, SATB, SATB) and organ based on the beginning of St John's Gospel, Veni requires a spatial separation of three four-part choirs. The starting point of the composition is the 12th century hymn Veni redemptor gentium by St Ambrose of Milan, which Martin Luther used as the basis of his 1524 hymn Nun komm, der Heiland. The four sections of the cantus firmus are sung in turn by all the basses, altos, sopranos, and tenors, each part at a louder dynamic than the other parts. For the accompanying voices Johannsen uses different principles of canonic technique and motivic variation, with most of the material derived from the cantus firmus. The organ part of this 12-part chorale arrangement provides a harmonic orientation, but is completely independent and introduces both moments of rhythmic accentuation and elements of veiling. The choral writing is also deepened and elevated by the organ sounds derived from the text. Despite all the motivic links between the parts, the music has a direct sensual effect as a sound collage. The work ends with three increasingly distant, homophonic invocations of Veni: the plea Komm occurs at the beginning as at the end.

17 solo voices (5 sopranos, 4 altos, 4 tenors, 4 basses), speakers, organ

SKU: CA.2908300

Composed by Helmut Bornefeld. Sacred vocal music. Das Buch Versammler Fur 17 Vokalstimm. Sacred vocal music. Full score. Composed 1971. BoWV 83. 138 pages. Duration 70 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 29.083/00. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.2908300).

ISBN 9790007161743. Language: German.

17 solo voices (5 sopranos, 4 altos, 4 tenors, 4 basses), speakers, organ

SKU: CA.2908308

Composed by Helmut Bornefeld. German title: Das Buch Versammler Fur 17 Vokalstimm. Sacred vocal music. Lyrics. Composed 1971. BoWV 83. 28 pages. Duration 70 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 29.083/08. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.2908308).

ISBN 9790007203320. Language: German.

Score available separately - see item CA.2908300.

Orchestra 17 solo voices (5 sopranos, 4 altos, 4 tenors, 4 basses), speakers, organ

SKU: CA.2908307

Composed by Helmut Bornefeld. German title: Das Buch Versammler Fur 17 Vokalstimm. Sacred vocal music. Study score. Composed 1971. BoWV 83. 138 pages. Duration 70 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 29.083/07. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.2908307).

ISBN 9790007139421. Language: German.

Score available separately - see item CA.2908300.