| Christmas Duet Fun Book for Violin and Viola Violon, Alto (duo) - Intermédiaire Childrens Music Workshop
Violin/Viola - Intermediate SKU: CZ.9798870828015 Composed by Various. Ed...(+)
Violin/Viola -
Intermediate SKU:
CZ.9798870828015
Composed by Various.
Edited by Larry Newman.
Arranged by Larry Newman.
Book. Children's Music
Workshop #9798870828015.
Published by Children's
Music Workshop
(CZ.9798870828015).
The Christmas
Duet Fun Book
Series is the ultimate
holiday music resource
for young music students
who want to enjoy the
magic of Christmas
through the joy of
playing music! In this
series, we've compiled a
collection of duet books
for flute, clarinet,
saxophone, trumpet,
french horn, trombone,
violin, viola, and cello
that are perfect for
beginners and
intermediate players. The
music is easy to play,
yet still engaging and
fun, making it the
perfect tool for music
educators looking to
introduce their students
to the world of duet
playing. The duet books
can be mixed and matched,
allowing for
heterogeneous groupings
of instruments, and the
songs included in the
series cover both
traditional hymns and
popular secular music.
With a variety of classic
and contemporary holiday
tunes, players can have
fun while developing
their technique,
intonation, and rhythm.
The series is designed to
inspire and motivate
young musicians during
the holiday season, as
they work together to
create beautiful music
and memories that will
last a lifetime. With the
Christmas Duet Fun Books,
young musicians can
experience the joy of
playing music with others
and the magic of the
holiday season. Whether
it's for a school
performance, family
gathering, or just for
fun, this series is the
perfect choice for anyone
who wants to celebrate
the holiday season with
music. Easy to play
Christmas and Hanukkah
duets for a festive
holiday season include O'
Come Little Children,
Bring a Torch, Jeanette
Isabella, Jolly Old St.
Nick, O Come, O Come
Emmanuel, Ding Dong
Merrily on High, Silent
Night, Jingle Bells, O
Come All Ye Faithful,
Angels We Have Heard on
High, We Three Kings, Joy
to the World, Hark, the
Herald Angels Sing, Up On
the Housetop, Toyland, O
Holy Night, Away in a
Manger, Go Tell It on the
Mountain, The First Noel,
I Have a Little Dreidel,
Dreidel Turn, and The
Hanukkah Song. $12.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| String Quartet No. 3 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur] Theodore Presser Co.
String quartet String Quartet SKU: PR.16400272S Cassatt. Composed ...(+)
String quartet String
Quartet SKU:
PR.16400272S
Cassatt. Composed
by Dan Welcher. Premiere:
Cassatt Quartet,
Northeastern Illinois
University, Chicago, IL.
Contemporary. Full score.
With Standard notation.
Composed 2007. WRT11142.
52 pages. Duration 24
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #164-00272S.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.16400272S). UPC:
680160588442. 8.5 x 11
inches. My third
quartet is laid out in a
three-movement structure,
with each movement based
on an early, middle, and
late work of the great
American impressionist
painter Mary Cassatt.
Although the movements
are separate, with
full-stop endings, the
music is connected by a
common scale-form,
derived from the name
MARY CASSATT, and by a
recurring theme that
introduces all three
movements. I see this
theme as Mary's Theme, a
personality that stays
intact while undergoing
gradual change. I
The Bacchante (1876)
[Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania] The
painting shows a young
girl of Italian or
Spanish origin, playing a
small pair of cymbals.
Since Cassatt was trying
very hard to fit in at
the French Academy at the
time, she painted a lot
of these subjects, which
were considered typical
and universal. The style
of the painting doesn't
yet show Cassatt's
originality, except
perhaps for certain
details in the face.
Accordingly the music for
this movement is
Spanish/Italian, in a
similar period-style but
using the musical
signature described
above. The music begins
with Mary's Theme,
ruminative and slow, then
abruptly changes to an
alla Spagnola-type fast
3/4 - 6/8 meter. It
evokes the
Spanish-influenced music
of Ravel and Falla.
Midway through,
there's an accompanied
recitative for the viola,
which figures large in
this particular movement,
then back to a truncated
recapitulation of the
fast music. The overall
feeling is of a
well-made, rather
conventional movement in
a contemporary
Spanish/Italian style.
Cassatt's painting, too,
is rather conventional.
II At the Opera
(1880) [Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston,
Massachusetts]
This painting is one of
Cassatt's most well known
works, and it hangs in
the Museum of Fine Arts
in Boston. The painting
shows a woman alone in a
box at the opera house,
completely dressed
(including gloves) and
looking through opera
glasses at someone or
something that is NOT on
the stage. Across the
auditorium from her, but
exactly at eye level, is
a gentleman with opera
glasses intently watching
her - though it is not
him that she's looking
at. It's an intriguing
picture. This
movement is far less
conventional than the
first movement, as the
painting is far less
conventional. The music
begins with a rapid,
Shostakovich-type
mini-overture lasting
less than a minute, based
on Mary's Theme. My
conjecture is that the
woman in the painting has
arrived late to the
opera, busily stumbling
into her box. What
happens next is a kind of
collage, a kind of
surrealistic overlaying
of two different
elements: the foreground
music, at first is a
direct quotation of
Soldier's Chorus from
Gounod's FAUST (an opera
Cassatt would certainly
have heard in the
brand-new Paris Opera
House at that time),
played by Violin II,
Viola, and Cello. This
music is played sul
ponticello in the melody
and col legno in the
marching accompaniment.
On top of this, the first
violin hovers at first on
a high harmonic, then
descends into a slow
melody, completely
separate from the Gounod.
It's as if the woman in
the painting is hearing
the opera onstage but is
not really interested in
it. Then the cello joins
the first violin in a
kind of love-duet (just
the two of them, at
first). This music isn't
at all Gounod-derived;
it's entirely from the
same scale patterns as
the first movement and
derives from Mary's Theme
and its scale. The music
stays in a kind of
dichotomy feeling,
usually
three-against-one, until
the end of the movement,
when another Gounod
melody, Valentin's aria
Avant de quitter ce lieux
reappears in a kind of
coda for all four
players. It ends
atmospherically and
emotionally disconnected,
however. The overall
feeling is a kind of
schizophrenic,
opera-inspired dream.
III Young Woman in
Green, Outdoors in the
Sun (1909) [Worcester Art
Museum, Massachusetts]
The painting, one
of Cassatt's last, is
very simple: just a
figure, looking sideways
out of the picture. The
colors are pastel and yet
bold - and the woman is
likewise very
self-assured and not in
the least demure. It is
eight minutes long, and
is all about melody -
three melodies, to be
exact (Young Woman,
Green, and Sunlight). No
angst, no choppy rhythms,
just ever-unfolding
melody and lush
harmonies. I quote one
other French composer
here, too: Debussy's song
Green, from Ariettes
Oubliees. 1909 would have
been Debussy's heyday in
Paris, and it makes
perfect sense musically
as well as visually to do
this. Mary Cassatt
lived her last several
years in near-total
blindness, and as she
lost visual acuity, her
work became less sharply
defined - something akin
to late water lilies of
Monet, who suffered
similar vision loss. My
idea of making this
movement entirely melodic
was compounded by having
each of the three
melodies appear twice,
once in a pure form, and
the second time in a more
diffuse setting. This
makes an interesting two
ways form:
A-B-C-A1-B1-C1.
String Quartet No.3
(Cassatt) is dedicated,
with great affection and
respect, to the Cassatt
String Quartet, whose
members have dedicated
themselves in large
measure to the furthering
of the contemporary
repertoire for
quartet. $38.99 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| String Quartet No. 3 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.164002720 Cassatt. Composed b...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet SKU:
PR.164002720
Cassatt. Composed
by Dan Welcher. Spiral
and Saddle. Premiere:
Cassatt Quartet,
Northeastern Illinois
University, Chicago, IL.
Contemporary. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed 2007. WRT11142.
52+16+16+16+16 pages.
Duration 24 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#164-00272. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.164002720). UPC:
680160573042. 8.5 x 11
inches. My third
quartet is laid out in a
three-movement structure,
with each movement based
on an early, middle, and
late work of the great
American impressionist
painter Mary Cassatt.
Although the movements
are separate, with
full-stop endings, the
music is connected by a
common scale-form,
derived from the name
MARY CASSATT, and by a
recurring theme that
introduces all three
movements. I see this
theme as Mary's Theme, a
personality that stays
intact while undergoing
gradual change. I
The Bacchante (1876)
[Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania] The
painting shows a young
girl of Italian or
Spanish origin, playing a
small pair of cymbals.
Since Cassatt was trying
very hard to fit in at
the French Academy at the
time, she painted a lot
of these subjects, which
were considered typical
and universal. The style
of the painting doesn't
yet show Cassatt's
originality, except
perhaps for certain
details in the face.
Accordingly the music for
this movement is
Spanish/Italian, in a
similar period-style but
using the musical
signature described
above. The music begins
with Mary's Theme,
ruminative and slow, then
abruptly changes to an
alla Spagnola-type fast
3/4 - 6/8 meter. It
evokes the
Spanish-influenced music
of Ravel and Falla.
Midway through,
there's an accompanied
recitative for the viola,
which figures large in
this particular movement,
then back to a truncated
recapitulation of the
fast music. The overall
feeling is of a
well-made, rather
conventional movement in
a contemporary
Spanish/Italian style.
Cassatt's painting, too,
is rather conventional.
II At the Opera
(1880) [Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston,
Massachusetts]
This painting is one of
Cassatt's most well known
works, and it hangs in
the Museum of Fine Arts
in Boston. The painting
shows a woman alone in a
box at the opera house,
completely dressed
(including gloves) and
looking through opera
glasses at someone or
something that is NOT on
the stage. Across the
auditorium from her, but
exactly at eye level, is
a gentleman with opera
glasses intently watching
her - though it is not
him that she's looking
at. It's an intriguing
picture. This
movement is far less
conventional than the
first movement, as the
painting is far less
conventional. The music
begins with a rapid,
Shostakovich-type
mini-overture lasting
less than a minute, based
on Mary's Theme. My
conjecture is that the
woman in the painting has
arrived late to the
opera, busily stumbling
into her box. What
happens next is a kind of
collage, a kind of
surrealistic overlaying
of two different
elements: the foreground
music, at first is a
direct quotation of
Soldier's Chorus from
Gounod's FAUST (an opera
Cassatt would certainly
have heard in the
brand-new Paris Opera
House at that time),
played by Violin II,
Viola, and Cello. This
music is played sul
ponticello in the melody
and col legno in the
marching accompaniment.
On top of this, the first
violin hovers at first on
a high harmonic, then
descends into a slow
melody, completely
separate from the Gounod.
It's as if the woman in
the painting is hearing
the opera onstage but is
not really interested in
it. Then the cello joins
the first violin in a
kind of love-duet (just
the two of them, at
first). This music isn't
at all Gounod-derived;
it's entirely from the
same scale patterns as
the first movement and
derives from Mary's Theme
and its scale. The music
stays in a kind of
dichotomy feeling,
usually
three-against-one, until
the end of the movement,
when another Gounod
melody, Valentin's aria
Avant de quitter ce lieux
reappears in a kind of
coda for all four
players. It ends
atmospherically and
emotionally disconnected,
however. The overall
feeling is a kind of
schizophrenic,
opera-inspired dream.
III Young Woman in
Green, Outdoors in the
Sun (1909) [Worcester Art
Museum, Massachusetts]
The painting, one
of Cassatt's last, is
very simple: just a
figure, looking sideways
out of the picture. The
colors are pastel and yet
bold - and the woman is
likewise very
self-assured and not in
the least demure. It is
eight minutes long, and
is all about melody -
three melodies, to be
exact (Young Woman,
Green, and Sunlight). No
angst, no choppy rhythms,
just ever-unfolding
melody and lush
harmonies. I quote one
other French composer
here, too: Debussy's song
Green, from Ariettes
Oubliees. 1909 would have
been Debussy's heyday in
Paris, and it makes
perfect sense musically
as well as visually to do
this. Mary Cassatt
lived her last several
years in near-total
blindness, and as she
lost visual acuity, her
work became less sharply
defined - something akin
to late water lilies of
Monet, who suffered
similar vision loss. My
idea of making this
movement entirely melodic
was compounded by having
each of the three
melodies appear twice,
once in a pure form, and
the second time in a more
diffuse setting. This
makes an interesting two
ways form:
A-B-C-A1-B1-C1.
String Quartet No.3
(Cassatt) is dedicated,
with great affection and
respect, to the Cassatt
String Quartet, whose
members have dedicated
themselves in large
measure to the furthering
of the contemporary
repertoire for
quartet. $53.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Song Without Words Op. 30/3 Alto, Piano - Facile Schott
Piano; Viola - easy to intermediate SKU: HL.49019370 Viola and Piano(+)
Piano; Viola - easy to
intermediate SKU:
HL.49019370 Viola
and Piano. Composed
by Felix Bartholdy
Mendelssohn. Arranged by
Wolfgang Birtel. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
String. Classical.
Softcover. Op. 30/3. 6
pages. Schott Music
#ED21476. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49019370). ISBN
9790001189804. UPC:
884088992378.
9.0x12.0x0.052
inches. 'Songs
Without Words' - that's
what Felix Mendelssohn
Bartholdy (1809-1847)
called his lyrical piano
pieces, romantic
miniatures in which the
composer wanted to 'sing'
on the keyboard
instrument. With them, he
invented an entirely new
form of chamber music
playing in the 19th
century. These 'Songs'
are also perfectly
suitable for duet
playing: for a melodic
instrument with piano
accompaniment. The 'Song
Without Words' Op 30/3 is
a rewarding lyrical solo
piece. $10.99 - Voir plus => Acheter | | |
| Do It! Play Viola - Book 2 with MP3s Alto seul GIA Publications
Viola SKU: GI.G-M532 Book 2 and CD. Composed by Bret Smith and Jam...(+)
Viola SKU:
GI.G-M532 Book 2
and CD. Composed by
Bret Smith and James
Froseth. Method Book. Do
It! Music Education.
Book. 48 pages. GIA
Publications #M532.
Published by GIA
Publications (GI.G-M532).
ISBN
9781579992392. At
long last, the
innovations and
musicality that make the
Do It! Play In
Band series so
successful are available
to string players. This
wonderful series
features audio
recordings (see below)
with artist-level
performances that set
musical standards and
models that are perfect
for young players.
Modeling by David Salness
(University of Maryland).
The student book contains
all the music a beginning
player needs: songs,
duets, trios, and rounds,
plus a piece for string
orchestra and a solo with
piano accompaniment. The
Teacher's Resource Guide
(M535)Â is packed with
hundreds of enrichment
activities and
supplementary material to
make your classroom
function at peak levels.
Plus, the included audio
recordings in the
Teacher's Resource Guide
will enhance every aspect
of your teaching. Bret P.
Smith is Assistant
Professor of Music
Education at Central
Washington University, in
Ellensburg, Washington.
Download the audio
recordings at:
giamusic.com/doitstrings.
$7.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| A New Tune A Day: Viola - Book 1 Music Sales
(Viola) SKU: HL.14062611 Composed by Sarah Pope. String. General Merchand...(+)
(Viola) SKU:
HL.14062611 Composed
by Sarah Pope. String.
General Merchandise.
Duration 240 seconds.
Music Sales #BM12034.
Published by Music Sales
(HL.14062611).
About A New
Tune A
Day Since
it first appeared in the
1930s, the concise, clear
content of the
best-selling A Tune A Day
series has revolutionized
music-making in the
classroom and the home.
Now, for the first time,
C. Paul Herfurth's
original books have been
completely rewritten with
new music and the latest
in instrumental technique
for a new generation of
musicians. The A New Tune
A Day books have the same
logical, gentle pace and
keen attention to detail,
but with a host of
innovations: the
inclusion of an audio
CD-with actual
performances and backing
tracks-will make practice
even more fun and
exciting, and the
explanatory diagrams and
photographs will help the
student to achieve the
perfect technique and
tone. This book contains:
easy-to-follow lessons on
clear, uncluttered pages;
tips for technique;
improvising hints; audio
CD with a virtuoso
performance, backing
tracks, and audio
examples; great music,
including duets and
ensemble pieces; useful
pull-out fingering chart
$18.50 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| ABCs of Viola for the Absolute Beginner-Bk. 1 Alto seul - Débutant Carl Fischer
By Janice Tucker Rhoda. Instructional book for viola. Series: The ABC's of Viola...(+)
By Janice Tucker Rhoda.
Instructional book for
viola. Series: The ABC's
of Viola. Published by
Carl Fischer.
(1)$9.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
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