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For Easy Piano. By Katherine Beard. Solo piano. For Piano Solo. Classical. Solo part. 23 pages. Published by Theodore Presser Company.

Piano SKU: HU.HN490 Composed by Franz Liszt. Edited by Rena C. Mueller. Piano Solo, Piano and Keyboard, Repertoire, Solos. Ballads. Classical, Romantic. Softcover Book. 52 pages. G. Henle #HN490. Published by G. Henle (HU.HN490).

Bayan

SKU: HL.50600472

For Bayan Solo. Composed by Sofia Gubaidulina. Woodwind Solo. Classical. Softcover. 16 pages. Sikorski #SIK8742. Published by Sikorski (HL.50600472).

8.25x12.0x0.076 inches.

In the field of New Music, Sofia Gubaidulina's “De profundis” has already achieved the status of a classic. It is not only an attainment of the New Music that instruments are capable of approaching the human voice in their sound, or that they can imitate areas of expression found in language and linguistic articulation. But the avant-garde has surely expanded the spectrum to a considerable extent. The piece for solo bayan is an impressive example of this. The listener witnesses a slow and inexorable intensification from the “rattling” of the lowest accordion register up to the pure, tender tones of the highest register. It is “anascent from the lowest to the highest, from the breath and soul to the world's soul or wisdom”, as Gubaidulina's friend and colleague Viktor Suslin once expressed it. With the means of sound, Gubaidulina transfers a symbol of life onto the music: breathing. Breathing distinguishes the living from the dead. What other instrument, other than the winds, perhaps, could better lendexpression to this characteristic than the accordion? In contrast to the wind instruments, however, the accordion is not an instrument into which the player breathes and creates breathing sounds - instead, the instrument itself assumes this function. It breathes through the pulling apart and pressing together of the bellows. As the basis of her composition, Gubaidulina chose the lines of the Psalm 130 “From the depths, o Lord, I call to you” for the characterisation of her interlaced message. Shadowy chorale melodies are occasionally heard, but the fundamental idea of ascent remains decisive. Sharp insertions and expressive gestures, intrusive glissandi and nervous vibrati repeatedly disturb the direction of movement. And then we hear consciously the integrated breathing of the instrument - breathing slightly, hardly audible, opposing the powerful chord blocks. The musicologist Valentina Cholopova once said of this: “All these sounds confront solemn chords richly ornamented with figurations, but there is also a long, monodic melody running through the entire symbolic path of the work - from the depths all the way up to the brilliant heights.” The work is dedicated to Friedrich Lips!

For Trumpet in Bb and Piano, S. 49. Composed by Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837). Edited by Elisa Koehler. Arranged by Elisa Koehler. Romantic. Score and part(s). With Standard notation. 36 8 pages. Carl Fischer #W002681. Published by Carl Fischer (CF.W2681).

By Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Arranged by Catherine Rollin. For Piano. Piano Duet (One Piano, Four Hands). Masterwork. Level: Intermediate / Late Intermediate (grade 4/5/6). Book. 48 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

Edited by R Harris. Arranged by Richard Harris. For solo piano. Misc. Movies. SMP Level 4 (Intermediate). Songbook. 30 pages. Faber Music #F517935. Published by Faber Music

Piano

SKU: HL.14040983

Piano. Composed by Theodor Grigoriu. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Editions Musicales Transatlantiques #ETR001822. Published by Editions Musicales Transatlantiques (HL.14040983).

French.

The Modal Column is a cycle of paired pieces for piano, starting from the classical structure- prelude-fugue - used by Bach in Das wohltemperierte Klavier. The modes that are being used have a relatively simple octavizing structure, hence an almost infinite variety of combinations that can generate a large number of pieces, impossible to exhaust by a composer. Therein lies the idea of a column, in the sense given by Brancusi, i.e. an endless succession of modules.

In the vision of the author, the mechanism of the mode is a secondary (ancillary) aspect, the primary goal is deciphering the ethos incorporated in it.

The prelude-fugue structure hypostatizesthe musical discourse at the two possible extremes. free-constructed. While Romanian music rules in free areas, like any old music with an (especially oral) tradition, the constructed pieces start from Dutch (Flemish) or Venetian polyphony, which precedes the idea of fugue, understood as a technology of the movement (dynamics) of sound, after the models of Giovanni Gabrieli or Ockeghem.

The Modal Column is first of all the presentation of a melodic world but, as the subtitle indicates, also an investigation into the ethos of Romanian music. The forms in which the pieces are thought are simple, non-ostentatious, the whole cycle being in fact a musical workshop, whose better parts may be worth including in ampler works. Before the succinct description of the six couples in Books I and II, a few observations, necessary from a musicological point of view:

• 1. The modes are rich in nostalgia, with even graver nuances in the livelier movements.
• 2. It is well-known, that all the columns - Egyptian obelisks, ancient ornamental columns - have scenarios engraved on them. Trajan's Column describes the wars against the Dacians and their defeat. George Calinescu says, 'Trajan's Column is beautiful, but let us not forget that the Dacians are in chains on it.' The Romanian melos is millennia-old and was but little influenced by historical.
  
  

Orchestra Soprano voice, Baritone voice, Coro SATB, orchestra - Grade 3

SKU: CA.5016494

Christmas cantata. Composed by Josef Gabriel Rheinberger. Carus Choir Coach (audio only). Composed 1890. Op. 164. Duration 48 minutes. Carus Verlag #5016494. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.5016494).

German/English. Text: von Hoffnaaß, Franziska (Fanny).

He who seeks a moving and lyrical work with rewarding roles for the choir could do no better than to choose Rheinberger’s Stern von Bethlehem. In nine scenes (Expectation, The shepherds, The appearance of the angels, The Star, etc.) the Christmas story is lyrically portrayed. Songlike and pastoral choruses, a heartfelt soprano part and finally, the exotic, charming procession of the Wisemen through the desert have insured this work an increasing popularity. It was written in 1890 to a libretto by Rheinberger’s wife Fanny. On account of
their similar scoring, this work can be easily combined for a performance with Mendelssohn’s Vom Himmel hoch or Die Geburt Christi. Score available separately - see item CA.5016400.