PARTITIONS GRATUITES : SAXOPHONE ALTO, PIANO
- Contemplation 2

By Mark Mummert. For 2-part mixed voices, piano. Holy Cross Day, Good Friday, Lent, Holy Week/Three Days. Moderately Easy. Octavo. Published by MorningStar Music Publishers

By John Carter. (2-part Speaking Chorus). Atonement, Blood, Cross of Christ, Good Friday, Holy Week, Hymntune, Lamb of God, Life of Christ, Sacrifice, Hymntune and Sacred. Print Music Single (SAB). 12 pages. Published by Hope Publishing Company.

Composed by Andre J. Thomas. For 2-part voices and piano (with optional full orchestra). Octavo. Heritage Music Press #15/3316H. Published by Heritage Music Press

By Amy F Bernon. For 2-part voices and piano. New Horizons. Concert. Octavo. Published by Heritage Music Press. (15/2384H)

Choral, Violin (2-part treble, violin) Composed by Lee Dengler. Shawnee Press. Anthem, Concert, General Worship, Sacred. Octavo. 16 pages. Shawnee Press #E5543. Published by Shawnee Press

2 pianos (4 hands) - difficult

SKU: HL.49019723

For two pianos. Composed by Peteris Vasks. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Piano. Softcover. Composed 1977. 32 pages. Duration 10'. Schott Music #ED21404. Published by Schott Music (HL.49019723).

ISBN 9790001188074. UPC: 888680039219. 9.25x12.0x0.107 inches.

This piece dates back to Vasks' Sturm and Stress period and was premiered in 1977. Freely notated over long passages, it uses both commonly notated passages and symbols as well as clusters. Vasks uses this wide range of modern piano technique for an expressive performance of both pianists. The performers have to cope with eruptions of powerful sounds and passages of great softness, while excitement alternates with contemplation.

Chamber Music String Quartet

SKU: PR.144402180

After Zurbarán. Composed by James Primosch. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. 20+8+8+8+8 pages. Duration 18 minutes. Merion Music #144-40218. Published by Merion Music (PR.144402180).

UPC: 680160027156. 9.5 x 13 inches.

The concerts and exhibits of the Cleveland Museum of Art were an important formative influence for me during my student days. So when the invitation came to create a new work celebrating this institution on its seventy-fifth anniversary, I was not only happy to accept, but knew immediately that I wanted to write a piece that would somehow relate specifically to the museum. I decided to make the work a reflection on a painting in the museum's collection: Zurbaran's The Holy House of Nazareth. My quartet is not program music in a narrative sense, but rather a kind of meditation that takes its tone from this painting's remarkable integration of intense affect, mysterious repose and secret geometry. Besides Zurbaran's painting, the piece is occupied with a purely musical object of contemplation: the hymn tune Picardy, best known with the text Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence. This tune permeates the harmonic and melodic life of the quartet, sometimes appearing in a very simple, straightforward fashion, but often hidden amidst more complex structures. I was attracted to the melody for its musical qualities, but later realized that the hymn's text also resonates with the mood of the painting; the words speak of a reverent awe, of cherubim with sleepless eye, and of the mystery of the Incarnate Word who must suffer: King of kings, yet born of Mary...

By John G. Mortimer. For Brass Quintet. Swiss import. Level: Grade 2. Published by Editions Marc Reift. (EMR 5583)