PARTITIONS GRATUITES : SAXOPHONE ALTO, PIANO
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Piano (Piano)

SKU: HL.14020986

Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Composed 1999. 10 pages. Chester Music #CH61243. Published by Chester Music (HL.14020986).

ISBN 9780711960961. UPC: 884088442330. 9.0x12.0x0.071 inches.

Peter Maxwell Davies wrote this set of six short pieces in 1993 as a gift for a friend (a double bass player and composer from the BBC Philharmonic)who was celebrating the birth of his daughter. Despite the reason for writing them being most 'occasional', these pieces are certainly not lacking in musical substance as one might expect an 'occasional' piece to be. These pieces are ideal works for young performers to introduce them to playing modern music or even as an introduction to the broad range of Maxwell Davies's work.

Orchestra

SKU: HL.14021025

Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Composed 2002. 48 pages. Chester Music #CH61838. Published by Chester Music (HL.14021025).

ISBN 9780711986138. 5.5x7.5x0.164 inches.

Miniature Score. This work was commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. It was first performed on 13th May 1998 London. This piece is based on a genuine old tune 'Maxwell's Strathspey' which the composer found in an 1824 collection of Scottish melodies, and which unfolds at the start of the piece on solo cello. Variations and a bold up-tempo to the quick dance we know as a reel ultimately yield to the magic that has been promised right at the start: the northern lights take over at the end of the piece. Its inspiration comes from a walk to a community event in Hoy Hall, during which Davies saw the lights in the sky pulsing in and out of time with the sounds coming from the hall. Duration 12 minutes. Conductor's score and orchestral parts are available on hire.

Piano Solo

SKU: HL.14024584

Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Music Sales America. Post-1900. Sheet Music, Instrumental Work. With Text language: English. 12 pages. Music Sales #CP56086. Published by Music Sales (HL.14024584).

UPC: 884088815264. 11.0x8.5x0.044 inches.

Peter Maxwell Davies wrote this set of six short pieces in 1993 as a gift for a friend (a double bass player and composer from the BBC Philharmonic) who was celebrating the birth of his daughter. Despite the reason for writing them being most 'occasional', these pieces are certainly not lacking in musical substance as one might expect an 'occasional' piece to be. These pieces are ideal works for young performers to introduce them to playing modern music or even as an introduction to the broad range of Maxwell Davies's work. This is a special item which is made to order. Please e-mail our Mail Order Department for further information.

Guitar (Guitar)

SKU: HL.14008399

Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Composed 1999. 10 pages. Chester Music #CH58941. Published by Chester Music (HL.14008399).

ISBN 9780711923911. 9.0x12.0x0.08 inches.

The guitar, for Davies, seems to be an updated lute, and like his Elizabethan and Jacobean predecessors, he finds the sound of plucked strings suited both to dancing and to contemplation. The outer movements of this short sonata are quick, the first being in clear ABAB form with a short recitando introduction, the finale being a kind of hobbledehoy galliard. In between comes a slow movement of counterpoint and ornament. Duration c. 11mins.

SATB Choir and Piano

SKU: HL.14021021

Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Music Sales America. Choral. Part. Composed 1999. 86 pages. Chester Music #CH61481. Published by Chester Music (HL.14021021).

ISBN 9780711975187. UPC: 884088440541. 9x12 inches.

A work for SATB soli, SATB chorus and orchestra, using a variety of texts, selected by Alistair Grant, who commissioned the work to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Jacobite rising (1745-6). It was first performed in October 1997 in Glasgow by Lisa Tyrrell (soprano), Margaret McDonald (mezzo soprano), Neil Mackie (tenor) and David Wilson-Johnson (baritone), the Scottish Chamber Orchestra Chorus (chorus master Ben Parry) and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, conducted by the composer. Vocal score with piano reduction of the instrumental score. Duration c. 40mins.

Voice, Recorder, Piano Accompaniment, Guitar

SKU: HL.14008420

Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Music Sales America. Education, 20th Century. Book Only. Composed 1999. Chester Music #CH57042. Published by Chester Music (HL.14008420).

9.0x12.0x0.489 inches.

There are seven songs and an instrumental interlude, making all together an entertainment that provides opportunity for very simple stage action and dancing: nothing at all elaborate is needed in the way of scenery and costumes. The voices are in unison throughout, and their part is always doubled by instruments, which should make it relatively easy for quite young children to learn their way into Davies's delightful tunes. The references to Hoy are incidental, and could possibly be adapted to suit the locality of a particular performance. In any event, most of these tall stories and rhymes will appeal to children everywhere. Set of instrumental parts (8 descant recorder parts, 4 tuned percussion parts and 4 unpitched percussion parts).

Organ (Organ)

SKU: HL.14008428

Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Music Sales America. Post-1900. Book [Softcover]. Composed 1999. 8 pages. Chester Music #CH55170. Published by Chester Music (HL.14008428).

8.25x11.75x0.06 inches.

These are all arrangements of sixteenth-century Scottish church music, beginning with Psalm 124 by David Peebles, which gains an athletic counterpoint of Davies's own. Then comes John Fethy's O God Abufe played straight, and finally an anonymous motet, All Sons of Adam, again infiltrated by a modern voice.

For Piano(Themes and Melodies from Famous Compositions). Arranged by Maxwell Eckstein. For Piano Solo. Classical. Solo part. 48 pages. Published by Carl Fischer.