| Through Darkened Sleepy Hollow Orchestre d'harmonie [Conducteur et Parties séparées] - Intermédiaire FJH
By Erik Morales. Concert Band/Wind Ensemble. FJH Concert Band. This musical work...(+)
By Erik Morales. Concert
Band/Wind Ensemble. FJH
Concert Band. This
musical work illustrates
the harrowing experience
of our hero, Ichabod
Crane, as he tries to
escape the fate that was
cast upon him on that
dark and scary night. The
introduction also
illustrates the
unsettling feeling Crane
has as he departs into
the darkness. Once
convinced he is being
pursued, he darts forth
suddenly on his horse,
Gunpowder, and the chase
begins. The very last
measures of the piece
illustrate the moment of
impact. The story also
suggests that Brom Bones,
a character who competed
with Crane for the
affections of a local
maiden, may have been the
perpetrator of the
horrible prank. But
Irving ingeniously hints
at this supposition and
leaves the reader to
ponder the mystery of the
legend. Score for this
title: B1299S. Extra part
for this title: B1299P.
Concert Band. Level:
Grade 3. Score and Set of
Parts. Published by The
FJH Music Company Inc.
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| Images of Fear Guitare Fennica Gehrman
Guitar SKU: FG.55011-071-7 Hommage to Paul Klee. Composed by Kai N...(+)
Guitar SKU:
FG.55011-071-7
Hommage to Paul
Klee. Composed by Kai
Nieminen. Fennica Gehrman
#55011-071-7. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-071-7). ISBN
9790550110717. Comp
leted in Karstula,
Finland during late July
2010, this carefully
structured, but also
free-ranging work is
drawn from ideas for a
much earlier work in four
movements, Fantasy dating
from the 1980s. Kai
Nieminen has been for a
long time an admirer of
the work of artist Paul
Klee (1879-1940), and the
solo presented in its
final form here is
influenced by the
painting Dances caused by
Fear or as it is often
refered to Dancing from
Fear painted towards the
end of Klee's life in
Bern, 1938. Having
left Germany for
Switzerland in December
1933, Klee's later works
were often full of signs
and lines, very often
represented in black,
depicting human figures
or various objects
against a variety of
coloured backgrounds, in
the case of this painting
of a brownish hue. This
development in his
painting style and
technique is felt by some
to be an effect perhaps
of his long-term illness,
systemic sclerosis, but
in the case of Dances
caused by Fear there is
suggested an atmosphere
of panic and terror, an
attempt to escape from
horrors to come (World
War II), represented in
the violent movement of
the arms and legs of the
figures, and the dark,
indeed brooding nature of
the colours. In Kai
Nieminen's guitar work
Images of Fear, there is
only a very brief passage
of calm at the very
beginning, after which
come three main connected
sections in which a wide
range of musically
unsettling ideas emerge
one by one, making use of
the tritone, minor
seconds, glissandos,
tamboura, campanella,
etc. The third and final
section incorporates the
grouping of 5
sixteenth-notes, to give
an uneasy feeling to the
music, with a short
haunting and pleading
five-note phrase
(Cantando) heard
immediately following
this passage, before the
work ends with further
glissandos, and distant
and diminishing
harmonics. As with
Kai Nieminen's other
guitar works, the use of
'orchestral colour' is
vital to the performance,
and passages suggestive
of for example brass,
strings, woodwind, etc.,
should be taken into
account and played with
suitably considered
contrast of tone.
John Mills. $16.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 4 to 6 weeks | | |
| The European Real Book Instruments en Do [Fake Book] Sher Music Company
(The best in contemporary jazz from Europe). By Various. Edited by Chuck Sher. F...(+)
(The best in contemporary
jazz from Europe). By
Various. Edited by Chuck
Sher. For C instruments.
This edition:
spiral-bound. Fake book.
423 pages. Published by
Sher Music Company
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| The European Real Book (Bb edition) [Fake Book] Sher Music Company
(The best in contemporary jazz from Europe). Composed by Various. Edited by Chuc...(+)
(The best in contemporary
jazz from Europe).
Composed by Various.
Edited by Chuck Sher. For
Bb instruments. This
edition: spiral-bound.
Fake book. 423 pages.
Published by Sher Music
Company
$40.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| Three Fantasies Piano seul [Conducteur] Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Piano SKU: PR.110418380 Composed by Carlos Gardels. Full sc...(+)
Chamber Music Piano
SKU: PR.110418380
Composed by Carlos
Gardels. Full score. 12
pages. Duration 8
minutes, 40 seconds.
Theodore Presser Company
#110-41838. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.110418380). ISBN
9781491135334. UPC:
680160687497. THREE
FANTASIES is a
fantastical escape from
reality. The first
fantasy
(“Preludeâ€)
features a luscious and
expressive melody
accompanied by dark,
romantic harmonies. The
following fantasy
(“Cosmic
Lullabyâ€) begins
and ends in a serene and
introspective manner,
with a tumultuous and
harmonically rich middle
section. To end the set,
“Intermezzoâ€
provides reflection and a
lively resolution.
Gardels’ profound
lyricism and masterful
piano writing make this
set enjoyable for any
pianist to perform at
home or in the concert
hall. The three
fantasies here were
written during the height
of the 2020-21
Coronavirus lockdowns
– a time everyone
will forever recall as a
period of the world
standing still and
experiencing new degrees
of isolation, inactivity,
and apprehension.A
fantasy is a genre to
which a composer can turn
as a respite from the
constraints of form,
tradition, and
expectation. What the
genre may lack in
structure and design it
makes up for with
spontaneity,
capriciousness, and
improvisatory musical
gesture.I hope performers
feel free to take a
similarly
“fantasticalâ€
approach to the
interpretation of these
works, seeing the score
and notation as a point
of departure rather than
arrival, and proceed with
unabashed freedom of
spirit in their
playing. $12.99 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| The European Real Book (Eb edition) Instruments en Mib [Fake Book] Sher Music Company
(The best in contemporary jazz from Europe). Composed by Various. Edited by Chuc...(+)
(The best in contemporary
jazz from Europe).
Composed by Various.
Edited by Chuck Sher. For
Eb instruments. This
edition: spiral-bound.
Fake book. 423 pages.
Published by Sher Music
Company
$40.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| Strange Sounds Piano seul - Facile Willis Music
10 Bewitching Piano Solos for Recitals. Composed by Various. Willis. Recital...(+)
10 Bewitching Piano Solos
for
Recitals. Composed by
Various. Willis. Recital,
Solos. Softcover. 32
pages.
Duration 240 seconds.
Published by Willis Music
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| Nameless Seas (Piano Concerto) Piano et Orchestre Fennica Gehrman
Piano and orchestra SKU: FG.55011-372-5 Composed by Matthew Whittall. Stu...(+)
Piano and orchestra
SKU:
FG.55011-372-5
Composed by Matthew
Whittall. Study score.
Fennica Gehrman
#55011-372-5. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-372-5). ISBN
9790550113725. Imag
es of the sea figure
prominently throughout my
life and memories: from
holidays on the Atlantic
coast during my Canadian
childhood to my current
Baltic home, and the
imagined, only later
experienced Mediterranean
of my ancestral heritage.
As an immigrant (son of
an immigrant) bound to
two northern countries,
the sea is emblematic of
my twin homelands, from
the expanses of water
surrounding them to those
separating them. A Mari
usque ad Mare. The sea is
also an enduring image of
the unknown, of expanses
unexplored, of the raw
power of nature and, for
too many currently, of
terror holding a hope of
refuge - or the pain of
loss. Such disparate
ideas were captured for
me in the seascapes of
the New York painter
MaryBeth Thielhelm, whom
I met in 2008 during a
residency on the Gulf of
Mexico. Her vast,
abstract, nearly
monochromatic depictions
of imaginary seas in
wildly varying moods were
the catalyst for a
concerto where the piano
is frequently far from a
hero battling a
collective, but rather
acts as a channel for
elemental forces surging
up from the orchestra,
floating - sometimes
barely so - on its
constantly shifting
surface. There are few
themes to speak of,
beyond a handful of
iconic ideas that
periodically cycle
upward. Rather, the
piano's material is
largely an ornamentation
of the more primal
rhythmic and harmonic
impulses from the
orchestra below - a
poetic interpretation, if
you will, of the more
immediate experience of
facing the vastness of
some unknown body of
water. The title
Nameless Seas is borrowed
from one of Thielhelm's
exhibitions, as are those
of the four movements,
which are bridged
together into two halves
of roughly equal weight -
one rhapsodic and free,
the other more
single-minded and direct,
separated only by a short
breath. The opening
movement, Nocturne, is
predominantly calm, if
brooding, darkness and
light alternating
throughout. Lyrical
arabesques sparkle over
gently lapping
cross-currents in the
strings and mirrored
timpani, the piano's full
power only rarely
deployed. The waves
gradually build, drawing
in the full orchestra for
a meeting of forces in
Land and Sea, a brighter,
more warmly lyrical scene
that unfolds in series of
dreamlike, sometimes even
nostalgic visions, which
for me carry strong
memories of sitting on
rocks above surging
Atlantic waves. The third
movement, Wake, is a
fast, perpetual-motion
texture of glinting,
darting rhythms and
sudden shafts of light,
with a prominent part for
the steel drums, limning
the piano's quicksilver
figurations. An ecstatic
climax crashes into a
solo cadenza that grows
progressively calmer and
more introspective rather
than virtuosic. Much of
the tension finally
releases into Unclaimed
Waters, a drifting,
meditative seascape in
which the piano is
progressively engulfed by
a series of ever-taller
waves, ultimately
dissolving into a
tolling, rippling
continuum of sound.
It has been a great
privilege to realize such
a long-held dream as this
piece, and to write it
for not one, but two
great pianists.
Risto-Matti Marin and
Angela Hewitt, both of
whose friendship and
support have been
unfailing and humbling,
share the dedication.
Nameless Seas was
commissioned by the
PianoEspoo festival and
Canada's National Arts
Centre, with the
premieres in Ottawa and
Helsinki led by Hannu
Lintu and Olari Elts.
Thanks are due also to
the Jenny and Antti
Wihuri fund, whose
generous grant provided
me with much-needed time,
and Escape to Create in
Seaside, Florida, the
source to which I
returned to do a large
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