PARTITIONS GRATUITES : PIANO SEUL
- Michael Murphy

By Patrick Steinbach. For Acoustic Instruments. Solos. AMA Verlag. Celtic/Irish. Level: Beginning-Intermediate. Book/CD Set. Size 9.x11.75. 180 pages. Published by AMA Verlag. ISBN 3899220234.

Various (1 to x players, sitting, synchronous or choreographed, 1 table, 1 crotale (c#3) ad lib.)

SKU: BR.EB-9367

For Hands/Fingers and Feet. Composed by Nicolaus A. Huber. Stapled. Edition Breitkopf. World premiere: Odessa, June 24, 2019 (Michael Murphy (perc))ambig can be played on its own or together with Clash Music (EB 9054) and/or can be performed with the text of rappig (in EB 9367). New music (post-2000); Music post-1945. Score. Composed 2019. 8 pages. Duration 6'. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB 9367. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.EB-9367).

ISBN 9790004188378. 10 x 12.5 inches.

I got the word ambig[uous] from Thomas Bauer: Die Vereindeutigung der Welt (Stuttgart: Reclam 2018). In this booklet, the author speaks out against a restrictive, perhaps even limited unambiguity and sets fundamentaism against cultures of ambiguity. Born out of the duality of the human body, I work in this piece with two hands, two fingers, two feet and the combinations of sound and touch developed from them. Only at the end, a new (double or single) sound is added. This does not at all correspond to a cohesive concept of material, just as the use of our body limbs in reverse is deliberately very close to the subject, even when several performers play synchronously or choreographed. In Schnebel's case, this was still material available to everyone. I think of it more as a counter to VR (virtual reality). I do like to still be able to open my refrigerator with my own hand, and not have a hacker interfering. In Clash Music, a pair of cymbals, the proletarians of many kinds of music, is elevated to an instrument capable of expression and structure. Clash Music and ambig ought to be played together as one piece - rather RV than VR! Added as a third piece can be rappig (25 seconds, see page IV). Any possible combination of two or three pieces can be selected. (Nicolaus A. Huber, 2019)On the audio sample Luk Wolf performs the text of rappig.

World premiere: Odessa, June 24, 2019 (Michael Murphy (perc))ambig can be played on its own or together with Clash Music (EB 9054) and/or can be performed with the text of rappig (in EB 9367).

Books and Journals

SKU: UT.APS-4

Ad Parnassum Studies. Edited by Luca Lévi Sala. Paperback (Soft Cover). Ad Parnassum Studies. Classical. Books and Journals. Ut Orpheus #APS 4. Published by Ut Orpheus (UT.APS-4).

ISBN 9788881094677. 6.5 x 9.5 inches.

Essays by Tomasz Baranowski, Andrzej Chwalba, Stephen Downes, Peter Franklin, Stefan Keym, Ryszard D. Golianek, Agata Mierzejewska, Michael Murphy, Jadwiga Paja-Stach, Luca Sala, Renata Suchowiejko, Emma Sutton, Andrzej Tuchowski, Alistair Wightman, James L. Zychowicz

In this volume I aim to examine the figure of Mieczyslaw Karlowicz in the broader sociocultural context which fostered his work. The attempt to contextualize an immense intellectual patrimony -- despite being restricted to a tiny number of works when compared to more prolific authors, especially in the context of the xix and the xx centuries -- is always a complex and hazardous task. My primary intention in organizing the volume has been to explicate Karlowicz the man as well as Karlowicz the composer, against the complex background of the European fin-de-siecle. The various essays aim to present the reader with an exhaustive reconstruction of Karlowicz's intellectual work. Karlowicz's oeuvre offers a broad artistic portrayal of Poland at the end of the nineteenth century as a fast-evolving country, politically divided and filled with contradictions. Hence the necessity to investigate the fin-de-siecle context with its social and historical implications, showing the influence of the European cultural milieu on the composer's poetics and on his thought. We shall examine the spectrum of relationships and affinities linking Karlowicz's works to the Polish cultural world (on the wave of the rising 'autochthonous' avant-garde movements) and to the wider cultural life pulsating beyond its borders, with special reference to German Wagnerism and Symphonism. Essentially, we are striving to define the uniqueness of his oeuvre, which -- in relation to the manifold influences co-existing in Poland, an insubstantial nation from the political viewpoint and divided along three socio-cultural fronts -- could be defined as distinctively Polish, yet ultimately European. (Luca Sala).

For voice and C instrument. Format: fakebook. With vocal melody, lyrics and chord names. Folk. Series: Hal Leonard Fake Books. 536 pages. 9.6x12 inches. Published by Hal Leonard.

C Edition. Fake Book (Includes melody line and chords). Size 9x12 inches. 256 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

For voice and C instrument. Format: fakebook. With vocal melody, lyrics and chord names. Traditional pop and vocal standards. Series: Hal Leonard Fake Books. 424 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Hal Leonard.

For voice and C instrument. Format: fakebook. With vocal melody, lyrics, chord names and leadsheet notation. Children's. Series: Hal Leonard Paperback Songs (Melodies, lyrics, and chords in a convenient format), . 256 pages. 4.2x6.7 inches. Published by Hal Leonard.

By Turlough O Carolan ; Donal O'sullivan. For Harp. Irish, Folk, Celtic. 380 pages. Published by Ossian Publications.