| Puck's Game Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur et Parties séparées] Imagine Music
String Quartet SKU: IG.CMF191 Composed by Daniel Burwasser. Score and Par...(+)
String Quartet SKU:
IG.CMF191 Composed by
Daniel Burwasser. Score
and Parts. Imagine Music
Publishing #CMF191.
Published by Imagine
Music Publishing
(IG.CMF191). 9 x 12
inches. Puck's Game
is inspired by the
actions of Shakespeare's
mischievous sprite, Puck,
the fairly-like jester
from A Midsummer Night's
Dream. The music reflects
Puck's playful and
restless nature through
leaping gestures,
frolicking motives and
restless rhythmical
figures. While there is a
moment in the work when
Puck exudes a more tender
side, his truly impish
nature quickly returns at
the conclusion of the
piece. $28.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 4 to 6 weeks | | |
| Puckish Poltergeist Orchestre d'harmonie [Conducteur et Parties séparées] - Intermédiaire Kjos Music Company
Band concert band - Grade 5 SKU: KJ.WB139 Composed by Christopher Salerno...(+)
Band concert band - Grade
5 SKU: KJ.WB139
Composed by Christopher
Salerno. Conservatory
Editions. Score and set
of parts. Neil A. Kjos
Music Company #WB139.
Published by Neil A. Kjos
Music Company (KJ.WB139).
The Puckish
Poltergeist, a
programmatic work based
on the pranks of a
devious poltergeist,
contrasts the terrifying
and the comical. Through
the use of rapid meter
changes, simultaneous
duple and triple rhythmic
patterns, and contrasting
textural scoring, the
composer vividly conjures
to mind frightened castle
dwellers as they run from
varied assortments of
flying furniture and
kitchen utensils, and the
slightly bent puck, as he
plays his little
'pranks.' Composed in the
spring of 1991, The
Pucking Poltergeist was
premiered in Chicago at
the 45th Mid-West
International Band and
Orchestra Clinic by the
VanderCook College of
Music Symphonic Band
under the direction of
Roger Rocco. It
subsequently received a
performance by the United
States Military Band at
West Point Acadamy. In
February of 1993, it was
featured as one of five
works selected for the
Symposium XVII for New
Band Music at Old
Dominion University in
Norfolk, Virginia. $75.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| As Light as Bird from Brier Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Piano, soprano Saxophone SKU: PR.164002950 Fantasy after...(+)
Chamber Music Piano,
soprano Saxophone SKU:
PR.164002950
Fantasy after
Mendelssohn. Composed
by Dan Welcher. Sws. Set
of Score and Parts. 20+8
pages. Duration 10
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #164-00295.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.164002950). ISBN
9781491114568. UPC:
680160633449. 9 x 12
inches. Dan
Welcher’s
fascinating work for
soprano sax is both a
refraction of
Mendelssohn’s
music for A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, and
his own incidental music
to Shakespeare’s
comedy. The work’s
title, AS LIGHT AS BIRD
FROM BRIER, quotes from
Oberon (King of the
Fairies) invoking revelry
at the play’s
climactic wedding scene.
Welcher’s fantasy
skips among the most
beloved themes of
Mendelssohn’s
Midsummer – giving
the saxophonist quite a
workout, and the listener
a midsummer
delight. AS LIGHT AS
BIRD FROM BRIER is
loosely based on
Shakespeare’s play
A Midsummer
Night’s Dream,
which has haunted me
since I was nine years
old. My parents
subscribed me to The
Children’s Record
Guild, and every month a
new 78rpm vinyl record
would arrive in the mail.
They were mostly fairy
tales and “kids
lit,†but in this
case it was a very
condensed performance of
the actual play, with
Mendelssohn’s
music. I loved it
immediately, and still do
– I saw a
performance in 2014 at
the Stratford Festival
that literally stalks my
dreams.When I was
commissioned by
saxophonist Stephen Page
to compose a work for
soprano saxophone and
piano two years later, I
channeled Mendelssohn as
an inspiration:
specifically, the
Overture, the Scherzo,
the Intermezzo, the
fairy’s song
“You spotted snakes
with double
tongue,†and the
Rustics’ Dance.
But it’s not a
pastiche – most of
the music is completely
my own, though attentive
listeners will detect
snatches of
Mendelssohn’s
haunting score
throughout.This piece
joins MILL SONGS and
FLORESTAN’S FALCON
among works honoring my
favorite 19th-century
composers (in those
cases, Schubert and
Schumann) without ripping
them off. As Stravinsky
did in his ballet
Pulcinella, I have
borrowed fragments of
melody from a much-loved
composer, and made a
fabric of harmonies and
scales that are
genetically related to
Mendelssohn, but
unmistakably Welcher.In
this work, the
saxophonist is Puck
– skittish,
dazzlingly fast, and
brilliant in the outer
parts, and a mischievous
Cupid in the long,
central Love Song.
(Remember how Puck
anoints Titania’s
eyes with the juice from
a magic flower, which
causes her to fall in
love with Bottom the
weaver, who has been
bewitched and wears a
donkey’s head?)
The music traces
Puck’s magic
flight, the finding of
the flower,
Titania’s
love-scene with Bottom
and her fairies, and the
rustic players –
whose rehearsal of the
funniest
play-within-the-play in
literature is interrupted
by Puck’s dirty
tricks.I greatly enjoyed
the process of writing
this piece, and often
found myself quite moved
even as I was writing
it... which rarely
happens. Stephen Page,
who commissioned the
work, is a consummate
artist (and a bit of a
Puck himself). The title
comes from
Oberon’s final
speech in the
play:Through the house,
give glimmering light,By
the dead and drowsy
fire.Every elf and fairy
spriteHop as light as
bird from brier,And this
ditty, after me,Sing, and
dance it trippingly. $21.99 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| Claude Debussy: Preludes - Books 1 and 2
Piano seul [Partition] Schirmer
Composed by Claude Debussy (1862-1918). For piano. Format: piano solo book. With...(+)
Composed by Claude
Debussy (1862-1918). For
piano. Format: piano solo
book. With thematic
index. Impressionistic.
136 pages. 9x12 inches.
Published by Schirmer.
$19.99 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 24 hours - In Stock | | |
| Claude Debussy: Preludes - Books 1 and 2 (Preludes - 1er et 2e livres)
Piano seul [Partition] Durand
By Claude Debussy (1862-1918), edited by Claude Helffer, Roy Howat. Collection f...(+)
By Claude Debussy
(1862-1918), edited by
Claude Helffer, Roy
Howat. Collection for
solo piano. 139 pages.
Published by Editions
Durand.
(1)$34.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 24 hours - In Stock | | |
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