| Concerto - Piano And Orchestra - Solo Part Schott
Piano and orchestra - difficult SKU: HL.49046544 For piano and orchest...(+)
Piano and orchestra -
difficult SKU:
HL.49046544 For
piano and orchestra.
Composed by Gyorgy
Ligeti. This edition:
Saddle stitching. Sheet
music. Edition Schott.
Softcover. Composed
1985-1988. Duration 24'.
Schott Music #ED23178.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49046544). ISBN
9781705122655. UPC:
842819108726.
9.0x12.0x0.224
inches. I composed
the Piano Concerto in two
stages: the first three
movements during the
years 1985-86, the next
two in 1987, the final
autograph of the last
movement was ready by
January, 1988. The
concerto is dedicated to
the American conductor
Mario di Bonaventura. The
markings of the movements
are the following: 1.
Vivace molto ritmico e
preciso 2. Lento e
deserto 3. Vivace
cantabile 4. Allegro
risoluto 5. Presto
luminoso.The first
performance of the
three-movement Concerto
was on October 23rd, 1986
in Graz. Mario di
Bonaventura conducted
while his brother,
Anthony di Bonaventura,
was the soloist. Two days
later the performance was
repeated in the Vienna
Konzerthaus. After
hearing the work twice, I
came to the conclusion
that the third movement
is not an adequate
finale; my feeling of
form demanded
continuation, a
supplement. That led to
the composing of the next
two movements. The
premiere of the whole
cycle took place on
February 29th, 1988, in
the Vienna Konzerthaus
with the same conductor
and the same pianist. The
orchestra consisted of
the following: flute,
oboe, clarinet, bassoon,
horn, trumpet, tenor
trombone, percussion and
strings. The flautist
also plays the piccoIo,
the clarinetist, the alto
ocarina. The percussion
is made up of diverse
instruments, which one
musician-virtuoso can
play. It is more
practical, however, if
two or three musicians
share the instruments.
Besides traditional
instruments the
percussion part calls
also for two simple wind
instruments: the swanee
whistle and the
harmonica. The string
instrument parts (two
violins, viola, cello and
doubles bass) can be
performed soloistic since
they do not contain
divisi. For balance,
however, the ensemble
playing is recommended,
for example 6-8 first
violins, 6-8 second, 4-6
violas, 4-6 cellos, 3-4
double basses. In the
Piano Concerto I realized
new concepts of harmony
and rhythm. The first
movement is entirely
written in bimetry:
simultaneously 12/8 and
4/4 (8/8). This relates
to the known triplet on a
doule relation and in
itself is nothing new.
Because, however, I
articulate 12 triola and
8 duola pulses, an
entangled, up till now
unheard kind of polymetry
is created. The rhythm is
additionally complicated
because of asymmetric
groupings inside two
speed layers, which means
accents are
asymmetrically
distributed. These
groups, as in the talea
technique, have a fixed,
continuously repeating
rhythmic structures of
varying lengths in speed
layers of 12/8 and 4/4.
This means that the
repeating pattern in the
12/8 level and the
pattern in the 4/4 level
do not coincide and
continuously give a
kaleidoscope of renewing
combinations. In our
perception we quickly
resign from following
particular rhythmical
successions and that what
is going on in time
appears for us as
something static,
resting. This music, if
it is played properly, in
the right tempo and with
the right accents inside
particular layers, after
a certain time 'rises, as
it were, as a plane after
taking off: the rhythmic
action, too complex to be
able to follow in detail,
begins flying. This
diffusion of individual
structures into a
different global
structure is one of my
basic compositional
concepts: from the end of
the fifties, from the
orchestral works
Apparitions and
Atmospheres I
continuously have been
looking for new ways of
resolving this basic
question. The harmony of
the first movement is
based on mixtures, hence
on the parallel leading
of voices. This technique
is used here in a rather
simple form; later in the
fourth movement it will
be considerably
developed. The second
movement (the only slow
one amongst five
movements) also has a
talea type of structure,
it is however much
simpler rhythmically,
because it contains only
one speed layer. The
melody is consisted in
the development of a
rigorous interval mode in
which two minor seconds
and one major second
alternate therefore nine
notes inside an octave.
This mode is transposed
into different degrees
and it also determines
the harmony of the
movement; however, in
closing episode in the
piano part there is a
combination of diatonics
(white keys) and
pentatonics (black keys)
led in brilliant,
sparkling quasimixtures,
while the orchestra
continues to play in the
nine tone mode. In this
movement I used isolated
sounds and extreme
registers (piccolo in a
very low register,
bassoon in a very high
register, canons played
by the swanee whistle,
the alto ocarina and
brass with a harmon-mute'
damper, cutting sound
combinations of the
piccolo, clarinet and
oboe in an extremely high
register, also
alternating of a
whistle-siren and
xylophone). The third
movement also has one
speed layer and because
of this it appears as
simpler than the first,
but actually the rhythm
is very complicated in a
different way here. Above
the uninterrupted, fast
and regular basic pulse,
thanks to the asymmetric
distribution of accents,
different types of
hemiolas and inherent
melodical patterns appear
(the term was coined by
Gerhard Kubik in relation
to central African
music). If this movement
is played with the
adequate speed and with
very clear accentuation,
illusory
rhythmic-melodical
figures appear. These
figures are not played
directly; they do not
appear in the score, but
exist only in our
perception as a result of
co-operation of different
voices. Already earlier I
had experimented with
illusory rhythmics,
namely in Poeme
symphonique for 100
metronomes (1962), in
Continuum for harpsichord
(1968), in Monument for
two pianos (1976), and
especially in the first
and sixth piano etude
Desordre and Automne a
Varsovie (1985). The
third movement of the
Piano Concerto is up to
now the clearest example
of illusory rhythmics and
illusory melody. In
intervallic and chordal
structure this movement
is based on alternation,
and also inter-relation
of various modal and
quasi-equidistant harmony
spaces. The tempered
twelve-part division of
the octave allows for
diatonical and other
modal interval
successions, which are
not equidistant, but are
based on the alternation
of major and minor
seconds in different
groups. The tempered
system also allows for
the use of the
anhemitonic pentatonic
scale (the black keys of
the piano). From
equidistant scales,
therefore interval
formations which are
based on the division of
an octave in equal
distances, the
twelve-tone tempered
system allows only
chromatics (only minor
seconds) and the six-tone
scale (the whole-tone:
only major seconds).
Moreover, the division of
the octave into four
parts only minor thirds)
and three parts (three
major thirds) is
possible. In several
music cultures different
equidistant divisions of
an octave are accepted,
for example, in the
Javanese slendro into
five parts, in Melanesia
into seven parts, popular
also in southeastern
Asia, and apart from
this, in southern Africa.
This does not mean an
exact equidistance: there
is a certain tolerance
for the inaccurateness of
the interval tuning.
These exotic for us,
Europeans, harmony and
melody have attracted me
for several years.
However I did not want to
re-tune the piano
(microtone deviations
appear in the concerto
only in a few places in
the horn and trombone
parts led in natural
tones). After the period
of experimenting, I got
to pseudo- or
quasiequidistant
intervals, which is
neither whole-tone nor
chromatic: in the
twelve-tone system, two
whole-tone scales are
possible, shifted a minor
second apart from each
other. Therefore, I
connect these two scales
(or sound resources), and
for example, places occur
where the melodies and
figurations in the piano
part are created from
both whole tone scales;
in one band one six-tone
sound resource is
utilized, and in the
other hand, the
complementary. In this
way whole-tonality and
chromaticism mutually
reduce themselves: a type
of deformed
equidistancism is formed,
strangely brilliant and
at the same time
slanting; illusory
harmony, indeed being
created inside the
tempered twelve-tone
system, but in sound
quality not belonging to
it anymore. The
appearance of such
slantedequidistant
harmony fields
alternating with modal
fields and based on
chords built on fifths
(mainly in the piano
part), complemented with
mixtures built on fifths
in the orchestra, gives
this movement an
individual, soft-metallic
colour (a metallic sound
resulting from
harmonics). The fourth
movement was meant to be
the central movement of
the Concerto. Its
melodc-rhythmic elements
(embryos or fragments of
motives) in themselves
are simple. The movement
also begins simply, with
a succession of
overlapping of these
elements in the mixture
type structures. Also
here a kaleidoscope is
created, due to a limited
number of these elements
- of these pebbles in the
kaleidoscope - which
continuously return in
augmentations and
diminutions. Step by
step, however, so that in
the beginning we cannot
hear it, a compiled
rhythmic organization of
the talea type gradually
comes into daylight,
based on the simultaneity
of two mutually shifted
to each other speed
layers (also triplet and
duoles, however, with
different asymmetric
structures than in the
first movement). While
longer rests are
gradually filled in with
motive fragments, we
slowly come to the
conclusion that we have
found ourselves inside a
rhythmic-melodical whirl:
without change in tempo,
only through increasing
the density of the
musical events, a
rotation is created in
the stream of successive
and compiled, augmented
and diminished motive
fragments, and increasing
the density suggests
acceleration. Thanks to
the periodical structure
of the composition,
always new but however of
the same (all the motivic
cells are similar to
earlier ones but none of
them are exactly
repeated; the general
structure is therefore
self-similar), an
impression is created of
a gigantic, indissoluble
network. Also, rhythmic
structures at first
hidden gradually begin to
emerge, two independent
speed layers with their
various internal
accentuations. This
great, self-similar whirl
in a very indirect way
relates to musical
associations, which came
to my mind while watching
the graphic projection of
the mathematical sets of
Julia and of Mandelbrot
made with the help of a
computer. I saw these
wonderful pictures of
fractal creations, made
by scientists from Brema,
Peitgen and Richter, for
the first time in 1984.
From that time they have
played a great role in my
musical concepts. This
does not mean, however,
that composing the fourth
movement I used
mathematical methods or
iterative calculus;
indeed, I did use
constructions which,
however, are not based on
mathematical thinking,
but are rather craftman's
constructions (in this
respect, my attitude
towards mathematics is
similar to that of the
graphic artist Maurits
Escher). I am concerned
rather with intuitional,
poetic, synesthetic
correspondence, not on
the scientific, but on
the poetic level of
thinking. The fifth, very
short Presto movement is
harmonically very simple,
but all the more
complicated in its
rhythmic structure: it is
based on the further
development of ''inherent
patterns of the third
movement. The
quasi-equidistance system
dominates harmonically
and melodically in this
movement, as in the
third, alternating with
harmonic fields, which
are based on the division
of the chromatic whole
into diatonics and
anhemitonic pentatonics.
Polyrhythms and harmonic
mixtures reach their
greatest density, and at
the same time this
movement is strikingly
light, enlightened with
very bright colours: at
first it seems chaotic,
but after listening to it
for a few times it is
easy to grasp its
content: many autonomous
but self-similar figures
which crossing
themselves. I present my
artistic credo in the
Piano Concerto: I
demonstrate my
independence from
criteria of the
traditional avantgarde,
as well as the
fashionable
postmodernism. Musical
illusions which I
consider to be also so
important are not a goal
in itself for me, but a
foundation for my
aesthetical attitude. I
prefer musical forms
which have a more
object-like than
processual character.
Music as frozen time, as
an object in imaginary
space evoked by music in
our imagination, as a
creation which really
develops in time, but in
imagination it exists
simultaneously in all its
moments. The spell of
time, the enduring its
passing by, closing it in
a moment of the present
is my main intention as a
composer. (Gyorgy
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A Method and Duet Collection for the Advanced Beginner Flutist. Textbook. 76...(+)
A Method and Duet
Collection
for the Advanced Beginner
Flutist. Textbook. 76
pages.
Theodore Presser Company
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| Saga of the Mississippi [Conducteur] Theodore Presser Co.
Orchestra 2 Bassoons, 2 Oboes, 3 Clarinets, 3 Flutes, 3 Trombones, 3 Trumpets, 4...(+)
Orchestra 2 Bassoons, 2
Oboes, 3 Clarinets, 3
Flutes, 3 Trombones, 3
Trumpets, 4 Horns, Bass
Drum, Contra-bassoon,
Cymbal, English Horn,
Percussion: Snare Drum,
Strings, Timpani, Tuba
SKU: PR.466411770
Composed by Harl
Mcdonald. This edition:
Study Score.
Contemporary. Full score.
With Standard notation.
84 pages. Duration 15
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #466-41177.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.466411770). UPC:
680160640850. 9 x 12
inches. Mississippi
I. Father of Waters: born
of the Highlands and the
Lakes; the Glaciers, the
Mountains, and the
Prairies. The picture of
your birth is clounded in
the ice and mists of
ancient ages but your
spirit remains our life
stream. II. The Red Man
knew your bountiful gifts
and gave thanks to the
Great Spirit on your
banks. -- The Spanish and
French Fathers brought
the glory of Christianity
to America on
Mississippi. But all men,
white and dark; --
Indian, Spaniard, and
Negro; Bourbon and
Yankee, combined to make
Mississippi the heart of
America. Saga of the
Mississippi Harl McDonald
Born near Boulder,
Colorado, July 27, 1899
Now living in
Philadelphia The original
suggestion for a
symphonic work on the
subject of the
Mississippi came
indirectly from the late
Booth Tarkington who saw
in it color and movement
and atmosphere
translatable into the
terms of music. In the
course of time, by the
mysterious processes of
composers' chemistry, it
took shape as a tone-poem
of two sections, one
representing the rise of
the great stream from its
primeval geologic
sources, the other the
human history of the
river. Mr. McDonald
devised the following
verbal outline of the
general scheme of his
diptych: I. Father of
Waters: born of the
Highlands and the Lakes;
the Glaciers, the
Mountains, and the
Prairies. The picture of
your birth is clounded in
the ice and mists of
ancient ages but your
spirit remains our life
stream. II. The Red Man
knew your bountiful gifts
and gave thanks to the
Great Spirit on your
banks. -- The Spanish and
French Fathers brought
the glory of Christianity
to America on
Mississippi. But all men,
white and dark; --
Indian, Spaniard, and
Negro; Bourbon and
Yankee, combined to make
Mississippi the heart of
America. The first of the
two movements, beginning
molto andante, is vaguel
modal to hint at
antiquity. It is built
upon the conventional two
themes, with an episode,
poco piu mosso,
misterioso, for
prehistoric murk and
muck. There are various
changes of pace and mood.
The second, Allegro ma
vigorosamente, prefigures
an Indian ceremony. A
theme presented by flute,
clarinet and bassoon is a
Canadian Indian fishing
call collected by the
late J.B. Beck. A later
passage of
quasi-Gregorian chant
identifies the French and
Spanish priests who made
the great river their
highway. The fishing-call
is altered in rhythm and
harmony to represent
Negro field hands and
roustabous. A turbulent
close brings all these
elemts together in the
muddy swirling currents
of the Mississippi. The
work was begun in the
summer of 1945, and was
revised and completed in
the summer of 1947. Harl
McDonald, who is the
manager of The
Philadelphia Orchestra,
has concerned himself
with music as an art, as
a science and as a
business in course of his
career. He was born on a
cattle ranch in the
Rockies, but since his
was a musical family, his
up-bringing combined
piano lessons with ranch
life. Years of study and
professional experience
followed in Los Angeles
and in Germany. In 1927
he was appointed lecuter
in composition at the
University of
Pennsylvania and he has
since then made is home
in Philadelphia. In 1933
under a grant of the
Rockefeller FOundation he
collaborated with
physicists in research
dealing with the
measurement of
instrumental and vocal
tone, new scale divisions
and the resultant
harmonies. In that same
year he was named head of
the University's music
faculty and conductor of
its choral organizations.
In 1939, having been a
member of the Board of
Directors for five years,
he was appointed manager
of The Philadelphia
Orchestra. He continus to
write, but otherwise his
entire attention is now
devoted to managerial
duties. Chief items in
the catalogue of his
compositions are four
symphonies, three
orchestra suites, a
half-dozen tone-poems,
three concertos and
considerable quantity of
choral music. $58.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Happy Rain on A Spring Night - Score [Conducteur] Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Clarinet, Flute, Piano, Violin, Violoncello SKU: PR.11441271S(+)
Chamber Music Clarinet,
Flute, Piano, Violin,
Violoncello SKU:
PR.11441271S For
Flute, Clarinet, violin,
Cello, and Piano.
Composed by Chen Yi. Poem
by Du Fu (712-770 in Tang
Dynasty). Premiered at
Merkin Hall in New York.
Contemporary. Full score.
With Standard notation.
Composed 2004. 45 pages.
Duration 12 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
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inches. Poem by Du Fu
(712-770 in Tang
Dynasty). It's like
the welcome rain on a
quiet spring night that
nurtures the budding
seeds, our new society is
pushing us forward to the
new future. This music
reflects the scenes and
the expression according
to the meaning of the
poem when it's being
unfolded line by line.
Although the tempo is set
60-70 quarter notes per
minute throughout (played
vividly, never slow
down), the tension is
being built up from the
quiet background in the
beginning, to the
sustained climax towards
the end. The musical
image in Rehersal A and B
(measures 1 - 41)
represents the first four
lines of the poem. The
woodwind instruments
response to the rustling
of fast moving notes on
muted string triplets,
decorated by occasional
strokes produced by
metallic string sound and
high piano gestures. The
music in Rehersal C and D
(measures 42-87)
represents the next two
lines of the poem. It's
so dark, a little light
in the boat is shimmering
on the lake... The
breathy key slaps on the
flute creates a
mysterious atmosphere, in
a dialogue with other
instruments. The cello
glissandi recite the poem
in the tone of Mandarin,
echoed by the string
harmonics. The music in
Rehersal E, F, G (m 88 -
161) is a toccata,
starting with the piano,
which builds up a big
shape, to reach the
climax in m. 116, and
keeps the vivid scene
towards the coda
(Rehersal H, m. 162 - the
end), which stands on the
energetic peak at the end
of the
piece. Commissioned by
the Music From Copland
House ensemble, supported
by a grant from the
NYSCA’s
Composer’s
Commissions program in
2002, my mixed ensemble
piece Happy Rain on a
Spring Night is written
for all five instruments
in the ensemble: flute,
clarinet, violin, cello
and piano, and premiered
on Oct. 18, 2004, at
Merkin Hall in New York.
 The musical
imagination came from an
ancient Chinese poem with
the same title, written
by Du Fu (712-770) in the
Tang Dynasty. Happy
Rain on a Spring Nightby
Du Fu (712-770 in the
Tang Dynasty)Â Happy
rain comes in time,When
spring is in its
prime.With night breeze
it will fall,And quietly
moisten all.Clouds darken
wild roads,Light
brightens a little
boat.Saturated at
dawn,With flowers
blooming the
town. (English
translation by Chen Yi
from the original poem in
Chinese) It’s
like the welcome rain on
a quiet spring night that
nurtures the budding
seeds; our new society is
pushing us forward to the
new future. Â The music
reflects the scenes and
the expression according
to the meaning of the
poem when it’s
being unfolded line by
line. Â Although the
tempo is set 60-70
quarter notes per minute
throughout (played
vividly, never slowing
down), the tension is
being built up from the
quiet background in the
beginning, to the
sustained climax towards
the end. The musical
image in Rehearsal A and
B (measures 1-41)
represents the first four
lines of the poem.
 The woodwind
instruments respond to
the rustling of fast
moving notes on muted
string triplets,
decorated by occasional
strokes produced by
metallic string sound and
high piano gestures.
 The music in
Rehearsal C and D
(measures 42-87)
represents the next two
lines of the poem.
 It’s so dark,
a little light in the
boat is shimmering on the
lake... Â The breathy
key slaps on the flute
create a mysterious
atmosphere, in a dialogue
with other instruments.
 The cello glissandi
recite the poem in the
tone of Mandarin, echoed
by the string harmonics.
 The music in
Rehearsal E, F and G (m
88-161) is a toccata,
starting with the piano,
which builds up a big
shape, to reach the
climax in m. 116, and
keeps the vivid scene
towards the coda
(Rehearsal H, m.
162-192), which stands on
the energetic peak at the
end of the
piece. According to
the principle of the
Golden Section, I have
constructed the piece
with two large parts (m.
1-115 and m. 116-192).
 The GS falls onto the
beginning of the climax
section of the piece,
which is exciting and
loud. Â All
subdivisions of the
structures coincide with
the numbers of
proportions based on the
GS principle. Â The
music has textures
changed according to the
proportional arrangement
throughout the
piece. First Part (m.
1-115, total 115
measures), including two
sectionsSection I (m.
1-69, total 69 measures),
including two
divisionsFirst Division
(m. 1-41, total 41
measures), including two
subdivisions:Subdivision
I (m. 1-25, total 25
measures)Rehearsal A,
violin triplets + cello
metalic sound in small
intervals, followed by
woodwinds.Subdivision II
(m. 26-41, total 16
measures)Rehearsal B,
cello triplets + violin
metallic sound in small
intervals, overlapped by
woodwinds.Second Division
(m. 42-69, total 28
measures)Rehearsal C,
breathy key slaps on
flute, in dark.Section II
(m. 70-115, total 46
measures), including two
divisionsFirst Division
(m. 70-87, total 18
measures)Rehearsal D,
soft cello reciting,
followed by string
harmonics & woodwind
“echoâ€
passages.Second Division
(m. 88-115, total 28
measures)Rehearsal E,
starts to buildup the
excitement, with piano
toccata in the beginning.
When it reachesthe
patterns on the top of
the keyboard, the lowest
passages on piano and
cello punch in, andreview
the pitch material with
small intervals.Second
Part (m.116-192, total 77
measures), including two
sectionsSection I (m.
116-161, total 46
measures), including two
divisionsFirst Division
(m. 116-133, total 18
measures)Rehearsal F, the
excitement reaches the
climax, GS located. All
instruments join
in.Second Division (m.
134-161, total 28
measures)Rehearsal G,
combination of E and F,
continue to
buildup.Section II (m.
162-192, total 31
measures)Rehearsal H,
coda, keep the excitement
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R. Mcentyre and Harry
Haines. Arranged by
Rhodes, Tom. For Concert
Band, Flute (Flute). Band
- Band Methods. Southern
Music. Grade 2. 36 pages.
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Southern Music Company
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| Greensleeves to a Ground Flûte à bec Soprano, Piano - Intermédiaire Schott
14 Divisions. Composed by Anonymous. Edited by Kathryn Bennetts and Peter Bowm...(+)
14 Divisions. Composed by
Anonymous. Edited by
Kathryn
Bennetts and Peter
Bowman.
Arranged by Yeo Yat-Soon.
This edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Schott Student Edition.
Classical. Softcover. 20
pages. Schott Music #SE
1048. Published by Schott
Music
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| First Division Band Method / Level 2 / Flute Flûte traversière [Partition] Belwin
C Flute. Composed by Fred Weber. Concert Band Method; Method/Instruction. First ...(+)
C Flute. Composed by Fred
Weber. Concert Band
Method;
Method/Instruction. First
Division Band Course.
Book. 32 pages. Belwin
Music #00-FDL00094A.
Published by Belwin Music
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| First Division Band Method, Part 1 Flûte traversière [Partition] Alfred Publishing
By Fred Weber. For C Flute. Band Method. First Division Band Course. Book. 36 pa...(+)
By Fred Weber. For C
Flute. Band Method. First
Division Band Course.
Book. 36 pages. Published
by Alfred Publishing.
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