| Jatekok - Games - Spiele 1 Piano seul EMB (Editio Musica Budapest)
Piano SKU: BT.EMBZ8377 Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag. Educational Tool. Book ...(+)
Piano SKU:
BT.EMBZ8377 Composed
by Gyorgy Kurtag.
Educational Tool. Book
Only. Composed 1979. 88
pages. Editio Musica
Budapest #EMBZ8377.
Published by Editio
Musica Budapest
(BT.EMBZ8377).
English-German-Hungari
an. The idea of
composing 'Games' was
suggested by children
playing spontaneously,
children for whom the
piano still means a toy.
They experiment with it,
caress it, attack it and
run their fingers over
it. They pile up
seemingly disconnected
sounds, and if this
happens to arouse their
musical instinct they
look consciously for some
of the harmonies found by
chance and keep repeating
them. Thus this series
does not provide a tutor,
nor does it simply stand
as a collection of
pieces. It is a
possibility for
experimenting and not for
learning to play the
piano.Pleasure in
playing, the joy of
movement - daring and if
need be fast movement
over the entire keyboard
right from the
firstlessons instead of
clumsy groping for keys
and the counting of
rhythms - all these
rather vague ideas lay at
the outset of the
creation of this
collection. Playing - is
just playing. It requires
a great deal of freedom
and initiative from the
performer. On no account
should the written image
be taken seriously but
the written image must be
taken extremely seriously
as regards the musical
process, the quality of
sound and silence. We
should trust the picture
of the printed notes and
let is exert its
influence upon us. The
graphic picture conveys
an idea about the
arrangement in time of
even the most free
pieces. We should make
use of all that we know
and remember of free
declamation, folk-music
parlando-rubato, of
Gregorian chant and of
all that improvisational
musical practice has ever
brought forth.Let us
tackle bravely even the
most difficult task
without being afraid of
making mistakes: we
should try to create
valid proportions, unity
and continuity out of the
long and short values -
just for our own
pleasure! (BMC CD
139). $23.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| String Quartet No. 3 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur] Theodore Presser Co.
String quartet String Quartet SKU: PR.16400272S Cassatt. Composed ...(+)
String quartet String
Quartet SKU:
PR.16400272S
Cassatt. Composed
by Dan Welcher. Premiere:
Cassatt Quartet,
Northeastern Illinois
University, Chicago, IL.
Contemporary. Full score.
With Standard notation.
Composed 2007. WRT11142.
52 pages. Duration 24
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #164-00272S.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.16400272S). UPC:
680160588442. 8.5 x 11
inches. My third
quartet is laid out in a
three-movement structure,
with each movement based
on an early, middle, and
late work of the great
American impressionist
painter Mary Cassatt.
Although the movements
are separate, with
full-stop endings, the
music is connected by a
common scale-form,
derived from the name
MARY CASSATT, and by a
recurring theme that
introduces all three
movements. I see this
theme as Mary's Theme, a
personality that stays
intact while undergoing
gradual change. I
The Bacchante (1876)
[Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania] The
painting shows a young
girl of Italian or
Spanish origin, playing a
small pair of cymbals.
Since Cassatt was trying
very hard to fit in at
the French Academy at the
time, she painted a lot
of these subjects, which
were considered typical
and universal. The style
of the painting doesn't
yet show Cassatt's
originality, except
perhaps for certain
details in the face.
Accordingly the music for
this movement is
Spanish/Italian, in a
similar period-style but
using the musical
signature described
above. The music begins
with Mary's Theme,
ruminative and slow, then
abruptly changes to an
alla Spagnola-type fast
3/4 - 6/8 meter. It
evokes the
Spanish-influenced music
of Ravel and Falla.
Midway through,
there's an accompanied
recitative for the viola,
which figures large in
this particular movement,
then back to a truncated
recapitulation of the
fast music. The overall
feeling is of a
well-made, rather
conventional movement in
a contemporary
Spanish/Italian style.
Cassatt's painting, too,
is rather conventional.
II At the Opera
(1880) [Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston,
Massachusetts]
This painting is one of
Cassatt's most well known
works, and it hangs in
the Museum of Fine Arts
in Boston. The painting
shows a woman alone in a
box at the opera house,
completely dressed
(including gloves) and
looking through opera
glasses at someone or
something that is NOT on
the stage. Across the
auditorium from her, but
exactly at eye level, is
a gentleman with opera
glasses intently watching
her - though it is not
him that she's looking
at. It's an intriguing
picture. This
movement is far less
conventional than the
first movement, as the
painting is far less
conventional. The music
begins with a rapid,
Shostakovich-type
mini-overture lasting
less than a minute, based
on Mary's Theme. My
conjecture is that the
woman in the painting has
arrived late to the
opera, busily stumbling
into her box. What
happens next is a kind of
collage, a kind of
surrealistic overlaying
of two different
elements: the foreground
music, at first is a
direct quotation of
Soldier's Chorus from
Gounod's FAUST (an opera
Cassatt would certainly
have heard in the
brand-new Paris Opera
House at that time),
played by Violin II,
Viola, and Cello. This
music is played sul
ponticello in the melody
and col legno in the
marching accompaniment.
On top of this, the first
violin hovers at first on
a high harmonic, then
descends into a slow
melody, completely
separate from the Gounod.
It's as if the woman in
the painting is hearing
the opera onstage but is
not really interested in
it. Then the cello joins
the first violin in a
kind of love-duet (just
the two of them, at
first). This music isn't
at all Gounod-derived;
it's entirely from the
same scale patterns as
the first movement and
derives from Mary's Theme
and its scale. The music
stays in a kind of
dichotomy feeling,
usually
three-against-one, until
the end of the movement,
when another Gounod
melody, Valentin's aria
Avant de quitter ce lieux
reappears in a kind of
coda for all four
players. It ends
atmospherically and
emotionally disconnected,
however. The overall
feeling is a kind of
schizophrenic,
opera-inspired dream.
III Young Woman in
Green, Outdoors in the
Sun (1909) [Worcester Art
Museum, Massachusetts]
The painting, one
of Cassatt's last, is
very simple: just a
figure, looking sideways
out of the picture. The
colors are pastel and yet
bold - and the woman is
likewise very
self-assured and not in
the least demure. It is
eight minutes long, and
is all about melody -
three melodies, to be
exact (Young Woman,
Green, and Sunlight). No
angst, no choppy rhythms,
just ever-unfolding
melody and lush
harmonies. I quote one
other French composer
here, too: Debussy's song
Green, from Ariettes
Oubliees. 1909 would have
been Debussy's heyday in
Paris, and it makes
perfect sense musically
as well as visually to do
this. Mary Cassatt
lived her last several
years in near-total
blindness, and as she
lost visual acuity, her
work became less sharply
defined - something akin
to late water lilies of
Monet, who suffered
similar vision loss. My
idea of making this
movement entirely melodic
was compounded by having
each of the three
melodies appear twice,
once in a pure form, and
the second time in a more
diffuse setting. This
makes an interesting two
ways form:
A-B-C-A1-B1-C1.
String Quartet No.3
(Cassatt) is dedicated,
with great affection and
respect, to the Cassatt
String Quartet, whose
members have dedicated
themselves in large
measure to the furthering
of the contemporary
repertoire for
quartet. $38.99 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Music For Saxophones & Strings Theodore Presser Co.
Orchestra Saxophones and Strings SKU: PR.446411060 Composed by Steven Stu...(+)
Orchestra Saxophones and
Strings SKU:
PR.446411060 Composed
by Steven Stucky. Large
Score. With Standard
notation. Theodore
Presser Company
#446-41106. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.446411060). UPC:
680160096275. 11x14
inches. Steven
Stucky has described the
saxophone quartet as
surprisingly comparable
to the string quartet as
a classic chamber music
medium, while in the
concerto format providing
a worthy counterweight to
the string orchestra. At
times, the saxophones in
Music for Saxophones and
Strings “whisper,
murmur, sigh, sing,
squeal, or even
scream†as the
composer has written in
notes about the work.
Commissioned for the
Raschèr Quartet, the
work falls into two main
sections. The composer
continues that “the
opening slow movement is
dark, nocturnal,
troubled; the language is
densely chromatic.
Mysterious, barely
audible rustlings become
increasingly more
alarming; creatures cry
in the night; and the
movement climaxes in a
lyric outpouring of
melancholy, even tragic
character. The music
subsides by way of
cadenzas for the baritone
and tenor saxophone. The
second, fast movement
arrives almost unnoticed,
since at first it too is
made up of disconnected
fragments —
quirky, skittish,
playful. There are
irregular rhythmic
accents, gliding
quarter-tone runs,
scurrying saxophone
figures (suggesting,
perhaps, a distant echo
the bebop style), and
screaming excursions into
the altissimo register.
Briefly the melancholy of
the slow, nocturnal
opening returns, before a
quick coda leads to an
emphatic
conclusion.â€. $75.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Jatekok - Games - Spiele 5 Piano seul EMB (Editio Musica Budapest)
Piano SKU: BT.EMBZ14002 Tagebucheintragungen, persönliche Botschaft...(+)
Piano SKU:
BT.EMBZ14002
Tagebucheintragungen,
persönliche
Botschaften. Composed
by Gyorgy Kurtag.
Contemporary Music. Book
Only. Composed 1997. 48
pages. Editio Musica
Budapest #EMBZ14002.
Published by Editio
Musica Budapest
(BT.EMBZ14002).
English-German-Hungari
an. The idea of
composing 'Games' was
suggested by children
playing spontaneously,
children for whom the
piano still means a toy.
They experiment with it,
caress it, attack it and
run their fingers over
it. They pile up
seemingly disconnected
sounds, and if this
happens to arouse their
musical instinct they
look consciously for some
of the harmonies found by
chance and keep repeating
them. Thus this series
does not provide a tutor,
nor does it simply stand
as a collection of
pieces. It is a
possibility for
experimenting and not for
learning to play the
piano.Pleasure in
playing, the joy of
movement - daring and if
need be fast movement
over the entire keyboard
right from the
firstlessons instead of
clumsy groping for keys
and the counting of
rhythms - all these
rather vague ideas lay at
the outset of the
creation of this
collection. Playing - is
just playing. It requires
a great deal of freedom
and initiative from the
performer. On no account
should the written image
be taken seriously but
the written image must be
taken extremely seriously
as regards the musical
process, the quality of
sound and silence. We
should trust the picture
of the printed notes and
let is exert its
influence upon us. The
graphic picture conveys
an idea about the
arrangement in time of
even the most free
pieces. We should make
use of all that we know
and remember of free
declamation, folk-music
parlando-rubato, of
Gregorian chant and of
all that improvisational
musical practice has ever
brought forth.Let us
tackle bravely even the
most difficult task
without being afraid of
making mistakes: we
should try to create
valid proportions, unity
and continuity out of the
long and short values -
just for our own
pleasure! (BMC CD
139). $24.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Bones! - Performance Pack Voix d'Enfants [Edition pour professeur] Alfred Publishing
By Janet Gardner. Children's Musicals and Programs. Choral. Director's Score and...(+)
By Janet Gardner.
Children's Musicals and
Programs. Choral.
Director's Score and 10
Singer's Editions.
Published by Alfred
Publishing.
$69.99 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| Gyorgy Kurtag : Games for Piano - Volume 1 Piano seul EMB (Editio Musica Budapest)
By Gyorgy Kurtag. Arranged by Jatekok. EMB. Size 9x12 inches. 25 pages. Publishe...(+)
By Gyorgy Kurtag.
Arranged by Jatekok. EMB.
Size 9x12 inches. 25
pages. Published by
Editio Musica Budapest.
$26.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 24 hours - In Stock | | |
| String Quartet No. 3 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.164002720 Cassatt. Composed b...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet SKU:
PR.164002720
Cassatt. Composed
by Dan Welcher. Spiral
and Saddle. Premiere:
Cassatt Quartet,
Northeastern Illinois
University, Chicago, IL.
Contemporary. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed 2007. WRT11142.
52+16+16+16+16 pages.
Duration 24 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#164-00272. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.164002720). UPC:
680160573042. 8.5 x 11
inches. My third
quartet is laid out in a
three-movement structure,
with each movement based
on an early, middle, and
late work of the great
American impressionist
painter Mary Cassatt.
Although the movements
are separate, with
full-stop endings, the
music is connected by a
common scale-form,
derived from the name
MARY CASSATT, and by a
recurring theme that
introduces all three
movements. I see this
theme as Mary's Theme, a
personality that stays
intact while undergoing
gradual change. I
The Bacchante (1876)
[Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania] The
painting shows a young
girl of Italian or
Spanish origin, playing a
small pair of cymbals.
Since Cassatt was trying
very hard to fit in at
the French Academy at the
time, she painted a lot
of these subjects, which
were considered typical
and universal. The style
of the painting doesn't
yet show Cassatt's
originality, except
perhaps for certain
details in the face.
Accordingly the music for
this movement is
Spanish/Italian, in a
similar period-style but
using the musical
signature described
above. The music begins
with Mary's Theme,
ruminative and slow, then
abruptly changes to an
alla Spagnola-type fast
3/4 - 6/8 meter. It
evokes the
Spanish-influenced music
of Ravel and Falla.
Midway through,
there's an accompanied
recitative for the viola,
which figures large in
this particular movement,
then back to a truncated
recapitulation of the
fast music. The overall
feeling is of a
well-made, rather
conventional movement in
a contemporary
Spanish/Italian style.
Cassatt's painting, too,
is rather conventional.
II At the Opera
(1880) [Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston,
Massachusetts]
This painting is one of
Cassatt's most well known
works, and it hangs in
the Museum of Fine Arts
in Boston. The painting
shows a woman alone in a
box at the opera house,
completely dressed
(including gloves) and
looking through opera
glasses at someone or
something that is NOT on
the stage. Across the
auditorium from her, but
exactly at eye level, is
a gentleman with opera
glasses intently watching
her - though it is not
him that she's looking
at. It's an intriguing
picture. This
movement is far less
conventional than the
first movement, as the
painting is far less
conventional. The music
begins with a rapid,
Shostakovich-type
mini-overture lasting
less than a minute, based
on Mary's Theme. My
conjecture is that the
woman in the painting has
arrived late to the
opera, busily stumbling
into her box. What
happens next is a kind of
collage, a kind of
surrealistic overlaying
of two different
elements: the foreground
music, at first is a
direct quotation of
Soldier's Chorus from
Gounod's FAUST (an opera
Cassatt would certainly
have heard in the
brand-new Paris Opera
House at that time),
played by Violin II,
Viola, and Cello. This
music is played sul
ponticello in the melody
and col legno in the
marching accompaniment.
On top of this, the first
violin hovers at first on
a high harmonic, then
descends into a slow
melody, completely
separate from the Gounod.
It's as if the woman in
the painting is hearing
the opera onstage but is
not really interested in
it. Then the cello joins
the first violin in a
kind of love-duet (just
the two of them, at
first). This music isn't
at all Gounod-derived;
it's entirely from the
same scale patterns as
the first movement and
derives from Mary's Theme
and its scale. The music
stays in a kind of
dichotomy feeling,
usually
three-against-one, until
the end of the movement,
when another Gounod
melody, Valentin's aria
Avant de quitter ce lieux
reappears in a kind of
coda for all four
players. It ends
atmospherically and
emotionally disconnected,
however. The overall
feeling is a kind of
schizophrenic,
opera-inspired dream.
III Young Woman in
Green, Outdoors in the
Sun (1909) [Worcester Art
Museum, Massachusetts]
The painting, one
of Cassatt's last, is
very simple: just a
figure, looking sideways
out of the picture. The
colors are pastel and yet
bold - and the woman is
likewise very
self-assured and not in
the least demure. It is
eight minutes long, and
is all about melody -
three melodies, to be
exact (Young Woman,
Green, and Sunlight). No
angst, no choppy rhythms,
just ever-unfolding
melody and lush
harmonies. I quote one
other French composer
here, too: Debussy's song
Green, from Ariettes
Oubliees. 1909 would have
been Debussy's heyday in
Paris, and it makes
perfect sense musically
as well as visually to do
this. Mary Cassatt
lived her last several
years in near-total
blindness, and as she
lost visual acuity, her
work became less sharply
defined - something akin
to late water lilies of
Monet, who suffered
similar vision loss. My
idea of making this
movement entirely melodic
was compounded by having
each of the three
melodies appear twice,
once in a pure form, and
the second time in a more
diffuse setting. This
makes an interesting two
ways form:
A-B-C-A1-B1-C1.
String Quartet No.3
(Cassatt) is dedicated,
with great affection and
respect, to the Cassatt
String Quartet, whose
members have dedicated
themselves in large
measure to the furthering
of the contemporary
repertoire for
quartet. $53.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
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