PARTITIONS GRATUITES : ENSEMBLE DE CUIVRES
- The Inaugural Ode

SKU: ST.PE1

Composed by Henry Purcell. Edited by Bruce Wood. Library Volumes. Edited Bruce Wood. First published in 2008. Pages: 184. Format: Hardback. Dimensions (mm): 303 x 213 x 17. Score. Stainer & Bell Ltd. #PE1. Published by Stainer & Bell Ltd. (ST.PE1).

ISBN 9790220222184.

In addition to Celestial music and Great Parent, hail!, formerly in Miscellaneous Odes and Cantatas which is now replaced by PE27 Symphony Songs, PE1 contains The Yorkshire Feast Song, Of old, when heroes thought it base, which was the inaugural volume of the series, published in 1878 and edited by a founder-member of the society, W. H. Cummings. The first English score with full Baroque instrumentation, including trumpets and oboes, it is a consummate display of orchestral mastery, and represents the composer's first response to Giovanni Battista Draghi's 1687 setting of Dryden's Cecilian Ode From Harmony.

CONTENTS
Celestial music did the gods inspire
Great parent, hail!
Of old, when heroes thought it base (The Yorkshire Feast Song).

Composed by Michael McCarthy. For SATB choir divisi (SSATTBB) with 2 soprano voice soloists and alto voice soloist a cappella. 2013 Inauguration, National Songs. Moderately Difficult. Octavo. Published by MorningStar Music Publishers

Woodwind Ensemble (Score & Parts)

SKU: HL.51481261

Set of Parts. Composed by Richard Strauss. Edited by Norbert Gertsch. Henle Music Folios. Classical. Softcover. 55 pages. G. Henle #HN1261. Published by G. Henle (HL.51481261).

UPC: 840126933031. 9.0x12.0x0.202 inches.

For flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (B flat), 2 bassoons, double bassoon or bass tuba, 4 horns (E flat major/B flat) with additional parts for horns in F. When he was a mere 18 years old, Richard Strauss composed the highly Romantic, one-movement Serenade for Wind Instruments, op. 7. Extremely popular among wind players to this day, this work recalls in instrumentation and structure Mozart's “Gran Partita”, which certainly served as a model for Strauss. The serenade was not premiered in its Bavarian homeland as might have been expected, butrather in Dresden, in 1882, under the direction of the then much-esteemed conductor Franz Wüllner, who had also given the inaugural performances of Richard Wagner's Rheingold and Die Walküre and later premiered Strauss' tone poems Till Eulenspiegel and Don Quixote. So it was a great honour for the young Bavarian! Editor Norbert Gertsch presents this little masterwork here for the first time in Urtext quality - in full score and instrumental parts - for which not just the first edition but also the autograph manuscript was scrutinised fastidiously.

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Cello - Intermediate

SKU: FH.VC5

Cello Series, 2013 Edition. Composed by The Royal Conservatory. Cello Series, 2013 Edition. Book/CD. The Frederick Harris Music Company #VC5. Published by The Frederick Harris Music Company (FH.VC5).

ISBN 978-1-55440-541-1.

This inaugural edition of the Cello Series offers a sound and progressive collection of Repertoire, Recordings, Etudes, Technique, and Orchestral Excerpts for the aspiring cellist. With an expansive representation of musical styles from all eras, this series addresses the need for a single collection of quality educational materials to foster musical development and instill appreciation of the richness and diversity of music written for cello. Supporting a balanced course of study, this series organizes repertoire into nine volumes from the Preparatory Level through Level 8. Each level offers music from a range of styles and compositional eras, including standard literature, new arrangements of familiar tunes, and music written for cellists, by cellists. These selections provide the flexibility to choose pedagogically appropriate material suited to each individual, and to motivate students to fully develop their musicianship and technique.
Concertos, Sonatas, and Suites:
Concerto in D Major, op. 213 - Mendelssohn, Ludwig
- First Movement: Allegro moderato
Concertino No. 1 in F Major - Breval, Jean-Baptiste arr. L.-R. Feuillard
- First Movement: Allegro
Suite in G Major - Matz, Rudolf
- Fourth Movement
- Fifth Movement
Sonata in G Major - Bach, Johann Christoph Friedrich arr. Hugo Ruf
- First Movement: Allegretto
Sonata in C Major - De Fesch, Willem arr. Jason Noble
- First Movement: Largo
- Second Movement: Vivace
Sonata - Marcello, Benedetto arr. Alfred Piatti
- First Movement: Largo
- Second Movement: Allegro
Sonata in F Major, RV 41 - Vivaldi, Antonio arr. Kathleen Wood
- First Movement: Largo
- Second Movement: Allegro
Concert Repertoire:
O Canto Do Cysne Negro - Villa-Lobos, Heitor
Frogs Dancing on Water Lilies - Mustonen, Olli
Langsam, op. 102, no. 2 - Schumann, Robert
When Music Sounds - Coulthard, Jean
Wie einst in schoener'n Tagen, op. 64, no. 1 - Popper, David
Bourree, op. 24 - Squire, William Henry
Notturno, op. 59, no. 1 - Goltermann, Georg
Scherzo and Trio - Reger, Max
Lamento - Faure, Gabriel
Lied - Rachmaninoff, Sergei
Unaccompanied Repertoire:
Capriccio No. 5 - Matz, Rudolf
Ricercar No. 3 - Gabrielli, Domenico
Suite in C Major - Matz, Rudolf
- Fourth Movement: Sarabande
- Seventh Movement: Gigue
Suite No. 1 in G Major - Bach, Johann Sebastian
- Third Movement: Courante.

Orchestra and Cobla

SKU: BO.B.3260

Composed by Josep Ma Ruera. Instrumental Sets. Duration 40:52. Published by Editorial de Musica Boileau (BO.B.3260).

ISBN 9788480207584.

Engl ish comments:
Empuries is the result of the interest Ruera showed throughout his life for the culture and music of ancient Greece. As he himself writes in the introduction to the composition: The motives behind this work were inspired by contemplating and analysing the melos of ancient Greece. The few melodies that have been discovered from those far-off times inspired the composer of Empuries to create this work, conceived with the Greek modal system in mind, and adapted to modern instruments and tastes. The tetrachord and pentachords of these forms are the very bases of this work. The descending drift of the cadence, the harmonic priority of the upper and lower notes of the tetrachords and the displacement of these chords to different acoustic levels, make it impossible to specify the classic concept of a set tonality which, within the improvised musical working of the piece, leads to a naturally intertonal or atonal piece of music. Empuries came to light in 1971, when it won group A of the Ciutat de Barcelona prize. But one must, in fact, go back to the 1930s to find its true origins. Ruera made his first foray into the theme of ancient Greece with the sardana, Empuries, la grega, with which he won first prize in the Jocs Florals in Girona, in 1931. Shortly afterwards, he wrote a piece of organ music entitled Bucolics, in the Greek modal style, which was destroyed during the Spanish civil war. Ruera continued to work on the theme and in 1936 he presented his work Tres moviments simfonics, for a big band, inspired by the ancient Greek modes, at the XIV International Festival of the ISCM held in Barcelona. The work was chosen to debut in the festival's opening concert on 19 April 1936 at Palacio de Bellas Artes in Barcelona. In 1959, Ruera won the Pau Casals Prize at the Jocs Florals de la Llengua Catalana, held at the Sorbonne in Paris, for his work, Empuries: poema per a cobla i orquestra, which would later become the fourth movement of Empuries. Nine years later, in 1968, Barcelona City Orchestra, conducted by Antoni Ros Marba, gave the first ever performance of the symphonic poem Pastoral, written to be the first movement of Empuries, in Granollers. The final step was when he finally completed the work, won the Ciutat de Barcelona prize, opened in Granollers on 2 May 1976 and recorded it for the Columbia de Barcelona label in 1977. Anna Maria Piera

Comentario s del Espanol:
La obra Empuries es fruto del interes que el maestro Ruera demostro a lo largo de su vida por la cultura y la musica de la antigua Grecia. Como el mismo escribe en la cabecera de la composicion: Los motivos generadores de esta obra estan inspirados en la contemplacion y en el analisis del melos de la antigua Grecia. Las pocas melodias que hasta el momento se han podido descubrir de aquellos tiempos remotos sugieren al autor de Empuries la realizacion de esta obra, concebida pensando en el sistema modal griego, adaptado a los instrumentos y gustos modernos. Los tetracordes y pentacordes de dichas modalidades son las celulas en las que se basa la obra. El sentido descendiente de la cadencia, la prioridad armonica de la notas extremas de los tetracordes y el desplazamiento de estos acordes a varias alturas acusticas, hacen que no sea posible precisar el clasico concepto de una tonalidad determinada y que lleven, dentro del funcionamiento contrapuntistico, a una musica naturalmente intertonal o atonal. Empuries vio la luz en el ano 1971, ganando el Premio Ciutat de Barcelona, grupo A, pero en realidad tenemos que retroceder hasta los anos 30 para encontrar sus verdaderos origenes. La primera incursion en el tema de la antigua Gracia la hizo con la sardana Empuries, la grega, con la que gano el primer premio en los Jocs Florals de Gerona del ano 1931. Poco despues escribio una pieza para organo titulada Bucolics, en el estilo modal griego, que fue destruida durante la Guerra Civil espanola. Ruera continuo trabajando en el tema y en el ano 1936 presento su obra Tres moviments simfonics, en version para gran banda, inspirada en las antiguas modalidades griegas, en el XIV Festival Internacional de la SIMC que se celebro en Barcelona. La obra fue escogida para ser estrenada en el concierto inaugural de dicho festival, el 19 de abril de 1936, en el Palacio de Bellas Artes de Barcelona. En el 1959, Ruera gano el Premio Pau Casals en los Jocs Florals de la Llengua Catalana celebrados en la Sorbona de Paris con la obra Empuries: poema per a cobla i orquestra, que sera con el paso del tiempo el cuarto movimiento de Empuries. Nueve anos mas tarde, en 1968, la Orquestra Ciutat de Barcelona, bajo la direccion de Antoni Ros Marba, interpreto en Granollers la primera audicion del poema sinfonico Pastoral, pensado como primer movimiento de Empuries. El ultimo eslabon fue terminar definitivamente la obra, ganar el Premio Ciutat de Barcelona, estrenarla en Granollers el 2 de mayo de 1976 y grabarla para la casa discografica Columbia de Barcelona, en 1977.