PARTITIONS GRATUITES : FLûTE, HAUTBOIS ET CLARINETTE EN SIB
- Three Inventions

Chamber Music Harpsichord

SKU: PR.110418390

Composed by Eric Ewazen. Full score. 11 pages. Duration 10 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #110-41839. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.110418390).

ISBN 9781491134603. UPC: 680160685158.

Eric Ewazen’s THREE INVENTIONS were inspired by Bach’s Two-part Inventions, yet they sound thoroughly like Ewazen. Composed for harpsichord (with a piano adaptation following later), Ewazen’s inventions maintain a pure “one note per hand” texture until their final chord, with strong-but-free imitative counterpoint between the two voices. While Ewazen may be best known for his wind music, he is a pianist himself, and composers’ works for their own instrument are a direct insight into how they write for their own performances. The piano adaptation of THREE INVENTIONS is also available as a separate publication.
THREE INVENTIONS was written for my dear friend Maria Rojas, who premiered the work on a faculty recital at Juilliard. Maria is both a pianist and a harpsichordist, and I first met her when she gave a demonstration of the harpsichord for the students in my theory classes.I’ve always been captivated by Bach’s series of Two-Part and Three-Part Inventions. With the Two-Part Inventions, I’m amazed how Bach could create such wonderful intricacy and counterpoint with only two voices. I consequently modeled my inventions after the counterpoint of Bach, involving the traditional contrapuntal devices he used: imitation, development, harmonic and modal shifts, fragmentation, and sequence, essentially creating a dialog between two completely equal voices conversing with each other!Bach wrote 15 Two-Part Inventions (as well as 15 Three-Part Inventions, not to mention the 48 preludes and fugues in The Well-Tempered Clavier!), and that’s just the start of his voluminous repertoire for the keyboard! I was happy just to write three!!!Each of my inventions has a distinctive mood. The first is in a relaxed, yet cheerful C Major tonality (as a nod to Bach’s Invention No. 1 in C Major); the second is heartfelt and lyrical; and the third invention (involving a Gigue rhythm in the compound meter of 12/8) is energetic, and full of life and spontaneity. The third is primarily in a minor tonality, resulting in a feeling of drama, bringing the THREE INVENTIONS to an exciting finale.

Chamber Music Flute 1, Flute 2, Flute 3, Flute 4, Flute 5, Piccolo 1, Piccolo 2, Piccolo 3, Piccolo 4, Piccolo 5

SKU: PR.114419390

For Five Flutes (doubling Piccolos). Composed by Martin Amlin. Sws. Set of Score and Parts. 24+8+8+8+8+8 pages. Duration 10 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41939. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114419390).

ISBN 9781491130858. UPC: 680160677139. 9 x 12 inches.

Martin Amlin’s new tour de force is a quintet composed for Leone Buyse. It is a study in textures and canonic gestures scored for 5 C Flutes, each doubling Piccolo. As with his rhythmic writing, Amlin’s movement titles are engagingly cryptic yet meaningful: 1. Apparatus, 2. Mirémi, 3. Spiral Canon. Ideal for advanced and professional flutists, the work’s intricacies create an exhilarating ten minutes.
THREE INVENTIONS was premiered at Boston University on April 14, 2019 by flutists/piccoloists Matthew Lee, Jessie Wang, Courtney Regester, Pauline Jung, and Alyssa Primeau. The piece is dedicated to the composer’s longtime friend Leone Buyse.Apparatus is a little musical machine whose engine is driven by the interval of a perfect fifth. Fifths combine with each other in increasingly larger intervals in a repetitive pattern that appears at higher pitch levels with each iteration.Mirémi is constructed loosely on an ostinato consisting of the notes D and E. The two notes are passed back and forth among the instruments, combining with symmetrical patterns of faster notes.Spiral Canon is a continuous canon throughout among the five instruments. It not only spirals upward in register, but is also constantly “modulating,” spiraling twice through the entire circle of fifths.— Martin Amlin.

(three Bach inventions for mallet duo). By Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). Arranged by Brian Slawson. Mallet Duet. For 1 small marimba (4 octave), one 4.3 octave marimba (low A) NOTE: If necessary, the treble clef part (small marimba) may be played on vibraphone (2 players). Percussion Duets. Medium. Score and parts on CD-ROM. 8 pages. Duration 3'10 . Published by Tapspace Publications

(Two- and Three-Part Inventions) Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), edited by Willard A. Palmer. For piano solo. Format: piano solo book. With introductory text, instructional text, standard notation and fingerings. Baroque. Series: Alfred Masterworks Editions. 112 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Alfred Publishing.
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(Two- and Three-Part Inventions) Played by Valery Lloyd-Watts, composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), edited by Willard A. Palmer. Performance CD. CD Only - no sheet music. Series: Alfred Masterworks Editions. Published by Alfred Publishing.

Piano SKU: HU.HN589 Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Edited by Ullrich Scheideler. Piano and Keyboard, Repertoire, Solos. Inventions and Sinfonias. Baroque, Classical. Softcover Book. 99 pages. G. Henle #HN589. Published by G. Henle