| Reflections Piano seul Theodore Presser Co.
Scott Joplin Reconsidered. Composed by Scott Joplin (1868-1917). Edited by L...(+)
Scott Joplin
Reconsidered.
Composed by Scott Joplin
(1868-1917). Edited by
Lara
Downes. Collection.
Theodore
Presser Company
#440-40028.
Published by Theodore
Presser
Company
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| Oedipus the Tyrant [DVD] Music Distribution Services
SKU: M7.MV-8545 A tragedy by Sophocles translated by Friedrich Höld...(+)
SKU: M7.MV-8545
A tragedy by Sophocles
translated by Friedrich
Hölderlin.
Composed by Carl Orff.
DVD. MusicAvision.
Duration 136'. MDS (Music
Distribution Services)
#MV 8545. Published by
MDS (Music Distribution
Services) (M7.MV-8545).
ISBN 9783795778330.
German English. The
director and film maker
Peider A. Defilla devotes
himself to Carl Orff
again: WERGO is now going
to release his film
'Oedipus der Tyrann'
based on a production of
the Darmstadt State
Theatre. This DVD edition
'Carl Orff' presents a
new view of the
significant 20th-century
composer Carl Orff
(1895-1982). - According
to the Delphic Oracle,
Oedipus, ruler of Thebes,
can only save his city
from doom if he solves
the murder of his
predecessor Laius. In the
course of the
investigation, Oedipus
himself is accused of
regicide and realises
that several years
earlier, he unwittingly
killed Laius, his own
father, and married
Jocasta, his mother.
Thereupon, Oedipus blinds
himself. Conductor:
Stefan Blunier Stage
Director: John Dew Stage
Design: Heinz Balthes
Costumes: José Manuel
Vázquez Chorus Master:
André Weissstarring:
Norbert Schmittberg
(Oedipus), Dimitry
Ivashchenko (A priest),
Andreas Daum (Kreon),
Oleksandr Prytolyuk
(Choragus), Markus Durst
(Choragus), Mark Adler
(Tiresias), Yamina Maamar
(Iokasta), Stefan Umhey
(A messenger from
Corinth), Hans-Joachim
Porcher (A shepherd of
Laius) Darmstadt State
Theatre Orchestra
Darmstadt State Theatre
Male Chorus Darmstadt
State Theatre
Supernumeraries B.O.A.
VIDEOFILMKUNST Munich
production, Director:
Peider A. Defilla German
with english subtitles
Dolby Stereo DVD-9 / 126
+ 10 min. regional code:
0 (PAL) frame size:
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| Appalachian Fiddle Music Violon Mel Bay
Fiddle - Beginning; Intermediate; Advanced SKU: MB.30091 Featuring 43 ...(+)
Fiddle - Beginning;
Intermediate; Advanced
SKU: MB.30091
Featuring 43 Fiddlers
and 188 of Their
Tunes. Perfect
binding. Folk. Book. 212
pages. Mel Bay
Publications, Inc #30091.
Published by Mel Bay
Publications, Inc
(MB.30091). ISBN
9781513466378. 8.75 x
11.75
inches. Appalachian
fiddle music, based on
the musical traditions of
the people who settled in
the mountainous regions
of the southeastern
United States, is
widely-known and played
throughout North America
and parts of Europe
because of its complex
rhythms, its catchy
melodies, and its
often-ancient-sounding
stylistic qualities. The
authors explore the lives
and music of 43 of the
classic Appalachian
fiddlers who were active
during the first half of
the 20th century. Some of
them were recorded
commercially in the
1920s, such as Gid
Tanner, Fiddlin? John
Carson, and Charlie
Bowman. Some were
recorded by folklorists
from the Library of
Congress, such as William
Stepp, Emmett Lundy, and
Marion Reece. Others were
recorded informally by
family members and
visitors, such as John
Salyer, Emma Lee
Dickerson, and Manco
Sneed. All of them played
throughout most of their
lives and influenced the
growth and stylistic
elements of fiddle music
in their regions. Each
fiddler has been given a
chapter with a biography,
several tune
transcriptions, and tune
histories. To show the
richness of the music,
the authors make a
special effort to show
the musical elements in
detail, but also
acknowledge that nothing
can take the place of
listening. Many of the
classic recordings used
in this book can be found
on the web, allowing you
to hear and read the
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| Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory [Conducteur] Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Viola 1, Viola 2, Violin 1, Violin 2, Violoncello SKU: PR.11441...(+)
Chamber Music Viola 1,
Viola 2, Violin 1, Violin
2, Violoncello SKU:
PR.11441690S
String Quartet No.
3. Composed by
Shulamit Ran. Sws.
Contemporary. Full score.
With Standard notation.
Composed March 9 2013. 32
pages. Duration 23
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-41690S.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.11441690S). UPC:
680160626021. 9 x 12
inches. Ran's third
string quartet was
written for the Pacifica
Quartet, who are
featuring it in numerous
performances from May
2014 through February
2016, across the country
and abroad. Their blog
page dedicated to the
work also features the
composer's notes, for
more indepth insight.
...impassioned solos
emerge from ominous
quiet, and high arpeggios
in the violins quiver
alongside the earthy
cello. Ms. Ran skillfully
deploys these extremes of
color, volume and pitch,
yet the overall somewhat
chilly impression is one
of poise. -- Zachary
Woolfe, The New York
Times. My third string
quartet was composed at
the invitation of the
Pacifica
Quartet, whose
music-making I have come
to know closely and
admire hugely as resident
artists at the University
of Chicago. Already
in our early
conversations Pacifica
proposed that this
quartet might, in some
manner, refer to the
visual arts as a point of
germination. Probing
further, I found out that
the quartet members had
special interest in art
created during the
earlier part of the 20th
century, perhaps between
the two world wars.Â
It was my good fortune to
have met, a short while
later, while in residence
at the American Academy
in Rome in the fall of
2011, art conservationist
Albert Albano who steered
me to the work of Felix
Nussbaum (1904-1944), a
German-Jewish painter
who, like so many others,
perished in the Holocaust
at a young age, and who
left some powerful,
deeply moving art that
spoke to the life that
was unraveling around
him. The title of my
string quartet takes its
inspiration from a major
exhibit devoted to art by
German artists of the
period of the Weimar
Republic (1919-1933)
titled “Glitter and
Doom: German Portraits
from the 1920sâ€,
first shown at New
York’s
Metropolitan Museum of
Art in 2006-07.Â
Nussbaum would have been
a bit too young to be
included in this
exhibit. His most
noteworthy art was
created in the last very
few years of his short
life. The
exhibit’s
evocative title, however,
suggested to me the idea
of “Glitter, Doom,
Shards, Memory†as
a way of framing a
possible musical
composition that would be
an homage to his life and
art, and to that of so
many others like him
during that era.
 Knowing that their
days were numbered, yet
intent on leaving a mark,
a legacy, a memory, their
art is triumph of the
human spirit over
annihilation. Parallel
to my wish to compose a
string quartet that,
typically for this genre,
would exist as
“pure musicâ€,
independent of a
narrative, was my desire
to effect an awareness in
my listener of matters
which are, to me, of
great human concern.
 To my mind there is
no contradiction between
the two goals. Â As in
several other works
composed since 1969, this
is my way of saying
‘do not
forget’, something
that, I believe, can be
done through music with
special power and
poignancy. Â Â The
individual titles of the
quartet’s four
movements give an
indication of some of the
emotional strands this
work explores. 1)
“That which
happened†(das was
geschah) – is how
the poet Paul Celan
referred to the Shoah
– the Holocaust.
 These simple words
served for me, in the
first movement, as a
metaphor for the way in
which an
“ordinaryâ€
life, with its daily flow
and its sense of sweet
normalcy, was shockingly,
inhumanely, inexplicably
shattered. 2)
“Menace†is a
shorter movement,
mimicking a Scherzo.
 It is also
machine-like, incessant,
with an occasional,
recurring, waltz-like
little tune –
perhaps the chilling
grimace we recognize from
the executioner’s
guillotine mask. Â Like
the death machine it
alludes to, it gathers
momentum as it goes, and
is
unstoppable. 3) â
If I must perish - do
not let my paintings
dieâ€; these words
are by Felix Nussbaum
who, knowing what was
ahead, nonetheless
continued painting till
his death in Auschwitz in
1944. Â If the heart of
the first movement is the
shuddering interruption
of life as we know it,
the third movement tries
to capture something of
what I can only imagine
to be the conflicting
states of mind that would
have made it possible,
and essential, to
continue to live and
practice one’s art
– bearing witness
to the events.
 Creating must have
been, for Nussbaum and
for so many others, a way
of maintaining sanity,
both a struggle and a
catharsis – an act
of defiance and salvation
all at the same
time. 4)
“Shards,
Memory†is a direct
reference to my
quartet’s title.
 Only shards are left.
 And memory.  The
memory is of things large
and small, of unspeakable
tragedy, but also of the
song and the dance, the
smile, the hopes. All
things human. Â As we
remember, in the face of
death’s silence,
we restore dignity to
those who are
gone.—Shulamit
Ran . $29.99 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Novelty Masterpieces of the Gershwin Era Piano seul - Intermédiaire Dover Publications
(The Music of Zez Confrey, Pauline Alpert, and Rube Bloom). For Piano. Book;...(+)
(The Music of Zez
Confrey,
Pauline Alpert, and Rube
Bloom). For Piano. Book;
Masterworks; Piano
Collection; Piano
Supplemental. Dover
Edition.
20th Century; Masterwork
Arrangement; Novelty.
Intermediate. Published
by
Dover Publications
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| Caramel Mou and Other Great Piano Works of "Les Six" Piano seul - Intermédiaire/avancé Dover Publications
Composed by Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, F...(+)
Composed by Georges
Auric,
Louis Durey, Arthur
Honegger, Darius Milhaud,
Francis Poulenc, and
Germaine Tailleferre.
Edited
by Carl Simpson. For
Piano.
Book; Masterworks; Piano
Collection. Dover
Edition.
20th Century; Masterwork.
Advanced; Early Advanced;
Intermediate; Late
Intermediate. Published
by
Dover Publications
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| Jazz, Rags and Blues for Flute Flûte traversière [Partition + CD] Alfred Publishing
By Martha Mier. Arranged by Jane Sebba. For Flute. Book; CD; Woodwind - Flute Me...(+)
By Martha Mier. Arranged
by Jane Sebba. For Flute.
Book; CD; Woodwind -
Flute Method or
Collection. Blues; Jazz;
Ragtime. 28 pages.
Published by Alfred Music
Publishing
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