PARTITIONS GRATUITES : 4 CLARINETTES (QUATUOR)
- Christian Island

We Are United (Split Track Accompaniment CD) by Meredith Graham. Arranged by Pam Andrews. For Unison/2-part choir. Brentwoood Kids Music. Sacred, Modern Christian. Easy. Accompaniment CD (split track). Published by Brentwood-Benson Music Publishing

Performed by Gordon Lightfoot. Guitar tablature songbook for guitar and voice. Series: Guitar Anthology Series. 104 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

by William Bay and Mike Christiansen. For all guitars. Mastering Guitar. All styles, solos and exercises. Level: Beginning-Intermediate. Book/CD Set. Method. Size 8.75x11.75. 144 pages. Published by Mel Bay Pub., Inc.

For voice and C instrument. Format: fakebook. With vocal melody, lyrics and chord names. Traditional pop and vocal standards. Series: Hal Leonard Fake Books. 424 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Hal Leonard.

Chamber Music Anvil, Bass Drum, Crotales, Glockenspiel, Gong, Percussion, Suspended Cymbal, Tam-tam, Triangle, Tubular Bells, Vibraphone, Violin

SKU: PR.114410790

Composed by Daniel Dorff. Set of performance scores. With Standard notation. Composed 1993. 32+32 pages. Duration 13 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41079. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114410790).

ISBN 9781491112687. UPC: 680160015580. 9 x 12 inches.

THREE MYSTERIES OF NAGASAKI was inspired by the eerie darkness and ambiguous bells of the oldest Western church in Japan. Dorff’s program note describes impressions of his visit to Nagasaki while withholding any explanation of the three movements. The 13-minute work is a duo for violin and one percussionist, with an array of pitched and unpitched ringing metallic instruments plus bass drum.
THREE MYSTERIES OF NAGASAKI was inspired by the ambiguous bells of the oldest Western church in Japan.In an island nation that used to thrive on isolation from the rest of the world, Nagasaki has long been a vulnerable exception. From the 16th through 19th centuries, it was Japan’s only international port, open to Portuguese and Dutch traders. From this sole crossroads, Christianity (along with European food, flowers, and language) began flowing into the otherwise insular culture. The US Navy’s presence in the 1800s added to Nagasaki being Japan’s exposed Achilles’ heel, which may be why Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is set in this city, with Cho-Cho-San’s vulnerability symbolizing the risk of openness to Western influence.I’ve had occasion to visit Nagasaki, and have never felt so haunted. Aside from the unspeakable atrocity of 1945 and the lasting presence of that horror, there also remains a mysterious air of not really being in pure Japan, or in the present day. Nowhere was this more obvious than within the Ōura Basilica, the earliest Christian church built in Japan. Decades after visiting the basilica, I still recall its oddly distorted and slowly pealing bells, and timeless incense floating in relative darkness. The mysterious bells have stayed with me both for their own sonority, and as a subconscious reminder of everything Nagasaki is and was.Composed for a violinist-percussionist couple who ended a decades-long relationship just as I completed the work (and never performing it), it was originally called simply THREE MYSTERIES; I couldn’t make a direct reference in the title because it felt too raw. Looking back years later, the updated title THREE MYSTERIES OF NAGASAKI seems to ask more questions than it answers.

For voice and C instrument. Format: fakebook. With vocal melody, lyrics and chord names. Folk. Series: Hal Leonard Fake Books. 536 pages. 9.6x12 inches. Published by Hal Leonard.

Fake book for voice and C instrument. With vocal melody, lyrics and chord names. 115 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

Trio

SKU: BR.EB-9474

Composed by Christian Mason. Chamber music; stapled. Edition Breitkopf. New music (post-2000). Sheet Music. Composed 2008/12. 28 pages. Duration 8'. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB 9474. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.EB-9474).

ISBN 9790004189542. 9 x 12 inches.

The present piece is a wind trio reduction of my ensemble piece In Time Entwined, In Space Enlaced (2008), which was in turn an expansion of an original trio for bass flute, cor anglais and viola. Throughout the piece, the three instruments find themselves entangled in various contrapuntal and heterophonic webs. Though their individual identities are generally distinct -- by virtue of their timbral differences -- they seek to blur their boundaries, forging relationships through shared material as they attempt to merge with one another. I was inspired by the surreal expression of love in David Gascoyne's poem Antennae:The timeless sleepers tangled in the bedIn the midst of the sonorous island, aloneThe tongue between the teethThe river between the sandsLove in my hand like laceYour hand enlaced with mine.(Christian Mason, 2012)

World premiere: Olive Grove, Delikipos/Cyprus (4th International Contemporary Music Festival), September 9, 2012.