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Organ SKU: HL.14043696 Organ Solo. Composed by Nico Muhly. Music S...(+)
Organ SKU:
HL.14043696 Organ
Solo. Composed by
Nico Muhly. Music Sales
America. Classical,
Contemporary. Softcover.
16 pages. St. Rose Music
#SRO100101. Published by
St. Rose Music
(HL.14043696). UPC:
840126948806.
12.0x9.0x0.059 inches.
English. Commission
ed by organist James
McVinnie in 2009. $17.99 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 24 hours - In Stock | | |
| Tsunami Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music SKU: PR.16400213S Composed by Dan Welcher. Spiral. Full sco...(+)
Chamber Music SKU:
PR.16400213S Composed
by Dan Welcher. Spiral.
Full score. With Standard
notation. 1+37 pages.
Duration 11 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#164-00213S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.16400213S). UPC:
680160037636. 8.5 x 11
Landscape
inches. The unusual
combination of cello,
percussion and piano
seems more incongruous
than it actually sounds.
When I first heard the
ensemble Aequalis, in a
full evening program I
was absolutely astonished
at the combination of
lyricism, pulse, and
color. Something about
the mix causes the cello
to sound marimba-like,
the vibraphone to imitate
the cello's harmonics,
and the piano to become a
kind of proto-orchestra
of colors and effects.
Tsunami was
written for Aequalis in
the summer and fall of
1991 with the assistance
of a grant from Chamber
Music America. The title,
the Japanese word for
tidal wave (which is a
misnomer -- tsunamis have
nothing to do with the
tides), refers to the
phenomenon of an undersea
disturbance causing a
huge wall of water to
flood the first land in
its path. The initial
earthquake or volcanic
eruption that sends a
seismic shock through the
water is invisible --
it's only when that shock
wave hits land, recoils,
and takes ocean swells
back with it, that the
wave begins to form. In
successive landings,
recoilings, and
re-landings, this force
finally spends itself,
usually inundating
anything in its path,
sometimes to a depth of
one hundred feet or more.
My piece does not
attempt to depict this
natural cataclysm -- how
could it, with three
instruments? -- but the
form of the first half of
the work is based on it.
The initial percussive
shock that opens the
piece creates a stir in
the form of a cello
motive marked swelling
and employing long
portamenti pushing
upwards. After a second
shock, the cello motive
begins an undersea
journey -- very slow and
lyrical at first --
accompanied by
non-pitched percussion
only. Eventually the
piano joins, first with
echoing bass notes, then
with a rather mechanical
motive high on the
keyboard. This force
grows, the cello line
climbs higher and higher
until another
double-shock is heard --
perhaps the energy has
hit land? Following this,
the percussion becomes
melodic (marimba), and we
now have two lines in
canon accompanied by a
separate line in the
piano. This, too, builds
to a climax, and an even
louder and more vigorous
shock results. Now the
texture is a three-way
canon with cello,
vibraphone, and piano
chasing each other in
ever faster cycles of
sound. The height of this
is a triple cadenza in
which all three players
spend their pent-up
energy, one at a time.
The second part of
the piece follows after a
settling-down, and is
marked Dancing. This is a
rondo, with a recurring
theme (heard first in the
marimba) followed by
three contrasting
sections heard between
reiterations of the main
tune (the form could be
diagrammed A-A-B-A-C-A).
The mood is one of joyous
kinetic energy, with
elements of Eastern or
Balinese gamelan sounds,
and employing several
pentatonic scales (as
does the first half of
the work). It ends in a
vigorous, stomping dance.
--Dan Welcher
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| Sonata (Spirit of the Hudson) Flûte traversière et Piano Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Bass Flute, Piano SKU: PR.114418900 Composed by Daniel Dorf...(+)
Chamber Music Bass Flute,
Piano SKU:
PR.114418900 Composed
by Daniel Dorff. Set of
Score and Parts. 24+8
pages. Duration 14
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-41890.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114418900). ISBN
9781491129517. UPC:
680160668632. A
welcome addition to the
bass flute repertoire,
Dorff’s 14-minute
sonata is designed as two
pairs of slow-fast
movements. While composed
as a complete 4-movement
sonata, either half may
be performed alone as a
7-minute recital work.
The movement titles are:
I. Sprawling, burbling;
II. Sparkling,
glistening; III. Under
Winter; and IV. Spring
Spirits. When Peter
Sheridan commissioned me
to write a piece for bass
flute and piano, his only
requests were a
sonata-like
multi-movement work, and
some kind of reference to
New York, where we both
grew up. Just the thought
of a bass flute, with its
broad and mighty
airstream, already
reminded me of the mighty
Hudson River: from the
dense woods of upstate
New York, through the
beautiful landscapes of
New Paltz and
Poughkeepsie, down
through the celebrated
Manhattan waterway.As I
daydreamed how to build a
sonata inspired by the
Hudson, I thought of its
deep primal nature carved
by the Ice Age, and the
life within the river and
on its shores long before
humans arrived. I thought
of how the river’s
magnetism drew Native
Americans who honored and
built their lives around
it. I thought of
beautiful trees and
wildlife, the annual
cycles of ecosystems, and
the natural symbiosis
between the river itself,
the life within, and the
life on land spawned by
the river’s
resources.I wondered what
if Thoreau had sat by the
Hudson rather than by
Walden Pond; I wondered
what if Hesse had set
Siddhartha in the Hudson
Valley with this river as
his metaphor for the flow
of life and time.I
wondered whether the
sonata should flow from
north to south, or have
chronological references.
I wondered if I should
allude to the many poets
and painters who have
drawn inspiration from
the mighty Hudson. Every
thought led to the
river’s essence,
its own spirit and life
— flowing through
raw nature, from skinny
trickles to mightiness
spawning cities;
supporting subtle life,
and becoming a central
commons for human
societies.The subtitle
Spirit of the Hudson
brings it all together.*
* *The sonata is built in
4 movements, with formal
inspiration from the
Baroque: A slow Mvt. 1
“Sprawling,
burbling†leads
directly to the rapid
Mvt. 2 “Sparkling,
glistening,â€
followed by another
slow-fast pair: Mvt. 3
“Under
Winter†which leads
directly into Mvt. 4
“Spring
Spirits.†In
addition to performances
of the complete sonata,
either pair of movements
may be performed on its
own for a shorter concert
segment.SONATA (SPIRIT OF
THE HUDSON) was premiered
at the International Low
Flutes Festival in April
2018 by its commissioner,
bass flutist Peter
Sheridan, with Hyeeun
Hahm as pianist. $21.99 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| String Quartet No. 2 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Cello, Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2 SKU: PR.114406980 Vista...(+)
Chamber Music Cello,
Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2
SKU: PR.114406980
Vistas. Composed
by Shulamit Ran. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation. 42 +
112 pages. Duration 25
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-40698.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114406980). UPC:
680160010806. Shula
mit Ran’s second
string quartet, subtitled
“Vistas,â€
occupies a large canvas
that is cast in a
traditional fourmovement
mold, where the outer
movements present,
explore, and later return
to the work’s
principal musical
materials, surrounding a
slow movement and
scherzo-type third
movement with a trio. In
addition to tempo-based
titles, the individual
movements have subtitles
that are evocative of
each movement’s
character, as follows: I.
Concentric: from the
inside out II. Stasis
III. Flashes IV.
Vistas. My second
string quartet,
“Vistasâ€, is
a work cast in a
traditional four-movement
formal mold, with the
outer movements,
presenting and later
returning to the
work’s principal
musical materials,
surrounding a slow
movement and a
scherzo-type third
movement.While the four
movements’
“properâ€
names -- Maestoso con
forza, Lento, Scherzo
impetuoso, and
Introduzione; Maestoso e
grande – give some
indication of the general
character of the
individual movements, I
have also subtitled, less
formally, each movement
as follows:Â 1)
Concentric:Â from the
inside out 2)Â
Stasis 3) FlashesÂ
4) Vista. The images
evoked by these titles
tell one, I think, a bit
more about the inner
workings of the
quartet.In the first
movement, a prominently
presented opening pitch
(E) reveals itself, as
the movement unfolds, to
be a center of gravity
from which ever-growing
cycles of activity
gradually evolve.Â
While various important
themes come into being as
the movement progresses,
their impact on the
listener has, I believe,
a great deal to do with
their juxtaposition and
relationship to the
initial central point of
gravity.Stasis is, as the
name implies, a movement
where activity seems, at
times, almost
suspended. Being
also, as Webster’s
Dictionary reminds us,
“a state of static
balance and equilibrium
among opposing tendencies
or forces,†it
develops various
materials, including ones
from the first movement,
without bringing them to
points of
resolution.Flashes is
short and very fast,
evoking in my mind the
quick shimmer of
fireflies, a
“sudden burst of
lightâ€, but also a
“brief
timeâ€. Perhaps,
even, a
“smile�Final
ly, the last movement,
Vista, is not only
“a view or
outlookâ€, but also
“a comprehensive
mental view of a series
of remembered or
anticipated
events.â€Â After
a brief recall of the
opening of the second
movement, this movement
brings back all the
important themes of the
first movement in their
original order. But
just as going back can
never really mean going
back in time, the
movement is much more
than recapitulatory.Â
By cutting through
previously transitory
passages and presenting
the main ideas in a
fashion more direct yet
more evolved, it also
sheds new light on
earlier events, offering
a retrospective, synoptic
view of the first
movement as it brings to
culmination the work as a
whole. “Vistasâ
€ was commissioned by
C. Geraldine Freund for
the Taneyev String
Quartet of what was then
Leningrad. It was the
first commission given in
this country to a Soviet
chamber ensemble since
the 1985 cultural
exchange accord between
the Soviet Union and the
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| E-Z Play Today #316: White Pages Piano Facile [Partition] - Débutant Hal Leonard
By Various. E-Z Play Today. Softcover. Big note notation. 880 pages. Published b...(+)
By Various. E-Z Play
Today. Softcover. Big
note notation. 880 pages.
Published by Hal Leonard
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