PARTITIONS GRATUITES :
- Fluctuations

Chamber Music harp

SKU: PO.PE017

Composed by Gareth Farr. Sws. Performance Score. Promethean Editions #PE017. Published by Promethean Editions (PO.PE017).

ISBN 9781877218170.

Comm issioned by Carolyn Mills, principal harpist of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, this mysterious solo work dwells somewhere between consonance and dissonance, evoking the otherworldly quality of the ancient. The work's spacious, senza misura opening gradually reveals its scalar material, coloured with harmonics, before eventually settling into an undulating odd-metered pattern. Musical elements never remain static, with incremental harmonic changes taking place alongside gentle tempo fluctuations.

Chamber Music Clarinet, Piano, Violin, Violoncello

SKU: PR.114409830

Composed by William Kraft. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. 20+8+8+8 pages. Duration 10 minutes, 20 seconds. Theodore Presser Company #114-40983. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114409830).

UPC: 680160014613.

The first movement has two basic tempos with various fluctuations. The second movement begins with a violin solo, joined by the cello to form a double cadenza. The clarinet and piano gradually make their presence known: the clarinet taking the soloistic role of the violin and cello as they recede into the background, and the piano playing slow music, but eventually becoming quite an active participant. All instruments take the active music of the piano and throw it around in hocket fashion. The violin introduces material rhythmically reminiscent of the second movement's opening material and has a playful duet with the cello, while the clarinet and piano have slow music, all of which leads to the final brief section which offers fragments from the various parts of the movements.

Woodwind quartet - Grade 3

SKU: CL.111-0075-00

Composed by F. McKay. Ensemble. Composed 1952. Duration 3 minutes, 30 seconds. C.L. Barnhouse #111-0075-00. Published by C.L. Barnhouse (CL.111-0075-00).

This quartet begins briskly before heading into the Moderato section. Plenty of opportunities to work on tempo fluctuations. 4 Bb Clarinets or 3 Bb Clarinets, Bb Bass Clarinet or 2 Bb Clarinets, Eb Alto Clarinet, Bb Bass Clarinet.

Trombone

SKU: RM.SL10087

Composed by Jean Michel Defaye. Ensemble de trombones. Instrumental music. Duration 12 minutes. Editions Robert Martin #SL10087. Published by Editions Robert Martin (RM.SL10087).

ISBN 9790231090871.

Chamber Music Clarinet, Piano, Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2, Violoncello

SKU: PR.11440558S

Composed by Shulamit Ran. Score. With Standard notation. 45 pages. Duration 17 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-40558S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.11440558S).

UPC: 680160008971.

Conce rto da Camera II is a work for six instruments which may be further grouped into three separate entities - clarinet, string quartet, piano. In this combination, chosen by the work's commissioning organizations (the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in conjunction with Mount Holyoke College), lies the work's first challenge. While pairings of any two of these three sound types abound in the concert literature, the three together form a far less common soundscape. The main difficulty appears in the necessity to reconcile the potential of both the clarinet and the piano of acting in a soloistic capacity when pitted against the string quartet. Indeed, the three movements of the Concerto deal with this problem in various ways, with the balance of power between the six instruments' potential for unity and contrast, solo and ensemble playing, continually shifting and changing.   Yet another, more delicate, balance of power is at play here, namely, the relationship between the external, foreground level of the piece and a subtler background level. What, at first, appear like small, gentle melodic strands, mere echoes or residues of the main events, gradually assume an inner life of their own. Never actually taking over yet always there, a salient, if quiet, factor within the work's compositional fabric and evolving organism.   Though each movement includes numerous tempo fluctuations, the overall thrust of the work clearly suggests a fast-slow-fast framework, with the last movement being a loosely structured, occasionally tempestuous Rondo.

Composed by Bruce R. Smith. Band Performance Series. Score and parts. Duration 4'00. BRS Music #CB-306. Published by BRS Music (BY.CB-306). Prelude to an Allegro is a two movement work. The Prelude features tempo fluctuations between a quarter note equals 60 to 120. This pattern of tempo changes continues throughout the movement. The Allegro has a straight ahead tempo of a quarter equals 120. Various scale patterns are contrasted with large leaps. Staccato is featured throughout and contrasts with the legato scale runs. These runs consist of various scale patterns with many utilizing the augmented 2nd interval. The full range of the clarinet is utilized. This is an exciting and energetic movement. This selection is also available for Clarinet and Piano.

Organ

SKU: FG.55011-768-6

Composed by Antti Auvinen. Classical, contemporary. Book. Fennica Gehrman #55011-768-6. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-768-6).

ISBN 9790550117686.

Antt i Auvinen (b. 1974) composed Singel Excelsis in 2012 using material from an earlier work for three organs. He finds fascinating the rhythmic characteristics of the organ: Many of the vibrations and rhythmic fluctuations derived from the overtone series are extremely interesting. Also the natural virtuosity of the instrument is utterly fascinating. In fast passages the rhythmic accuracy needs very quick attack. A slower attack on the other hand makes it possible to turn the attention to gestures and figures, while details get more blurred. Different “attack features of the organ stops allow shaping of very diverse rhythmic figures in time and space.

Duration: c. 12'

Spiral bound, size B4.

Clarinet and Piano

SKU: HL.14018819

Composed by Nicola LeFanu. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Music Sales #NOV361053. Published by Music Sales (HL.14018819).

ISBN 9780853609827.

Comm issioned by The Muhlfeld Trio in 1988, Lullaby is one of a pair of pieces by Lefanu based around twilight and night. The piece features six miniatures, illustrating a mother's experiences watching her child drifting into slumber. The miniatures are performed without breaks, as one continuous piece, with fluctuations, surprises and long stretches of blissful chords and undulating textures. The clarinet part is also included on a separate insert. The second piece of the pair, Nocturne for Cello and Piano, is available: item code NOV361054.