PARTITIONS GRATUITES :
- Four Moods

Piano Duet

SKU: HL.14018852

Composed by Kenneth Leighton. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Music Sales #NOV100349. Published by Music Sales (HL.14018852).

ISBN 9780853609308.

Pian o duet score. 1st performance Ellesmere College, January 1986 by Richard Markham and David Nettle. Duration c.24 minutes. The work is in three movements and the musical thought is symphonic. The first movement (based entirely on the opening motive) goes through a series of paragraphs which eventually culminate in an extended melodic line played entirely by the treble player. The middle movement is a playful Scherzo with a rather sardonic waltz for its Trio. The slow movement (which comes last) is much more relaxed and concentrates on a D major motive with sharpened fourths, but the more intense moods of the first movement return in a suddenly impassioned middle section.

Four Simple Pieces for Trombone by Alan Hutt. For Tuba and Piano. Grades 2-4. Sheet Music. Published by ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music)

Medium Voice & Piano

SKU: ST.Y291

Composed by Rhian Samuel. Vocal music. Four songs for medium voice and piano to poems by Anne Stevenson and Emily Dickinson.. Vocal score. Stainer & Bell Ltd. #Y291. Published by Stainer & Bell Ltd. (ST.Y291).

ISBN 9790220223372.

CONT ENTS
1. Blackbird (Anne Stevenson) (b - g)
2. The moon is distant (Emily Dickinson) (b - g sharp)
3. Bird in hand (Anne Stevenson) (e flat - g flat)
4. On not being able to look at the moon (Anne Stevenson) (b - g)

For medium voice and piano or ensemble of flute, harp and string quartet, Moon and Birds is a substantial cycle of songs to words by Anne Stevenson and Emily Dickinson. Its sequence of four settings, 'Blackbird', 'The moon is distant' (Dickinson), 'Bird in hand' and 'On not being able to look at the moon' unfolds a symmetrical structure of contrasting yet interlocking moods in which the reflective second and fourth numbers, lunar visions of mystic tranquillity flawed by doubt and pain, temper with human frailty the bright epiphanies of the first and third songs.

There is a fascinating challenge here for the performer to embrace both elation and gravitas in a single reading, Samuel's vigorous musical invention binding the developing web of feeling with its own formal strengths and subtly illustrative moments. In the version for string quartet, flute and harp, first performed by Contemporary Connections on 4 November 2011 at St James's Church Piccadilly, the flute takes a prominent role throughout. Violins, viola and cello at times elaborate on the simpler textures of the keyboard version, though the two scores remain entirely compatible. The bluesy harmonies of the concluding number, whether weighted by sonorous string quartet or profiled in edgier piano chords, bring the cycle to a sombre conclusion with a proper sense of an emotional world traversed.

Trumpet and Trombone Duet in 4 movements - advanced

SKU: CY.CC2778

Composed by Elizabeth Raum. Contemporary. Booklet. Published by Cherry Classics (CY.CC2778).

Four Elements was originally composed for Violin and Bass Trombone and was written as a Christmas present for the composer's sister, Priscilla, and her husband, Bass Trombonist, Gordon Hallberg who performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Raum was experimenting with tone rows at the time and the row is first stated in the first six notes in the Trombone part followed by the next six in the Violin part.

The titles of the movements, from the Four Elements, are descriptive of the moods of each movement.

Water has the lines of the instruments flowing, as in a river with swirls and eddies.

Earth has Jazz influences which are intended to give an Earthy quality to the second movement.

Air, with mutes, glissandos, and quasi unmeasured rhythm, seeks to float;

The finale Fire is crackling with excitement.

Trombonist, David William Brubeck, asked Raum if she had anything written for trumpet and trombone as he frequently performs in a duo so she adapted the violin part in Four Elements for trumpet.

The work can be performed by advanced performers.

Two scores are provided, including one for C Trumpet and the other for B-flat Trumpet. The Trombone part can be performed with an f-attachment Tenor Trombone or Bass Trombone.

By Fibich Zdenek. Czech title: Nalady, dojmy a upominky op. 41/III. Published by Praha (Czech import).

Composed by Robert Russell Bennett (1894-1981). Arranged by R. Mark Rogers. Southern Music. Concert Band. Softcover. Southern Music Company #S971CB. Published by Southern Music Company

By Fibich Zdenek. Czech title: Nalady, dojmy a upominky op. 41/IV. Published by Praha (Czech import).