PARTITIONS GRATUITES :
- Paean: Cello

Chamber Music cello, piano

SKU: PR.114414310

For Cello and Piano. Composed by Samuel Adler. Sws each. 1st movement premiered 1992 in Rochester, NY; 2nd movement premiered 1980 in Hartford, CT; 3rd movement premiered 2009 in New York, NY. Contemporary. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. Composed 1992, 1980, 2009. 20+16 pages. Duration 12 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41431. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114414310).

UPC: 680160594467. 9 x 12 inches.

Three diverse pieces by Samuel Adler are presented. Emunah (Faith) is a paean to his wife, Emily. L'olam Vaed dates back to 1978 and is printed in proportional notation, to better guide the musicians and to maximize the performers' expressive freedom. Tribute, the most recent of the three, was written to mark the reopening of Alice Tully Hall in 2009.

String quartet

SKU: FG.55011-775-4

Composed by Alex Freeman. Classical, contemporary. Score & parts. Fennica Gehrman #55011-775-4. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-775-4).

ISBN 9790550117754.

Alex Freeman found initial inspiration for his string quartet (2015) in a series of photographs a geologist friend showed him of en échelon veins in rock formations. The open strings punctuated with pizzicato unisons that begin the single-movement work call to mind something crystalline and shimmering, which is immediately infused with tumbling lyrical lines in something of a rapid caccia technique throughout. The middle of the work becomes more suspended in slower material loosely based on a technique of prolation canon, comprises layers of free, expressive, lyrical, and even elegiac music moving at different speeds. As the work concludes, the materials converge in a rhythmically pulsating stasis and an almost chorale-like statement.

Duration: c. 13'

This product includes the score and the parts (A4 sized).


American-Finn ish composer Alex Freeman (b.1972) has established himself among the foremost composers of choral music in Finland. A dedicated citizen of his musical community, a teacher, and a choral singer himself, he composes music that reflects an appreciation for a wide range of aesthetics and a passion for communicating with listeners and performers. In his choral works, in particular, we find music that aims to be sonorous, melodic, and resonant, but is always crafted to carefully avoid the cliches that can burden conventional tonality.

His instrumental works run the gamut: a cantata with orchestra based on poetry of Whitman; a significant body of solo piano works that reveal deep roots in everything from austere absolute music to soaring elegaic rhetoric (see Albany Records, Inner Voice); his chamber work Blueshift (Navona Records), which is a kind of paean to Reich and Adams in miniature; open-ended modular works, like various iterations of his Slow All Clocks for electronic media, solo clarinet, and mixed choirs of kanteles; and, recently, some new directions in microtonal music.

SAB/opt. Cello Cello; Choral (SAB with Cello)

SKU: HL.374952

Composed by Joseph M. Martin. Arranged by Joseph M. Martin. Shawnee Sacred. General Worship, Sacred. Octavo. 12 pages. Duration 180 seconds. Published by Shawnee Press (HL.374952).

UPC: 196288017462. 6.75x10.5x0.029 inches. Mark 11:24, Psalm 4:1, Psalm 66:19, Romans 12:12.

This tender paean to prayer is filled with comforting imagery to consider God's reassuring presence in our lives. As the music recalls these promises of faith, we are surrounded by a beautiful tapestry of sound provided by a user-friendly SAB vocal texture. An optional solo adds variety, and the piano writing helps create a full, satisfying listening experience.