| Three Hymns for Clarinet and Piano Clarinette et Piano MorningStar Music Publishers
By Daniel S. Pinkston. For piano and clarinet. Chamber Music. Level: Medium/Easy...(+)
By Daniel S. Pinkston.
For piano and clarinet.
Chamber Music. Level:
Medium/Easy-Medium.
Published by MorningStar
Music Publishers.
$12.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| Inspirational Hymns with CD - Clarinet Clarinette [Partition + CD] Santorella Publications
Inspirational Hymns for Clarinet with CD composed by Various. Arranged by Tony S...(+)
Inspirational Hymns for
Clarinet with CD composed
by Various. Arranged by
Tony Santorella and
Jonathon Robbins. For
clarinet. This edition:
Paperback. Collection.
Sacred. Book and CD. Text
Language: English. 32
pages. Published by
Santorella Publications
$14.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| Inspirational Hymns for Clarinet with CD Clarinette Santorella Publications
Clarinet SKU: SP.TS057 Composed by Tony Santorella. Collection; Sacred. B...(+)
Clarinet SKU:
SP.TS057 Composed by
Tony Santorella.
Collection; Sacred. Book
and CD. Santorella
Publications #TS057.
Published by Santorella
Publications (SP.TS057).
ISBN 9781585603282.
UPC:
649571100575. Spiri
tual enlightenment is at
the heart of this sacred
collection from
Santorella Publications.
Inspirational Hymns for
Clarinet arranged by Tony
Santorella and Jonathon
Robbins features thirty-
three well known hymns
written specifically for
brass and reed
instruments and includes
a piano accompaniment CD.
Each piece is edited and
arranged in a comfortable
key and range for wind
players of any level. A
great addition to any
church music library,
this assortment of sacred
titles is sure to bring
the congregation to its
feet with songs of
praise. Written in
accommodating keys for
Bb, Eb, C treble and C
bass clef instruments,
now everyone can sing His
praise and worship in
song. Includes: Nearer My
God To Thee - Fairest
Lord Jesus - Where He
Leads Me - O God, Our
Help in Ages Past - Rock
of Ages - There is a
Happy Land - Holy, Holy,
Holy - Lead Kindly Light
- Faith of Our Fathers -
The Little Brown Church
in the Vale - A Mighty
Fortress is Our God -
Hark! The Vesper Hymn is
Stealing - Abide With Me
- Now The Day is Over -
Praise God From Whom All
Blessings Flow - The Lord
is My Shepherd - Blest
The Tie That Binds -
Eternal Father, Strong to
Save (The Navy Hymn) -
Bringing in The Sheaves -
Jesus Loves Me - Evening
Prayer - Jesus, Lover of
My Soul - Prayer of
Thanksgiving - Softly Now
The Light of Day - When I
Survey The Wond'rous
Cross - I Need Thee Every
Hour - He Leadeth Me -
Jesus, Saviour, Pilot Me
- Let The Lower Lights Be
Burning - Stand Up For
Jesus - God Be With You
'Till We Meet Again -
Amazing Grace. $14.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| For the Mystic Harmony Theodore Presser Co.
Band Bass Clarinet, Bassoon 1, Bassoon 2, Clarinet, Clarinet 1, Clarinet 2, Clar...(+)
Band Bass Clarinet,
Bassoon 1, Bassoon 2,
Clarinet, Clarinet 1,
Clarinet 2, Clarinet 3,
Contrabass Clarinet,
Contrabassoon, English
Horn, Flute 1, Flute 2,
Oboe 1, Oboe 2, Piccolo,
alto Saxophone, soprano
Saxophone, tenor
Saxophone SKU:
PR.165001000 Hymns
for Wind Ensemble.
Composed by Dan Welcher.
Folio. Set of Score and
Parts.
4+24+24+16+8+4+4+24+12+12
+8+4+4+4+4+8+8+8+8+4+4+4+
4+8+8+8+8+8+8+8+8+4+16+4+
8+4+8+8+4+4+4+48 pages.
Duration 10 minutes, 41
seconds. Theodore Presser
Company #165-00100.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.165001000). ISBN
9781491129241. UPC:
680160669776. 9 x 12
inches. Commissione
d for a consortium of
high school and college
bands in the north Dallas
region, FOR THEMYSTIC
HARMONY is a 10-minute
inspirational work in
homage to Norwood and
Elizabeth Dixon,patrons
of the Fort Worth
Symphony and the Van
Cliburn Competition.
Welcher draws melodic
flavorfrom five American
hymns, spirituals, and
folk tunes of the 19th
century. The last of
these sources toappear is
the hymn tune For the
Beauty of the Earth,
whose third stanza is the
quatrain: “For the
joy of earand eye, For
the heart and
mind’s delight,
For the mystic harmony,
Linking sense to sound
and sight,â€giving
rise to the work’s
title. This work,
commissioned for a
consortium of high school
bands in the north Dallas
area, is my fifteenth
maturework for wind
ensemble (not counting
transcriptions). When I
asked Todd Dixon, the
band director
whospearheaded this
project, what kind of a
work he most wanted, he
first said
“something
that’s basically
slow,†butwanted to
leave the details to me.
During a long subsequent
conversation, he
mentioned that his
grandparents,Norwood and
Elizabeth Dixon, were
prime supporters of the
Fort Worth Symphony,
going so far as to
purchase anumber of high
quality instruments for
that orchestra. This
intrigued me, so I asked
more about his
grandparentsand was
provided an 80-page
biographical sketch.
Reading that article,
including a long section
about theirdevotion to
supporting a young man
through the rigors of the
Van Cliburn International
Piano Competition fora
number of years, moved me
very much. Norwood and
Elizabeth Dixon
weren’t just
supporters of the arts;
theywere passionate
lovers of music and
musicians. I determined
to make this work a
testament to that love,
and tothe religious faith
that sustained them both.
The idea of using extant
hymns was also suggested
by Todd Dixon,and this
10-minute work is the
result.I have employed
existing melodies in
several works, delving
into certain kinds of
religious music more than
a fewtimes. In seeking
new sounds, new ways of
harmonizing old tunes,
and the contrapuntal
overlaying of one
tunewith another, I was
able to make works like
ZION (using 19th-century
Revivalist hymns) and
LABORING SONGS(using
Shaker melodies) reflect
the spirit of the
composers who created
these melodies, without
sounding likepastiches or
medleys. I determined to
do the same with this new
work, with the added
problem of
employingmelodies that
were more familiar. I
chose five tunes from the
19th century: hymns,
spirituals, and
folk-tunes.Some of these
are known by differing
titles, but they all
appear in hymnals of
various Christian
denominations(with
various titles and
texts). My idea was to
employ the tunes without
altering their notes,
instead using aconstantly
modulating sense of
harmony —
sometimes leading to
polytonal harmonizations
of what are
normallysimple four-chord
hymns.The work begins and
ends with a repeated
chime on the note C: a
reminder of steeples,
white clapboard
churchesin the country,
and small church organs.
Beginning with a
Mixolydian folk tune of
Caribbean origin
presentedtwice with
layered entrances, the
work starts with a
feeling of mystery and
gentle sorrow. It
proceeds, after along
transition, into a second
hymn that is sometimes
connected to the sea
(hence the sensation of
water andwaves throughout
it). This tune, by John
B. Dykes (1823-1876), is
a bit more chromatic and
“shifty†than
mosthymn-tunes, so I
chose to play with the
constant sensation of
modulation even more than
the original does. Atthe
climax, the familiar
spiritual “Were you
there?†takes over,
with a double-time
polytonal feeling
propelling itforward at
“Sometimes it
causes me to
tremble.â€Trumpets
in counterpoint raise the
temperature, and the
tempo as well, leading
the music into a third
tune (ofunknown
provenance, though it
appears with different
texts in various hymnals)
that is presented in a
sprightlymanner. Bassoons
introduce the melody, but
it is quickly taken up by
other instruments over
three
“verses,â€cons
tantly growing in
orchestration and volume.
A mysterious second tune,
unrelated to this one,
interrupts it inall three
verses, sending the
melody into unknown
regions.The final melody
is “For the Beauty
of the Earth.†This
tune by Conrad Kocher
(1786-1872) is commonly
sung atThanksgiving
— the perfect
choice to end this work
celebrating two people
known for their
generosity.Keeping the
sense of constant
modulation that has been
present throughout, I
chose to present this
hymn in threegrowing
verses, but with a twist:
every four bars, the
“key†of the
hymn seems to shift
— until the
“Lord of all,
toThee we praiseâ€
melody bursts out in a
surprising compound
meter. This, as it turns
out, was the
“mystery
tuneâ€heard earlier
in the piece. After an
Ivesian, almost polytonal
climax, the Coda begins
over a long B( pedal. At
first,it seems to be a
restatement of the first
two phrases of “For
the Beauty†with
long spaces between them,
but it soonchanges to a
series of
“Amenâ€
cadences, widely
separated by range and
color. These, too, do not
conform to anykey, but
instead overlay each
other in ways that are
unpredictable but
strangely comforting.The
third verse of “For
the Beauty of the
Earth†contains
this quatrain:“For
the joy of ear and eye,
–For the heart and
mind’s delightFor
the mystic harmonyLinking
sense to sound and
sightâ€and it was
from this poetry that I
drew the title for the
present work. It is my
hope that audiences and
performerswill find
within it a sense of
grace: more than a little
familiar, but also quite
new and unexpected. $150.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 24 hours - In Stock | | |
| For the Mystic Harmony [Conducteur] Theodore Presser Co.
Band Bass Clarinet, Bass Drum, Bassoon 1, Bassoon 2, Bongos, Castanets, Celesta,...(+)
Band Bass Clarinet, Bass
Drum, Bassoon 1, Bassoon
2, Bongos, Castanets,
Celesta, Clarinet,
Clarinet 1, Clarinet 2,
Clarinet 3, Contrabass
Clarinet, Contrabassoon,
English Horn, Euphonium,
Euphonium T.C., Flute 1,
Flute 2, Horn 1, Horn 2,
Horn 3 and more. SKU:
PR.16500100F Hymns
for Wind Ensemble.
Composed by Dan Welcher.
Sws. Full score. 48
pages. Duration 10
minutes, 41 seconds.
Theodore Presser Company
#165-00100F. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.16500100F). ISBN
9781491114421. UPC:
680160669783. 9 x 12
inches. Commissione
d for a consortium of
high school and college
bands in the north Dallas
region, FOR THEMYSTIC
HARMONY is a 10-minute
inspirational work in
homage to Norwood and
Elizabeth Dixon,patrons
of the Fort Worth
Symphony and the Van
Cliburn Competition.
Welcher draws melodic
flavorfrom five American
hymns, spirituals, and
folk tunes of the 19th
century. The last of
these sources toappear is
the hymn tune For the
Beauty of the Earth,
whose third stanza is the
quatrain: “For the
joy of earand eye, For
the heart and
mind’s delight,
For the mystic harmony,
Linking sense to sound
and sight,â€giving
rise to the work’s
title. This work,
commissioned for a
consortium of high school
bands in the north Dallas
area, is my fifteenth
maturework for wind
ensemble (not counting
transcriptions). When I
asked Todd Dixon, the
band director
whospearheaded this
project, what kind of a
work he most wanted, he
first said
“something
that’s basically
slow,†butwanted to
leave the details to me.
During a long subsequent
conversation, he
mentioned that his
grandparents,Norwood and
Elizabeth Dixon, were
prime supporters of the
Fort Worth Symphony,
going so far as to
purchase anumber of high
quality instruments for
that orchestra. This
intrigued me, so I asked
more about his
grandparentsand was
provided an 80-page
biographical sketch.
Reading that article,
including a long section
about theirdevotion to
supporting a young man
through the rigors of the
Van Cliburn International
Piano Competition fora
number of years, moved me
very much. Norwood and
Elizabeth Dixon
weren’t just
supporters of the arts;
theywere passionate
lovers of music and
musicians. I determined
to make this work a
testament to that love,
and tothe religious faith
that sustained them both.
The idea of using extant
hymns was also suggested
by Todd Dixon,and this
10-minute work is the
result.I have employed
existing melodies in
several works, delving
into certain kinds of
religious music more than
a fewtimes. In seeking
new sounds, new ways of
harmonizing old tunes,
and the contrapuntal
overlaying of one
tunewith another, I was
able to make works like
ZION (using 19th-century
Revivalist hymns) and
LABORING SONGS(using
Shaker melodies) reflect
the spirit of the
composers who created
these melodies, without
sounding likepastiches or
medleys. I determined to
do the same with this new
work, with the added
problem of
employingmelodies that
were more familiar. I
chose five tunes from the
19th century: hymns,
spirituals, and
folk-tunes.Some of these
are known by differing
titles, but they all
appear in hymnals of
various Christian
denominations(with
various titles and
texts). My idea was to
employ the tunes without
altering their notes,
instead using aconstantly
modulating sense of
harmony —
sometimes leading to
polytonal harmonizations
of what are
normallysimple four-chord
hymns.The work begins and
ends with a repeated
chime on the note C: a
reminder of steeples,
white clapboard
churchesin the country,
and small church organs.
Beginning with a
Mixolydian folk tune of
Caribbean origin
presentedtwice with
layered entrances, the
work starts with a
feeling of mystery and
gentle sorrow. It
proceeds, after along
transition, into a second
hymn that is sometimes
connected to the sea
(hence the sensation of
water andwaves throughout
it). This tune, by John
B. Dykes (1823-1876), is
a bit more chromatic and
“shifty†than
mosthymn-tunes, so I
chose to play with the
constant sensation of
modulation even more than
the original does. Atthe
climax, the familiar
spiritual “Were you
there?†takes over,
with a double-time
polytonal feeling
propelling itforward at
“Sometimes it
causes me to
tremble.â€Trumpets
in counterpoint raise the
temperature, and the
tempo as well, leading
the music into a third
tune (ofunknown
provenance, though it
appears with different
texts in various hymnals)
that is presented in a
sprightlymanner. Bassoons
introduce the melody, but
it is quickly taken up by
other instruments over
three
“verses,â€cons
tantly growing in
orchestration and volume.
A mysterious second tune,
unrelated to this one,
interrupts it inall three
verses, sending the
melody into unknown
regions.The final melody
is “For the Beauty
of the Earth.†This
tune by Conrad Kocher
(1786-1872) is commonly
sung atThanksgiving
— the perfect
choice to end this work
celebrating two people
known for their
generosity.Keeping the
sense of constant
modulation that has been
present throughout, I
chose to present this
hymn in threegrowing
verses, but with a twist:
every four bars, the
“key†of the
hymn seems to shift
— until the
“Lord of all,
toThee we praiseâ€
melody bursts out in a
surprising compound
meter. This, as it turns
out, was the
“mystery
tuneâ€heard earlier
in the piece. After an
Ivesian, almost polytonal
climax, the Coda begins
over a long B( pedal. At
first,it seems to be a
restatement of the first
two phrases of “For
the Beauty†with
long spaces between them,
but it soonchanges to a
series of
“Amenâ€
cadences, widely
separated by range and
color. These, too, do not
conform to anykey, but
instead overlay each
other in ways that are
unpredictable but
strangely comforting.The
third verse of “For
the Beauty of the
Earth†contains
this quatrain:“For
the joy of ear and eye,
–For the heart and
mind’s delightFor
the mystic harmonyLinking
sense to sound and
sightâ€and it was
from this poetry that I
drew the title for the
present work. It is my
hope that audiences and
performerswill find
within it a sense of
grace: more than a little
familiar, but also quite
new and unexpected. $25.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 24 hours - In Stock | | |
| Madrigal Pavane / Timburibá [Conducteur] - Avancé Productions OZ
Guitar solo - Advanced SKU: DZ.DZ-4287 Composed by Francisco Braga. Arran...(+)
Guitar solo - Advanced
SKU: DZ.DZ-4287
Composed by Francisco
Braga. Arranged by
Luciano Lima. Score. Les
Productions d'OZ #DZ
4287. Published by Les
Productions d'OZ
(DZ.DZ-4287). ISBN
9782898522048. Ant
nio Francisco Braga
(1868-1945) belongs to
the generation of
Brazilian composers of
the first republican
period, aesthetically
tied to romanticism,
alongside Henrique Oswald
(1852-1931), Leopoldo
Miguez (1850-1902),
Glauco Velásquez
(1884-1914), and Barrozo
Neto (1881-1941). Born in
Rio de Janeiro, on April
15th, 1868, he began his
musical studies at the
Asilo dos Meninos
Desvalidos, in 1876. In
1883, he enrolled at the
Imperial Conservatório
de Música where he
studied harmony and
counterpoint with Carlos
de Mesquita – a former
student of César Franck,
Durand, and Massenet –
and clarinet with
Antônio Luís de Moura.
Braga's first
compositions date from
this period: Sonho de
Dante (1885), Dolce far
niente (1886), the first
Valse Romantique for
piano (1886), among
others. In 1887, he
premiered his first
symphonic work,
Fantasia-Abertura. In
1890, being one of the
finalists in a
competition to choose the
new Brazilian national
anthem, Braga was awarded
a scholarship to study in
Europe, where he took
classes with Jules
Massenet at the Paris
Conservatory. During this
period, he wrote some of
his most important
symphonic works, Paysage,
Cauchemar, Episódio
Sinfônico, and Marabá
(which was performed by
Richard Strauss and the
Vienna Philharmonic in
1920, in Brazil). His
opera Jupyra is
considered one of the
greatest Brazilian
compositions of that
genre. Back in Brazil,
he was appointed
professor of
counterpoint, fugue, and
composition at the
Instituto Nacional de
Música, in 1902. There,
some of the finest
Brazilian composers
studied with him, like
Glauco Velásquez and
Lorenzo
Fernândez. Braga
wrote operas, symphonic
works, songs, sacred
music, two Masses, music
for piano, different
chamber formations, band,
and choir. He is the
author of many patriotic
hymns, the most popular
of which is Hino à
Bandeira (with lyrics by
Olavo Bilac). He explored
Brazilian nationalist
elements in some of his
works, as in Variações
sobre um Tema Brasileiro
and in the Trio for
violin, cello and piano,
whose third movement is
based on a lundu (a
musical genre and dance
of Afro-Brazilian
origin). In addition
to being a composer,
Braga was one of the most
active conductors of his
time, having been ahead
of three orchestras in
Rio de Janeiro: Instituto
Nacional de Música,
Sociedade de Concertos
Sinfônicos, and Theatro
Municipal. Braga
conducted the Brazilian
premiere of major
symphonic works such as
La Mer (Debussy), Pacific
231 (Honegger) besides
other numerous Brazilian
compositions. In 1938,
he retired from Instituto
Nacional de Música. He
passed away on March
14th, 1945, in Rio de
Janeiro. Unfortunately
, Francisco Braga never
wrote for the guitar.
However, over a century
ago his music had already
been incorporated to its
repertoire. According to
information found in
newspapers of the time,
Spanish guitarist
Josefina Robledo included
transcriptions of pieces
by Braga in her programs
when she performed in
Brazil: Gavota e Minuete
(from the melodrama
Contratador de
Diamantes), in 1919, in
São Paulo, and the
waltz-caprice Corrupio,
in 1921, in Rio de
Janeiro. The piano
score of Madrigal Pavane
was dedicated to Alexina
Leitão and published by
Casa Vieira Machado, in
1901. According to the
composer’s catalogue,
there are two other
versions of this piece:
strings orchestra (1901)
and quartet (which is
still in manuscript).
Dedicated to Braga’s
childhood friend José de
Souza Rocha, Timburibá
(the name of a Brazilian
tree) is a tango for
piano from 1886,
published by Narciso &
Arthur
Napoleão.
Antôni
o Francisco Braga
(1868-1945) appartient à
la génération des
compositeurs brésiliens
de la première période
républicaine,
esthétiquement liés au
romantisme, aux côtés
de Henrique Oswald
(1852-1931), Leopoldo
Miguez (1850-1902),
Glauco Velásquez
(1884-1914) , et Barrozo
Neto (1881-1941). Né à
Rio de Janeiro, le 15
avril 1868, il commence
ses études musicales à
l'Asilo dos Meninos
Desvalidos, en 1876. En
1883, il s'inscrit au
Imperial Conservatório
de Música où il étudie
l'harmonie et le
contrepoint avec Carlos
de Mesquita – ancien
élève de César Franck,
Durand et Massenet – et
clarinette avec Antônio
Luís de Moura. De cette
période datent les
premières compositions
de Braga : « Sonho de
Dante » (1885), « Dolce
far niente » (1886), la
première « Valse
Romantique » pour piano
(1886), entre
autres. En 1887, il
crée sa première œuvre
symphonique, «
Fantasia-Abertura ». En
1890, étant l'un des
finalistes d'un concours
pour choisir le nouvel
hymne national
brésilien, Braga obtient
une bourse pour étudier
en Europe, où il suit
les cours de Jules
Massenet au Conservatoire
de Paris. Durant cette
période, il écrit
certaines de ses œuvres
symphoniques les plus
importantes, « Paysage
», « Cauchemar », «
Episódio Sinfônico »
et « Marabá »
(interprétée par
Richard Strauss et la
Philharmonie de Vienne en
1920, au Brésil). Son
opéra « Jupyra » est
considéré comme l'une
des plus grandes
compositions
brésiliennes de ce
genre. De retour au
Brésil, il fut nommé
professeur de
contrepoint, de fugue et
de composition à
l'Instituto Nacional de
Música, en 1902. Là,
certains des meilleurs
compositeurs brésiliens
étudièrent avec lui,
comme Glauco Velásquez
et Lorenzo
Fernândez. Braga a
écrit des opéras, des
œuvres symphoniques, des
chansons, de la musique
sacrée, deux messes, de
la musique pour piano,
différentes formations
de chambre, un orchestre
et une chorale. Il est
l'auteur de nombreux
hymnes patriotiques, dont
le plus populaire est «
Hino à Bandeira » (avec
des paroles d'Olavo
Bilac). Il a exploré des
éléments nationalistes
brésiliens dans
certaines de ses œuvres,
comme dans « Variações
sobre um Tema Brasileiro
» et dans le Trio pour
violon, violoncelle et
piano, dont le troisième
mouvement est basé sur
un « lundu » (un genre
musical et une danse
afro-américaine).
Origine
brésilienne). En plus
d'être compositeur,
Braga a été l'un des
chefs d'orchestre les
plus actifs de son
époque, ayant dirigé
trois orchestres à Rio
de Janeiro : « Instituto
Nacional de Música »,
« Sociedade de Concertos
Sinfônicos » et «
Theatro Municipal ».
Braga a dirigé la
première brésilienne
d'œuvres symphoniques
majeures telles que « La
Mer » (Debussy), «
Pacific 231 » (Honegger)
ainsi que de nombreuses
autres compositions
brésiliennes. En
1938, il prend sa
retraite de l'Instituto
Nacional de Música. Il
est décédé le 14 mars
1945 à Rio de
Janeiro. Malheureuseme
nt, Francisco Braga n’a
jamais écrit pour la
guitare. Cependant, il y
a plus d'un siècle, sa
musique était déjà
incorporée à son
répertoire. Selon des
informations trouvées
dans les journaux de
l'époque, la guitariste
espagnole Josefina
Robledo incluait des
transcriptions de pièces
de Braga dans ses
programmes lorsqu'elle se
produisait au Brésil :
« Gavota e Minuete »
(du mélodrame «
Contratador de Diamantes
»), en 1919, à São
Paulo, et la
valse-caprice « Corrupio
», en 1921, à Rio de
Janeiro. La partition
pour piano de « Madrigal
Pavane » a été
dédiée à Alexina
Leitão et publiée par
« Casa Vieira Machado
», en 1901. Selon le
catalogue du compositeur,
il existe deux autres
versions de cette pièce
: orchestre à cordes
(1901) et quatuor (qui
est encore manuscrit).
Dédié à José de Souza
Rocha, ami d'enfance de
Braga, « Timburibá »
(nom d'un arbre
brésilien) est un tango
pour piano de 1886,
publié par « Narciso &
Arthur Napoleão
». Envoyer des
commentaires Panneaux
latéraux HistoriqueEnregistrées. $9.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Zion Theodore Presser Co.
Orchestra Bassoon 1, Bassoon 2, Bassoon 3, Clarinet 1, Clarinet 2, Clarinet 3, C...(+)
Orchestra Bassoon 1,
Bassoon 2, Bassoon 3,
Clarinet 1, Clarinet 2,
Clarinet 3, Contrabass,
Flute 1, Flute 2, Flute
3, Harp, Horn 1, Horn 3,
Horn 4, Oboe 1, Oboe 2,
Oboe 3, Percussion 1,
Percussion 2, Percussion
3, Percussion 4, Piano,
Timpani, Trombone 1 and
more. SKU:
PR.466000470 Composed
by Dan Welcher. Spiral.
Large Score. With
Standard notation.
Duration 10 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#466-00047. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.466000470). UPC:
680160099405. 11 x 17
inches. This is the
second incarnation of a
work I first composed in
1994 for symphonic wind
ensemble. The earlier
version was intended to
be the summation of
three-part suite, each
part being named for a
different national park
in the Western United
States. This orchestral
version, commissioned in
1999 by the Utah Symphony
and dedicated to the
memory of Aaron Copland,
is more than a re-scoring
of the earlier piece; it
is a re-thinking of all
its elements. Zion is a
place with unrivaled
natural grandeur, being a
sort of huge box canyon
in which the traveler is
constantly overwhelmed by
towering rock walls on
every side of him -- but
it is also a place with a
human history, having
been inhabited by several
tribes of native
Americans before the
arrival of the Mormon
settlers in the mid-19th
century. By the time the
Mormons reached Utah,
they had been driven all
the way from New York
State through Ohio and,
with tragic losses,
through Missouri. They
saw Utah in general as a
place nobody wanted, but
they were nonetheless
determined to keep it to
themselves. Although Zion
Canyon was never a Mormon
Stronghold, the people
who reached it and
claimed it (and gave it
its present name) had
been through extreme
trials. It is the
religious fervor of these
persecuted people that I
was able to draw upon in
creating Zion as a piece
of music. There are two
quoted hymns in the work:
Zion's Walls (which Aaron
Copland adapted to his
own purposes in both his
Old American Songs and
the opera The Tender
Land) and Zion's
Security, which I found
in the same volume in
which Copland found
Zion's Walls -- that
inexhaustible storehouse
of 19th-century hymnody
called The Sacred Harp.
My work opens with a
three-verse setting of
Zion's Security, a stern
tune in F-sharp minor
which is full of resolve.
(The words of this hymn
are resolute and strong,
rallying the faithful to
be firm, and describing
the city of our God they
hope to establish). This
melody alternates with a
fanfare tune, whose
origins will be revealed
in later music, until the
second half of the piece
begins: a driving
rhythmic ostinato based
on a 3/4-4/4 alternating
meter scheme. This pauses
at its height to restate
Zion's Security one more
time, in a rather obscure
setting surrounded by
freely shifting patterns
in the flutes, clarinets,
and percussion -- until
the sun warms the ground
sufficiently for the
second hymn to appear.
Zion's Walls is set in
7/8, unlike Copland's
9/8-6/8 meters (the
original is quite
strange, and doesn't
really fit any constant
meter), and is introduced
by a warm horn solo. The
two hymns vie for
attention from here to
the end of the piece,
with the glowingly
optimistic Zion's Walls
finally achieving
prominence. The work ends
with a sense of
triumph. $80.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Ruders Listening Earth Score Book Orchestre [Conducteur] Wilhelm Hansen
Orchestra SKU: HL.14027993 Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. ...(+)
Orchestra SKU:
HL.14027993 Composed
by Poul Ruders. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Score. Composed 2006. 164
pages. Edition Wilhelm
Hansen #WH30602.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14027993). ISBN
9788759811832.
English. Premiered
at the festival 'Magma
Berlin 2002' by the
Berlin Philharmonic
Orchestra, conducted by
David Robertson, 29th
November 2002.
3
Flutes, 1st and 2nd also
Alto Flutes in G, 3rd
also Piccolo 3 Oboes,
3rd also Cor Anglais in
F 3 Clarinets in Bb,
3rd also Bass Clarinet in
Bb 3 Bassoons, 3rd
also Contra
Bassoon
4 Horn in
F 3 Trumpets in
Bb 3 Trombones 1
Tuba
Timpani 4 Percussion, four
players Player
1 - Vibraphone,
Glockenspiel, Water
Chime, Bell Tree,
Japanese Wood Blocks,
Cymbal (Suspended),
TamTam (Medium) Player
2 - Triangle, Tubular
Bells, Crotales, Marimba,
Chinese Cymbal Player
3 - TamTam (Large), Java
Gong(Large, very low),
Bell Lyra (Handheld),
Sizzle Cymbal Player 4
- Bass Drum,
Glockenspiel,
Xylophone
1
Harp
1 Piano, also
Celesta
Strings -
16/14/12/10/8
All
transposing instruments
are notated in their
relevant
transpositions. Any
accidental apply only to
the note that it
immediately precedes,
except tied
notes. Naturals appear
occasionally 'for
safety'.
'LIST
ENING EARTH' is a
symphonic drama, a one-
movement composition in
four parts based on the
work by two writers,
Joseph Addison
(1672-1719) and W.H.Auden
(1907-1973). Joseph
Addison is not
particularly well known;
he was English, a
classical scholar,
essayist, poet and
politician, but one of
his hymns was used by
Benjamin Britten. in his
setting of a Thomas
Tallis canon. The hymn
is singularly beautiful
and being a composer
always inspired by
extramusical stimuli such
as poems, nature,
paintings, I was
immediately convinced
when I carne across the
Addison hymn, that here
was exactly what I wanted
to use as my major source
of inspiration for this
piece, commissioned by
and written for The
Berlin Philharmonic.
I don't refer to the
hymn in its entirety, but
have chosen the following
3 excerpts, all acting as
mottos for the first
three sections of the
piece, thus turning the
piece into a
straightforward tonepoem
in the classical. $131.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
Plus de résultats boutique >> |