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By Daniel Baldwin. For clarinet, bassoon, horn, piano. Level 5. Duration 16 minu...(+)
By Daniel Baldwin. For
clarinet, bassoon, horn,
piano. Level 5. Duration
16 minutes. Published by
Imagine Music
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| Concerto - Piano And Orchestra - Solo Part Schott
Piano and orchestra - difficult SKU: HL.49046544 For piano and orchest...(+)
Piano and orchestra -
difficult SKU:
HL.49046544 For
piano and orchestra.
Composed by Gyorgy
Ligeti. This edition:
Saddle stitching. Sheet
music. Edition Schott.
Softcover. Composed
1985-1988. Duration 24'.
Schott Music #ED23178.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49046544). ISBN
9781705122655. UPC:
842819108726.
9.0x12.0x0.224
inches. I composed
the Piano Concerto in two
stages: the first three
movements during the
years 1985-86, the next
two in 1987, the final
autograph of the last
movement was ready by
January, 1988. The
concerto is dedicated to
the American conductor
Mario di Bonaventura. The
markings of the movements
are the following: 1.
Vivace molto ritmico e
preciso 2. Lento e
deserto 3. Vivace
cantabile 4. Allegro
risoluto 5. Presto
luminoso.The first
performance of the
three-movement Concerto
was on October 23rd, 1986
in Graz. Mario di
Bonaventura conducted
while his brother,
Anthony di Bonaventura,
was the soloist. Two days
later the performance was
repeated in the Vienna
Konzerthaus. After
hearing the work twice, I
came to the conclusion
that the third movement
is not an adequate
finale; my feeling of
form demanded
continuation, a
supplement. That led to
the composing of the next
two movements. The
premiere of the whole
cycle took place on
February 29th, 1988, in
the Vienna Konzerthaus
with the same conductor
and the same pianist. The
orchestra consisted of
the following: flute,
oboe, clarinet, bassoon,
horn, trumpet, tenor
trombone, percussion and
strings. The flautist
also plays the piccoIo,
the clarinetist, the alto
ocarina. The percussion
is made up of diverse
instruments, which one
musician-virtuoso can
play. It is more
practical, however, if
two or three musicians
share the instruments.
Besides traditional
instruments the
percussion part calls
also for two simple wind
instruments: the swanee
whistle and the
harmonica. The string
instrument parts (two
violins, viola, cello and
doubles bass) can be
performed soloistic since
they do not contain
divisi. For balance,
however, the ensemble
playing is recommended,
for example 6-8 first
violins, 6-8 second, 4-6
violas, 4-6 cellos, 3-4
double basses. In the
Piano Concerto I realized
new concepts of harmony
and rhythm. The first
movement is entirely
written in bimetry:
simultaneously 12/8 and
4/4 (8/8). This relates
to the known triplet on a
doule relation and in
itself is nothing new.
Because, however, I
articulate 12 triola and
8 duola pulses, an
entangled, up till now
unheard kind of polymetry
is created. The rhythm is
additionally complicated
because of asymmetric
groupings inside two
speed layers, which means
accents are
asymmetrically
distributed. These
groups, as in the talea
technique, have a fixed,
continuously repeating
rhythmic structures of
varying lengths in speed
layers of 12/8 and 4/4.
This means that the
repeating pattern in the
12/8 level and the
pattern in the 4/4 level
do not coincide and
continuously give a
kaleidoscope of renewing
combinations. In our
perception we quickly
resign from following
particular rhythmical
successions and that what
is going on in time
appears for us as
something static,
resting. This music, if
it is played properly, in
the right tempo and with
the right accents inside
particular layers, after
a certain time 'rises, as
it were, as a plane after
taking off: the rhythmic
action, too complex to be
able to follow in detail,
begins flying. This
diffusion of individual
structures into a
different global
structure is one of my
basic compositional
concepts: from the end of
the fifties, from the
orchestral works
Apparitions and
Atmospheres I
continuously have been
looking for new ways of
resolving this basic
question. The harmony of
the first movement is
based on mixtures, hence
on the parallel leading
of voices. This technique
is used here in a rather
simple form; later in the
fourth movement it will
be considerably
developed. The second
movement (the only slow
one amongst five
movements) also has a
talea type of structure,
it is however much
simpler rhythmically,
because it contains only
one speed layer. The
melody is consisted in
the development of a
rigorous interval mode in
which two minor seconds
and one major second
alternate therefore nine
notes inside an octave.
This mode is transposed
into different degrees
and it also determines
the harmony of the
movement; however, in
closing episode in the
piano part there is a
combination of diatonics
(white keys) and
pentatonics (black keys)
led in brilliant,
sparkling quasimixtures,
while the orchestra
continues to play in the
nine tone mode. In this
movement I used isolated
sounds and extreme
registers (piccolo in a
very low register,
bassoon in a very high
register, canons played
by the swanee whistle,
the alto ocarina and
brass with a harmon-mute'
damper, cutting sound
combinations of the
piccolo, clarinet and
oboe in an extremely high
register, also
alternating of a
whistle-siren and
xylophone). The third
movement also has one
speed layer and because
of this it appears as
simpler than the first,
but actually the rhythm
is very complicated in a
different way here. Above
the uninterrupted, fast
and regular basic pulse,
thanks to the asymmetric
distribution of accents,
different types of
hemiolas and inherent
melodical patterns appear
(the term was coined by
Gerhard Kubik in relation
to central African
music). If this movement
is played with the
adequate speed and with
very clear accentuation,
illusory
rhythmic-melodical
figures appear. These
figures are not played
directly; they do not
appear in the score, but
exist only in our
perception as a result of
co-operation of different
voices. Already earlier I
had experimented with
illusory rhythmics,
namely in Poeme
symphonique for 100
metronomes (1962), in
Continuum for harpsichord
(1968), in Monument for
two pianos (1976), and
especially in the first
and sixth piano etude
Desordre and Automne a
Varsovie (1985). The
third movement of the
Piano Concerto is up to
now the clearest example
of illusory rhythmics and
illusory melody. In
intervallic and chordal
structure this movement
is based on alternation,
and also inter-relation
of various modal and
quasi-equidistant harmony
spaces. The tempered
twelve-part division of
the octave allows for
diatonical and other
modal interval
successions, which are
not equidistant, but are
based on the alternation
of major and minor
seconds in different
groups. The tempered
system also allows for
the use of the
anhemitonic pentatonic
scale (the black keys of
the piano). From
equidistant scales,
therefore interval
formations which are
based on the division of
an octave in equal
distances, the
twelve-tone tempered
system allows only
chromatics (only minor
seconds) and the six-tone
scale (the whole-tone:
only major seconds).
Moreover, the division of
the octave into four
parts only minor thirds)
and three parts (three
major thirds) is
possible. In several
music cultures different
equidistant divisions of
an octave are accepted,
for example, in the
Javanese slendro into
five parts, in Melanesia
into seven parts, popular
also in southeastern
Asia, and apart from
this, in southern Africa.
This does not mean an
exact equidistance: there
is a certain tolerance
for the inaccurateness of
the interval tuning.
These exotic for us,
Europeans, harmony and
melody have attracted me
for several years.
However I did not want to
re-tune the piano
(microtone deviations
appear in the concerto
only in a few places in
the horn and trombone
parts led in natural
tones). After the period
of experimenting, I got
to pseudo- or
quasiequidistant
intervals, which is
neither whole-tone nor
chromatic: in the
twelve-tone system, two
whole-tone scales are
possible, shifted a minor
second apart from each
other. Therefore, I
connect these two scales
(or sound resources), and
for example, places occur
where the melodies and
figurations in the piano
part are created from
both whole tone scales;
in one band one six-tone
sound resource is
utilized, and in the
other hand, the
complementary. In this
way whole-tonality and
chromaticism mutually
reduce themselves: a type
of deformed
equidistancism is formed,
strangely brilliant and
at the same time
slanting; illusory
harmony, indeed being
created inside the
tempered twelve-tone
system, but in sound
quality not belonging to
it anymore. The
appearance of such
slantedequidistant
harmony fields
alternating with modal
fields and based on
chords built on fifths
(mainly in the piano
part), complemented with
mixtures built on fifths
in the orchestra, gives
this movement an
individual, soft-metallic
colour (a metallic sound
resulting from
harmonics). The fourth
movement was meant to be
the central movement of
the Concerto. Its
melodc-rhythmic elements
(embryos or fragments of
motives) in themselves
are simple. The movement
also begins simply, with
a succession of
overlapping of these
elements in the mixture
type structures. Also
here a kaleidoscope is
created, due to a limited
number of these elements
- of these pebbles in the
kaleidoscope - which
continuously return in
augmentations and
diminutions. Step by
step, however, so that in
the beginning we cannot
hear it, a compiled
rhythmic organization of
the talea type gradually
comes into daylight,
based on the simultaneity
of two mutually shifted
to each other speed
layers (also triplet and
duoles, however, with
different asymmetric
structures than in the
first movement). While
longer rests are
gradually filled in with
motive fragments, we
slowly come to the
conclusion that we have
found ourselves inside a
rhythmic-melodical whirl:
without change in tempo,
only through increasing
the density of the
musical events, a
rotation is created in
the stream of successive
and compiled, augmented
and diminished motive
fragments, and increasing
the density suggests
acceleration. Thanks to
the periodical structure
of the composition,
always new but however of
the same (all the motivic
cells are similar to
earlier ones but none of
them are exactly
repeated; the general
structure is therefore
self-similar), an
impression is created of
a gigantic, indissoluble
network. Also, rhythmic
structures at first
hidden gradually begin to
emerge, two independent
speed layers with their
various internal
accentuations. This
great, self-similar whirl
in a very indirect way
relates to musical
associations, which came
to my mind while watching
the graphic projection of
the mathematical sets of
Julia and of Mandelbrot
made with the help of a
computer. I saw these
wonderful pictures of
fractal creations, made
by scientists from Brema,
Peitgen and Richter, for
the first time in 1984.
From that time they have
played a great role in my
musical concepts. This
does not mean, however,
that composing the fourth
movement I used
mathematical methods or
iterative calculus;
indeed, I did use
constructions which,
however, are not based on
mathematical thinking,
but are rather craftman's
constructions (in this
respect, my attitude
towards mathematics is
similar to that of the
graphic artist Maurits
Escher). I am concerned
rather with intuitional,
poetic, synesthetic
correspondence, not on
the scientific, but on
the poetic level of
thinking. The fifth, very
short Presto movement is
harmonically very simple,
but all the more
complicated in its
rhythmic structure: it is
based on the further
development of ''inherent
patterns of the third
movement. The
quasi-equidistance system
dominates harmonically
and melodically in this
movement, as in the
third, alternating with
harmonic fields, which
are based on the division
of the chromatic whole
into diatonics and
anhemitonic pentatonics.
Polyrhythms and harmonic
mixtures reach their
greatest density, and at
the same time this
movement is strikingly
light, enlightened with
very bright colours: at
first it seems chaotic,
but after listening to it
for a few times it is
easy to grasp its
content: many autonomous
but self-similar figures
which crossing
themselves. I present my
artistic credo in the
Piano Concerto: I
demonstrate my
independence from
criteria of the
traditional avantgarde,
as well as the
fashionable
postmodernism. Musical
illusions which I
consider to be also so
important are not a goal
in itself for me, but a
foundation for my
aesthetical attitude. I
prefer musical forms
which have a more
object-like than
processual character.
Music as frozen time, as
an object in imaginary
space evoked by music in
our imagination, as a
creation which really
develops in time, but in
imagination it exists
simultaneously in all its
moments. The spell of
time, the enduring its
passing by, closing it in
a moment of the present
is my main intention as a
composer. (Gyorgy
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Concert band (1st Flute, 2nd Flute, Oboe*, 1st Bb Clarinet, 2nd Bb Clarinet, 3rd...(+)
Concert band (1st Flute,
2nd Flute, Oboe*, 1st Bb
Clarinet, 2nd Bb
Clarinet, 3rd Bb
Clarinet, Bb Bass
Clarinet*, Bassoon*, 1st
Eb Alto Saxophone*, 2nd
Eb Alto Saxophone*, Bb
Tenor Saxophone*, Eb
Baritone Saxophone*, 1st
Bb Trumpet, 2nd Bb
Trumpet, 1st F Horn, 2nd
F Hor) - grade 3 SKU:
CN.S11251 Composed by
Geoffrey Brand. Arranged
by Geoffrey Brand. Band
Music. Score only.
Duration 5:25. Published
by G & M Brand Music
Publishers (CN.S11251).
Originally
written for piano, Grieg
later scored his Holberg
Suite for orchestra.
Geoffrey Brand has done a
masterful job of setting
two movements of the
suite - the Sarabande and
Gavotte - for wind band.
Give your students the
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Born in
Bergen, Norway, into a
family of Scottish
descent, Edvard Grieg
showed a talent for music
early and at the age of
10 had piano lessons from
his mother. In 1849 he
went to study at Leipzig
Conservatoire before
moving to Copenhagen
where he met Riokaard
Nordaak, a young
Norwegian composer who
was immersed in Norwegian
nationalism and greatly
influence Grieg who felt
his future was as a
musician dedicated to
romantic nationalism.
Holberg Suite, originally
for piano, was written in
1884 in response to a
commission to mark the
bicentenary of the birth
of Ludvig Holberg, a
Norwegian dramatist and
satirist. A year later,
Grieg arranged 5
movements for string
orchestra. Sarabande and
Gavotte are intended to
be played segue but can,
if desired, be performed
separately. The music
expresses Grieg and his
native Norway in a manner
which justifies his
declaration I am not an
exponent of Scandinavian
music but of
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Chamber Music Bassoon, Piano SKU: PR.114423350 Composed by Amanda Harberg...(+)
Chamber Music Bassoon,
Piano SKU:
PR.114423350 Composed
by Amanda Harberg. Set of
Score and Parts. 32+12
pages. Duration 16
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-42335.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114423350). ISBN
9781491135112. UPC:
680160686339. This
stunning addition to the
bassoon repertory
features dramatic outer
movements framing a slow
and plaintive aria.
Harberg’s program
notes put the drama and
its crying-out high notes
in the context of writing
in 2021: “The
composition was deeply
influenced by disruptive
forces unfolding around
us. While this unrest
made writing difficult at
times and brought me to
uncomfortable places
within myself, the
process was also full of
unexpected discoveries
and musical solutions I
never would have found in
less troubled
times.â€. Connect
ions are all around us. I
first met bassoonist
Adrian Morejon while
writing my Suite for Wind
Quintet for the Dorian
Wind Quintet in 2017. He
and I quickly became fast
friends and decided to
collaborate on a new
piece. Over the next two
years, Adrian assembled a
phenomenal group of 28
bassoonists from around
the world to be
co-commissioners. Adrian
and I premiered the
resulting sonata at the
International Double Reed
Society’s 2021
Virtual Symposium.The
SONATA was composed
between January and June
2021. In composing it, my
goal was to offer
bassoonists a substantial
work that would show off
the instrument’s
remarkable strengths
including its athletic
agility, gorgeous singing
qualities, and enormous
range. While I generally
avoid being programmatic,
this composition was
deeply influenced by the
disruptive forces
unfolding around us.
While this unrest made
writing difficult at
times and often brought
me to uncomfortable
places within myself, the
process was also full of
unexpected discoveries
and musical solutions I
never would have found in
less troubled times.I am
deeply grateful to Adrian
for our collaboration,
and to everyone in the
consortium for making the
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Score and Parts Midway Series. By Philip Sparke. ANGLO MUSIC PRESS. Size 9x12 in...(+)
Score and Parts Midway
Series. By Philip Sparke.
ANGLO MUSIC PRESS. Size
9x12 inches. Published by
Anglo Music.
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| Requiem Soli, choeur mixte et accompagnement Soli, chœur mixte et piano [Vocal Score] Carus Verlag
Solo voices, SATB chorus, orchestra (2 Corni di bassetto, 2 Fg, 2 Tr, 3 Trb, Tim...(+)
Solo voices, SATB chorus,
orchestra (2 Corni di
bassetto, 2 Fg, 2 Tr, 3
Trb, Timp, 2 Vl, Va, Bc)
SKU: CA.5165203
Completed and edited
by Howard Arman.
Composed by Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart. Edited by
Howard Arman. Arranged by
Howard Arman. Vocal
score. KV 626. Duration
50 minutes. Carus Verlag
#5165203. Published by
Carus Verlag
(CA.5165203). ISBN
9790007294243. Key: D
minor. Latin. The
English conductor and
composer Howard Arman has
presented us with a
completed version of
Mozartâ??s Requiem.
â??Another one?â? you
might ask, since this
publication is only the
latest in a long line
reaching back to the
traditional Sü�mayr
version. Yet such is the
enormous power of
Mozartâ??s score that
the challenge and appeal
of completing it remain
undiminished. After two
decades of intensive
study, Howard Armanâ??s
additions to Mozartâ??s
great original show the
requisite care and
respect while
incorporating many new
insights.
Armanâ?
?s approach is
particularly fruitful.
Always aware of the
appropriate limits to
such re-creative work, he
orients himself towards
the typical
characteristics of
Mozartâ??s brilliant
composing style: The
masterly compositional
technique, the search for
innovative solutions to
every problem, and even
the terse treatment of
the text with extremely
suggestive harmonies. All
of this leads to a number
of new listening
experiences. In the Tuba
mirum, for example, we
enjoy a warm, cohesive
ensemble sound, supported
by the bassoons, which
depart from the bass
line. The Confutatis
presents a quite
different picture: Even
the basset horns are
drawn down into the
infernal depths. This
effect is reinforced by
the independence of the
trombones; rather than
simply following the
choral parts, the
instrumentâ??s unique
sound is given an
opportunity to shine.
Armanâ??s Lacrimosa
achieves a lively
Mozartian feel by
granting the voices
considerable freedom
rather than following a
rigid pattern. And he
concludes the movement
with a fugal Amen,
whereby the focus is not
so much on the
counterpoint itself, but
rather â?? in the spirit
of Mozart â?? on
creating a sense of drama
and illuminating the
theme in all its possible
facets. Mozartâ??s
fragment ends with the
Hostias, and so does
Armanâ??s completion.
For the four
following movements
(Sanctus to Communio) we
have nothing from Mozart,
and so here, where the
master is silent, Arman
finally returns to
Sü�mayr, the man who
was closest to Mozart at
the time of his death and
whose efforts to fill the
blank manuscripts still
garner our respect
today.
Armanâ??s
version has already
proven its practical
value. The premiere with
the Bavarian Radio Choir
was enthusiastically
received by audiences and
press alike â?? and
celebrated as offering a
scholarly, entirely fresh
perspective on
Mozartâ??s
masterpiece.
-
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| Concerto KV 191 Contrebasse, Piano (duo) - Avancé Billaudot
(Pour Contrebasse Et Piano - For Double Bass and Piano). By Wolfgang Amadeus Moz...(+)
(Pour Contrebasse Et
Piano - For Double Bass
and Piano). By Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart
(1756-1791). For
Contrabass, Piano.
Collection Richard
Dubugnon. Originally For
Bassoon And Orchestra.
Difficult. Score and
part(s). 20 20 pages.
Duration 18 minutes, 30
seconds. Published by
Gerard Billaudot Editeur
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