SKU: HL.49043951
ISBN 9790220134142. UPC: 196288056522. 9.25x12.0x0.136 inches. English - French - German.
The intense and surreal musical narrative so apparent in Gerald Barry's hugely successful opera The Importance of Being Earnest returns in a new guise for his latest vocal work Jabberwocky. Setting Lewis Carroll's famous poem, Barry uses the text twice - first in French with expressive legato phrases and then more forcefully in German.
SKU: HL.49045288
ISBN 9790220135095. UPC: 841886023567. 9.0x12.0x0.098 inches.
SKU: HL.49019220
ISBN 9790220133114.
Feldman's was a music shop in London in the early 20th century.They sold collections of popular music for playing at home, and some of these were called 'Feldman's Sixpenny Editions'. Collections like these were among my first feverish encounters with music as a boy. I fell in love with pieces like 'Martial Steps' and 'The dog barks, the caravan passes On'. I entered into them completely, becoming one not only with the music, but with the paper they were printed on, and the advertisements on the back. I pored over these, laying my face on them, waiting for signs of my future direction. The piano plays a significant role in the music. The last piece in the collection, 'The Innermost Secret', refers to the lunches Satie had with Debussy. Satie said that Debussy cooked pork chops 'with the innermost secret'. (Gerald Barry).
SKU: HL.49047194
ISBN 9781705199718. UPC: 842819115083.
SKU: HL.49044934
ISBN 9790220135521. UPC: 841886024670. 9.0x12.0x0.055 inches.
The original version of Triorchic Blues for solo piano was later transformed into this short virtuosic piece for solo violin. Lively and aggressive, the work explores the extremes of the instrument and would make an impressive opener or encore to a recital.
SKU: HL.49047101
UPC: 196288124450. 0.114 inches.
Au Milieu is a paraphrase of “_______â€, an ensemble piece from 1979. “_______†was written after seeing an exhibition of Rothko paintings which made me want to do something as focussed and intense. The term Au Milieu is used in ballet to describe exercises performed away from the barre. The music's element therefore is danger, especially for the performer.
SKU: HL.49044767
ISBN 9790220135484. UPC: 888680623661. 9.0x12.0x0.082 inches.
The music for Low is based on Barry's Triorchic Blues, which exists in versions for both solo piano and solo violin. This virtuosic piece, perfect for any ambitious duo, demonstrates Barry's preoccupation with examining small fragments of musical material from different angles.
SKU: HL.49044388
ISBN 9790220135293. 9.0x12.0x0.07 inches.
This short piece in three sections includes several of Barry hallmarks - fierce ostinato passages and contrasting strongly accented instrumental sections. Take note of the composer's instruction: Hammer all notes with great gusto!
SKU: HL.49044317
ISBN 9790220134890. UPC: 888680077440. 8.25x12.0x0.31 inches.
For Piano and Orchestra.
SKU: HL.49044809
ISBN 9790220118586. UPC: 841886026087. 9.0x12.0x0.126 inches.
In The Asylum comprises three pieces: The Rung, The Potent Rug, and Wigs of Flanders. At times eerie and unsettling, at times playful, and at others almost violent, this eleven-minute work for piano trio is a rewarding challenge for both performers and the listener.
SKU: HL.49045246
ISBN 9790220135712. UPC: 841886025301. 9.0x12.0x0.12 inches.
SKU: HL.49046149
ISBN 9790220135491. UPC: 841886024649. 9.25x12.0x0.147 inches.
It is a piece in which the moments of change between sections are as important as the musical content - rather like those points in paintings where objects or areas of color meet. -Gerald Barry Instrumentation: for clarinet doubling bass clarinet, trumpet, two marimbas, piano and double bass.
SKU: HL.49045247
ISBN 9790220136122. UPC: 841886026117. 9.0x12.0x0.25 inches.
SKU: HL.49044833
ISBN 9790220135392. UPC: 841886027404. 9.0x12.0x0.065 inches.
SKU: HL.49044832
ISBN 9790220136078. UPC: 841886025868. 8.25x11.75x0.081 inches. English.
Gerald Barry's The coming of winter is a setting of an Irish poem dating from the 9th or 10th century, and was commissioned for the 34th Seminar on Contemporary Choral Music at University College, Cork, in May 1997. The setting is notable for its idiosyncratic use of text: not only are the words of the poem sung both forwards and backwards, but the second half of the piece is given over to percussive nonsense syllables, making this a quirky but highly invigorating image of 'the coming of winter'.
SKU: HL.49046325
ISBN 9781540081032. UPC: 842819110125. 8x11.5 inches.
I don't speak French but realised I could say grand things in this language using words common to French and English. This is how L'Agitation des Observateurs, Le Tremblement des Voyeurs came about. In this piece, the sound of the ensemble should be completely integrated and balanced, all instruments being equal in volume. Even though the trumpeter stands in front of the ensemble, his sound should be part of it and not be louder. This piece was commissioned by the Huddersfield Festival of Contemporary Music and premiered the Ives Ensemble with by Marco Blaauw in 2003. Gerald Barry.
SKU: HL.49019676
ISBN 9790220133381. 8.25x11.75x0.068 inches. English.
The opening lines of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time provides the text for Gerald Barry's Long Time. Beginning 'For a long time I used to go to bed early', the work unfolds over gently rising and falling C major scales, voice parts handing over to each other in the strict rhythmic regularity that prevails throughout the piece. SATB, English.
SKU: HL.49045052
ISBN 9790220136061. UPC: 841886025851. 8.5x11.75x0.111 inches.
The title is taken from Raymond Roussel's New Impressions of Africa, a fifty-nine page poem which took him fifteen years to write.
SKU: HL.49044648
ISBN 9790220135910. UPC: 841886025639.
Written in 1979 after seeing an exhibition of Rothko's paintings in Cologne, O is one of Barry's earliest published works. Both piano parts are the same and the composer describes the work as an exploration of ornamentation (the bending of an existing melody) and an etude in co-ordination (the challenge of playing exactly together).
SKU: HL.49045401
ISBN 9790220137495. UPC: 841886030923. 9.0x12.0x0.057 inches.
SKU: HL.49045849
UPC: 841886032590.
Gerald Barrys new opera is based on Lewis Carrolls two beloved books, Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. As with Barrys last opera, the lauded The Importance of Being Earnest, the composer has created the libretto himself from the authors original texts. Thus, the work remains faithful to many aspects of the Alice story but is trimmed and compressed into acompact 70-minute opera in one act. Barrys characteristic highspeed energy and riotous sense of humour propel the action forward inthis surreal plunge into the depths of Wonderland.
SKU: HL.49044126
ISBN 9790220134807. UPC: 841886022447. 8.25x11.75x0.132 inches.
The title No people. comes from the surrealist Raymond Roussel. In 1932 he published a long poem called New Impressions of Africa. For this he commissioned 59 drawings to illustrate the text. The commission was given to the artist through a detective agency so he never knew who the commissioner was or saw the text he was supposed to illustrate. All he got was instructions for each drawing and he had to make the drawings accordingly. A typical instruction might beNocturnal landscape. Very starry sky with a thin crescent of moon. (No people.)orA rambler, arm raised and fingers outspread, dropping a pebble (still visible) down a well and seemingly straining to hear the sound of its splash. (No other people.)When Roussel put the drawings and text together, the ordinary everyday drawings took on a strangeness they might otherwise not have had if the artist had drawn with the text in front of him. It's the juxtaposition of both unknowns - text/drawings - that gives the final work its strange quality. Gerald Barry (2013).
SKU: HL.49046150
ISBN 9790220135507. UPC: 841886024656. 9.25x12.0x0.243 inches.
It is a piece in which the moments of change between sections are as important as the musical content - rather like those points in paintings where objects or areas of colour meet. (Gerald Barry) Instrumentation: for clarinet doubling bass clarinet, trumpet, two marimbas, piano and double bass. Set of Parts.
SKU: HL.49044546
ISBN 9790220134913. 8.25x12.0x0.063 inches. German.
Text from the well-known Christmas song is merged with a tune from Barry's own 4th String Quartet in this unconventional carol. With Barry's characteristic rich and unexpected harmonies, O Tannenbaum would be a fantastic contemporary addition to a Christmas programme.
SKU: HL.49047158
ISBN 9781705194317. UPC: 842819113324.
SKU: HL.49045801
UPC: 841886029064.
Instrumentation: singer, narrator, piano, cello; props: screen approx 2mx2m, small table, 2 books, and 3 spotlights.