Festival Performance #2-Violin-Solo

SKU: KJ.123VN

ISBN 9780849735776.

Stri ng BasicsTM Solos Book 2 features a collection of 19 solos for recitals, festivals, informal gatherings, or just for fun. This collection includes a mix of classical themes, folk songs, and original solos by Jeremy Woolstenhulme. The solos correlate with String BasicsTM Book 2 and most level 2 method books. Solos progress in difficulty from beginning to end. All instruments have the same set of solos. This solo collection is the perfect supplement for students who do not have a private studio teacher and want to play solo literature.

The piano accompaniments by Kirt Mosier are available in a separate book and recorded audio tracks are available for download by using the Kjos Interactive Practice Studio (IPS). The IPS features three tracks for each solo. Track 1 is a complete performance performed by a professional violinist with piano accompaniment. Track 2 is a complete performance of the solo played by either a violist, cellist, or bassist with piano accompaniment. Track 3 is an accompaniment-only track provided for play-along opportunities.

SKU: ST.Y279

ISBN 9790220223068.

Such is the character of the accordion that any work featuring its distinctive voice within an ensemble is likely to be a piece d'occasion. Written for the prizewinning young soloist Milos Milivojevic and performed with the Juritz String Quartet at the 2011 Machynlleth Festival in Wales, Rhian Samuel's Mist on the Hills is no exception. The composer has used the rare opportunity of writing for the instrument in combination with solo strings to exploit its illustrative powers and create a fourteen-minute score inspired by the changing weather over the hills around her Welsh home on the Dyfi Estuary.

In particular, its three movements are suggestive of the appearance of mist in the landscape, 'settling', 'lingering' and 'swirling'. In the first movement, which is a gentle prelude, brief accordion motifs break through the timbre of strings like glints of sunshine through mist. The second movement, more song-like, presents three verses of a lament; in the first half of each verse the accordion sings as if from afar, while in the second half (led by the viola) the music intensifies greatly. In the dance-like and virtuosic last movement a short, constantly changing refrain alternates with two types of material: 'swirling' music and lighter, more rhythmical ideas. Finally, scale passages invade the texture, ceasing only as the accordion ascends to the top of its range in the closing bars.

SKU: GI.G-10810

ISBN 9781622777167.

The Audition Method for Violin is a must-have for all violinists on the audition circuit. Bowings, fingerings, and, most importantly, David Kim’s personal insights and detailed instructions for every passage—not to be missed! —Marin Alsop     Chief Conductor     Vienna Radio Orchestra, Ravinia Festival   The Audition Method for Violin is for aspiring and established violinists looking to win orchestral auditions. This book can be used throughout the entire process of preparing for an audition, including at the audition itself. In this volume, David Kim, concertmaster of The Philadelphia Orchestra, provides standard violin audition excerpts in three versions: the excerpt as it appears in the score, a fully annotated version, and a sparsely annotated version to use in the audition. All annotations are made in blue ink for ease of reading. Kim provides detailed instructions for preparing each excerpt as well as an insightful Q & A in which he discusses the ins and outs of auditioning and offers musical and technical advice for violinists. The Audition Method for Violin, the second book in a series co-created by Mark Nuccio and Benjamin Baron, is an invaluable aid that will transform and improve the entire audition experience. Repertoire: Beethoven: Symphonies No. 1, No. 3, and No. 9, Brahms: Symphonies No. 2 and No. 4, Debussy: La Mer, Mahler: Symphony No. 9, Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mozart: Symphony No. 39, Prokofiev: Classical Symphony, Schubert: Symphony No. 2, Schumann: Symphony No. 2, Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5, R. Strauss: Don Juan David Kim has been concertmaster of The Philadelphia Orchestra since 1999, and he regularly performs as a soloist with the orchestra, performs recitals, and engages in teaching residencies every year. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School and was awarded honorary doctorates from Eastern University and Dickinson College.

SKU: PR.114419280

ISBN 9781491132357. UPC: 680160676125.

Inspi red by Chinese tradition, this concerto-like dance suite includes: 1. Lion Dance, 2. YangKo, and 3. Muqam. Each movement draws from melodies and rhythms characteristic of various regions of China many centuries ago. CHINESE FOLK DANCE SUITE is available for violin with full orchestra, or as a recital work with piano.
Supported by a major commissioning award from the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress, Chinese Folk Dance Suite is written for solo violin and orchestra; it was premiered by The Women’s Philharmonic with violin soloist Terrie Baune, conducted by Apo Hsu, on March 10, 2001, at Yerba Buena Center For the Arts Theater in San Francisco.Inspired by various Chinese traditional folk dances, the suite has three movements:I. Lion Dance. Traditionally, people dance with richly decorated hand-made lions, accompanied by percussion ensemble, to celebrate happy occasions and major festivals throughout the country. In this composition, I use Chinese drum and other percussion instruments in the background, to form a dynamic and rhythmic texture responding to the solo part, which imitates the tunes played on the suona (traditional Chinese trumpet). The pitch materials came from the traditional Guangdong tune “Dragon Boat Racing,” and the Chaozhou tune “Lion Playing Ball.”II. YangKo. Originating in northern China, this is a major folk dance form in mass performance popularized in the country. In YangKo performance, people play rhythmic patterns on the drums hung around their waists while singing and dancing. In the second movement, I imagined a warm scene of YangKo dancing in distance. The solo violin plays a sweet and gracious melodic line while all members of the orchestra sing non-pitched syllables in different layers as the soft background, to imitate the percussion sound which produces the ever-going pulse.III. Muqam. This large-scale music and dance form, from the Uygur nationality in Xinjiang province, originated in the 15th century. My third movement use a 7/8 meter and the melodic style of Muqam music. The fiery dancing gesture culminates in the sustained climax section at the end of the work, after a colorful violin cadenza in both improvisational singing style and polyphonic writing with woven lines.

SKU: AP.49694

UPC: 038081567815. English.

Imagine the opening solo in darkness. Light increases as the choir begins, growing to full brilliance when three luminous lines intertwine. A lux aeterna refrain is sung in resonant harmony, with touches of shimmering dissonance on cadences. One final tone cluster at the end ignites shivers. This inspiring text provides a personal credo to live with light. Download the optional violin obbligato for free.

About Alfred Choral Designs

Th e Alfred Choral Designs Series provides student and adult choirs with a variety of secular choral music that is useful, practical, educationally appropriate, and a pleasure to sing. To that end, the Choral Designs series features original works, folk song settings, spiritual arrangements, choral masterworks, and holiday selections suitable for use in concerts, festivals, and contests.

SKU: CA.4076704

ISBN 9790007084998. Key: F major. Language: Latin.

A good six years following its first performance in Milan (1773) a second version of Exsultate, jubilate was completed for a performance on Trinity Sunday in 1779. It has survived in a manuscript from Salzburg. This Salzburg version, which was discovered in 1978, differs from the Milan version primarily through the use of flutes instead of oboes and also through the use of two different texts for the first aria. In the first version the text refers to Christmas, whereas in the second version it refers to the festival of Trinity. Mozart's autograph of the Milan version had been thought to be missing since the second world war and it has only been accessible in the Biblioteka Jagiellonska in Krakow for a little over a decade. The present new critical edition by Wolfgang Hochstein is the first which could be based on both versions. Score available separately - see item CA.4076700.

SKU: KN.10123

UPC: 822795101232.

What better way to introduce Mozart to students than with the finale of his first symphony, written when he was just 8 years old? Transposed to D major, this arrangement provides many opportunities for teaching classical form and style. Clean harmonies with exhilarating dissonances and huge dynamic contrasts will propel your students towards a great concert or festival performance. Duration 2:35.