Dona Dona (score only)

In this book of familiar tunes from Europe and America, Katharina Apostolidis brings together fun music for young musicians to play, arranged for Violin, Flute, Piano and Cello. A CD is also included that features high quality full versions of all the songs to maximise musical learning and fun.This enchanting book for Violin, Flute, Piano and Cello features songs like Old MacDonald, Happy Birthday and Sleeping Children in a collection that is as fun as it is educational. The book features the Violin score, with the Flute, Piano and Cello scores included as inserts inside the book itself. High quality versions of each tune are included on the CD so that young beginners can hear exactly how the songs are supposed to sound. Not only will students learn their individual parts, but a crucial musical skill, that of playing with others, will be developed. / Violon, Violoncelle, Flûte Et Piano

More than just a re-telling of the nativity this work explores both the mystery and the majesty of Christ's birth. Filled with original sacred songs and beloved carols this innovative cantata is not only a beautiful concert moment but it is a true worship experience. The richness of both contemporary and traditional elements along with thoughtful narrations make this work an excellent choice for blended worship styles and Keith Christopher's stunning orchestrations complete the package. The perfect blending of artistry and ministry!Songs include: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence; Come to Us; Luke 2 (with “Silent Night”); Sleeping Adonai; AngelsSing; Unto Us; Shout! Sing Hallelujah!; Worship Christ the King; A Tribute of Carols.

This Piano reduction of the first movement of Mozart's projected Second Clarinet Quintet makes an exciting addition to the Clarinet repertoire. The 'fragment' that forms the basis of this work has been known about for many years. It was originally considered a trial run for the great K581 but recent dating has shown the two pages of manuscript date from after the Clarinet Quintet. The distinguished Mozart scholar Timothy Jones has proved this to be the beginning of a response to the popularity of K581. It was only as a result of Mozart's early death that the work remained incomplete. Jones has completed the work usinghis deep knowledge of late Mozart and we have now a very important new addition to the Clarinet quintet repertoire. In this edition Donald Thompson has provided a very playable and useful Piano reduction.

Timpani Part-This is not a replacement part includes timpani only. (Note: the timpani part is identical in all versions. It is sold separately so that it can be added to the organ version for dramatic effect. The organ version is that which is found in the vocal score.)See HMB234a and HMB234b for other accompaniment options.

A Scottish choral reel arranged from the Celtic dance tune Bodachan A Mhil Anna by J. Geddes Maxwell for mixed chorus. A Piano accompaniment is provided for rehearsal purposes only.

Don Kouri has crafted a masterful lyric which is decorated with great sensitivity and beauty by Reid. Rich part-writing for every section of your ensemble will endear “The Present” to your choir members. Its treasuredmessage is a timeless reminder of our worth in the eyes of the Savior. Like the famous Christina Rossetti poem “What Can I Give Him?” the only gift He desires is that of his own creation.

Make the silence talk'La Muette knew how to make the silence talk like no one', writes Djavann in his book (La Muette, © Flammarion 2008). Those words deeply touched me for they express one of the most beautiful metaphors in music. Through the lines of discourse, beyond words, I was listening to the silence of 'La Muette'. A rare and intense listening which joins the same internal listening I use when I'm writing my score. I was listening to La Muette, I decided to write a new piece to make the silent voice of La Muette told by Chahdortt Djavann sound through music. Choosing the extracts The text put in music is composed of short extracts from Djavann's story. I focused on this woman's portrait, who conquers her freedom through silence in which she forms a strong love relationship with her niece Fatemeh on the one hand, and the Uncle on the other hand. 'She had made her silence become her art of living, her freedom' writes Djavann. The extremely dramatic tension, the flow of the singing in Persian language, and the oppression in relation to the Iranian context are trying to underline the independent beauty of that woman who resists and exists without a voice. Story A young 15 years old Iranian girl named Fatemeh is in jail. Waiting for her death sentence, she writes the story of her aunt on a small notebook, 'so that someone remembers La Muette and myself'. The young teenager was raised by her aunt who becomes mute because she decided to stop talking on a dark day of her own childhood when she was interrogated, never to tell THE truth. An aunt whose silence makes even more fascinating, haughty, with an insolent look, cigarette at her lips, bare-footed and without any scarf on her head. 'La Muette' had made her silence become her art of living, her freedom. Around her, women start to talk, even considering her mad, for only a mad person could act this way. Fatemeh loves her mute aunt unconditionally, that is how she wants to become a woman, by being like her, fascinated by her silence and her excesses. La Muette embodies a figure of Freedom and makes us remember that in some countries, the woman who won't be submissive risks capital punishment. She will be hung. Following this beautiful text by Chahdortt Djavann, 'La Muette', a powerful text, stiff, tensed, without any lyricism nor compromises, which takes place in Iran under the Mollahs' regime. Persian: Phonological material / Compositional material Djavann's story is written in French. I asked Baharé Khadjé-Nouri to translate the text into Persian, and worked with her on pronunciation, accentuation, metric and the structure of the language, and I thank her again for that. I spent a long time having some people reading me the text in Persian and through listening I immersed myself in that sound universe. From this linguistic material, the beginning of the piece starts with the constitution of a tank of sound objects which will constitute parts of the compositional material. To compose the phonological tank, I worked on writing the pronunciation that lies at the origin of every possible vocal composition, writing the tone as well as the 'percussive - resounding' aspects of phonemes, multiple uses of fricative consonants or sibilants. Finally I used the vocal treatment of the phoneme through modes of play in relation to sprechsang: sing -inspire, or -expire, -blow, -chanting, -whispering, -spitting, -speaking. But a purely phonetic analysis of the vocal structures composing the sung part would reduce the word to its mere phonetic entity. The phonological material then constituted a compositional material by giving to the sung word its semantic entity. Form of the piece To strip the drama off every narrative element, at least of the discursive and linear character of the story, I first re-organized parts of the text extracted from the whole book in an order fitting the form I wanted to give to the piece (except for the beginning and ending which are kept in their linear forms). I imagined Fatemeh in jail, whose memories bounced between the four walls of her cell: recurring musical material, re-injected in an obsessive way, disjointed and contrasted, continuously modified each time, bouncing from one sequence to the next in another state. The piece is divided into 5 sequences, between each of them is an instrumental interlude with a voice-off, the voice of the present in the cell that contrasts with the singing voice of the sequence, evocation of memories of La Muette (sequence 1: preamble, sequence 2: portrait of La Muette, sequence 3: La Muette and Fatemeh, sequence 4: La Muette and the Uncle, sequence 5: epilogue). Electroacoustic setupFor this piece, I wrote the electroacoustic parts myself at the same time I was writing the instrumental parts. The electroacoustic setup is here considered as a whole instrument, an instrument added to the 12 others electroacoustic instruments and to Donatienne's voice. The electroacoustic sounds are divided into three types: - Samples from the singer's voice and instruments of the TM+ ensemble transformed - The narrator's voice Baharé Khadjé-Nouri in Persian, original version or transformed - Extra-musical sounds As for the synchronization between the acoustic and the electroacoustic scores, we will use for the first time an innovative application developed by Frédéric Bevilacqua and Bruno Zamborlin, not to follow the moves as we did it in StreicherKreis (my string quartet created in November 2008), but to follow the voice and orchestra. Thus, we will be using an 'audio-following', which constituted a first. This setup of recognition and following will allow the synchronization between instrumental and electroacoustic scores in a musical and precise way. Concerning the interactivity between performers and device, it will all be in real-time. Characteristics of the musicians' sound will 'interpret' what comes out of the speakers. The musicians will define the settings of the sound transformations, in terms of space, transposition, tone or length. This new piece expresses a message through the choice of subject that goes beyond strictly music. For me, it is important that both the composer and writer can invest their work into problematics which they're confronted to because they are immediate witnesses. / Soprano Et Percussions

1 Classic and Modern Worship Songs-A collection of ten well-loved songs that can be sung with choir only or with congregation together. Each song is presented two ways?an anthem version and a call to worship version?enabling the worship leader to beginthe service with the main thematic statement of the song and proceed from there. Titles include: Sing Out All the Earth Will Sing Your Praises Welcome in this Place It Is Good Hear Our Praises Glorious This Is YourHouse Praise Adonai Let the Praises Ring and Come and Worship. Orchestration includes score and parts for Flute 1 2 Oboe Clarinet 1 2 Trumpet 1 2 3 Horn 1 2 (Alto Sax) Trombone 1 2 3 (Tenor Sax/BaritoneTC) Percussion Rhythm Violin 1 2 Viola (Clarinet 3) Cello/Bassoon (Bass Clarinet) String Bass and Keyboard String Reduction. Instrumentation varies. SATB Listening CD CD Accompaniment Trax CD 10-Pack and Preview Pack(CD) also available.

Vltava (The Moldau) is the most famous and frequently performed tone poem from the cycle Má Vlast by the Czech composer Bed ich Smetana. It was written between 20 November and 8 December 1874 but only in 1879-1880 with the completion of Má Vlast did it appear in print when Urbánek issued it in full score along with a version for Piano duet.Owing to the large number of misprints in the Urbánek first edition Hugh Macdonald has based this new edition on the autograph score with cross-references to the first edition and the composer?s own version for Piano duet. Conflicting readings in the sources are listed in the Critical Commentary alongwith a discussion of all editorial decisions.New Urtext edition with clear and uncluttered engraving.Informative foreword (Eng/Cz/Ger) including a contribution by Smetana scholar Olga Moj? ?ová.Includes a detailed Critical Commentary (Eng).

Vltava (The Moldau) is the most famous and frequently performed tone poem from the cycle Má Vlast by the Czech composer Bed ich Smetana. It was written between 20 November and 8 December 1874 but only in 1879-1880 with the completion of Má Vlast did it appear in print when Urbánek issued it in full score along with a version for Piano duet.Owing to the large number of misprints in the Urbánek first edition Hugh Macdonald has based this new edition on the autograph score with cross-references to the first edition and the composer?s own version for Piano duet. Conflicting readings in the sources are listed in the Critical Commentary alongwith a discussion of all editorial decisions.New Urtext edition with clear and uncluttered engraving.Informative foreword (Eng/Cz/Ger) including a contribution by Smetana scholar Olga Moj? ?ová.Includes a detailed Critical Commentary (Eng).

New Urtext edition with clear and uncluttered engraving.Informative foreword (Eng/Cz/Ger) including a contribution by Smetana scholar Olga Moj? ?ová.Includes a detailed Critical Commentary (Eng).Vltava (The Moldau) is Smetana?s most famous and frequently performed tone poem. It was written between 20 November and 8 December 1874 but only in 1879-1880 with the completion of the entire cycle Má vlast did it appear in print when Urbánek issued it in full score and a version for Piano duet.Owing to the large number of misprints in the Urbánek first edition Hugh Macdonald has based his new editionon the autograph score with cross-references to the first edition and the composer?s own version for Piano duet. Conflicting readings in the sources are listed in the Critical Commentary along with a discussion of all editorial decisions.Version for Piano duet BA 9549.