Matériel : Partition
A piece for two percussionists composed and dedicated to Safri Duo who premiered it at the Numus Festival in May 1991. The basic idea of the piece lies in the continuous re-verberation effects between the two musicians.
SKU: HL.14041798
ISBN 9788759818077. 12.5x16.5x1.13 inches.
Set of parts for Per Nørgård 's En Lys Time / A Light Hour (2008-09) for a variable Percussion Ensemble (min. 10 players).
In A Light Hour everything - rhythms and motifs – is based on Nørgård&acut e;s special infinity series.
Score: WH30964
Programme note
A Light Hour is for ‘any number of percussion musicians’ (but a minimum of ten). The duration is about 60 minutes. The instrumentation is in principle open, as long as percussion is used within the three types specified in the score: skin, metal and wood. Each musicianuses two sound sources with two different sounds, one of which is bright (or light) and the other dark. Certain passages also include tuned percussion instruments – vibraphone, xylophone, marimba, gamelan, glockenspiel, steel drums, crotales and the like. The work integrates and combines a number of rhythms that Nørgård has used in percussion works since the 1970s, for example in Early Spring Dance (for choir and percussion), and percussion works like I Ching, Easy Beats, Whirls, Zigzag, Nemo Dynamo and Echo Zone I-II-III. Special “tone-feasts” (the composer’s term) – followed by a rest – are an recognizable me lodic feature of the work.: the first minute end with a short tone-feast (and a rest), the first four minutes end with a tone-feast lasting a minute (and a rest), the first quarter of an hour ends with a tone-feast of four minutes (and a rest) – and the work ends with a tone-feast lasting quarter of an hour (and a rest, when the work is over ...). The first 15 minutes have a bright, light character throughout, and alternate between rhythms and melodic play. The following 15 minutes are more insistent and decidedly percu ssion-based, Afro-Cuban, whereas the third quarter of A Light Hour moves in the.
SKU: BT.WH31279
ISBN 9788759821947. English.
For two Percussion soloists and ten instruments. Commissioned by and dedicated to Safri Duo. A Concerto in three movements based on Preludes by J.S. Bach, for Percussion Duo and Orchestra. Reduced version, 2010, by Steve Ferre, approved by the composer for Percussion Duo (unchanged) and ten instruments (5 woodwind, 5 strings) 1 Flute dbl. Piccolo and Alto Flute in G 1 Oboe dbl. Cor Anglaid in FY 1 Clarinet in Bb dbl. Bass Clarinet in Bb 1 Bassoon 1 Horn in F 1 Violin 1 1 Violin 2 1 Viola 1 Cello 1 Double Bass The score is written in C.
SKU: HL.14037784
ISBN 9788759818060. 12.0x16.5x0.709 inches.
Per Nørgård 's En Lys Time / A Light Hour (2009) for a variable Percussion Ensemble (min. 10 players).
Parts available: WH30964A
A Light Hour is for ‘any number of percussion musicians’ (but a minimum of ten). The duration is about 60 minutes. The instrumentation is in principle open, as long as percussion is used within the three types specified in the score: skin, metal and wood. Each musician uses two soundsources with two different sounds, one of which is bright (or light) and the other dark. Certain passages also include tuned percussion instruments – vibraphone, xylophone, marimba, gamelan, glockenspiel, steel drums, crotales and the like. The work integrates and combines a number of rhythms that Nørgård has used in percussion works since the 1970s, for example in Early Spring Dance (for choir and percussion), and percussion works like I Ching, Easy Beats, Whirls, Zigzag, Nemo Dynamo and Echo Zone I-II-III. Special “tone-feasts” (the composer’s term) – followed by a rest – are an recognizable me lodic feature of the work.: the first minute end with a short tone-feast (and a rest), the first four minutes end with a tone-feast lasting a minute (and a rest), the first quarter of an hour ends with a tone-feast of four minutes (and a rest) – and the work ends with a tone-feast lasting quarter of an hour (and a rest, when the work is over ...). The first 15 minutes have a bright, light character throughout, and alternate between rhythms and melodic play. The following 15 minutes are more insistent and decidedly percu ssion-based, Afro-Cuban, whereas the third quarter of A Light Hour moves in the.
SKU: HL.14023347
ISBN 9788759891254. English.
Work for instrumental ensemble (including Mandolin, Guitar and Percussion).
SKU: HL.288108
Three Scenes for Percussion and Six Instruments (2009) by Per Norgard. Preface / Program Note: The perpetrator soloist is the continuous figure and protagonist in the three scenes of the music. The term scene can be understood as ambiguous, both as the physical place, the platform where you perform and play music and drama - and as the term of narrative course and section in a dramatic performance. My musical scenes unfold in three different stage performances and ensembles. The first stage is characterized by discrete and melodic instruments, vibraphone and marimba, with counterplay from the three riders. In the second stage, the spotlight is on the butcher soloist alone; we meet the protagonist / soloist in a monologue, performed mainly on singing saw, which is intended to treat the utmost microton precision. We also hear the soloist playing at Kalimba, also a popular instrument, but now with African background - unlike the domestic courthouse's musical saw - an often-heard soundtrack from the childhood comrade at Norrebro. In the third stage there is a fan trio, which initially plays up to the impactor's various powerful drums. After a drum cadence, all seven music ends together for the first time. The work ends with a short sleigh solo.
SKU: HL.14025782
ISBN 9788759850626. 9.5x14.25x0.06 inches. English.
Per Norgard's fantastic 1987 work, Poeme for Marimba and other accompanying Percussion instruments. Norgard is one of the most influential contemporary Danish composers and this piece features elements of improvisation and the driven tones and abruptly changing textures which characterise the majority of his work from 1980.
SKU: HL.14035756
ISBN 9788759868294. English.
Wenn Die Rose Sich Selbst Schmückt, Schmückt Sie Auch Den Garten (When The Rose Beautifies Itself, It Beautifies The Garden ) was composed by Per Nørgård in 1971.
Chamber Cantata for four performers
Scored for Soprano, Alto Flute, Double Bass and Percussion (all playing also Crotales).
Composed for and dedicated to Dorothy Dorrow.
Parts available: KP01092
Preface / Programme Note
The title of the work is borrowed from a fragment by the German poet Friedrich Rückert.This fragment, this short sentence (which Rückert apparently neverelaborated upon) is the entire basis of the work. I was inspired by the meaning as well as the sound of these words.I perceive the meaning of the sentence as being a defence for the refinement of an individual’s personal gifts - far from the present hostility toward individuality and the senseless praise of impersonal success in society. Personal refinement can, so the fragment in my interpretation, at its best be accompanied by a deep sense of responsibility, and become an active and positive influence in society.The sound, the timbre, of the individual words and characters is employed both instraightforward text-sequences, as well as in the exploration of individual vowels and consonants as pure sounds. The soprano is often used purely instrumentally, echoing and pre-echoing discreetly the notes of the flute and the harmonics of the double bass, often imperceptably stealing their notes and altering them into human sounds, which then yetagain are absorbed into the instrumental tapestry.
Per Nørgård, 1971
SKU: BT.WH30994
ISBN 9788759818466. English.
Listen To Scandinavia features 14 different listening exercises in Nordic music, from Edvard Grieg to Per Nørgård. English version.
SKU: HL.287425
Per Norgard's Bach to the Future (reduced version) for two Percussion soloists and ten instruments (2010). Commissioned by and dedicated to Safri Duo. A Concerto in three movements based on Preludes by J.S. Bach, for Percussion Duo and Orchestra. Reduced version, 2010, by Steve Ferre, approved by the composer for Percussion Duo (unchanged) and ten instruments (5 woodwind, 5 strings) 1 Flute dbl. Piccolo and Alto Flute in G 1 Oboe dbl. Cor Anglaid in FY 1 Clarinet in Bb dbl. Bass Clarinet in Bb 1 Bassoon 1 Horn in F 1 Violin 1 1 Violin 2 1 Viola 1 Cello 1 Double Bass The Score is written in C Original version for Percussion Duo and Orchestra: 14003062.
SKU: HL.14019091
ISBN 9788759856420. Danish.
Norgard writes of his work: Lila is a Sanskrit word for playing with the elements, and I chose it as the title of the chamber work I composed in 1972 because its coolly systematic play (with overtones and undertones in the infinity sequences and a spectrum of Golden Sections in the rhythms) is characteristic of the period just before I wrote my Third Symphony (1973-75).The work was given its first performance in Venice, in the Teatro La Fenice on 9th September 1972, alongside Kagel's Anagram, from which Lila borrowed its instrumentation, since it was commissioned for a first performance by the Prisma Ensemble along with Anagram, with Tamas Veto, to whom it is dedicated, conducting. Ensemble: 4 percussionists (gong, 3 tam-tams, crotales, glockenspiel, tubular bells, celesta, vibraphone, xylophone), 2 pianos, 2 harps, flute (as well as flute in G and piccolo), B flat clarinet (and bass clarinet).
SKU: HL.14035061
ISBN 9788759862353. English-Danish.
Win ter Cantata / Vinterkantate (1976) by Per Norgard for a variable ensemble of soloist, mixed choir and instruments (minimum: vocalist and organ). Programme Note: When in 1975 I had finished composing my 3rd Symphony (begun in 1973), I wrote three simple melodies for two psalm texts by Ole Sarvig: The Year and Choral Hymn. These three tunes were derived from the same material as the second movement of the 3rd Symphony and could be harmonized together in several different tempo relationships at the same time - like fractals - which inspired me to write several choral and instrumental works in the following decade based on these melodies: Frost Psalm, Winter Cantata, Winter Hymn, Cantica and others. One of these 'Sarvig melodies' is now included in the new Danish Hymnbook, under the title Aret(The Year). Ole Sarvig's poem Aret (The Year) is Danish, perhaps Scandinavian in character, but its symbolic atmosphere is global (now snow is covering the whole earth). The basic composition of this cantata - based on Sarvig's many verses - was done by letting soloist, choir and instruments change in feelings and moods: from the almost silent, inward-looking beginning (I: Chorale dolorosa) to a dancelike and happy optimism (II: A heaven germ on winged foot thrust deep into the earth its root), followed by nightmarish tone rows as the year-wheel of fortune is turning (III: Sacrifice - The Year) and the temptations of the snake (IV: In Paradiso) - to the allegorical fights between egoism and altruism (V:The Cycle - Autumn. Purgatory) before the waiting for a disaster- atmosphere at the end of this choral Odysse. Winter Cantata was from the beginning (1976) designed as an open work, to be arranged by different combinations of soloists, choir and (different) instruments. The printed version by Per Norgard and Ivan hansen for soloist, mixed choir and instruments (obo, violin, trombone, vibraphone/percussion and organ) is from 1990. The work is available in both the (original) Danish version (Vinterkantate) and an English version (Winter Cantata), translated by Helen and Ole Sarvig. (Per Norgard).
SKU: HL.14023581
ISBN 9788759876817. Danish.
Per Norgard NUIT DES HOMMESThe night of mankind - the night of men is a kind of opera in so far as it is about a stagework with sung accompanied by both acoustic and electronic instruments - a stagework in two acts and approx. 20 pictures. However if you by opera think of its dramatic type with people in one or more conflicts, mutual and with themselves - well, then Night of mankind probably has to reckon among another, not yet categories genre.It may well be two named person that perform (Alice and Vilhelm), but the opera does not deal with their possible mutual tensions, but instead of their common limitless intensity, which first make them in harmony walk the dangerous paths on which the enthusiasm lead them and afterwards divides them as now radically changed figures: from the individual woman to the war correspondent, in demagogic - ecstatic outburst of feelings - from the mans human to the soldiers unhuman everyday. A crash into the underground - without a return ticket.Per Norgard.
