SKU: BR.EB-6705
ISBN 9790004169063. 9 x 12 inches. German.
Though a piano can always be included, it is not an essential requirement for the performance of these settings: in some of the carols, two violins or two flutes are quite sufficient, especially if voices are used as well. The following combinations are particularly suitable for domestic music-making, whether or not voices are included as well:one violin and piano,two violins and piano,two or three violins,violins and recorders,two concert (C) flutes (and an alto flute) and - as the ideal combination for shepherds' songs - flutes, violins, cello and piano.Performing groups and music schools have the advantage of a wider choice of forces and the possibility of varying the instrumentation within the individual carols and verses. Thus large and small combinations can alternate, strings and flutes can play in turn, and finally the piano can be used by itself or to reinforce other instrumental combinations, in which case the cello can be added, too.The pieces are graded in increasing order of difficulty; the first carols are chosen so that they can be mastered by violinists after as little as 4 to 6 months of learning their instrument. The choise and sequence of the carols in this book, and also their keys, were determined, amongst other factors, by their suitability for the start of violin tuition, both in first and in third position, so that these carols make an especially good supplement of Christmas music to the violin method of Fritz and Gottfried Scharlach (with its principle of starting with the third position). The progressively increasing difficulty of the carols has resulted, for example, in the three Advent carols (nos. 23-25) being placed later in the collection.The editor hopes that these carols will be much played and sung, and thus help to fill the Christmas season with joy and splendour.Fritz Scharlach, Salzburg, December 1972Our beautiful Christmas carols, old and new, are presented here in settings, ranging from the easy to the more difficult, for various combinations of voices and instruments that may be available in domestic music-making or for a Christmas concert.
SKU: ST.LS4
ISBN 9790220205729.
CONTENTS Cease these false sports (solo and 5-part) Disdain me still (E - E) Far from triumphing court (D - E) From silent night (D - E) Galliard to Lachrimae (lute solo) Go nightly cares (C - D) If my complaints (C - E) If that a sinner's sighs (G - G) In darkness let me dwell (C - E) In this trembling shadow cast (F sharp - E flat) Lady if you so spite me (G - F) Lasso vita mia (D - E) Love those beams (F sharp - G) My heart and tongue were twins (A - A) Shall I strive with words to move (E - D) Stay time awhile thy flying (E - D) Sweet stay awhile (E - E) Tell me true love (D - D) Thou mighty God (D - E) To ask for all thy love (E - G) Up merry mates (solo voices and 4-part) Welcome black night (solo voice and 5-part chorus) Were every thought and eye (G - G) When David's life (E - E) When the poor cripple (E - E) Where sin sore wounding (A - G).
SKU: ST.LS19
ISBN 9790220215209.
CONTENTS ALISON, Richard O Lord, turn not away thy face (AATB or AAT) When we sat in Babylon (AATB or AAT) ANONYMOUS But this, and then no more (C - C) How can the tree but waste (B - B) Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content (D - F) Those eyes that set my fancy on a fire (A - B) CAMPION, Thomas More now with measur'd sound (Duet: D - E and G - A) Now hath Flora robb'd her bow'rs (Duet: D - E and D - G) Woo her and win her (F - E) GILES, Thomas Triumph now with joy and mirth (D - D) HUME, Tobias Cease, leaden slumber, dreaming (F sharp - F) Fain would I change that note (D - G) Soldier's Song: I sing the praise of honour'd wars (G - G) Tobacco! Tobacco! Sing sweetly for tobacco! (D - F) What greater grief (D - F) LANIER, Nicholas Bring away this sacred tree (D - F) LUPO, Thomas Shows and nightly revels (D - E flat) Time that leads the fatal round (D - E) MORLEY, Thomas O grief! e'en on the bud (F - E flat) ROBINSON, Thomas Now, Cupid, look about thee (D - G).
SKU: ST.LS14
ISBN 9790220212567.
CONTENTS Alas fair face (F sharp - E) Ay me, she frowns (F - G) Beauty sat bathing (D - F) Can she disdain? (E - E) Climb O heart (D - F) Come, come all you (D - E) Diaphenia, like the daffdowndilly (D - D) Down a down thus Phyllis sung (D - D) I sigh as sure to wear the fruit (E - E) Look mistress mine (F sharp - F) Music dear solace to my thoughts (D- F) My choice is made (D - F) Now let her change (E - F) Now peep, Bo Peep (E - F) Pavan for the lute and bass viol Rest sweet nymphs (G - F) Sound woeful plaints (D - D) Thanks gentle moon (D - E) Underneath a cypress shade (F - F) Whither so fast? (E - E) With fragrant flow'rs (D - E flat) You that pine in long desire (E - E).
SKU: HL.14019075
ISBN 9788759854327. Danish.
The Piano score and complete instrumental parts for Karl Aage Rasmussen's Liederkreis. Rasmussen organised five songs by Robert Schumann into a large cycle, within which each song is rotating forwards and backwards in several tempo-layers at the same time. The circle consists of two independent but complimentary orbits - one for each singer. Written in 1986, it was commissioned by, and dedicated to, the Washington New Music Ensemble. The full instrumentation consists of Soprano and Baritone voices with Flute, Violin, Clarinet, Vibraphone and an amplified Piano.
SKU: ST.Y291
ISBN 9790220223372.
CONTENTS 1. Blackbird (Anne Stevenson) (b - g) 2. The moon is distant (Emily Dickinson) (b - g sharp) 3. Bird in hand (Anne Stevenson) (e flat - g flat) 4. On not being able to look at the moon (Anne Stevenson) (b - g) For medium voice and piano or ensemble of flute, harp and string quartet, Moon and Birds is a substantial cycle of songs to words by Anne Stevenson and Emily Dickinson. Its sequence of four settings, 'Blackbird', 'The moon is distant' (Dickinson), 'Bird in hand' and 'On not being able to look at the moon' unfolds a symmetrical structure of contrasting yet interlocking moods in which the reflective second and fourth numbers, lunar visions of mystic tranquillity flawed by doubt and pain, temper with human frailty the bright epiphanies of the first and third songs. There is a fascinating challenge here for the performer to embrace both elation and gravitas in a single reading, Samuel's vigorous musical invention binding the developing web of feeling with its own formal strengths and subtly illustrative moments. In the version for string quartet, flute and harp, first performed by Contemporary Connections on 4 November 2011 at St James's Church Piccadilly, the flute takes a prominent role throughout. Violins, viola and cello at times elaborate on the simpler textures of the keyboard version, though the two scores remain entirely compatible. The bluesy harmonies of the concluding number, whether weighted by sonorous string quartet or profiled in edgier piano chords, bring the cycle to a sombre conclusion with a proper sense of an emotional world traversed.
SKU: SU.50009800
Mezzo-Soprano Voice, Flute, Viola & Harp Duration: 7' Composed: 2003 Published by: Seesaw Music.
SKU: HL.369032
ISBN 9781705142318. UPC: 840126970081. 11.0x14.0x0.388 inches.
This work for medium voice, flute, violin, cello, and piano sets text by Thomas Moore masterfully to music. Songs include: I. Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms, II. The Minstrel Boy, and III. Oh! 'Tis Sweet to Think.
SKU: UM.9819
ISBN 9790224409819.
SKU: CF.FE57
ISBN 9780825878503. UPC: 798408078508. 11 x 14 / 9.5 x 13 inches. Walt Whitman, Callimachus (trans. William Cory), Richard Hovey.
SKU: ST.MB22
ISBN 9790220204883.
The 'Cinderella' of Elizabethan and Jacobean secular music, consort songs for voice and viols survived both the popularity of the imported madrigal and the fashion for the lute air. An indigenous corpus of music, they subsequently influenced the development of the verse anthem.
SKU: HP.8837
UPC: 763628188375.
Christmas Musical Following up on the success of last year's gospel Christmas cantata, Joy!, Joel Raney once again brings his masterful ability to compose new and creative rhythms that showcase his grasp of the gospel style to Hope! The Christmas story unfolds through six compelling choral settings for SATB voices. Scripture readings guide us to the manger and reflect on the promise of hope we find in Christ's birth. Accompaniment can be provided by just piano, or Ed Hogan's lively orchestration, or a smaller set of rhythm parts. Performance time is 25-minutes, making this ideal for fitting into a Christmas worship service or as a separate musical program. Rhythm parts: Conductor's Score, Percussion, Piano, Synth, Guitar/Bass, Capo Guitar (3 songs), Drums and String Reduction for Keyboard. Orchestrations: Conductor's Score, Flute, Oboe (or Soprano Sax* or Clarinet*), Clarinet, 2 Trumpets (or Alto Sax*), Alto Sax, Tenor Sax, 2 Trombones (or Tenor Sax* or Baritone T. C. *), Percussion, Piano, Synth, Guitar/Bass (Capo Guitar on 3 songs*), Drums, Violins 1 & 2, Viola, Cello/Bassoon (or Bass Clarinet*)and String Reduction for Keyboard. *Parts are included on the CD-ROM. The publisher grants permission to the purchaser to print parts from the CD-ROM for use in your church's performance.
SKU: PR.416412380
UPC: 680160092185.
SKU: HP.8838
UPC: 763628188382.
SKU: HP.8832
UPC: 763628188320.
