Format : Sheet music
SKU: GI.WW1861
UPC: 785147039464. IsiZulu. Text Source: isiZulu hymn.
Shumayela is an isiZulu hymn from South Africa, arranged here for treble voices. Syncopated melody lines, rhythmic vitality, and percussive sounds of the text create a fun and exciting celebration through music. Improvisation and creativity on top of the written music is encouraged!
SKU: GI.WW1841
UPC: 785147028864. IsiXhosa. Text Source: Traditional isiXhosa.
Kwaxabana Oxamu is a celebration of the isiXhosa language. It uses the various click sounds found in the Xhosa language to a stunning effect. The language will be a challenge, but the work will be well worth it for the end result!
SKU: ST.Y287
ISBN 9790220223198.
Composed for the internationally regarded Choir of New College, Oxford, and its conductor Edward Higginbottom, Rhian Samuel's What Cheer? is a bright and uplifting new setting of words already familiar to singers from popular carols by William Walton and Peter Warlock. The scoring is for SATB choir and organ, with optional short solos for soprano, alto and bass. An eminent and established song composer, Samuel has brought to this text, originally from a 16th-century commonplace book compiled by Richard Hill, her own idiomatic response to the tradition of music for Christmas. Though written for one of the world's great vocal ensembles, What Cheer? is well within the range of accomplished amateur choirs, and the effective scoring for voices captures in ringing choral sounds the buoyant optimism of this poetic celebration of Christ's birth.
SKU: BT.DHP-1064029-070
ISBN 9789043127820. 9x12 inches. English-German-French-Dutch.
Klezmer is the traditional music for weddings and celebrations of the Yiddish-speaking Jews of Eastern Europe. Its origin goes back to the sixteenth century. Klezmer was played by the klezmorim, travelling Jewish musicians who picked up something from local music culture wherever they went. Thus klezmer became a melting pot of various music styles. This music stays interesting because of its synthesis of familiar sounds and exotic turns ? as well as the simultaneously melancholic and cheerful mood. Roland Kernen has composed this three-movement work in klezmer style for flexible line-up.Part 1 Fl Ob Bb Clar S Sax Tpt Part 2 Fl Cor Ang Bb Clar Eb Clar A Sax Tpt Hn Part 3Eb Clar T Sax Bsn Hn Trom Euph Part 4 T Sax Bsn Trom Euph Part 5 Bass Clar Bari Sax Bsn Trom Euph Tuba Cont Bsn Opt. Mallets Timp Perc 1 Perc 2 Klezmer is de traditionele muziek voor bruiloften en feesten van de joden van Oost-Europa. De oorsprong ervan gaat terug tot in de zestiende eeuw. Klezmer werd gespeeld door rondtrekkende joodse muzikanten die overal waar ze kwameniets van de lokale muziekcultuur oppikten. De muziek vond later haar weg naar Amerika. Deze muziek blijft boeiend vanwege haar synthese van bekende klanken en exotische wendingen - evenals de gelijktijdig melancholische en vrolijkestemming. Roland Kernen maakte een driedelig werk in klezmerstijl voor variabele bezetting.Klezmer ist die traditionelle Musik für Hochzeiten und Feste der Jiddisch sprechenden Juden Osteuropas. Im vergangenen Jahrzehnt erlebte Klezmer eine Renaissance. Dank der Synthese von vertrauten Klängen und exotischen Wendungen sowie der zugleich melancholischen und fröhlichen Stimmung, bleibt diese Musik immer interessant. Roland Kernen komponierte dieses dreisätzige Werk im Klezmerstil für variable fünfstimmige Besetzung.Part 1 Fl Ob Kl B S-Sax Trp Part 2 Fl Cor Ang Kl B A-Kl A-Sax Trp Hn Part 3 A-Kl T-Sax Fg Hn Pos Euph Part 4 T-Sax Fg Pos Euph Part 5 B-Kl B-Sax Fg Pos Euph Tuba Kb Opt. Mallets Timp Perc 1 Perc 2La musique klezmer est la musique traditionnelle des mariages et célébrations des communautés juives de langue yiddish installées en Europe de l’Est. Jouée par les klezmorim, des musiciens juifs itinérants, cette musique se caractérise par des influences métissées et une large palette de sentiments. Klezmoresque est une œuvre en trois mouvements de style klezmer pour ensemble instrumentation variable.Part 1 Fl Htb Cl. Si♭ Sax. S. Trp Part 2 Fl Cor Angl. Cl. Si♭ Cl. Alto Sax. A. Trp Cor Part 3 Cl. Alto Sax. T. Basson Cor Trb Euph. Part 4 Sax. T. Basson Trb Euph. Part 5 Cl. Basse Sax. B. Basson Trb Euph. Tuba C. Cordes Opt.Mallets Timb. Perc 1 Perc 2 La musica klezmer è una musica festiva suonata in occasione di matrimonio e feste dagli ebrei dell’Europa dell’est che parlano ancora jiddish. E’ una musica dolce e malinconica che racchiude elementi conosciuti ed esotici. Roland Kernen ha composto questo brano in tre movimenti per strumentazione variabile a cinque voci.Part 1 Fl Ob Bb Clar S Sax Tpt Part 2 Fl Cor Ang Bb Clar Eb Clar A Sax Tpt Hn Part 3 Eb Clar T Sax Bsn Hn Trom Euph Part 4 T Sax Bsn Trom Euph Part 5 Bass Clar Bari Sax Bsn Trom Euph Tuba Cont Bsn Opt. Mallets Timp Perc 1 Perc 2.
SKU: PR.165001000
ISBN 9781491129241. UPC: 680160669776. 9 x 12 inches.
Commissioned for a consortium of high school and college bands in the north Dallas region, FOR THEMYSTIC HARMONY is a 10-minute inspirational work in homage to Norwood and Elizabeth Dixon,patrons of the Fort Worth Symphony and the Van Cliburn Competition. Welcher draws melodic flavorfrom five American hymns, spirituals, and folk tunes of the 19th century. The last of these sources toappear is the hymn tune For the Beauty of the Earth, whose third stanza is the quatrain: “For the joy of earand eye, For the heart and mind’s delight, For the mystic harmony, Linking sense to sound and sight,”giving rise to the work’s title.This work, commissioned for a consortium of high school bands in the north Dallas area, is my fifteenth maturework for wind ensemble (not counting transcriptions). When I asked Todd Dixon, the band director whospearheaded this project, what kind of a work he most wanted, he first said “something that’s basically slow,” butwanted to leave the details to me. During a long subsequent conversation, he mentioned that his grandparents,Norwood and Elizabeth Dixon, were prime supporters of the Fort Worth Symphony, going so far as to purchase anumber of high quality instruments for that orchestra. This intrigued me, so I asked more about his grandparentsand was provided an 80-page biographical sketch. Reading that article, including a long section about theirdevotion to supporting a young man through the rigors of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition fora number of years, moved me very much. Norwood and Elizabeth Dixon weren’t just supporters of the arts; theywere passionate lovers of music and musicians. I determined to make this work a testament to that love, and tothe religious faith that sustained them both. The idea of using extant hymns was also suggested by Todd Dixon,and this 10-minute work is the result.I have employed existing melodies in several works, delving into certain kinds of religious music more than a fewtimes. In seeking new sounds, new ways of harmonizing old tunes, and the contrapuntal overlaying of one tunewith another, I was able to make works like ZION (using 19th-century Revivalist hymns) and LABORING SONGS(using Shaker melodies) reflect the spirit of the composers who created these melodies, without sounding likepastiches or medleys. I determined to do the same with this new work, with the added problem of employingmelodies that were more familiar. I chose five tunes from the 19th century: hymns, spirituals, and folk-tunes.Some of these are known by differing titles, but they all appear in hymnals of various Christian denominations(with various titles and texts). My idea was to employ the tunes without altering their notes, instead using aconstantly modulating sense of harmony — sometimes leading to polytonal harmonizations of what are normallysimple four-chord hymns.The work begins and ends with a repeated chime on the note C: a reminder of steeples, white clapboard churchesin the country, and small church organs. Beginning with a Mixolydian folk tune of Caribbean origin presentedtwice with layered entrances, the work starts with a feeling of mystery and gentle sorrow. It proceeds, after along transition, into a second hymn that is sometimes connected to the sea (hence the sensation of water andwaves throughout it). This tune, by John B. Dykes (1823-1876), is a bit more chromatic and “shifty” than mosthymn-tunes, so I chose to play with the constant sensation of modulation even more than the original does. Atthe climax, the familiar spiritual “Were you there?” takes over, with a double-time polytonal feeling propelling itforward at “Sometimes it causes me to tremble.”Trumpets in counterpoint raise the temperature, and the tempo as well, leading the music into a third tune (ofunknown provenance, though it appears with different texts in various hymnals) that is presented in a sprightlymanner. Bassoons introduce the melody, but it is quickly taken up by other instruments over three “verses,”constantly growing in orchestration and volume. A mysterious second tune, unrelated to this one, interrupts it inall three verses, sending the melody into unknown regions.The final melody is “For the Beauty of the Earth.” This tune by Conrad Kocher (1786-1872) is commonly sung atThanksgiving — the perfect choice to end this work celebrating two people known for their generosity.Keeping the sense of constant modulation that has been present throughout, I chose to present this hymn in threegrowing verses, but with a twist: every four bars, the “key” of the hymn seems to shift — until the “Lord of all, toThee we praise” melody bursts out in a surprising compound meter. This, as it turns out, was the “mystery tune”heard earlier in the piece. After an Ivesian, almost polytonal climax, the Coda begins over a long B( pedal. At first,it seems to be a restatement of the first two phrases of “For the Beauty” with long spaces between them, but it soonchanges to a series of “Amen” cadences, widely separated by range and color. These, too, do not conform to anykey, but instead overlay each other in ways that are unpredictable but strangely comforting.The third verse of “For the Beauty of the Earth” contains this quatrain:“For the joy of ear and eye, –For the heart and mind’s delightFor the mystic harmonyLinking sense to sound and sight”and it was from this poetry that I drew the title for the present work. It is my hope that audiences and performerswill find within it a sense of grace: more than a little familiar, but also quite new and unexpected.
SKU: HL.35028867
UPC: 884088888633. 5.25x7.5 inches.
From the composer of Festival of Carols and The Winter Rose comes a cantata that celebrates the legacy of early American carols and hymnody. Composed in the spirit of folk music, the cantata combines traditional sounds with more rustic elements creating a blend that is fresh and pleasing. Popular American carols like Away In a Manger and O Little Town of Bethlehem dance with traditional spirituals such as Children, Go Where I Send Thee and Go, Tell It on the Mountain. Sacred Harp tunes are re-tooled for Advent and stand alongside new versions of Shaker hymns and Appalachian melodies. Thoughtful narration weaves the movements together in a meaningful tapestry of song and Scripture. Two orchestral options are available allowing maximum flexibility in performance. A full line of support products is also available. Available separately: SATB, CD-ROM Full Orchestration (Score & Parts for Flute 1 & 2, alto recorder, Oboe/English Horn, Clarinet 1 & 2, Bassoon, Horn 1 & 2, Trumpet 1-3, Trombone 1 & 2, Bass Trombone/Tuba, Timpani, Percussion, Acoustic Guitar, Banjo, Harp, Piano, Synth, Solo fiddle, Violin 1 & 2, Viola, Cello, Double Bass), Printed Full Orchestration, Appalachian Consort Orchestration (Score & parts for Flute, Violin, Cello, Mandolin, Guitar, Percussion and Piano), StudioTrax CD (accompaniment only), SplitTrax CD, Listening CD, 10-Pack Listening CDs, Preview Pack (Book/CD combo), RehearsalTrax CDs (part predominant, reproducible), Digital Resource Kit (PowerPoint, Choir Devotionals, Poster, Program, Flyers, Children's Program PDFs). Duration: approx. 40 min.