Format : Sheet music
SKU: PR.114416840
ISBN 9781491101285. UPC: 680160625239. 9 x 12 inches.
On the occasion of its 30th anniversary, the ensemble Music From China commissioned Chen Yi for a new work, which became Three Dances from China South, scored for Chinese instruments. Its three descriptive movements (Lions Playing Ball, Bamboo Dance, Lusheng Dance) are each inspired by folk dances from the southeastern provinces of China.Commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University, the two-movement trio Tibetan Tunes was written for the New Pacific Trio (Igor Veligan, violin, Nina Flyer, cello, and Sonia Leong, piano). It was premiered at the Conservatory of Music at University of the Pacific on Jan. 27, 2007 in Stockton, California.The first movement is inspired by the Tibetan folk tune “Du Mu†as played on a recorder (Xiongling). This music presents the rich gestures of Du Mu (the name of a god in Tibetan Buddhism) in a serene mood.“Dui Xie†is a kind of Tibetan folk ensemble music using the same tune in the introduction and coda, played with the plucked instrument Zhamunie, the bamboo flute, and the fiddle Erhu, often performed with singing and tap dancing. The pitch materials of this movement are drawn from folk ensemble music and the lyrical Tibetan folk song “Amaliehuo.â€.
SKU: PR.44641192L
UPC: 680160610860. 11 x 14 inches.
One of my greatest pleasures in writing a concerto is exploring the new world that opens for me each time I enter the sometimes alien, but always fascinating, world of a solo instrument or instruments. For me, the challenge is to discover the deepest nature of the solo instrument (its karma, if you will) and to allow that essential character to guide the shape and form of the work and the nature of the interaction between soloists and orchestra. In recent years, many of us have become more aware of the musical world outside the Western tradition of musics that follow different procedures and spring from other aesthetics. And contemporary percussionists have opened many of these worlds to us, as they have ventured around the globe, participating in Brazilian Samba schools, studying Gamelan and African drumming with local experts, collecting instruments from Asia and Africa and South America and the South Pacific, widening our horizons in the process. I will never forget our first meeting in Toronto when Nexus invited me into their world of hundreds of exciting percussion instruments. The vast array of instruments in the collection of the Nexus ensemble is truly global in scope as well as offering a thrilling sound-universe. I was inspired by the incredible range of sound and moved by the fact that so many of these instruments were musical reflections of a spiritual dimension. After long consideration, I decided that it would not only be impossible, but even undesirable for this Western-tradition-steeped composer to attempt to use these instruments in a culturally authentic way. My goal was an existential kind of authenticity: searching instead for universal ideas that would be true to both myself and the performers while acknowledging the traditional uses of the instruments. Since many percussion instruments are associated with various kinds of ritual, I decided that I would allow that concept to shape my piece. Rituals is in four movements, each issuing from a ritual associated with percussion, but with the orchestral interaction providing an essential element in the musical form. I. Invocation alludes to the traditions of invoking the spirit of the instruments, or the gods, or the ancestors before performing. II. Ambulation moves from a processional, through march and dance to fantasy based on all three. III. Remembrances alludes to traditions of memorializing. IV. Contests progresses from friendly competition games, contests to a suggestion of a battle of big band drummers, to warlike exchanges. In the 2nd and 4th movements, another percussion tradition, improvisation, is employed. Written into these movements are a number of seeds for improvisation. Indications in the score call for the soloists to improvise in three different ways, marked A for percussion alone; marked B for percussion with and in response to the orchestra; and C where the percussionists are free to add and embellish the written parts. These improvisations should grow out of and embellish previous motives and gestures in the movement.
SKU: BT.DHP-1196195-070
ISBN 9789043158619. English-German-French-Dutch.
Six Panoramas, a six-part suite by French composer Pascal Proust, sends six greetings in sound from all over the world in the form of panoramic postcards. The locations range from the famous Grand Canyon and the Mediterranean island of Santorini all the way to Fiji in the South Pacific. As per standard in the Music Box series, the flexible instrumentation of both the wind and percussion parts allows us to revisit these dream destinations in a new light again and again.Six Panoramas, een zesdelige suite van de Franse componist Pascal Proust, presenteert zes klinkende ansichtkaarten in panaromaformaat, verzonden van over de hele wereld. De locaties variëren van de beroemde Grand Canyon en het Griekse eiland Santorini in de Ege sche Zee tot Fiji in de Stille Oceaan. Zoals gebruikelijk in de serie Music Box kunnen we deze droombestemmingen dankzij de variabele bezettingsmogelijkheden in zowel de blazerspartijen als het slagwerk telkens weer in een nieuw licht gaan zien.Six Panoramas, eine sechsteilige Suite des französischen Komponisten Pascal Proust, präsentiert sechs klingende Postkartengrüße aus aller Welt im Panorama-Format. Die Spannweite reicht vom berühmten Grand Canyon über die Mittelmeerinsel Santorin bis hin zu den Fidschi-Inseln. Die variablen Besetzungsmöglichkeiten sowohl der vier Bläserstimmen als auch bei den Schlaginstrumenten wie bei der Music Box-Serie üblich lassen diese Traumziele in immer wieder neuem Licht erscheinen.Six Panoramas, suite en six parties du compositeur français Pascal Proust, présente six cartes postales sonores au format panoramique de différents coins du monde, allant du célèbre Grand Canyon aux îles Fidji en passant par l’île méditerranéenne de Santorin. L’instrumentation variable quatre voix pour instruments vent et percussions optionnelles l’instar de ce que propose habituellement la série Music Box , permet d’apporter ces destinations de rêve un éclairage toujours différent.
SKU: YM.G790800
New Sounds in Concert Band Series (NSB) Duration: approx.9'00 Arranged by Shoji Yokouchi.
