Symphony Ensembles Series - Trumpet Symphony (Four Cornets Or Trumpets)

SKU: KN.19184

UPC: 822795191844.

This grade 3-5 anthology offers brass quintets a treasure trove of classical repertoire. A complete concert program can be found in this convenient volume and will be a valuable resource for practically any type of performance.

Contents:
Ases Tod (Grieg), Three Renaissance Dances (Gervaise), Largo From The New World Symphony (Dvorak), Three EnglishaEUR^Madrigals (Traditional), The Thunderer (Sousa), The Entertainer (Joplin), March Militaire (Schubert), Fanfare For Brass Quintet (Ziek), Badinerie (Bach), Hungarian Dance No. 5 (Brahms).

SKU: PR.114419070

ISBN 9781491113493. UPC: 680160671540. 9 x 12 inches.

Martin Amlin’s first recital work for Trumpet and Piano brings all the iridescent excitement that has intrigued other performers. Composed for his renowned colleague Terry Everson, Amlin’s sonata pours new wine into old bottles with its three movements titled: 1. Invention, 2. Chaconne, and 3. Moto Perpetuo. The publication provides solo parts for both C and E-flat Trumpet. Composer and pianist Martin Amlin has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Tanglewood Music Center, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Massachusetts Artists Foundation, St. Botolph Club Foundation, and the Massachusetts Council for the Arts. He was a recipient of an ASCAP Grant to Young Composers and has received many ASCAPlus Awards. He has been a resident at Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the MacDowell Colony, where he was named a Norlin Fellow.Much of Amlin’s music is characterized by a pungent tonality and energetic rhythms. His Sonata for Piccolo and Piano and Sonata No. 2 for Flute and Piano both won the National Flute Association’s Newly Published Music Competition. Concerto for Piccolo and Orchestra was premiered by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra,and he has had performances of his music by the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver Chorale, Back Bay Chorale, Webster Trio, and the American Vocal Arts Quintet. He has had commissions from the Seattle Flute Society, Pacific Serenades, the Chicago Flute Club, ALEA III, the James Pappoutsakis memorial flute competition, pianist Andrew Willis, and clarinetist Michael Webster.Martin Amlin is Chairman of the Department of Composition and Theory at Boston University and Director of the Young Artists Composition Program at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. He is also recipient of Boston University’s Kahn Award for his Piano Sonata No. 7. He studied with Nadia Boulanger at the Ecoles d’Art Américaines in Fontainebleau and the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris, and received masters and doctoral degrees as well as the Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music. Mr. Amlin has appeared as soloist with the Boston Pops Orchestra in performances of Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, and has performed on the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Prelude concerts at both Symphony Hall and Tanglewood. He has also appeared on the FleetBoston Celebrity Series and been pianist for the M.I.T. Experimental Music Studio and the New England Ragtime Ensemble. He has often been heard live on Boston’s WGBH radio station as both performer and composer, and has given world premieres of many new works.Martin Amlin has recordings on the Albany, Ashmont Music, Centaur, Crystal, Folkways, Hyperion, Koch International, Opus One, Titanic, and Wergo labels. .

SKU: KN.19186

UPC: 822795191868.

This grade 3-5 anthology offers brass quintets a treasure trove of classical repertoire. A complete concert program can be found in this convenient volume and will be a valuable resource for practically any type of performance.

Contents:
Ases Tod (Grieg), Three Renaissance Dances (Gervaise), Largo From The New World Symphony (Dvorak), Three EnglishaEUR^Madrigals (Traditional), The Thunderer (Sousa), The Entertainer (Joplin), March Militaire (Schubert), Fanfare For Brass Quintet (Ziek), Badinerie (Bach), Hungarian Dance No. 5 (Brahms).

SKU: KN.19185

UPC: 822795191851.

This grade 3-5 anthology offers brass quintets a treasure trove of classical repertoire. A complete concert program can be found in this convenient volume and will be a valuable resource for practically any type of performance.

Contents:
Ases Tod (Grieg), Three Renaissance Dances (Gervaise), Largo From The New World Symphony (Dvorak), Three EnglishaEUR^Madrigals (Traditional), The Thunderer (Sousa), The Entertainer (Joplin), March Militaire (Schubert), Fanfare For Brass Quintet (Ziek), Badinerie (Bach), Hungarian Dance No. 5 (Brahms).

SKU: BT.DHP-1125390-140

9x12 inches. English-German-French-Dutch.

Intermezzo is the second movement of Satoshi Yagisawa’s Clarinet Concerto. The concerto was first performed by Higashi-Hiroshima Wind Ensemble in Hiroshima, Japan in 2010 with guest performer Shinsuke Hashimoto, clarinettist with the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra and was conducted by Atsushi Kageyama. Inspiration for this work came from the fact that both Satoshi Yagisawa and Shinsuke Hashimoto graduated from Musashino Academia Musicae.Clarinet Concerto>/I> is the pinnacle of Satoshi Yagisawa’s “Concerto Series” which also features his Suite Concertante for Piano and WindOrchestra, Trumpet Concerto, Trombone Concerto, Saxophone Concertino, andConcertino for Solo Percussion and Wind Orchestra.Yagisawa’s characteristic heartfelt theme in the second movement is especially popular and consequently—entitled Intermezzo—it is often performed independently.Soloist: Grade 4

Intermezzo is het tweede deel van Satoshi Yagisawa’s Clarinet Concerto. Het concert als geheel werd in 2010 onder leiding van dirigent Atsushi Kageyama door het ensemble in première gebracht, samen met gastklarinettist Shinsuke Hashimoto - die werkzaam is bij het Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra. De inspiratiebron voor het werk is het gegeven dat Satoshi Yagisawa en Shinsuke Hashimoto beiden hebben gestudeerd aan de Musashino Academia Musicae.Clarinet Concerto vormt het hoogtepunt van Satoshi Yagisawa’s Concerto Series, waar ook zijn Suite Concertante for Piano and Wind Orchestra, Trumpet Concerto, Trombone Concerto, Saxophone Concertinoen Concertino for solo Percussion and Wind Orchestra deel van uitmaken.Met name Yagisawa’s karakteristieke doorvoelde thema uit het tweede deel is populair. Daarom wordt dat ook vaak als afzonderlijk stuk uitgevoerd, onder de titel Intermezzo.Soloist: Grade 4

Intermezzo ist der zweite Satz aus Satoshi Yagisawas Clarinet Concerto. Dieses wurde vom Bläserensemble Higashi-Hiroshima in Hiroshima (Japan) für das 20. Jahreskonzert in Auftrag gegeben. Es wurde von diesem Ensemble mit dem Gastsolisten Shinsuke Hashimoto, dem Klarinettisten des Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra, unter der Direktion von Atsushi Kageyama uraufgeführt. Satoshi Yagisawa ließ sich zu diesem Werk vom gemeinsamen Abschluss mit Shinsuke Hashimoto an der Academia Musicae Musashino inspirieren. Clarinet Concerto bildet den Höhepunkt von Satoshi Yagisawas Concerto-Reihe“, zu welcher außerdem folgende Werke zählen: Suite Concertante for Piano andWind Orchestra, Trumpet Concerto, Trombone Concerto, Saxophone Concertino sowie das Concertino for Solo Percussion and Wind Orchestra.Das charakteristische, innige Thema aus dem zweiten Satz erfreut sich besonderer Beliebtheit und wird daher als Intermezzo oft einzeln aufgeführt.Solostimme: Schwierigkeitsgrad 4

Intermezzo est le deuxième mouvement extrait du Concerto pour Clarinette de Satoshi Yagisawa. Le concerto a été créé en 2010 par l’Orchestre d’Harmonie d’Higashi-Hiroshima sous la direction d’Atsushi Kageyama avec la participation de Shinsuke Hashimoto, clarinettiste de l’Orchestre Symphonique d’Hiroshima. Cette oeuvre s’inspire du fait que Satoshi Yagisawa et Shinsuke Hashimoto sont tous deux diplômés du Conservatoire de musique de Musashino.Le Concerto pour Clarinette représente l’apogée de la série de concertos de Satoshi Yagisawa, qui comprend aussi une Suite concertante pour piano et orchestre, un Concerto pour trompette, unConcerto pour trombone, un Concertino pour saxophone et un Concertino pour percussion solo et orchestre d’harmonie.En raison de sa grande popularité, le thème émouvant du deuxième mouvement, qui est intitulé Intermezzo, est souvent interprété indépendamment.Soliste: Degré de difficulté 4.

SKU: PR.11540208F

ISBN 9781598063202. UPC: 680160597383. 9x12 inches.

A prolific composer who blends Chinese and Western traditions, Dr. Chen Yi gives us Wind for the Wind Band Select series. This work uses the Western sound of a wind ensemble to depict the Eastern feeling of the winds, or feng, in two movements: Introduction and Rondo. For advanced players. Duration: 11'.
Wind for wind ensemble is premiered by the Bowling Green Wind Symphony, conducted by Prof. Bruce Moss, at the 31st Annual New Music Festival on Oct. 23, 2010, at the Bowling Green State University in OH.  “Wind”, or “the winds” means “view, folk songs, style and manner” in Chinese. I used a western wind ensemble to sound the eastern feeling of the winds in my piece.  Wind consists of two movements: Introduction and Rondo.—Chen Yi.

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.