| Georg Friedrich Händel:
Water Music Chamber
Suite: String Quartet:
Score Chamber Music [Sheet music] Novello & Co Ltd.
This authentic arrangement of ten movements from the Water Music suites dates fr...(+)
This authentic arrangement of ten movements from the Water Music suites dates from Handel’s lifetime but is published here for the first time edited by the distinguished Handel scholar Donald Burrows. Its simple light scoring makes it excellently suited to use by schools and small instrumental groups. It can be performed in many different combinations from the original two violins bassoon and continuo to string quartet or wind-based group.
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| Judith Weir: Tiger Under
The Table: Chamber
Ensemble: Study Score Chamber Music [Sheet music] - Intermediate/advanced Chester
With a title that refers to the energetic and rumbling Bass beneath the music W...(+)
With a title that refers to the energetic and rumbling Bass beneath the music Weir's work for Chamber Ensemble boasts an intriguing structure. Trios and Quartets appear for fleeting moments as the musicians jostle into groupsthat are soon abandoned...as the piece progresses so unison is gradually although tentatively achieved. Written for a large chamber ensemble of fourteen players the piece was completed in 2002.
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| Bent Sørensen:
Shadowland Chamber:
Chamber Ensemble: Score Chamber Music [Sheet music] Wilhelm Hansen
Work for Chamber Ensemble dating from 1989.The composer writes: The Title SHADOW...(+)
Work for Chamber Ensemble dating from 1989.The composer writes: The Title SHADOWLAND refers on the one hand to a blurred ‘Landscape’ of shadows where small shadows are formed behind other shadows and where the outlines are constantly disintegrating. On the other hand the title refers to the fanciful and unreal landscapes I felt in the music while I was writing it. SHADOWLAND has four movements with proportions 4-7-4-3. These proportions can be found on various levels from the smallest cell to the largest form. The first movement is divided into four parts which have exactly the same proportions as the whole pjece and behind the fastrunning melodies and trills thatdominate the whole movement one can hear in the second third and fourth parts anticipations of the second third and fourth movements respectively. The second movement begins at the edge of silence with almost unperceptible glissandi and indistinct chorales. Gradually the hushed landscape is drowned out by sudden expressive melodic outbursts and ends with violent dance rhythms. The third movement is built up of clouds of staccato tones and is a further development of the pointillistic ideas from CLAIROBSCUR. In th last movement the horn plays a long soloistic melody line which the other instruments imitate and echo. These echoes swamp the horn line from time to time. SHADOWLAND was commissioned by and dedicated to The London Sinfonietta.
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| Poul Ruders: Corpus Cum
Figuris: Orchestra: Score Chamber Music [Sheet music] Wilhelm Hansen
Corpus Cum Figuris is a uniform composition in three major parts. The first part...(+)
Corpus Cum Figuris is a uniform composition in three major parts. The first part is a slow marche funébre a kind of prologue with dark and sombre sounds and a massive wall of chords which leads us to the other part of the works where the static and solemn atmosphere is suddenly stopped and replaced by a rhythmic/melodic ritual which accelerates the music. In the third part the block structure is softened gradually different figurations and stylistic elements arise to live their own lives: distant waltzes and pictures from the Middle Ages appear in this gigantic sonorous body. After a wild percussion orgy a short flash-back and a scream from the edge end Corpus cumFiguris. The piece has no literal content at all even though the title leads the thought to Adrian Leverkühn?s Apocalipsis cum Figuris from Thomas Mann?s Doctor Faustus. More likely my piece will arouse associations as with all my music. It has to be heard in it?s own conditions in this case as a big body of music or perhaps as a great screen where the details of course are part of the whole body but at the same time are foreign and odd. It is as if one climbs a mountain and from the top of that mountain discovers a world which is completely different from expected. Corpus cum Figuris for 20 musicians was composed in 1984 commissioned by Ensemble InterContemporain and the Danish Radio. Ensemble InterContemporain world premiered the work in April 1985 conducted by Peter Eötvös. The piece was also played at the ISCM-festival in Amsterdam by Netherland Radio Chamber Orchestra conducted by Ernest Bour.
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| Michael Nyman: For John
Cage: Brass Ensemble Chamber Music [Sheet music] Chester
Score for this piece which was comissioned by London Brass and first performed ...(+)
Score for this piece which was comissioned by London Brass and first performed in 1992.Quoting composer: The piece was completed without title on 12th August 1992. A title once considered was Canons Chorales and Waltzes but this was dropped since there was only one canon (the opening) and only genuine waltz (apart from a passage towards the end which superimposes the canon over a waltz rhythm). The following day I read the paper that John Cage had died - the day I finished writing. For this reason but mainly because Cage was the most revolutionary practical music thinker of the 20th century this piece is dedicated to him. His influence on my music may be perceived underthe 'very un-Cagein' surface: though stylistically there may be little in For John Cage that may have been to his taste I hope he would at least have appreciated its diversity its non-simultaneous multiplicity.Parts are available on hire or special order. Duration 15 minutes.
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| Nicola LeFanu: Invisible
Places: Chamber Ensemble:
Score Chamber Music [Sheet music] Novello & Co Ltd.
This piece lasts about 12 minutes and it plays continuously although it is mad...(+)
This piece lasts about 12 minutes and it plays continuously although it is made up of 16 small movements. Throughout the four string players form a group: sometimes the clarinet is caught up with them but more often it is like a person pursuing an independent train of thought: sometimes talking to itself sometimes conversational sometimes singingThe starting point for my Quintet was Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities: like the book my piece is composed from many small contrasting ideas that are constantly transforming some coming to the fore as others recede. This quintet is dedicated to Hugh Sargent who commissioned it.
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| Judith Weir: King Harald
Sails To Byzantium:
Chamber Ensemble: Score Chamber Music [Sheet music] Novello & Co Ltd.
Work for Chamber Ensemble commissioned for the Fires of London by the St Magnus ...(+)
Work for Chamber Ensemble commissioned for the Fires of London by the St Magnus Festival Society with funds from the Scottish Arts Council.
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| Henryk Mikolaj Górecki:
Recitatives And Ariosos
'lerchenmusik': Chamber Chamber Music [Sheet music] Chester
Gorecki: Recitatives And Ariosos 'lerchenmusik' For Clarinet Cello And Piano.
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| Magnus Lindberg:
Corrente: Chamber
Ensemble: Score Chamber Music [Score] Chester
Completed in 1992 Corrente was commissioned by the Swedish Literature Society O...(+)
Completed in 1992 Corrente was commissioned by the Swedish Literature Society Of Finland. As the title suggests the piece bids a nod to the Baroque dance form the Courante based upon an ever-shifting series ofrepeating ostinati - the piece even contains a fleeting glimpse of Purcell's Funeral Music For Queen Mary.However a simple exercise in Baroque dance it is not. The title also translates as Flowing and theostinati create a texture of ripples that contrast strongly with the stronger rhythms of the dance.
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| Geoffrey Burgon: Little
Missenden Variation
(1984): Ensemble: Parts Chamber Music Chester
Little Missenden Variation (1984)
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| Colin Evans: Fun With
Xylophones Clarinet
Ensemble Score: Chamber
Ensemble: Chamber Music [Sheet music] Novello & Co Ltd.
Fun With Xylophones Clarinet Ensemble Score
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| Fini Henriques: Suite Op.
13: Oboe: Score and Parts Chamber Music Wilhelm Hansen
Suite Op. 13 for Oboe and Strings by Fini Henriques.
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| Elizabeth Maconchy:
Trittico (1981): Oboe &
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| Henry Purcell: Chacony In
G Minor For Strings
(Parts): String Ensemble: Chamber Music [Sheet music] Chester
There are three mysteries about this piece by Purcell originally scored for Viol...(+)
There are three mysteries about this piece by Purcell originally scored for Viols. When it was written for what purpose it was written and why the eccentric title ‘Chacony’ rather than the French ‘chaconne’ are questions whoseanswers are all shrouded in the mists of time. The suggested dates of early 1680’s and as a piece of light music for some sort of theatrical performance almost answer two of the three questions. The Chacony is scored here forString quartet but could be played by a larger ensemble.
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| Simon Bainbridge: For
Miles (For Chamber
Ensemble): Chamber
Ensemble: Score Chamber Music [Score] Novello & Co Ltd.
For Miles was commissioned by the Composers’ Ensemble with funds from the ...(+)
For Miles was commissioned by the Composers’ Ensemble with funds from the London Arts Board. It was first performed on 29th June 1994 by the Composers’ Ensemble at St.John’s Smith Square London. Scored for solo Trumpet Oboe/english horn 2 Clarinets Viola Cello Bass (with C extension). Duration: 11 minutes. Parts available on hire.
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| John Tavener: Towards The
Son: Chamber Ensemble:
Score Chamber Music [Sheet music] Chester
Tavener's 1982 setting of a ritual procession. This is a special item which is m...(+)
Tavener's 1982 setting of a ritual procession. This is a special item which is made to order. Please e-mail our Mail Order Department for further information.
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| Raymond Premru:
Divertimento 10 Parts (9
Movements) (Parts):
Chamber Ensemble: Chamber Music [Sheet music] Chester
Raymond Premru was for many years the principal Bass Trombone of London?s Philha...(+)
Raymond Premru was for many years the principal Bass Trombone of London?s Philharmonia Orchestra as well as having been a member of the Philip Johnson Brass Ensemble an active jazz musician teacher and composer. He listed hisinfluences as Berg Prokofiev Bartok Ives jazz and Bach though what emerged from his sensibility is diatonic modernist and skillfully suited to whatever instrumentation he chose.The five movements which appear typeset in thisscore A Tale From Long Ago Blues March Of Knights And Castles Le Bateau Sur Léman and Petite March are sometimes performed as a shortened version of the Divertimento to great effect.
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| Magnus Lindberg: Arena
II: Chamber Ensemble:
Score Chamber Music [Sheet music] Chester
The full score of Arena II written in 1996 by Magnus Lindberg for Chamber Orch...(+)
The full score of Arena II written in 1996 by Magnus Lindberg for Chamber Orchestra. The work is a version for sixteen instruments derived from it's predecessor Arena and was commissioned by the LondonSinfonietta with funds from the Arts Council the Aldeburgh Festival and the South Bank Centre.
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| Peter Maxwell Davies:
Sinfonia Concertante
(Miniature Score):
Chamber Ensemble: Chamber Music [Sheet music] Chester
The first in a trilogy of works for chamber orchestra the Sinfonia Concertante ...(+)
The first in a trilogy of works for chamber orchestra the Sinfonia Concertante uses its forces very much in concerto fashion - and not least its timpanist who signals the work to start and has a real melodic role at the start ofthe finale.The first performance took place in August 1983 as part of a BBC promenade concert at the Royal Albert Hall London. It was given by the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields conducted by Neville Marriner.Score(miniature). Duration c. 31mins.
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| Raymond Premru:
Divertimento 10 Parts (9
Movements): Orchestra:
Score Chamber Music [Sheet music] Chester
Raymond Premru was for many years the principal Bass Trombone of London?s Philha...(+)
Raymond Premru was for many years the principal Bass Trombone of London?s Philharmonia Orchestra as well as having been a member of the Philip Johnson Brass Ensemble an active jazz musician teacher and composer. He listed hisinfluences as Berg Prokofiev Bartok Ives jazz and Bach though what emerged from his sensibility is diatonic modernist and skillfully suited to whatever instrumentation he chose.The five movements which appear typeset in thisscore A Tale From Long Ago Blues March Of Knights And Castles Le Bateau Sur Léman and Petite March are sometimes performed as a shortened version of the Divertimento to great effect.
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| Erik Bergman: Tutti E
Soli For Chamber
Orchestra: Chamber
Ensemble: Score Chamber Music [Sheet music] Novello & Co Ltd.
Tutti e soli is scored for a chamber orchestra consisting of flute clarinet ba...(+)
Tutti e soli is scored for a chamber orchestra consisting of flute clarinet bassoon percussion and strings. It is a work in four movements examining as its name suggests the tension and dialogue between soloists small groups of instruments and the whole orchestra. Timbres and unusual performing techniques receive a lot of attention as in most of Bergman's works. The mood is most fragile in the ghost-like mysterious meditation of the second movement and most forcible in the complex closing Energico
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| Peter Maxwell Davies:
Unbroken Circle: Chamber
Ensemble: Instrumental
Work Chamber Music [Sheet music] Chester
Composed in homage to William Glock this single movement has something of the c...(+)
Composed in homage to William Glock this single movement has something of the character of a slow fugue on a theme deeply imbued with minor thirds. The woodwinds and strings are considered as pairs in balance with each other and with the piano.Unbroken Circle was first performed in June 1984 during the Bath Festival by the London Sinfonietta conducted by Diego Masson.Set of parts. Duration c. 5mins. This is a special item which is made to order. Please e-mail our Mail Order Department for further information.
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| John Tavener: Last Sleep
Of The Virgin: String
Ensemble: Score Chamber Music [Sheet music] Chester
The Last Sleep of the Virgin was written for string quartet and handbells in 199...(+)
The Last Sleep of the Virgin was written for string quartet and handbells in 1991. It enacts the story of the falling asleep and burial by the Apostles of the Mother of Jesus. This work was commissioned for theChilingirian Quartet by the Cheltenham Festival The first performance was given by the Chilingirian Quartet with Kim Sargeant as part of the 1992 Cheltenham Festival.
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| Elizabeth Maconchy:
Piccola Musica: Chamber
Ensemble: Instrument Pack Chamber Music [Sheet music + CD + Instrument] Chester
Piccola Musica is written for string trio and is in five short movements indepe...(+)
Piccola Musica is written for string trio and is in five short movements independent of each other apart from the ‘’tie-up’’ between numbers I and V. The texture is in the main contrapuntal though less consistently so than in Maconchy's Quartets and the mood is more relaxed. The five ‘’piccoli movimenti’’ are: I Allegro moderato II Andante III Moderato IV Poco lento V Allegro moderato- meno mosso-allegro moderato: in its end is its beginning.
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| John Tavener: The Last
Sleep Of The Virgin:
String Ensemble:
Instrumental Work Chamber Music [Sheet music] Chester
Set of parts for this piece written for two violins viola and handbells.This i...(+)
Set of parts for this piece written for two violins viola and handbells.This is a special item which is made to order. Please e-mail our Mail Order Department for further information.
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| Magnus Lindberg: Coyote
Blues (Full Score):
Chamber Ensemble: Score Chamber Music [Sheet music] Chester
Work for Chamber Ensemble commissioned by the Swedish National Concert Institute...(+)
Work for Chamber Ensemble commissioned by the Swedish National Concert Institute.
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| Martin Dalby: Dancer
Eduardova: Chamber
Ensemble: Study Score Chamber Music [Study Score / Miniature] Novello & Co Ltd.
Commissioned by the St Magnus Festival with funds from the Scottish Arts Council...(+)
Commissioned by the St Magnus Festival with funds from the Scottish Arts Council. First performed by The Fires of London in June 1978 in St Magnus Cathedral Kirkwall.The work takes as its starting-point a sequence of dreams related by Franz Kafka in his diaries of 1910. Eduardova was a Russian ballerina whom Kafka had seen dancing in Prague in the early part of this century. The music of The Dancer Eduardova is based on dancing particularly the csardas which in his dream Kafka had asked the dancer to perform just one time more. Kafka's dream-sequences contain the uncomfortable contrasts of the grace of the dancer and the loathsome gestures of unconscious intriguers;there are abrupt changes of mood to sorrow and despair. Flowers presented by all the Princes of Europe appear in the dreams as do trains and trams on which Eduardova travels with two vigorous violinists.
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| Nicola LeFanu: Lament
(Oboe Clarinet Viola and
Cello Parts): Chamber
Ensemble: Chamber Music [Sheet music] Novello & Co Ltd.
Lament was composed in 1988.The scoring was chosen for its dark colour: oboe dou...(+)
Lament was composed in 1988.The scoring was chosen for its dark colour: oboe doubling cor anglais clarinet doubling bass clarinet viola and cello. The melodic lines and harmony are often inflected with quarter-tones.
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| Peter Maxwell Davies:
Image Reflection Shadow
(Miniature Score):
Chamber Chamber Music [Sheet music] Chester
This work for chamber ensemble was written for Gregory Knowles and The Fires Of ...(+)
This work for chamber ensemble was written for Gregory Knowles and The Fires Of London who gave the first performance at the 1982 Lucerne Festival at the Municipal Theatre of Lucerne.Miniature score. Duration c. 40mins.
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| Karl Aage Rasmussen:
Pianissimo Furioso:
Chamber Ensemble: Score Chamber Music [Sheet music] Wilhelm Hansen
Work for Chamber Ensemble (Flute Clarinet Violin Cello Percussion Piano and...(+)
Work for Chamber Ensemble (Flute Clarinet Violin Cello Percussion Piano and Guitar) composed in 1982.
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