SKU: CF.BPS130

ISBN 9781491156261. UPC: 680160914807. 9 x 12 inches.

The Kolomoki Mounds is one of the largest and earliest Woodland Period earthwork mound complexes in the Southeastern United States and the largest in Georgia. These mounds were constructed between 350-600 A.D. The eight mounds include a Great Temple Mound, a ceremonial mound, several burial mounds and a large plaza in the center where some 1,500 residents lived in a large village of thatched houses. Kolomoki celebrates the Swift Creek and Weeden Island Indian cultures. Using the first six notes for young band, the piece begins with a rhythmic statement from the brass and percussion. A simple melody is introduced by the woodwinds and later found in the trumpet part. The middle section features smaller sections. The piece ends with restatement of the main theme with a woodwind counter melody. This piece is designed to make your beginners sound great.
The “Kolomoki Mounds” is one of the largest and earliest Woodland Period earthwork mound complexes in the Southeastern United States and the largest in Georgia. These mounds were constructed between 350–600 A.D. The eight mounds include a Great Temple Mound, a ceremonial mound, several burial mounds and a large plaza in the center where some 1,500 residents lived in a large village of thatched houses.Kolomoki celebrates the Swift Creek and Weeden Island Indian cultures. Using the first six notes for young band, the piece begins with a rhythmic statement from the brass and percussion. A simple melody is introduced by the woodwinds and later found in the trumpet part. The middle section features smaller sections. The piece ends with restatement of the main theme with a woodwind counter melody. This piece is designed to make your beginners sound great.

SKU: HL.49026732

ISBN 9790001020046.

SKU: HF.FH-3295

ISBN 9790203432951. 9 x 12 inches.

SKU: BR.EB-9380

ISBN 9790004188507. 10.5 x 14 inches.

,,Trau er nur dem holzernen Freund nicht. Er ist manchmal ein lederner (aus den Beethoven-Konversationsheften) Dieses Schlagzeugtrio, das in enger Zusammenarbeit mit den Widmungstragern entstanden ist, besteht aus drei Teilen. Es wird durch die schiere Freude am dramaturgisch gebundelten Konstruieren entlang seismischer Bruchlinien gepragt. Die drei Percussion-Spieler wechseln wahrend des Werkes zwischen drei Setups an verschiedenen Spielpositionen - vom Buhnenhintergrund, uber die Mitte der Buhne bis vorne an der Buhnenrampe. Dabei wird jeweils ein anderes Klangmaterial, im ersten Teil (Part I) das Fell, im zweiten Teil (Part II) das Metall und im dritten Teil (Part III) das Holz in den Mittelpunkt gestellt. Part I (5'30'') ist mit drei O-Daikos besetzt, die mit Fingern, Handen, Fausten, Superballs und Holzstaben gespielt werden. Part II (6'00'') ist um drei Glockenspiele, drei Vibraphone und drei Sixxen gruppiert und integriert auch Metallinstrumente wie Chinese Opera Gongs, Mini-Tam-Tams und Metalltonnen, die mit Fussmaschine gespielt werden. In Part III (4'00'') spielen alle drei Musiker mit Rundstaben, Handen und Rohrenglockenhammern das mit sieben massiven Balken aus Eschenholz besetzte baskische Nationalinstrument Txalaparta, das auch seine ganz eigene Geschichte im Widerstand gegen die Franco-Diktatur hat. Reizvoll war fur mich sowohl, dass man zu dritt auf diesem archaischen Instrument wirklich aberwitzig schnelle Rhythmen spielen kann, als auch, dass dieses Instrument auf Konzertpodien klanglich wie optisch noch vollig neu ist - und dies, trotz aller Schlichtheit, bei einem unglaublichen Reichtum an Klangmoglichkeiten. Kleine rhythmische Zellen, die sich immer wieder zu vielfaltigen neuen Texturen - bis zur klanglichen Entfesselung - zusammenballen und eine feine Differenzierung und Dynamisierung der Anschlagsmoglichkeiten bestimmen dieses Werk. Auch, wenn nur Part II durch den Einsatz bestimmter Tonhohen gepragt ist (durch die Verwendung der von Yannis Xenakis erfundenen Sixxen durchaus mikrotonal), so gibt es doch unuberhorbar abschnittsubergreifende Kontinuitaten in Rhythmik und Motivik, die das ganze Werk bestimmen und es dabei wie feine seismische Adern durchziehen. (Johannes Maria Staud, 2020)

World premiere: Vienna, October 17, 2020 Commissioned by KolnMusik GmbH as a part of the Non Beethoven project of the Kolner Philharmonie for 2020, Wiener Konzerthaus and Martin Grubinger / Percussive Planet.

SKU: BR.EB-9387

ISBN 9790004188576. 0 x 0 inches.

Commissioned by the Kolner Philharmonie (KolnMusik) for the non bthvn projekt 2020 and the Cite de la musique / Philharmonie de Paris Dedicated to Arditti Quartet Each movement of this quartet explores a single state, its lights and its shadows. Each movement, you could say, is a moment . And these moments could last for more or less time without compromising their essential nature. The processes could be extended or compressed, repeated or reversed, but the core ideas - if they are ideas, but maybe they are simply experiences? - are what they are. Despite this, the precise sequence of movements matters a great deal. Heard together they do articulate some kind of linear narrative, maybe even a metaphorical journey (albeit a circular one where the arrival might, who knows, prove to be a new departure). One situation gives way to another and instrumental relationships within the quartet vary, but ultimately the imaginative impulse behind the piece preferences states of unity. Whether or not this unity is expressed texturally - sometimes literal unisons pervade, but not always - there is generally a sense that even seemingly diverse aspects relate to a fundamental condition of concord: a conscious limitation in the pitch structure to spectral emanations of the root notes E-flat and C. At the opening this is unambiguously audible in the perpetual alternation of these two notes in the low cello register. Later the two spectra are woven into a micro-tonal 'double-spectral-mode' (derived from the first 24 partials of the C and E-flat fundamentals), which defines the subtle melodic inflection of the second movement, and the never-quite-chromatic ascending scales of the third. For now this feels like a rich source of melodic possibility, so far only just glimpsed... And why the insistence on E-flat? Probably by way of historical anecdote. Apparently Karl Holz (a member of the Schuppanzigh Quartet) said to Beethoven: We performed your Quartet in E-flat Op. 127 in his [Weber's] honour; he found the Adagio too long; but I told him: Beethoven also has a longer feeling and a longer imagination than anyone standing or not standing today. - Since then, even Linke (another member of the quartet) can no longer stand him: we cannot forgive him for this. Listening again to Op. 127, in light of these comments, I was struck by the opening moment: the unfolding of an E-flat 7th chord over the course of a few bars. Every time I hear it I find myself wishing that Beethoven would have lingered longer there, without resolution or progression, just enjoying that sonority. And maybe - why not? - tune the 7th naturally. And what would it be to stretch that moment into an entire piece? What would Weber think of that?! In the end I was not so extreme in my self-limitation, and other concerns took over, but it was from these thoughts that the composition process began... Lastly, about the title: it comes from a book called 'The Clock of the Long Now' by Stewart Brand, published at the turn of the millennium. It's about the creation of a thousand-year clock to embody the aspiration to thinking in terms of longer time-spans than are presently habitual. If the music of Beethoven embodied a 'longer' feeling and imagination than some of his contemporaries were able to appreciate, what is our relation to time now? Longer or shorter? Maybe it depends who you ask... It's probably more extreme in both directions: attention spans might be diminishing in the digital world, but conversely there is an awareness of distant pasts and potential futures which would have been inconceivable at the time of Beethoven. In any case, the interesting thing is to ponder how societal conditions, assumptions and expectations might - whether consciously or unconsciously - influence the time of art, for listeners and creators alike. And what if time is running out? (Christian Mason)

World premiere: Paris, Cite de la musique, January 14, 2020.

SKU: PR.416415290

UPC: 680160625895. 8.5x11 inches.

SKU: BR.OB-4371-12

Handel composed his Water Music for none other than King George I who requested a concert for guests invited to his pleasure cruise on the Thames.

ISBN 9790004306338. 10 x 12.5 inches.

According to the Daily Courant, the premiere took place as follows: On Wednesday Evening, at about 8, the King took to Water at Whitehall in an open Barge, wherein were Dutchess of Bolton, The Dutchess of New Castle, the Countess of Godolphin, Madam Kilmaseck, and the Earl of Orkney. And went up the River towards Chelsea. Many other of Barges with Person of Quality attended, and so the great Number of Boats, that the whole River in a manner was couver'd; a City Company's Barge was employ'd for the Musick, wherein were 50 Instruments of all sorts, Who play'd all the way from Lambeth (while the Barges drove with the Tide without Rowing, as far as Chelsea) the finest Symphonies, compos'd express for this Occasion, by Mr Hendel: which his Majesty liked so well, that he caus'd it to be play'd over three times in going and returning. At Eleven his Majesty came again into Barge, and return'd the same Way, the Musick continuing to play till he landed.

Handel composed his Water Music for none other than King George I who requested a concert for guests invited to his pleasure cruise on the Thames.