This album offers an upbeat collection of tracks that pulse with the rhythms of cultures around the globe. One element that distinguishes 'Ethnicity' from previous albums is the extensive use of human voices not only solo arias and group chants but bona fide text.

Niels Marthinsen's Symphony No. 2 - Snapshot Symphony (2009). 1st movement Fiesta Mexicana: fortissimo accelerando (ca. 6 minutes) 2nd movement Arabian Nights: adagio intensivo e furioso (ca. 11 minutes) 3rd movement Great Fireworks in China: giocoso esplosivo e marcatissimo (ca. 8 minutes)   Programme note I’ve never been to Mexico and Arabia or to China. But I love the way those countries sound in Hollywood movies and inpop culture generally: When Clint Eastwood rides south of the border when Disney’s Alladin or Mulan takes me far east when arabic pop music roars past me out of the open windows of a car... and bull fighter music and the sound of acrobatic beat-em-up’s in John Woo’s Hong Kong karate movies – and so on: powerful images splashed all over my eye balls and ear drums. My recollections of this ethnic-pop-film-music has turned itself into a symphony. And I don’t even have to just remember what I have heard: A few internet clicks gives me access to incredible sound libraries containing live-and-kicking ethnic music from my three favorite countries just waiting to be put together in new combinations and energize my personal imagery.  The symphony is like a huge slide show – musical snapshots from my travels in the western pop culture versions of three exotic locations: Mexico Arabia and China – original and popular melodies welded together by my personal musical language and associations. I use all the effects of modern pling-plong-music plus a few of my own inventions to create a spectacular contemporary orchestral sound sporting a bee hive of melodies from either East or West played simultaneously in different keys and differents tempos at once while kept firmly in place by

(Four Cities)-Faz'l Say?s ?Four Cities? Sonata can be considered as a journey through four cities of Anatolia. This work has taken its inspiration from Faz'l Say?s memories and events of his life. Bodrum is well known as a city greatly frequented by tourists which sets it apart from the other three locations. These four very different cities with their individual cultures have been selected from the nearly 2000-km wide expanse of Anatolia. SivasSivas is a conservative city located in Eastern Anatolia which is known for its large Alevi population. As¸'k Veysel is an Alevi Ozan (poet) and Faz'l Say has been inspired by his song ?Saz'm? (my saz/myinstrument) in the first part of this work. The movement is concluded on a melancholy tone in imitation of this ethnic instrument. HopaA traditional wedding provided Faz'l Say with his inspiration for this second movement which embraces Eastern Black Sea culture. Horon is a very fast folk dance in 7/16 time which is played on the kemence a typical instrument of the Eastern Black Sea region. The music also touches on Caucasian Georgian and Laz dances anonymous songs ?Laz women? and ?Cilveloy nanayda? (a Turkish song). AnkaraAnkara was declared the capital city of Turkey by Atatürk in 1923. This city with its population of four million was where the composer was born and also spent his childhood. ?Ankara?n'n Tas¸'na Bak? a rebellious song dating back to the First World War can be discerned in the mournful middle section. The movement with its atmosphere of tragedy evokes the republican spirit and the ambience of former times. BodrumBodrum is universally known as the Saint-Tropez of Turkey. A famous street in the city is fringed with countless bars and pubs from which a cacophony of different music can be heard ranging from jazz pop and rock to folk songs. Faz'l Say blends the sounds from these pubs in this movement which includes a walking theme in a swinging jazz tempo. The movement makes a

10 pieces in 10 styles from around the world-Musical Postcards features genuine ethnic bands from around the world. The CD contains performances of each piece as well as recorded accompaniments.

Par OKPEBHOLO SHAWN E.. Shawn Okpebholo?s Heritage, in the Edition Peters Concert Band Series, evokes moods, events and sounds (including West African drumming and indigenous melodies) from an ethnomusicological research visit the composer undertook to Nigeria. One of the primary musical themes of the work is an adaptation of a song that comes from the Esan people, a small ethnic group in the southern part of Nigeria and the tribe to which the composer has deep historical and family ties. The Esan language is poetic in nature and, at various moments in the work, the musicians chant the text from an Esan song: Ekine leleyea do obhimen la doeki nalo (My investment in you is paid off. Because of your hard work, your future is bright). Heritage is a revised version of a work previously entitled This is Africa, which was commissioned by Professor Marcellus Brown and the Boise State University Symphonic Winds for the 2011 National CBDNA Convention and is dedicated to the memory of Dr Harry Begian. / Date parution : 2022-05-31/ Répertoire / Concert Band

Discovery Level 1-Celebrate the Festival of Lights with this upbeat setting of a traditional Hanukkah song that's got all the right elements for a successful holiday feature. Opening with a lyrical introduction it soon moves into a lively dancelikesection with easily learned vocal parts. Add the optional clarinet or sing with the CD to capture the ethnic quality of the music. Discovery Level 1. Available separately: 3-Part Mixed 2-Part VoiceTrax CD. Duration: 2:25.

Standard US Set (without european suppl. parts)-Commissioned by the Universtiy of Redlands this celabratory work invokes the spirit and heritage of many ethnic groups from early California. An impressive showcase number!

Par CURTIS MIKE. Mike Curtis’ stay in the city of Guanajuata in Central Mexico inspired this great musical celebration, filled with evocative, ethnic textures and colours. / Niveau : Avancé / performance score / Répertoire / Flûte Traversière et Clarinette

Bright Sheng's Dance Capriccio is inspired by the dance folk music of the Sherpa people a small ethnic group mostly living in western Nepal in the high mountains of the Himalayas.

Songscape is a timeless collection of 24 songs covering an exciting range of musical styles from ethnic music theatre pop classics and rounds to Lin Marsh's wonderful original pieces.It is also ideal for bringing confidence to classroom and concert singing and a must for recently formed choirs.

Carlos Surinach's Flamenco Meditations for Voice and Piano.On five 'Sonnets from the Portuguese' by Elizabeth Barrett BrowningDedicated to Hilde Wittgenstein.'The heritageof flamenco is one of Spain's richest treasures. From its Berber-Sephardim roots this pure form of music has made itself a unique place in the history of the humanities and the arts. Its joys and sorrows are of an intricatenature: at once introvert and extrovert they are conveyed through dramatic rhythms and singular contrasts. I write freely in this idiom.In this song cycle I have combined drama with sheer primitivism to celebratelove and death. The five Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning were the ideal lyric inspiration. This is great poetry and strangely enough it is close to what would have been said in Spanish had the songsemanated from ethnic impulses.' - Carlos Surinach

Songscape is a timeless collection of 24 songs covering an exciting range of musical styles, from ethnic music, theatre, pop classics and rounds, to Lin Marsh's wonderful original pieces. It is also ideal for bringing confidence to classroom and concert singing, and a must for recently formed choirs.

The Full Score for Karl Jenkins’ popular work Adiemus. Originally written as a piece for a Delta Airlines television commercial the fusion of ethnic vocals and orchestral backing proved so popular with consumers that a full-length Adiemus album Songs of Sanctuary was created with the aid of vocalist Miriam Stockley and the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 1995.

This concerto is presented with piano accompaniment. It features three movements coming from three distinct styles: Baroque and classical ethnic/Middle Eastern and jazz and popular music.