Format : Score and Parts
SKU: HL.14042532
ISBN 9788759827062.
Composed in 1985 For clt, vlc, harp, perc & pf.
SKU: SU.26190160
Dialogue in the form of an introduction and toccataFlute & Cello Duration: 5' Composed: 1993 Published by: Freundworks Publishing (ASCAP).
SKU: XC.MCB1901
UPC: 812598032222. 9 x 12 inches.
When We Go is an introspective journey into our time here on earth dedicated to loved ones lost. Composer Tyler Arcari weaves a personal tale throughout this piece utilizing returning melodic lines and harmonic anchor points. A creative and heartfelt piece that will inspire musicians.
SKU: PR.114406980
UPC: 680160010806.
Shulamit Ran’s second string quartet, subtitled “Vistas,” occupies a large canvas that is cast in a traditional fourmovement mold, where the outer movements present, explore, and later return to the work’s principal musical materials, surrounding a slow movement and scherzo-type third movement with a trio. In addition to tempo-based titles, the individual movements have subtitles that are evocative of each movement’s character, as follows: I. Concentric: from the inside out II. Stasis III. Flashes IV. Vistas.My second string quartet, “Vistas”, is a work cast in a traditional four-movement formal mold, with the outer movements, presenting and later returning to the work’s principal musical materials, surrounding a slow movement and a scherzo-type third movement.While the four movements’ “proper” names -- Maestoso con forza, Lento, Scherzo impetuoso, and Introduzione; Maestoso e grande – give some indication of the general character of the individual movements, I have also subtitled, less formally, each movement as follows: 1) Concentric: from the inside out 2) Stasis 3) Flashes 4) Vista. The images evoked by these titles tell one, I think, a bit more about the inner workings of the quartet.In the first movement, a prominently presented opening pitch (E) reveals itself, as the movement unfolds, to be a center of gravity from which ever-growing cycles of activity gradually evolve. While various important themes come into being as the movement progresses, their impact on the listener has, I believe, a great deal to do with their juxtaposition and relationship to the initial central point of gravity.Stasis is, as the name implies, a movement where activity seems, at times, almost suspended. Being also, as Webster’s Dictionary reminds us, “a state of static balance and equilibrium among opposing tendencies or forces,” it develops various materials, including ones from the first movement, without bringing them to points of resolution.Flashes is short and very fast, evoking in my mind the quick shimmer of fireflies, a “sudden burst of light”, but also a “brief time”. Perhaps, even, a “smile”?Finally, the last movement, Vista, is not only “a view or outlook”, but also “a comprehensive mental view of a series of remembered or anticipated events.” After a brief recall of the opening of the second movement, this movement brings back all the important themes of the first movement in their original order. But just as going back can never really mean going back in time, the movement is much more than recapitulatory. By cutting through previously transitory passages and presenting the main ideas in a fashion more direct yet more evolved, it also sheds new light on earlier events, offering a retrospective, synoptic view of the first movement as it brings to culmination the work as a whole. “Vistas” was commissioned by C. Geraldine Freund for the Taneyev String Quartet of what was then Leningrad. It was the first commission given in this country to a Soviet chamber ensemble since the 1985 cultural exchange accord between the Soviet Union and the United States.
SKU: XC.MCB1901FS
UPC: 812598031607. 9 x 12 inches.
SKU: HL.369160
ISBN 9781705142912. UPC: 840126989496. 5.0x5.0x0.119 inches.
This outstanding new resource is sure to be useful for choirs returning to the loft. Presented with a sensitivity to musical diversity, this approachable collection will provide wonderful options for slim Sundays or for times when quick learning is necessary. Cued notes are also included for range considerations, and tasteful accompaniment tracks will give additional choices for directors to consider. Songs include: A Joyful One Hundred; Lord, I Worship You; Come, Sing to the Lord; Dreamers and Doubters; Ascribe to the Lord; Every Valley Needs a Lily; Mercy Still; Come and See; In Everything Give Thanks; Write Your Truth Upon My Heart; May the Words of My Mouth. For the Accompaniment Tracks: Audio is accessed online using the unique code generated upon purchase and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right. HL00380829: Accompaniment Tracks.
SKU: HL.14034050
Danish.
The title 'Trees' should be regarded as a metaphor, even though the electronic sounds in the piece are actually derived from trees. The piece is a metaphor of the multifaceted nature of the leaves on the trees the 'united difference' as the trees of the forest, the 'life-giving', as trees, transform CO2 into Oxygen). It is a metaphor of the ever returning and optimistic foliation each spring), and in a broader sense a metaphor of organic nature. The violin concerto is a sounding organism, which in more or less gradual transition appears in different shapes and states of condition. At some points the music is round and flexible, and at others it is edged and hard. Sometimes it might remind us of something well known, and from time to time it changes into something intangible - an indefinite state of nature. In contrast to the sonorous extreme, the solo violin is portrayed as a manifestation of maximum (human) presence.