Format : Score and Parts
SKU: AP.BFO9910C
UPC: 029156991710. English.
The Sound and the Fury was inspired by the literary work of the same name by William Faulkner, known for his epic portrayal of the conflicts between the old and new South. Opening with a vibrant drama of punctuating thrusts in strings, winds, and percussion, the mood only shifts when we move to a lyrical and ambient section of contrasting sounds. Powerful strokes return, moving to a dramatic conclusion. A superior choice for concert or contest with guaranteed stunning audience appeal. Playable by strings or by adding any winds and percussion up to full orchestra. (2:04).
SKU: HL.49033012
ISBN 9790001130356. UPC: 888680077488. 9.0x12.0x0.929 inches. English.
Now, one of most unusual works of our time is available as study score in a facsimile edition: 'Delusion of the Fury'. At the time of creation, the great experimenter and sound researcher Harry Partch had fully developed his special scale system. By having specially designed instruments made, he created the prerequisites to bring his ideas of sound and harmony onto the stage. Using 25 of these special instruments, 'Delusion of the Fury' provides the opportunity to experience the musical universe of one of the most extraordinary American composers of the 20th century in all its nuances and hypnotic power.1. Small Hand Instruments: Alpha - Ugumbo, copy of a Zulu instrument * Beta - Bolivian double flute * Gamma - Rotating drum * Delta - First waving drum * Phi - Second waving drum * Epsilon - Six bamboo claves * Zeta - First bamboo ceremonial pole * Eta - Second bamboo ceremonial pole * Theta - Third bamboo ceremonial pole * Iota - First pair of eucal claves * Kappa - Second pair of eucal claves * Lambda - Third pair of eucal claves * Psi - Fourth pair of eucal claves * Xi - Thumb piano * Omicron - First belly drum * Pi - Second belly drum * Rho - Gourd drum * Sigma - Fiji rhythm boat * Omega - Gubagubi - 2. Stage Left and Center: Harmonic Canon I * Adapted Guitar I und II * Koto * Kithara I und II * Chromelodeon I und II * Blo-Boy * Castor & Pollux (Harmonic Canon II) * Blue Rainbow (Harmonic Canon III) * Surrogate Kithara * Crychord * Cloud-Chamber-Bowls * Spoils of war * Gourd Tree * Cone Gongs - 3. Stage Right: Mazda Marimba * Zyno-Xyl * Diamond Marimba * Quadrangularis Reversum * Eucal Blossom * Boo (Bamboo Marimba) * Bass Marimba * Marimba Eroica * Bass Drum.
SKU: CL.023-4262-01
Using only the first 6 notes taught in most band methods, Nature’s Fury is a simple and exciting piece perfect for your beginning band’s first concert. Nature’s Fury first introduces the concepts of theme and harmony in unison for all players, and then presents these themes and harmonies together at the powerful conclusion. Sure to be a favorite with students and audiences, and makes a perfect bridge to part independence.
SKU: FJ.B1879S
English.
An event so powerful that it is hard to control, seemingly unpredictable, aggressive, fast moving, and unstable. All these thoughts are explored as powerful percussion elements combine with dissonant intervals in the winds. Complex sounds for a work that is very approachable!
SKU: PR.114416510
UPC: 680160621682. 9 x 12 inches.
Needham's Axioms is his musical distillation/expression of seven different snippets of proverbs, quotes, and axioms, each carefully chosen for the imagery they present. Consider Hell hath no fury... as the foundation of a movement, or Music hath charms... translated to sound. Needham was successful in this project, such that Axioms was awarded the 2008 Heckscher Composition Prize from Ithaca College. For advanced performers. Hear an excerpt on Soundcloud.
SKU: PR.11441651S
UPC: 680160621705. 9 x 12 inches.
SKU: FG.55011-498-2
ISBN 9790550114982.
Kimmo Hakola's String Quartet No. 4 op. 95 (2016) was commissioned by the Kimito Island Music Finland and it's dedicated to the Meta4 Quartet. In composer's words, it is the floundering, playful, if necessary defiantly dramatic, surprising, capricious and unrestrained tour de force of a youthful entity.Kimmo Hakola has gone through a number of styles and influences in his career as a composer, his idiom expanding at times to embrace Romanticism, Orientalism and klezmer. He has attained international recognition with an output that spans various genres from intimate solo works to full-length operas such as La Fenice (2011) commissioned by the Savonlinna Opera Festival. Many of his works are expansive and epic: his Piano Concerto (1996), for instance, clocks in at 55 minutes. Hakola says that he sees music as drama. His dramas explore almost Shakespearean extremes, from moments of raging 'sound and fury' and violent battles to quiet moments of meditation and heart-rending monologues.
SKU: FG.55011-508-8
ISBN 9790550115088.
Kimmo Hakola's Wind Quintet op. 96 (2017) was commissioned by the Kimito Island Music Festival. The composer sees that making the ensemble ultimately breathe and express itself as an organic, coherent subject should be the aim in composing for wind quintet. The normal chamber-music configuration is not a sufficient basis for me in composing a wind quintet: the instruments have to be compressed, reduced, even crushed together so that, in pairs and different combinations, they produce new, viable audio units. Collision often generates something new. Kimmo Hakola has gone through a number of styles and influences in his career as a composer, his idiom expanding at times to embrace Romanticism, Orientalism and klezmer. He has attained international recognition with an output that spans various genres from intimate solo works to full-length operas such as La Fenice (2011) commissioned by the Savonlinna Opera Festival. Many of his works are expansive and epic: his Piano Concerto (1996), for instance, clocks in at 55 minutes. Hakola says that he sees music as drama. His dramas explore almost Shakespearean extremes, from moments of raging sound and fury and violent battles to quiet moments of meditation and heart-rending monologues.
SKU: HL.4008005
How often has something been justified by, declared to be, or blessed as “in the name of” some cause or other? How can it be that opposing armies and the use of weapons are ever “in the name of”...? This is a common thread in the history of different faiths. Good was created but evil was committed and all “in the name of...” This thread is also found in the history of the Premonstratensian Abbey at Wadgassen. The abbey was built in the 12th century on unfertile, desolate moorland, which later evolved into the most powerful religious community in the Saarland. The history of the abbey records quite astounding achievements under the motto desertum florebit quasi lilium (“the desert will bloom like a lily”); but also the harsh treatment of delinquents. The order had its own school, in which children were taught the seven liberal arts (which included music as well as geography and astronomy), but the poor were left to starve outside the abbey walls and were only allowed to eat from the members' on feast days. The medieval witch trials demanded their pound of flesh, and one group that fell victim were ecstatic dancers who moved wildly to music--which was interpreted as the devil's work. The result: a show trial that sentenced the dancers to death by fire. All in the name of... The year is 1789: Abbot Bordier is in the tenth year of his command. He does not yet know that he is to be the last abbot of an almost 700-year-tradition. Not far from the abbey is the French border, which has long been making itself felt with the sound of gunfire, and the brothers continue to keep a nervous eye on it. The first portents of the French Revolution loom, but no one wants to believe it--that is, until the French pound the door down, storm the abbey and come right into the brothers' chambers. In a blind fury, all the pipes of the abbey organ are torn out, icons beheaded with swords and brothers beaten death while numerous buildings are set on fire. The abbey church is in flames. A frantic and desperate escape begins. Abbot Bordier and a handful of brothers make their getaway via the River Saar, adjacent to the abbey, to the neighbouring village of Bous. They survive, but their life--the Premonstratensian abbey--is destroyed. While they flee towards Prague and the sanctuary of the Strahov Monastery, the abbey at Wadgassen is razed to the ground and becomes a stone quarry. The desert blooms once more, however. A few short decades later, a glasswork arises from the foundations of the abbey. As peace returns to the region, it brings jobs and a new vision for its people.
SKU: FG.55011-497-5
ISBN 9790550114975.
SKU: SU.29020180
Based on the character of Quentin from William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. The work presents a quickly-changing texture, a dramatic climax, and plenty of lush string melodies and textures that are always interrupted by the thoughts of a man going insane.String Quartet Duration: 10' Composed: 2012 Published by: Distributed Composer.