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Juan's Lied
Juan's Lied
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Tenor voice, Piano
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Kurt Weill
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Juan's Lied
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Tenor voice and piano - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q20383 Der Kuhhandel. Composed by Kurt Weill. This edition: Sheet music. Downloadable. Schott Mus...
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Tenor voice and piano - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q20383 Der Kuhhandel. Composed by Kurt Weill. This edition: Sheet music. Downloadable. Schott Music - Digital #Q20383. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q20383). German.Seit ich in diese Stadt gekommen bin.
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Meraki [5 piano pieces]
Meraki [5 piano pieces]
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Juan MarÃa Solare
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Juan Maria Solare
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Piano Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.596578 Composed by Juan MarÃa Solare. 20th Century,Contemporary,Standards. Score. 13 pages. Juan Maria...
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Piano Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.596578 Composed by Juan MarÃa Solare. 20th Century,Contemporary,Standards. Score. 13 pages. Juan Maria Solare #4892571. Published by Juan Maria Solare (A0.596578). Meraki: five piano pieces Simple but not superficial music. Five Neo-classical, post-Romantic piano pieces with unconventional titles. Listen to them here: https://juanmariasolare.bandcamp.com/album/meraki Meraki, in recording for felted piano, will be released in 2020 (Spotify, Apple Music, etc.) through the label Double J Music. (felted piano sounds are produced by putting a piece of felt or cloth between the strings and the hammers.) Meraki (Greek) is when you put your soul into something you are doing. Meraki is a word that modern Greeks often use to describe what happens when you leave a piece of yourself (your soul, creativity, or love) in your work. When you love doing something, anything, so much that you put something of yourself into it. Meraki means to do something with passion, with absolute devotion, with undivided attention. Meraki is derived from the Turkish Merak (Labor of love, to do something with pleasure). Usually applied to tasks, usually, creative or artistic tasks, but can be applied to any task at all. Lumokinesis (4:00). Lumokinesis is the ability to manipulate and control the element light at will. Kenopsia (4:00). Kenopsia is the eerie atmosphere of a place usually full of peple, but now abandoned and calm. Ataraxia (4:30). Tranquility, imperturbability, absence of wishes or fears. Petricor (3:30). Petrichor is the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil. Exulansis (3:45). The tendency to stop talking of one's experiences because people cannot reate to them.
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Aserrando a una mujer [soprano and piano]
Aserrando a una mujer [soprano and piano]
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Piano, Voice
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Coco Joura and Juan MarÃa S
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Aserrando a una mujer [soprano
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Juan Maria Solare
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Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1318234 By Coco Joura and Juan MarÃa Solare. By Juan MarÃa Solare. 20th Century,21st Century...
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Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1318234 By Coco Joura and Juan MarÃa Solare. By Juan MarÃa Solare. 20th Century,21st Century,Classical,Contemporary,Latin. Score. 10 pages. Juan Maria Solare #906905. Published by Juan Maria Solare (A0.1318234). Aserrando a una mujer (Sawing a Woman in Half)This might well be the first coloratura tango in history. And while it is innovative, it is deeply rooted in the tango tradition, both musically and thematically: one of the recurring themes of primitive tango was precisely the circus. The act of sawing a woman is the circus magic trick par excellence. This song was written and composed in mid-August 2023 and is dedicated to Coco Joura, who suggested the subjet. Lyrics and music by Juan MarÃa Solare. Premiere: Coco Joura (soprano) and Juan MarÃa Solare (piano), 19th Milonga Hemelingen, Bürgerhaus Hemelingen (Bremen, Germany), November 11, 2023.Aserrando a una mujer - videoAserrando a una mujerEste acaso sea el primer tango de coloratura de la historia. Y si bien es innovador, está muy arraigado en la tradición tanguera, por la música y por la temática del texto: uno de los temas recurrentes del tango primitivo era precisamente el circo. El número de aserrar a una mujer es el truco circense de magia por antonomasia.Esta canción fue escrita y compuesta a mediados de agosto de 2023 y está dedicada a Coco Joura, quien sugirió la temática. Letra y música: Juan MarÃa Solare. Estreno: Coco Joura (soprano) y Juan MarÃa Solare (piano), 19ª Milonga Hemelingen, Bürgerhaus Hemelingen (Bremen, Alemania), 11 de noviembre de 2023.Aserrando a una mujer - videoAserrando a una mujer (Zersägte Frau)Dies könnte möglicherweise der erste Koloratur-Tango der Geschichte sein. Und obwohl er innovativ ist, ist er fest in der Tangotradition verwurzelt, sowohl musikalisch als auch thematisch: Eine der wiederkehrenden Themen im primitiven Tango war genau der Zirkus. Die Nummer, eine Frau zu sägen, ist der Zirkustrick par excellence.Dieses Lied entstand Mitte August 2023, es ist Coco Joura gewidmet, die das Thema vorschlug. Text und Musik: Juan MarÃa Solare. IPremiere: Coco Joura (Sopran) und Juan MarÃa Solare (Klavier) bei der 19. Milonga Hemelingen, Bürgerhaus Hemelingen (Bremen, Deutschland), 11. November 2023.Aserrando a una mujer - videolyricsAserrando a una mujertango de coloraturaJuan MarÃa Solare(letra y música)Para el truco de magia más famosonecesito una sierra y una mina;una caja más grande que un cadávery dos tipos que quieran serruchar.La pebeta está atada, y está viva.Obediente, se mete en el cajón.Un serrucho la parte en dos mitades.Al abrir, nuestra vÃctima está ilesa.La cortaron en dos (coloratura)...Les arruino el secreto de este truco.Con alerta de espóiler, ¡ya avisé!:La percanta recoge las gambitas,se acurruca, chiquita, en el arcón.El chabón que inventó esta maravillase llamó P. T. Selbit y era inglés.Lo garcó un colega en Yankilandia:mejoró la ilusión, la patentó.La cortaron en dos (coloratura)...De este acto nació un arquetipo,un modelo con facha de cliché:la mujer en peligro, rescatada;la asistente atractiva, vulnerable.Conocemos el truco y sin embargonos fascina el engaño, la ficción.Preferir la mentira es indoloro;en la magia, en el circo y fuera de él.La cortaron en dos (coloratura)...
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Once Upon A Dream
Once Upon A Dream
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Piano solo
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Jack Lawrence and Sammy Fain
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Juan Maria Solare
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Once Upon A Dream
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Juan Maria Solare
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Piano Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.612645 Composed by Jack Lawrence and Sammy Fain. Arranged by Juan Maria Solare. Broadway,Children,Classic...
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Piano Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.612645 Composed by Jack Lawrence and Sammy Fain. Arranged by Juan Maria Solare. Broadway,Children,Classical,Film/TV,Musical/Show,Romantic Period. Score. 4 pages. Juan Maria Solare #221835. Published by Juan Maria Solare (A0.612645). Once Upon a Dream - a legendary song from the Disney film 'Sleeping Beauty' in an instrumental piano version by Juan MarÃa Solare. The original melody was composed by the classical composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and adapted for the film a century later. The present version, in a way, restores the music to the purely instrumental character of Tchaikovsky's original: a melodic waltz for piano. This tune was extraordinary popular in the pianist's childhood. Later in life he returns to this music and produces a version of this melody from a mature perspective. Find it on all streaming platforms: https://gyro.to/OnceUponaDreamFromSleepingBeautyPianoInstrumentalVersion Juan MarÃa's music has garnered multiple press features from the likes of Beat Radar, Defunkt Magazine, and was also runner-up for the 2020 Classical Album of the Year on the blog 'Solo Piano'. Besides performing live concerts, he teaches tango music at the University of Bremen, and Composition for the School Practice (Applied Composition) at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen, Germany.
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Nessun Dorma (for tenor and symphonic band)
Nessun Dorma (for tenor and symphonic band)
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Giacomo Puccini
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Juan José Peláez Vilanov
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Nessun Dorma
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John Joseph
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Concert Band - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1145793 Composed by Giacomo Puccini. Arranged by Juan José Peláez Vilanova. 20th Century,Classica...
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Concert Band - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1145793 Composed by Giacomo Puccini. Arranged by Juan José Peláez Vilanova. 20th Century,Classical,Contest,Festival,Opera,Romantic Period. Score and parts. 43 pages. John Joseph #745992. Published by John Joseph (A0.1145793). Giacommo Puccini, represents the union of Italian and German opera traditions, greatly influenced by Verdi, of whom he is considered his successor, and also by Wagner, Bizet, and Debussy. The main feature of his style was the eclecticism, the incorporation and assimilation of various languages and resources in his profession. Many of the musical concepts, as well as the connection between music and the stage, were the harbinger of what would rule in film music a few decades later. Puccini tooks from the French opera, under the influence of Bizet and Massenet, the taste for the exotic and historical location of his operas. In the case of Turandot, set in ancient China, the opera tells the story of the cruel princess Turandot who, in revenge for a sullied ancestor, beheads her suitors if three riddles are not answered. An unknown prince –Calaf– postulates by answering her three enigmas and challenging her to be the one to find out her name. Turandot orders that no one sleep in Peking until the name of the prince is known, Calaf, who has issued the challenge that if his name is not discovered, princess Turandot must marry him. At the beginning of the third act, the prince sings the aria –Nessun Dorma– convinced that the princess's efforts to discover his name will be in vain. Puccini began the composition in January 1921 and in March 1924 he had already completed the opera up to the final duet. However, a few months later he would pass away, leaving unfinished sketches of the end of Turandot. Franco Alfano was commissioned to finish it, premiering it two years later, in 1926. Currently, it is the fourth most performed Puccini opera worldwide, after the well-known trio La Boheme, Tosca and Madama Butterfly.
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Spanish National Anthem for Symphony Orchestra (Kt Olympic Anthem Series)
Spanish National Anthem for Symphony Orchestra (Kt Olympic Anthem Series)
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Manuel de Espinosa de los Mo
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Keith Terrett
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Spanish National Anthem for Sy
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Full Orchestra - Intermediate - Digital Download Composed by Manuel de Espinosa de los Monteros (1730-1810). Arranged by Keith Terrett. Classical Per...
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Full Orchestra - Intermediate - Digital Download Composed by Manuel de Espinosa de los Monteros (1730-1810). Arranged by Keith Terrett. Classical Period, European, Patriotic. 30 pages. Published by Music for all Occasions
The Spanish National Anthem arranged for full Symphony Orchestra, there is a short version in my store in case you need it! Just need a sporting event now such as an Olympics!
The Marcha Real (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmartʃa reˈal], "Royal March") is the national anthem of Spain. It is one of only three national anthems (along with that of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Kosovo) in the world to have no official lyrics.
One of the oldest in the world, the anthem was first printed in a document dated 1761 and entitled Libro de la Ordenanza de los Toques de Pífanos y Tambores que se tocan nuevamente en la Ynfant° Española (Book of the Ordenance of Newly Played Military Drum and Fife Calls by The Spanish Infantry ), by Manuel de Espinosa. Here it is entitled La Marcha Granadera ("March of the Grenadiers"). There is written its score on this book. According to this document, Manuel de Espinosa de los Monteros is the composer.
There is a false belief that Marcha Real’s author was Frederick II of Prussia, a great lover of music. This belief started in 1861 when it appears for the first time publied in La España militar (The Militar Spain). In 1864, the colonel Antonio Vallecillo publishes the history in the diary El Espíritu Público (The Public Spirit), making the supposed Prussian origin of Marcha Real popular. According to Vallecillo, the anthem was a gift from Frederick II to the soldier Juan Martín Álvarez de Sotomayor, who was serving in the Prussian Court to learn the military tactics developed by Frederick II’s army, under orders of King Charles III. In 1868 the history is published in Los Sucesos, changing the destinatary of the gift with Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea, Count of Aranda. The myth was picked up like this in different publications of 1884 and 1903, until being included in 1908 in the Enciclopedia Espasa.
According to the tradition in 1770, Charles III declared the Marcha de Granaderos as the official Honor March, and with that formalized the habit of playing it in public and solemn acts. It became the official anthem during Isabel II’s reign.
After the 1868 Revolution, General Prim convoked a national contest to create an official anthem, but it was declared deserted, advising the jury that Marcha de Granaderos was considered as such. By Alfonso XIII’s time, it was established by a Royal Circular Order (27 August 1908) that interpreted the harmonization of the march done by Bartolomé Pérez Casas, Major Music of the Royal Corps of Halberdier Guards. During the Second Republic, Himno de Riego was adopted as official anthem, although after the Spanish Civil War, Marcha Real returned to be used as anthem, sometimes sung with the verses written by the poet José María Pemán in 1928.
The actual symphonic version of the Marcha Real that replaces the Pérez Casas one, belongs to maestro Francisco Grau and is the official one after the Royal Decree of 10 October 1997, when the Kingdom of Spain bought the author rights of the Marcha Real, then belonging to Pérez Casas’ Heirs. According to the Royal Decree 1560/1997, the anthem should have a tone of B major and a tempo of 76 bpm (♩=76), with a form of AABB and a duration of 52 seconds.
Under the Trienio Liberal (1820-1823), the First Spanish Republic (1873–74) (when it enjoyed of a co-officiality) and the Second Spanish Republic (1931–1939), El Himno de Riego replaced La Marcha Real as the national anthem of Spain. At the conclusion of the Civil War, however, Francisco Franco restored La Marcha Real as the country’s national anthem, under its old title of La Marcha Granadera.
Interpretation and etiquette:
Military bands of the Spanish Armed Forces and the National Police Corps of Spain and civilian Marching bands and Concert bands play the B flat-major version of the anthem adapted for wind bands (as arranged by Francisco Grau), and playing the A Major version is optional.
The bugle call "To the Colors" in Spain is the version played by Bugle bands in Spanish churches in religious occasions and processions organized by civil groups and the parishes. Various versions adapted for the drum and the bugle are used, even though brass instruments play the anthem as well. But in some bugle bands, the A flat version of the anthem (the old official one, adapted for the bugle) is played. Only a bugle call is sounded when the B flat version is played.
Being the National Anthem, and in honor of the King and Queen of Spain, it’s a common practice for all to stand once it is played. Even though it is also played in church events, respect for the King and Queen (and the Royal Family as well) is required by everyone in attendance. As it happens civilians stand at attention while those in uniform salute when not in formation.
The current official version, as described in Royal Decree 1560/1997, is a sixteen-bar long phrase, divided in two sections, each one is made up of four repeated bars (AABB form). Tempo is set to ♩= 76 and key to B flat.
The long, complete version is the honors music for the King, while a shorter version without the repetitions is performed for the President of the Government of Spain, the Prince of Asturias, or during sporting events.
There are also three official arrangements: one for orchestra, another for military band, and a third for organ, written by Francisco Grau Vegara and requested by the Government of Spain. All in all, there are six different official adaptations, for each arrangement and length. They all were recorded by the Spanish National Orchestra and the Spanish Royal Guard Band as an official recording and released on compact disc for a limited period of time.
As the harmonization of the Marcha Real was written by Bartolomé Pérez Casas in the early 1900s, the copyright has not yet expired. The government bought it from Pérez Casas’ estate in 1997 for 130,000,000 pesetas (~ € 781,316) to avoid future legal problems. Until it expires, the copyright belongs to the Ministry of Culture and collecting societies charge copyright fees, which has led to criticism.
As a result, many different harmonisations have been devised by performers to avoid paying. Nonetheless, the rights to the 1997 Francisco Grau revision were transferred to the government at no charge, although they were not placed in the public domain.
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