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Old MacDonald Takes A Trip For Brass Quintet
Old MacDonald Takes A Trip For Brass Quintet
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Old MacDonald Takes A Trip For
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Brass Ensemble Horn,Trombone,Trumpet,Tuba - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.826712 Composed by Traditional. Arranged by Bud Caputo. Children,Contempor...
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Brass Ensemble Horn,Trombone,Trumpet,Tuba - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.826712 Composed by Traditional. Arranged by Bud Caputo. Children,Contemporary,Folk,Standards. Score and parts. 19 pages. Bud Caputo #6047381. Published by Bud Caputo (A0.826712). This is a novelty piece for brass quintet. This familiar folk tune finds Old McDonald in the good old USA as demonstrated in the style of a Sousa March. He then travels to Vienna and then Spain. He ends up back in the USA as we hear a bluegrass style version and finally a jazzy swing version.
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Trip to Vienna
Trip to Vienna
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Wolfgang Vrecun
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Trip to Vienna
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Solo Guitar - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.892227 Composed by Wolfgang Vrecun. Contemporary. Individual part. 3 pages. Wolfgang Vrecun #3590503. Pu...
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Solo Guitar - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.892227 Composed by Wolfgang Vrecun. Contemporary. Individual part. 3 pages. Wolfgang Vrecun #3590503. Published by Wolfgang Vrecun (A0.892227). A rhythmical piece for guitar solo.
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Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (I am lost to the world)
Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (I am lost to the world)
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Gustav Mahler
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Felix Linsmeier
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Ich bin der Welt abhanden geko
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Felix Linsmeier
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Brass Ensemble Euphonium,Horn,Trombone,Trumpet,Tuba - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.985734 Composed by Gustav Mahler. Arranged by Felix Linsmeier. 2...
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Brass Ensemble Euphonium,Horn,Trombone,Trumpet,Tuba - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.985734 Composed by Gustav Mahler. Arranged by Felix Linsmeier. 20th Century,Classical,Opera,Romantic Period. Score and parts. 13 pages. Felix Linsmeier #591393. Published by Felix Linsmeier (A0.985734). Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen is the third song of Gustav Mahler's famous cycle Rückert-Lieder. Rückert-Lieder (Songs after Rückert) is a collection of five Lieder for voice and orchestra or piano, based on poems written by Friedrich Rückert. The first four songs were premiered on 29 January 1905 in Vienna, Mahler himself conducting, together with his Kindertotenlieder (also on poems by Rückert). The set of songs was not intended as a cycle: the Lieder were originally published independently from each other, connected only by the poetry and common themes. However, they were later published together and most often have been performed together and come to be known as the Rückert-Lieder, although Mahler did set more texts of Rückert. This arrangement for brass quintet puts the singer's part for flugelhorn solo with the rest of the ensemble playing an adaption of the original's orchestra accompaniment. Using combination of mutes and open playing this arrangement archieves a differentiated sound that makes the complicated late-romantic harmony and counterpoint work really well in the stripped-down instrumentation.
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Dorian Album For String Trio
Dorian Album For String Trio
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Harvey S
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Dorian Album For String Trio
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Rubank Publications
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Cello, Violin, String Duet, String Ensemble - Difficulty: medium SKU: HL.4472730 Violin, Cello and Piano. Arranged by Harvey S. Whistler and Herma...
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Cello, Violin, String Duet, String Ensemble - Difficulty: medium SKU: HL.4472730 Violin, Cello and Piano. Arranged by Harvey S. Whistler and Herman Hummel. Ensemble Collection. Baroque and Classical Period. Set of performance parts (includes separate pull out parts for violin & cello). 63 pages. Rubank Publications #RUBL285. Published by Rubank Publications (HL.4472730). ISBN 9781540001801. UPC: 073999184112. 9x12 inches. Whistler/Hummel.These 30 easy level (grade 2) string trios from the masters, arranged by Rubank legends Harvey Whistler and Herman Hummel, are the ultimate way to introduce your youngest players to ensemble playing. Songs average 30-40 measures long, with optional repeats to create a longer piece at your discretion. Includes a treasure trove of titles: Abendlied (Schumann) * Allegro from Der Freischutz (Weber) * Ave Verum (Mozart) * Carnival of Venice * Chanson Triste (Tchaikovsky) * Cielito Lindo * Country Dance (Beethoven) * Liebestraum (Liszt) * Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes * New World Symphony Excerpts (Dvorak) * Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (students play the melody, not the triplet pattern) * Jolly Coppersmith * Melody for Strings (Rubinstein) * Men of Harlech * Menuet from Symphony No. 7 (Haydn) * Procession (Handel) * Theme from Fantasie Impromptu (Chopin) * Rondo (Schubert) * Theme from Symphony No. 1 (Brahms) * Vienna Life (Strauss) * Volga Boatman * Waltz from HMS Pinafore.
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: Alma Mater Ave Verum (Jesu, Word of God Incarnate) Carnival of Venice Cielito Lindo (My Pretty Darling) Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes Fantaisie-Impromptu It Came Upon the Midnight Clear Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring Jolly Coppersmith March Liebestraum (Dream Of Love) Melody Men Of Harlech O Promise Me Silent Night New World Symphony (Theme) Song Of The Volga Boatman Theme (Der Freischutz) Abendlied (Evening Song) Theme (Iphigenia In Tauris) Happy Holiday Theme (Symphony #7) String Salutation Waltz From The H.M.S. Pinafore Chanson Triste Country Dance Theme Theme (Handel) Gaily The Troubador Vienna Life
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Fantasia Sonata in D Major for piano solo - Ludwig van Beethoven (Unv 12 / deest 45) - Reconstructio
Fantasia Sonata in D Major for piano solo - Ludwig van Beethoven (Unv 12 / deest 45) - Reconstructio
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Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.933520 Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven, Cees Nieuwenhuizen. Classical. Score. 48 pages. Upstream Music #...
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Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.933520 Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven, Cees Nieuwenhuizen. Classical. Score. 48 pages. Upstream Music #482215. Published by Upstream Music (A0.933520). There are many more unfinished than completed compositions of Beethoven that have been preserved. ln these fragments one sees ideas for individual works. A large number of sketchbooks and sketches from the composer were preserved and are housed in libraries and private collections all over the globe. Some sketches are no more than brief experiments or short elaborated ideas, but there are also fragments preserved that nearly give us a complete picture of a composition. In the so-called Kafka sketchbook, which was published in 1970 in London, approximately 500 fragments of manuscripts were bundled that stem from 1786 - 1799. The Fantasia Sonata in D (deest 45) for piano forte in three parts, was hidden in the archives since 1792. This sonata of the young Beethoven, with striking similarities to the Moonlight sonata and the Pastorale has never been performed on stage. Young pianotalent Martin Oei played it for the first time in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, October 21st, 2012. The large, over 1100 bars comprising torso now known as Fantasia Sonata in D from 1792, cannot be called a sketch anymore, although Beethoven has not completed the work and used many ideas in other, later works. The reconstruction of the sketches was done by the Dutch Beethoven musicologist and composer Cees Nieuwenhuizen. The piece was probably written in Bonn, three years before he started to write his first official piano sonata of a series of 32 sonatas. In November 1792 Beethoven went from Bonn to Vienna to study with the famous composer Joseph Haydn (1732–1809). Beethoven rapidly proceeded to make his mark as a brilliant keyboard performer and as a gifted young composer with a number of works to his credit. In 1795 his first mature published works appeared, and his career was officially launched. Striking harmonies The re-using of previously drafted material is quite common in Beethoven's works. Apparently the material wasn't yet ripe enough at the time of its origination, or perhaps Beethoven changed his mind with regards to the new composition. This could very well be so regarding the torso from Kafka’s sketchbook that we now call the Piano Fantasia sonata in D. This piece contains 1100 bars of music, not taking into account the alternative bars. The piece is composed by Beethoven in 1792 - 1793 and was set up as a tripartite sonata in D with remarkable abnormalities in terms of form and content. There are striking harmonies that cannot be found in other works composed in that same period. It’s possible that the composer didn’t have the courage to publish it or that indeed the time was not yet ripe for it. Finally the composer let the draft go and never came back to it. Or did he? Thematic similarities We find phrases in several later works that share similarities with ideas and themes from Fantasia sonata in D. The first part of Fantasia sonata has the same theme as the trio of the third movement of Symphony no. 7 (in A Major Opus 92). Even the key and also the rhythm in 3/4 time are the same. This cannot be a coincidence. Similar mood and thematic parallels can be found in the Pastorale, the Sonata for piano no. 15 (Opus 28): it is striking that this piece is also composed in D and in 3/4 time. We find similar dramatic expression in the Sonata for piano no. I 7 in d minor Opus 31 no. 2. The second movement of the Fantasia sonata nearly has the same theme as the second movement of the Sonata for piano no. 23 in minor (the Appassionato Opus 57). Martin Oei, Daiel Wayenberg, Cees Nieuwenhuizen at The World Premiere in The Concertgebouw Beethoven begins the third movement of the Fantasia sonata with the main theme of the first movement, but now in e minor. lts appearance in minor is an entirely new idea. Nevertheless Beethoven doesn't elaborate the idea any further because it disappears after 29 bars. Now a new agitated theme starts in d minor, which was announced in the first movement, but now reappears in its complete.
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Vergnügungszug (Pleasure Train) - Polka Schnell Op. 281
Vergnügungszug (Pleasure Train) - Polka Schnell Op. 281
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Euphonium
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Johann Strauss Jr
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Rob Baltus
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Vergnügungszug
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Rob Baltus
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Euphonium Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1009011 Composed by Johann Strauss Jr. Arranged by Rob Baltus. Romantic Period. Individual part. 13 p...
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Euphonium Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1009011 Composed by Johann Strauss Jr. Arranged by Rob Baltus. Romantic Period. Individual part. 13 pages. Rob Baltus #6209215. Published by Rob Baltus (A0.1009011). Vergnügungszug (Pleasure Train) op. 281 is a polka composed by Johann Strauss II in 1864. It was written for the Association of Industrial Societies' Ball held in the Redoutensaal on 19 January 1864 and was inspired by the opening of the Austrian Southern Railway – the Südbahn – which operated many 'pleasure trains' offering trips from Vienna to the countryside. Johann Strauss II's vividly descriptive polka, however, is remarkable for its use of horns to suggest the chuffing of the train. In the trio section the melody constantly hints of the train's progression. The polka, like the train's journey, has to end, however, and Strauss powers home the conclusion with high chords before a resounding flourish.
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Madeleines
Madeleines
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Piano solo
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John Carbon
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Madeleines
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Piano Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.966218 Composed by John Carbon. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score. 25 pages. John Carbon #3586217. Published by John...
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Piano Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.966218 Composed by John Carbon. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score. 25 pages. John Carbon #3586217. Published by John Carbon (A0.966218). Composed in 2016, Madeleines is similar to my two sets of Spanish Lessons (1988 and 2001) which are both suites of character pieces for piano inspired by my admittedly limited travel in Spain. Madeleines is inspired by a much earlier hairbrained trip I took to France (and the rest of the Grand Tour) with my sister when I was in college. The title refers to Proust's episode of the madeleine, in which involuntary memory overwhelms the protagonist when he bites into one of these small cakes. I also sometimes experience poignant memories from our fondly remembered trip triggered by various catalysts. The five episodes in this set of pieces attempt to capture the essence of some of these memories. The first piece, MeÌmoire triste dans un cafeÌ (sad memory in a cafeÌ), serves the purpose of a preÌlude. One might conclude that the madeleine is sampled in this location. Il pleut aÌ Brest (It is raining in Brest) evokes memories of the wet weather in Brest, a city in Brittany near the coast. I was curious about this area because, during our travels, we met a boy in Paris with dark and dangerous eyes named François (François et ses yeux dangereux) who was from that area. In Il pleut the sound of rain alternates with church bells and fog horns (one of the poetic sensations I remember vividly about Brest). The third piece (François) is a blend of a barcarolle and a funeral march. I continued to send one-way letters to François after we returned and one day the French police called to tell me that he was dead and that they had found one of my letters on his body, which had been tossed into the Seine. They wanted more information, and they revealed that he had been smuggling drugs out of Turkey. I think the next piece, Promenade dans la meÌnagerie de Versailles (Walk in the zoo at Versailles), is tempered by later memories of a trip I took to the zoo at Schönbrunn palace near Vienna, the oldest Baroque zoo, which was in a terrible state of decay when I saw it, hence the wistful air. The finale of the set, Madeleine deÌteste les devoirs (Madeleine hates homework) is a bow to the French primer I grew up with, which had as one of its main characters a little girl who I think may have been named Madeleine. I know her father was named François. My memories are mixed up, the actual François Thibaud is remembered as the inventor of the fast-track method of learning French, which was in vogue when I first studied it in 6th grade. The idea here is that Madeleine, the daughter of François, is having a tantrum and playing with her hoops or a bike rather than doing her English homework. --John Carbon
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The Enchanted World of Viennese Waltzes for Easiest Piano Booklet O
The Enchanted World of Viennese Waltzes for Easiest Piano Booklet O
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Easy Piano
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Waldteufel Strauss
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The Enchanted World of Viennes
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SilverTonalities
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Easy Piano - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.645688 Composed by Waldteufel Strauss. Arranged by SilverTonalities. Classical,Romantic Period. Score. 14...
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Easy Piano - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.645688 Composed by Waldteufel Strauss. Arranged by SilverTonalities. Classical,Romantic Period. Score. 14 pages. SilverTonalities #6350247. Published by SilverTonalities (A0.645688). The Enchanted World of Viennese Waltzes for Easiest Piano Booklet O Simplified Viennese Melodies for Beginner and Novice Pianists with Colored Notation to enable Quick and Accurate Reading by SilverTonalities! Take a trip back in time to the Romantic World of the Viennese Waltz where beautiful ladies and dashing gentlemen danced the night away in the glittering ballrooms of 19th Century Europe Booklet O includes: - Coronation Songs Waltz Opus 184 by Johann Strauss Junior - To Thee Waltz An Dich Opus 150 by Emile Waldteufel - Vienna Life Wiener Blut Opus 354 by Johann Strauss Junior
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The Enchanted World of Viennese Waltzes for Easiest Piano Booklet N
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Easy Piano - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.645665 Composed by Czibulka Strauss. Arranged by SilverTonalities. Classical,Romantic Period. Score. 14 p...
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Easy Piano - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.645665 Composed by Czibulka Strauss. Arranged by SilverTonalities. Classical,Romantic Period. Score. 14 pages. SilverTonalities #6328101. Published by SilverTonalities (A0.645665). The Enchanted World of Viennese Waltzes for Easiest Piano Booklet N Simplified Viennese Melodies for Beginner and Novice Pianists with Colored Notation to enable Quick and Accurate Reading by SilverTonalities! Take a trip back in time to the Romantic World of the Viennese Waltz where beautiful ladies and dashing gentlemen danced the night away in the glittering ballrooms of 19th Century Europe Booklet N includes: - To You Waltz An Dich a Toi Opus 390 by Alfons Czibulka - Vienna Life Waltz Wiener Blut Opus 354 by Johann Strauss Junior - Wedding Dance Waltz Opus 453 by Johann Strauss Junior
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The Beautiful Waltzes of Johann Strauss Junior for Easiest Piano Book 3
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Easy Piano - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1403108 Composed by Johann Strauss Jr. Arranged by SilverTonalities. Classical,Instructional,Romantic Per...
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Easy Piano - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1403108 Composed by Johann Strauss Jr. Arranged by SilverTonalities. Classical,Instructional,Romantic Period. Score. 35 pages. SilverTonalities #986309. Published by SilverTonalities (A0.1403108). The Beautiful Waltzes of Johann Strauss Junior for Easiest Piano Book 3Simplified Viennese Melodies for Novice Pianists with Letter Names Embedded in Noteheads to enable Quick and Accurate Reading by SilverTonalities!Take a trip back in time to the Romantic World of the “Viennese Waltz†where beautiful ladies and dashing gentlemen danced the night away in the glittering ballrooms of 19th Century EuropeJohann Strauss Junior, was the famous Austrian Romantic Era Composer, Conductor and Violinist. Known as the “Waltz Kingâ€, Strauss composed over 400 Works of Music including, Waltzes, Polkas, Quadrilles and several OperettasPREVIEW, pages 1-2FIREFLIES WALTZ, (Johannis-Käferln), Opus 82, pages 3-5JOVIAL ONES WALTZ, (Die Jovialen), Opus 34, pages 6-8LIFE LET US CHERISH WALTZ, (Freut euch des Lebens), Opus 340, pages 9-11LIND’S SONG WALTZ (Lind-Gesänge), Opus 21, pages 12-14MORE AND MORE CHEERFUL WALTZ, (Accelleration), Opus 234, pages 15-18PAMPHLETS WALTZ, (Flugschriften), Opus 300, pages 19-21VIENNESE LADIES WALTZ, (Wiener Frauen), Opus 423, pages 22-26TALES FROM THE VIENNA WOODS, (G’schichten aus dem Wienerwald), Opus 325, pages 27-33.
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The Enchanted World of Viennese Waltzes for Easiest Piano Booklet H
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Easy Piano - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.645641 Composed by Keler Strauss. Arranged by SilverTonalities. Classical,Romantic Period. Score. 15 page...
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Easy Piano - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.645641 Composed by Keler Strauss. Arranged by SilverTonalities. Classical,Romantic Period. Score. 15 pages. SilverTonalities #6301909. Published by SilverTonalities (A0.645641). The Enchanted World of Viennese Waltzes for Easiest Piano Booklet H Simplified Viennese Melodies for Beginner and Novice Pianists with Colored Notation to enable Quick and Accurate Reading by SilverTonalities! Take a trip back in time to the Romantic World of the Viennese Waltz where beautiful ladies and dashing gentlemen danced the night away in the glittering ballrooms of 19th Century Europe Booklet H includes: - The Bubbly Waltz Die Sprudler Opus 65 by Bela Keler - Citizen Spirit Waltz Opus 295 by Johann Strauss Junior - Vienna Life Wiener Blut Opus 354 by Johann Strauss Junior
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The Enchanted World of Viennese Waltzes for Easiest Piano Booklet M
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Easy Piano - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.645658 Composed by Strauss Waldteufel. Arranged by SilverTonalities. Classical,Romantic Period. Score. 15...
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Easy Piano - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.645658 Composed by Strauss Waldteufel. Arranged by SilverTonalities. Classical,Romantic Period. Score. 15 pages. SilverTonalities #6324481. Published by SilverTonalities (A0.645658). The Enchanted World of Viennese Waltzes for Easiest Piano Booklet M Simplified Viennese Melodies for Beginner and Novice Pianists with Colored Notation to enable Quick and Accurate Reading by SilverTonalities! Take a trip back in time to the Romantic World of the Viennese Waltz where beautiful ladies and dashing gentlemen danced the night away in the glittering ballrooms of 19th Century Europe Booklet M includes: - Echoes from Walachia Opus 50 by Johann Strauss Junior - Les Sirenes Waltz Sirehen Zauber Opus 154 by Emile Waldteufel - Tales from the Vienna Woods Opus 325 by Johann Strauss Junior
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The Enchanted World of Viennese Waltzes for Easiest Piano Booklet G
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Easy Piano - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.645640 Composed by Lanner Strauss. Arranged by SilverTonalities. Classical,Romantic Period. Score. 16 pages. SilverTonalities #6296013. Published by SilverTonalities (A0.645640). The Enchanted World of Viennese Waltzes for Easiest Piano Booklet G Simplified Viennese Melodies for Beginner and Novice Pianists with Colored Notation to enable Quick and Accurate Reading by SilverTonalities! Take a trip back in time to the Romantic World of the Viennese Waltz where beautiful ladies and dashing gentlemen danced the night away in the glittering ballrooms of 19th Century Europe Booklet G includes: - The Lovers Waltz Les Amoureux Opus 105 by Joseph Lanner - Oracles Waltz Opus 90 by Johann Straus Junior - Tales from the Vienna Woods Opus 325
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Violin, Violin Duet - Grade 2 SKU: HL.4472690 Violin Duet Collection (with Piano). Arranged by Harvey S. Whistler and Herman Hummel. Ensemble Coll...
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Violin, Violin Duet - Grade 2 SKU: HL.4472690 Violin Duet Collection (with Piano). Arranged by Harvey S. Whistler and Herman Hummel. Ensemble Collection. Concert, Contest. 32 pages. Rubank Publications #RUBL290. Published by Rubank Publications (HL.4472690). ISBN 9781540001764. UPC: 073999726909. 9x12 inches. Whistler/Hummel.These 30 easy level (grade 2) violin duets from the masters, arranged by Rubank legends Harvey Whistler and Herman Hummel, are the ultimate way to introduce your youngest players to ensemble playing. Songs average 30-40 measures long, with optional repeats to create a longer piece at your discretion. Includes a treasure trove of titles: Abendlied (Schumann) • Allegro from Der Freischutz (Weber) • Ave Verum (Mozart) • Carnival of Venice • Chanson Triste (Tchaikovsky) • Cielito Lindo • Country Dance (Beethoven) • Liebestraum (Liszt) • Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes • New World Symphony Excerpts (Dvorak) • Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (students play the melody, not the triplet pattern) • Jolly Coppersmith • Melody for Strings (Rubinstein) • Men of Harlech • Menuet from Symphony No. 7 (Haydn) • Procession (Handel) • Theme from Fantasie Impromptu (Chopin) • Rondo (Schubert) • Theme from Symphony No. 1 (Brahms) • Vienna Life (Strauss) • Volga Boatman • Waltz from HMS Pinafore
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Mauro Giuliani: Sonatina in C op.71 no.1
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Solo Guitar - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1392100 Composed by Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829). Arranged by Socrates Arvanitakis. Classical. Individual ...
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Solo Guitar - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1392100 Composed by Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829). Arranged by Socrates Arvanitakis. Classical. Individual part. 19 pages. Socrates Arvanitakis #975591. Published by Socrates Arvanitakis (A0.1392100). PREFACE AND BRIEF ANALYTICAL NOTESThe three sonatinas op.71 by Mauro Giuliani in C, G, and D were first published in 1816 in Vienna and were intended as student pieces of progressive difficulty. In parallel with this intention they are also fully developed three-movement works which reveal Giulianiâ??s technique as a composer with harmony, counterpoint, and structure.They certainly have the time length and the variety of full scale sonatas, but here Giuliani has chosen to use the supporting structures of sonatas met in movements other than the first, such as Menuetto and Trio, Rondo, Marcia and Trio, Scherzo and Trio, etc,  rather than sonata form itself.As it stands, this first sonatina in C has the following three movements:1 Maestoso (Moderato) which is a set of a theme and three variations, or better termed as a set of mathematical divisions reminiscent of an earlier era, as the accompaniment of the theme is given in crotchets, quavers, quaver triplets, and semi-quavers.2 Menuetto-Trio-Menuetto da capo written typically in the subdominant key of F and fully developed as per classical 19th century usage.3 Rondo. This movement is also written in a classical rondo style and form as an A-B-A-C-B-A-codetta  structure, with a typical tonal scheme of A in the tonic Key (C), B in the dominant key (G), and C in the relative minor key (Am).Therefore in this work we do not meet with structural innovations of any kind, but with strong affirmation of already existing and well established early 19th century structural norms, but the beautiful personal melodic and harmonic style of Giuliani and even his routine guitaristic nuances and formulas are present in all three movements and can be enjoyed as always.TECHNICALThis publication keeps each separate movement within the limit of two pages, thus avoiding page turns. It is published with two versions of the same pieces given in undecorated and decorated pages for the user to select which version he prefers to print out. Blank pages have been provided for insertion/deletion for the correct placement of left-right hand pages.Metronome marks are only editorial suggestions that need not be taken too literally.Sibelius Mp3 archive has been extracted for this publication using Note Performer playback engine.Socrates ArvanitakisLondon 2024.
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Mozart: Requiem in D Minor K626 III.Sequenz No.4 Recordare - brass quintet
Mozart: Requiem in D Minor K626 III.Sequenz No.4 Recordare - brass quintet
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Horn,Trombone,Trumpet,Tuba - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1110352 Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Arranged by Ray Thompson. Classical,Religiou...
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Horn,Trombone,Trumpet,Tuba - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1110352 Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Arranged by Ray Thompson. Classical,Religious,Sacred. 21 pages. RayThompsonMusic #712690. Published by RayThompsonMusic (A0.1110352). Arranged standard brass quintet. Alt alto hn in Eb provided for Horn, and Euphonium in Treble Clef for trombone. The music has been spread throughout, to avoid a constant tutti! Using A euphonium instead of a trombone will give a smoother sound! The Requiem in D minor, K. 626, is a requiem mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791). Mozart composed part of the Requiem in Vienna in late 1791, but it was unfinished at his death on 5 December the same year. A completed version dated 1792 by Franz Xaver Süssmayr was delivered to Count Franz von Walsegg, who commissioned the piece for a requiem service on 14 February 1792 to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of his wife Anna at the age of 20 on 14 February 1791. This is no 4 of the Sequenz Recordare At 130 measures, the Recordare (Remember) is the work's longest movement, as well as the first in triple meter the movement is a setting of no fewer than seven stanzas of the Dies irae. The form of this piece is somewhat similar to sonata form, with an exposition around two themes (mm. 1–37), a development of two themes (mm. 38–92) and a recapitulation (mm. 93–98). It suits the brass quintet. Section III of the requiem is titled “Sequenz†(sequentia or sequence). It is made up of the following pieces I have arrangements of all of them, for varying types of ensemble * Dies irae * Tuba mirum * Rex tremendae * Recordare * Confutatis * Lacrymosa. I have also arranged Mozarts Motet “Ave Verum Corpus†K618.
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Mozart: Requiem in D minor K626 III.Sequenz No.4 Recordare - wind quintet
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Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Bassoon,Clarinet,Flute,Horn,Oboe - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1109428 Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Arr...
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Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Bassoon,Clarinet,Flute,Horn,Oboe - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1109428 Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Arranged by Ray Thompson. Classical,Religious,Sacred. 18 pages. RayThompsonMusic #711872. Published by RayThompsonMusic (A0.1109428). Arranged standard wind quintet. I have spread the voices around, so there is NOT a constant tutti of all 5 players The Requiem in D minor, K. 626, is a requiem mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791). Mozart composed part of the Requiem in Vienna in late 1791, but it was unfinished at his death on 5 December the same year. A completed version dated 1792 by Franz Xaver Süssmayr was delivered to Count Franz von Walsegg, who commissioned the piece for a requiem service on 14 February 1792 to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of his wife Anna at the age of 20 on 14 February 1791. This is no 4 of the Sequenz Recordare At 130 measures, the Recordare (Remember) is the work's longest movement, as well as the first in triple meter the movement is a setting of no fewer than seven stanzas of the Dies irae. The form of this piece is somewhat similar to sonata form, with an exposition around two themes (mm. 1–37), a development of two themes (mm. 38–92) and a recapitulation (mm. 93–98). It suits the wind quintet. Section III of the requiem is titled “Sequenz†(sequentia or sequence). It is made up of the following pieces I have arrangements of all of them, for varying types of ensemble * Dies irae * Tuba mirum * Rex tremendae * Recordare * Confutatis * Lacrymosa. I have also arranged Mozarts Motet “Ave Verum Corpus†K618.
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Piano and orchestra - difficult - Digital Download For piano and orchestra. Composed by Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006). This edition: solo part. Downloadable. D...
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Piano and orchestra - difficult - Digital Download For piano and orchestra. Composed by Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006). This edition: solo part. Downloadable. Duration 24 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q53630. Published by Schott Music - Digital
I composed the Piano Concerto in two stages: the first three movements during the years 1985-86, the next two in 1987, the final autograph of the last movement was ready by January, 1988. The concerto is dedicated to the American conductor Mario di Bonaventura. .
The markings of the movements are the following: .
1. Vivace molto ritmico e preciso .
2. Lento e deserto .
3. Vivace cantabile .
4. Allegro risoluto .
5. Presto luminoso.
The first performance of the three-movement Concerto was on October 23rd, 1986 in Graz. Mario di Bonaventura conducted while his brother, Anthony di Bonaventura, was the soloist. Two days later the performance was repeated in the Vienna Konzerthaus. After hearing the work twice, I came to the conclusion that the third movement is not an adequate finale. my feeling of form demanded continuation, a supplement. That led to the composing of the next two movements. The premiere of the whole cycle took place on February 29th, 1988, in the Vienna Konzerthaus with the same conductor and the same pianist. .
The orchestra consisted of the following: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, tenor trombone, percussion and strings. The flautist also plays the piccoIo, the clarinetist, the alto ocarina. The percussion is made up of diverse instruments, which one musician-virtuoso can play. It is more practical, however, if two or three musicians share the instruments. Besides traditional instruments the percussion part calls also for two simple wind instruments: the swanee whistle and the harmonica. The string instrument parts (two violins, viola, cello and doubles bass) can be performed soloistic since they do not contain divisi. For balance, however, the ensemble playing is recommended, for example 6-8 first violins, 6-8 second, 4-6 violas, 4-6 cellos, 3-4 double basses. .
In the Piano Concerto I realized new concepts of harmony and rhythm. .
The first movement is entirely written in bimetry: simultaneously 12/8 and 4/4 (8/8). This relates to the known triplet on a doule relation and in itself is nothing new. Because, however, I articulate 12 triola and 8 duola pulses, an entangled, up till now unheard kind of polymetry is created. The rhythm is additionally complicated because of asymmetric groupings inside two speed layers, which means accents are asymmetrically distributed. These groups, as in the talea technique, have a fixed, continuously repeating rhythmic structures of varying lengths in speed layers of 12/8 and 4/4. This means that the repeating pattern in the 12/8 level and the pattern in the 4/4 level do not coincide and continuously give a kaleidoscope of renewing combinations. .
In our perception we quickly resign from following particular rhythmical successions and that what is going on in time appears for us as something static, resting. This music, if it is played properly, in the right tempo and with the right accents inside particular layers, after a certain time rises, as it were, as a plane after taking off: the rhythmic action, too complex to be able to follow in detail, begins flying. This diffusion of individual structures into a different global structure is one of my basic compositional concepts: from the end of the fifties, from the orchestral works Apparitions and Atmospheres I continuously have been looking for new ways of resolving this basic question. The harmony of the first movement is based on mixtures, hence on the parallel leading of voices. This technique is used here in a rather simple form. later in the fourth movement it will be considerably developed. .
The second movement (the only slow one amongst five movements) also has a talea type of structure, it is however much simpler rhythmically, because it contains only one speed layer. The melody is consisted in the development of a rigorous interval mode in which two minor seconds and one major second alternate therefore nine notes inside an octave. This mode is transposed into different degrees and it also determines the harmony of the movement. however, in closing episode in the piano part there is a combination of diatonics (white keys) and pentatonics (black keys) led in brilliant, sparkling quasimixtures, while the orchestra continues to play in the nine tone mode. .
In this movement I used isolated sounds and extreme registers (piccolo in a very low register, bassoon in a very high register, canons played by the swanee whistle, the alto ocarina and brass with a harmon-mute' damper, cutting sound combinations of the piccolo, clarinet and oboe in an extremely high register, also alternating of a whistle-siren and xylophone). The third movement also has one speed layer and because of this it appears as simpler than the first, but actually the rhythm is very complicated in a different way here. Above the uninterrupted, fast and regular basic pulse, thanks to the asymmetric distribution of accents, different types of hemiolas and inherent melodical patterns appear (the term was coined by Gerhard Kubik in relation to central African music). If this movement is played with the adequate speed and with very clear accentuation, illusory rhythmic-melodical figures appear. These figures are not played directly. they do not appear in the score, but exist only in our perception as a result of co-operation of different voices. .
Already earlier I had experimented with illusory rhythmics, namely in Poeme symphonique for 100 metronomes (1962), in Continuum for harpsichord (1968), in Monument for two pianos (1976), and especially in the first and sixth piano etude Desordre and Automne a Varsovie (1985). .
The third movement of the Piano Concerto is up to now the clearest example of illusory rhythmics and illusory melody. In intervallic and chordal structure this movement is based on alternation, and also inter-relation of various modal and quasi-equidistant harmony spaces. The tempered twelve-part division of the octave allows for diatonical and other modal interval successions, which are not equidistant, but are based on the alternation of major and minor seconds in different groups. The tempered system also allows for the use of the anhemitonic pentatonic scale (the black keys of the piano). From equidistant scales, therefore interval formations which are based on the division of an octave in equal distances, the twelve-tone tempered system allows only chromatics (only minor seconds) and the six-tone scale (the whole-tone: only major seconds). .
Moreover, the division of the octave into four parts only minor thirds) and three parts (three major thirds) is possible. In several music cultures different equidistant divisions of an octave are accepted, for example, in the Javanese slendro into five parts, in Melanesia into seven parts, popular also in southeastern Asia, and apart from this, in southern Africa. This does not mean an exact equidistance: there is a certain tolerance for the inaccurateness of the interval tuning. .
These exotic for us, Europeans, harmony and melody have attracted me for several years. However I did not want to re-tune the piano (microtone deviations appear in the concerto only in a few places in the horn and trombone parts led in natural tones). After the period of experimenting, I got to pseudo- or quasiequidistant intervals, which is neither whole-tone nor chromatic: in the twelve-tone system, two whole-tone scales are possible, shifted a minor second apart from each other. Therefore, I connect these two scales (or sound resources), and for example, places occur where the melodies and figurations in the piano part are created from both whole tone scales. in one band one six-tone sound resource is utilized, and in the other hand, the complementary. In this way whole-tonality and chromaticism mutually reduce themselves: a type of deformed equidistancism is formed, strangely brilliant and at the same time slanting. illusory harmony, indeed being created inside the tempered twelve-tone system, but in sound quality not belonging to it anymore. .
The appearance of such slantedequidistant harmony fields alternating with modal fields and based on chords built on fifths (mainly in the piano part), complemented with mixtures built on fifths in the orchestra, gives this movement an individual, soft-metallic colour (a metallic sound resulting from harmonics). .
The fourth movement was meant to be the central movement of the Concerto. Its melodc-rhythmic elements (embryos or fragments of motives) in themselves are simple. The movement also begins simply, with a succession of overlapping of these elements in the mixture type structures. Also here a kaleidoscope is created, due to a limited number of these elements - of these pebbles in the kaleidoscope - which continuously return in augmentations and diminutions. .
Step by step, however, so that in the beginning we cannot hear it, a compiled rhythmic organization of the talea type gradually comes into daylight, based on the simultaneity of two mutually shifted to each other speed layers (also triplet and duoles, however, with different asymmetric structures than in the first movement). While longer rests are gradually filled in with motive fragments, we slowly come to the conclusion that we have found ourselves inside a rhythmic-melodical whirl: without change in tempo, only through increasing the density of the musical events, a rotation is created in the stream of successive and compiled, augmented and diminished motive fragments, and increasing the density suggests acceleration. .
Thanks to the periodical structure of the composition, always new but however of the same (all the motivic cells are similar to earlier ones but none of them are exactly repeated. the general structure is therefore self-similar), an impression is created of a gigantic, indissoluble network. Also, rhythmic structures at first hidden gradually begin to emerge, two independent speed layers with their various internal accentuations. .
This great, self-similar whirl in a very indirect way relates to musical associations, which came to my mind while watching the graphic projection of the mathematical sets of Julia and of Mandelbrot made with the help of a computer. I saw these wonderful pictures of fractal creations, made by scientists from Brema, Peitgen and Richter, for the first time in 1984. From that time they have played a great role in my musical concepts. This does not mean, however, that composing the fourth movement I used mathematical methods or iterative calculus. indeed, I did use constructions which, however, are not based on mathematical thinking, but are rather craftman's constructions (in this respect, my attitude towards mathematics is similar to that of the graphic artist Maurits Escher). .I am concerned rather with intuitional, poetic, synesthetic correspondence, not on the scientific, but on the poetic level of thinking. .
The fifth, very short Presto movement is harmonically very simple, but all the more complicated in its rhythmic structure: it is based on the further development of ''inherent patterns of the third movement. The quasi-equidistance system dominates harmonically and melodically in this movement, as in the third, alternating with harmonic fields, which are based on the division of the chromatic whole into diatonics and anhemitonic pentatonics. Polyrhythms and harmonic mixtures reach their greatest density, and at the same time this movement is strikingly light, enlightened with very bright colours: at first it seems chaotic, but after listening to it for a few times it is easy to grasp its content: many autonomous but self-similar figures which crossing themselves. .
I present my artistic credo in the Piano Concerto: I demonstrate my independence from criteria of the traditional avantgarde, as well as the fashionable postmodernism. Musical illusions which I consider to be also so important are not a goal in itself for me, but a foundation for my aesthetical attitude. I prefer musical forms which have a more object-like than processual character. Music as frozen time, as an object in imaginary space evoked by music in our imagination, as a creation which really develops in time, but in imagination it exists simultaneously in all its moments. The spell of time, the enduring its passing by, closing it in a moment of the present is my main intention as a composer. .
(Gyorgy Ligeti)
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