SKU: SU.80118700
Set of 2 scoresInfinities #32 is a dynamic 11-minute duo in three movements for oboe and clarinet.Oboe & Clarinet Duration: 11 Composed: 1981 Published by: Soundspells Productions.
SKU: SU.80118606
Infinities #33 (1982) for solo clarinet is a four movement rhapsody. The movements are: Lento Allegro scherzando ma agitato Adagio e sempre misterioso and Medium jazz bounce. Published by: Soundspells Productions.
SKU: SU.80111201
Harp Duration: 11 ' Composed: 1966 Published by: Soundspells Productions Infinities #16 (1966) is a vivid solo for harp. An active opening works its way towards a subdued conclusion.
SKU: SU.80111003
Infinities #22 (1957) is Kupferman's best-known work for trumpet, a compelling virtuoso work in five movements: Ritual; Mode; Projectile; Turnabout; and Jazz-Bond Published by: Soundspells Productions.
SKU: HL.44001176
UPC: 073999922219. 5.5x4.75x0.4 inches.
Includes: A London Intrada; Infinity and Beyond; Pathfinders March; Simple Sarabande; Te Deum Prelude; The Prince of Denmark's March; Westminster Prelude; Chorus and March (See, the Conquering Hero Comes); Big Sky Overture; To a Wild Rose; Two Norwegian Folk Tunes; Clarinet Calypso; Ballad for Benny; Shalom!; Panis Angelicus.
SKU: XC.RCB2110
UPC: 812598037050. 9 x 12 inches.
Steve Parsons’ significant background with musical theater is clear with this concert band piece. With fresh changes and harmonic choices, Infinity Awaits will bring excitement to any program.
SKU: XC.RCB2110FS
UPC: 812598036510. 9 x 12 inches.
SKU: HL.49008053
ISBN 9790001113465. 8.25x11.5x0.35 inches.
'Finite Infinity' * in the 2nd half of the 19th century the lonely countryside of the American state of Massachusetts became a focal point for artistic innovation. Charles Ives, in the famous 'Concord' piano sonata, referred to 4 poets resident there, including Thoreau, whose book 'Walden' has achieved cult status in recent years. Emily Dickinson's poems reflect the melancholic rapture of self-chosen isolation, and Reimann envelopes them, according to a critic, with 'instrumental morbidezza, a marvellously withered aura'.
SKU: SU.80111202
Violin & Clarinet Duration: ' Composed: 1972 Published by: Soundspells Productions Includes set of 2 scores The Garden of My Father's House (1973) is a dramatic rhapsody for violin and clarinet duo. The composer wrote the following: I composed THE GARDEN OF MY FATHER'S HOUSE in 1972 in memory of my father, who was my first music teacher. Although he played many instruments and loved to sing, he could not read a note of music. When I was very young he would sing Gypsy songs, Yiddish folk-songs and Rumanian tunes to me and I would play them back on my clarinet, often with ornaments and variations. Sometimes he would accompany me on the piano; he had a few favorite chords which always seemed to pop up no matter what the tune. The piece is a musical ritual, based on a C-sharp drone, or pedal note, that is heard without interruption, across several ranges, throughout the piece. The violin's drone tremolos, often combined with perfect fifths and quarter-tone tunings, imply the key of Csharp minor. The violin part is always rubato — lyrical, expressive and frequently very passionate. But, most importantly, the violin is always tonal. The clarinet, on the other hand, is atonal, its pitches drawn from the twelve-tone row that I used to write my Cycles of Infinities. The style of the clarinet is contemporary, using wide-range intervals, biting accents and unusual instrumental effects, including fluttertonguing and quarter-tone trills. In combining the 'contrasting' roles of the two instruments, I sought to create a musical ritual-game that would draw energy and bits of information from the polarized instruments. The language of the piece calls the listener's attention to the cogent features of both instrumental personalities in a manner that is somewhat similar to the way in which Yiddish combines German and Hebrew. The drone becomes more and more magnetic and begins to join the parts together until they become one in the final C-sharp unison.
SKU: SU.80110803
Five Little Infinities (1976) is a set of five short movements for solo clarinet. Published by: Soundspells Productions.
SKU: SU.80111005
Line Fantasy (1961) is a movement from Infinities #1 frequently performed as a solo flute work. It was recorded by Samuel Baron, for whom it was written Published by: Soundspells Productions.
SKU: SU.80110804
Fourteen Canonic Inventions for Young Composers (1966) is a set of short keyboard pieces along with pedagogical text, demonstrating all manners of tonal canonic technique. It makes an excellent pedagogical resources for composers or those teaching traditional harmonic practice. Published by: Soundspells Productions.
SKU: HL.14041798
ISBN 9788759818077. 12.5x16.5x1.13 inches.
Set of parts for Per Nørgård 's En Lys Time / A Light Hour (2008-09) for a variable Percussion Ensemble (min. 10 players).
In A Light Hour everything - rhythms and motifs – is based on Nørgård&acut e;s special infinity series.
Score: WH30964
Programme note
A Light Hour is for ‘any number of percussion musicians’ (but a minimum of ten). The duration is about 60 minutes. The instrumentation is in principle open, as long as percussion is used within the three types specified in the score: skin, metal and wood. Each musicianuses two sound sources with two different sounds, one of which is bright (or light) and the other dark. Certain passages also include tuned percussion instruments – vibraphone, xylophone, marimba, gamelan, glockenspiel, steel drums, crotales and the like. The work integrates and combines a number of rhythms that Nørgård has used in percussion works since the 1970s, for example in Early Spring Dance (for choir and percussion), and percussion works like I Ching, Easy Beats, Whirls, Zigzag, Nemo Dynamo and Echo Zone I-II-III. Special “tone-feasts” (the composer’s term) – followed by a rest – are an recognizable me lodic feature of the work.: the first minute end with a short tone-feast (and a rest), the first four minutes end with a tone-feast lasting a minute (and a rest), the first quarter of an hour ends with a tone-feast of four minutes (and a rest) – and the work ends with a tone-feast lasting quarter of an hour (and a rest, when the work is over ...). The first 15 minutes have a bright, light character throughout, and alternate between rhythms and melodic play. The following 15 minutes are more insistent and decidedly percu ssion-based, Afro-Cuban, whereas the third quarter of A Light Hour moves in the.
SKU: HL.14003062
ISBN 9788759870075. 12.0x16.5x0.7 inches. Danish.
Per Norgard BACH TO THE FUTUREFor many years I have been specially fascinated by three of the preludes of Bach's Well-tempered Piano, and I wish with this concerto-version for percussion-duo and orchestra to highlight some of the structural aspects of these pieces: It is my belief that there is a tradition in the music history, that makes it possible to let certain germs in an earlier period unfold into new, but not heterogenious, dimensions of a perhaps several hundred years later phase of the tradition.This concerto is a result of several years collaboration with Uffe Savery and Morten Friis (Safri-Duo), as well in original compositions - (Resonances, Repercussion, Resume in EchoZone I-III) as in arrangements of the 3 Bach preludes, preparing for the enormous stylistic challenges of this work.A few introductory comments to each movement:I Movement: The archetypal sequence of broken chords within C-major has established itself as almost a cultural code, allowing the composer of 1996 to tell his tale-in-tones only by stressing and colouring the tones in the original piece without changing the pitches or (relative) durations as a 'palimpsest' containing as well the old as the new musical tale simultaneously. Later in the movement, this singleline is multiplied by the, till then discrete, but permanently pervading, proportion - throughout the piece - very close to the 'Golden Section'(= 3:5:8.t.i:8 before repetition, 5 before starting anew from the deepest tone, 3 as the rest etc. unchanged). The 3 tonal levels as well as the 3 relative speeds are treated according to these proportions for certain passages, but even in those the main focal point is directed at the freely invented melody (by me) incarnating itself solely by the unpermutad sequels of the original prelude.II Movement: One feature of the F sharp-prelude pervades all the six minutes-long second movement: A 4 times identical rhythmic pattern = 6:4:3:2:3:4:6 - as an hourglass-shaped timeshape - inspired me by the closeness of this pattern to a shape within the infinity-drumming of my invention, called Wide-Fan and Narrow-Fan , referring to pattern consisting of 8:4:2:1:2:4:8, the familiarity with the above - quoted one being obvious. New and old elaborations of this pattern-pair permeates the movement, especially since the Safri-Duo by their performance of my Repercussion had augmented my appetite for including this idiom in a wider context:III Movement: Without the existence of the d-minor-prelude I doubt that I would have dared to write a work like this, since it is the inexhaustible, rare quality and pecularity of this piece, which has stimulated my feeling of wonder and 'modernity' (or: eternity!) of this piece, of which I know of no equal in its special respect: the perpetual ambiguity of melodic foothold in the rhythmic ostinato of a broken descending triad, co.
SKU: HL.49018964
ISBN 9790001169325. UPC: 841886014350.
'Circ le of Life' was commissioned for the International Piano Competition of the Wiesbaden Music Academy. At its centre is a Toccata which can also be played separately. In contrast, with regard to its use in piano programmes, it also has an Adagio which makes this piece a rather interesting cyclic work: Toccata, as 'vis vitalis', expresses the ecstatic feeling of spring through it's yearning and poetic nature: the music of youth. The adagio, 'Die Kunst der Ruhe', on the other hand, is a Zen exercise for piano, expressing infinity, tranquility and timelessness. It is a music of closure, of age.
