Symphony for marimba and orchestra

SKU: GI.G-109472

ISBN 9781574631944. UPC: 884088793494.

These arrangements by Musser were for his 100-piece marimba orchestra comprised of 50 young men and 50 young women between the ages of 17 and 25. Performances with the orchestra took place in 1935 in Paris, Brussels and New York's famed Carnegie Hall. With a foreword by Willis Rapp detailing the historical significance of this series, extensive program notes and notes about this edition included in this historically significant publication, these ensembles are a must for any marimba ensemble. Includes Mignon Overture by Thomas, Largo from The New World Symphony by Dvorák, and Prelude in E Minor by Chopin.

SKU: GI.G-317205

ISBN 9781574631210. UPC: 884088518820.

These arrangements by Musser were for his 100-piece marimba orchestra comprised of 50 young men and 50 young women between the ages of 17 and 25. Performances with the orchestra took place in 1935 in Paris, Brussels and New York's famed Carnegie Hall. With a foreword by Willis Rapp detailing the historical significance of this series, extensive program notes and notes about this edition included in this historically significant publication, these ensembles are a must for any marimba ensemble. Includes: Prelude in C Minor, Opus 3, No. 2 by Rachmaninoff and Symphony in D Minor by Franck.

SKU: GI.G-317192

ISBN 9781574631135. UPC: 884088405342.

These arrangements by Musser were for his 100-piece marimba orchestra comprised of 50 young men and 50 young women between the ages of 17 and 25. Performances with the orchestra took place in 1935 in Paris, Brussels and New York's famed Carnegie Hall. It includes three marimba ensembles including Pilgrim's Chorus, Kamennoi-Ostrow and In a Monastery Garden.

SKU: GI.G-317225

ISBN 9781574631791. UPC: 884088603946.

These arrangements by Musser were for his 100-piece marimba orchestra comprised of 50 young men and 50 young women between the ages of 17 and 25. Performances with the orchestra took place in 1935 in Paris, Brussels and New York's famed Carnegie Hall. With a foreword by Willis Rapp detailing the historical significance of this series, extensive program notes and notes about this edition included in this historically significant publication, these ensembles are a must for any marimba ensemble. Includes: Bolero by Rosales and Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 by Elgar.

SKU: HL.49005334

ISBN 9790001057431. UPC: 073999320145. 8.75x11.75x0.639 inches.

3 (auch 3 Picc.) * 3 * 3 * 3 (3. auch Kfg.) - 4 * 3 * 3 * 1 - 6 P. [lat.-amerik.] (2 Spieler) S. (Trgl. * Gong * Rohrengl. * Beck. * Jazz-Beck. * Tamt. * 3 Tomt. * kl. Tr. * mittl. Tr. * gr. Tr. * 3 Tempelbl. * Glsp. * Xyl. * Vibr. * Marimba) (5 Spieler) - Cel. * Klav. (4 hd.) * 2 Hfn. - Str.

3 (auch 3 Picc.) * 3 * 3 * 3 (3. auch Kfg.) - 4 * 3 * 3 * 1 - 6 P. [lat.-amerik.] (2 Spieler)
S. (Trgl. * Gong * Rohrengl. * Beck. * Jazz-Beck. * Tamt. * 3 Tomt. * kl. Tr. * mittl. Tr. *
gr. Tr. * 3 Tempelbl. * Glsp. * Xyl. * Vibr. * Marimba) (5 Spieler) - Cel. * Klav. (4 hd.) *
2 Hfn. - Str.

SKU: HL.49004997

ISBN 9790001053556. 8.0x11.75x0.287 inches.

3 (2., 3. auch Picc.) * 3 (3. auch Engl. Hr.) * 3 (3. auch Bassklar.) * 3 (3. auch Kfg.) - 4 * 3 * 3 * 1 - P. (2 Spieler) S. (Beck. * Tamt. * kl. u. gr. Tomt. * Ruhrtr. * kl. Tr. * gr. Tr. * Vibr. * Xyl. * Marimba) (4 Spieler) - 2 Hfn. * Klav. (auch Cel.) - Str. (12 Vl. I * 10 Vl. II * 10 Vl. III * 6 Va. I * 6 Va. II * 10 Vc. * 8 Kb.).

SKU: PR.11642063L

UPC: 680160688623.

SKU: PR.11642063S

UPC: 680160688616.

SKU: PR.41641381L

UPC: 680160590889. 11 x 14 inches.

Piccolo, 2 Flutes, 2 Oboes, English Horn, 2 Clarinets in B-flat, Bass Clarinet, 2 Bassoons, Contrabassoon, 4 Horns in F, 3 Trumpets in C, 3 Trombones, Tuba, Timpani, Percussion (5 players): Slapstick, Claves, Snare Drum, Cymbals, Bass Drum, Cow Bell, Tubular Bells, Marimba, Xylophone, Woodblock, Vibraphone, Glockenspiel, Bongo Drums, Large Gong, Tambourine, Ratchet, Brakedrum, Small Triangle, Vibraslap, Harp, Piano doubling Celesta, Strings.

SKU: PR.11640561S

ISBN 9781491134696. UPC: 680160685394.

SKU: PR.41641499L

UPC: 680160619009. 11 x 17 inches.

SKU: PR.416414990

UPC: 680160618996. 8.5 x 11 inches.

SKU: PR.446411600

UPC: 680160531660.

SKU: PR.14140089S

UPC: 680160625437. 9 x 12 inches. Text: Czeslaw Milosz. Text by Czeslaw Milosz.

When commissioned by UC Berkeley to compose a major work, Steven Stucky turned to the poetry of Lithuanian-Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz. One of Stucky's favorite writers, Milosz fled to the US in 1960, and joined the Berkeley faculty in 1961. He was still at Berkeley, his poems still banned back home in Poland, when he won the Nobel Prize in 1980. Many of his poems are dark, and some deal with the Holocaust. The Stars and the Roses sets three lighter, more lyrical poems for tenor and orchestra: Happiness, The Sun, and The Bird Kingdom, texts positively aglow with joy and tenderness. Comissioned by Berkeley Symphony, Joana Carneiro, Music Director, with funding from Music Alive, a national residency program of the League of American Orchestras and Meet the Composer.

SKU: HL.14018156

ISBN 9788759811986. English.

Concerto No. 3 For Marimba 'Linzer' by Anders Koppel . This is the original 2002 version for Marimba and Symphony Orchestra.Premiered by Marting Grubinger, Marimba, and the Bruckner Orchestra, Linz, conducted by Ingo Ingensand, 27th February 2003.

SKU: PR.416414230

ISBN 9781598066630. UPC: 680160602087. 9x12 inches.

Colonnade is James Matheson’s intriguing response to the Albany Symphony’s commission to create a work inspired by the NY State Board of Education Building, designed by the renowned architect Rafael Guastavino. Matheson explains that “A colonnade acts as a metaphor for the tension between knowledge and perception. The columns are the same height and equidistant from each other; while the mind understands this fully, there exists no place from which one can perceive this – the columns always appear to be of uneven height and spacing. If one then adds motion to perspective, identical columns acquire elasticity, and begin to change kaleidoscopically – they shrink, grow, become closer, and then further apart.” This structural paradox is given musical life in the outer sections of Colonnade, while the long, arching middle section is inspired by the vaulted ceiling of one of the building’s largest rooms, enhancing the structure’s spacious openness and lightness.
Colonnade is inspired by Albany’s majestic New York State Board of Education Building, and written on a commission from the Albany Symphony Orchestra. It was an intriguing task, in part because in order to accept the commission I had to agree to write a work “inspired by” a building I had not yet seen. Thisproblem was compounded by the fact that, for me, the very notion of extra-musical inspiration is a complex one, particularly with respect to literary or visual sources. I generally find ideas and abstracted notions more generative of musical ideas than specific ones (a poem, an experience, a painting). So when I went to seeand tour the building, I sought to identify fundamental formal aspects of the building which I could process into musical ideas, and would then be linked to the building through a sense of formal relationship. In theend, two characteristics of the building stood out as noteworthy and undiminished by time (compared with, for instance, the building’s rotunda, which contains a series of quaintly outdated allegorical paintings): theexterior colonnade and a beautiful interior vaulted ceiling, designed by Rafael Guastavino.For me, a colonnade acts as a metaphor for the tension between knowledge and perception. We all know, for instance, that the columns are of the same height and are equidistant from each other. Nevertheless, while the mind understands this fully, it is also the case that there exists no place – no standpoint or viewpoint – anywhere in the universe – from which one can perceive this; the columns always appear to be of uneven height and spacing. If one then adds motion to perspective – a walk along the colonnade, for instance – the fixed, even, rigidly identical columns acquire elasticity, and begin to change kaleidoscopically – they shrink, grow, become closer, and then further apart. Further, the detail of the building’s façade behind the colonnadeshifts into and out of visibility, with different portions obscured by the columns from each vantage point. These considerations underlie the outer sections of Colonnade, in which a continuously repeated, continuously varied rising figure – suggestive of a column – dominates. The iterations of this elastic, evolvingfigure are interspersed with other music – suggestive of the building’s façade. The second feature of the building that caught my attention was the vaulted ceiling, designed by Guastavino,of one of the building’s largest rooms. The ceiling enhances the spaciousness of the room, giving it an openness and lightness that is quite captivating. The middle section of Colonnade has this openness at its core, and is dominated by long, arching lines that, to me, suggest the refined beauty of this ceiling.World premiere March 8, 2003; Albany Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Alan Miller.

SKU: PR.416415110

UPC: 680160621286.

Commi ssioned by Kennesaw State University Symphony Orchestra in 2012, Chinese Rap for violin and orchestra is premiered by Prof. Helen Kim as the soloist and the KSUSO led by Prof. Michael Alexander at Bailey Center in KSU, GA on Feb. 17, 2014. The work is inspired by Chinese folk musical story telling, Quyi, in a form of mixed reciting and singing style, with interludes played by percussion and plucking instruments in accompaniment. The folk musical story telling is sung in dialects from different geographic regions. I mixed all these elements in a complex three-part form, with an introduction, a cadenza in the middle, and a coda as the frame in the structure. The melodies are delicate and leisurely, and the rhythmic parts are energetic, vivid and lively. There are big contrasts between sections, which are juxtaposed and connected smoothly and congenially.
Commissio ned by Kennesaw State University Symphony Orchestra in 2012,Chinese Rap for violin and orchestra is premiered by Prof. Helen Kim as thesoloist and the KSUSO led by Prof. Michael Alexander at Bailey Center inKSU, GA on Feb. 17, 2014. The work is inspired by Chinese folk musical storytelling, Quyi, in a form of mixed reciting and singing style, with interludesplayed by percussion and plucking instruments in accompaniment. The folkmusical story telling is sung in dialects from different geographic regions. Imixed all these elements in a complex three-part form, with an introduction, a cadenza in the middle, and a coda as the frame in the structure. The melodies are delicate and leisurely, and the rhythmic parts are energetic, vivid and lively. There are big contrasts between sections, which are juxtaposed and connected smoothly and congenially.