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Morton Gould's Hallelujah Amen from 'Quotations' for Double Chorus of Mixed Voices and Wind Orchestra. Piano reduction.This work was commissioned by L. Anthony Fisher for the New York Choral Society Robert DeComier conductor and first performed by them on January 28 1983 at Carnegie Hall.The composer after thinking over the possible approaches to a choral work found the ide of platitudes common sayings and poetic referenmces challanging and stimulating. As 'Quotations' evolved he found that these sayings evoked nostalgic momories of his own childhood in Richmond Hill New York where he was reared on such aphorisms as 'theearly bird catches the worm ' 'a stitch in time saves nine ' 'a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.'After setting the scene in Richmond Hill the piece begins with Hallelujah Amen the common shout for joy and closing whisper of all religions. An antiphonal series of platitudes follows and then moves to more complex secular litanies the 'ballads ' or stories of young love and old age and the precariousness of life which have been told and retold through the ages. In the last movement the religious litany resumes with 'ashes to ashes dust to dust' echoing the earlier prosaic motif 'here today gone tomorrow ' or as Gould finally writes 'time's up!'

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Make your practice perfect with the Playbook: Music Theory. Containing the fundamentals of Music Theory in a pocket-sized guide this is the ideal partner for the beginner.The Playbookis compact and practical allowing you to take it with you wherever you go. Whether you keep it at home or leave one in your bag you will always have it to hand ready to look up that crucial bit of theory. Because of this usefulstructure and design you will learn and retain the content with ease.Despite its unassuming size a wealth of information is contained within including everything a beginner will need to know. At the beginning the guidetakes you through the stave the different clefs and basic note values. As you progress you will learn about the circle of fifths scales and chords. As an introduction this covers all bases and its miniature size makes it theclearest possible resource for a beginner to the murky world of Music Theory.So whether you are learning from scratch or you need a handy reference guide use the Playbook: Music Theory to learn all thebasics quickly and easily.

The ultimate collection for Latin lovers everywhere! 400 Latin standards in one Real Book collection, including: Acercate Más (Come Closer To Me) Adelita Adios Adios Tristeza (Bye Bye Tristeza) Adoro Afro Blue Água De Beber (Water To Drink) Aguardiente De Cana Águas De Março (Waters Of March) All That's Left Is To Say Goodbye (E Preciso Dizer Adeus) Alla En El Rancho Grande (My Ranch) Alma Con Alma Alonzo Always In My Heart (Siempre En Mi Corazon) Amantes Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy) Amarga Navidad Amor (Amor, Amor, Amor) Amor A La Mexicana Amor Artificial Amor Eterno (El Mas Triste Recuerdo) Amor Gitano Amor Prohibido Amorcito Corazon Amparo Ana Luiza And I Love Her Anema E Core (With All My Heart) Anima Anos Dourados (Looks Like December) Antigua Aquellos Ojos Verdes (Green Eyes) Aqui, Oh! Armando's Rhumba Arroyito Asi fue At The Mambo Inn Aunque Me Cueste La Vida Ausencia Ay Cosita Linda Babalu Baia (Bahía) Barbados Begin The Beguine Bella Señora (Bella Signora) Berimbau Bésame Mucho (Kiss Me Much) Bim-Bom Black Orchid Blue Tango Bonita Borzeguim Bossa Antigua The Breeze And I Brigas Nunca Mais Bruca Manigua Burundanga Cachita Call Me Cancion Del Mariachi Cantelope Island Captain Bacardi Captain Marvel Capullito de Alheli Cariba The Carioca Cast Your Fate To The Wind Castigame Chega De Saudade (No More Blues) Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White Chitlins Con Carne Cien Años Cocinando Coisa Feita Comecar De Novo Compadre Pedro Juan Con Alma Con Tu Amor (With Your Love) The Constant Rain (Chove Chuva) Contigo Aprendi Contigo En La Distancia Copacabana (At The Copa) Coracao Apaixonado Corazon Corazon Corazon Corazon Costumbres Cu-Cu-Rru-Cu-Cu Paloma Cuando Vivas Conmigo Cuanto Le Gusta Cuban Lullaby Cumana Cumbia Raza Curves Ahead Dame un cachito pa'huele Dansero De Mi Enamorate De Un Mundo Raro A Deeper Shade Of Soul Déjame Vivir Delicado Desafinado Despues De Ti Deve Ser Amor Dicen Por Ahi Dindi A Dios Le Pido Don't Cry For Me Argentina Don't Ever Go Away (Por Causa De Voce) Double Rainbow É Luxo Só Ebony Samba (Sambanegro) Echale Salsita Echame A Mi La Culpa El Cazangero El Choclo El Cumbanchero El Destino El Hijo Del Pueblo El Mexico Que Se Nos Fue El Relicario (Shrine Of Love) El Reloj El Triste Ela 'E Carioca En El Mar En El Muelle De San Blas Encantigo The End Of A Love Affair Eres Tu/Touch The Wind Esa Mujer Esa Triste Guitarra Escape (The Pina Colada Song) Espana Cani Estate Estrada Branca (This Happy Madness) Estrellas De Fania Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar Evil Ways Feelings (?Dime?) A Felicidade Festa Do Interior Fijate Bien 500 Miles High Flamingo Flor De Lis (Upside Down) The Fool On The Hill Footprints For Once In My Life Frenesí Friends Gema Gentle Rain The Gift! (Recado Bossa Nova) Ginza Samba The Girl From Ipanema (Garôta De Ipanema) Gitanerias Goodbye Sadness Granada Guadalajara Guantanamera Hasta que te conoci Hernando's Hideaway Hey Himno Nacional Mexicano (Mexican National Hymn) Historia De Un Amor Ho-Ba-La-La How Insensitive (Insensatez) Huracan If You Never Come To Me (Inutil Paisagem) Indestructible Inolvidable Invitation It's Impossible (Somos Novios) It's You Jalousie (Jealousy) Jazz 'N' Samba (So Danco Samba) Jingo (Jin-Go-Lo-Ba) The Jive Samba Jogral Joyce's Samba Key Largo Killer Joe Kiss Of Fire La Bamba La Barca La Camisa Negra La Comparsa (Carnival Procession) La Cosecha De Mujeres La Fiesta La Fuerza De Amar (A Forca Do Amar) La Malaguena (Se Acabo) La Malanga La Murga Panamena La Paloma La Pollera Colorá La Rajita De Canela La Ultima Noche Lágrimas Lagrimas Negras Lamento Lamento Borincano Last Tango In Paris Latin Perspective La Ley Del Monte Libertango Ligia Linda Chicana Linha De Passe Lisbon Antigua (In Old Lisbon) Little Boat (O Barquinho) Livin' La Vida Loca Llorando Se Fue (La Lambada) The Look Of Love Look To The Sky Los Marcianos (The Martians) Love Me With All Your Heart (Cuando Calienta El Sol) Luciana Lucky Southern Luiza Make Me A Memory (Sad Samba) Malaguena Mama Guela Mama Inez Mamblues Mambo Jambo (Que Rico El Mambo) Mambo #8 Mambo #5 A Man And A Woman (Un Homme Et Une Femme) Mañana Mangos Mania De Maria Manteca Maria Elena Maria La O Mas Que Nada Me Voy Pa'l Pueblo Meditation (Meditacao) Menina Flor Mexico Lindo Miami Beach Rumba Modinha Mojave Moon And Sand More (Ti Guarderò Nel Cuore) Morning Dance Mucho Corazon Mujer Music To Watch Girls By My Little Suede Shoes My Shawl Negra Consentida (My Pet Brunette) Never On Sunday Nica's Dream The Night Has A Thousand Eyes A Night In Tunisia No Me Quieras Tanto No Quiero Na' Regalao No Tengo Dinero No Volvere Noche De Ronda (Be Mine Tonight) Nosotros Nuestro Juramento Nunca Te Olvidare O Astronauta O Bebado E A Equilibrista O Grande Amor O Me Quieres O Me Dejas (Devaneos) O Morro Nao Tem Vez (Favela) O Nosso Amor O Pato (The Duck) O Xote Das Meninas Oblivion Obsesión On The Border Once I Loved (Amor Em Paz) (Love In Peace) One Note Samba (Samba De Uma Nota So) Only Once In My Life (Solamente Una Vez) Only Trust Your Heart Orchids In The Moonlight Outra Vez Oye Como Va Pa' Gozar Pablo Pueblo Palo Pa' Rumba Paloma Blanca Papa Gato Papa Loves Mambo Para Ti Pare Cochero Passarim Patricia, It's Patricia (Patricia) Paulistana The Peanut Vendor (El Manisero) Pensativa Perdoname, olvidalo Perfidia Perfume De Gardenia Photograph Picadillo (a la Puente) Poise 'e Ponteio Por Amor Porque Tu Me Acostumbraste Preciosa Quando, Quando, Quando (Tell Me When) Que Bueno Baila Usted Que Rico Vacilon (Cha Cha Cha) Que Seas Feliz Quedate Conmigo Esta Noche Querida Quien Sera Quiero Dormir Cansado Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars (Corcovado) Quiet Village Quijote Quizas, Quizas, Quizas (Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps) Ran Kan Kan Recorda Me The Red Blouse (Blusa Vermelha) Resemblance Rhythm Of The Rain Romance de Amor Rum And Coca-Cola Sabia Sabor A Mi (Be True To Me) Sabras Que Te Quiero St. Thomas Samba Cantina Samba Dees Days Samba Pa Ti Sandunguera Say ?Si, Si? Se A Cabo Se Me Olvido Otra Vez Se Todos Fossem Iguais A Voce (Someone To Light Up My Life) Señor Mouse Si Madame Siempre En Mi Mente Similau (See-me-lo) Simple Samba Sin Tu Carino Sin Un Amor So Nice (Summer Samba) So Tinha De Ser Com Voce (This Love That I Found) Son De La Loma Sonambulo Song For My Father Song Of The Jet (Samba do Avião) Song Of The Sabiá (Sabiá) Soul Sauce (Guarachi Guaro) South Of The Border (Down Mexico Way) Soy Guajiro Spain Spanish Harlem Speak Low Suavecito Sunshower Taboo Tango Of Roses Te Desafio Te sigo Amando Telephone Song That Look You Wear (Este Seu Olhar) This Masquerade Tico Tico (Tico Tico No Fuba) Tide Tiger Of San Pedro Time Was Tin Tin Deo Totem Pole Tres Lindas Cubanas Tres Palabras (Without You) Triste Tu Solo Tu Um A Zero Un Poco Loco Un Sentimental Usted Usted Se Me Llevo La Vida Ven Y Dame Un Poco Mas Vera Cruz Veracruz Viva Tirado Vivo Sonhando (Dreamer) Voy A Apagar La Luz Watch What Happens Watermelon Man Wave What A Diff'rence A Day Made Whatever Lola Wants (Lola Gets) Y Pensar ? Y Tu Que Has Hecho? Ya no me vuelvo a enamorar (No me vuelvo a enamorar) Yellow Days Yesterday I Heard The Rain You Belong To My Heart (Solamente Una Vez) You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine You're Everything Yours (Quiereme Mucho) Zelao Zingaro (Retrato Em Branco E Preto) / Instrument en do / Hal Leonard

Nico Muhly's My Days for ATTB choir and five Viola Da Gambas. Full score.This 16 minute piece of sheet music was commissioned by Wigmore Hall and the world première was performed by Fretwork and Hilliard Ensemble at Wigmore Hall October 2 2012.'My Days is a ritualised memory piece about Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) written for two ensembles whose recordings informed so much of my musical development. I feel like I spend half of my life trying to trick string players to play like Fretwork and vocalists to singlike the Hilliard Ensemble so it was with enormous pleasure that I composed this piece. The text is derived from Psalm 39 which Gibbons himself set as well as an account of Gibbons's own autopsy which is a poignant 17th century semi-anonymous text. One of the most thrilling things about the sound of five violas da gamba playing together is the sense of their phrasing being derived from vocal music but made somehow electric and ecstatic through ornamentation and the friction of the strings. The piece has an idée fixe based on a minor scale with two possible resolutions and many ornaments. In between iterations the voices in rhythmic unison intone the psalm. It isn't until the autopsy text arrives that the voices begin to split into more elaborate ?Gibbonsy? verses and responses. A series of semiimprovisedfragments on the text 'Take thy plague away from me' introduces the third section of the piece where plucked strings create a halo around the text 'hear my prayer OLord.' The piece ends with the ornaments wildly exploded over the voices singing two words endlessly repeated.' - Nico Muhly

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Morton Gould's Walkin'On Air from 'Quotations' for Double Chorus of Mixed Voices and Wind Orchestra. Piano reduction.This work was commissioned by L. Anthony Fisher for the New York Choral Society Robert DeComier conductor and first performed by them on January 28 1983 at Carnegie Hall.The composer after thinking over the possible approaches to a choral work found the ide of platitudes common sayings and poetic referenmces challanging and stimulating. As 'Quotations' evolved he found that these sayings evoked nostalgic momories of his own childhood in Richmond Hill New York where he was reared on such aphorisms as 'theearly bird catches the worm ' 'a stitch in time saves nine ' 'a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.'After setting the scene in Richmond Hill the piece begins with Hallelujah Amen the common shout for joy and closing whisper of all religions. An antiphonal series of platitudes follows and then moves to more complex secular litanies the 'ballads ' or stories of young love and old age and the precariousness of life which have been told and retold through the ages. In the last movement the religious litany resumes with 'ashes to ashes dust to dust' echoing the earlier prosaic motif 'here today gone tomorrow ' or as Gould finally writes 'time's up!'

Morton Gould's Ballads from 'Quotations' for Double Chorus of Mixed Voices and Wind Orchestra. Piano reduction.This work was commissioned by L. Anthony Fisher for the New York Choral Society Robert DeComier conductor and first performed by them on January 28 1983 at Carnegie Hall.The composer after thinking over the possible approaches to a choral work found the ide of platitudes common sayings and poetic referenmces challanging and stimulating. As 'Quotations' evolved he found that these sayings evoked nostalgic momories of his own childhood in Richmond Hill New York where he was reared on such aphorisms as 'the earlybird catches the worm ' 'a stitch in time saves nine ' 'a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.'After setting the scene in Richmond Hill the piece begins with Hallelujah Amen the common shout for joy and closing whisper of all religions. An antiphonal series of platitudes follows and then moves to more complex secular litanies the 'ballads ' or stories of young love and old age and the precariousness of life which have been told and retold through the ages. In the last movement the religious litany resumes with 'ashes to ashes dust to dust' echoing the earlier prosaic motif 'here today gone tomorrow ' or as Gould finally writes 'time's up!'

Morton Gould's Sermon from 'Quotations' for Double Chorus of Mixed Voices and Wind Orchestra. Piano reduction.This work was commissioned by L. Anthony Fisher for the New York Choral Society Robert DeComier conductor and first performed by them on January 28 1983 at Carnegie Hall.The composer after thinking over the possible approaches to a choral work found the ide of platitudes common sayings and poetic referenmces challanging and stimulating. As 'Quotations' evolved he found that these sayings evoked nostalgic momories of his own childhood in Richmond Hill New York where he was reared on such aphorisms as 'the earlybird catches the worm ' 'a stitch in time saves nine ' 'a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.'After setting the scene in Richmond Hill the piece begins with Hallelujah Amen the common shout for joy and closing whisper of all religions. An antiphonal series of platitudes follows and then moves to more complex secular litanies the 'ballads ' or stories of young love and old age and the precariousness of life which have been told and retold through the ages. In the last movement the religious litany resumes with 'ashes to ashes dust to dust' echoing the earlier prosaic motif 'here today gone tomorrow ' or as Gould finally writes 'time's up!'

A comprehensive volume of musical selections from the masters of the Baroque period. Pieces chosen for this book required little alteration from the original manuscript and so do not stray from the composer's original musicalintent. Left-hand fingering has been included extensively whereas right-hand fingering is left up to the performer. Requirements for altered tunings and suggestions for the use of capo are indicated at the beginning of eachpiece where applicable. Contains suggested barres natural harmonics and ornamentation. Written in standard notation with a separate tab selection.

Updated Edition-If you ever needed proof that a magazine can have a love affair with a musician you're holding it in your hands. For DownBeat the preeminent publication of the jazz world Miles Dewey Davis was one of its most cherished subjects. Since it began covering the jazz scene in 1939 no other artist has been more diligently chronicled in its pages than Davis.The beauty of this collection is seeing the development of an artist over time. The reviews of his music go from quietly introducing a new talent to revering perhaps the greatest jazz artist of his generation. The feature articles begin with a very young very polite Davis lamenting I've worked so little. Icould probably tell you where I was playing any night in the last three years. As he develops the interviews show Davis gaining confidence and stature showing swagger and becoming the over-the-top say-it-like-it-is showman that made every interview an event.The Miles Davis Reader compiles more than 200 news stories feature articles and reviews by some of the greatest writers in jazz into one volume. It delivers a patchwork of his words and music - in the moment as they happened. With several lengthy features added along with a dozen new photographs this new edition is a beautiful series of snapshots a year-by-year ride through the many phases of Davis as an artist and as a man.

Pour Cor Anglais (Ou Flûte Ou Clarinette Ou Alto) Violon Et Violoncelle-Rarely has a musical work been better characterized by its subtitle than Nicolas Bacri’s Lyric Interlude: ‘A Study in Pastoral Style’. When in 2008 the composer received the commission for a piece with English Horn from Cecilia Benner patron of the Chamber Music Society of Detroit he immediately thought of the duo between this instrument and the Oboe that Berlioz in the Symphonie fantastique placed at the beginning of the ‘Scène aux champs’ making suddenly appear a nocturnal country landscape where two shepherds carry on a dialogue on their pipes. First performed in March 2009 atone of the Scarab Club Concerts in Detroit the Lyric Interlude for English Horn Violin and Cello (Op.110a) nonetheless proclaims another tradition: that of British pastoralism illustrated by the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) the 50th anniversary of his death having just been celebrated. This score pays him homage of rare sensitivity: set off by refined counterpoint the undulating lament of the beginning rhythmically supple evokes the waving wheat as does Vaughan Williams in the opening undulation of his Symphony No.3. The lyrical effusion briefly interrupted by a scherzo in 6/8 again pours out making the work evolve towards a slow ecstatic atmosphere close to the last of the English composer’s Three Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes. Far from bucolic postcard clichés and servile imitation this Lyric Interlude opens the doors to a realm where pure beauty reigns. The composer also wrote another version of this work for English Horn (or Flute Clarinet or Viola) and Piano Op.110b (AL 30 750)

Schnee - Ten Canons For Nine Instruments was composed by Hans Abrahamsen in 2006-08. Commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk for 'Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik 2008' with support from Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung and The Danish Arts Council. Dedicated to Harry Vogt and Ensemble Recherche. Programme Note: In the beginning of the 90s I arranged some of J.S. Bach’s canons for ensemble – in total seven single standing works from his entire life span. I became totally absorbed into this music and arranged them with the intention of the music being repeated many many times as a kind of minimal music. Obviously I didn’t know which durations Bach had in mind but by listening to his canons in this way a profound new moving world of circular time was opened to me.Depending on the perspective on these canons the music and its time can stand still or move either backwards or forwards.In my own work an ongoing idea has persisted of at some point writing a work consisting of a number of canonical movements that would explore this universe of time. And when I was offered the commission for Ensemble Recherche and Wittener Tage it felt as the right time to do this.In Schnee a few simple and fundamental musical questions are explored. What is a Vorsatz? And what is a Nachsatz? Can a phrase be answering? Or questioning?The guideline or rule for the canons is very simple: We start out with an answering Vorsatz followed by a questioning Nachsatz. Throughout the time of the piece these two are intertwined more and more as more and more dicht geführt canons until at the end they are interchanged. Now the question and then the answer. The two canons are identical like a painting in two versions but with different colors. And where the first one does not include the space the second one does as well as containing more