SKU: OU.9780193512177
ISBN 9780193512177. 12 x 8 inches.
A characterful 3-movement work with a vivacious first movement which switches between 2/4 and 3/8, a slower, folksong-like central movement, and a bright final movement.
SKU: CA.241100
ISBN M-007-25061-4.
10 years of the LIEDERPROJEKT - anniversary edition Songs are a reflection of their time. They come and go, but the best endure and become classics and evergreens. For the tenth anniversary of the LIEDERPROJEKT we are publishing an anniversary edition of the beautiful song book Die schonsten Lieder (The most beautiful songs) from 2016, issued in hardback at a special price. The song book contains 166 songs, 133 illustrations on 248 pages, and over 3 hours of instrumental singalong versions (mp3 CD), made with joy and passion for the music, its presentation, and color. A feast for the senses. Celebrate song with us! The songs contained are as colorful as life itself: songs for telling stories, playing, laughing and dancing, enjoying the seasons, friendship, the pleasures and pains of love, going to sleep, and celebrating. As well as classics, children's songs and folk songs, the book also contains songs from other countries which have already become standards, plus lots of rounds. This lavishly-illustrated song book will accompany and encourage families with children to sing as part of their daily life. As well as this, the popular voice and piano volume to Die schonsten Lieder (The most beautiful songs) with accompaniments to all the songs is available, plus our exclusive CD collections.
SKU: HL.49045639
ISBN 9781540004796. UPC: 888680710774. 9.5x12.0x0.37 inches.
Chaconne (2016), for string quartet, was commissioned by the Daedalus Quartet to celebrate its 15th anniversary. The commission was supported by New Music USA, made possible by annual program support and/or endowment gifts from Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Helen F. Whitaker Fund, and Aaron Copland Fund for Music.My music has a substantial history with Daedalus. I composed the Third String Quartet (2008) for them, and subsequently they performed my three string quartets on several occasions and recorded them brilliantly on Bridge Records (Bridge 9352: Music of Fred Lerdahl, vol. 3). Chaconne is in one movement lasting 19 minutes. It is effectively my fourth string quartet. Quartets 1-3 form a unified cycle lasting 70 minutes. When I finished the cycle, I thought I would never write again for the medium; yet I could not resist the opportunity of working again with Daedalus. The issue was how to compose another string quartet unrelated to the earlier cycle. The solution came from my solo cello piece There and Back Again (2010), which was based on a four-bar variation pattern from a 17th-century chaconne. Unlike the asymmetrical phrases and expanding variations of much of my music, the chaconne form requires symmetrical phrases and strictly periodic variations. I wished to work again with these symmetries but on a larger scale. Chaconne also differs in character and expression from the three-quartet cycle. The cycle is inward and intense, a kind of psychological excavation. Chaconne is, for the most part, transparent and playful. Many of its textures emerge from little canons, not completely unlike the rounds that children sing. Any composer who writes in chaconne form (one thinks above all of the last movement of Bach's D minor violin partita and the finale of Brahms's Fourth Symphony) is confronted with the challenge of how to create a larger form out of a constantly repeating pattern.My Chaconne grows from paired antecedent-consequent phrases, each variation lasting eight bars. The 50 variations group into three large rotations, forming three arcs of tension and relaxation, with subtle parallel connections across the rotations. Notwithstanding my attraction to chaconne form, I purposefully disguised its symmetries and periodicities in order to build an overall dramatic shape. Fred Lerdahl.
SKU: HL.251191
ISBN 9781540012142. UPC: 888680715724. 9.0x12.0x0.435 inches.
Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music, a non-profit organization committed to celebrating American music and global cultures, is the largest community school of the arts in the US. Founded in 1957, the school provides a wide range of music and dance classes, concerts and drop-in workshops to people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds. This songbook is the current iteration of a tradition going back to the founding of the school. Originally issued to new students, the pages were punched and placed in a binder, so all students could start with the same collection of songs. Each week, students and teaching artists gather to study and share music together, and this songbook is a living and breathing representation of not only the classroom experience but a repository for notes, handouts, sketches and scribbles. This 60th anniversary edition features ancient labors of love, wrought over hundreds of years of anonymous and credited authorship as well as reference materials for every step of your musical journey.
SKU: HL.49046354
ISBN 9783795713256. UPC: 840126901757. 6.25x9.0x3.285 inches.
Just in time for Beethoven's 250th anniversary, here are his 9 symphonies in the EULENBURG AUDIO SCORE series, presented in a slipcase and at a special price. Each volume contains a score in excellent print and a CD with the complete recording. In addition, all editions contain an informative preface on biographical and artistic backgrounds of the symphonies.
SKU: AP.39527S
UPC: 038081458441. English. Adapted by Daniel Butterfield.
Intertwining a harmonic component and featuring counterpunctual textures, this concert work was inspired by a performance of Taps witnessed by the arranger in Arlington National Cemetery celebration the 150th anniversary of the hallowed melody with 150 buglers positioned throughout the twelve acre grounds. Moving and mysterious, this wonderful treatment will enhance any performance with a patriotic flair. (3:15).
