Format : Sheet music + CD
SKU: HL.44007629
ISBN 9789043129732. UPC: 884088269258. 9.0x12.0x0.101 inches. English-German-French-Dutch.
In addition to having fun, students learn many important things while playing rounds: sight-reading together, holding a part independently, and making muic by imitation. This book features 8 rounds in various styles with optional piano parts in the book and on the enclosed CD.
SKU: HL.44007628
ISBN 9789043129756. UPC: 884088269227. 9x12 inches. English-German-French-Dutch.
SKU: ST.B945
ISBN 9790220224393.
Rounds and Canons from Thomas Ravenscroft's Collections Sacred and secular rounds and canons in Latin and in English from the collections of the 17th-century editor and theorist Thomas Ravenscroft, on a variety of subjects such as drinking, hunting and street cries: thirty-five pieces for three to eleven voices. CONTENTS For Three Voices Follow me quickly Hey ho! To the greenwood now let us go I am a-thirst, what should I say? I pray you, good mother New oysters Now God be with old Simeon Now kiss the cup, cousin, with courtesy O praise the Lord, ye that fear Him Pietas omnium virtutum The merry nightingale Well fare the nightingale For Four Voices Ascendit Christus in coelum Blow thy horn, thou jolly hunter Descendit Christus de coelo Fa, mi, fa, re, la, mi Farewell, mine own sweet heart Hey, down a down Miserere mei Deus To Portsmouth it is a gallant town For Five Voices Keep well your ray, my lads Sing you now after me Universa transeunt Verbum Domini manet in aeternum Vias tuas Domine demonstra mihi White wine and sugar is good drink for me For Six Voices Benedic, Domine, nobis his donis tuis Domine Fili Dei vivi miserere nostri Joy in the gates of Jerusalem Laudate nomen Domini (I) Now thanked be the great god Pan For Seven Voices Laudate nomen Domini (II) For Eight Voices Let's have a peal for John Cook's soul For Nine Voices Delicta quis intelligit? Hey ho, what shall I say? For Ten or Eleven Voices Sing we now merrily.
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.