How Great Thou Art: Orchestra: Parts

Although Mozart wrote with incredible versatility in every musical genre his operas for many stand highest among his achievements. This volume contains the composer's greatest operatic overtures enormously popular with music lovers worldwide. This collection includes the overtures from five world-famous works. Reproduced in full score from an authoritative early edition.

One of the most performed sacred songs of our time is brilliantly arranged and orchestrated by master composer Mark Hayes. The words of Psalm 8 spring to life in this modern classic made all the more powerful by the arranger'stheatrical approach to the anthem. The full orchestration and the track options provide choirs of every size the opportunity to sing this amazing testament of praise!

Study Score No. 42-With this 1913 work Ernest Bloch inaugurated his so-called 'Jewish cycle' though apart from an emphasis on the augmented second (characteristic of cantorial melody) these poems are not particularly 'Jewish' and the work is not pictorial or dramatic but philosophical.Bloch describes the Danse as somber mystical languorous A nervous passionate theme announced at the beginning shoots through the entire movement. Of the Rite Bloch wrote This music is more emotional but there is something solemn and distant as in the ceremonies of a cult. The opening the most pictorial passage in the work conjures up the vision of a long solemn procession butit quickly moves to music of great consolation--as if to suggest the healing power of ritual. The last movement Cortege Funebre continues the mood of the second but gradually grief overpowers ritual until the orchestra seems to howl. The toment subsides to a mutter out of which comes yet another song of acceptance and serenity which proceeds to a noble close. This is a miniature score for study purposes.