Format : Reduction
SKU: AP.31614S
UPC: 038081355184. English.
A musical postcard to the world! Your audiences will be thrilled with this early piece of Americana, and your musicians will love the colors and energy of this uniquely American music as imagined by the great Czech master following his visit to America in the 1890s. This work contains music inspired by African-American, Native-American and Scottish music and features three movements (I, IV and V) of AntonÃn Dvorák's original five-movement suite.
SKU: HL.44011053
UPC: 884088639983. 9.25x12.0x1.08 inches. English-German-French-Dutch.
The American state of Arkansas is often called 'the natural state' and 'the land of opportunity.' This piece belongs to Jacob de Haan's series of musical montages depicting various states in the USA, including Dakota, Oregon and Virginia. Arkansas is a suite in three movements based on a well-known native American folk song. It appears as a ballade, variations and finally accompanies a jazzy rhythm. The folk song helps provide continuity throughout the three movements. A perfect addition to any concert.Arkansas kent meerdere bijnamen. Zo verwijst 'The Natural State', maar ook 'The Land of Opportunity' naar deze staat. Na Dakota, Oregon en Virginia voegt Jacob de Haan met het concertwerk Arkansas wederom een titel toe aan zijn serieover Amerikaanse staten. Het is een suite uit drie delen, gebaseerd op een bekend volkslied uit deze contreien. Iedere keer weer verschijnt het herkenbare lied als een rode draad. Helemaal, fragmentarisch, als ballad maar ookin variaties en jazzritmes. Arkansas: drie delen vol afwisseling en speelplezier!Der amerikanische Bundesstaat Arkansas tragt den Spitznamen The Natural State oder The Land of Opportunity. Dieses Konzertwerk fügt sich in die Reihe der von Jacob de Haan vertonten amerikanischen Staaten und Landschaften, darunter Dakota, Oregon und Virginia. Es ist eine Suite in drei Satzen auf der Grundlage von einem bekannten Volkslied aus Arkansas, die sich - mal vollstandig, mal fragmentarisch, als Ballade, in Variationen oder auch in jazzigen Rhythmen als roter Faden durch die drei Satze dieser abwechslungsreichen Komposition zieht.Arkansas, oeuvre de concert en trois mouvements, signee Jacob de Haan, s'inscrit dans la lignee des autres oeuvres du compositeur consacrees a la description d'etats americains (Dakota, Oregon et Virginia). La trame de cette suite s'articule autour d'une celebre melodie traditionnelle qui sera reprise sous la forme d'une ballade, d'un canon et d'une variation jazzy. Lo stato americano dell'Arkansas e anche chiamato The Natural State o anche The Land of Opportunity. Un nuovo brano firmato Jacob de Haan, nello spirito di grandi brani da concerto come Dakota, Oregon e Virginia. Arkansas e una suite in tre movimenti che prende spunto da una nota canzone folk di questo stato del sud degli Stati Uniti. Una canzone che viene proposta nel corso dell'intero brano sotto forme diverse, in variazioni o anche con accenti di musica jazz e che agisce da filo conduttore per tutto il brano.
SKU: PR.466000470
UPC: 680160099405. 11 x 17 inches.
This is the second incarnation of a work I first composed in 1994 for symphonic wind ensemble. The earlier version was intended to be the summation of three-part suite, each part being named for a different national park in the Western United States. This orchestral version, commissioned in 1999 by the Utah Symphony and dedicated to the memory of Aaron Copland, is more than a re-scoring of the earlier piece; it is a re-thinking of all its elements. Zion is a place with unrivaled natural grandeur, being a sort of huge box canyon in which the traveler is constantly overwhelmed by towering rock walls on every side of him -- but it is also a place with a human history, having been inhabited by several tribes of native Americans before the arrival of the Mormon settlers in the mid-19th century. By the time the Mormons reached Utah, they had been driven all the way from New York State through Ohio and, with tragic losses, through Missouri. They saw Utah in general as a place nobody wanted, but they were nonetheless determined to keep it to themselves. Although Zion Canyon was never a Mormon Stronghold, the people who reached it and claimed it (and gave it its present name) had been through extreme trials. It is the religious fervor of these persecuted people that I was able to draw upon in creating Zion as a piece of music. There are two quoted hymns in the work: Zion's Walls (which Aaron Copland adapted to his own purposes in both his Old American Songs and the opera The Tender Land) and Zion's Security, which I found in the same volume in which Copland found Zion's Walls -- that inexhaustible storehouse of 19th-century hymnody called The Sacred Harp. My work opens with a three-verse setting of Zion's Security, a stern tune in F-sharp minor which is full of resolve. (The words of this hymn are resolute and strong, rallying the faithful to be firm, and describing the city of our God they hope to establish). This melody alternates with a fanfare tune, whose origins will be revealed in later music, until the second half of the piece begins: a driving rhythmic ostinato based on a 3/4-4/4 alternating meter scheme. This pauses at its height to restate Zion's Security one more time, in a rather obscure setting surrounded by freely shifting patterns in the flutes, clarinets, and percussion -- until the sun warms the ground sufficiently for the second hymn to appear. Zion's Walls is set in 7/8, unlike Copland's 9/8-6/8 meters (the original is quite strange, and doesn't really fit any constant meter), and is introduced by a warm horn solo. The two hymns vie for attention from here to the end of the piece, with the glowingly optimistic Zion's Walls finally achieving prominence. The work ends with a sense of triumph.
SKU: AP.50287
UPC: 038081574578. English. Michael Yannette.
Translation: I am one with the great spirit. Equally suited for mixed, treble, or tenor-bass choirs, this flexible arrangement opens with a Native American flute, the sounds of flowing water, and tuned singing bowls. Next, two robust solo voices introduce the core sections: the traditional melody with Eastern Band Cherokee Indian lyrics; and an original English-text refrain that later pairs with the authentic tune. Please visit alfred.com for complete background information and performance suggestions for this stunning selection which premiered at the 2022 ACDA Southern Region Conference.
SKU: LO.70-2239L
ISBN 9780787770396.
Dick Sanderman's delightful compositions are favorites of organists throughout his native Netherlands. In this, his first volume for an American publisher, he has written organ arrangements of familiar carols that are beloved in both North America and Europe and set them with his characteristic style full of good cheer for the Christmas season. These pieces will provide preludes, offertories, and postludes for worship, or they can be grouped together into suites.
