SKU: HL.14006097
ISBN 9788759872222. Danish.
Programme Note CANTICA for cello and piano (1977)When in 1975 I had finished composing my Symphony no. 3 (begun in 1973), I wrote three simple melodies for two psalm texts by Ole Sarvig: The Year and Choral Hymn. These three tunes were derived from the same material as the second movement of the symphony and could be harmonized together in several different tempo relationships, like proportional canons. For this reason they inspired me to write several choral and instrumental works in the following decade: Frost Psalm, Winter Cantata, the tuba octet Now all the earth is white with snow, Canticles (and others).Cantica, meaning song or singing, was composed (forthe Danish musicians Hans Erik Dechert og Kjeld Hansen) as a instrumental little brother the long, polyphonic choral pieces. As in these the canonical melodies in Cantica drift from foreground to background, from cello to piano. The melodies are simple, diatonic and in traditional rhythms and the surface of the music in a way traditional. The intention of the composer with this easily understood expression is to lead the listeners ears to the many internal, proportional developments. The story is in a way hidden between the lines. In the myriads of rhythmic and tempo relations the Golden Mean (near to 2:3:5:8: et cetera) plays an important role, like in nature. Among the experiences giving by this natural phenomenon are - perhaps - the musical points to be found (?).Per Norgard(1997).
SKU: BT.DHP-1043588-400
ISBN 9789043120173. International.
On Tour is a collection of pieces utilising the study of separate hands - left and right individually, with the assistance of the accompanying CD. Containing 11 original simple melodies this book is a must for all those who wish to play in a creative way and explore the more artistic elements of the piano. Een uitgave onder de noemer Study and Play: het ideale concept om het spel op een plezierige en verantwoorde manier te ontwikkelen - met een cd die iets extraâ??s toevoegt. In het geval van On Tour! kan de leerling zowelde linker- als de rechterhand apart oefenen met de cd. De stukken 7 en 8, evenals 9 en 10, kunnen tegelijkertijd worden gespeeld door twee pianisten: een mooi effect. De elf eenvoudige melodieën zijn speciaal gecomponeerd voor iedereendie het leuk vindt om creatief piano te spelen. Daarbij verzorgt het boek een sfeervol muzikaal reisje door een paar leuke landen.On Tour ist nach dem neuen Konzept Study and Play aufgebaut, das in sinnvoller und vergnüglicher Weise zu einem guten Spiel verhilft. Jedem Buch mit diesem Konzept ist eine CD beigefügt, welche die tägliche Ã?bungsroutine individuell ergänzt. In On Tour, einer musikalischen Reise durch verschiedene Länder, werden die rechte und linke Hand getrennt und dann zusammen geübt; für jede Hand ist auf der CD eine separate Begleitung der jeweils anderen Hand eingespielt. Einige Stücke können auch mit einem zweiten Pianisten gespielt werden. Konzentriertes, zielgerichtetes Lernen mit SpaÃ? und Kreativität!On Tour est un recueil basé sur lâ??étude séparée des mains droite et gauche (avec lâ??aide du compact disc), contenant 11 mélodies simples spécialement composées pour tous ceux qui aiment jouer du piano de façon créative et souhaitent explorer les aspects plus artistiques du jeu pianistique. Questa raccolta è pensata sul concetto ideale di migliorare il vostro suono in un ambiente piacevole e solidamente strutturato il tutto con un accompagnamento registrato su CD che vi accompagner tutti i giorni. On Tour, basato sullo studio separato della mano sinistra e della mano desta, con lâ??aiuto di una registrazione su CD vi permetter di progredire rapidamente. On Tour contiene 11 melodie semplici composte appositamente per facilitare lo studio quotidiano e per esplorare gli aspetti più artistici dei veri pianisti.
SKU: HL.134327
8.25x11.5x0.074 inches. Author: Lutoslawski.
Folk Melodies (Melodie Ludowe), composed in 1945, initiated a few year long period of Witold Lutoslawski's interest in Polish folk music. These twelve piano miniatures full of peculiar charm are based on simple folk melodies from different regions of Poland (taken from Jerzy Olszewski's collections of folk melodies) which were perfectly set into a sophisticated harmonic substance and pulled into interesting metro-rhythmic adventures. In principle, as they were thought for pedagogical purposes and were bringingthe young performers closer to contemporary music, thanks to a unique take-on and sublime artistic values, Folk Melodies are impressive stage compositions. Five melodies from this cycle (nos 1-2, 10-12) were instrumentalised by the composer to a string band.
SKU: SP.TS236
ISBN 9781585609871. UPC: 649571002367.
Creative Jazz Piano Arranging for Real Fake Book Tunes is a method and songbook written by Michael Tarro. This new title for Jazz Piano is a culmination of more than thirty years of experience in teaching piano. It contains musical concepts and explains many techniques for any jazz pianist to develop their own interpretive style. This instructional collection teaches how to create variations of simple melodies of many well-known standards as written in every Fake-Book which includes: A phenomenal collection of the most popular jazz standards ever written. Complete original jazz piano arrangements clearly notated with precision. Improvised solos are transcribed in their entirety with strict adherence to detail offering incredibly valuable jazz piano techniques for developing interpretive skills. A recording of every arrangement performed by the author, Michael Tarro with A bonus track of Tarro's award winning Big Band single, Traveling Theme. Creative Jazz Piano Arranging provides a logical approach towards creating arrangements of simple well-known melodies. This powerful tool in developing performance excellence is one of the first steps toward becoming an incredible jazz pianist. Gentle Rain by Louis Bonfa, Don t Blame Me by Jimmy McHugh, Sharp Nine Blues and Traveling Theme by Mike Tarro, My Romance and Hello Young Lovers by Rodgers and Hammerstein, When Sunny Gets Blue by Marvin Fischer, Days Of Wine and Roses by Mancini and Johnny Mercer, Nearness Of You and Georgia On My Mind by Hoagy Carmichael, Sweet Georgia Brown written by Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard and Kenneth Casey, When I Fall In Love by Victor Young, and Don't Get Around Much Anymore and I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good by Sir Duke Ellington.
SKU: HL.14035061
ISBN 9788759862353. English-Danish.
Winter Cantata / Vinterkantate (1976) by Per Norgard for a variable ensemble of soloist, mixed choir and instruments (minimum: vocalist and organ). Programme Note: When in 1975 I had finished composing my 3rd Symphony (begun in 1973), I wrote three simple melodies for two psalm texts by Ole Sarvig: The Year and Choral Hymn. These three tunes were derived from the same material as the second movement of the 3rd Symphony and could be harmonized together in several different tempo relationships at the same time - like fractals - which inspired me to write several choral and instrumental works in the following decade based on these melodies: Frost Psalm, Winter Cantata, Winter Hymn, Cantica and others. One of these 'Sarvig melodies' is now included in the new Danish Hymnbook, under the title Aret(The Year). Ole Sarvig's poem Aret (The Year) is Danish, perhaps Scandinavian in character, but its symbolic atmosphere is global (now snow is covering the whole earth). The basic composition of this cantata - based on Sarvig's many verses - was done by letting soloist, choir and instruments change in feelings and moods: from the almost silent, inward-looking beginning (I: Chorale dolorosa) to a dancelike and happy optimism (II: A heaven germ on winged foot thrust deep into the earth its root), followed by nightmarish tone rows as the year-wheel of fortune is turning (III: Sacrifice - The Year) and the temptations of the snake (IV: In Paradiso) - to the allegorical fights between egoism and altruism (V:The Cycle - Autumn. Purgatory) before the waiting for a disaster- atmosphere at the end of this choral Odysse. Winter Cantata was from the beginning (1976) designed as an open work, to be arranged by different combinations of soloists, choir and (different) instruments. The printed version by Per Norgard and Ivan hansen for soloist, mixed choir and instruments (obo, violin, trombone, vibraphone/percussion and organ) is from 1990. The work is available in both the (original) Danish version (Vinterkantate) and an English version (Winter Cantata), translated by Helen and Ole Sarvig. (Per Norgard).
SKU: HL.14042519
ISBN 9788759826935.
Jordens Vej for SA Choir and Organ by Per Nørgård (1981). Text by Ole Sarvig.
Manuscript copy.
Programme note
When in 1975 I had finished composing my 3rd Symphony (begun in 1973), I wrote three simple melodies for two psalm texts by Ole Sarvig: “The Year” and “Choral Hymn”. These three tunes were derived from the same material as the second movement of the 3rd Symphony and could be harmonized together in several different tempo relationships at the same time - like fractals – which inspired me to write several choral and instrumental works in the following decade based onthese melodies: “Frost Psalm”, “Winter Cantata”, “Cantica” a.o. One of these ‘Sarvig melodies’ is now in the Danish Hymnbook, nr. 720, under the title 'Året'(The Year). Jordens vej for choir and organ was the basis of the work Korsalme (1982) for mixed choir and instruments (ad lib.). Per Nørgård
SKU: HL.1315784
ISBN 9798350110289. UPC: 196288179030. 9.0x12.0 inches.
Even if you've just started to learn how to play keyboard, you can play nearly 50 beautiful pop and standard songs with iconic melodies thanks to this Super Easy Songbook. These arrangements feature no page turns, simple right-hand melodies, letter names inside each note, and basic left-hand chord diagrams along with lyrics. This edition features 46 songs, including: All Is Found â?¢ Bridge over Troubled Water â?¢ Canon in D â?¢ Crazy â?¢ Dos Oruguitas â?¢ Easy on Me â?¢ Faithfully â?¢ Fields of Gold â?¢ Fur Elise, WoO 59 â?¢ Hey Jude â?¢ I See the Light â?¢ Let It Be â?¢ Lift Me Up â?¢ A Million Dreams â?¢ Open Arms â?¢ Reflection â?¢ Sunrise, Sunset â?¢ Unchained Melody â?¢ What Was I Made For? â?¢ You Raise Me Up â?¢ You Will Be Found â?¢ and more.
SKU: CL.024-4538-00
Amber Skies is a uniquely lyrical and moving work at this grade level. Sweet, simple melodies and countermelodies are combined to create a contemplative and sensitive work, while ranges and rhythms are kept manageable so your students can focus on an expressive and musical performance. Amber Skies is written in a style that helps ensure a meaningful, emotional, and accessible performance that your students will be proud of. Beautiful!
SKU: CL.024-4538-01
SKU: CL.011-4206-01
A beautiful and powerful hymn-like setting, A Spirit Eternal was written as a memorial to the composer’s former Miami University student Stephanie Markham Minge who passed away in 2012 after a 7 year battle with cancer. Simple melodies, lush harmonies and soaring countermelodies bring tribute to a beautiful and courageous life that ended to soon. Beautiful and emotional!
About C.L. Barnhouse Command Series
The Barnhouse Command Series includes works at grade levels 2, 2.5, and 3. This series is designed for middle school and junior high school bands, as well as high school bands of smaller instrumentation or limited experience. Command Series publications have a slightly larger instrumentation than the Rising Band Series, and are typically of larger scope, duration, and musical content.
SKU: CY.CC2881
5-Minute Lessons for Trumpet Method by David Brubeck is comprised of 12 progressive lessons for beginners, featuring fun but simple melodies. The lessons concentrate on: a) getting a steady stream of air going, b) good posture and relaxation of the body c) working with the teacher, d) scales and some of their modes, e) articulation, f) learning about rest, g) rhythm, h) duple and triple meters, i) fun songs to play, j) slurring and legatoPresented in a handsome coil-bound booklet, this method book is an excellent way to introduce a beginning young performer to the artistry of learning the Trumpet.Mr. Brubeck composes some of his own songs as well as using more familiar traditional melodies.
SKU: HL.49033297
ISBN 9790001137751. UPC: 884088070496. 9.0x12.0x0.158 inches.
Though the work bearing this title is a portrait of childhood, it is a childhood quite different from the purely gameplaying and dreamlike childhood that is customarily represented. The childhood described here is carrying the seed, in all its purity, of all positive and negative qualities to be found the fully-grown men: a childhood both angelic and diabolical, and indeed very close to Henry James' The Turn of the Screw which was the direct inspiration for this monodrama.Its growth follows the innumerable sudden changes, turns and contrasts of the unsophisticated spirit. There is hardly any development at all, as each idea gives birth to the next or rejects the previons one, being object to every impulse, every tempest, every flux, every fear and delight. After a dreamlike introduction, in which two simple melodies stand out, comes a sudden awakening, Allegro, stamped all over with lavish and forever regenerating dynamism. A sudden halt leads a kind of outburst from the most simple folklore is singing, in regular, repeated notes. Again the question mark leads us to another melody, Tranquillo, of a sweet tempo, but brilliantly decorated with counter-point, its cursive traits leading this time to a kind of roguish march (Vigoroso).Yet soon there emerges a melancholic chant, Largo, in the Cromorne's timbre, and then, in the highest register of the Trumpet there reappears like a metamorphosed memory, the theme of the second movement. Passing other episodes, we come to Tempo giusto, insistent and glorious, interrupted by other passionate figures, cut off by unsettling silent moments and taken up again in always accelerating volleys.
SKU: KN.08938S
UPC: 822795089387.
Young string players do not get the opportunity to play Brahms often because much of his greatest music is written for piano and other works are too complex. But embedded in the fiery Rhapsody In B Minor (Op. 79, No. 1) is a beautiful interlude which takes on a form of its own. Simple melodies are passed among all instruments and harmonized in parallel 3rds and 6ths. Simple repeated 8th-note patterns with some ties create the undulating current in the accompaniment which drives the piece to its dynamic extremes. Duration 3:00. Available in SmartMusic.
SKU: HL.14042524
ISBN 9788759826928.
Vintersalme-Musik (1980) - Choral prelude for Organ. Orig. title: Vintersalme.
Programme note: When in 1975 I had finished composing my 3rd Symphony (begun in 1973), I wrote three simple melodies for two psalm texts by Ole Sarvig “The Year” and “Choral Hymn”. One of these was later included in the Danish Hymnbook under the title “Året – Som året går” (The Year). These three “Sarvig tunes” were derived from the same material as the second movement of the symphony and could be harmonized together in several different temporelationships at the same time - like fractals. This inspired me to write several choral and instrumental works in the following decade based on these melodies: for instance “Frost Psalm”, “Winter Cantata”, “Cycles”, “Cantica” and this piece for organ, all coloured by the Nordic and mythic poem by Sarvig, the beginning of which goes: The passing year will pass its deep So shall our mind reach winter´s sleep. And as the tree stands leafles, bare, Is winter´s realms: our minds aware. Per Nørgård
