Format : CD
SKU: CL.011-3544-01
A distinctive concert piece by popular composer that is sure to be popular with middle school, jr. high and smaller high school bands. Shaffer's use of driving rhythms, memorable melodies, interesting harmonies, and a real flare for dynamics make this composition a superior choice for concert or festival performances. Very highly recommended!
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: CL.011-3544-75
SKU: CL.WFR1003
WFR1003 Concert Band 5-Pak includes over fifty amazing concert band performances by the Washington Winds! Includes these five CDs: WFR343 Broad Stripes and Bright Stars; WFR320 Ride of the Valkyries; WFR199 The Golden Circle; WFR344 Sphere of Fire; WFR315 Infinite Horizons (track listings of each CD available on their individual product page.).
SKU: HL.277282
UPC: 840126915006. 6.75x10.5 inches.
Program note:Looking Up is a piece for large chorus and orchestra, and is in three sections, played without pause. In the 16th century, a variety of psalters in meter were printed in England, with the idea of making psalm-singing something that could happen easily at home, with the rhyming meter being an aid to memorization. These translations are wonderful exercises in brevity and sometimes clumsy rhymemaking, and were usually prefaced by a lengthy explanation as to their merits; the title of one of the first such volumes in English is: The Psalter of Dauid newely translated into Englysh metre in such sort that it maye the more decently, and wyth more delyte of the mynde, be reade and songe of al men. I thought it would be appropriate to set one of these introductions, and the first section of Looking Up sets the preface to Thomas Ravenscroft's psalter (1621), in which he writes: “The singing of Psalmes (assay the Doctors) comforteth the sorrowfull, pacifieth the angry, strengtheneth the weake, humbleth the proud, gladdeth the humble, stirres up the slow, reconcileth enemies, lifteth up the heart to heavenly things, and uniteth the Creature to his Creator.”It begins meditatively, but eventually grows agitated and fervent, with a vision of the “quire of Angels and Saints” “redoubling anddescanting” - an ecstatic and terrifying vision of the skies opening up. Ravenscroft then encourages the use of instrumental musicfor worship, at which point, a long, acrobatic orchestral interlude with jagged edges antagonizes the choir, who sing a kind of private, anxious meditation on two pitches.One of the most delicious biblical texts is an Apocryphal prayer known as the Benedicite or the Prayer of the Three Children (the same who were rescued by an angel after King Nebuchadnezzar tried to have them burnt in an oven for not bowing to his image). The text is repetitive, obsessive, and a gift to composers - each line is an invocation of an element of the natural world, followed by the phrase, “blesse ye the Lord, praise him & magnify him for ever.” In Looking Up, the setting begins with three solo voices, and then grows to include the whole choir, itemizing the whole of creation. The idea that these boys are spared from the furnace and then five minutes later are saying, “O ye the fire and warming heate, blesse ye the Lord...” has always felt very loaded to me, and the orchestra plays with this conflict between joyful praise and a more terrible (in the 16th-century sense) awefor the divine.The text for the third, and shortest, section is taken from Christopher Smart's (1722-1771) A Song to David, purportedly written during his confinement in a mental asylum. This ode to King David points out how David, as the author of some of the Psalms, observes the whole world from the “clustering spheres” to the “nosegay in the vale.&rdquo.
SKU: CL.RWS-2240-00
The artistic impact of Christopher Kyle Green continues to grow. The Lament of Familiar Ruins is a musical depiction of a personal trauma based on a house fire. Inspired and influenced by feelings that words cannot explain, the ensemble is given an opportunity to convey true grief, longing, fear, and emptiness. This symbolic work captivates the performers and audience and creates an atmosphere of experiencing life’s unexpected hardships. With gorgeous yet haunting harmonies and melodies, the concert hall will fill with emotion as the piece encourages individual vulnerability. Appropriate for concert festivals and assessments.
SKU: MN.12-128
UPC: 688670121289.
The three movements that make up Nocturnes, Book I are programmatic pieces that take as their points of departure a painting, the rhythms of a great city, and a poem. 1. The Starry Night is a written down improvisation based on Vincent van Goghs famous picture of the same name. The tonal material is a quite literal transformation of the visual elements of the painting: the melismatic cadenzas mirror van Goghs swirling starlight, and the powerful chords were suggested by the sinister trees that shoot upward to puncture the skys patterns. 2. Stovers Rag is a product of the ragtime revival of the early 1970s, when many composers tried their hand at writing concert rags. The New York night, which was not without its sinister element in those days, is expressed in an updating of the classic ragtime format. The piece looks backward as well, with the old French Baroque basse de trompette making an appearance in the trio section. 3. The Song of Shadows taps the nostalgic mood typical of the poetry of Walter de la Mare. The poem of the same name pictures a lone musician on a winter night, an dog sleeping before a sinking fire, and, at the end, the spirits that are summoned by music. The opening melody, played on an 8 flute with tremulant, suggests the blues-tinged sound of an alto saxophone, and throughout the movement the organs capacity for sustained tone is used to suggest and atmosphere of dreamy timelessness. The pieces were written in 1971 and first performed on July 2, 1972 at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC, with the composer at the console.
SKU: CL.RWS-2240-01
SKU: HL.14042113
ISBN 9788759826058. International (more than one language).
THE DREAMERS for horn, violin and piano is the sixth of a series of seven compositions named after Karen Blixen's collection of short stories Seven Gothic Tales. My musical gothic tales are written for very different ensembles - THE SUPPER AT ELSINORE is a saxophone quartet, THE OLD CHEVALIER is for bass trombone and piano, THE MONKEY is a chamber orchestra work - but they all share musical material in a criss-cross of contextual references reminiscent of Blixen's narrative complexity: Themes and motivs from one piece appear in others in new and surprising shapes and combinations. Karen Blixen's THE DREAMERS has the most complex narrative structure of all her seven gothic tales.The story is made up of three tales with different narrators, but with the same principal caracter in various disguises, all three imbedded within a fourth tale that serves as a framework for the entire short story. The main story line unravels the life of a famous opera diva who looses her voice during a terrible fire. Before this her life was perpetual bliss, and the tragedy drives her into assuming different personality guises in order to escape reality. Toward the end she is confronted with her true identity, and dies. THE DREAMERS isn't 'about' anything. The music is inspired by the artistic content of Blixen's short story - it's emotionalism, dramatic construction, atmosphere, period and settings - but unfolds in time and musical space in ways that are completely independent of the story's narrative progression... except one might say that the three players try their best to either catch or escape each other, and that when they finally meet, it happens abruptly, even tragically - and only barely provides a little consolation. Duration: approximately 15 minutes.
SKU: BT.DHP-1063947-140
9x12 inches. English-German-French-Dutch.
The Banquet of Light is an easily accessible piece which takes itsinspiration from ?light? both in terms of it representing good news andjoy together with scenes inspired by light, such as a sunset over water,fireworks lighting up the sky and sunlight as it streams through a thickforest. Banquet of Light will bring a ray of light to any concert. De componist werd voor deze concertmars ge nspireerd door het woord ‘licht’, dat staat voor het goede. Ook een bron van inspiratie vormde het gegeven ‘licht’ op zich: het schijnen van de zon op het water, het licht van vuurwerk enzonlicht door de bomen. The Banquet of Light begint briljant, waarna krachtige passages door trombones en trompetten volgen - deze thematiek wordt overgenomen door houtblazers. De melodie van het trio is gebaseerd op de notene, a, b en d. Na een aantal herhalingen komt de fanfare van het begin terug en leidt naar een stralend slot.Das brillante und leicht zugängliche Eröffnungsstück weckt verschiedenste Assoziationen zum Thema Licht“. Nach der Fanfare ähnlichen Einleitung folgen Passagen in den Posaunen und Trompeten und deren Variationen in den Holzbläsern, die schließlich in einem strahlenden Finale enden. Lassen Sie sich inspirieren und entdecken Sie in The Banquet of Light ein Feuerwerk aus Sonnenlicht und purer Freude! akamasa Sakai s’est laissé inspiré la fois par la lumière comme source de joie et de bien-être, et par une déclinaison de scènes de lumière : les reflets de la lumière sur l’eau, les jeux de lumière d’un feu d’artifice, la lumière du soleil qui filtre travers les arbres et les illuminations des parcs thèmes.The Banquet of Light s’ouvre dans une atmosphère éclatante. Les trombones et les trompettes exposent une ligne puissante, reprise par les bois sous la forme d’une variation. La mélodie du trio développe un motif répété, basé sur les notes Mi, La, Si et Ré avant de se fondre dans la fanfare initiale qui clôt l’œuvre dans un brillant élan de lumière.
SKU: BT.DHP-1063947-010
The Banquet of Light is an easily accessible piece which takes itsinspiration from ?light? both in terms of it representing good news andjoy together with scenes inspired by light, such as a sunset over water,fireworks lighting up the sky and sunlight as it streams through a thickforest. Banquet of Light will bring a ray of light to any concert. De componist werd voor deze concertmars ge nspireerd door het woord ‘licht’, dat staat voor het goede. Ook een bron van inspiratie vormde het gegeven ‘licht’ op zich: het schijnen van de zon op het water, het licht van vuurwerk enzonlicht door de bomen. The Banquet of Light begint briljant, waarna krachtige passages door trombones en trompetten volgen - deze thematiek wordt overgenomen door houtblazers. De melodie van het trio is gebaseerd op de notene, a, b en d. Na een aantal herhalingen komt de fanfare van het begin terug en leidt naar een stralend slot.Das brillante und leicht zugängliche Eröffnungsstück weckt verschiedenste Assoziationen zum Thema Licht“. Nach der Fanfare ähnlichen Einleitung folgen Passagen in den Posaunen und Trompeten und deren Variationen in den Holzbläsern, die schließlich in einem strahlenden Finale enden. Lassen Sie sich inspirieren und entdecken Sie in The Banquet of Light ein Feuerwerk aus Sonnenlicht und purer Freude! Takamasa Sakai s’est laissé inspiré la fois par la lumière comme source de joie et de bien-être, et par une déclinaison de scènes de lumière : les reflets de la lumière sur l’eau, les jeux de lumière d’un feu d’artifice, la lumière du soleil qui filtre travers les arbres et les illuminations des parcs thèmes.The Banquet of Light s’ouvre dans une atmosphère éclatante. Les trombones et les trompettes exposent une ligne puissante, reprise par les bois sous la forme d’une variation. La mélodie du trio développe un motif répété, basé sur les notes Mi, La, Si et Ré avant de se fondre dans la fanfare initiale qui clôt l’œuvre dans un brillant élan de lumière.
SKU: HL.49032406
ISBN 9783795754204. 9.0x12.0x0.098 inches. German - English.
A romantic evening for two or a drink by the fireside - music with atmosphere suits many occasions. In this new volume in the Keyboard Sounds series you'll find the loveliest classical melodies for evoking a romantic mood, either in solitude or in the company of other people. All the pieces are in simple arrangements and easy to play.
