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Aulis Sallinen: Red Line Op. 46 (Vocal Score)

This was composed in 1978 and the fisrt UK performance was at the Wigmore Hall, London on 17 January 1979.

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Trance

In this piece, the composer depicts a mother who hears her unborn baby cry for her. She is thrown into doubt as to whether she will keep the child, and passes this feeling onto the baby. Underlying this successful work is the Bach chorale Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern and has already proven itself as a winning piece in several renowned contests!

Chant of the Phoenix : Quarter Military Band QMB 543

Chant of the Phoenix is based on the legend of the sacred bird in Egyptian religion. After living for 500 years, the Phoenix would build a nest of herbs, fan the nest with its wings to set it afire, and burn itself to death. Fromthe ashes would emerge a new bird which, after maturing and testing its strength in flight, would soar off to the sun. (9:00)

The Mind's Ear : Exercises for Improving the Musical Imagination for Performers, Composers, and Listeners (3rd ed)

The Mind's Ear is a unique and fun series of games, exercises, and essays designed to inspire musical creativity and spark the imagination of musicians and music students at all levels. The book can be used in workshops, classes,online sessions, private lessons, and by a reader alone. Based on theatre games, these exercises offer new ways to engage with musical creativity.

Mancini!

Some of the most recognizable themes from film and television through the years have come from the creative genius of Henry Mancini. Here is a symphonic showstopper featuring outstanding settings of his biggest hits. Includes: ThePink Panther, Moon River, Baby Elephant Walk, Dreamsville, and Peter Gunn.

Burst Believers V : Serial Number Edition

The Gibson Les Paul Standard 1958-1960 is one of the greatest designs to emerge from Gibson. At first, it was little appreciated and quickly discontinued. However, the UK blues explosion of the 1960s changed everything and these guitars would begin to shape the music for generations to come. The USA quickly picked up this new direction and players such as Mike Bloomfield and Duane Allman then used the Bursts to great effect. Demand for the guitar began in earnest in the 1970s and they now fetch astronomical prices. The Gibson Custom Shop is working diligently on many aspects of their historic Les Pauls bringing them as close to the originals as possible. Not only did the playersmake this the most collectable guitar in the vintage market but collectors and weekend players played a huge role in its cimb to the top. Visually, it is probably one of the most beautiful solid body guitars ever made.

Josefs Julevise : The Christmas Carol of Joseph

Halvdan Sivertsen (born 1950) is one of the most popular singer/ songwriters in Norway. He is well know as a first-class storyteller, and he has a strong melodic line in all his music. This Christmas song was first recorded in 1991 and it has become a Norwegian classic. The lyrics tell the story of a couple travelling through time to find a city with bright lights, where they hear people sing about the couple who are about to have their first baby. But still this couple can not find anybody willing to help them, and they are forced to go back 2000 years, to find the stable where they find some shelter. Maybe they should have travelled further ahead in time in the firstplace, to find people willing to open their door to the poor and needing?

Josefs Julevise : The Christmas Carol of Joseph

Halvdan Sivertsen (born 1950) is one of the most popular singer/ songwriters in Norway. He is well know as a first-class storyteller, and he has a strong melodic line in all his music. This Christmas song was first recorded in 1991 and it has become a Norwegian classic. The lyrics tell the story of a couple travelling through time to find a city with bright lights, where they hear people sing about the couple who are about to have their first baby. But still this couple can not find anybody willing to help them, and they are forced to go back 2000 years, to find the stable where they find some shelter. Maybe they should have travelled further ahead in time in the firstplace, to find people willing to open their door to the poor and needing?

The Beatles Complete Scores Box Edition

A fitting tribute to possibly the greatest pop band ever - The Beatles. This outstanding hard-cover edition features over 1100 pages with full scores and lyrics to all 210 titles recorded by The Beatles. Guitar and bass parts arein both standard notation and tablature. Also includes a full discography. Songs include: All You Need Is Love • And I Love Her • Baby You're a Rich Man • Back in the U.S.S.R. • The Ballad of John and Yoko• Blackbird • Can't Buy Me Love • Come Together • Drive My Car • Eleanor Rigby • From Me to You • Glass Onion • A Hard Day's Night • Help! • Hey Jude • I Saw Her StandingThere • I Want to Hold Your Hand • Michelle • Penny Lane • She Loves You • Twist and Shout • Yesterday • and many more! Book is packaged in its own protective box. A must-own for any seriousBeatles fan or collector! 7-2/8″ x 10-7/8″.

La Mer : Trois Esquisses Symphoniques

Claude Debussy's La Mer is an impressionistic work through and through. The three symphonic sketches that make up the work were composed between 1903-1905, however Debussy refined this work upuntil at least 1913. These corrections are found in a score which the composer gave to his wife as a present for her private library in 1913.The new scholarly-critical edition draws on several important sources previouslyunavailable to musicologists, resulting in an array of new readings and corrections. In addition, there are many changes, especially in terms of articulation and dynamics.This new edition includes the famous “fanfare”inMovement III, clearly marked in small print and brackets. This fanfare was excised in the 1910 reissue of the work, but was reinstated by a number of great conductors who knew Debussy, i.e. Monteux, Münch, Mitropoulosand Ansermet. They felt that the excision was a misunderstanding and that the fanfare was necessary for the structure of the movement. And so, the Bärenreiter edition presents the revival of a performing tradition which iscommitted to the fanfare.New Urtext edition with numerous corrections in comparison to other editions.Important sources which were previously inaccessible have been taken into account.Score andorchestral parts in large format (25.5 x 32.5cm).Score and orchestral parts with an impeccable, generous layout.Includes an informative introduction (Eng/Fr/Ger), facsimiles, source descriptions and a CriticalCommentary (Eng).

Peter Maxwell Davies: Kommilitonen! (Young Blood!) - Full Score

Lyric opera in two acts. Libretto by David Pountney.Commissioned jointly by the Royal Academy of Music, London, UK and The Juilliard School, New York, USA.UK premiere: 18th March 2011 - Royal Academy of Music Opera and Sinfonia at the Royal Academy of Music, London, conducted by Jane Glover.US premiere: 16th November 2011 - Students of The Julliard School at Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, New York, conducted by Anne Manson.Overview.The piece consists of three interlocking stories of students involved in political action in three different situations.?Die Weiße Rose? was the name taken by a group of students at the University of Munich, led by Sophie and Hans Scholl. They produced leaflets protesting against the National Socialist government of Germany in 1942-3 until they were arrested and guillotined.?Soar to Heaven? follows two characters, Wu and Zhou, involved on opposite sides of the Cultural Revolution in China.?The Oxford Revolution? tells the story of James Meredith, who fought a lonely battle against segregation and racial prejudice to become the first black student to enrol at ?Ole Miss?, the University of Mississippi, in the USA.Librettist's Note.There are, inevitably and properly, some differences between the original libretto and what Max ultimately set to music. Most of these are insignificant, but all the Latin texts in the opera were added by Max, and texts for the alternating black / white choruses (Scene 19) and final chorus (Scene 28) were written by him.

A French Song Companion

Now available in paperbackAn indispensable guide to French songContains commentary by internationally famous accompanist, Graham JohnsonInvaluable reference tool with line-by-line translations ofall songs includedHardback edition (which is still selling well) has sold 778 copies since publication date of June 2000 - 289 UK, 400 USA, and 89 ROW.Hardback edition has been widely reviewed in magazines suchas The Singer, Musical Times, Gramaphone, Literary Review (to name a few). More to follow since it's early days.The French Song Companion is the most comprehensive book of French mélodie in any language. Thegreataccompagnist Graham Johnson, a noted authority of song, provides repertoire guides to the work of some 150 composers - the majority of them from France, but including British, American, German, Spanish, and Italian musicianswho have written French vocal music. There are major articles on such figures as Fauré, Duparc, Debussy, Ravel, and Poulenc; substantial articles on Bizet, Chabrier, Gounod, Chausson, Hahn, and Satie; and reassessments of suchcomposers as Massenet, Koechlin, and Leguerney. A host of less celebrated figures who have contributed to the genre take their place in a book which is both informative and entertaining.The biographical articles aresupplemented by the song translations of Richard Stokes, some 700 in all, and a veritable treasury of great French poetry from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. These stand in their own right as indispensable to musiclovers, concert-goers, and professional singers and their accompanists. This is a book which not only reflects the repertoire as found in today's concert halls, but also encourages performers and armchair enthusiasts to explorethe neglected highways and biways of an endlessly fascinating and highly civilised body of music.

Concerto : for the Left Hand for Piano and Orchestra

In 1929 Paul Wittgenstein, a pianist and war veteran who lost his right arm in the Great War, commissioned Maurice Ravel to write a concerto for him to perform. The result was one of Ravel’s most thrillingcompositions and, for Wittgenstein, the most important of the many works he commissioned over the course of his career.This scholarly-critical edition of Ravel’s Piano Concerto For The Left Hand isbased on previously inaccessible and unknown sources. The editor, Douglas Woodfull-Harris, was able to consult manuscripts in the private library of the Paul Wittgenstein Estate which allowed him to retrace the work’sevolutionfrom Ravel’s autograph working copy to the first printed edition.A source of key importance to our new edition is a handwritten French copy of Ravel’s own Piano reduction (the autograph isinaccessible) that he gave to Wittgenstein to facilitate rehearsing the work. This copy is the sole source reflecting Wittgenstein’s own interpretation and containing his changes to the final cadenza. It also helps us tounderstand omissions in the first edition of the score as well as the Piano reduction, and enabled the editor, amongst other things, to correct a great many notes which could be found in previous editions, including the solo Pianopart.The Piano reduction in our edition contains both Ravel’s and Wittgenstein’s fingering. Also included is a solo part without fingering, thereby giving pianists the opportunity to enter their own fingering afterhaving studied those of Ravel and Wittgenstein.Score and orchestral parts in large format (25.5 x 32.5 cm)Includes source descriptions and a Critical Commentary with alternative readings(Eng)Informative Introduction on the work’s history and genesis (Ger/Eng/Fr)With facsimile pagesPiano reduction with separate Urtext solo part enclosedFull score & parts (BA7881) and two-Pianoreduction (BA7881-90) available for sale

Poul Ruders: Listening Earth - A Symphonic Drama for Orchestra (Score)

Premiered at the festival 'Magma Berlin 2002' by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by David Robertson, 29th November 2002.3 Flutes, 1st and 2nd also Alto Flutes in G, 3rd also Piccolo3 Oboes, 3rd also Cor Anglais in F3 Clarinets in Bb, 3rd also Bass Clarinet in Bb3 Bassoons, 3rd also Contra Bassoon4 Horn in F3 Trumpets in Bb3 Trombones1 TubaTimpani4 Percussion, four playersPlayer 1 - Vibraphone, Glockenspiel, Water Chime, Bell Tree, Japanese Wood Blocks, Cymbal (Suspended), TamTam (Medium)Player 2 - Triangle, Tubular Bells, Crotales, Marimba, Chinese CymbalPlayer 3 - TamTam (Large), Java Gong (Large, very low), Bell Lyra (Handheld), Sizzle CymbalPlayer 4 - Bass Drum, Glockenspiel, Xylophone1 Harp1 Piano, also CelestaStrings - 16/14/12/10/8All transposing instruments are notated in their relevant transpositions.Any accidental apply only to the note that it immediately precedes, except tied notes.Naturals appear occasionally 'for safety'."LISTENING EARTH" is a symphonic drama, a one- movement composition in four parts based on the work by two writers, Joseph Addison (1672-1719) and W.H.Auden (1907-1973). Joseph Addison is not particularly well known; he was English, a classical scholar, essayist, poet and politician, but one of his hymns was used by Benjamin Britten. in his setting of a Thomas Tallis canon.The hymn is singularly beautiful and being a composer always inspired by extramusical stimuli such as poems, nature, paintings, I was immediately convinced when I carne across the Addison hymn, that here was exactly what I wanted to use as my major source of inspiration for this piece, commissioned by and written for The Berlin Philharmonic. I don't refer to the hymn in its entirety, but have chosen the following 3 excerpts, all acting as mottos for the first three sections of the piece, thus turning the piece into a straightforward tonepoem in the classical sense:The spacious firmament on high,With all the blue ethereal sky,And spangled heavens, a shining frame,Their great original proclaim. The title of the piece presents itself in the following verse: Soon as the evening shades prevailThe moon takes up the wondrous tale,And nightly to the listening earthRepeats the story of her birth;The third part of the piece follows these dramatic lines: Whilst all the stars that round her bum,And all the planets in their turn,Confirm the tidings, as they role,And spread the truth from pole to pole. Then 11 September, 2001 happened and personally - and as an artist - I quite simply couldn't end the piece on such a happy and glorious note, however beautiful, so, when the American modem-music web site sequenza2I.com in the days following the attack on New York City and Washington D.C. brought W.H.Auden's poem "September 1, 1939", I found the appropriate text on which to base the fourth and final section of 'listening Earth", which now turns into "Angry Earth'. Auden wrote the poem on the eve of 1 September, the day Hitler and his hordes rolled into Poland:... Waves of anger and fearCirculate over the brightAnd darkened lands of the earth,Obsessing our private lives;The unmentionable odour of deathOffends the September night. (From Another Time by W.H.Auden, published by Random House. Co