Passionskantate. Par HOMILIUS GOTTFRIED AUGUST. He was without argument our greatest church composer, wrote the lexicographer E. L. Gerber a few years after Homilius's death in 1785. As a result of the destruction of the Kreuzkirche during the Seven Years War, the longtime Kreuzkantor, a pupil of Bach, performed his professional musical duties primarily at the Frauenkirche in Dresden. The Passions…

Par MILLIKEN SANDRA. Death of a Giant (Seven Settings of Austrialian poetry) features the dramatic and challenging SATB work based on the poem of Australian writer, Philip Rush, which depicts the life cycle of an enormous tree in the Tasmanian forest. The other six poems draw upon the stories and timeless nature of the forest in its many forms. / Miscellaneous / Répertoire / Voix et Piano

Par KOSKELIN OLLI. X'Three (2003/2021) by Olli Koskelin is the third piece of a solo cello suite consisting of seven compositions. Each of the seven pieces can be performed individually or detached with other X'-compositions. Different works are yet to be performed chronologically. The X'-works are composed by using the same material viewed from many different angles. Their structure can be seen a…

Musically depicting a meteor event that occurs in the Earth's atmosphere each day, this energetic composition provides the opportunity to teach dramatic playing. With very few notes and rhythms that are no more complex than quarter notes, eighth-note rhythms are introduced through clapping and stomping. The brighter the meteor, the more rare the event. (2:15) / Concert Band

for String Orchestra Score. Par SIBELIUS JEAN / LATHAM LYNNE (Arr.). This arrangement keeps the dramatic character of the original, but in changing the key to D minor, avoids some of the messy chromaticism. The introduction features the low strings and there are moments for just the 1st 2 desks to shine. This rousing work will most certainly enhance the tone production of your group!/ Répertoire /…

Passionskantate. Par HOMILIUS GOTTFRIED AUGUST. He was without argument our greatest church composer, wrote the lexicographer E. L. Gerber a few years after Homilius's death in 1785. As a result of the destruction of the Kreuzkirche during the Seven Years War, the longtime Kreuzkantor, a pupil of Bach, performed his professional musical duties primarily at the Frauenkirche in Dresden. The Passions…

Par DE HAAN JACOB. This composition is based on a passacaglia theme, in which artistic perfection, symphonic drama and oriental melody lines play a role. The passacaglia is originally a dance made up of a series of variations above a bass line constantly present as an ostinato. It is not in this sense that the 'Symphonic Variations' are in the passacaglia form but in the sense of the open form of …

Volume 3 for soprano contains the first half of the large-scale arias and ariettas that Rameau composed for lyric soprano (the 18th-century equivalent of todays lyric coloratura soprano) in his prologues and divertissements. Each number is accompanied by a keyboard reduction and is introduced by a brief account of the dramatic situation as well as an English translation of the vocal text. / Sopran…

Per Clarinetto, Violoncello E Pianoforte. Par CALLIGARIS SERGIO. Sergio Calligaris was born in Rosario (1941), Argentina. He is one of the last musicians to incarnate the traditional 19th century figure of pianist, teacher and composer, inaugurated at the beginning of the 19th century by Muzio Clementi and carriedon after that by a sequence of famous names that the history of music has handed down…

Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. Created for string ensembles working at a level 3.5, ADAGIO AND ALLEGRO offers a wonderful opportunity for developing players to discover the brilliant and dramatic composer that is Ludwig Van Beethoven. This arrangement has been edited and shortened to 4:20, and has been transposed from its original key of Eb major to the more string-friendly key of D major. ADAGIO AND A…

Per Violino E Pianoforte. Par CALLIGARIS SERGIO. Sergio Calligaris was born in Rosario (1941), Argentina. He is one of the last musicians to incarnate the traditional 19th century figure of pianist, teacher and composer, inaugurated at the beginning of the 19th century by Muzio Clementi and carriedon after that by a sequence of famous names that the history of music has handed down to us. As a pia…

Par MAW NICHOLAS. Sophie's Choice is an opera in four acts based upon the post-war dramatic novel by William Styron, and commissioned by BBC Radio 3 in association with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The opera was first performed by the artists and orchestra of the Royal Opera House in December 2002./ Répertoire / Voix

Descriptive sounds of nature are portrayed musically on the keyboard, in A-minor, with broken chord patterns, legato touch, and lots of expression. The opening section has delicately twinkling stars, while the middle section rises and falls dramatically, depicting the wind, and the stars come out again to close the piece. / Piano

for String Orchestra Score and Parts. Par CARTELLIERI CASIMIR ANTON. Originally composed for full orchestra, the movement opens with a powerful C-minor introduction before turning to a bright, cheerfuland graceful C major. Later in the work, the tonality turns to E-flat, and eventually returns to C minor. This intriguing music is characteristic of the Sturm und Drang movement, with its drastic cha…

Advanced Professional Techniques. Par PESCATORE PABLE. In this expansive book, versatile Argentine guitarist and teacher Pablo Pescatore provides a masterclass in the theory behind creative rock soloing. From the ground up, he presents the theoretical building blocks of major, minor, pentatonic, and modal scales followed by triads and seventh chords in all keys, not just the guitar-friendly ones. …