Par CURNOW JAMES. Commissioned by the University of Georgia Bands F. David Romines, Associate Director of Bands Rich modern harmonies and exquisite rhythmic counterpoint make this Grade 3 gem a rich and rewarding project for your ensemble. This remarkable piece is a wonderful and exciting performance piece which at the same allows the director countless opportunities to teach the players about int…

Par ROSSINI GIOACHINO. Based on the play by Beaumarchais, The Barber Of Seville is one of the greatest of all comic operas, delighting audiences with its keenly sketched characters, melodic elegance, rhythmic exhilaration, superb ensemblewriting, and original and delightful orchestration. Presented in full score, reproduced directly from the authoritative edition published by Ricordi. / Date parut…

Par WENNAKOSKI LOTTA. Lotta Wennäkoski's Pige (2021-2022) for string quartet was commissioned to be paired with the Death and the Maiden quartet by Franz Schubert ('pige' is Danish for girl). The composer tells: 'The first movement Vorüber, ach, vorüber! is based on the first half of Schubert’s lied lying behind his The Death and the Maiden quartet. The ”maiden’s song” in the beginning of the li…

The Enchanted Forest. Par HENZE HANS WERNER. This music is taken from the second act of my early opera King Stag. In the original, the aria - here rescored for the orchestra alone - is sung by the protagonist (tenor) who yearns to return to the woods, to nature, to the origins of his animal existence. The rondo is set in a very fast dance tempo (a Tarantella?) and is in three parts: the first one …

10 Fugues For String Quartet Vol. 2. Par BACH JOHANN-SEBASTIAN. The idea for these arrangements came to me whilst listening to the Hagen Quartet's beautiful recording of the fugues that form part of Haydn's 'Sun Quartets', Op. 20. The spirit and influence of J.S. Bach, in particular his Well Tempered Clavier, Book II, courses through these three miraculous Haydn fugues. Like the viol consort, the …

This is a highly virtuosic piano piece with alternating metres and miniature rhythmic elements which are abstract representations of traditional Turkish rhythms. / Piano

a-Moll. Par SCHUNCKE HUGO. An oboe concerto from the romantic era? Embarassingly, due to the small amount of solo literature for the instrument from this period, this question often asked of oboists, must be answerded with a reference to the few small concert pieces and sets of variations available. The A minor Concerto by Hugo Schuncke, who was a musician at the Court of Stuttgart, fills a need. …

Playing on the Changes features 13 jazz etudes through the various chord qualities found in standards and jazz tunes in all 12 keys. Areas covered include major 7th chords, minor 7th chords, dominant 7th chords (Mixolydian, altered dominant, and half-whole diminished), minor ii (flat-5) chords, tritone substitutions, and a variety of progressions using all of the above. Bob Mintzer has written out…

Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Model T Ford. Par JOHNSON TIMOTHY. What fun you’ll have with this descriptive tone picture by Timothy Johnson! All kinds of creative rhythmic and orchestration effects bring the old Model T to life once again. Young musicians will revel in the fun of interpreting this joyous look at the 'old days. ' It’s a perfect contrast to lighten up your concert and r…

This is a three-page piece for intermediate piano ensemble---two pianos, four hands---in the key of F major. It features an easy going tempo with a repetitive rhythmic pattern in the Part II accompaniment. Two copies are included. / 2 Pianos 4 Mains

Par PUTZ MARCO. Four Sketches for Band consists of four short movements, with varied character, which depict the atmosphere of an old fashion fairground. The melodies are delightfully entertaining yet have a simple rhythmic structure. The instrumentation of this composition is perfect for bands without a full contingent of players. Each movement of this composition can be used as stand-alone conce…

Los Geht'S. Par DE HAAN JAN. Für junge Bläserklassen: Klasse(n) Musikanten - Los geht’s ist eine Sammlung von 24 originalen Stücken und Bearbeitungen bekannter Kinderlieder für Bläserklassenprojekte im Grundschulalter. Schritt für Schritt: Der progressive Aufbau der Stücke - beginnend mit einem Stück aus nur zwei Tönen - ermöglicht einen sehr frühen Einstieg in das Orchesterspiel. Mehr als nur Not…

Edward Gregson completed Tributes in the summer of 2010. Lasting some 16 minutes, there are five pieces in the set, each dedicated to a different composer and a different clarinettist (with whom Gregson had long musical associations). Each of the dedicatee composers wrote wonderfully for the Clarinet and, as a tribute to them, Gregson tried to invade, indeed imitate, their stylistic worlds in thes…

Edition de Gerald Hoekstra

In 1597 the Antwerp printer Pierre Phalèse issued what was to be his last new anthology of chansons, Le Rossignol musical des chansons for the enjoyment of those who delight in singing in the French tongue. Like his great madrigal anthologies of the 1580s, this collection for four, five, and six voices exhibits a wide variety of secular song styles of the …

Par HENKHAUS UWE. Broish McRoish is a rhythmic piece based on traditional Gaelic sprechgesang - the so-called ‘Puirt a beul’ (mouth music). The text is meaningless, comparable to scat, and primarily serves to drive the piece forward rhythmically.The harmony slowly builds up from one to four voices and gives the singing a charming, unusual sound. / Choral Music / Répertoire / Voix d'Hommes TTBB