Alto Recorder,Bass Recorder,Soprano Recorder,Tenor Recorder - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1137832 Composed by Christian Petzold, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Martin Luther. Arranged by Ander. Baroque,Easter,Renaissance,Sacred,Wedding. Recorder Ensemble. 44 pages. Woods Only, Arrangements #738086. Published by Woods Only, Arrangements (A0.1137832). This album contains 5 of Johann Sebastian Bach's most famous and versatile pieces for recorder quartet, all very well suited for the beginners who want to get to know the baroque repertoire. They are also suitable for performances at events such as: weddings, Christian and church ceremonies, Easter, and academic recitals or concerts. They can be used in music institutions and by teachers as repertoire material and study methods, either for performance or instrumental technique. This collection includes a totally free bonus for you to enjoy: Martin Luther's A Mighty Fortress is Our God, a Renaissance sacred song for choir, which has been adapted for this set. 1: Air on the G String - The original piece is part of Johann Sebastian Bach's Suite No. 3 for orchestra, in D Major, BWV 1068, written for Prince Leopold of Anhalt. The so-called Air on the G String dates from one of these latter employments. In the service of the Prince of Cöthen, Bach composed not only the famous Brandenburg Concertos, but also several orchestral suites, from the third of which comes the Air on the G String. This curious title derives from a later arrangement of this piece for violin solo, in which the melody is played entirely on the lower, higher string of the instrument. 2: Arioso - The Cantata 156 (BWV 156) was written for the third Sunday after Epiphany in 1729, and was first performed on January 23 of that year. The text is by Picander, one of Bach's favorite librettists. Of the four cantatas written by Bach for the feast, it was the last and only one scored for solo voice. This is a choral cantata, employing a choral melody in several movements. Cantata 156, in fact, employs two different choral melodies and texts in the second and sixth movements. A cantata is a sung symphony consisting of several parts, one of which is the Arioso, which is the initial instrumental part. 3: Jesu, joy of man's desiring - This is one of Bach's most beautiful cantatas, made famous by the Jesus the Joy of Men chorus. It was originally composed for Advent 1716 in Weimar. Years later, already in Leipzig, Advent was tempus clausum, there was no music in the churches. Bach then reworked it for the Feast of Mary's Visitation. It is the final chorale of the cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben. Although it is the 32nd cantata composed by Bach, of those that have survived, it was given BWV 147 in the complete catalog of his works. 4: O Jesulein süss, o Jesulein mild - The Jesulein süß, the Jesulein mild is an original traditional German choral melody for voice and continuous bass arranged by Johann Sebastian Bach around 1735. With lyrics by Valentin Thilo, O Jesulein süss is a sacred melody adapted and catalogued as BWV 493. The first translation is by Dirk van Hogendorp, who made it more of a song for the time of suffering. 5: Minuet in G major - This famous piece has traditionally been attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach, as it appears in the Notebook for Anna Magdalena , a notebook that Bach gave to his wife Anna Magdalena in 1725 and which was to be filled with the favorite selections of Bach family members. However, recent research has concluded that this minuet, sometimes referred to as BWV Anhang 114. was probably composed by Christian Petzold, a German composer and organist contemporary with Bach. Bonus: A Mighty Fortress is Our God, by Martin Luther - Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott is a hymn written by Martin Luther probably before 1529. The melody was also considered his work for a long time, but it was created at least with the collaboration of Johann Walter. The song is of great symbolic power for Protestantism, where it is also known as Deus noster refugium et virtus. Considered one of the most important hymns in the history of Christianity, it was considered by the Christian poet Johann Heirich Heine (1797-1856) to be the Marseillaise of the Reformation, in an allusion to the French national anthem.

Alto Recorder,Bass Recorder,Soprano Recorder,Tenor Recorder - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1138452 Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Arranged by Ander. Christmas,Classical,Instructional,March,Romantic Period. Recorder Ensemble. 15 pages. Woods Only, Arrangements #738788. Published by Woods Only, Arrangements (A0.1138452). This arrangement adapted for recorder quartet was designed to make its listeners weep with emotion, because the adaptation preserves the original essence of the work, keeping its integrity faithful to what Beethoven wanted to transmit, with only a slight change in tone and addition of harmonic resources in the structure of the arrangement. Even though it is a funeral march, it is well suited for any musical performance occasion, being intended for beginner students who want to immerse themselves in the universe of romantic music, and nothing better than starting with the transitional composer of this period, which also does not prevent professional teachers from using it for recitals, academic presentations or didactic material in their classes as an ensemble practice. Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor sharp, Op. 27, No. 2, is one of his most popular compositions and was an audience favorite even in his day. Written when Beethoven was 31, the Moonlight Sonata (Mondscheinsonate in German) was composed after he finished some commissioned works, but there is no evidence that he was hired to write this work. It did not receive its nickname until 1832, five years after Beethoven's death. It was the critic Ludwig Rellstab who compared the music to a moonlighting on Lake Lucerne. This comparison was adopted as a nickname for the work. Called Quasi una fantasia by the author - like its companion Op. 27, No. 1 - the piece was completed in 1801 and dedicated the following year to one of the composer's pupils. Beethoven chose to open the sonata with a slow, hypnotic arpeggio movement, the best known of the entire work. The dotted rhythm of its minimal melody evokes the tradition of 'Trauermusik' (funeral music).

Recorder Quartet Recorder - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1140791 Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Arranged by Ander. Classical,Instructional,March,Opera,Romantic Period. Recorder Ensemble. 12 pages. Woods Only, Arrangements #741046. Published by Woods Only, Arrangements (A0.1140791). This arrangement adapted for recorder quartet was written keeping the characteristics of the original work, that is, inspiring and significant to the already known choral symphony by Beethoven, indicated to be performed by young music students, who want to enter the symphonic music, moreover, it can also be used by professional musicians, for recitals, repertoire, academic presentations and didactic material. As much as it is a funeral march, it is well suited for any musical performance occasion. The transcription is faithful to the structure, with only one change in key, so that it is comfortable for all instruments in the formation, thus maintaining the essence of the striking melody, as well as using it for ensemble practice among musicians of different traditions. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony Op. 125 incorporates part of the poem An die Freude (To Joy), a hymn written by Friedrich Schiller, with the text sung by soloists and a choir in its last movement. It was the first example of a major composer using the human voice as prominently as the instruments in a symphony, thus creating a far-reaching work that set the tone for the symphonic form that was to be adopted by Romantic composers. This is the last complete symphony composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. The choral symphony, better known as the Ninth Symphony or The Ninth, is one of the best known works in the Western repertoire, considered both an icon and predecessor of Romantic music, and one of Beethoven's great masterpieces, where it was first performed on May 7, 1824, the same year it was completed, at the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna, Austria. The conductor was Michael Umlauf, the theater's music director, and Beethoven - dissuaded from conducting by the advanced stage of his deafness - was given a special place on the stage next to the conductor. It was later rearranged by Herbert von Karajan to become the anthem of the European Union in 1972, the national anthem of Rhodesia from 1974 until 1979, Rise, O Voices of Rhodesia, used the tune Ode to Joy..

Alto Recorder,Baritone Recorder,Soprano Recorder,Tenor Recorder - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1137249 Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Arranged by Ander. Classical,Film/TV,Instructional,March,Romantic Period. Recorder Ensemble. 14 pages. Woods Only, Arrangements #737449. Published by Woods Only, Arrangements (A0.1137249). This arrangement adapted for recorder quartet was written keeping the characteristics of the original work, in order to be performed by young music students who want to enter the symphonic music. Besides, it can also be used by professional musicians, for recitals, repertoire, academic presentations and didactic material. As much as it is a funeral march, it is well suited for any musical performance occasion. The transcription is faithful to the structure, with only one change of key, so that it is comfortable for all the instruments in the formation, as well as for use in ensemble practice between musicians of different traditions. Ludwig van Beethoven began concentrated work on his Symphony No. 7 in A major Op. 92 in 1811, it was completed in 1812, and was dedicated to Count Moritz von Fries, and premiered in Vienna on December 8, 1813. It is considered a remarkable example of the more ebullient side of Beethoven's compositional personality and evidence that even after the onset of deafness, he still found cause for musical optimism. The second movement Allegretto is a funeral march in everything but name. Often several contrasting melodic ideas are made to coexist, as if Beethoven were imagining several processions converging on the cemetery at the same time. As he was working on this symphony during the years of the Napoleonic Wars, this experience was probably within his experience. It was also used as the soundtrack to the film Knowing, by director Alex Proyas and starring Nicolas Cage, where it is used in the final scene of the film. Beethoven called Symphony No. 7 his most excellent symphony, and a music critic of the time reported, this symphony is the most melodically rich and the most pleasing and comprehensible of all Beethoven's symphonies..

Recorder quartet (string quartet) and voice - intermediate - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q7027 10 alte deutsche Weihnachtslieder. Composed by Hermann Regner. This edition: set of wind parts. Downloadable, Set of wind parts. Schott Music - Digital #Q7027. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q7027). German.Ganz bewusst legt Hermann Regner hier ausschließlich alte deutsche Weihnachtslieder in vierstimmigen Sätzen für Blockflöten (SATB) oder Streicher, auch in Kombination miteinander, vor. Der Melodiestimme ist jeweils der Text der 1. Strophe unterlegt, so dass Sänger, solistisch oder chorisch, ebenfalls mitwirken können. Vor- und Zwischenspiele zu den Strophen geben jedem Stück eine befriedigende, in sich geschlossene Form. Spezielles Anliegen war dabei, den Charakter und die besondere Art der jeweiligen Grundmelodie zu wahren. Die Sätze sind zunächst für Schulen, Musikschulen und das Musizieren in der Familie gedacht. Für Aufführungen in größerem öffentlichem Rahmen ist jedoch auch die Zusammenstellung mehrere Sätze zu einer Suite oder einer Kantate sehr empfehlenswert.

Alto Recorder,Baritone Recorder,Soprano Recorder,Tenor Recorder - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1466911 Composed by Edvard Grieg. Arranged by Rika K. 19th Century,Chamber,Halloween,Romantic Period,Thriller. Recorder Ensemble. 6 pages. Rika K. #1045475. Published by Rika K. (A0.1466911). Discover the enchanting world of Edvard Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King with our sheet music arrangement adapted for Woodwind Quartet; made for beginners and intermediate-level musicians. From Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, this piece captures the thrilling pursuit of Peer Gynt through the mountain king's domain with dynamic energy and accessible arrangements.Perfect for educators expanding their teaching repertoire, families introducing young listeners to classical music, or musicians looking for an impressive addition to performances, this adaptation offers both approachability and artistic depth. Dive into Grieg's timeless classic and bring its captivating narrative and evocative melodies to life with our meticulously crafted sheet music.Explore the allure of In the Hall of the Mountain King and enrich your musical journey today!

Recorder quartet (string quartet) and voice - intermediate - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q7023 10 alte deutsche Weihnachtslieder. Composed by Hermann Regner. This edition: performance score. Downloadable, Performance score. Schott Music - Digital #Q7023. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q7023). German.Ganz bewusst legt Hermann Regner hier ausschließlich alte deutsche Weihnachtslieder in vierstimmigen Sätzen für Blockflöten (SATB) oder Streicher, auch in Kombination miteinander, vor. Der Melodiestimme ist jeweils der Text der 1. Strophe unterlegt, so dass Sänger, solistisch oder chorisch, ebenfalls mitwirken können. Vor- und Zwischenspiele zu den Strophen geben jedem Stück eine befriedigende, in sich geschlossene Form. Spezielles Anliegen war dabei, den Charakter und die besondere Art der jeweiligen Grundmelodie zu wahren. Die Sätze sind zunächst für Schulen, Musikschulen und das Musizieren in der Familie gedacht. Für Aufführungen in größerem öffentlichem Rahmen ist jedoch auch die Zusammenstellung mehrere Sätze zu einer Suite oder einer Kantate sehr empfehlenswert.

Recorder quartet (string quartet) and voice - intermediate - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q7028 10 alte deutsche Weihnachtslieder. Composed by Hermann Regner. This edition: set of string parts. Downloadable, Set of string parts. Schott Music - Digital #Q7028. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q7028). Ganz bewusst legt Hermann Regner hier ausschließlich alte deutsche Weihnachtslieder in vierstimmigen Sätzen für Blockflöten (SATB) oder Streicher, auch in Kombination miteinander, vor. Der Melodiestimme ist jeweils der Text der 1. Strophe unterlegt, so dass Sänger, solistisch oder chorisch, ebenfalls mitwirken können. Vor- und Zwischenspiele zu den Strophen geben jedem Stück eine befriedigende, in sich geschlossene Form. Spezielles Anliegen war dabei, den Charakter und die besondere Art der jeweiligen Grundmelodie zu wahren. Die Sätze sind zunächst für Schulen, Musikschulen und das Musizieren in der Familie gedacht. Für Aufführungen in größerem öffentlichem Rahmen ist jedoch auch die Zusammenstellung mehrere Sätze zu einer Suite oder einer Kantate sehr empfehlenswert.

4 recorders (ATTB) - intermediate to advanced - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q16330 Composed by Hans-Martin Linde. This edition: score and parts. Original Music for Recorder. Downloadable, Score and parts. Schott Music - Digital #Q16330. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q16330). Hans-Martin Linde (b. 1930) is not only one of the best-known recorder players of the twentieth Century, but has enriched the contemporary recorder repertoire with significant works for concert performance and tuition purposes. The composition Reminiscences for Quartet, for the unusual and delightful-sounding combination A[treble]/T/T/B, uses musical themes from the 15th to 17th Centuries: from a “Prélude à l’imitation� by Froberger, a melody by Claudio Saraceni “Da te parto�, themes from keyboard sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, the Chanson “Adieu, mes très belles� by Binchois and a ground bass from Purcell’s harpsichord collection “Musik’s Handmaid�. The composer writes: “In many of my compositions a meeting takes place between old and new. In this Suite, too, present events unfold against the background of the past. Models from early music are mirrored in the present.�.

Small Ensemble Alto Recorder,Soprano Recorder,Tenor Recorder - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.799509 Composed by Drake Mabry. 20th Century,Jazz,Standards,World. Score and parts. 7 pages. Drake Mabry #3533853. Published by Drake Mabry (A0.799509). Meditation was written in 1978 during a summer vacation in Vermont. The chord progression is based on a Spanish jazz style but the work also recalls some elements of Bach's four-part chorale writing. It can be played separately or as part of a suite featuring: C.S. Chaconne, Meditation, Tango and Caught between a Music Box and a Calliope, a humorous encore piece. The different moods of each of the movements provide the audience with a voyage in various instrumental colors and expressions. The duration is 3'00.

Recorder - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.824760 Composed by Various. Arranged by Phillip Rawle. Classical. Recorder Ensemble. 36 pages. Phillip Rawle #6496621. Published by Phillip Rawle (A0.824760). Six Classical Minuets arranged for recorder quartet - Sopranino, Descant, Treble, Tenor. Minuet in G - No.7 Anna Magdalena Bach - J.S.Bach Minuet - No, 4 Anna Magdalena Bach Minuet in G - 1st Suite for Harpsichord - Henry Purcell Minuet in G - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - Mozart Minuet in F - Mozart Minuet in D - Couperin