French Horn Solo - Digital Download

SKU: A0.503384

By ABBA. By Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus. Arranged by Antônio S. Fernandes. Multicultural,Pop,Rock,Traditional,World. Individual part. 2 pages. Published by Antônio S. Fernandes (A0.503384).

The Winner Takes It All is a song recorded by the Swedish pop group ABBA. Released as the first single from the group's seventh studio album, Super Trouper, it is a ballad in the key of G-flat major, reflecting on the end of a relationship. The single's B-side was the non-album track Elaine. The song peaked at No.1 in several countries, including the UK, where it became their eighth chart-topper. It was also the group's final top 10 hit in the United States. It was written by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, with Agnetha Fältskog singing the lead vocal. The Winner Takes It All - ABBA Gold (sheet music) Trompa in F, The Winner Takes It All - ABBA Gold (sheet music) Trompa in F #TheWinnerTakesItAll #ABBA #Trompa in F.

French Horn Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1314432

By Taylor Swift. By Johan Schuster, Max Martin, Shellback, and Taylor Swift. Arranged by Glauco Fernandes. Pop. Individual part. 2 pages. Glauco Fernandes #903183. Published by Glauco Fernandes (A0.1314432).

Shake It Off by Taylor Swift: A Musical Celebration of Authenticity

Music has the incredible power to transport us to a place where we feel free to be ourselves. And when it comes to a song that exudes confidence, optimism, and authenticity, Taylor Swift's Shake It Off is an amazing choice. If you're a instrumental musician, this is a sheet music you should definitely consider adding to your repertoire.

The contagious energy of this song is undeniable. With its captivating rhythm and inspiring lyrics, Shake It Off reminds us of the importance of not caring about others' criticisms and simply being who we are. It's a celebration of authenticity and the ability to overcome obstacles with a smile on our faces.

Imagine playing this song on your instrument, feeling the vibrant beat, and sharing this positive energy with your audience. It's an opportunity to create a truly special and inspiring moment. Moreover, learning to play Shake It Off can be a rewarding musical challenge, helping you improve your skills and expand your repertoire.

So, if you're an instrumental musician looking for sheet music that conveys joy, positivity, and authenticity, Shake It Off is a perfect choice. Get the sheet music, immerse yourself in the music, and share Taylor Swift's infectious spirit with the world. It will be a musical experience that you and your audience will never forget.
 
 

French Horn Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1314433

By Taylor Swift. By Johan Schuster, Max Martin, Shellback, and Taylor Swift. Arranged by Glauco Fernandes. Pop. Individual part. 2 pages. Glauco Fernandes #903185. Published by Glauco Fernandes (A0.1314433).

Shake It Off by Taylor Swift: A Musical Celebration of Authenticity

Music has the incredible power to transport us to a place where we feel free to be ourselves. And when it comes to a song that exudes confidence, optimism, and authenticity, Taylor Swift's Shake It Off is an amazing choice. If you're a instrumental musician, this is a sheet music you should definitely consider adding to your repertoire.

The contagious energy of this song is undeniable. With its captivating rhythm and inspiring lyrics, Shake It Off reminds us of the importance of not caring about others' criticisms and simply being who we are. It's a celebration of authenticity and the ability to overcome obstacles with a smile on our faces.

Imagine playing this song on your instrument, feeling the vibrant beat, and sharing this positive energy with your audience. It's an opportunity to create a truly special and inspiring moment. Moreover, learning to play Shake It Off can be a rewarding musical challenge, helping you improve your skills and expand your repertoire.

So, if you're an instrumental musician looking for sheet music that conveys joy, positivity, and authenticity, Shake It Off is a perfect choice. Get the sheet music, immerse yourself in the music, and share Taylor Swift's infectious spirit with the world. It will be a musical experience that you and your audience will never forget.
 
 

French Horn Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1018931

Composed by Benjamin Harry Sajo. 20th Century,Contemporary. Individual part. 4 pages. Benjamin Sajo #6072965. Published by Benjamin Sajo (A0.1018931).

Fugue: Wear Pearls and Smile is, on the outset, a fast, rambunctious adventure for many voices playing at the same time. It was conceived as a pairing for the equally vivacious second symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven–his 250th birthday is this year–but can stand on its own as one of my hardest, most challenging works to cook up.

This piece is dedicated to those forced to appear positive when internally they’re falling apart. The title is inspired by a quote that’s been with me for a while, Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile? by Lynn Hecht Schafren, the celebrated American jurist famous for campaigning for gender equity in courts. I’m taking the quote out of its initial context, but the power of that quote, for me, exemplifies how hard it is to maintain a sense of emotional decorum and dignity when you’re authentically a hot mess. And what’s more of a musical hot mess than a fugue?

There are two realities to this piece. I’ll quote Dmitri Shostakovich, from his autobiography: The rejoicing is forced, created under threat, […] It’s as if someone were beating you with a stick and saying, ‘Your business is rejoicing, your business is rejoicing,’ and you rise, shaky, and go marching off, muttering ‘Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.’ On the one hand, it is insincere happiness, cloying perhaps. But the other truth, I’ll quote Oscar Hammerstein II, from The King and I: While shivering in my shoes / I strike a careless pose / And whistle a happy tune / And no one ever knows, / I'm afraid. I forced myself, against all impulses of my current being, to forge happiness. This piece, with its origin being a mental puzzle (fugues are puzzles), it became a construct where I could lift myself up and regain a sense of purpose. Therefore, it is invented–out of a literal need to survive–pure, genuine happiness.

Future Performances: If you are interested in performing this work, please e-mail me.

ABOUT THE COMPOSER:

Benjamin Sajo (b. 1988) is a Canadian composer of contemporary classical music, as well as an educator. Since developing a fiercely independent creative voice upon the completion of his studies at Western (2010) and McGill Universities (2013), he continues to find inspiration from the intersection of mythology, art, and nature upon the contemporary human experience. In 2019, he released his premiere album of original music, The Great War Sextet: Canadian War Poetry with Trombone & Strings , with support from the Ontario Arts Council. He is a member of SOCAN and the League of Canadian Composers.

French Horn Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.767341

Composed by Mike Lyons. Concert,Contemporary. Individual part. 8 pages. Lyons Music Services #3514991. Published by Lyons Music Services (A0.767341).

This is a brand new piece composed for French Horn without accompaniment. It has three movements all connected by the opening material of the first movement. I am publishing this piece as separate movements as well as a complete edition.

1st. Movement:

The opening movement is marked andante. It opens with a repeated tonic followed by an arpeggiated 1/16th figure with a closing descending scale. These three ideas form the basic musical material for the whole sonata. Throughout the first movement these three ideas are transformed and manipulated, expanded and contracted while maintaining a clear musical structure (basically Ternary form). As with sonata form, the final reprise of the original ideas is transformed by their 'journey'.

The style of the music is rather like a Bach partita for solo instrument.

The movement takes the player through most of the horn's range, but does not require any extended techniques, so should be handleable by moderately skilled players.

2nd. Movement:

This slow movement requires excellent breath control. It uses the repeated not idea from the 1st movement to open, expanding the rhythm to create a rather melancholy pattern. Later, the scalic 1/16th are utilised to link to the Più mosso section where the arpeggio idea (this time descending) helps to create a feeling of wide open space and emptiness. The player is in an empty universe, drifting slowly away as the dynamics become ever quieter until the ending at ppp.

3rd. Movement:

This movement opens with a similar idea to the previous two, but at a fairly quick Allegro (quarter = 132) and using arpeggios in triplets to drive the music through.

The dotted half noes with crescs at the end of the phrase should really be pushed into brassiness at the end of the cresc.

I ask the player to do rip glisses, some of them difficult to achieve, and also gestopft and 'half stopped'. Although these are 'hand horn' techniques that survive from before the invention of valves, they are still useful to create a different effect than from standard mutes. Where these techniques are asked for, a silvery, ethereal tone is required as a contrast to the brash 'hunting horn' style of the outer sections of the movement.

The middle part of this movement is quasi a cadenza. The stopping instructions are intended to have an effect on the tuning as well as the timbre of the notes. The first pair of each group of three should be slurred smoothly.

The final section reprises the beginning of the movement, but at breakneck speed. quarter = 144 is advisory only. The faster the better.

This movement again makes use of the extremes of the horn's range and makes high demands on stamina and tonguing.

French Horn Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1320588

Composed by Antonio Vivaldi. Arranged by James M. Guthrie. Baroque,Contest,Festival,Historic,Standards,Traditional. Individual part. 7 pages. Jmsgu3 #909084. Published by jmsgu3 (A0.1320588).

Vivaldi's Spring is part of a set of four violin concertos, each representing a season of the year. The Four Seasons is one of Vivaldi's most famous works and is considered a masterpiece of program music, as it provides a musical expression of the events and emotions of each season. Vivaldi published the concerti with accompanying poems, possibly written by himself, that elucidated what it was about those seasons his music was intended to evoke, making it one of the earliest and most detailed examples of program music. Vivaldi took great care to relate his music to the texts of the poems, translating the poetic lines directly into the music on the page. For example, in the middle section of the Spring concerto, where the goatherd sleeps, his barking dog can be marked in the viola section. The music of Spring is an interpretation of a sonnet, and it is widely believed that Vivaldi wrote the sonnets himself, as the words and music are so entwined. King Louis XV became very fond of the spring concerto, ordering it to be performed numerous times, indicating its widespread appeal and popularity. The innovative and detailed approach Vivaldi took in composing The Four Seasons made it a timeless and celebrated piece in classical music.

French Horn Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1018950

Composed by Benjamin Harry Sajo. 20th Century,Contemporary. Individual part. 1 pages. Benjamin Sajo #6078687. Published by Benjamin Sajo (A0.1018950).

Programme Notes:

 This composition was written to be considered for pairing alongside Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony #3, the Eroica, but can stand on its own virtues as an intense and slow meditation on heroism. The music is like a boiling pot on the stove that’s just began to overflow its bubbles.

 The first part of the title, kommos, is a Classical Greek term from Attic dramaturgy, literally meaning striking but specifically referring to beating oneself up during lamentation--ripping at the hair, gouging out the eyes--like Oedipus--slapping the forehead, and other acts amid moments of extreme emotional turmoil. For example, from Aeschylus's play Agamemnon, a character bewails: Apollo, Apollo! God of the Ways, my destroyer! For you have destroyed me-and utterly [...]What is this fresh woe [...]what monstrous, monstrous horror, beyond love's enduring, beyond all remedy? And help stands far away! We can easily imagine physical accompaniment to the script; rather than bottling up the pain, the hero lets it all explosively come out.  

 The second part of the title, When the world moved on, is an epigraph taken from American author Stephen King’s The Dark Tower epic. The primary setting of the novel, a world similar in many ways to our own, is experiencing a dark age where the glorious past is all but a distant memory and all good things are referred to wistfully as occurring, When the world moved on. Yet, the main protagonist, Roland, the last gunslinger, emphasizes that it is not just a figure of speech, but the literal distances between destinations have increased, the positions of the stars have changed, as well as the occurrence of other unnatural phenomena. The world has become a gulf of isolation from all corners.

 Taken together, this piece is a lamentation for when the world moved on. Truly completed on Yom Kippur during the Covid-19 Pandemic, being unable to fast or go to synagogue, this is my atonement.

About the Composer:

 Benjamin Sajo (b. 1988) is a Canadian composer of contemporary classical music, as well as an educator. Since developing a fiercely independent creative voice upon the completion of his studies at Western (2010) and McGill Universities (2013), he continues to find inspiration from the intersection of mythology, art, and nature upon the contemporary human experience. In 2019, he released his premiere album of original music, The Great War Sextet: Canadian War Poetry with Trombone & Strings, with support from the Ontario Arts Council. He is a member of SOCAN and the League of Canadian Composers.

French Horn Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1018951

Composed by Benjamin Harry Sajo. 20th Century,Contemporary. Individual part. 1 pages. Benjamin Sajo #6078691. Published by Benjamin Sajo (A0.1018951).

Programme Notes:

 This composition was written to be considered for pairing alongside Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony #3, the Eroica, but can stand on its own virtues as an intense and slow meditation on heroism. The music is like a boiling pot on the stove that’s just began to overflow its bubbles.

 The first part of the title, kommos, is a Classical Greek term from Attic dramaturgy, literally meaning striking but specifically referring to beating oneself up during lamentation--ripping at the hair, gouging out the eyes--like Oedipus--slapping the forehead, and other acts amid moments of extreme emotional turmoil. For example, from Aeschylus's play Agamemnon, a character bewails: Apollo, Apollo! God of the Ways, my destroyer! For you have destroyed me-and utterly [...]What is this fresh woe [...]what monstrous, monstrous horror, beyond love's enduring, beyond all remedy? And help stands far away! We can easily imagine physical accompaniment to the script; rather than bottling up the pain, the hero lets it all explosively come out.  

 The second part of the title, When the world moved on, is an epigraph taken from American author Stephen King’s The Dark Tower epic. The primary setting of the novel, a world similar in many ways to our own, is experiencing a dark age where the glorious past is all but a distant memory and all good things are referred to wistfully as occurring, When the world moved on. Yet, the main protagonist, Roland, the last gunslinger, emphasizes that it is not just a figure of speech, but the literal distances between destinations have increased, the positions of the stars have changed, as well as the occurrence of other unnatural phenomena. The world has become a gulf of isolation from all corners.

 Taken together, this piece is a lamentation for when the world moved on. Truly completed on Yom Kippur during the Covid-19 Pandemic, being unable to fast or go to synagogue, this is my atonement.

About the Composer:

 Benjamin Sajo (b. 1988) is a Canadian composer of contemporary classical music, as well as an educator. Since developing a fiercely independent creative voice upon the completion of his studies at Western (2010) and McGill Universities (2013), he continues to find inspiration from the intersection of mythology, art, and nature upon the contemporary human experience. In 2019, he released his premiere album of original music, The Great War Sextet: Canadian War Poetry with Trombone & Strings, with support from the Ontario Arts Council. He is a member of SOCAN and the League of Canadian Composers.

French Horn Solo - Level 1 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1175265

Composed by Giacomo Puccini. Arranged by Langanho. Opera,Romantic Period,Wedding. Individual part. 1 pages. Avery Lynn Jordan #775420. Published by Avery Lynn Jordan (A0.1175265).

This score was adapted for french horn with chord symbols, so that it can be used in its greatest essence, but with all the practicality to the interpreter. The piece is about O Mio Babbino Caro, from the opera Gianni Schichi, and is considered one of the most beautiful works by Giacomo Puccini. Made especially for the female soprano voice, where in the aria, Lauretta, who is immensely in love with Rinuccio, asks her father to do something for the Donati. For those people? he questions. Nothing! I do nothing at all! It is Lauretta's turn, with her famous aria Oh, my dear little father, to strive and soften the heart of her father, Gianni.