Chamber Orchestra - Level 5 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.533574

Composed by Carson Cooman. Contemporary,Standards. Score and parts. 65 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #3024985. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.533574).

Quintet for Bassoon and Strings (2005–08) was commissioned by The Commission Project
and is dedicated to Klaus Heymann, in tribute for his invigoration of the classical recording
industry and his enthusiastic support for the composers of our time.
The original conception for the work was devised during an extremely foggy week on
Nantucket Island, Massachusetts in the summer of 2005. It is music deeply connected to the
ocean landscape. Throughout the work, the strings often present a fog-like backdrop,
through which the bassoon’s color emerges like a lighthouse beacon—lyrical and flexible.
The work opens with a series of interlocking, nebulous figurations in the strings that
gradually build in intensity. The bassoon unfolds the work’s basic melodic material in a free
solo that also increases in intensity. At the point of climax, the tempo suddenly slows
dramatically, and a tender, lyrical cantilena emerges. As this music dissolves, a bouncy and
energetic music takes the foreground. It climaxes in a bassoon cadenza. Though the bassoon
has played the leader throughout, this is the first time it is heard unaccompanied. A brief,
but vigorous afterglow recalls the opening of the work. The final section emerges out of it: a
series of high, distant harmonics (perhaps harbor buoys) in the strings through which the
bassoon sings a final song.

Chamber Orchestra - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.973002

Arranged by Greg Engell. Christian,Christmas,Sacred. Score and parts. 54 pages. Greg Engell #4363087. Published by Greg Engell (A0.973002).

Celebrate the Christmas Season with this arrangement for Choir and optional Chamber Ensemble. Simple, yet elegant, this piece opens tenderly with the carol Infant Holy, Infant Lowly and gradually builds to a climax as it combines the melodies of Silent Night and Away in a Manger together. A perfect addition to your Christmas service or presentation.

Chamber Orchestration for the Octavo Carols of the Manger.
2 Flutes, Oboe, 2 Clarinets, Horn, Strings, Percussion, (opt) Harp.

Chamber Orchestra - Level 5 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.533698

Composed by Carson Cooman. Contemporary,Standards. Score and parts. 71 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #3038887. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.533698).

Shining Space: Quintet for Horn and Strings (2006) was commissioned by and is dedicated
to Hazel Dean Davis and Stephen Hackbarth on the occasion of their marriage, June 24, 2006.
The work was premiered by James Sommerville, horn with Sarah Kapustin and Francesca
Anderegg, violins, Nathan Burke, viola, and Peter Lorenzo Anderegg, cello.
The basic musical material for the work is a set of intervals which is gradually “expanded
outward� – moving from close dissonance to luminous consonance. This could be seen to
represent a sense of freedom, growth, and a bright future.
The first movement, Bright Morning Sky, begins vibrantly with ecstatic ringing in the higher
strings. The cello presents the work’s basic pitch material in dramatic gestures. The horn
then enters: first abortively and then affirmatively – changing the texture to focus on itself.
The horn continues lyrical melodic development while the strings react, dissipating their
initial energy. Nervous tremolos in the strings start to build back energy again, leading to a
wild climax. The music then relaxes into the next section marked “Slow, suspended.� The
horn and strings interact melodically, supported by luminous harmonies. The nervous
tremolos return, regaining energy towards the coda. The work ends with the ecstatic ringing
of the opening – but,this time, the harmonic material is open and bright.
The second movement, I Am the Vine, is serene and expressive – consisting of a series of
canons which develop, break-off, and start again. The canons are almost always in two
voices – representing two lives intertwining.
The third movement, Chasing Windflower, returns to the energy of the opening movement.
However, the harmonic language begins this time with the open sonorities. Darker colors
(from the first movement) continue to interject, but are always overwhelmed by a sense of
free-wheeling excitement. The work presses on to an ecstatic coda – with a sense of
unfettered joy.

Chamber Orchestra - Level 5 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1453498

Composed by Sy Brandon. 21st Century,Contest,Festival. 235 pages. Sy Brandon #1032727. Published by Sy Brandon (A0.1453498).

Legacy is a three-movement composition for chamber orchestra that makes social commentary on the issue of global warming. It was commission in 2007 by the Washington Sinfonietta, Rufus Jones, conductor and rewritten for chamber orchestra in 2023. I. Conflicts - This movement begins with a cry from native cultures admonishing our neglect of the environment. The cry is interspersed with debate regarding the seriousness of global warming (woodwinds). The debate grows stronger as the cries grow weaker. The debate isquieted by a measure of repeated chords that could be the words, stop it! stop it now!” A weak cry in the English Horn brings the introduction to a close. An Allegro section follows with a rhythmic and primitive sounding section representing the underdeveloped nations that are destroying the rain forests for economic gain. This material evolves into a more harmonic and contrapuntal section representing industrialized nations reluctant to change, also for economic reasons. Things quiet down as the music takes the listener to another part of the globe, East Asia. Conflict is again present in this section. The music returns to a varied restatement of the industrialized nations music before traveling to India for a section influenced by Raga. This section builds in dissonance until we hear the repeated stop it now chords from the introduction. A brief reprise of the cries brings the movement to a close. II. Consequences - This movement evokes a somber mood that is reflective of living in a climate of extremes. The movement is in arch form as it begins and ends with open harmony reflective of barren lands that once were fertile. The middle section serves as a climax expressing the harshness of the climate. Colleen McCullough's book, A Creed for the Third Millennium was a source of inspiration for this movement. III. Sacrifice and Compromise - The movement begins with a strong section that suggests progress. It is followed by a quieter and intense section that alternates lyrical lines over a staccato ostinato creating a sense of urgency. The opening section returns and is followed by a development of the ostinato section. This section is symbolic of how ideas need to be adapted in order for progress to be made. The opening section returns once more before leading into the concluding section where there is coming together of the instruments on a long lyrical line representing more and more people working together for change. The movement ends with a sense of triumph over adversity. Score prints on legal size paper and parts on letter.

Chamber Orchestra - Level 5 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.533665

Composed by Carson Cooman. Contemporary. Score and parts. 27 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #3036591. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.533665).

Autumn Sun Canticle (2006) for trumpet and orchestra was commissioned by The Commission
Project in memory of Bob Stata. Bob Stata was a jazz bassist and teacher, who died on June 14, 2005
at the age of 52. (Stata commissioned and directed the premiere of Cooman's The Great Wilno
(1999) for solo piano and wind ensemble.)
This work has an autumnal spirit, but is lyrical and hopeful as well. An opening aria section leads
toward a chorale-like passage. A development of this material leads towards a passionate and
somewhat anguished climax. The opening aria returns, before an elegiac coda closes the work.

Orchestration: 2222/0000/1perc/Solo Trumpet/strings

Both Bb and C trumpets parts are included in the set.  A version for trumpet and piano is also available for sale.

Chamber Orchestra - Level 5 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.533666

Composed by Carson Cooman. Contemporary. Score and parts. 36 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #3036593. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.533666).

Autumn Sun Canticle (2006) for trumpet and orchestra was commissioned by The Commission
Project in memory of Bob Stata. Bob Stata was a jazz bassist and teacher, who died on June 14, 2005
at the age of 52. (Stata commissioned and directed the premiere of Cooman's The Great Wilno
(1999) for solo piano and wind ensemble.)
This work has an autumnal spirit, but is lyrical and hopeful as well. An opening aria section leads
toward a chorale-like passage. A development of this material leads towards a passionate and
somewhat anguished climax. The opening aria returns, before an elegiac coda closes the work.

Orchestration: 2222/0000/1perc/Solo Trumpet/strings

Both Bb and C trumpets parts are included in the set. A version for trumpet and piano is also available for sale.

Chamber Orchestra - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1080705

Composed by Claude Debussy/Robert Orledge. 20th Century,Romantic Period,Standards. Score and parts. 30 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #4727447. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.1080705).

Instrumentation


2 flûtes/2 flutes
cor anglais (doublant hautbois/doubling oboe)
clarinette en La/clarinet in A
basson/bassoon

cor en Fa/horn in F

percission (1 éxecutant - timbales (3)/cymbale suspendue, tambour de basque)/
percussion (1 performer - timpani (3)/suspended cymbal, tambourine)

harpe/harp

9 cordes/9 strings
(2.2.2.2.1)


durée/duration: 5 minutes 30 secconds (environ/approx.)

 
Une versions pour violon et piano ainsi qu’une version pour violon et orchestre (31CA(hb)23/2100/timb/perc/hpe/cordes)est également disponibile/A version for violin and piano as well as a version for violin and orchestra (31EH(ob)23/2100/timp/perc/strings) is also available.

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Prmière: Edmond Agapian, violin with the Calagray (CA) Youth orchestra, cond. Gareth Jones, University of Calgary, 28 Janaury, 2011

Première of the version for violin and 17 instruments: Frédéric Moisan, violin Orchestre 21 cond. Paolo Bellomio, Unveristy of Montreal, Canada,
2 March 2012




Preface:

In the early 1890s, Debussy composed the opening of a lyrical piece in E major for violin and piano, perhaps as a shorter companion piece for the violin Nocturne he was planning for the Belgian violinist Eugène Ysaÿe. After Debussy’s death in 1918, his second wife Emma often gave away sketch pages to performers or composers as memorials to her beloved husband , and this particular page was given to the Cuban born pianist and composer Joaquin Nin (1879-1949). It came up for sale in the catalogue of the British antiquarian dealer Lisa Cox in 2010 and although it might possibly be an early song for contralto and piano, the more dynamic idea in bar 12 strongly suggests the violin, especially as it begins on an open D string. Moreover, there is no text and in pieces of this length, Debussy usually wrote at least one word in, if only to remind himself where he had got to in any song.

So my starting point was a complete 12-bar melody gently undulating in the violin’s lowest register over a sensual accompaniment, rising to a climax in bar 12 and giving me a contrasting idea that I could use as a link between sections and in the cadenza. As the B section (bars 14-26) derives directly from Debussy’s opening theme by metamorphosis, my own additions were restricted to the central section (bars 27-57) - comprising a new scherzando idea (C) and the more lyrical D (bars 36-46). C returns at bar 47, followed by the opening sections in reverse order, so that the Sérénade begins and ends with Debussy’s material and is cast in arch form (ABCDCBA).

 Robert Orledge
Brighton, 19 June 2019



Robert Orledge was born in Bath in 1948 and educated at Clare College, Cambridge, where he gained his doctorate for his study of the composer Charles KÅ“chlin in 1973.   Between 1971 and 1991 He rose from Lecturer to Professor in the Music Department of the University of Liverpool, publishing books on Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, Charles KÅ“chlin and Erik Satie, as well as numerous articles, editions and reviews.   As a historical musicologist, Professor Orledge specialized in the way composers composed, ,and since taking early retirement in 2004, he has concentrated on completing and orchestrating Debussy’s unfinished works, and especially his theatre projects. His completion of Debussy’s opera The Fall of the House of Usher (1908-17) was successfully premiered at the Bregenz Opera Festival in Austria in August 2006 and has since been performed in America, Portugal Germany and Holland, as well as being broadcast throughout Europe. A DVD of the Bregenz premier is available on Capriccio 93517, produced by Phylida Lloyd and conducted by Lawrence Foster. His completion of the Chinese ballet No-ja-li ou Le Palais du Silence (1914) was also premiered in 2006 in Los Angeles and ot.