Choral Choir,Choral (SATB) - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1308012 By Richard deCosta. By Richard deCosta. Arranged by Richard deCosta. A Cappella,Chamber,Classical,Opera,Romantic Period. 4 pages. Richard deCosta #897289. Published by Richard deCosta (A0.1308012). Words by Emily DickinsonMusic by Richard deCostaBecause I could not stop for Death –He kindly stopped for me –The Carriage held but just Ourselves –And Immortality.We slowly drove – He knew no hasteAnd I had put awayMy labor and my leisure too,For His Civility –We passed the School, where Children stroveAt Recess – in the Ring –We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –We passed the Setting Sun –Or rather – He passed Us –The Dews drew quivering and Chill –For only Gossamer, my Gown –My Tippet – only Tulle –We paused before a House that seemedA Swelling of the Ground –The Roof was scarcely visible –The Cornice – in the Ground –Since then – 'tis Centuries – and yetFeels shorter than the DayI first surmised the Horses' HeadsWere toward Eternity –-=-In the reclusive chambers of Emily Dickinson's 19th-century Massachusetts home, the haunting poem, 'Because I Could Not Stop for Death,' was conceived. Living much of her life in isolation, Dickinson's thoughts often ventured into the shadowlands of existence. This poem, published posthumously in 1890, offers a chilling reflection of her contemplation. The Grim Reaper, a timeless symbol, is portrayed as a carriage driver, guiding the reader through a somber journey that mirrors the ephemeral nature of life. Passing scenes of childhood innocence, maturity's labor, and the twilight of existence, it culminates in the cold embrace of the grave. Her words, etched in a gothic darkness, resonate with the uncertainties and fears of her time, transcending to speak to the eternal human condition.

Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.914173 Composed by R. Nathaniel Dett, Robert Nathaniel Dett. Arranged by Music for a While. 20th Century,Romantic Period,Standards. Score. 5 pages. Music for a While #6410513. Published by Music for a While (A0.914173). Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943) was born in Canada before moving to the Unites States at the age of 11. He began studying piano at an early age and went on to be the first black American to graduate from Oberlin Conservatory of Music.  Throughout his career he worked as a composer, organist, pianist, choral director and music professor; he received many awards for his music and writing and spent a period at the Fontainebleau School of Music south of Paris where he studied with Nadia Boulanger.  Dett became well known for incorporating tunes and and elements of African American folk songs and spirituals into classical music.Cave of the Winds was composed in 1902 whilst Dett was living in Niagara Falls, NY and was first published the same year. The title refers to a natural cavern behind a waterfall at Niagara Falls which existed until 1955.

Instrumental Duet Guitar,High Voice,Instrumental Duet - Digital Download SKU: A0.915862 Composed by Federico Bonacossa. Contemporary,World. Score and parts. 15 pages. Cyklos #5868987. Published by Cyklos (A0.915862). PROGRAM NOTESAs a teenager living in Sardinia I spent countless summer nights outside in the balcony watching the moon, listening to music, and dreaming about the future. I had not thought about these nights in years, but vivid memories of them resurfaced suddenly when I started writing this piece for Orianna Gutierrez, inspiring me to write three short poems.I.Late summertimebeforea mellowmoon dreams at the perfect voiceII.A great, calm chaconne listensIII.Smiling rain plucks, do not stop

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1230318 Composed by Keith Getty and Stuart Townend. Arranged by Brian Buda. Christian,Contemporary,Easter,Religious,Sacred. Score. 7 pages. Budaful music #826038. Published by budaful music (A0.1230318). This arrangement of the Keith Getty & Stuart Townend hymn Holy Spirit, Living Breath of God  showcases Buda's skillful use of harmonies and intricate piano techniques, while still maintaining the beauty and simplicity of the original hymn. The piece is ideal for intermediate to advanced pianists who are looking for a fresh and challenging take on this beloved worship song. Ideal for preludes, communion, and prayer time. Two performance options exist, allowing for 1) shorter and quieter worship and 2) modulationg into an exciting 3rd verse. Key: C-D.

Instrumental Duet Alto Saxophone,Instrumental Duet,Soprano Saxophone - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1016979 Composed by Lea Detlefs. Concert,Contemporary,Standards,World. Score and parts. 3 pages. Lea Detlefs #6114259. Published by Lea Detlefs (A0.1016979). A wide ranging, effervescent piece great for a recital or encore.  Cycles through the key of B flat, E flat, and E major.  While originally for soprano sax, alto can also play the music as written and it will simply sound in a lower range from the recording.  Trills, quick flourishes of ascending or descending scales, and bending of notes in the high range are some of the beautiful features of this music.  This piece was inspired by the many wonderful Indian classical music performances I was able to attend while living in Austin, TX. It is meant to sound like an improvisation, and at one point even invites the player to add their own improvisation. The melodic lines are meant to be evocative of the sitar, while the trills preceded or followed by a short staccato exclamation recall the energetic tabla. This piece is not derived from a raga, but the title pays homage to the idea in classical Indian music that the various raga each bring up certain feelings and associations in the minds of the audience, or in other words, colour the mind.

Concert Band - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.995515 Composed by James M Johnson. Contemporary. Score and parts. 38 pages. Myles Music James Johnson #3577869. Published by Myles Music James Johnson (A0.995515). Duration: 4: 23level: intermediate to advancedConcert festival type of piece!Fog Meets the Storm to program notes: One of my goals was to create a piece that demonstrates many different mood changes and sound effects, that we experience in the climate that we live in. Whether we are journeying to the mountains or driving to work, mother nature is always on display. Therefore, I believe mother nature symbolizes pleasure, pain, and despair. Having the opportunity to grow up in New England and now living in Maine, I have seen a WIDE variety of weather within just a period of 24 hours! While living on the West Coast I will never forget my drive on the 395 going north and seeing the Sierra Nevada mountains (to my left) tall and grand with snow covered mountain tops! To the right, you would see and feel the hot desert! Although the performers do not need to envision mountaintops or deserts you need to respect the different sections and moods of the piece and know that everything is changing around us, all the time. As musical artists, we can convey our life journeys through our individual sound as well as the ensemble; whether it’s through enjoying nature, life’s challenges, and celebrations! Enjoy making traditional sounds and nontraditional sounds with your instrument.

Soprano voice, mezzo-soprano voice, or tenor voice and piano - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.9229-E Composed by Juliana Hall. 7 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #9229-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.9229-E). English.Written for Jun Mo Yang, a young tenor studying in the graduate Vocal Arts Program at the Bard Conservatory of Bard College. He and his fellow students were working on a special project studying contemporary composers whose work engages with climate change, environmentalism, and the natural environment. The students had been asked to read a chapter from David Haskell’s Sounds Wild and Broken and had further been given the following direction to guide them: “we are assigning each of you to a project in which you will seek out song repertoire from a living composer whose work responds to climate change or the natural environment, heightening our connection to and awareness of the natural world. This topic has arisen from a call to Bard faculty to #MakeClimateAClass: Bard faculty are urged to use our collective power as educators to engage with the climate change crisis.�Jun wrote to me that he was drawn to my music and asked whether any of my songs might fit within this subject area. At the time I had plenty of songs that spoke of the natural world, but none I could categorize as specifically dealing with the class’ more narrow focus, so I offered to write this song on a poem by one of my favorite poets, Carl Sandburg, who even by the early twentieth century was noting the degradation of the natural environment and its impact on life of all kinds trying to adjust to changed circumstances brought on in one way or another by man. I quickly found the poem Buffalo Dusk, seeing how strongly it speaks of the extinction of species and the loss that represents. Jun and his teachers remarked what a “beautiful and sad poem� it was, so in short order I was pleased to present this song to Jun, who gave Buffalo Dusk its first performance in April of 2023 at the Bard Conservatory.

Full Orchestra - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.755297 Composed by Sy Brandon. 20th Century,Contemporary,Folk. Score and parts. 157 pages. Sy Brandon #6067165. Published by Sy Brandon (A0.755297). This four-movement composition contains musical interpretations of four of Georgia O’Keeffe’s New Mexico paintings. The score prints on legal size paper and the parts on letter. I. From the Faraway Nearby The highly charged contrast of closely viewed foreground details and hugely distant horizons, which typified the New Mexican Views of O'Keeffe, was not a mere optical illusion. The large scale, bright light, and clear air of the region permitted one to see for the proverbial forever, and the juxtaposition of faraway and nearby was an integral aspect of desert vision. Soft dynamics and orchestration represent the faraway while the loud dynamics and orchestration represent the nearby. Near the end, the faraway and nearby begin to merge. II. Jimson Weed, White Flower No. 1 This painting depicts one of O'Keeffe's favorite subjects: a magnified flower. To her, the delicate blooms stood as some of the most overlooked pieces of naturally occurring beauty, objects that the bustling contemporary world ignored. So she made it her mission to highlight their complex structures, explaining: When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not. This movement is slow and lyrical reflecting the beauty of the close-up image. III. Red Hills and Bone O'Keeffe 's most effective composition of bones in the landscape appeared in 1941, with Red Hills and Bone; the large canvas is also among her most ambitions evocations of the arid country of which she was by then an owner, having purchase the house at Ghost Ranch the preceding year. In 1939, O'Keeffe had written of the bones as strangely more living than the animals walking around, and in the 1941 painting her response is given visual from. The minimalistic noodling represents the red hills and the bold triplets represent the mystique of the bone. IV. Ladder to the Moon             This painting shows a handmade wooden ladder suspended in the turquoise sky. In the background are the pitch-black Pedernal Mountains and a pearl colored half moon. This painting was very similar to a picture taken of O'Keeffe and her surroundings at Ghost Ranch. In the picture, a large wooden ladder is leaned against an outer wall of a patio from where it rises up into the sky with the Pedernal Mountains in the background. In Pueblo culture the ladder is used to symbolize the link between the Pueblos and cosmic forces. The fact that the ladder is pointed up in the sky may represent the link between nature and the cosmos. While there are motifs that depict specifics of the painting, such as the scale-wise ascending and descending figure for the crescent mood and rising arpeggios for the ladder, the focus of this movement is the spiritual element. The music rises and grows in intensity from a ground bass-like theme to a soaring ending.

String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1442865 Composed by Taiwan Indigenous Archaic Tune ???????. Arranged by Diau-Hua Lim ???. Chamber,Contest,Festival,Folk. 16 pages. Diau-Hua Lim ,??? ,?????? ,Homeland Famous Music Scores #1022800. Published by Diau-Hua Lim ,??? ,?????? ,Homeland Famous Music Scores (A0.1442865). There are 16 nationally recognized indigenous ethnic groups containing about 580,000 indigenous peoples in Taiwan. It was academically suggested that their ancestors have been living on Taiwan for 15,000 years.The archaic tune,Dance for Moon Watching,has been sung for a long time. It was arranged for string quartet by Diau-Hua Lim in 2001 and was performed atNational Recital Hall in Taipei in 2002.The string quartet starts with successive perfect fourth interval and through modulations later to create a feeling of wildness.It was performed by The Heritage String Quartet with great success in the 7th annual Taiwanese Music Festival Honor Concert in Ann Arbor, Michigen, USA in Oct. 2009.

Guitar - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1287511 By Bon Jovi. By Desmond Child, Jon Bon Jovi, and Richie Sambora. Arranged by Jacob Cantrell. 20th Century,Pop,Rock,Standards. 99 pages. TheLoneArranger #878534. Published by TheLoneArranger (A0.1287511). Livin On A Prayer from Bon Jovi arranged for a Full Modern Guitar Ensemble!Scores include both Standard Notation and Tablature (for relevant instruments)Parts Included:Conducter's Score in Standard NotationConducter's Score in TablatureGuitar IGuitar IIGuitar IIIUkuleleKeyboardsBass IBass IIPercussion (DrumSet)Percussion (Auxilliary).

Large Ensemble B-Flat Trumpet,Drum Set,E-Flat Alto Saxophone,E-Flat Baritone Saxophone,Tenor Saxophone,Trombone,Tuba - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1112575 By Ricky Martin. By Desmond Child and Robi Rosa. Arranged by Steve Davison. 20th Century,Contemporary,Latin,Pop,Rock. Score and parts. 37 pages. Troupe Publishing #714581. Published by Troupe Publishing (A0.1112575). Livin' La Vida Loca in an instrumental take on the Ricky Martin hit. It's high energy and sure to get the punters moving! This version is written for a New Orleans-style brass band, without the New Orleans style... Trombones and Trumpet 2/Tenor Sax share the melody throughout, and there is an opportunity for the Tenor Sax to shed in the Coda. This arrangement is suitable for an intermediate to advanced school or community ensemble, or professional ensemble.

Instrumental Duet Guitar,Instrumental Duet,Violin - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.861798 Composed by Mark O'Connor. 20th Century,Contemporary,Folk. Score and parts. 18 pages. Mark O'Connor Musik International #6202085. Published by Mark O'Connor Musik International (A0.861798). Strings & Threads Suite (violin part - adapted for violin and guitar) MO171BViolin Part (score and guitar parts available)Music by Mark O’Connor14 pages - 15:00 minutes in length I. Fair Dancer ReelII. Sailor’s JigIII. Captain’s JigIV. Off To SeaV. Pilgim’s WaltzVI. Road To AppalachiaVII. Shine OnVIII. Cotton Pickin’ BluesIX. Pickin’ Parlor RagX. Queen Of The CumberlandXI. Texas Dance Hall BluesXII. Swing 11:11XIII. Sweet Suzanne Strings & Threads Suite adapted for violin and guitar is a piece comprising of thirteen tunes composed by Mark O’Connor. In 1986, the Tennessee Dance Theater commissioned the Suite from O’Connor to be performed as a violin solo at Nashville’s Summer Lights Festival. The individual tunes are in various folk styles appearing in a chronological form for which O’Connor says not only represents the evolution of American folk music, but also mirrors his own family’s migration from Ireland and Holland to America. It traces the family’s route through the thirteen colonies initially, and then eventually out West during WWl nearly 300 hundred years later. O’Connor wrote the pieces in a manner and style in which he felt his family could have heard along the way. The Suite begins with Irish music, maybe similar to what O’Connor’s family brought with them. Then in a thoughtful progression, reveals music they must of encountered living in early America. Strings & Threads musically describes how folk music styles hundreds of years apart are interconnected - possessing a common thread, from an Irish reel to jazz. The music is suited for advanced and intermediate.Original music printed from the composer’s manuscripts.Music editing, copying and engraving by Mark O’Connorusing Finale on Apple Macintosh 1986 Composed By Mark O’ConnorAdaptation for violin and guitar was commissioned by Sharon Isbin in 2006, and won a Grammy for BEST INSTRUMENTAL SOLOIST PERFORMANCE (WITHOUT ORCHESTRA) IN 2009Strings & Threads Suite (adapted for violin and guitar) can be heard on Journey to the New World by Sharon Isbin, Sony Classical Mark O’Connor – violin, Sharon Isbin - guitarCatalogue Number MO171BCopyright © 1986 by Mark O’Connor Music InternationalFor more information on violinist and composer Mark O'Connor, O’Connor String Camps, Touring Ensembles, Discography, Bio, Repertoire and more, please visitwww.markoconnor.com For information on the O’Connor Method – instructional book series for violin, viola, cello and school string orchestra programs:www.oconnormethod.com