Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.872687 Composed by Philip Orem. Contemporary. Score. 40 pages. Philip Orem #4784457. Published by Philip Orem (A0.872687). Civil War Songs is a song cycle of my settings of seven of Herman Melville's poems. Starting with the hanging of John Brown and ending with the assassination of President Lincoln, interspersed with poems reflecting on individual deaths and battles, these are poignant songs reminding us of a difficult time in our nation's history.For further information contact me at po4musik@aol.com or https://po4musik.wixsite.com/website.

Composed by Frederick Buckley. War casualties, Deathbeds, Mothers & children, Families, Civil War--Union, Patriotism. Lester S. Levy Collection. 4 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.21534). - - - Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries

Composed by Kennedy Russell. Deathbeds, Love, Prayer. Lester S. Levy Collection. 5 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.8776). - - - Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries

Alto Saxophone,Piano - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1156660 Composed by Orlando Gibbons. Arranged by Jane Frasier. Renaissance. Score and part. 3 pages. Jane Frasier #756986. Published by Jane Frasier (A0.1156660). The Silver Swan is the most famous madrigal by Orlando Gibbons. The legend is that swans are largely silent in life and sing beautifully only just before their deaths.

Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.947862 Composed by Elizabeth Ragsdale. Christian,Sacred. Score. 8 pages. Elizabeth Ragsdale #4641573. Published by Elizabeth Ragsdale (A0.947862). Sung from the perspective of one who has lost a loved one, this heartfelt solo promises deathless life, unchanging good, and continued progress. Rich, melodic accompaniment. Duration: 4:29. Vocal range: C4–E5.

Full Orchestra - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1284327 Composed by Kwok Man Ho Marco. 21st Century,Contemporary,Multicultural,New Age,Spiritual,World. Score and Parts. 133 pages. Kwok Man Ho Marco #875499. Published by Kwok Man Ho Marco (A0.1284327). The Nirvana of Phoenix 鳳凰涅�Composed for full orchestra by Kwok Man Ho MarcoScore and PartsThe piece The Nirvana of Phoenix《鳳凰涅�》for a full orchestra is inspired by the story of phoenix rebirths in Greek mythology. The word Nirvana literally means blown off. Additionally, it is a term associated with Buddhism, representing the ultimate state of soteriological release and liberation from rebirths in Samsara.The Chinese title of this piece first appeared in the modern poem with the same title, written by Guo Mo-ruo (郭沫若). His long poem mentions that phoenixes are envoys of happiness in our world. They carry all the sadness and hatred and fly into the flame every five hundred years. By ending their lives, they bring happiness and peace to the world. After the ordeal, they can be reborn from the ashes with even stronger bodies.In Buddhism, pain in life is inevitable, but suffering is optional. The deaths of the phoenixes are not the end of their lives; instead, they mark a new beginning of the story of happiness and peace.For any inquiry, please visit my personal website:https://kwokmanhomarco.wordpress.com

Clarinet,Piano - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1143129 Composed by Orlando Gibbons. Arranged by Jane Frasier. Chamber,Classical,Renaissance. Score and part. 3 pages. Jane Frasier #743491. Published by Jane Frasier (A0.1143129). The Silver Swan is the most famous madrigal by Orlando Gibbons. The legend is that swans are largely silent in life and sing beautifully only just before their deaths.

Woodwind choir - Digital Download SKU: IZ.CMS181 Composed by Judith Katz. Score and Parts. 48 pages. Imagine Music - Digital #CMS181. Published by Imagine Music - Digital (IZ.CMS181). 9 x 12 in inches.With tremors that started in May of 1883, the volcano on the Indonesian island of Krakatoa fully erupted on August 26th of that same year. The eruption continued until the late morning of August 27th, destroying over 70% of the island, the surrounding archipelago, and collapsed into a caldera.This event is counted as one of the deadliest and most destructive events in recorded history. Over 36,000 deaths were the result of both the eruption and the tsunamis that were created. Weeks later, the eruptions on Krakatoa intensified, causing explosions on neighboring islands. Globally, these explosions had effects on Australia and as far away as South Africa.The 1883 Krakatoa eruption also darkened the sky worldwide for years afterwards, caused by volcanic ash. Spectacular sunsets were created and they inspired artists to capture the effects. British artist William Ashcroft made numerous color sketches, attempting to capture the look of the red-tinged skies, and there is a theory that Edvard Munch's blood-red sky depicted in the painting, The Scream, was inspired from his observing the color of the sky over Norway at the time.Of all the original compositions and arrangements that I have written, this is my first foray into program music. Program music can be a difficult genre; has the story really been conveyed? Does the orchestration fit the composition? Is it too short, or rather, way too long.I decided to write this for woodwind choir, rather than woodwind quintet. The sound of a woodwind choir offers enough variety of sound to convey both the frenetic quality of panic, fear, and desperation of a volcanic eruption, and yet the calm, sadness of how people felt, not knowing when things were going to erupt again.

Mixed choir (SSSAAATTTBBB) - difficult - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q19671 For mixed choir. Composed by Steve Martland. This edition: choral score. Choral Music of Our Time. Downloadable, Choral score. Duration 23 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q19671. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q19671). English.Sea Songs, commissioned jointly by Ars Nova Copenhagen and Glasgow Concert Halls, is a kind of sequel to Martland's Street Songs (originally written for the Kings Singers and Evelyn Glennie). As with the earlier piece, Martland made use of to the library of the English Folk Song and Dance Society at Cecil Sharp House in north London. I wanted specifically to find texts that were not just the usual nautical heave-ho sort of thing, but instead explored the dangers and hardships still being experienced by sailors as recently as the early 19th century. I was also very happy to see in these texts the sense of camaraderie and mutual support that existed between the sailors. (Steve Martland) Dance to your Daddy sets the scene of a sailor's wife at home, dandling her baby son and singing to him about his daddy away fishing, and about the future. Both the tune and the words come from the Northumberland area around Newcastle. This song is very well known in the UK and gave the title to a famous television series When the boat comes in. Fire Down Below is about the effects of fire - a constant danger on board wooden ships. At the end of this song the words take on an extended meaning: Fire in our hearts for the friends that we love. The Dead Horse is about the initial month of work without pay in which all seamen had to take part. They referred to it as the dead horse - hence the expression to flog a dead horse when something is a waste of time. The seamen resented this unpaid time, and the text expresses their frustrations metaphorically by listing what they would do to the horse! The music's frantic gallop alludes to the horse's desperation. Although The Sea Martyrs presents itself as a ballad, this text has a more literary feel, and unlike the other songs it doesn't include a chorus refrain. It concerns the sailors' lack of pay, the consequences of asking for pay (being hanged!), and the poverty of their families at home. The poem portrays the sailors' deaths as an almost religious sacrifice to help future seamen. At the end of the work, the opening of Dance to your Daddy returns as a kind of descant, sung by an angel calling to the hanged men. © Paul Hillier, 2012.

Piano,Trombone - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1156656 Composed by Orlando Gibbons. Arranged by Jane Frasier. Renaissance. Score and part. 3 pages. Jane Frasier #756981. Published by Jane Frasier (A0.1156656). The Silver Swan is the most famous madrigal by Orlando Gibbons. The legend is that swans are largely silent in life and sing beautifully only just before their deaths.

Composed by Henry Russell. Clothing & dress, Parlors, Drapery, Families, Reading, Portraits, Religion, Grief, Sadness, Time, Nostalgia, Deathbeds. Lester S. Levy Collection. 6 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.213). - - - Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries

String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.806225 Composed by Public Domain. Arranged by Ellsworth McMeen. Celtic,Classical,World. Score and parts. 28 pages. Ellsworth McMeen #4356303. Published by Ellsworth McMeen (A0.806225). FORMATTED FOR TWO-SIDED PRINTING: Compelling arrangement of one of the musical treasures in the genre of Celtic music, prepared by award-winning El McMeen for classical string trio - violin, viola, and cello. This soulful ancient harp tune, Carolan's Farewell to Music, was, according to tradition, composed by the iconic Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738) on his deathbed.The music consists of a score, and music for the separate instruments.

Composed by Will A. Heelan & J. Fred Helf. Portraits, Children praying, Beds, Windows, Deathbeds, Grief, Families. Lester S. Levy Collection. 4 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.7218). - - - Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries

Concert Band - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1028045 Composed by Nicholas McClure. Contemporary. Score and parts. 11 pages. Nicholas McClure #3226621. Published by Nicholas McClure (A0.1028045). On December 14, 2012, at 9:35 a.m., the entire country stood motionless, for a horrific act of terror was underway. Adam Lanza shot and killed 20 first-graders and 6 adults, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut; a moment in history as one of the worst school shootings that our country has ever faced. Every single child which was murdered had a future of their own, taken away at the hands of a ruthless gunman, who in an instant, ended any chance that these 20 children had to have a happy life. Along with these children, were the 6 heroic staff members who so selflessly gave their life in order to stop this perpetrator who came to destroy the fragile object that we all call life. The title of this piece, The Sandy Hook Lullaby, is symbolic to represent the deaths and aftermath on that faithful day. This particular piece is a lullaby to represent the day that the victims lives were taken, ending with a peaceful goodbye. The song starts strong and valiant, to represent the beginning and potential of a new day. As it progresses, the song softens a bit, with clarinet lead, which represents the students learning in the classroom and the staff working as normal. A swell in volume represents the knowledge learned, as they are completely unaware of the events to follow. Halfway through, terror strikes. The percussion solo is representative of the the 5 minutes that the entire attack took place. The entire finale of the song is to represent the peaceful rest of those murdered, the final goodbye. The song ends softly, as the victims are put to rest, and because most of the victims were children, this comes in the form of a lullaby. Just as a loving and caring parent would put their child to sleep with a song, we give our final goodbyes with this Sandy Hook Lullaby. Thank you, and please enjoy with reverence and respect. -Nicholas McClure, Composer.