Bass solo and choir (SATB) - Digital Download

SKU: S9.Q19058

Texts selected by the composer from The Letters of Beethoven collected and translated by Emily Anderson. Composed by Gerald Barry. This edition: choral score. Choral Music of Our Time. Downloadable, Choral score. Duration 20 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q19058. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q19058).

English.

Gerald Barry has set extracts from some of the letters Beethoven wrote at the very end of his life to his publisher, Schott and Sons, Mainz. The music reflects the composer's volatile character and his musical concerns, revealing the touching nature of his relationship with his last publisher.

Gerald Barry has set extracts from some of the letters Beethoven wrote at the very end of his life to his publisher, Schott and Sons, Mainz. The music reflects the composer’s volatile character and his musical concerns, revealing the touching nature of his relationship with his last publisher.

1(pic).1(ca).1.bcl.2(2.cbsn)-2.2(1.Dtpt).1.1-timp.2perc(mar, vib, cym, s.d, b.d, chimes, wind machine, lion's roar, flex, large hammer, white dinner plates, telephone, jackboots, gun)-pno(cel)-str(1.1.1.1.1) - difficult - Digital Download

SKU: S9.Q17486

Opera in 3 acts based on the text by Oscar Wilde. Composed by Gerald Barry. This edition: study score. Music Of Our Time. Downloadable, Study score. Duration 90 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q17486. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q17486).

English.

When asked what the theme of his play was, Wilde answered “That we should treat all trivial things in life very seriously, and all serious things in life with a sincere and studied triviality. Gerald Barry’s fifth opera based on the play is genuine comic with a dark heart. The previous four have remarkable libretti, but The Importance of Being Earnest, written in 1894, is all but perfect in its construction, and Barry’s audacious approach triumphantly confounds all expectations. As Barry describes it: The play’s bones are unshatterable. My version is an X-ray of it. The musical references range from Beethoven to Schoenberg, all treated with a reckless panache and impish wit, by turns dazzling, startling and charming the audience.

2(1.pic, 2.pic & afl).2(2.ca)1.bcl.2(2.cbsn)-2.2.1.1-timp-3perc(chimes, mar, b.d., 2 windmachines)-str(8.6.4.4.2 minimum) - Digital Download

SKU: S9.Q49413

Opera. Composed by Gerald Barry. This edition: vocal/piano score. Downloadable, Piano reduction. Duration 50 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q49413. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q49413).

English • German • French • Russian.

Gerald Barry’s new opera is based on Lewis Carroll’s two beloved books, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. As with Barry’s last opera, the lauded The Importance of Being Earnest, the composer has created the libretto himself from the author’s original texts. Thus, the work remains faithful to many aspects of the Alice story but is trimmed and compressed into a compact 70-minute opera in one act. Barry’s characteristic highspeed energy and riotous sense of humour propel the action forward in this surreal plunge into the depths of Wonderland.

2(1.pic, 2.pic & afl).2(2.ca)1.bcl.2(2.cbsn)-2.2.1.1-timp-3perc(chimes, mar, b.d., 2 windmachines)-str(8.6.4.4.2 minimum) - Digital Download

SKU: S9.Q52885

Opera. Composed by Gerald Barry. This edition: study score. Music Of Our Time. Downloadable, Study score. Duration 50 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q52885. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q52885).

English.

Gerald Barry’s new opera is based on Lewis Carroll’s two beloved books, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. As with Barry’s last opera, the lauded The Importance of Being Earnest, the composer has created the libretto himself from the author’s original texts. Thus, the work remains faithful to many aspects of the Alice story but is trimmed and compressed into a compact 70-minute opera in one act. Barry’s characteristic highspeed energy and riotous sense of humour propel the action forward in this surreal plunge into the depths of Wonderland.

1(pic).1(ca).1.bcl.2(2.cbsn)-2.2(1.Dtpt).1.1-timp.2perc(mar, vib, cym, s.d, b.d, chimes, wind machine, lion's roar, flex, large hammer, white dinner plates, telephone, jackboots, gun)-pno(cel)-str(1.1.1.1.1) - Digital Download

SKU: S9.Q19064

Opera in 3 acts based on the text by Oscar Wilde. Composed by Gerald Barry. This edition: vocal/piano score. Downloadable, Piano reduction. Duration 90 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q19064. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q19064).

English.

When asked what the theme of his play was, Wilde answered “That we should treat all trivial things in life very seriously, and all serious things in life with a sincere and studied triviality. Gerald Barry’s fifth opera based on the play is genuine comic with a dark heart. The previous four have remarkable libretti, but The Importance of Being Earnest, written in 1894, is all but perfect in its construction, and Barry’s audacious approach triumphantly confounds all expectations. As Barry describes it: The play’s bones are unshatterable. My version is an X-ray of it. The musical references range from Beethoven to Schoenberg, all treated with a reckless panache and impish wit, by turns dazzling, startling and charming the audience.

Voice (soprano or tenor), horn in F and piano - Digital Download

SKU: S9.Q19672

For Voice, Horn and Piano. Composed by Gerald Barry. This edition: score and parts. Downloadable, Score and parts. Duration 6 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q19672. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q19672).

English • French • German.

The intense and surreal musical narrative so apparent in Gerald Barry’s hugely successful opera The Importance of Being Earnest returns in a new guise for his latest vocal work Jabberwocky. Setting Lewis Carroll’s famous poem, Barry uses the text twice – first in French with expressive legato phrases and then more forcefully in German.

Cl(bcl)-tpt-2mar.pno-db ensemble - Digital Download

SKU: S9.Q49261

For clarinet doubling bass clarinet, trumpet, two marimbas, piano and double bass. Composed by Gerald Barry. This edition: set of parts. Downloadable, set of parts. Duration 8 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q49261. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q49261).

It is a piece in which the moments of change between sections are as important as the musical content - rather like those points in paintings where objects or areas of colour meet. (Gerald Barry).

1(afl).1.1.bcl.1-2.1.1.0-pno(cel)-str(1.1.1.1.1) ensemble - Digital Download

SKU: S9.Q23832

For ensemble. Composed by Gerald Barry. This edition: study score. Music Of Our Time. Downloadable, Study score. Duration 20 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q23832. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q23832).

Feldman's was a music shop in London in the early 20th century.They sold collections of popular music for playing at home, and some of these were called 'Feldman's Sixpenny Editions'. Collections like these were among my first feverish encounters with music as a boy. I fell in love with pieces like 'Martial Steps' and 'The dog barks, the caravan passes On'. I entered into them completely, becoming one not only with the music, but with the paper they were printed on, and the advertisements on the back. I pored over these, laying my face on them, waiting for signs of my future direction. The piano plays a significant role in the music. The last piece in the collection, 'The Innermost Secret', refers to the lunches Satie had with Debussy. Satie said that Debussy cooked pork chops 'with the innermost secret'. (Gerald Barry).

2 pianos - difficult - Digital Download

SKU: S9.Q46705

For two pianos. Composed by Gerald Barry. This edition: Sheet music. Downloadable. Duration 16 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q46705. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q46705).

The Chorales are taken from my opera, The Intelligence Park.© Gerald Barry.

Mixed choir (SATB) - Digital Download

SKU: S9.Q40685

For mixed choir (SATB). Composed by Gerald Barry. This edition: choral score. Choral Music of Our Time. Downloadable, Choral score. Duration 3 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q40685. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q40685).

English.

Gerald Barry’s The coming of winter is a setting of an Irish poem dating from the 9th or 10th century, and was commissioned for the 34th Seminar on Contemporary Choral Music at University College, Cork, in May 1997. The setting is notable for its idiosyncratic use of text: not only are the words of the poem sung both forwards and backwards, but the second half of the piece is given over to percussive nonsense syllables, making this a quirky but highly invigorating image of ‘the coming of winter’.

Afl(fl).ca.cl.bcl.bsn(cbsn)-hn.tpt.tbn-pno-str(1.1.1.1.1) bass voice and ensemble - Digital Download

SKU: S9.Q41708

For bass voice and ensemble. Composed by Gerald Barry. This edition: study score. Music Of Our Time. Downloadable, Study score. Duration 18 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q41708. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q41708).

English.

Gerald Barry uses Beethoven's only surviving love letter as the text for this richly scored, vivid and dramatic work for bass voice and ensemble.

Cl.bsn-2hns-str(1.1.1.1.1) nonet - Digital Download

SKU: S9.Q20914

For nonet. Composed by Gerald Barry. This edition: study score. Music Of Our Time. Downloadable, Study score. Duration 18 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q20914. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q20914).

The title No people. comes from the surrealist Raymond Roussel. In 1932 he published a long poem called New Impressions of Africa. For this he commissioned 59 drawings to illustrate the text. The commission was given to the artist through a detective agency so he never knew who the commissioner was or saw the text he was supposed to illustrate. All he got was instructions for each drawing and he had to make the drawings accordingly. A typical instruction might be Nocturnal landscape. Very starry sky with a thin crescent of moon. (No people.) or A rambler, arm raised and fingers outspread, dropping a pebble (still visible) down a well and seemingly straining to hear the sound of its splash. (No other people.) When Roussel put the drawings and text together, the ordinary everyday drawings took on a strangeness they might otherwise not have had if the artist had drawn with the text in front of him. It's the juxtaposition of both unknowns - text/drawings - that gives the final work its strange quality. © Gerald Barry (2013).

Cl(bcl)-tpt-2mar.pno-db ensemble - Digital Download

SKU: S9.Q49260

For clarinet doubling bass clarinet, trumpet, two marimbas, piano and double bass. Composed by Gerald Barry. This edition: score. Downloadable, Score. Duration 8 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q49260. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q49260).

It is a piece in which the moments of change between sections are as important as the musical content - rather like those points in paintings where objects or areas of colour meet. (Gerald Barry).

3(3.afl).2.ca.2.bcl.3-4.3.3.1-str orchestra - Digital Download

SKU: S9.Q41782

For orchestra. Composed by Gerald Barry. This edition: study score. Music Of Our Time. Downloadable, Study score. Duration 12 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q41782. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q41782).

The title, No other people., is taken from Raymond Roussel's New Impressions of Africa, a fifty-nine page poem which took him fifteen years to write - a length of time mainly caused by his tortuous compositional methods.In Roussel, sentences are broken down in maze-like ways, often producing others which relate to the sound of the original.I'm not aware of any direct, illustrative connection between the music of No other people. and Roussel's book. But I was very struck by the everydayness of Zo's drawings.There is something poignant in his not knowing what he was illustrating. Like the drawings of a blind person. Their banality takes on a mysteriousness by being placed by Roussel in his book, seeming to illustrate bizarre events unknown to Zo.They are impersonal, the people in them unaware that they lead another life in a poem of which they know nothing.Something of this is in the music.Gerald Barry, 2009.