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No Let Up : Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 1398

Moving on up and Roller Ghoster : from Singing Sherlock Vol. 2

A Sandburg Set : No. 2 Was Ever A Dream a Drum?

The second in a set of three settings of Carl Sandburg poems, this piece picks up the tempo and takes the set into the jazz mode.

The Songster

Celebrating the Mohawk heritage and Canadian landscape of the poet Pauline Johnson, Mark Sirett captures the passion and grandeur of the lyrics and serves them up for any accomplished women's choir.

Puer Nobis Nascitur : score for voice and/or instruments

Alternating chant style with up-tempo, rhythmic sections, this piece, written for the Allegro Community Children's Choirs of the greater Kansas City area, is an ideal work for combining choruses of varied levels.

Concerto for Clarinet : with ossias from the 1948 manuscript edition

Aaron Copland – with the 25th anniversary of his death coming up in 2015 – was commissioned by Benny Goodman to write this clarinet concerto. This new edition of the score impresses with a new music notation and detailed information on the piece.

Gee, Officer Krupke - From West Side Story

Sung by the Jets gang in Bernstein's West Side Story, this familiar song is filled with energy and rambunctious humor. With the melodic phrases being bounced from section to section, this clever adaptation by Paul Murtha is a great way to liven up the concert stage.

Alma Redemptoris Mater

Using the most up to date scholarship, Meredith Bowen has created a beautiful score which allows for an authentic performance of Chiara Margarita Cozzolani's Alma Redemptoris Mater.Thefigured bass has been realised and all editorial markings are in brackets, allowing the conductor and singers to make informed performance choices.

Flare

Commissioned by the 2012 ACDA Women's Choir R&S Commissioning Consortium, the entire piece drives toward the last line of the Stacy Gnall poem “big brother, I am catching up to you.” One long, rhythmic race, this selection will be a wonderful contrast to much of the repertoire often included in women's choral concerts.

Sing Me A Song : Fa una canzona

“Sing Me a Song” (Fa una canzona) is one of the more popular Italian canzonetta of the late 16th Century. Similar to the madrigal with a secular text, the canzonetta is less serious with bright melodies and up-beat, dance-like rhythms. This arrangement offers English text and SSAB voicing for choirs with limited male voices.

Visiones del Llano : No. 2 Amanecer

“Amanecer” (Dawn) from Visions del llano (Visions of the Plains), a suite of two pieces that expresses the composer's memories of the Venezuelan Plains, represents one of the most magical moments of that part of the world. The music depicts the rising of the sun that warms up everything and awakens the diverse life in the plains.

Love, Deliver Me

Written to be a reflection on the power of love, the composer has constructed a “semi-gospel” anthem with a “slow groove” that allows each singer to find meaning in the word “love” for their own lives. The original text lifts up the joy, heartbreak, uncertainty and eternal love that we all experience along the way. Deep and powerful emotions will inform the musical performance.

And Miriam Sang : (Shiru L'Adonai)

Based on a biblical text, “And Miriam Sang” is a song of celebration following Israel's deliverance from Egypt through the Red Sea. It begins in a slow, chant-like manner, and soon shifts to an up-tempo dance-like mood. Although the melodies are original, they incorporate the augmented second interval and melodic formulas common to Hasidic and some Middle-Eastern music. The use of Hebrew text, tambourine and drums add to the authentic feel.

A Child's Garden of Verses

Composer Richardson has chosen two poems by Robert Louis Stevenson from his set of six “A Child's Garden of Verses”. The first, “Escape At Bedtime” conveys the sense of wonder experienced by a boy (Stephenson) looking up from his bedroom window at a universe of stars. In the second piece in this set of two, “Rain”, the composer creates an aural rainstorm that will be fun for your singers as they experience this vivid, musical word painting.

In excelsis gloria

This simple carol for two-part upper voices was commissioned by Jenni Wake-Walker in 2008 and is a setting of an anonymous 15th century text celebrating the Nativity. It was written specifically for children of primary schoolage, and with this in mind may be transposed up or down a semitone, depending on the vocal ranges available. The accompaniment, a gently undulating ostinato which remains constant throughout, is intended for a piano, harp, ororgan and might also be played by a child.

There is no rose of such virtue

These well-known words seem endlessly fruitful for the composer and conjure up such lovely images, which strike each of us in our own way. For Paul Spicer it was the beauty of the language with its flowerimagery which made him want to set the words with richly warm harmony and to temper that with gently imitative refrains. The result is a beautifully expressive and approachable short carol which would be a welcomealternative to other well-known settings of this text.

Guts And Grace : No. 3 from The Same Flame

Commissioned by the Somerset, England based charity, Churchill Music!, The Same Flame was inspired by Pierre de Coubertin’s ideals of Olympism which gave rise to the modern Olympic and Paralympic values: Respect, Excellence, Friendship, Courage, Equality, Determination and Inspiration. These seven values are celebrated in five movements, so four of them had to double up – Friendship with Equality and Courage with Determination. Each movement is scored for slightly different choral forces, so the work is varied. Also individual movements may suit different choirs giving the opportunity for individual performance or collaboration between choirs. All five movements of The SameFlame are published as individual octavos. A complete vocal score is available on request from the publishers.Inspired by the title of a book by Mary Ann Radmacher, ‘Courage doesn’t always roar’ , Guts and Grace considers courage and determination as essentially private qualities, mothered by dark necessity, but on occasion needing to step up publicly, especially in the sporting arena, and ‘roar’. This movement is intense and charged with emotion and gives opportunity for sections of the choir to shine individually, as well as a beautiful, soaring soprano solo section in the middle.

Starting Improvise Jazz Piano

Jazz originates from the USA where the music of the Afro-Americans, who were taken from West Africa as slaves in the 18th and 19th centuries, combined with European traditions such as church music and marching bands. The music is dominated by strong rhythms and improvisations - making it up as you go along!This book is for students of any age who want to learn about improvising jazz at the piano. It consists of ten units, each characterised by a different rhythmic feel commonly found in jazz today. The work develops from a three note improvisation in Unit 1, to a full sixteen bar piece in three different keys and the material should be worked through progressively. Each unitcontains exercises and ideas leading up to a main piece, together with suggestions for extra group activities.The book should be used with the help of a teacher, if possible, even though the teacher may not have had much experience of improvising - teacher and pupil can learn together. For younger players, the material can be taught by rote rather than reading all the music.The book also provides jazz players who teach, with a step by step approach to passing their skills.

Violin Concerto No. 2

Dating from 2015, this work was a commission from the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Stiftung Berliner Philharmoniker, Swedish RadioSymphony Orchestra, Radio France and New York Philharmonic. Its dedicatee is Frank PeterZimmermann, whose performance suggestions have been incorporated into the score. Cast in a single 25-minute span, the concerto falls into three movements, plus cadenza. London's Financial Times commented,...there is no lack oftechnical discipline. The atmosphere, though, is brooding...a panoramic vista opens up of dark clouds over forests and lakes, of repressed passions and baleful desires.

Fugue in D Minor (1891) : Critical Edition

The Rachmaninoff Critical Edition is a major Moscow-based publishing project, based on original manuscripts that will bring a new level of scholarship to the works of this ever-popular composer. Scheduled to publish over the next 10 years, Boosey & Hawkes will be distributing Urtext performing editions in up to fifty paperback volumes complete with extensive notes, commentaries and facsimiles.A virtuos concert piece worthy of being included in the perfoming repertoire. This early work was only recently discovered in sketch form in the Glinka Museum archives.