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Hill-side Carol

for SATB and piano or organ, with optional flute or treble recorder, or chamber orchestra This is a moving and very original work, ideal for a carol service or concert. The addition of the flute (or treble recorder) adds a delicate pastoral flavour.

Which Side Are You On? : 20th Century American History in 100 Protest Songs (Hardback)

Which Side Are You On? : 20th Century American History in 100 Protest Songs (Paperback)

The Spacious Firmament 2 : Yet we who neither burn nor shine

The Spacious Firmament 2: Yet we who neither burn nor shine is a sequel to The Spacious Firmament. Both pieces may be performed separately, but The Spacious Firmament should always come first if they are programmed together(perhaps either side of an interval).

Violin Globetrotters

Violin Globetrotters brings together 12 toe-tapping tunes in this fabulous collection. Ideal for violinists looking to go travellin', the book introduces a kaleidoscope of musical styles from every side of the globe, including Chinese pentatonic music, West-African drumming, the Argentinian tango, and the Irish jig.

Concert Piece For Tuba And Piano

This excellent addition to the tuba repertoire allows this oft-neglected instrument to demonstrate its more versatile side. Concert Piece explores a 3-octave range, allowing the tuba to combine fast-paced passages (evenincluding fierce glissandi) with lyrical contemplative melodies before returning to the exuberant tone of the opening.

Breath of Song:10 concert works by women composers : for SATB unaccompanied

Breath of Song brings together ten exquisite works by contemporary women composers. Compiled and edited by Sarah Quartel, the collection features an eclectic mix of styles and colours.

Whilst shepherds watch'd their flocks by night

for unison voices and organ. Jane Savage's setting of the famous Christmas hymn 'While shepherds watched their flocks by night' was written for the girls' choir of The Asylum for Female Orphans and published in 1785.

Lieder Line by Line and Word for Word

The book prints the words of German poems set to music by Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Wagner, Brahms, Wolf, Mahler, and Richard Strauss. In between each line of German text are printed word-for-word literal Englishtranslations, and a clear prose translation is also provided for each poem.

Reminded by the Instruments: David Tudor's Music

Reminded by the Instruments offers an in-depth look at the work of post-war avant-garde pianist and composer David Tudor. Examining not only Tudor's pioneering work as a composer-performer but also his homemade modular instrumentsthat radically altered electronic music, author You Nakai illuminates our understanding of the means of sound production in experimental music.

Bach's Legacy: The Music as Heard by Later Masters

In Bach's Legacy: The Music as Heard by Later Masters, renowned Bach scholar Russell Stinson examines how four of the greatest composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - Mendelssohn, Schumann, Wagner, and Elgar - engaged with the musical legacy of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Bach's Oratorios : The Parallel German-English Texts with Annotations

The major choral works by Johann Sebastian Bach-the Christmas, Easter, and Ascension Oratorios, and the St. Matthew, St. Mark, and St. John Passions-stand as the most frequently-performed and penetratingly discussed of thegenre. Renowned Bach scholar Michael Marissen has assembled a compact, well-designed and ideally useful treatment of Bach's oratorios, providing the full German texts with literal English translations and copious annotations. Heprovides strict literal translations of these texts, with citations from the Luther Bible as it was known in Bach's day, along side extensive footnotes that provide information addressing the interests and concerns of today'sBachcommunity. These are the first translations of the librettos from Bach's oratorios to accommodate the many sense-clarifying allusions to the readings of the Luther Bibles in Bach's day, to explore from historicaldictionaries the meanings of previously unnoticed archaic usages, and to contrast relevant findings from modern biblical scholarship. Marissen's insights are particularly helpful, his thoroughness is impressive, and the book willbe a longstanding, definitive, and essential reference for choral directors, performers, audience members, and Bach scholars alike.

Cultivated by Hand : Amateur Musicians in the Early American Republic

Cultivated by Hand aligns the overlooked history of amateur musicians in the early years of the United States with little-understood practices of music book making. It reveals the pervasiveness of these practices, particularly among women, and their importance for the construction of gender, class, race, and nation.

Piano Duets: 20th-century British Composers : Piano Duets edited by Michael Aston

An attractive and varied collection of 20th-century piano duets by British composers. The album includes a reprint of Lambert's classic and witty work, 'Trois pieces negres, pour les touches blanches', as well as new arrangements of Walton's 'Popular Song' and Vaughan Williams's beautiful but little known 'The Lake in the Mountains'. This collection will be of interest to piano duettists everywhere and an ideal introduction to the medium for students.

Down By The Riverside

for SATB (with divisions & optional audience) and piano or chamber orchestra John Rutter's lively arrangement of this barnstorming American folk-song builds up from a quiet opening to a triumphant conclusion, with a characterful orchestration.

Down By The Riverside

for SATB (with divisions & optional audience) and piano or chamber orchestra John Rutter's lively arrangement of this barnstorming American folk-song builds up from a quiet opening to a triumphant conclusion, with a characterful orchestration.

Christ the Lord is risen again

for SATB unaccompanied Easter carol with words by Weisse, translated by Winkworth

Grown about by fragrant bushes

Down By The Sally Gardens

for SATB unaccompanied

Dhire-dhire : Little by little

Kin

Kin is inspired by two Chinese instruments: the Qin (a 7 string cithar, represented here by the cello, which plays pizzicato almost throughout), and the Sheng (a mouth-organ, represented by the accordion).

All the way home

With a text by the composer, this work was originally inspired by members of the Radcliffe Ladies' Choir and their motto 'friendship through singing'. The lilting vocal lines are subtly underpinned by a delicate pianoaccompaniment.

Sounding Heaven And Earth

Sounding heaven and earth is an organ piece inspired by Prayer, a sonnet by the metaphysical poet, George Herbert.

By The Way, I Love You

Psalm 121

A setting of the familiar psalm text with interpolations from nature writings by the American naturalist John Muir and by Patricia Hennings.