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Lowell Liebermann
Theodore Presser Company
Flute (Violin (opt.)), Piano
114-42393 - Score and Parts - $17.99
AIR was originally composed for flute and organ in 2008, and later adapted for flute or violin solo with orchestra. This version with piano was created by the composer in conjunction with the orchestration. The work's title expresses the aria-like nature of this lyrical gem. Click here to hear the orchestral version (available separately from Presser) on YouTube.
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Merion Music, Inc.
Alto Saxophone in Eb, Piano
144-40758 - Score and Parts - $24.99
A major addition to the saxophone concerto repertoire, Zwilich’s three-movement work is inspired by her early experience playing in big bands, along with a love of rich textures and driving rhythms interrupted by striking silences. Originally scored for saxophone with wind ensemble, the piano reduction is thoroughly retextured for recital performances as a sax and piano duo. Click here to view the US Navy Band's world premiere on YouTube.
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Merion Music, Inc.
Solo Alto Saxophone in Eb, Flute 1, Flute 2, Clarinet 1 in Bb, Clarinet 2 in Bb, Bassoon, Contrabassoon, Soprano Saxophone in Bb, Tenor Saxophone in Bb, Baritone Saxophone in Eb (Alto Saxophone in Eb), Trumpet (Bb and C), Horn 1 in F, Horn 2 in F, Trombone, Bass Trombone, Flugelhorn, Euphonium, Tuba, Timpani, Percussion, String Bass
145-40036 - Score and Parts - $100.00
145-40036F - Full Score - $30.00
A major addition to the saxophone concerto repertoire, Zwilich’s three-movement work is inspired by her early experience playing in big bands, along with a love of rich textures and driving rhythms interrupted by striking silences. The centerpiece slow movement is scored for only the soloist and the ensemble’s sax section, with all other players tacet. A large-size full score, and a solo part with piano, are available separately. Click here to view the US Navy Band's world premiere on YouTube.
Zhou Long
Theodore Presser Company
Piano
110-41850 - $24.99
DUNHUANG FANTASIA is a fascinating 12-minute drama inspired by art from grottoes in the ancient town of Dunhuang in western China. These frescoes preserve images of music and dance scenes, including the postures and attitudes of performers, and of the musical instruments used. Zhou Long’s music begins with a mysterious introduction driven by drum-like textures, followed by a series of episodes, enhanced by captions of the artwork inspiring each section and evocations of the ancient musical instruments.
Adolphus Hailstork
Theodore Presser Company
Oboe
114-42308 - Performance Score - $14.99
This gem of a collection was commissioned for Juilliard’s pre-college Music Advancement Program. The ever-imaginative Hailstork has created a book of 11 short, contrasting works for performance, at a perfect level within reach of dedicated students, and delightful for advanced performers as well. The etudes may be performed individually, in groups, or as an entire 20-minute opus. Given the range and practicality of the ELEVEN STUDIES, they work equally well for saxophone or flute!
Jovana Damnjanović
Theodore Presser Company
Flute
114-42362 - Performance Score - $24.99
MAYKA (Serbian for “mother”) is a fascinating collection of 10 short recital pieces, each inspired by Serbian folk-music traditions, enriched through a broad variety of non-traditional techniques. Serbian-born flutist Jovana Damnjanović created these teaching etudes in conjunction with her doctoral thesis, which introduces Eastern European traditions to flutists. Along with its 10 fresh and dazzling concert works, this publication includes a thorough preface on performance techniques and instructions for each etude.
Adolphus Hailstork
Theodore Presser Company
English Horn
114-42313 - Performance Score - $11.99
Hailstork’s beautifully lilting SICILIANA for solo English horn is actually structured as a recitative and aria: a dramatic prelude serves as a soliloquy with question-like pauses, teasing our ears forward. This opening unfolds into a gorgeous rendering of the traditional 12/8 dance form, full of soaring melodies and elegant arabesques. SICILIANA’s technical demands are within the reach of students looking for unaccompanied contest repertoire, while the expressive potential is enticing for advanced players in any setting. This 6-minute work has been recorded for Navona Records by Elizabeth Starr Masoudnia of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and may be heard at youtube.com/watch?v=L8H8ytXPnig
Adolphus Hailstork
Theodore Presser Company
Flute, Piano
114-42424 - Score and Parts - $24.99
THE BONES OF MR. FORTUNE (FREE AT LAST!) is an 11-minute concerto-like work for solo flute accompanied by symphonic winds and percussion – perfect to play with band or with orchestra, as well as with the composer’s own piano reduction. The work features lengthy cadenzas, and exhilarating dance-like sections with the ensemble. Hailstork describes the historical inspiration: Abused in life and death, an enslaved man (Mr. Fortune) was owned by a surgeon who preserved his skeleton to study anatomy. The bones remained with the doctor’s family for generations, and were given a proper burial making national news in 2013, 215 years after Mr. Fortune’s death.
Behzad Ranjbaran
Theodore Presser Company
Clarinet in Bb, Piano
114-42429 - Score and Parts - $19.99
Adapted from the slow movement of his cello concerto, the profound and expressive ELEGY has become one of Ranjbaran’s most frequently performed recital works. This arrangement for clarinet by the composer makes full use of the instrument’s range, flexibility, and nuanced color palette across long and mournful lines, set above a deeply affecting, quasi-Romantic piano accompaniment. Suitable for nearly any occasion, clarinetists the world over will be eager to adopt ELEGY into their repertoires. (Also available for clarinet and string orchestra on rental : 116-40199).
Stacy Garrop
Theodore Presser Company
Narrator (female narrator/singer), Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello
111-40338 - Score and Parts - $53.99
111-40338S - Full Score - $32.99
FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS, for female narrator/singer and string quartet, is a monodramatic retelling of the events of the Book of Esther from Esther’s perspective. The narrative hinges on the introspective question, “Who knows if I am chosen for such a time as this?” as Esther wonders whether she, as a Jewish woman in the royal courts of ancient Persia, has the agency necessary to save her people from Haman, the vengeful official seeking to have them all killed. Garrop shines a light on Esther’s central question by making it the only sung passage in the piece. Throughout, the text by celebrated librettist and playwright Jerre Dye is contextualized, commented upon, and illuminated by a tapestry of motives and effects from the quartet, resulting in a vivid and memorable miniature theatrical event, suitable for Purim celebrations as well as standard concert performances. For advanced performers.
Adolphus Hailstork
Theodore Presser Company
Alto Saxophone in Eb, Marimba
114-42310 - Score and Parts - $23.99
Griots are the traditional bards of West Africa—keepers of oral history, storytellers, poets, musicians, and advisors all in one. Adolphus Hailstork’s GRIOT SONG for alto saxophone and marimba imagines a griot performance through the lens of classical recital music. Though the composer reveals no explicit program behind the piece, the marimba part is at times reminiscent of griot instruments like the kora or balafon, and the saxophone part is often speechlike and improvisatory sounding. Beyond that, it is left to the performers (and listeners) to imagine what sort of tale they might be spinning in this rhythmic and engaging duet. For advanced performers.
Samuel Adler
Theodore Presser Company
Flute, Flute, Flute, Clarinet in Bb, Clarinet in Bb, Clarinet in Bb, Bassoon, Bassoon, Bassoon
114-42380 - Score and Parts - $42.99
114-42380S - Full Score - $28.99
Cast in two sharply contrasting movements for the novel combination of three flutes, clarinets, and bassoons, Samuel Adler’s MUSIC FOR NINE explores timbers from earthy and reedy to fleet and ethereal. The first movement, “Chords,” is a slow, pensive study in parallel harmony, playing the three trios off of one another, and in combination. The second, “Scales,” is nimble and exhilarating, alternating frequently between solo and ensemble focused passages. Written for luminary wind ensemble conductor and scholar Eugene Corporon and the UNT Wind Symphony, MUSIC FOR NINE is ideal for collegiate ensembles looking to refresh their concert programs.
Adolphus Hailstork
Theodore Presser Company
Solo Flute, Flute 1, Flute 2, Oboe 1, Oboe 2, Clarinet 1 in Bb, Clarinet 2 in Bb, Clarinet 3 in Bb, Bassoon 1, Bassoon 2, Trumpet 1 in Bb, Trumpet 2 in Bb, Trumpet 3 in Bb, Horn 1 in F, Horn 2 in F, Horn 3 in F, Horn 4 in F, Trombone 1, Trombone 2, Trombone 3, Tuba, Percussion 1 (Xylophone), Percussion 2 (Vibraphone), Percussion 3 (Marimba, Suspended Cymbal), Percussion 4 (Suspended Cymbal, Congas), Percussion 5 (Tubular Bells, Bongos)
115-40435 - Score and Parts - $150.00
115-40435L - Large Score - $55.00
115-40435F - Study Score - $35.00
THE BONES OF MR. FORTUNE (FREE AT LAST!) is an 11-minute concerto-like work for solo flute accompanied by symphonic winds and percussion – perfect to play with band or with orchestra, as well as with the composer’s own piano reduction (114-42424). The work features lengthy cadenzas, and exhilarating dance-like sections with the ensemble. Hailstork describes the historical inspiration: abused in life and death, an enslaved man (Mr. Fortune) was owned by a surgeon who preserved his skeleton to study anatomy. The bones remained with the doctor’s family for generations, and were given a proper burial that made national news in 2013, 215 years after Mr. Fortune’s death.
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Marcel Tournier (ed. Carl Swanson)
Carl Fischer Music
Harp
H84 - Score - $19.99
Marcel Tournier (1879–1951) was one of the most important harpist/composers in the history of the harp. Over his long career, he added a significant catalogue of very beautiful works to the harp repertoire. Many of his solo works, almost one hundred, have been consistently in print since they were first published. But in recent years harpist Carl Swanson has discovered a treasure trove of pieces by Tournier heretofore unknown and unpublished. These include the Déchiffrages in this edition, as well as songs set for voice, harp, and string quartet, and ensemble arrangements of some of his most beloved works. All of the works that Carl Swanson found were in manuscript only. With the help of the great harpist Catherine Michel, he has put these pieces into playable form, and they are being published for the very first time. He and Catherine often had to re-notate passages to show clearly how they could be played, adding fingerings and musical nuances, tempos, pedals, and pedal diagrams. Tournier wrote these pieces when he was in his 20s, and before he became the impressionistic composer those familiar with his work know so well. They are written in the late nineteenth-century romantic style that was being taught at that time at the Paris Conservatory. They are beautiful short, intermediate level pieces by a first rate composer, and add much needed repertoire to that level of playing.
Lukas Foss
Carl Fischer Music
Soprano 1, Soprano 2, Mezzo Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Baritone, Bass
V2510 - Full Score - $19.99
“…then the rocks on the mountain began to shout.” —Charles Ives (Lukas Foss, V2510) As a composer, Lukas Foss (1922–2009) was fluent with a variety of different mediums, including works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo instruments and voices. He eagerly explored a wide variety of twentieth-century styles, including improvisation, electronic music, neoclassicism, twelve-tone techniques and minimalism. The latter style is especially evident in his work “…then the rocks on the mountain began to shout.” composed in 1977 for seven a cappella singers (2 sopranos, mezzo-soprano, alto, tenor, baritone and bass). The title of the work is derived from Charles Ives’ From the Steeples and the Mountains for brass and percussion, a work that Foss conducted in several instances. The piece features no text, but rather is composed with an ever-changing pattern of vowels, as well as solfege syllables, to contribute to subtle changes in vocal timbre. In a program note for the work, Foss noted: “In this composition, the chorus does not sing words, it vocalizes, with the many repeated notes set to vowels. A five-note chord dominates the work. It is endlessly repeated, varied, permutated, transposed and inverted. It invades the entire piece via persistent, pulsating, echoing and criss-crossing quarter notes. Only an explosion near the end liberates us from its domination.” This work is one of a series of new publications of Lukas Foss to be released by Carl Fischer Music, as a means of celebrating his works and achievements. These publications will be important means for promoting performances of his music as well as securing his legacy as a composer.
Various (ed. Randi Marrazzo, Nicole Leone)
Hildegard Publishing Company
Voice, Piano
491-00682 - Score - $26.95
From the same team that brought you 24 Italian Songs & Arias by Women Composers, comes 24 French Songs & Arias by Women Composers! These songs are not found in the most well known and available French anthologies and many have been unavailable and hard to find before now. The collection includes selections by the familiar composers Farrenc, Grandval, Viardot and will introduce singers to the lesser known composers Marguerite Olagnier, Hortense Bonaparte, Hedwige Chrétien and many others.
December 2023 New Issue | April 2024 New Issue
2023 Band | NEW 2024 Orchestra | NEW 2024 Choral
